Nesyax had stayed trying to keep eye out behind them, doing her best to keep out of sight as the others explored further down the hall. The girls' scream though prompted her to approach Room 10 to see what had happened. When Kitaer slowly backs out she asks him, "What was in there?"
Vesna follows Nesyax, her face betraying how confused she is. She thought the others would have looked through most of the building already, but seems the complication was bigger than she thought.
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The young girl tilts her head a bit as the minotaur backs away. The look in her eyes reveals that she is both scared and now confused. The dog continues to bark and turns its focus towards the white haired noble when he pokes his head around the door.
"I... uh yes... It's just me and tulip here.." she replies in a dry raspy voice while pointing a hand towards the dog. "Tu...Tulip... it's OK.." She says to the dog, prompting the canine to quiet down. The dog then moves around the bed and sits on the wooden floor near her feet. "I've only been here a couple days... When we got dropped off... everyone just kind of went their own way..." She sits on the bed and begins to shiver, prompting Tulip to jump on to the bed and lay across her lap. "I don't think anyone else is staying in here... some of the other doors up here were locked... and the ones that weren't either have dead inside or worse..." She pauses to pet the dog for a moment.. her head looking past Daryos to see who else may be in the hallway. "What are you doing here... You don't look sick. Are you... Are you here to save me?" She asks as her eyes light up a bit.
"We just arrived today and we were not aware of the situation you have here I'm afraid."The young white-haired noble calmly explains. "We are not sick yet, I sincerely hope. We didn't come here to save anyone in particular but if we can help we will of course do that." He goes on, looking at the brass keys he found earlier, throwing the one to room 10 to the girl on the bed. "Take that and lock yourself in here when we leave, we can come here and check on you, and we will bring you supplies if you need them. I'm afraid we don't have a cure or anything that can even alleviate what you go through right now but we will of course try to find a way to stop this plague, for the sake of all of us." He says with a warm reassuring smile to the girl. "Now before we leave you, is there anything you can tell us about the plague and the Morbus Doctore? Oh, and you can call me Daryos."
The young woman takes the key and clutches it in her hand. "I guess the plague has been spreading for a while now... the spread has slowed down some but it can be found just about everywhere within Etharis from what I've heard. I think it started here in the city of Liesech shortly after Countess Analita von Raiza took control of the city around a year ago... but I don't know why." She then pauses and looks at the lesions on her hands, continuing to shiver once more. "The Morbus Doctore are either evil or saviors depending on who you ask... They came to greet us when we first arrived here. They told us that the Weeping Pox were actually a blessing... They said that they would help us to embrace the blessing if we agree'd to submit to their treatments. They also said they could cure us if wanted to refuse the Great One's blessing... but they were asking for more coin then most nobles earn in a lifetime. Most of us arrived with just the clothes on our backs, while others were allowed to bring some bags with them." She then looked up from the key towards Daryos. "I see them hauling off the dead.. but they don't always get them all. I've found the bodies of some of the folks I arrived with while scavenging for food. Sometimes all that is left of them is their skin and clothes... like something has taken their bones..."She says with a shudder. You feel that the shudder is more from her picturing the bodies in her mind than her fever...
"I see..." The young white-haired noble says calmly, pondering what the girl had told him. It was no doubt the bone collector that had been busy. Question was how to find them, keeping eyes open for them with so many bodies might take a long time. Finding someone who had seen them and perhaps also knew where to find them seemed better. "So, if we needed to speak to someone who knew all about the what is going on around here, where would we go?"
"Uhh... well you could try the tavern.... I think it was called Leadbelly's or something."She replies while petting Tulip on the head. "The wechselkind out front didn't let me inside because I was sick... but they gave me some food and drink."She adds before pulling out a water skin and taking a long drink.
Hearing the unfamiliar voice, Vesna creeps to where Daryos is, peeking from behind him. Her eyes widen as she sees the girl, taking in her flushed features and the lesions forming on her skin. She considers the ongoing conversation quietly.
Insight: 14
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“You said when you first came here…” Kitaer sneaks in when there’s a pause in the conversation. “where did you come here from? And why?”
When boneless bodies is mentioned he interrupts there as well. “We heard rumors of a Bone Collector. You hear any of that? Think it’s true at all or just hogwash to scare people?”
"I meant on the first day after being left to die here in the quarantine zone..."the girl replies with a hint of anger in her raspy voice. "My family was visiting from a small village not far outside of Liesech called Faren’s Rest. We are farmers... we came here to sell some produce. My father was nearly arrested when he tried to fight the guards when they forced me into the corpse cart.... That's what we call thecarriages and wagons they load sick people into.. They did let me bring Tulip though.. so at least i'm not alone."
