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<blockquote data-quote="Dantardis" data-source="post: 5994846" data-attributes="member: 46174"><p>[FONT=&quot]The following morning Renthie was first up and walked a short distance to pray. She did this for a few minutes. In the meantime Loag had woken up and was just in time to see what appeared to be a pillar of flame run down from the sun to strike Renthie. Worried, Loag moved forward, calling out Renthie's name to no effect. There was also a sound, similar to an earthquake. Getting increasedly worried Loag moved forward again but Renthie was completely obscured by the pillar of flame, although he could hear Renthie screaming in pain. Loag cast a spell on himself to protect him from the raging inferno and moved into the flames. Suddenly he was thrown back 40 feet and was knocked unconscious. When he came to, Renthie walked out of the pillar of flame, completely unscathed.[/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=&quot] [/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=&quot]When the rest of the party awoke they decided to investigate the crimes that the Beast was accused of. They headed to the village of Hergstag where the Beast was accused of killing six children. Arriving in the village they found in deserted, the only sign of life being 3 sisters living in a windmill, Garrow, Starle and Flicht. These three told the party the story of how the Beast befriended the children of Hergstag and then killed them, one by one. He was finally found out when he was seen carrying the body of the last child, Elsa and laughing. Realising that the villagers were prepared to stick to their story at all costs, the party felt they had no option but to investigate the village.[/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=&quot] [/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=&quot]They first headed to the old chapel, a small whitewashed building. It showed considerable signs of dilapidation and disrepair, all of the religious icons and imagery had long since been removed, the only feature that remained was the font, that was half full of scummy, green water. Renthie advised that this would still count as holy water so the group filled vials with the stuff. Looking round outside they found 6 small graves, 4 of which appeared to be empty.[/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=&quot]"Hey guys, said Loag, "Renthie can do stuff with dead people".[/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=&quot]"I don't wanna know", replied David.[/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=&quot]At this point, Renthie pointed out that Speak with Dead did not appear to work.[/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=&quot]The party then headed to one of the children's houses which they found strangely boarded up from the outside, looking around the sadly empty building the only thing they could see was that the window was unlatched in any way and the timbers in the wall would be too difficult to climb. Finally, the party decided to head to a strange, low hill on the outskirts of the village, where a rotting scarecrow appeared to be leaning on a scythe, with a pumpkin face. As they were looking round a strange blue skinned young girl floated out of the top of the hill and attacked.[/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=&quot]Robyn, hesitated, saying "I feel weird shooting ghost children". Nevertheless, he struck the child with several arrows and destroyed it.[/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=&quot]At this point several more strange children floated out of the ground, together with a strange wraith like creature that seemed to consist of a number of eyes. Moving back Renthie managed to turn one or two of the children and Robyn was quickly able to finish off the wraith. As he did so the rest of the children fell down dead. Sadly, the party took the children's bodies and reburied them.[/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=&quot] [/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=&quot]The party then moved on to the village of Morast, where the Beast was accused of killing 10 villagers. Arriving there they spoke to one of the villagers who advised the party that they had seen the Beast at the murder site of one of the villagers and had chased it away with pitchforks and torches. They then found a blood trail, presumably left by the Beast, leading to a small island in the swamp. Following the trail to a band of trees the party were ambushed by a Manticore. Although the creature managed to fire off a couple of tail spikes to little or no effect, Robyn was able to shoot it cleanly, killing it. Loag found a page torn from a diary that seemed to indicate that a man called Reiner Heydrich was implicated in events. [/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=&quot] [/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=&quot]With proof that the Beast was innocent of the crimes of which it was accused the court acquitted it and the group was amply rewarded for their services. Robyn elected to leave at this point and was replaced by a Knight called Andurin. Asking around, David discovered that Reiner Heydrich was a name no one had heard of, although it did sound a bit like a Mortvanian name of someone who'd died about 200 years ago. With no other leads the party decided to head across the border to Mortvania.[/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=&quot] [/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=&quot]After crossing the border they quickly came to the town of Barovia, which appeared strangely deserted and deathly quiet. Going into 1 street, they saw what appeared to be a dead body lying on the ground at the other end. David was 'volunteered' to go an investigate it and he did so with some trepidation. Before he could get very far two strange bat like creatures burst out of a building and attacked him, At the same time, several zombies appeared from the other side of the street and moved relentlessly forward. To cap it all two large maggots moved away from the body, scenting fresh meat. The bat like creatures acted first and tried to bit a large chunk out of David's torso but he nimbly managed to step out of the way. Loag managed to cast a fireball, catching one of the Maggots and several of the Zombies killing them ad only mildly scorching David. Andurin then step forward and cleanly decapitated the bat like creature. Finally, Renthie cast turn undead and the remaining creatures were no more. The battle was over but the sense of impending doom and decay remained.