Fallion stands back, allowing the small Kobold to scamper ahead by... itself? Himself? Either way, he feels a sense of relief to avoid the unnatural grove for a while longer. He look Slurb up and down as he hears his proposal. "Frankly I do not feel the least bit optimistic of a successful negotiation if you, the one who was clamoring for the use of force just a few minutes ago, is the one representing us. Why the change of heart?"
"I just thought about it for a few minutes... And I wasn't saying that I was all for killing her-or it- just that that was our plan at the time." Slurb says, a little bit defensively.
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I am part of the Cult of Grammar. Respect us. Or we will find the slightest mistake in your grammar, and never let you forget it. Clones would have saved Star Wars, and Kylo Ren sucks. MAKE THE EMPIRE GREAT AGAIN!!! I am a stormtrooper, and the Skywalker family is made of nothing but idiots who are insane. Cough Anakin and Luke Skywalker Cough
"Well, since you insist, how about this. We will treat it as if it's a loose gathering instead of a negotiation between two parties. We can all speak freely but we must agree never to undermine one another. Understand that the ideal outcome is to allow the specter to speak its grievances and understand the circumstances surrounding this haunting. Then we can attempt to steer the conversation towards a favorable, permanent solution."
Khan and Scab continue forward to the unnatural grove, leaving Fallion, Slurb, and Limine to talk.
Khan tries his best to creep forward along the river bed, but accidentally steps into a patch of sticky mud. As he tries to pull his foot out, with great effort he also unearths a decomposed skull! Khan realizes that sunken beneath the silt are a number of bodies- there must be a reason that few dare approach this location.
(Khan gains 1 Stress.)
Scab ignores the sense of dread in the air and sneaks into the grove. As he does so, he takes a closer look at the twisted trees that form the clawed hand. During his in the Corrupted Forest, Scab's seen a few areas like this. These were places to avoid, containing terrible things and surrounded in rumor.
He outpaces Khan and enters the grove alone. Inside, the trees form a small clearing. He sees five grave-stones, covered in moss and rot. The kobold realizes the neatly carved names of the grave stones have been wildly scratched out and replaced. In fact, the graves seem to have been shoved into the ground. Five names are gouged in the stones:
(Left to Right) Father, Mother, Me, Husband, Lisa
A chill is in the air as the sun finally sets- a full moon rises in the sky. Fallion and Khan are still able to see with the light spell.
Far away in the direction of town, a shrill scream can be heard. A terrible, tormenting din filled with pain and longing, the sound seems to strike deep into one's soul, despite the distance from it's origin.
(Since no-one has actually said they had put on ear-plugs, Everyone please make a DC15 WIS Save or take 1 Stress.)
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DMing:
Solo Hoard of the Dragon Queen
Playing:
Baral-Coliseum of Conquest, Lazarus Vernon- Tale of Mercenaries;Bernard Lionsbane- Solo Curse of Strahd
This post has potentially manipulated dice roll results.
Slurb's save: 7
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I am part of the Cult of Grammar. Respect us. Or we will find the slightest mistake in your grammar, and never let you forget it. Clones would have saved Star Wars, and Kylo Ren sucks. MAKE THE EMPIRE GREAT AGAIN!!! I am a stormtrooper, and the Skywalker family is made of nothing but idiots who are insane. Cough Anakin and Luke Skywalker Cough
I am part of the Cult of Grammar. Respect us. Or we will find the slightest mistake in your grammar, and never let you forget it. Clones would have saved Star Wars, and Kylo Ren sucks. MAKE THE EMPIRE GREAT AGAIN!!! I am a stormtrooper, and the Skywalker family is made of nothing but idiots who are insane. Cough Anakin and Luke Skywalker Cough
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Scab's save - 13
Scab immediately becomes fearful of the surroundings due to the nature of the scream. He rushes back to the group and describes the scenery he'd heard, urging the members to head into town. He then installs his earplugs, needing to carve them down a bit with a dagger so they can fit kobold-sided ears.
Slurb sticks his head into a hole, and puts the earplugs in.
