edited to reflect Darv's speech post #516
....GIVE YA INDAGEST... Hudder springs back into action.
Kyber's balls, he mutters surveying the lanscape around him before squatting down next to the cleric's body.
Lad never had a chance. Damn'd thing, los'n a priest.
These tha bastards tha got Barak, fer sure., he says surveying the wound.
Rolzup said:
Darv sits on the ground, rubbing his temples and wincing. "That hurt more than seems reasonable," he groans. "I've never felt anything like that before, and would much rather not experience it again. Ever."
He looks up, flinching slightly at the sudden motion. "We need to determine some method of protector ourselves from those accursed things. Or, failing that, of hiding from them. And the quicker, the better."
Aye. Yer right about that. Hudder off the gnome a hand in getting to his feet.
Shudda put wards 'n alarms around. Amateur mistake.
He looks at
Darv. Yer gonna need ta say tha last rites while I strip 'n shroud 'em.
If the gnome looks shaken, he gives him a friendly (bone-jarring) thump.
Is' not tha end o' tha world. He died brave 'n in battle. There's something ta be said fer tha' sorta end. You've tha Will no? We'll make sure his folk get his items, so they'll have the most important parta him.
When
Hudder discovers there's no will (and that the group has been burying people's magic items with their bodies) he's positively aghast. T
ha's no good at all. Yah leave there magic out here in tha jungle 'n those dark savages 'll get it. An' then tha drow'll use it to call back thar souls an' use 'em for 'ideous rites!
Yah canna just leave the items here, they'll be bound fer all eternaty in evviiil weapons 'n used ta murder thar fellas! Tha's how they tha dro make bane weapons!
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Drow do bind spirits into equipment, usually elementals. However the idea that the drow bind people's souls into weaponry seems... rather unlikely.
(Unless s@s says otherwise of course).
Of course, convincing Hudder of this fact is... tricky. He has no comprehension of even the most basic rudiments of magical theory. Logical argument falls flat in the face of hyperbole, arm waving, third hand accounts of "
some fella wuz killed by his own bother's spirit! me mate ir'Makan was there!" and sheer stubbornness.
So far as Hudder's concerned the second they turn their backs the drow will swoop in, steal the items and bind their comrade's soul in a bane weapon.
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In the face of this crisis
Hudder springs into action. First he prepares the body, laying out the cleric's the items on his own cloak and wrapping and shrouding the body. Once the last rites are completed he turns to the items.
He has witnesses (probably Darv and Morph) make a list of the items, binds the bundle up and places a
greater glyph of warding on the whole thing. He then wraps it in another blanket and stows it carefully in his pack.
We're gonna need ta make an investigation ta determine who's tha proper recipient. I know Tharask fella specializes in this in Sharn....
[sblock=The Ward]Don't have time to check the rules but if possible the glyph is keyed to"Davan's next of kin". At the very least it's keyed to his racial type (so it'd be human).
He'll make sure the witnesses have a chance to examine the glyph and confirm that it's properly keyed.
He is from a clan of bankers, so everything will be proper and orderly.[/sblock]
Next he announces that Will-bearers need to be designated, and nominates himself (
Yah know my reputation as a Kundarak), Darv (
a gnome of keen mind 'n good character!) and Morph (
everyone knows 'forged are trustworthy!).
Everyone is then "interviewed" about their next of kin (where they live, how to find them), next-next of kin (etc), and next-next-next of kin (etc), which items they're carrying (do they all go to the next of kin, or are they split up, etc), any last words they may have, do they wish for the respective kin to know the details of their demise, etc?
Short of flying away it's almost impossible to put him off, assertions of lack of interest in the process, lack of kin, and so forth only generate a torrent of stories. Everyone who doesn't plug their ears with wax has heard that Hudder's delivered
no less'n 13 Wills ta kin in me decades as an adventurer. I canna tell you tha comfort an' closure tha see'n tha objects of tha deceased brings ta those left behind. Dunna mean to sound crude but in some cases tha financial support is also needed. Why one Cyrian fella I traveled wit' come back ta find his wife liv'n in Talenta Plains onnacounta hav'n no place ta go afta tha Mourning. Wit' tha money from selling his rapier they was able ta travel ta Q'barra. Got a letter from her jus' last year, seddled down in Newthrone'n opened up a bakery.
Barring some sort of extreme act by the party (
charming
Hudder or tying him up) by morning three meticulously copied wills containing the details of each party member are in the possession of three will-bearers.