Cold Truths (part 1: The Missing Duke)

[mps42]

Again the relay back and forth "Varg say 'This one'", pointing to Tyler "'speak plainly, we like. He have point, man who live here not know we come to talk and our kind never been friendly. You have great honor, we show you future. Come with.'"
Varg stands, creaking slightly in his mail. Immediately the guards on either stand to attention and bang the butt of their poleax on the wooden platform. Varg steps down onto the main floor, followed by his two guards and two more that come from the back of the room. He turns to the group and says in very good common "Please, come this way."

 

[taitzu52]

Uri slips in right behind Aleran, acting as a bodyguard for those who are used to seeing such things. I don't care what that ape-man thinks. This talk of his future sounds like the end of ours., thinks the xenophobic easterner.

 

[Argent Silvermage]

Tyler

Tyler looking far more pleased with himself than he probably should says "Thank you Chief Varg, I would be most interested in this future you see." He follows at a respectful distance.

 

[mps42]

Varg grabs a medium sized bag from beside his chair and motions the group to follow. Turning, he heads out of the room.
He pauses briefly in the outer room, looking at the piles of collected stuff. "Yes, I can see that this will need to be organised..." he says as he walks towards the stairs, his guards between you and him, and decends.
Once downstais, he heads out into the courtyard where the early morning light reveals a cold, stark landscape of snow and the battered walls of the outer walls. "Cold out here, yes? This infernal weather will make our travel difficult, but not impossible."
He treads heavily over to the northwest tower and up the outer stairs to the top of the wall. "UP HERE, " he calls. "You shall see better up here." And proceeds into the tower.
Following up the stairs and up to the top of the tower, you find Varg staning at the north wall of the tower. "Look!" He says with a sweeping motion towards the north. "Look into the future. See what will come."

 

[Argent Silvermage]

Tyler

Tyler follows Varg up the tower and looks out over where the beast lord is showing.

ooc: by the way is it Varg speaking perfect common?

 

[Mimic]

Aleran scowls slightly and grips his staff harder at the verbal insult but says nothing, if these creatures wish to negotiate with Tyler then so be it, there is always more then one way to skin a cat...

He will follow quietly with the others up the tower and he will attempt to see what Varg is showing them, although he already suspects what he is going to be shown.

 

[mps42]

OOC: Yes, Varg is speaking near-perfect common...

 

[mps42]

Yo umove cautiously to the north wall of the tower and look out over the snowy landscape. You look out over leagues of empty nothingness, horizon to horizon. Far to the north you can see a greyish black have over the ground.
"Seems bleak, doesn't it?" Varg asks from behind you. "Mile upon mile of emptyness. A blanket of white covering the ground. No animals, no birds and no men.
Here, now look at this." From the sack he grabbed from beside the chair, he produces a small round globe of milky-white crystal and a small brass stand. He sets the stand on a small table that one of the guards drags from the left corner, then places the crytal globe on the stand.
"This is what is called a kleva-viska, a tool made some time ago. It allows one to see far away as if it were here. I do not know the magic that makes this so, I only know that it is.
"Here," He begins to softly rub the crystal orb and it begins to take on a soft, white glow. "Now, tell me what you wish to see."

 

[Krug]

Woden is afraid of such magics, and keeps silent. He waits for the others to proceed.

 

[taitzu52]

Uri is palpably nervous. He stands back from the whole affair, watching. Waiting.