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I am part of the Cult of Grammar. Respect us. Or we will find the slightest mistake in your grammar, and never let you forget it. Clones would have saved Star Wars, and Kylo Ren sucks. MAKE THE EMPIRE GREAT AGAIN!!! I am a stormtrooper, and the Skywalker family is made of nothing but idiots who are insane. Cough Anakin and Luke Skywalker Cough
Despite his heart that's beating faster in his chest, Fallion breaks away from the group before Slurb can answer. He ignores the Kobold's warnings and marches on towards the graves, before his fear can take a hold of him and force him to retreat.
Once there, he takes stock of the surroundings. He begins pulling out his rations and putting a single meal's portion in front of each marked gravestone. His rations look to be more expensive than what a regular adventurer might carry. Dried berries, nuts, smoked meats and fine cheese, even a small bottle of wine which he divides up among the graves as offerings, saying a few words in accord with local traditions. Unfortunately he doesn't carry five cups so leaves the bottle in front of the gravestone marked 'me'.
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Khan closes his eyes with a peaceful expression on his face as the scream begins. In a moment, however, he scrunches them tightly shut, grimacing as though he had heard an off tune note in an otherwise perfect performance.
After a few seconds, he opens his eyes and recomposes himself, glancing at Fallion as Scab reports, "Seems our good lord was right after all. Though it seems we were too late to stop the spirit, we will simply have to wait for her here."
As Fallion lays out offerings, Khan mutters briskly to himself and walks into the clearing, "Yes, yes. Good. We must play our parts here perfectly."
He lays his viol case on the ground and leans against one of the trees with the instrument in his hands. He begins to play a funeral dirge, the mournful sound ringing through the forest.
(Slurb has something in his background where he was part of a group of Sorcerers that acted like and did things like clerics, so he prays to Pelor.)
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I am part of the Cult of Grammar. Respect us. Or we will find the slightest mistake in your grammar, and never let you forget it. Clones would have saved Star Wars, and Kylo Ren sucks. MAKE THE EMPIRE GREAT AGAIN!!! I am a stormtrooper, and the Skywalker family is made of nothing but idiots who are insane. Cough Anakin and Luke Skywalker Cough
The screams in the distance continue, barely muffled out by the ear-plugs. But as Fallion makes his offerings, Slurb his prayers, and Khan his music, the screams stop. A sense of dread is in the air. Something is coming.
The sound of sobbing emerges from the graveyard. Sitting on the grave titled "me" is a pale woman in a white nightgown. She has her face buried in her hands as she cries.
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DMing:
Solo Hoard of the Dragon Queen
Playing:
Baral-Coliseum of Conquest, Lazarus Vernon- Tale of Mercenaries;Bernard Lionsbane- Solo Curse of Strahd
This post has potentially manipulated dice roll results.
Wis save: 10
Hearing the scream and seeing the woman has Limine in high alert. She does get a little closer, but still keeping a distance of about (ah... American units calculations....) 40 ft. From there, she tries to keep her voice as calm as possible while trying to speak with the spirit. "Hello there! My name is Limine. I can see you're crying over there. Did something happen? Can we help somehow?"
Fallion swallows his fear for the time being. Treat it like negotiations with your backstabbing cousins, he thinks to himself. That was plenty deadly.
He sits down on the cold ground and takes a small bite of cheese from the portion he prepared for himself. "We come with offerings for you and yours, lady. We come to dine together in civility. First, can you tell us your name and who you are? I am called Fallion, a knight errant from the Elven lands."
"I am Slurb, Sorcerer of Light." He says, very politely, and then sits.
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I am part of the Cult of Grammar. Respect us. Or we will find the slightest mistake in your grammar, and never let you forget it. Clones would have saved Star Wars, and Kylo Ren sucks. MAKE THE EMPIRE GREAT AGAIN!!! I am a stormtrooper, and the Skywalker family is made of nothing but idiots who are insane. Cough Anakin and Luke Skywalker Cough
The pale woman stops sobbing for a moment and sniffles. As the Slurb, Limine, and Fallion approach her, they see her white nightgown appears to be pristine condition. She wears a bonnet of flowers on her head.