"My name is Sara by the way... Sara Goldweaver." She says, looking to Daryos before looking back to Kitaer. She is obviously a little more uneasy speaking to the minotaur than Daryos, but she continues to answer his questions. "The bone collector.... bone trader... bone eater... There are many names for that creature. Even back home we had heard of this sinister creature. We would bring in our livestock at night to keep them from being stolen by his minions. The rumors say that the bone trader deals in bones... Bones are like coin to him and they are his treasure. Some have even been able to make dark deals with the creature by providing rare bones to the creature.." She adds as she hugs the dog a little tighter. "I assume his minions have found a way into the quarantine zone... lots of easy bones to be found here I guess..." Her eyes lower and she lets out a long sigh and she continues to pet the dog.
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Daryos is quite distraught by the girl's story, being separated from her parents, but he tries not to show it, tries to stay professional. "You have a nice name there Sara, thank you for helping us, do you have any idea where we can find this Bone collector and his minions?" He asks with a friendly smile.
"I'm not sure... I normally tried to avoid his minions... All I know is that they come out at night looking for sources of bones. They don't seem to care if the bones belong to animals or people." She takes another drink from her waterskin and clears her throat. While talking she continues to scratch the tulip's head between her ears, causing the dog to wag its tail slowly back and forth across the top of the bed. "You could try to pile up some bones I guess and watch for them to come in the night... or ask some of the folks that have been living here for a while. I'm sure they know more."The young woman closes her eyes and leans back against the wall. She continues to scratch the dogs head as it nuzzles her with its snout.
While Sara talks, Daryos looks from the girl to the dog. He notices the fur being to come loose and fall onto the bed from around the area where she is scratching the dog. In the small bald spot, he notices a few small lesions on its skin that look similar to the ones on Sara's hands and around her eyes....
Hmm...bones as currency for the Bone Collector. This place would be easy pickings for such a creature. Though I wonder if the guards or the Morbid Doctores are aware of it being so close by. Well, this lass is doomed to die a painful death. I heard of plagues or sweeping sickness before, but this Weeping Pox seem to have some unnatural qualities. Best stay clear of any of these infected people. Muses Stasyn as he does not move any closer in fear of catching this disease.
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"Okay, thank you for your help Sara, now stay here with Tulip and lock yourself in as we leave. We'll be checking in on you and if we find a way to cure the disease you will be the first to know." The young white-haired noble says with a comforting and reassuring smile before closing the door.
"Poor child." He mutters quietly to himself before turning to the team, giving Nesyax a nod. "Alright, we have a lead on the Bone Collector, but now we finish the sweep of this floor."He says, motioning for Kitaer to continue in the order the minotaur decides.
“Have you ever seen the minions?” Kitaer asks before the conversation ends, and for a description of so, but he’s not expecting she has.
Kitaer can’t help but wonder if they wouldn’t be doing the girl a mercy if they just gave her a quick and unexpected death… But he pushes the thought from his head. He doesn’t know enough about this disease and he doesn’t know if he could do that anyway…
When Daryos motions to move on Kitaer continues in a clockwise direction, checking each room carefully…
"I've never seen one before... but I heard they have blueish-green skin and have weird heads.... like... upsidown or something..." She replies before looking to Daryos. "Goodbye..." She says with a small wave before turning to look at tulip.
As the group continues in a clockwise direction, you come up to a room full of debris and refuse. Stepping over the fallen door for room 9, you see that part of the roof has collapsed and fallen on to the bed. rats scurry around the pile before disappearing between pieces of wood and broken furniture. The contents of this room have been exposed to the elements for some time and it doesn't appear that there is anything of value in here.
The next room you come to has a large set of wooden doors. There is a silver number 8 on the door and a quick investigation of the door reveals that it is locked.
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Nesyax had stayed trying to keep eye out behind them, doing her best to keep out of sight as the others explored further down the hall. The girls' scream though prompted her to approach Room 10 to see what had happened. When Kitaer slowly backs out she asks him, "What was in there?"
Rabbit Sebrica, Sorcerer || Skarai, Monk || Lokilia Vaelphin, Druid || Britari / Halila Talgeta / Jesa Gumovi || Neital Rhessil, Wizard || Iromae Quinaea, Cleric
Meira Dheran, Rogue || Qirynna Thadri, Wizard || Crisaryn Melkial, Sorcerer || Bronnryn Hethgar, Cleric
Vesna follows Nesyax, her face betraying how confused she is. She thought the others would have looked through most of the building already, but seems the complication was bigger than she thought.
