RL:O - Chapter VI: Chronicles of the Forest Kingdom, Pt. III

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RL:O - Chapter VI: Chronicles of the Forest Kingdom, Pt. III

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After barely surviving Jander's last remaining deviltry,
our heroes have made one step into darkness.
But how has the death of the elven vampire affected our small company's true quest?
Is Tatyana, said to be Jander's first pawn, still alive?
What is the secret behind old Gondegal?
And as the Mists rise, Sergej cursed brother will finally step into the action...
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Rafe: Early summer in the year of wild magic...
Rafe: Yesterday, you destroyed the village.
Rafe: Two days ago, you killed Jander.
Rafe: Two days ago, you lost Alek.
Rafe: Your hiding place, somewhere in the woods.
Rafe: A clearing.
Rafe: It rains.
Rafe: With you, Sasha, and Shana.
VAN: we didn't have to go to an old castle and meed the Alchemist?
Rafe: That place is two weeks away from you, one week on horseback.
Rafe: Yeah, I am mean and surely you thought there would be a change of scene...
combatmedic: i forget- we still have hroses?
Rafe: Mwahahahaha...
combatmedic: or were they blown up
combatmedic: along with the rest of town?
VAN: I thin kwe have them
Rafe: No, you were on foot. The horses died or were captured by the villagers.
combatmedic: i rceall running on foot
combatmedic: yeah
Rafe: You know, THE HILLS HAVE EYES here---
combatmedic: freakin peons stole our mounts
combatmedic: yeah
Jarg: [didn't see that movie]
combatmedic: we'lll come back and sow salt into their fields
combatmedic: arrrghhh
Rafe: Then, think of Blair Witch...
VAN: lol
combatmedic: theiving peasants!
Rafe: I rule you all are healed. Sasha is an able healer, and was a cleric before she took the sword...
Rafe: What's her deity again...?
combatmedic: Jamethon will build a crude shletr, or try to find a cave, if there are such in this region -and it isn't flooded
Jarg: morninglord?
Rafe: You ask her?
combatmedic: sure
Rafe: Sasha looks at you with deep dark eyes.
Rafe: "No. I am a high priestess of the Wolf God."
combatmedic: ''Ah, I see.''
combatmedic: ''I am not entirely familiar with this god, could you tell me more?''
Rafe: Sasha grins. "Just kidding. Pelor, he is named in the west, and The Lord of the Dawn in Damara. Morninglord could be another name for him."
combatmedic: Jamethon seems very calm, even strangely calm, considering the circumstances
combatmedic: ''Ah''
combatmedic: ''Yes.''
VAN: how is Jarg?"
Jarg: HOw is my bitemarks?
combatmedic: [checking him out]
Rafe: Healed and hungry I guess, like the rest of you. Sasha can purify water, but the bread won't make it for itself.
combatmedic: it's summer
Rafe: All other wounds have healed, but the bitemarks are cankerous.
Rafe: English?
combatmedic: but raining- not the best time to hunt
Rafe: Sec please
Jarg: "Somehow I don't think these bites need a simple healing spell"
VAN: does they hav create food?
combatmedic: ''Infected.''
Rafe: Sasha looks concerned. "Where you wounded by a magic weapon, or something alike?
Jarg: "No, I was bitten by Jander just before he perished"
Rafe: Sasha draws her sword.
combatmedic: ''That bears watching''
Rafe: "You will transform. Unless we kill Jander's master first."
Jarg: Jarg moves his hands to his blades, eyeing Sasha
combatmedic: ''What is it Sasha?''
Jarg: "Who si Jander's master?"
Rafe: "Be wise. Choose death, while you're still alive."
VAN: "We have no idea who is his master"
Jarg: *Is
combatmedic: ''Well, then let us find and kill the Master.''
Rafe: OOC. I guess you have... Brrrrrrrrr
combatmedic: [yes]
Rafe: Sasha: "Jander had no master, no?"
VAN: yeah
combatmedic: ''Did he not?''
Jarg: "Iwe didn't know him that well, so I can't say"
VAN: "and how he turned to vampire?"
combatmedic: ''We oughtn't assume too much.''
VAN: "Someone has bitten him"
Jarg: OOC : read the book though hahhahaahahah!!!!!!!!!!!!
combatmedic: ''Some men say suicdes arise as vampyrs, but I am given to understand most are produced by the predations of other vampyrs.''
VAN: "and? What can we do nw?"
Rafe: Sasha still has her sword in hand. "How do we know he doesn'tmurder us in our sleep?"
VAN: "We can use garlic"
combatmedic: ''Well, if he does... how would you know?''
Jarg: OOC: LOL ewan
VAN: "we can put a few around us"
combatmedic: Jamethon smiles
Rafe: OOC: Brilliant
Rafe: Sasha sighs. "In Hermit's Town, two days from here, members of my order have a temple.
combatmedic: ''Why don't we simply watch him, and try to help him?''
Jarg: "If I was you, I'd put away your sword, because I'll unsheath my tow blades and then we'll be where, Sasha?"
Jarg: "I won't hurt my friends so put that thing away."
Rafe: We can bring him there, maybe the priests there can help you better than I can."
Rafe: And sheats the sword.
VAN: "sounds like a plan"
combatmedic: ''We cn. Perhaps these priests will know more about the local goings on''
Jarg: "Sounds fine to me. Shall we do a tour of watches?
VAN: "I guess so"
Rafe: Shana yawns and gets up. "Then, let's go, I could use a wine."
Rafe: K?
combatmedic: ''yes''
VAN: erus
VAN: sure
Jarg: "Yes"
Rafe: ERUS? GREEK? :-)
VAN: no typos!
Jarg: sure backwwards
combatmedic: eros!
combatmedic: whoa- none of that on watch!
