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-"Nothing, and I mean nothing, is as disgusting as [[grave ooze]]," snarled Hare. | |||
-"Not [[Ezrite|Ezrighties]]?" asked [[William Burke|Burke]]. | |||
-"They don't eat us out of house and home," Hare answered sagely. | |||
-"Mornin'lordies then?" Burke persisted. | |||
-"We only know one and he is dead, buried and eaten long ago," snapped Hare. | |||
-"[[Dwarf]] [[intestine|entrails]]!" Burke answered brightly. | |||
-"Not if you shake them out well like I have shown you a dozen times," Hare shot back. | |||
-"Ok, ok, nuffin' as digusting as the ooze," Burke conceded with a shrug, "but what we goin' a do about it?" | |||
-"Well for starters, you are not going to throw our tools at it like last time," replied Hare with the profoundest irritation. | |||
William Burke & [[William Hare]] back in the heyday of Il-Aluk when they were in the undead minority | |||
Descriptive text contributed by '''[[USER:Cure | cure]]''' to [[John W. Mangrum | John W. Mangrum's]] [[Teeny Tiny Tales of Terror]] project (posted on the [[Cafe de Nuit|Fraternity of Shadows message board]]). | |||
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William Burke was in [[life]], and remains, a tall, thin, bright individual. He and his partener [[William Hare]] were leading [[Grave Robber|resurrectionists]] in [[Il Aluk]] in the period dating to [[697 BC]]. They robbed the city's [[graveyard|graveyards]] of [[cadavers]] and sold these to the [[School of Medicine (University of Il Aluk)|School of Medicine]] of the [[University of Il Aluk]], to the underground and illegal ''[[Ecole du Mots Mortes]]'', to [[necromancers]], to [[necrologist|necrologists]], to [[biologists]], and to [[butchers]]. | |||
Eventually, the pair began supplementing their salable inventory with the [[cadavers]] of [[murdered|those whom they took to murdering]]. One of the victims turned out to be [[Grumman Knox]]. He was the nephew of [[Professor Robert Knox]] who headed the School of Medicine. When the cadaver of the young Knox was offered to his uncle, the latter calmly purchased it, and proceeded to report Burke and Hare to the authorities. Before the pair could be arrested, they learnt that they had been betrayed by their long-standing business partener, broke into his home, and murdered him. Burke and Hare were arrested immediately thereafter and condemned to death for their [[crime|crimes]]. They were executed by being hung by their necks until dead. Unfortunately, the macabre pair survived death, rose as [[ghouls]], and escaped the scene of their [[execution]]. | |||
==Stats== | |||
Male [[ghoul]], [[Thief]] 4, [[Chaotic Evil]] | |||
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-"Nothing, and I mean nothing, is as disgusting as grave ooze," snarled Hare.
-"Not Ezrighties?" asked Burke.
-"They don't eat us out of house and home," Hare answered sagely.
-"Mornin'lordies then?" Burke persisted.
-"We only know one and he is dead, buried and eaten long ago," snapped Hare.
-"Dwarf entrails!" Burke answered brightly.
-"Not if you shake them out well like I have shown you a dozen times," Hare shot back.
-"Ok, ok, nuffin' as digusting as the ooze," Burke conceded with a shrug, "but what we goin' a do about it?"
-"Well for starters, you are not going to throw our tools at it like last time," replied Hare with the profoundest irritation.
William Burke & William Hare back in the heyday of Il-Aluk when they were in the undead minority
Descriptive text contributed by cure to John W. Mangrum's Teeny Tiny Tales of Terror project (posted on the Fraternity of Shadows message board).
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This section contains netbook-canon info from netbooks |
William Burke was in life, and remains, a tall, thin, bright individual. He and his partener William Hare were leading resurrectionists in Il Aluk in the period dating to 697 BC. They robbed the city's graveyards of cadavers and sold these to the School of Medicine of the University of Il Aluk, to the underground and illegal Ecole du Mots Mortes, to necromancers, to necrologists, to biologists, and to butchers.
Eventually, the pair began supplementing their salable inventory with the cadavers of those whom they took to murdering. One of the victims turned out to be Grumman Knox. He was the nephew of Professor Robert Knox who headed the School of Medicine. When the cadaver of the young Knox was offered to his uncle, the latter calmly purchased it, and proceeded to report Burke and Hare to the authorities. Before the pair could be arrested, they learnt that they had been betrayed by their long-standing business partener, broke into his home, and murdered him. Burke and Hare were arrested immediately thereafter and condemned to death for their crimes. They were executed by being hung by their necks until dead. Unfortunately, the macabre pair survived death, rose as ghouls, and escaped the scene of their execution.
Stats
Male ghoul, Thief 4, Chaotic Evil
Reference
The Book of Souls, p. 35-36.