Aeran Dormaris - L2 Paladin on his way to Phandelver
Vesna March - L1 Cleric in Etharis
DM The Missing Farmer
The young girl tilts her head a bit as the minotaur backs away. The look in her eyes reveals that she is both scared and now confused. The dog continues to bark and turns its focus towards the white haired noble when he pokes his head around the door.
"I... uh yes... It's just me and tulip here.." she replies in a dry raspy voice while pointing a hand towards the dog. "Tu...Tulip... it's OK.." She says to the dog, prompting the canine to quiet down. The dog then moves around the bed and sits on the wooden floor near her feet. "I've only been here a couple days... When we got dropped off... everyone just kind of went their own way..." She sits on the bed and begins to shiver, prompting Tulip to jump on to the bed and lay across her lap. "I don't think anyone else is staying in here... some of the other doors up here were locked... and the ones that weren't either have dead inside or worse..." She pauses to pet the dog for a moment.. her head looking past Daryos to see who else may be in the hallway. "What are you doing here... You don't look sick. Are you... Are you here to save me?" She asks as her eyes light up a bit.
"We just arrived today and we were not aware of the situation you have here I'm afraid." The young white-haired noble calmly explains. "We are not sick yet, I sincerely hope. We didn't come here to save anyone in particular but if we can help we will of course do that." He goes on, looking at the brass keys he found earlier, throwing the one to room 10 to the girl on the bed. "Take that and lock yourself in here when we leave, we can come here and check on you, and we will bring you supplies if you need them. I'm afraid we don't have a cure or anything that can even alleviate what you go through right now but we will of course try to find a way to stop this plague, for the sake of all of us." He says with a warm reassuring smile to the girl. "Now before we leave you, is there anything you can tell us about the plague and the Morbus Doctore? Oh, and you can call me Daryos."
The young woman takes the key and clutches it in her hand. "I guess the plague has been spreading for a while now... the spread has slowed down some but it can be found just about everywhere within Etharis from what I've heard. I think it started here in the city of Liesech shortly after Countess Analita von Raiza took control of the city around a year ago... but I don't know why." She then pauses and looks at the lesions on her hands, continuing to shiver once more. "The Morbus Doctore are either evil or saviors depending on who you ask... They came to greet us when we first arrived here. They told us that the Weeping Pox were actually a blessing... They said that they would help us to embrace the blessing if we agree'd to submit to their treatments. They also said they could cure us if wanted to refuse the Great One's blessing... but they were asking for more coin then most nobles earn in a lifetime. Most of us arrived with just the clothes on our backs, while others were allowed to bring some bags with them." She then looked up from the key towards Daryos. "I see them hauling off the dead.. but they don't always get them all. I've found the bodies of some of the folks I arrived with while scavenging for food. Sometimes all that is left of them is their skin and clothes... like something has taken their bones..." She says with a shudder. You feel that the shudder is more from her picturing the bodies in her mind than her fever...
"I see..." The young white-haired noble says calmly, pondering what the girl had told him. It was no doubt the bone collector that had been busy. Question was how to find them, keeping eyes open for them with so many bodies might take a long time. Finding someone who had seen them and perhaps also knew where to find them seemed better. "So, if we needed to speak to someone who knew all about the what is going on around here, where would we go?"
"Uhh... well you could try the tavern.... I think it was called Leadbelly's or something." She replies while petting Tulip on the head. "The wechselkind out front didn't let me inside because I was sick... but they gave me some food and drink." She adds before pulling out a water skin and taking a long drink.
Hearing the unfamiliar voice, Vesna creeps to where Daryos is, peeking from behind him. Her eyes widen as she sees the girl, taking in her flushed features and the lesions forming on her skin. She considers the ongoing conversation quietly.
Insight: 14
Aeran Dormaris - L2 Paladin on his way to Phandelver
Vesna March - L1 Cleric in Etharis
DM The Missing Farmer
The young girl is hard to read with her face mostly covered. She seems genuine and cannot think of any reason why she would be lying.
“You said when you first came here…” Kitaer sneaks in when there’s a pause in the conversation. “where did you come here from? And why?”
When boneless bodies is mentioned he interrupts there as well. “We heard rumors of a Bone Collector. You hear any of that? Think it’s true at all or just hogwash to scare people?”
"I meant on the first day after being left to die here in the quarantine zone..." the girl replies with a hint of anger in her raspy voice. "My family was visiting from a small village not far outside of Liesech called Faren’s Rest. We are farmers... we came here to sell some produce. My father was nearly arrested when he tried to fight the guards when they forced me into the corpse cart.... That's what we call the carriages and wagons they load sick people into.. They did let me bring Tulip though.. so at least i'm not alone."
