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<blockquote data-quote="Hrothgar" data-source="post: 3003553" data-attributes="member: 22226"><p><span style="color: SlateGray">OOC: Sorry for the delay. I am on vacation with a dialup connection (ugh!). Also, the chamber Bach Bran led you into was completely dark!</span></p><p></p><p>The darkness surrounding the Heroes is all-consuming. Voices seem like entities of their own, disembodied from their fleshy generators. Bach Bran speaks. <span style="color: DarkOrange">I understand the Shadow. Its forces need little reason to beat, maim...kill. I suppose as long as the Shadow remains, so will people like us, fighting the oppression. Still, risking one's life for a young Dorn girl...that indeed is a story. Even among the insurgents of Baden's Bluff you should be considered Heroes.</span> From the darkness, Aislinn's small voice sounds. <span style="color: Olive">Aye. They are Heroes. The journey they have undertaken for me, without faith or question, would be sung by our people as the odes of ages past were once sung in better times.</span> Aislinn, leans against Kaela, as if the effort to speak was too exhausting. Kaela can feel the girl's warmth, an unnatural warmth. Feeling her cheeks and hand, the young girl is burning with fever once again.</p><p></p><p>Time would not seem to exist without light, except for the thirst and hunger felt by the Heroes. Fallax sneers. <span style="color: DarkOrange">When will your friends arrive? Or did you seal us in our own tomb, foolish boy?</span>. At that moment a crack sounds on the other side of the far stone wall, followed by the grate of stone on stone. Dim light seeps into the chamber, dazzling the eyes of the Heroes. In the light, several dark forms stand with drawn blades. A grating male voice sounds, <span style="color: DarkOrange">Bach, you little bastard! Have you led the Shadow directly to our hiding hole?</span> Another male voice, this one more calm and measuring answers. <span style="color: DarkOrange">Relax, everyone. The Little Crow did what he felt was best. Strangers, show us your weapons and show no signs of treachery! We move from here quietly without spoken word. Even the tunnels have the ears of Shadow. Now, move!</span></p><p></p><p>The figures, now visible in the light as six male and female Erenlanders dressed in simple leathers with dark cloaks and masks covering the lower portions of their faces, stand ready, their blades in battle-hardened hands. As Bach Bran stands he turns to the Heroes. <span style="color: DarkOrange">You may trust these Erenlanders. They will help you in your cause if it be just.</span>. As he walks through the low doorway into the tunnel, one of the men cuffs Brach, staggering him. <span style="color: DarkOrange">This rabble almost brought an orc garrison down on their own heads! And you lead them here? I swear I am going to beat you within an inch of you life, whelp, when we make safer ground!</span> The other male Erenlander who spoke looks at Brach's attacker accusingly and with dissapproval. <span style="color: DarkOrange">Again, let us move. We must make safer ground in case you are tracked here.</span></p><p></p><p>As Kaela stands, she notices Aislinn remains lying on the ground, her breathing harsh, her skin burning with fever.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hrothgar, post: 3003553, member: 22226"] [COLOR=SlateGray]OOC: Sorry for the delay. I am on vacation with a dialup connection (ugh!). Also, the chamber Bach Bran led you into was completely dark![/COLOR] The darkness surrounding the Heroes is all-consuming. Voices seem like entities of their own, disembodied from their fleshy generators. Bach Bran speaks. [COLOR=DarkOrange]I understand the Shadow. Its forces need little reason to beat, maim...kill. I suppose as long as the Shadow remains, so will people like us, fighting the oppression. Still, risking one's life for a young Dorn girl...that indeed is a story. Even among the insurgents of Baden's Bluff you should be considered Heroes.[/COLOR] From the darkness, Aislinn's small voice sounds. [COLOR=Olive]Aye. They are Heroes. The journey they have undertaken for me, without faith or question, would be sung by our people as the odes of ages past were once sung in better times.[/COLOR] Aislinn, leans against Kaela, as if the effort to speak was too exhausting. Kaela can feel the girl's warmth, an unnatural warmth. Feeling her cheeks and hand, the young girl is burning with fever once again. Time would not seem to exist without light, except for the thirst and hunger felt by the Heroes. Fallax sneers. [COLOR=DarkOrange]When will your friends arrive? Or did you seal us in our own tomb, foolish boy?[/COLOR]. At that moment a crack sounds on the other side of the far stone wall, followed by the grate of stone on stone. Dim light seeps into the chamber, dazzling the eyes of the Heroes. In the light, several dark forms stand with drawn blades. A grating male voice sounds, [COLOR=DarkOrange]Bach, you little bastard! Have you led the Shadow directly to our hiding hole?[/COLOR] Another male voice, this one more calm and measuring answers. [COLOR=DarkOrange]Relax, everyone. The Little Crow did what he felt was best. Strangers, show us your weapons and show no signs of treachery! We move from here quietly without spoken word. Even the tunnels have the ears of Shadow. Now, move![/COLOR] The figures, now visible in the light as six male and female Erenlanders dressed in simple leathers with dark cloaks and masks covering the lower portions of their faces, stand ready, their blades in battle-hardened hands. As Bach Bran stands he turns to the Heroes. [COLOR=DarkOrange]You may trust these Erenlanders. They will help you in your cause if it be just.[/COLOR]. As he walks through the low doorway into the tunnel, one of the men cuffs Brach, staggering him. [COLOR=DarkOrange]This rabble almost brought an orc garrison down on their own heads! And you lead them here? I swear I am going to beat you within an inch of you life, whelp, when we make safer ground![/COLOR] The other male Erenlander who spoke looks at Brach's attacker accusingly and with dissapproval. [COLOR=DarkOrange]Again, let us move. We must make safer ground in case you are tracked here.[/COLOR] As Kaela stands, she notices Aislinn remains lying on the ground, her breathing harsh, her skin burning with fever. [/QUOTE]
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