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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spider_Jerusalem" data-source="post: 2302889" data-attributes="member: 5507">"What would you achieve? Glory in Tyr?"“Take my life,” answered Torious.Klauth, already having decided his course of action to either answer, snaked his head down and ripped Zalaznir's head from his broken body. With the flailing torso in his maw, Klauth swung his head leisurely to the side, sending half of the dead man sailing across the lake and into the cliff face with a damp thud. On their ledges of grass, the watching aarakocras screeched in unison and dove to gather what remains they could. As the legs of the man twitched violently, Klauth began to speak before the aasimar could react."You talk of sacrifice, but you do not know of what you speak. If you were to truly martyr yourself for that pathetic man, would I even let him live after your head has been ripped from your shoulders and your body lies a smoking husk?"With a sly smile, Klauth watched the pious man before him falter for a moment. The dragon continued, "What would you achieve? Glory in Tyr?" Klauth raised his head and laughed deeply, shaking loose stones from the cliff face."You are a fool indeed, and you would be a dead fool were it not for your blind devotion." Klauth paused for a moment and swooped his head to the lake and drank deeply. The aasimar stood unmoving, his face blank.Inside the bowels of the tower, Thalin lifted the trapdoor open as he heard the dragon talking to Torious. He hoped the dragon’s own voice would mask the noise made. Carefully, Thalin eased the trapdoor against the wall and motioned for Milo to move over. The halfling, having calmed down considerably, nodded and chose his moment wisely to jump across the open doorway. Hearing Klauth laugh, the halfling tumbled across the opening silently and padded to a halt next to the open trapdoor. With a nod, Thalin slid himself over the edge and lowered himself until only the tips of fingers were showing. Milo watched silently as the fingers disappeared then a split second later a small splash below. Not wanting to be alone in the tower with only Isplit, who was still unconscious and probably dreaming of she-weasels, Milo dropped carefully over the edge without holding on and landed in a foot of freezing water.Whispering to Milo that spell casting might well alert Klauth to their position, Thalin peered into the darkness of the room that they now stood in. It seemed that the two shaking heroes had dropped into a shallow pool indented in the centre of the room. Sniffing, the stench of algae and stale fish was overwhelming and Milo gagged as he went to get out of the trench and pressed his hand into a diseased fish corpse.In the half gloom, the room was slightly larger than the tower width above it, and had a set of double stone doors set in the wall immediately in front of the creeping pair. Milo pulled himself out finally, having scraped the dead fish from his hand with a disgusted look on his face. Milo crept over to Thalin, who was pushing the stone doors open slowly. As the doors creaked open, a murky blue light filtered through, bathing the heroes’ faces in an azure glow. Looking inside, Milo’s eyes fired up with curiosity as he saw, in the centre of the glowing room, a rail track leading through another set of heavy doors and upon that track sat a strange metal and wood contraption about the size of a large boar.</blockquote>

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