Rafe: What does yes mean in Greek?
Rafe: Sorry fpor hijack!
VAN: yes in greek =nai
Rafe: Thank you!
combatmedic: nai? sounds like no
VAN: no=oxi
Rafe: So... You make your way through the rainy forest.
VAN: nai!
Jarg: nai!
Jarg: OOC ewan the knights of nai LOL!
combatmedic: [pulls up claok and puts on big hat
VAN: lol
combatmedic: [excellent]
Rafe: You can see the clear track of people in the wild. Are they still on the hunt for you?
combatmedic: [keeping his powder dry!]
Jarg: Jarg uses his visionh to guide the others if we;ve no torch
Rafe: It's not night, but just raining.
Rafe: It's like 11 AM.
Jarg: kk
combatmedic: ''Hmmm, tracks. Must not be too old, or else the rain would've washed it away''
VAN: "agree"
Jarg: "True, let's keep our ears and eyes open"
combatmedic: ''Best be watchful, those villagers might be out looking ofr us.''
Rafe: Yet, you make it through the wet forest without any further intrusion. In fact, it's still dead quiet.#
Jarg: Moorkroft can you detect people in some way, magically? Or INovidil?"
VAN: "I think your twin take care of them Jamethon"
combatmedic: ''It'll be sowrdwork for me, if they come at us''
Jarg: "Same here"
Rafe: Four hours later, with the rain still pouring from the clouds, you arrive at the forest's border...
VAN: I can't
Jarg: OOC Raf does Jarg jave a pulse and is his skin hot or cold?
combatmedic: ''Let us hope- and no, I hev no special way of knwoing if we are pursused,. I trust to the Lady to watch over me.''
Rafe: In the distance, you can see black smoke under the clouds...
combatmedic: [Jamethon moves up to edge of treeline, hiding behind big tree, looks about]
Rafe: Over the hillside...
Jarg: Jarg joins him
combatmedic: [if the coast is clear, Jamethon will move forward, get down low, peak over hill]
VAN: "Maybe Jarg should go first"
combatmedic: [looks about carefully first, of course, and moves low]
Rafe: A man pierced on a lance... and impaled into the earth...
combatmedic: Jamethon stops
Jarg: "Keep back, Jamethon
combatmedic: ''eh what's this?''
Rafe: Behind you in the woods, you hear the single, loud howling of a wolf...
Jarg: "Let me go see first ok?"
VAN: "Hooly Mystra!"
Rafe: Shana and Sasha join you. Ino?
VAN: "Pay attention guys:
combatmedic: ''Yes,. wait.''
VAN: sure
Jarg: "This doesn't bode well"........ [Jarg will move as queitly and stealthily as posible to the impaled man
Rafe: As you come near, you see this is no man. The skin is black and hairless, and the eyes are oversized. The teeth are sharp and white, but also seem like they had grown out of the man's mouth. His darkened flesh still hangs from where the teeth burst through the cheeks..
Jarg: [a vampire?]
VAN: a zombie?
Jarg: eyes are red?
Rafe: Sasha looks very concerned. "A ghoul."
Rafe: Eyes are DEAD.
VAN: "It's an undead, don't get closer"
Jarg: Jarg keeps back from the ghoul
VAN: "Who can do that to a ghoul?"
Rafe: Shana grabs one of the monster's arm and waves it around. "That one is DONE."
Jarg: OOC HA HA Raf good one
VAN: [are there any footprints around?]
Rafe: OOC: For if I didn't say it before, I am so glad of being back with you guys!!! There are few things I treasure more than this game of ours!!!
Rafe: IC: Footprints everywhere.
Jarg: Jag listens intently
combatmedic: [jamethon turned around, keeping lookout into woods]
Rafe: Behind the ghoul in the distance, a burning cart.
VAN: can we follow them?
Jarg: Does it look like the footprints are heavy, meaning they were carrying thisa ghoul?
Rafe: Looks like a large group of people/humanoids went through here.
VAN: "maybe athey have used the casrt to get it here"
Rafe: The footprints look heavy, like from armed men.
Jarg: "SHall we just stay here out in the opn or head into the town?"
VAN: "Ok, lets don't waste more time here"
Rafe: The twon is still way away...
VAN: "Head to the town"
Rafe: Like one day.
Jarg: "Let's keep moving then"
VAN: "yes, the ghoul is dead anyway"
combatmedic: Jaethon strides forward, usneathes his gold tinted sowrd , and severs the thing's head
combatmedic: ''Now we can be a bit more certain of that''
VAN: "great idea"
Rafe: You leave the scene without any more distraction. As Sasha points out, this could have been a ghoul Alan and the others had been hunting.
Jarg: Jarg nods grimly. "Let's keep eyes and ears open"
VAN: Alan and others were hunting ghouls?
Rafe: As you move to the open, you again hear the wolf howl in the distance, deep in the forest.
combatmedic: ''Yes, at least the rain should work against anyone trying to track uis.''
Rafe: Yes, they were. That was the reason they were delayed and didn't fall into Jander's trap.
combatmedic: ''unless, they have hounds, perhaps...''
Jarg: "Yes but not a nose, Jamethon"
VAN: "maybe we should consider where to spend the night?"
Rafe: ANother few hours later, as it darkens, you come to a ruined farm house.
VAN: "the wolves can find us"
Jarg: "Or that wolf back there"
Rafe: It must have been ages since someone passed through here...
combatmedic: ''This farm house looks like a good possibility''
Jarg: "Let me do my thing and investigate the farm a few minutes"
VAN: "agree"
combatmedic: ''Yes, do so, please''
Jarg: "Wait here"
Rafe: The house contains few more things than dust and dirt.
