Café de Nuit

Avra takes one look over at the wounded knight - he must help him!

Avra charges the dog-beast which is attacking the paladin, yelling: "As it turns to face me, get your sword!"

Avra runs torads the beast, his hands cleched into fists...

[occ: I'm going to get really hurt now, right? ]

[Are you aware that there are TWO dogs now, fighting each other? - The knight is out of danger for now... Are you sure you want to enter a dogfight between two hellhounds? - I mean, hey, would bring a lot of XP... Or let you loose a lot of HP... Like... All... ]

Shana dashes over to the wounded warrior glancing at Avra

"Thankyou sir! I'm deeply in your debt. um, is anyone else for getting out of here now?"

With a groan, Erdwin pulls himself to all fours, where he stays for a moment, recovering his breath. Looking up to see the woman who address him, he loses it again. He scrambles to his feet.

"Lady, there is no debt when I have but done what is right." Flushed and out of breath he gathers his broken weapons. "You are right...let us leave at once. Perhaps you, or your companion," he motions to Avra, "knows a place of safety?"

I shake my head

"I've no idea where we are. Oh... there were some others as well, but they've vanished. They could be anywhere..."

I glance at the hellhound fight

"I'm not sure we have time to look...

One hellhound has apparently found a way to gain control over his enemy...

The fight might soon be over...

This might indeed be the right time for a change of scene...

Basic directions:

North: ?

East: To the pillar...

South: ?

West: The river, where Erdwin was resting...

Erdwin resolutely stands.

"Lady," he addresses Shana, "I have given my word that I would aid the satyr's companions, and so I must. Perhaps it would be safer for you in the forests...you should go while those creatures are still distracted."

Then, looking at Avra, he calls out. "Ho there! Are there more where you came from? I was told to find a party around that object." He points to the pillar. Regardless of Avra's response, he begins headings towards it...

"you've seen Lodissio? is he alright?"

I follow Erdwin, reloading my crossbow and keeping a wary eye on the hellhound fight.

"oh by the way....where ARE we?"

Stumbling out of the crater, you enter a thick forest of green, healty trees...

Quickly trying to get out of the reach of the ferocious animals, you make your way directly to the direction Erdwin pointed to...

What the paladin identified as a "pillar", however, is not what he thought it to be...

You find yourselves standing in front of a withered gate of blank iron.


In front of you, an imposing graveyard opens into the landscape,
with a scale of well over one mile in size...

While the site seems to rest in a pityful state of disrepair,
right in front of you at the entrance,
the silver statue of cloaked woman is planted into the earth,
well like as if this princess of the damned was overseeing the area...

Do you dare to enter and to face what might lie behind the old gates...?



Congratulations! You have completed Staunton Bluffs Episode II: Dreams of the Demoness!

Our game will resume its regular course on Saturday, June 25th, with Staunton Bluffs Episode III: The Ezrites...

Think this was too easy...? *Mwahahaha...*

It cannot hurt to do a bit of In-Character-Chat in the meantime... Exploring the graveyard, however, can...

Yours,

Rafael

Suddenly, one of the crypt doors is pushed open... And Shana and Avra are marvelled to see the faces of their old travelling companions!

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