[/FONT]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dantardis, post: 5994846, member: 46174"] [FONT="]The following morning Renthie was first up and walked a short distance to pray. She did this for a few minutes. In the meantime Loag had woken up and was just in time to see what appeared to be a pillar of flame run down from the sun to strike Renthie. Worried, Loag moved forward, calling out Renthie's name to no effect. There was also a sound, similar to an earthquake. Getting increasedly worried Loag moved forward again but Renthie was completely obscured by the pillar of flame, although he could hear Renthie screaming in pain. Loag cast a spell on himself to protect him from the raging inferno and moved into the flames. Suddenly he was thrown back 40 feet and was knocked unconscious. When he came to, Renthie walked out of the pillar of flame, completely unscathed.[/FONT] [FONT="] [/FONT] [FONT="]When the rest of the party awoke they decided to investigate the crimes that the Beast was accused of. They headed to the village of Hergstag where the Beast was accused of killing six children. Arriving in the village they found in deserted, the only sign of life being 3 sisters living in a windmill, Garrow, Starle and Flicht. These three told the party the story of how the Beast befriended the children of Hergstag and then killed them, one by one. He was finally found out when he was seen carrying the body of the last child, Elsa and laughing. Realising that the villagers were prepared to stick to their story at all costs, the party felt they had no option but to investigate the village.[/FONT] [FONT="] [/FONT] [FONT="]They first headed to the old chapel, a small whitewashed building. It showed considerable signs of dilapidation and disrepair, all of the religious icons and imagery had long since been removed, the only feature that remained was the font, that was half full of scummy, green water. Renthie advised that this would still count as holy water so the group filled vials with the stuff. Looking round outside they found 6 small graves, 4 of which appeared to be empty.[/FONT] [FONT="]"Hey guys, said Loag, "Renthie can do stuff with dead people".[/FONT] [FONT="]"I don't wanna know", replied David.[/FONT] [FONT="]At this point, Renthie pointed out that Speak with Dead did not appear to work.[/FONT] [FONT="]The party then headed to one of the children's houses which they found strangely boarded up from the outside, looking around the sadly empty building the only thing they could see was that the window was unlatched in any way and the timbers in the wall would be too difficult to climb. Finally, the party decided to head to a strange, low hill on the outskirts of the village, where a rotting scarecrow appeared to be leaning on a scythe, with a pumpkin face. As they were looking round a strange blue skinned young girl floated out of the top of the hill and attacked.[/FONT] [FONT="]Robyn, hesitated, saying "I feel weird shooting ghost children". Nevertheless, he struck the child with several arrows and destroyed it.[/FONT] [FONT="]At this point several more strange children floated out of the ground, together with a strange wraith like creature that seemed to consist of a number of eyes. Moving back Renthie managed to turn one or two of the children and Robyn was quickly able to finish off the wraith. As he did so the rest of the children fell down dead. Sadly, the party took the children's bodies and reburied them.[/FONT] [FONT="] [/FONT] [FONT="]The party then moved on to the village of Morast, where the Beast was accused of killing 10 villagers. Arriving there they spoke to one of the villagers who advised the party that they had seen the Beast at the murder site of one of the villagers and had chased it away with pitchforks and torches. They then found a blood trail, presumably left by the Beast, leading to a small island in the swamp. Following the trail to a band of trees the party were ambushed by a Manticore. Although the creature managed to fire off a couple of tail spikes to little or no effect, Robyn was able to shoot it cleanly, killing it. Loag found a page torn from a diary that seemed to indicate that a man called Reiner Heydrich was implicated in events. [/FONT] [FONT="] [/FONT] [FONT="]With proof that the Beast was innocent of the crimes of which it was accused the court acquitted it and the group was amply rewarded for their services. Robyn elected to leave at this point and was replaced by a Knight called Andurin. Asking around, David discovered that Reiner Heydrich was a name no one had heard of, although it did sound a bit like a Mortvanian name of someone who'd died about 200 years ago. With no other leads the party decided to head across the border to Mortvania.[/FONT] [FONT="] [/FONT] [FONT="]After crossing the border they quickly came to the town of Barovia, which appeared strangely deserted and deathly quiet. Going into 1 street, they saw what appeared to be a dead body lying on the ground at the other end. David was 'volunteered' to go an investigate it and he did so with some trepidation. Before he could get very far two strange bat like creatures burst out of a building and attacked him, At the same time, several zombies appeared from the other side of the street and moved relentlessly forward. To cap it all two large maggots moved away from the body, scenting fresh meat. The bat like creatures acted first and tried to bit a large chunk out of David's torso but he nimbly managed to step out of the way. Loag managed to cast a fireball, catching one of the Maggots and several of the Zombies killing them ad only mildly scorching David. Andurin then step forward and cleanly decapitated the bat like creature. Finally, Renthie cast turn undead and the remaining creatures were no more. The battle was over but the sense of impending doom and decay remained.[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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