Jarg: Jarg moves off as silent as possible and investigates the farm
combatmedic: [jamethon looks around for a terr or something to stand under-getting out of the rain]]
combatmedic: [tree]
Rafe: It might have belonged to a magician, though. - There are arcane symbols carved in the wood, signals of protection.
Jarg: OOC Raf we can sleep in the afrm tonight?
Jarg: farm*
VAN: Ino will get a close look to them
Rafe: Sure, you can do whatever you want, HARHAR
combatmedic: [brb]
Jarg: Jarg relates his findings to the others
VAN: Ino studies the arcane symbols
Rafe: Ino stumbles over a step in the dirt before the house...
VAN: lol
Rafe: And realizes it is an iron cup with something carved on it.
VAN: "Look guys"
Jarg: "Don't touch it yet, detect it first!"
VAN: she tries to clean it in order to see what is carved"
Rafe: "Steel to steel, arm to arm, friend for friend. - George Kleinholtz."
Rafe: A cup of the old army of Cormyr. maybe a hundred years old...
VAN: "strange phrase"
combatmedic: ''Hmmm, what's that cou have there, Inovidil?''
Jarg: "Maybe a motto?"
combatmedic: ''Maybe so. A gift, I'd imagine''
VAN: "It says:Steel to steel, arm to arm, friend for friend. - George Kleinholtz."
Rafe: No clue, folks?
Jarg: Does George Kleiinholtz mean anything to Jarg he is after all older than everyone lese here ....
combatmedic: Jaethon looks about. Well, it isn't too damp. nOt bad. We need to get out of these wet clothes and dry off]]
VAN: "Let me check the other arcane symbols too"
VAN: "maybe I can find out somethin"
combatmedic: [jamethon proceeds to find a corner of the room and strip down, carefully hanging up his clothing, armor, etc]
Rafe: G_E_O_R_G_E Kleinholtz
Rafe: Sec please!!!
Jarg: what is that old man's name?
Jarg: that ole king..... ah gondegal
VAN: "Gondegal"
Rafe: George Kleinholtz! Louis Vendredi#s character!!! :-D
combatmedic: '''GHondegal, my freind. Ah, I do miss him.''
VAN: lol
combatmedic: ahah
Rafe: Moorkroft and Shana will know it for sure!!!
combatmedic: 'Wait, our old companion, george...'''
VAN: "He was here!"
combatmedic: ''wasn't his surname Kleinholtz?''
VAN: "maybe he was hunting ghouls too"
combatmedic: ''Maybe so- this cup looks old, very old, perhaps.''
Rafe: Shana seems concerned. "Over a hundred years ago?! How can that be?"
Jarg: at least how old?
combatmedic: ''The engraving could be more recent, I suppose''
Jarg: "Im no expert but, traveling form one world to another, maybe we arrive at different time periods?"
VAN: "Yes and this farm, it seems desretd for long time"
combatmedic: ''Or perhaps the anem is a coincidnce, though that seems very unlikely''
Rafe: Sasha enters the house and secures that nothing is there waiting for you. "Your friend was a wizard?"
Rafe: OOC: !!!
Jarg: OOC was Louis a wizard?
VAN: "no"
combatmedic: [jaethon takes out a legth of cord and makes a clotheline inside the farmhouse]
Rafe: OOC: no, a thief!
Jarg: Ino, what do the symbols mean?
VAN: "let me check"
Rafe: The song I am listening right now: Metal nerdity gallore!!!
Jarg: OOC lol!
VAN: "there are arcane symbols"
Rafe:
Rafe: Sasha points to rainclouds and shudders. "Let's light a fire! Undead will smell our flesh anyway."
combatmedic: [now jamethon is drying his weapons and such]
VAN: "good idea"
Jarg: Jarg has joined Jamethon
Jarg: OOC a fireplace, raf?
VAN: [Raf what mean the symbols]
Rafe: Shana cooks what is left of your rations and Sasha stands guard at the door...
Rafe: It is strongly adviseable to make the fire inside the building.
Rafe: On the stone ground of the farmhouse.
Jarg: OOC Sasha is a priest, no?
combatmedic: [jamethon gets dressed once he has some dry clothing- quikcly if his spare outfit in the pack isn't too damp]
Rafe: OOC a paladin
combatmedic: ''We can gather rocks or loose stones to make a firepit, if there isn't a fierplace ''
Rafe: Shana is already on it.
Jarg: [jarg does the same as jamethon . if there is no fireplace,,,,,, we'll need to let the smoke out of the house..]
VAN: "I'll help you Jamethon"
Rafe: Sasha does the same - what leads to our fellow men here salivating. Think of Claire Danes.
combatmedic: [if it's ruined, there may be a hole in the roof someplace- a small fire near, but not under the hole- that might work]
combatmedic: [jamethon is thinking of someone else, tho...]
Jarg: [except jarg who perefers elves ]
combatmedic: [claire danes is an elf]
Jarg: OOC Raf wasn't clare danes good in stardust?
Rafe: Yeah, and that's where I fell in love with her... :-D
Jarg: [ewan i think you're right.... she could have made a good elf in lotr
combatmedic: [jamethon will avert his gaze at the sight of uncovered female flesh- despite his own lack of distress about stripping down in the corner]
Rafe: Isn't Inovidil a man, too? :-)
Jarg: Jarg replaces Sasha at her post at the door when she undresses
VAN: no
Jarg: OOC no raf
VAN: Of course not ;P
Rafe: Wait, Ino is a female???
Jarg: OOC remember Jarg has his eye on her bahahahahahaahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!! Van
Rafe: had forgotten that, sorry!
combatmedic: [yeah, she's a lady, right?]
VAN: yep
Rafe: So, you spend the rest of the day there, drying your clothes and eating. Resting in general.
Rafe: When the night comes, Sasha takes the first watch.
VAN: what about the cup?
