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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 4872242" data-attributes="member: 3285">Castle Ambrose: Part 6a – The Throne RoomThe walls of the throne room were covered with mosaics depicting courtly scenes. The floor was polished marble. Two thrones sit atop a raised dais. At the east end of the room a red velvet carpet ran from the double doors to the thrones. “Now this I recognize,” said Kham. A skeletal figure sat on one of thrones. The skeletons were dressed in rotting velvet. One held a jeweled mace. Twenty more skeletons stood on guard, ten each along the north and south walls. “I don’t remember skeletons in the play,” said Beldin.The guards wore rusted armor and carried halberds with rusted blades. Another dozen skeletons, wearing decayed court dress, stood in front of the thrones. The skeletons’ bones were fused by the devastation so that they stood in rigid poses, a courtier bowing, a lady leaning sideways to gossip, and so on.“You’re right,” said Kham.  “This is after the fact.”  He looked at Sebastian.  “And let me guess.  You’re the Stranger, right?”Sebastian took to the air, huge bat wings flapping.  There was a shimmering translucent aura about him.Kham squinted.  It had a vaguely feminine shape.  He suddenly understood what Sebastian was trying to tell him: where Queen and Prophet meet.  Literally. It was…”Cassilda!” shouted Kham.  “Let him go!”There was a muffled incantation from behind Sebastian’s mask.  Vlad spun and held Grungronazharr before him just as the ball of flames hit.The blast was dispersed by Vlad’s blade.  “Don’t hurt him!” shouted Kham.  “He’s possessed!”“Now you tell us,” said Beldin.  The dwarf had taken the brunt of the blast on his shield, but his beard was still smoking.  Sebastian began to trace another spell.“I’ve got him!” Vlad drew something from his belt pouch and threw it.  It struck Sebastian in the chest, expanding into glob of sticky goo.  Sebastian’s wings were stuck to his back.  He fell twenty feet to the ground. “Now Kham!” Kham gathered his mental energy.  He had learned the power to focus his mind, oddly enough, when the King in Yellow had first contacted him in the arena in Vestalanium.  Now he was using it to defeat Carcosa’s queen.They engaged in a struggle of wills over Sebastian’s body.  And for a brief eternity, Kham understood what happened in the throne room.</blockquote>

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