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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hairy Minotaur" data-source="post: 2034606" data-attributes="member: 11574">GeasFinrod sprinted back to Mirwood, and located the party exiting the temple with a revived Gronar in tow. Paquito and Nameroc are arguing back and forth over the deal they struck with the elves to bring Gronar back to life, Korg watches intently trying to ascertain what all the fuss is about."Gronar I'm glad you're back with us. I need a huge favor." Finrod explains as Gronar's eyebrows perk up at invitation. "I need you to dig up a dead body." Finrod finishes, his words pound through the din like a slam to the gut."Gronar think better pass on that." The hill giant's sonorous reply disheartens the elf"Well, actually he may not be dead. There's a chance something is alive in the ground, there's quite a bit of blood." Finrod answersPaquito, Korg, and Nameroc listen slack-jawed to Finrod explain his need for a gravedigger."No, Gronar hungry. Gronar go eat breakfast, and lunch, and brunch, and snack, and breakfast." Gronar says walking past the elf, his stomach urging him to follow the scent of burning meat. "Wait, if you do this for me, I will get you two whole cows just for you." Finrod exasperatesGronar stops in his path, furls his brow, taps his chin as if in thoughtful reflection, shrugs his shoulders and says "Ok." Finrod leads Gronar off to the graveyards."On second thought, I think we should have negotiated for a true resurrection. No?" Paquito asksNameroc only stands in silence as Korg asks "Where Gronar going?"Finrod and Gronar reach the grave and Finrod points out how the ground is very much like a bloody marsh than hard ground. Gronar's empty stomach moils as the leadened smell of fresh blood assails his nose. "Why dead elf smell so bad?" Gronar asks"That's what we're going to find out." Finrod replies and hands a shovel to Gronar"Gronar think basin would be better than flat stick." The giant respondsFinrod grabs a shovel as a priest from the elven temple shows up, alerted by shakened villagers who overheard Finrod and Gronar's conversation earlier in town. "W-w-what seems to be the problem." The priest manages to finish the question before retching at the sight of the pooling blood. "Ground bleeding." Gronar answers, reporting the obvious"We're about to find out." Finrod repliesFinrod digs his shovel into the grave, only to find that the ground has become almost liquefied by the blood. He underestimates the give of the earth, and falls into the grave, disappearing below the surface of the bloody mess.Startled, Gronar throws his shovel away and thrusts his arm thru the spot where Finrod vanished. He prods the fluid for any sign of Finrod, finally Gronar's fingers grasp what feels like a mass of hair and he yanks the mass up through blood. Gronar tosses the body he grabbed off to one side of the grave, though covered in thick dark blood, Gronar can tell the body is not breathing."Help elfy breathe." Gronar commands the elven priest who thrusts up his holy symbol and flees in terror."Hey! Come back!" Gronar points at the body and only then realizes it is not Finrod as the decayed corpse that lays on the ground has been dead for quite some time.Confused, Gronar turns his attention back to the grave and is driven to the ground by the force of a pillar of blood hurtles towards the sky from the grave. Gronar watches as the body of Finrod is discharged from the colonnade of blood and bounces off the ground at Gronar's feet. In an instant the column of dark red collapses back into itself. Finrod gurgles and spits out blood as Gronar pokes at him from a safe distance."Elfy ok?" Gronar asksFinrod rolls over onto his side and glances back at Gronar, his white pupils standing out against the field of deep red. "I have been quested."</blockquote>

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