Jarg: and the synbols inside the farm , Raf
VAN: we still try to find out how it get in there
Rafe: The symbols are spells of protection against all kinds of evil, and against foulweather.
VAN: can we get them to spellbook!
combatmedic: Jamethon takes some iron rations nout of his backpack- hardtack, saltpork, dried fruit, etc
Jarg: lol VAN!
Rafe: Yes...
Rafe: Strange, but a good idea! :-)
combatmedic: ''It isn't much, but we can share this. for breakfast. I'm afarid I'm pretty much out after that.''
VAN: OK guys...we will wait there till Ino gets all the spells!
Rafe: So, eat and rest until you lay yourselves to sleep...
VAN: "Thank you Jamethon, it's more than enough"
Jarg: Jarg speaks briefly with Sasha " I will join you halfway through your watch, as I need little sleep, compared to humans. Perhaps you can tell me about paladins? I have little or no experience with them "
Rafe: Sasha will looks at Jarg, openly scared. "Sure. Later - when we change the watch."
combatmedic: Jamethon retartes to the corner, or another room if there is such, for his nightly devotions
combatmedic: retreats
Jarg: Jarg sighs "I won't hurt you, so please don't be afraid of me, ok?" and he goes back inside to rest his four hours
VAN: [How much time needs Ino to get a spell to the spellbook?]
Rafe: One hour each...
Jarg: [normally its 24 hours]
combatmedic: [after prayers, sleeping fitfully, muttering and tossing[
Jarg: [ruh?]
VAN: [OK she will get a couple, you decide]
Jarg: [once the four hours pass, Jarg wants to try something on his leg]
VAN: [protection from evil for sure andundead if exists]
Rafe: To COPY them is one thing, to LEARN them another...
Rafe: Later that night...
VAN: justcopy to spellbook
Jarg: [ah yes right Raf!]
Rafe: JArg is awakened by the feeling of cold steel on his throat!
VAN: for now, maybe she will get them tomorrow
VAN: memorize
Rafe: Sasha's over him. "Not a word!"
Jarg: Jarg opens his eyes slowly
Rafe: "Outside! I haven't seen a thing like that EVER before!"
Rafe: "Wake the others!"
Jarg: Jarg says nothing but after checking if he has his weapons, he follows or walks outside
Jarg: [back that up]
Jarg: JArg shakes ewan awake then tells him wake the otehrs before going outside
Jarg: JArg follows Sashe admiring her firm,,,,,,,,,, I mean follows her outside
Rafe: Sasha and Shana are at the door, both pale...
combatmedic: ''Ezra!''
VAN: has anyone wake Ino?
combatmedic: Jamethon gets up and looks around, he snatche sup his sword
combatmedic: ''Inovidil, wake up'' gently prodding her with his foot
Jarg: Jarg nudhes Ino with his foot as he passes her by
VAN: "What? It's time for my watch?"
Jarg: [Is there a window to see outside?]
Rafe: The farm house is surrounded by a pack of woives. Dozens of them. Fifty, and way bigger than the wolves you have seen before.
combatmedic: ''No, something's happened.''
VAN: Ino joins them
combatmedic: ''We can handle this.''
Rafe: Among them, in their middle, mounted on a younger, white animal, a boy...
VAN: "Holly Mystra!"
Jarg: 50 of the largest wolves Ive ever seen ad we can handle this?"
VAN: The boy...
Jarg: Harkan?
combatmedic: ''Lukas''
Jarg: "Harkon is that you?"
VAN: Ino casts mage armor
Rafe: The farm house has one level, with two windows on the front.
Jarg: Jarg calls out to the boy
VAN: and then casts stoneskin
combatmedic: [jamethon doesn't wait, but begins looking for a way to block the windows and then the door/s]
combatmedic: [loose boards, old furniture,etc]
Rafe: The famr house is half submerged into a hill, and has no other windows. If you're looking for an escape, there is the broken roof and the chimney...
Rafe: The boy calls out to you, with a voice that is only barely human any more.
Rafe: "Is the blood drinker among you?"
combatmedic: [looking to block exits]
combatmedic: ''Tell him no.''
Jarg: "YOu mean JAnder? If thats it, he is dead"
VAN: "NO"
combatmedic: [still hurriedly making perapartions for a seige]
Rafe: The boy, vaguely resembling the one you came to know as Harkon Lukas, growls like a beast and says...
VAN: Ino gets inside and helps amethon
combatmedic: ''We won't be able to ourtun so many wolves in open country. We'll have to satnd here, if things get unfreindly''
Rafe: "No. The Southerner. From Al-Quadim. Jarred was his name."
VAN: "I can fly and I can polymorph you and Jarg"
Jarg: "No he isnt with us Harkon"
VAN: "you can cary Shasa and Shana"
combatmedic: ''Good plan!''
Jarg: "We don't want any trouble, just to rest then be on our way"
Rafe: "I need you with me tonight. To run with us."
Jarg: "Us?" he asks the boy?
Rafe: "Since the white one, no man has run with us. Come, and don't be afraid."
combatmedic: ''Run with you? Are you hunting him, then?''
Rafe: As an answer, the wolves begin to bark and and to howl....
combatmedic: ''I 'll do it. I'm not afraid.''
Jarg: Jrg whispers back "We should folow because I dont think he'll take no for an answer
Rafe: Harkon's eyes glow in dim red light.
combatmedic: Jamethon turns to the others
Rafe: "I will have him."
combatmedic: Inodividl can get you out
VAN: "We should go"
VAN: "decide fast"
Jarg: and to prove his point, he exits the house and approcahes the pack and the boy
combatmedic: ''Well, let's go. If things get bad, we can use steel and magic to escape''
VAN: "Or we go or Ipoymorph you and fly away"
combatmedic: Jamethon quickly dresses and gathers up his things
VAN: "cool"
VAN: Ino does the same
Rafe: Harkon turns to his pack and barks...