The woman gently lifts her head, showing her tear-reddened eyes. She slightly recoils at the questions, but she a smile is on her face as she looks at the food Fallion has laid out,
"I haven't seen food like this for a long time."
She picks ups and an examines a hunk of fine cheese. To Limine she says,
"You want to... help me? Along with that knight in shining armor, and the mage. How romantic."
Then, she takes a bite of the cheese. Or at least, she tries to. But her mouth simply passes through the food, and a look of confusion and horror is on her face.
I am part of the Cult of Grammar. Respect us. Or we will find the slightest mistake in your grammar, and never let you forget it. Clones would have saved Star Wars, and Kylo Ren sucks. MAKE THE EMPIRE GREAT AGAIN!!! I am a stormtrooper, and the Skywalker family is made of nothing but idiots who are insane. Cough Anakin and Luke Skywalker Cough
Don't even TRY to argue with me about Star Wars.
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Fallion stands back, allowing the small Kobold to scamper ahead by... itself? Himself? Either way, he feels a sense of relief to avoid the unnatural grove for a while longer. He look Slurb up and down as he hears his proposal. "Frankly I do not feel the least bit optimistic of a successful negotiation if you, the one who was clamoring for the use of force just a few minutes ago, is the one representing us. Why the change of heart?"
Lost In Time: An Interdimensional Escapade: Baragon Starfeller - Level 2 Leonin Paladin
Out of Elysium: Rhaecus, of the Raving Drums - Level 1 Satyr Rogue
Dungeonverse: Weizol L'varr - Level 1 Eladrin Wizard
"I just thought about it for a few minutes... And I wasn't saying that I was all for killing her-or it- just that that was our plan at the time." Slurb says, a little bit defensively.
I am part of the Cult of Grammar. Respect us. Or we will find the slightest mistake in your grammar, and never let you forget it.
Clones would have saved Star Wars, and Kylo Ren sucks.
MAKE THE EMPIRE GREAT AGAIN!!! I am a stormtrooper, and the Skywalker family is made of nothing but idiots who are insane. Cough Anakin and Luke Skywalker Cough
Don't even TRY to argue with me about Star Wars.
(What does Slurb look like, by the way?)
"Well, since you insist, how about this. We will treat it as if it's a loose gathering instead of a negotiation between two parties. We can all speak freely but we must agree never to undermine one another. Understand that the ideal outcome is to allow the specter to speak its grievances and understand the circumstances surrounding this haunting. Then we can attempt to steer the conversation towards a favorable, permanent solution."
Lost In Time: An Interdimensional Escapade: Baragon Starfeller - Level 2 Leonin Paladin
Out of Elysium: Rhaecus, of the Raving Drums - Level 1 Satyr Rogue
Dungeonverse: Weizol L'varr - Level 1 Eladrin Wizard
Khan and Scab continue forward to the unnatural grove, leaving Fallion, Slurb, and Limine to talk.
Khan tries his best to creep forward along the river bed, but accidentally steps into a patch of sticky mud. As he tries to pull his foot out, with great effort he also unearths a decomposed skull! Khan realizes that sunken beneath the silt are a number of bodies- there must be a reason that few dare approach this location.
(Khan gains 1 Stress.)
Scab ignores the sense of dread in the air and sneaks into the grove. As he does so, he takes a closer look at the twisted trees that form the clawed hand. During his in the Corrupted Forest, Scab's seen a few areas like this. These were places to avoid, containing terrible things and surrounded in rumor.
He outpaces Khan and enters the grove alone. Inside, the trees form a small clearing. He sees five grave-stones, covered in moss and rot. The kobold realizes the neatly carved names of the grave stones have been wildly scratched out and replaced. In fact, the graves seem to have been shoved into the ground. Five names are gouged in the stones:
(Left to Right) Father, Mother, Me, Husband, Lisa
A chill is in the air as the sun finally sets- a full moon rises in the sky. Fallion and Khan are still able to see with the light spell.
Far away in the direction of town, a shrill scream can be heard. A terrible, tormenting din filled with pain and longing, the sound seems to strike deep into one's soul, despite the distance from it's origin.
