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Re: (036) The Remains of the Day
« Reply #405 on Mar 7, 2012, 10:36pm »

Mar 7, 2012, 10:23pm, coffee wrote:

So, from where Dieter is, there's the stairs going down and then the floor 30' below. Other than that, it's back the way we just were.

If that's the case, then my plan is formulated.

That is indeed the case.

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Re: (036) The Remains of the Day
« Reply #406 on Mar 8, 2012, 10:30am »

"Alright, guys, so what's the plan?"

Desmond looks down both directions of the passage at the rest of the small group to see if anyone knows wha...

"Hey... where are Wibert and Pel? They were just here!"

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Re: (036) The Remains of the Day
« Reply #407 on Mar 8, 2012, 11:28am »

Olaf's attention is divided between Dieter, the advancing undead, and Desmond asking where Wibert and Pel are. He glances back and forth torn between pushing forward to attack the monsters or falling back to search for the missing two.

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Re: (036) The Remains of the Day
« Reply #408 on Mar 8, 2012, 2:41pm »

Mar 8, 2012, 10:30am, ehiker133 wrote:

"Hey... where are Wibert and Pel? They were just here!"

"What?" Dieter roars. "They should know better than to run off at a time like this. Go find them!

"I'll hold these guys off (as usual)."

Dieter's getting good and angry, so I wouldn't worry about these undead guys.

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Re: (036) The Remains of the Day
« Reply #409 on Mar 8, 2012, 4:36pm »

Desmond nods and turns to back into the room previously cleansed of undead with fire.

(Anyone else have a light source? Desmond doesn't...)

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Re: (036) The Remains of the Day
« Reply #410 on Mar 8, 2012, 6:48pm »

"And now we stand here, stranded and punished for my foolishness. Perhaps the old Deacon was right - I am not fit to wear the the Seal." Pelenwin will then offer his assistance to Wibert in hopes that he is more clever and cunning with traps than a young, militant knight.

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Re: (036) The Remains of the Day
« Reply #411 on Mar 9, 2012, 12:57am »

"Here you are," Ulric says handing the scepter over to Dieter. "I still have my lantern. Let's go find the other two; I agree that we need to flee this place but we cannot leave them behind; not even the templar."

Ulric directs the light of his lantern into the pit for a moment to see if anything is visible or moving.

"I could try to throw another ball of fire into the pit, but I cannot guarantee that it will work. Shall I try?"

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Re: (036) The Remains of the Day
« Reply #412 on Mar 9, 2012, 11:23am »

"Unfortunately," Dieter explains, "my plan rather involved us all being together. Let's fall back while you look for those two; we can at least draw these vile things away from our friends."

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Re: (036) The Remains of the Day
« Reply #413 on Mar 9, 2012, 11:38am »

"Wait... It looks like they die for the others just fine. But the ones we were fighting kept coming back for more... and they seem to be attracted to your light. Do you think it has some weird effect on them? Like it rejuvenates them? Should we try to put it out and see if they don't stay down for good?"

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Re: (036) The Remains of the Day
« Reply #414 on Mar 9, 2012, 1:01pm »

Olaf takes the scepter and lowers it saying the magic words to extinguish its bright light, "We can but try."

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Re: (036) The Remains of the Day
« Reply #415 on Mar 9, 2012, 6:29pm »

Dieter will observe, but he isn't letting down his guard one bit.

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Re: (036) The Remains of the Day
« Reply #416 on Mar 11, 2012, 5:52pm »

The First Vault
(Most of the Company)

On the near stair, Gustave presses his attack against the backs of the walking dead [1d20=6] scarcely catching the last of them as he jaunts through the dying oil fire upon the stair, [2dd=1,1] clipping it for 4 hit points. Above him, Josiane, Highbough, Dorgan and Guntram are in the exit passage...

The small knot of four undead are climbing the far stair.

There is a lot of chatter among those just arrived there. Ulric hands the bright scepter back to Olaf while Dieter holds the top of the far stair -- watching the undead jerk and lurch awkwardly toward him preceded by a loathsome stench and a palpable wave a hatred.

"Subfusc" says Olaf, and the light from the scepter dims to an ember, then winks out altogether. There is then only the orange light of the dying oil fire upon the stair, Ulric's lantern, and Josiane's torch light, just visible, in the exit passage. The great vault seems awfully dim and cold.

Desmond/Mondes, Olaf and Ulric turn back toward the Second Vault, in search of Wibert and Pelenwin, the way illuminated only by Ulric's lantern.

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Re: (036) The Remains of the Day
« Reply #417 on Mar 11, 2012, 6:25pm »

The Passage into The First Vault
(Guntram, Dorgan, Highbough, Josiane)

Guntram hefts his shield nervously in the passage, with Highbough immediately behind him. The old Elf barks something withering in the Infernal Tongue, stinging the ears of those present...

...while behind them in the passage way Josiane frees another torch from her backpack, while explaining the situation to Dorgan, and then fires the second torch with the first.

Ahead Guntram and Highbough both feel a knot of ice in the pits of their stomachs as a foe most terrible emerges silently from the dark in the mouth of the passage.

"Ssseeee mmmeeeee at youuurrrr peehhhhrrrriiilllll!" it hisses; the aberration is tall and swathed in tattered black robe and cowl which reveals inhumanly white and withered flesh, long thin arms with long black claws, and a face with feral fangs and terrible black pits of eyes.

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