Jarg: "I'm ready to run with you and your friends"
combatmedic: ''I'm curious to see where he wants to take us. I don't think he'lll attack us''
combatmedic: ''Though.... I've been wrong in the past.''
Rafe: The wolves retreat until only Harkon and his white one remain.
VAN: "Ok we are here, now waht?"
combatmedic: [rafe, if I got enough sleep, I'm renweing spells- if not, oh well]
Rafe: You all are fit to fight again.
Rafe: Harkon looks at you sceptically.
VAN: oops, we have slept enough right?
combatmedic: [sweet]
Rafe: "Can you mount on a wolf?"
VAN: "a wolf?"
Rafe: "No use in breaking my kin's backs."
combatmedic: ''If it is big enough, perhaps''
VAN: "ahh...can we go on foot?"
Jarg: "I Know how to ride a horse, I suppose its not that different
combatmedic: Or pehraps Inovdiil could magically change us into horse-men!''
combatmedic: jAMETHON SEEMS MORE JOVIAL THAN HIS USUAL SELF
VAN: "or to griffons! that can actually fly!"
Rafe: "There will be no other Casimir." Suddenly tears shine in the boy's eyes.
Rafe: "You have to run and to be fast, then."
combatmedic: ''You wolf.''
combatmedic: Your
Rafe: "I can do something, but it will have a prize."
VAN: "I preefr to fly thank you"
Jarg: I'll take my chances running, if you don't mind
combatmedic: ''I , as well''
Rafe: Harkon looks to Sasha. "You know what to do if I loose control, light one."
Rafe: Harkon's white begins to whimper and retreats....
Rafe: Harkon's look changes...
combatmedic: Jamethon keels down, sterchting himself in prepartion for a run
Rafe: To something beasty...
Rafe: And the little boy begins to grow...
Rafe: Horror check everyone!
combatmedic: ''Blessed erza, shiled us from the Legions of the night, watch over us.''
Rafe: Please, check! :-D
combatmedic: [[17 without mods]
VAN: 23
Rafe: Harkon's is suddenly two times bigger than even Moorkroft, and falsl on all four... His head begins to grow...
Jarg: 15+4
Jarg: I rolled 15
Rafe: Jarg and Shana panic...
combatmedic: ''Holy Lady- you have rejcted the damned, the pure of heart belong to you.''
VAN: "Holly Mystra!!!"
Rafe: OOC I am sorry but I can't see Moorkroft panicking in front of of anything like that any more.
Rafe: Jarg at least has a good heart... :-D
combatmedic: [not panicking, praying]
combatmedic: [it's how he stays calm and deals with it]
combatmedic: [relatively calm, that is]
Rafe: Before your eyes, Harkon transforms into a huge black wolf. Long scars dot his back.
combatmedic: Jamethon moves towards Inovidl, trying to reassure her
Rafe: His green eyes are still human, though...
Rafe: "On my back..."
combatmedic: ''Stay calm, breath, he isn't going to hurt you''
VAN: "What...what happes"
combatmedic: Jamethon goes over\r
combatmedic: climbs on
VAN: Inovidil goes back and casts fly on herself
Jarg: "I am so not getting on you!" Jarg says. "I'll run woth you all " and he moves away from Hrkon.
Rafe: Jarg? :-)
VAN: "as I said I'll fly"
combatmedic: [jamethobn gets on]
combatmedic: [let's ride!]
Rafe: Sasha and Shana join you on the wolf's back.
Rafe: BRB
combatmedic: ooc ; This is totally metal!
VAN: it's freaking!
Jarg: Jarg will run not ride, thanks
combatmedic: Jamethon is a bit craked, at this point
combatmedic: cracked
Rafe: :-D
VAN: "I can carry you as flying"
combatmedic: maybe from when he ate the eblladonna[deadly nightshade]
combatmedic: belladonna
VAN: [we will speak about that strange behavior later]
Jarg: Jarg is a bit shaken from the transformation he witnessed, so he prefers to run right now, thanks
VAN: Can Ino get Jarg and fly?
Rafe: Through the stormiest of all nights, you run with the wolves...
Rafe: Over the plains, and towards the lightnings on the horizon...
Jarg: Jarg wont let her right now
Rafe: It is the darkest hour, the hour of the dawn, as you approach the small city of Hermit's town...
Rafe: You can see the buildings burning even from here...
Rafe: OOC Jarg will get a huge COn penalty if he keeps running on foot only! Best let Ino carry him, or get closer to that big bad wolf...
Rafe: ;-) Sorry that I am punishing you today so much, my friend!
Jarg: Jarg jumps on the big bad wolf
Jarg: [he does grab on rather harshly on purpose ]
combatmedic: ''Another burning twonn, this time we cannot be blamed.''
VAN: u prefer him to Ino!!!
combatmedic: [twon]
combatmedic: [town]
Rafe: ,,, The dark elf cries of fear mix with the howliing of the wolfpack...
Rafe: ;-)
Jarg: [he is closer than Ino right now]
VAN: The fly speed is 60x4
VAN: I think is good
Jarg: [Van but you are flying right nowe and the wolf is closer, its ok]
Rafe: Harkon speaks with a human voice to you...
Rafe: "There. The blood drinker and his army went, in search of their master."
Rafe: "The White One said it. He comes from time."
Jarg: Jarg whispers to Harkon so only he hears "Do u look for the blood drinkers to kill them or?"
VAN: "Wait...their master is also Jander's master?"
Rafe: "The Mother, they call her. That's why they want her. To ease their pain..."
Rafe:
Rafe: Huhu?
combatmedic: ''Mother.....no, not that.''
Rafe: Harkon suddenly turns his massive head. "Lover, you call her, no?"
