Café de Nuit

Aside from the Quevari, Blaise has no idea who the other figures could be ... but based on the reactions on his exhausted companions' face, they are known to them. He'll have lots of questions when -- or if -- they have a chance to rest.

"Back through lava, or step into shadow," he gasps. "That's an easy choice,' he says with a hint of a smile. He moves as fast as he can toward the entrance.

Following the others' lead, George rushes into the gate.

Inovidil follows the others inside too not very much surprised this time that her companions seem to know the ghosts. She has understand that this party has a really strange and rather big story and the witch is very curious to know more about them.

Once inside Brethana and Jarg look around taking in their surroundings.

"Has anyone been here before?" Brethana asks.

Alain continues running, gaining speed when he see's the entrance to the castle.

Shana pauses at the gate, unwilling to enter the forbidding portal, but clearly afraid of the Ghosts. She steps gingerly into the archway, looking back to check that Alain is alright before moving deeper into the castle

... You all haste into the open, black whole that forms the gate to Castle Stonecrest...

In this absolute darkness, you feel again how space and time are wickedly shifting...

You keep running for a while, hearing only your fearful breath and the sounds of your feet on a stone floor that you cannot see...

Then, the black shroud around you seems finally to lift, and something steps in your way...

As the blackness around slowly changes into the dirty brown of wallstoners reflecting the burning hellfire, you finally see what has come from the depths of madness to haunt you yet again...

Before you, his eyes dtill glowing from the Quevari's feverish poison, stand s the shadow of Lodissio Benaignant, the satyr.



End of Staunton Bluffs V: New Blood.