(Since no-one has actually said they had put on ear-plugs, Everyone please make a DC15 WIS Save or take 1 Stress.)
DMing:
Solo Hoard of the Dragon Queen
Playing:
Baral- Coliseum of Conquest, Lazarus Vernon- Tale of Mercenaries; Bernard Lionsbane- Solo Curse of Strahd
Slurb's save: 7
I am part of the Cult of Grammar. Respect us. Or we will find the slightest mistake in your grammar, and never let you forget it.
Clones would have saved Star Wars, and Kylo Ren sucks.
MAKE THE EMPIRE GREAT AGAIN!!! I am a stormtrooper, and the Skywalker family is made of nothing but idiots who are insane. Cough Anakin and Luke Skywalker Cough
Don't even TRY to argue with me about Star Wars.
Slurb hurries to join the others, covering his ear holes.
I am part of the Cult of Grammar. Respect us. Or we will find the slightest mistake in your grammar, and never let you forget it.
Clones would have saved Star Wars, and Kylo Ren sucks.
MAKE THE EMPIRE GREAT AGAIN!!! I am a stormtrooper, and the Skywalker family is made of nothing but idiots who are insane. Cough Anakin and Luke Skywalker Cough
Don't even TRY to argue with me about Star Wars.
Scab's save - 13
Scab immediately becomes fearful of the surroundings due to the nature of the scream. He rushes back to the group and describes the scenery he'd heard, urging the members to head into town. He then installs his earplugs, needing to carve them down a bit with a dagger so they can fit kobold-sided ears.
Slurb sticks his head into a hole, and puts the earplugs in.
I am part of the Cult of Grammar. Respect us. Or we will find the slightest mistake in your grammar, and never let you forget it.
Clones would have saved Star Wars, and Kylo Ren sucks.
MAKE THE EMPIRE GREAT AGAIN!!! I am a stormtrooper, and the Skywalker family is made of nothing but idiots who are insane. Cough Anakin and Luke Skywalker Cough
Don't even TRY to argue with me about Star Wars.
Khan's save: 17
Wis save - 14
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Out of Elysium: Rhaecus, of the Raving Drums - Level 1 Satyr Rogue
Dungeonverse: Weizol L'varr - Level 1 Eladrin Wizard
(Damn, so close.)
Despite his heart that's beating faster in his chest, Fallion breaks away from the group before Slurb can answer. He ignores the Kobold's warnings and marches on towards the graves, before his fear can take a hold of him and force him to retreat.
Once there, he takes stock of the surroundings. He begins pulling out his rations and putting a single meal's portion in front of each marked gravestone. His rations look to be more expensive than what a regular adventurer might carry. Dried berries, nuts, smoked meats and fine cheese, even a small bottle of wine which he divides up among the graves as offerings, saying a few words in accord with local traditions. Unfortunately he doesn't carry five cups so leaves the bottle in front of the gravestone marked 'me'.
Lost In Time: An Interdimensional Escapade: Baragon Starfeller - Level 2 Leonin Paladin
Out of Elysium: Rhaecus, of the Raving Drums - Level 1 Satyr Rogue
Dungeonverse: Weizol L'varr - Level 1 Eladrin Wizard
Khan closes his eyes with a peaceful expression on his face as the scream begins. In a moment, however, he scrunches them tightly shut, grimacing as though he had heard an off tune note in an otherwise perfect performance.
After a few seconds, he opens his eyes and recomposes himself, glancing at Fallion as Scab reports, "Seems our good lord was right after all. Though it seems we were too late to stop the spirit, we will simply have to wait for her here."
As Fallion lays out offerings, Khan mutters briskly to himself and walks into the clearing, "Yes, yes. Good. We must play our parts here perfectly."
He lays his viol case on the ground and leans against one of the trees with the instrument in his hands. He begins to play a funeral dirge, the mournful sound ringing through the forest.
Performance: 16
Slurb prays to the god of healing, Pelor.
(Slurb has something in his background where he was part of a group of Sorcerers that acted like and did things like clerics, so he prays to Pelor.)