Jarg: "Lover?"
combatmedic: ''How...''
Jarg: "All right, who has a lover?"
combatmedic: ''No- you are msitaekn.''
VAN: "I'm confues"
VAN: confued
combatmedic: ''I'm only a servant, loyal and devoted- that's something like love....]
combatmedic: ''NO!''
combatmedic: Jamethon leaps off the wolf's back and runs towards the burning twon
Rafe: "I am a shapechanger as well... I smell... Masks..."
VAN: "Jamethon! Wait!"
combatmedic: Jamethon runs on madly
Jarg: Jargruns after Jamethon
Jarg: "WAIT!"
Rafe: "Go for him. I may not taste human flesh... Or I won't be able to fight the hunger any more. We must watch. You can fight."
Rafe: Shana and Sasha follow...
combatmedic: Jamethon srops, truninga round to face Jarg
combatmedic: stops
VAN: Ino flies there too
VAN: "Are you ok:"
Rafe: Sasha draws her sword...
Jarg: "Stay with us" it's not a good idea to go into town alone, and we all are in this together, ok"
combatmedic: ''Yes, yes, I'm fine. I just....needed to get off and move on my own for a minute. I'm better now.''
combatmedic: Jamethon doesn't look well
Jarg: "Sasha out that away unless you wish to use it on someone else than us."
Jarg: *put
VAN: "Come, now. Lets see waht we can do"
combatmedic: ''Yes.''
combatmedic: Jamethon begins walking towards the town
Rafe: Sasha points to the burning town. "Not loose time any more! For Alek!!!"
combatmedic: ''let's look for survivors''
VAN: Inovdil looks worried at Jamethon but says nothing
Jarg: [OOC - who's she attacking?]
VAN: "Yes I'll go with Shana and Sasha you g owith Jarg"
Rafe: You find the gates open... The guards lie down there, dead.
VAN: dead from what?
VAN: woulds, burnt or else?
Rafe: You cannot tell...
Rafe: Inside the city, a flaming inferno...
combatmedic: cuts off heads to be sure
Jarg: Jarg looks around with Jamethon
Rafe: Sasha: "To the temple?"
combatmedic: or tosses bodies into fire
Rafe: "We come way to late..."
VAN: "Jamtehon, check the gurads please"
combatmedic: ''yes''
Jarg: "I guess it's as good a plac as any"
Rafe: "Those three died of magic."
combatmedic: [if dead, disposed of as I said- first look for fang marks if obvious]
VAN: magic?
VAN: burnt>
Jarg: check waht kind of magic, Ino
Rafe: As you march deeper into the city, you see many dead children lie on the ground. Some hold stones, or hold sticks or real weapons... All are very thin and ragged...
Jarg: "Fireball?"
VAN: Ino casts detect magic
combatmedic: ''THE CHILDREN, THEY KILLED THE CHILDREN.''
VAN: "What the...what kind of monster could do that?"
Jarg: Jarg sees the children and frowns. "If the children have wweapons that must mean the adults were dead before they died"
combatmedic: Jamethon tenderly picks up a child, and seeing that he is certainly dead, hurls the small body into the flames and smoke of a half collapsed building
Rafe: You stumble over another scene. A child lies dead, pierced through with a sword.
combatmedic: ''These children look half starved- has there been famine in thes parts, I wonder?''
Rafe: The dead man under it wears a night dress and sandals. His eyes are still open, in fear.
Jarg: jarg checks for fang marks on their bodies
Jarg: the children
Rafe: "No. NO."
VAN: "They ttacked them in surprise"
Jarg: Jarg looks to see if the Temple is intact or burning
combatmedic: ''Yes, it must have been sudden. But why attacks this place?''
Rafe: A few feet next to you, Sasha has sunken to the ground, breathing heavily, and tears running from her face.
VAN: "We should burry them"
combatmedic: ''Burn them.''
VAN: maybe better yes
combatmedic: ''the fire is our freind in this. There are too many to bury''
Rafe: She holds a child her arms, firmly pressed against the white silk robe over her armor, that is now covered... With black liquid.
Jarg: "I agree"
Rafe: "See."
combatmedic: ''we can pray over the ahses after the fires go out''
VAN: Ino lays a hands on her shoulder "Come"
Jarg: Black liquid...................
combatmedic: ''Hwat's that?''
VAN: "What is thsi?"
combatmedic: Jamethon comes closer for a look
Jarg: Ino look at the liquid is it magic?
Rafe: Barely able to walk, Sasha holds the child up to Ino...
VAN: Ino casts detect magic
Rafe: The child's eyes are black, as is it's tongue... Between two long, predatory fangs...
Jarg: Vampirtic fangs?
VAN: "Oh my..."
combatmedic: Jamethon grabs at it, trying to hrul it to the ground!
VAN: any magic?
Jarg: "Whoever did this is a monster in the worst sense"
Rafe: "NO!!!" Sasha is completely out her mind now, pressing the body against her again...
Jarg: OOC - can I still see Harkon and his wolves?]
Rafe: OOC: Harkon and the wolves are outside the town, like half a mile away...
combatmedic: ''Sasha, you must give it to the fires''
combatmedic: Jamethon moves behind the keeling paladin
Rafe: Sasha cries, wordless...
Jarg: "Ok we could burn all these bodies but we need to investiagte the whole village first, we might find the culprit"
VAN: "better check if there are any survivors"
Rafe: The fires around you will devour the city, and the bodies with it... And you, if you don't hurry...
combatmedic: ''Yes, we should take care to note any clues the radiers might have left behind. Perhaps the villagers actuallt managed to kill one of them, or maybe equioment was dropped''
Rafe: On the stairway to a burning inn stands a man...
combatmedic: ''The fires are getting too close. We may need to leave soon.''
