Emerging Menace

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NPC Minions

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• Nov 18, 2010

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Deep in the forest well beyond the western bank of Selintan River, a small basalt monolith eight feet tall topped with a skull, covered in glimmering arcane runes, suddenly erupts from the earth. Malign auras of an unhallow and desecrated nature emanate from the unholy altar. An obscuring mist rises from the soil in a fourty yard radius about it.

Tall and regal, a skeletal figure wearing a tarnished breastplate and wrapped in a flowing black cloak unearths itself near the monoloth. It regards its surroundings with each of its three human skulls with grim anticipation. Shining blue flames gutter in its eye sockets as it reaches down into the ground to withdraw a staff of bones with skulls at each end.​

Bubbling up from the hole left in the wake of the skull lord (MM5 154), a deluge of water carries with it several bloated and decomposing bodies of various creatures. The skull lord wades through the slury, picking out the corpse of a former human knight, and enters into an elaborate arcane ritual to refasion it into a spectral rider to act as its servant.​

 

Last edited: Nov 19, 2010

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NPC Minions

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• Nov 18, 2010

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Twelve hours later, the human knight has arisen as a spectral rider (MM5 160). Its putrid body and grimy gear is quickly overlaid by an illusion as it stands erect, making it appear as it did in life. Hazel eyes, black hair and ruddy skin mark a human male in his late twenties, wearing a sound set of full plate armor and a cloak bearing a insignia resembling a purple dragon. As it conjuers forth a steed composed of shadows and smoke, it too is overlaid by an illusion making it appear as a living horse with gray hair and a black mane. Spurring his steed forward, the spectral rider tavels east to scout out the terrain approaching the river.

 

Last edited: Nov 18, 2010

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NPC Minions

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• Nov 18, 2010

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Rising up from the hole that has become a swampy pit of decay surrounding the monolith, five flameskulls (LEoF 171) wreathed in eldritch green flames hover in the air as emerald gleams of malice dance in their eyes. They are covered in intricate runework and flowing script, and their canine teeth are elongated and sharpened. They circle the monolith, maintaining a tireless vigil over the area.

 

Last edited: Nov 18, 2010

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NPC Minions

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• Nov 19, 2010

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The skull lord reconfigures a pair of corpses to construct a serpentir (MM5 158) which appears as two humanoid skeletons joined with a single long spine linking them at their lower torsos. Moving ribs along its serpentine length propel it along, as the skeletons at both ends look around seeming eager to tear into something.

 

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NPC Minions

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• Nov 19, 2010

• #5

The spectral rider returns from scouting and briskly reports to the skull lord, and together they decide to mobilize late the next day, once they have used every last corpse to create a skeletal minion.

 

Last edited: Nov 20, 2010

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NPC Minions

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• Nov 21, 2010

• #6

Having been utimately routed in their invasion effort by a powerful mage named Jonathan Kalard, with a display of great prowess from other valorous heroes by the names of Aaron, Calla Ursidae and Armel Eolda who joined the fray as long as they could stand to do so....

...the skull lord is followed by its spectral rider, three direguards and five flameskulls through the woods to the south of the clearing. All are mentally aware that even together they stand no chance against the likes of those that stood against them in the clearing.... and although they are naturally indifferent to this information, they can't help but wonder what will happen next.

 

Last edited: Nov 21, 2010