"My name is Sara by the way... Sara Goldweaver." She says, looking to Daryos before looking back to Kitaer. She is obviously a little more uneasy speaking to the minotaur than Daryos, but she continues to answer his questions. "The bone collector.... bone trader... bone eater... There are many names for that creature. Even back home we had heard of this sinister creature. We would bring in our livestock at night to keep them from being stolen by his minions. The rumors say that the bone trader deals in bones... Bones are like coin to him and they are his treasure. Some have even been able to make dark deals with the creature by providing rare bones to the creature.." She adds as she hugs the dog a little tighter. "I assume his minions have found a way into the quarantine zone... lots of easy bones to be found here I guess..." Her eyes lower and she lets out a long sigh and she continues to pet the dog.
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Daryos is quite distraught by the girl's story, being separated from her parents, but he tries not to show it, tries to stay professional. "You have a nice name there Sara, thank you for helping us, do you have any idea where we can find this Bone collector and his minions?" He asks with a friendly smile.
Perception: 19
"I'm not sure... I normally tried to avoid his minions... All I know is that they come out at night looking for sources of bones. They don't seem to care if the bones belong to animals or people." She takes another drink from her waterskin and clears her throat. While talking she continues to scratch the tulip's head between her ears, causing the dog to wag its tail slowly back and forth across the top of the bed. "You could try to pile up some bones I guess and watch for them to come in the night... or ask some of the folks that have been living here for a while. I'm sure they know more." The young woman closes her eyes and leans back against the wall. She continues to scratch the dogs head as it nuzzles her with its snout.
While Sara talks, Daryos looks from the girl to the dog. He notices the fur being to come loose and fall onto the bed from around the area where she is scratching the dog. In the small bald spot, he notices a few small lesions on its skin that look similar to the ones on Sara's hands and around her eyes....
Hmm...bones as currency for the Bone Collector. This place would be easy pickings for such a creature. Though I wonder if the guards or the Morbid Doctores are aware of it being so close by. Well, this lass is doomed to die a painful death. I heard of plagues or sweeping sickness before, but this Weeping Pox seem to have some unnatural qualities. Best stay clear of any of these infected people. Muses Stasyn as he does not move any closer in fear of catching this disease.
Nesyax listens to the girl from a distance as well. Eventually she speaks up. "Daylight is wasting. If we're going to look about it best happen now."
Rabbit Sebrica, Sorcerer || Skarai, Monk || Lokilia Vaelphin, Druid || Britari / Halila Talgeta / Jesa Gumovi || Neital Rhessil, Wizard || Iromae Quinaea, Cleric
Meira Dheran, Rogue || Qirynna Thadri, Wizard || Crisaryn Melkial, Sorcerer || Bronnryn Hethgar, Cleric
"Okay, thank you for your help Sara, now stay here with Tulip and lock yourself in as we leave. We'll be checking in on you and if we find a way to cure the disease you will be the first to know." The young white-haired noble says with a comforting and reassuring smile before closing the door.
"Poor child." He mutters quietly to himself before turning to the team, giving Nesyax a nod. "Alright, we have a lead on the Bone Collector, but now we finish the sweep of this floor." He says, motioning for Kitaer to continue in the order the minotaur decides.
Perception: 14 + Guidance: 3
Stealth: 11
“Have you ever seen the minions?” Kitaer asks before the conversation ends, and for a description of so, but he’s not expecting she has.
Kitaer can’t help but wonder if they wouldn’t be doing the girl a mercy if they just gave her a quick and unexpected death… But he pushes the thought from his head. He doesn’t know enough about this disease and he doesn’t know if he could do that anyway…
When Daryos motions to move on Kitaer continues in a clockwise direction, checking each room carefully…
"Oh, and you better have these." Daryos says and hands Kitaer the remaining keys.
"I've never seen one before... but I heard they have blueish-green skin and have weird heads.... like... upsidown or something..." She replies before looking to Daryos. "Goodbye..." She says with a small wave before turning to look at tulip.
As the group continues in a clockwise direction, you come up to a room full of debris and refuse. Stepping over the fallen door for room 9, you see that part of the roof has collapsed and fallen on to the bed. rats scurry around the pile before disappearing between pieces of wood and broken furniture. The contents of this room have been exposed to the elements for some time and it doesn't appear that there is anything of value in here.
The next room you come to has a large set of wooden doors. There is a silver number 8 on the door and a quick investigation of the door reveals that it is locked.
OOC: Do you check this door or check the other rooms and leave this one for last?