Rafe: Coldly watching you with his yellow eyes...
VAN: "Lets hurry"
Jarg: Jarg looks at the man..... seen him before?
combatmedic: ''You- come here now.''
combatmedic: Jamethon put a hand to his sword hilt
combatmedic: and stares at the stranger
Rafe: It's Jarryd, the long scimitar full of blood.
Jarg: "Did you do this?" JArg asks the yellow eyed man.
Rafe: His voice seems to extend over the distance, reaching Jarg. "Brother."
Jarg: [OOC harkon wants Jarryd, right?]
VAN: "Jarryd!!!"
Rafe: OOC Possibly.
Jarg: "I'm not your brother. Are you responsible for this?"
Rafe: Jarryd turns and walks away, into flames...
Jarg: Jarg whispers "SOmeone get to the boy, tell him Jarryd is here."
VAN: "No wait! let him speak first"
Jarg: Jarg runs in Jarryd's direction, hoping to save him somehow
Rafe: Suddenly, the air around fills with insane, crazy laughter...
VAN: "Jarryd! We want to help you. What happened?"
Rafe: Something big hits Inovidil from behind, pushing her right into the flames. [7 DAM, an AoO with a badass roll like few I've seen before!]
Rafe: Something large plunges on Shana and knocks her down...
combatmedic: [casts resist energy 'fire on slef/eqipment]
VAN: Ino has stoneskin
Rafe: Horns, hooves, paired with silver double axes...
Rafe: Teeth, long as your fingers, and eyes red like hot coals...
VAN: Ino gets out of the fire
Rafe: OOC: Means you still are pushed into the fire...
VAN: she gest out and flies up
Rafe: The monstrosity has packed the helpless Shana on her long hair and pulls her up from the ground...
Rafe: "Now we talk! Or she dies!"
combatmedic: once his pray for proof against flames is cast, jamethon will move towards the monster
Rafe: A man, long horns springing from his head, a goat's hooves and tail, and an armor, black as obsidian.
combatmedic: ''Yes, let's talk'' he sayss, movings slowly closer
combatmedic: his hand is not on his sword
Rafe: "Say my name, or I'll cut her throat right here, Master Moorkroft."
combatmedic: but carrying a horn of some kind.
combatmedic: ''lodissio''
combatmedic: ''You rememebr me, goatleg?''
Rafe: The satyr grins and lets Shana drop down. "Where's the mist witch? The Lady of Imprisonment?"
VAN: "Leave Shana and we will talk!"
Rafe: "I want her head."
Rafe: Jarg?
combatmedic: ''If have her weherabout in my mapcase. we are on out way]''
Jarg: {OOC I am guesssing Jarg is now aware o f what's going on? And can come back. I went after Jarryd at first.
combatmedic: ''i'll trade you the map case for the mage''
combatmedic: Here...
combatmedic: Jamethon unlsings a plain leather stachel from his shuolder.
Rafe: OOC Sorry, I must have overread that - Jarryd when straight into the flames, into the heart iof the fire, and you could not follow him. Sure you see what's going on!
Jarg: [Can I come back and sneak attack Lodissio?]
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VAN: Inovidil gets Shana away
Rafe: Lodissio spits, and his saliva drops on helpless Shana.
combatmedic: ''Here, take the case- it has all my notes, everything''
Rafe: "Give this."
combatmedic: ''Just spare the woman''
Rafe: "First the case."
combatmedic: Jamethon will clamly hand the mapcase to Lodsiio
Rafe: @Jarg: Sure.
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Jarg: Jarg attempts to come back, and sneka behind Lodissio then back stab him once Shana is safe
combatmedic: [rafe, my action is in Private chat]
Rafe: Lodissio turns his head and looks to where Jarg is hiding.
Rafe: "I smell you, drow. Even in this world of light, you still serve for the mad priest and this bitch?"
Jarg: Jarg attacks!
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combatmedic: [acting now]
Rafe: And so does Moorkroft...
VAN: Inovdil casts magic missiles
Jarg: "I serve noone, you fiend. Leave my friends alone!"
Rafe: But Lodissio is fast, even faster as when you last fought him, and pulls Jarg out of his hiding with his bare hands and throws him against Moorkroft like a bag of beans.
combatmedic: ''Off!''
VAN: the 4 magic missiles got him?
Rafe: Taking up the case, he bows. "Burn, lost souls, burn. The lich was right. You are easy to beat now."
Rafe: @Sec please, all going on so fast!
Jarg: OOF! Jarg tumbles to safety.
combatmedic: [garbbing something burning with bare hand- resistance shoudl cancel damnge]
Rafe: Ino's missiles find their targetm, but don't seem to inflict any serious damage... Ino may think that the satyr uses magic protection...
combatmedic: [tosses burning stuff at the case]
VAN: damn...
Rafe: [3 DAM] Lodissio grins and evades the burning piece of wood... "Idiots..."
Rafe: And with that, the satyr quickly moves out of sight...
VAN: Ino casts lighting bolt
Jarg: "Damn!"
combatmedic: [renmoved from my presnce, the fire resitance won't help the cpnents of the case....]
combatmedic: [contnets]
Rafe: That one hits the satyr and throws him around, but Lodissio doesn't fight, but runs into the darkness...
combatmedic: [does the lghting do the trick, rafe-?]
Rafe: OOC: I have a special idea for this, expect that soon...
Rafe: ... Or why not right now...
combatmedic: [ooc yes]
VAN: this?
Rafe: BOOOOOOM!!!
Rafe: A hundred meters down the road, an explosion thunders through the night...
VAN: oohh ohhh
combatmedic: ''Good luck reading my map, you son of a bitch''
Rafe: Sasha staggers on her feet, her silk robe full of vomit...
Rafe: "Let's leave here..."