I am part of the Cult of Grammar. Respect us. Or we will find the slightest mistake in your grammar, and never let you forget it.
Clones would have saved Star Wars, and Kylo Ren sucks.
MAKE THE EMPIRE GREAT AGAIN!!! I am a stormtrooper, and the Skywalker family is made of nothing but idiots who are insane. Cough Anakin and Luke Skywalker Cough
Don't even TRY to argue with me about Star Wars.
9
Mordekai will hang back about 30 feet from Falion.
If/when he sees the spirit coming, he will cast bless on himself, Fallion, and Scab.
The screams in the distance continue, barely muffled out by the ear-plugs. But as Fallion makes his offerings, Slurb his prayers, and Khan his music, the screams stop. A sense of dread is in the air. Something is coming.
The sound of sobbing emerges from the graveyard. Sitting on the grave titled "me" is a pale woman in a white nightgown. She has her face buried in her hands as she cries.
DMing:
Solo Hoard of the Dragon Queen
Playing:
Baral- Coliseum of Conquest, Lazarus Vernon- Tale of Mercenaries; Bernard Lionsbane- Solo Curse of Strahd
Wis save: 10
Hearing the scream and seeing the woman has Limine in high alert. She does get a little closer, but still keeping a distance of about (ah... American units calculations....) 40 ft. From there, she tries to keep her voice as calm as possible while trying to speak with the spirit. "Hello there! My name is Limine. I can see you're crying over there. Did something happen? Can we help somehow?"
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Fallion swallows his fear for the time being. Treat it like negotiations with your backstabbing cousins, he thinks to himself. That was plenty deadly.
He sits down on the cold ground and takes a small bite of cheese from the portion he prepared for himself. "We come with offerings for you and yours, lady. We come to dine together in civility. First, can you tell us your name and who you are? I am called Fallion, a knight errant from the Elven lands."
Lost In Time: An Interdimensional Escapade: Baragon Starfeller - Level 2 Leonin Paladin
Out of Elysium: Rhaecus, of the Raving Drums - Level 1 Satyr Rogue
Dungeonverse: Weizol L'varr - Level 1 Eladrin Wizard
Slurb removes his earplugs, and bows.
"I am Slurb, Sorcerer of Light." He says, very politely, and then sits.
I am part of the Cult of Grammar. Respect us. Or we will find the slightest mistake in your grammar, and never let you forget it.
Clones would have saved Star Wars, and Kylo Ren sucks.
MAKE THE EMPIRE GREAT AGAIN!!! I am a stormtrooper, and the Skywalker family is made of nothing but idiots who are insane. Cough Anakin and Luke Skywalker Cough
Don't even TRY to argue with me about Star Wars.
The pale woman stops sobbing for a moment and sniffles. As the Slurb, Limine, and Fallion approach her, they see her white nightgown appears to be pristine condition. She wears a bonnet of flowers on her head.
The woman gently lifts her head, showing her tear-reddened eyes. She slightly recoils at the questions, but she a smile is on her face as she looks at the food Fallion has laid out,
"I haven't seen food like this for a long time."
She picks ups and an examines a hunk of fine cheese. To Limine she says,
"You want to... help me? Along with that knight in shining armor, and the mage. How romantic."
Then, she takes a bite of the cheese. Or at least, she tries to. But her mouth simply passes through the food, and a look of confusion and horror is on her face.
DMing:
Solo Hoard of the Dragon Queen
Playing:
Baral- Coliseum of Conquest, Lazarus Vernon- Tale of Mercenaries; Bernard Lionsbane- Solo Curse of Strahd
Slurb sits, and just fiddles with his daggers.
I am part of the Cult of Grammar. Respect us. Or we will find the slightest mistake in your grammar, and never let you forget it.
Clones would have saved Star Wars, and Kylo Ren sucks.
MAKE THE EMPIRE GREAT AGAIN!!! I am a stormtrooper, and the Skywalker family is made of nothing but idiots who are insane. Cough Anakin and Luke Skywalker Cough
Don't even TRY to argue with me about Star Wars.