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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 4812847" data-attributes="member: 3285">Drakmar: Part 8 – EscapeThe healing potions worked on Kham’s flesh, but his throat wound seeped a vile yellow pus.  ”We’ve got to get him out of here,” said Vlad.  “Or he’ll die for sure.”The gate pulsed with a white light.  Vlad started dragging Kham towards it.“Wait!” Beldin grabbed Vlad’s arm. “We need the Yellow Sign to be daubed in blood.” He cut a palm and dripped blood in a rough approximation of the Yellow Sign, as the tcho-tcho and the King in Yellow did.Nothing happened.The dwarf frowned. “It has to be human blood.”“It has to be Kham’s blood.  He’s the gate.” Vlad cut Kham’s palm, reopening the wound on his hand, and dripped the blood before the gate. The light between the pillars changed from white to blue.  A deafening keening echoed around the chamber.They rushed through the gate. There was a sensation of falling into a void, followed by momentary confusion.  Then they were on the shore of the Island of Chaugnar Faugn.  Kham slowly, groggily, got to his feet.  His throat was awful to look at, but at least he was alive.  They found their longboat and began rowing back to the mainland of Nyambe.“Do you think Sebastian really did it?” asked Vlad.“In leading the King in Yellow to Arcanis?”  Beldin looked up at the stars.  “Sebastian would never do that.  Since we’re all still here, he must have led the King somewhere else.”“But where?” asked Vlad.Kham rubbed his throat.  He tried to speak but couldn’t.  He just pointed over their heads.A galleon sailed behind them. Aboard the Nǎoké was an exotically dressed Khitani pirate. He had a knife to a woman’s throat.  It was Yolanda, the woman Kham had met in Carcosa. “I have your friends,” Cho Sun said with a thick accent. “If you do not give me Chaugnar Faugn’s treasure I will begin killing them one by one, beginning with this girl! You have ten minutes to decide.”</blockquote>

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