VAN: "What the...Jamethon! You are brilliant!"
combatmedic: ''That was the last of my powder and shot''
VAN: "Lets g oto see if he is deasd"
combatmedic: ''Yes.''
Rafe: Jarg! :-)
Jarg: "Wow Jamethon that was brilliant! I hope the monster is dead"
combatmedic: Now Jamethon draws his sword and moves out
combatmedic: Now Jamethon draws his sword and moves out
combatmedic: Now Jamethon draws his sword and moves out
combatmedic: Now Jamethon draws his sword and moves out
Jarg: Jarg folows him
VAN: Ino too, always flying
combatmedic: [moving quickly, looking for lodssio]
combatmedic: [able to move through fire, if ncessary, because of spell]
combatmedic: [but avoiding areas with too much smoke]
Rafe: In the blazing inferno, you find no further track of Lodissio...
Rafe: Then, Harkon, in human form, finds you again, dragging you to come outside...
combatmedic: ''He's gone. Dead or alive, I don't know. ''
Jarg: "Gahhe probably fled magically
VAN: "I think we lost him"
Rafe: What remained of Hermit's Town is to the flames...
combatmedic: [follows Harkon]
Rafe: It's not that he fled, you simply cannot tell where the case exploded...
VAN: "What do you say Jamethon your powder was enough to kill him?
combatmedic: [yeah, this place is a disater area- burning builings and coprses all over the place]
Rafe: Shana is also back in form, though some of her ribbs are broken...
combatmedic: ''I don't know. ''
combatmedic: ''I imagine he didn't enjoy the experince, though, whetver the case.''
Rafe: Outside the town, the wolves have dispersed with the dawn of the day...
VAN: "Yeah I imagine. Come lets burn the bodies"
Jarg: "Yeah , well we have nothing left here to do, where we go now?"
combatmedic: ''To look for HER''
Rafe: "The children are marching south." Says Harkon. "To the City of Spices."
VAN: "her?"
combatmedic: ''The children? Wiat- aren't they dead?''
VAN: "What children?"
VAN: "WE saw them, they are dead"
combatmedic: ''Unless we are msitaken, maybe it was the children who attacked the twon''
Rafe: "In a week, they'll be there. Eight times hundred they were when they reached Hermit's Town."
Jarg: "The children that JArryd transformed into Vampires, you mean?"
combatmedic: ''They could be his army.''
Rafe: "Twelve times hundred they are now."
combatmedic: ''Holy Ezra...the Mother.....no....'''
Rafe: "'Mother! Mother!' is what they cry."
VAN: "Wait...if there were vampires couldn't be out in day light"
combatmedic: ''Cormyr is in great danger.''
VAN: "We should go there and warn them"
combatmedic: ''Some vampires can walk under the noonday sun, it is said.''
Rafe: Harkon looks to Shana and Sasha. "Go to Arabel. Tell the White One."
VAN: "The Alchimist?"
Rafe: "We others, we must go. Many men will die. And some of them, we call friends."
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VAN: "You will come with us?"
Rafe: "Who is the Alchemist?"
Jarg: " We need to warn this mage that you never met in Shadowdale, Inovidil."
VAN: "I guess the White One"
Rafe: "I can guide you on ways you would not know."
VAN: "Elminister? How can we do that?"
combatmedic: 'Shadowdale? That's much to far away''
VAN: "Only with the sending spell"
combatmedic: ''We need to find Tatyana''
VAN: "But I cannot cast it yet"
Rafe: Harkon looks for the sun of the new day... "My humanity... It is vanishing..."
combatmedic: ''She's the vessel of the Lady in this world''
VAN: "Maybe if we find a more powerful wizard"
Jarg: "Then we need to act fast. Yes it's too bad Fallenleaf isn't on our side he is very powerful"
VAN: "Indeed, where is Tatyana?"
VAN: "we need to see if she is still alive"
Rafe: Shana joins Harkon. "Remember what Lodissio said about a lich? Maybe Fallenleaf has changed sides."
VAN: "He has fought us before remember?"
Jarg: " I agree we need a powerful mage to help us. MAybe we can find one in Arabel?"
combatmedic: ''It may be so, or perhaps he meant another. Or perhaps that damned goatman was just lying to us again.''
VAN: "There are many liches here that is true, but I doubt Lodisio knows anyone else"
Rafe: HArkon looks at the dark elf, stressed. "I won't leave Sergej to the Lady of Raven's minions. I already saw Alek die."
VAN: "LOdisio probably has found Fallenleaf"
VAN: "So, what we will do?"
VAN: "Go to Arabel searchinga wizard or go back to Cormyr?"
combatmedic: ''Arabel is within Cormyr , as I recall''
Jarg: "Well, Harkon, we need to act asap becoause of the situation, let's decide what we do and quickly"
combatmedic: ''My Lady is there''
Rafe: Harkon looks stubborn. "I will go save the people of MArsember if I can. You friend, the blood drinker and I, we have a score to settle. What the count could not do me, he has done."
combatmedic: ''She may have need of me. We should return. Seregi was there when we departed''
VAN: "Ok then"
combatmedic: ''I will take care of Sergei, don't worry about him.''
Rafe: Harkon finally looks releaved. "To Marsember, then."

---END OF THE CHAPTER---
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Le Noir Faineant
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Post by Le Noir Faineant »

And here's the teaser for the grand finale of the the first great story arc within Ravenloft: Origins!



Ravenheart, Part I

...Someone will reveal himself...


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Ravenheart, Part II

...And someone will die...


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Post by ewancummins »

For the record, I can spell, I was just typing really fast!
Delight is to him- a far, far upward, and inward delight- who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever stands forth his own inexorable self.

-from Moby Dick (Hermann Melville)
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