Dungeon Raiders: The Wolf's Den

[Leif]

Swift, halfling rogue

Swift saunters into the room feeling five-and-a-half feet tall, put his thumbs in his belt, rears back, and announces, "You know much about servitude, Sulannus. Whose servant are you? You know, physical stature is singularly unreliable as a measure of elan, chutzpah, and power." Clearly, Swift is either feeling his oats or else drinking from that spiked waterskin again. Either way, he appears to have thrown caution to the wind and decided to make a bold play.

 

[Shayuri]

Sulannus drew herself up to her full, somewhat unimpressive, height and glared down at Swift with slitted eyes.

"I am no one's servant," she said icily. "I am Sulannus Phaedran, of the Great House of the Sun. My father and forebears carried the Starburst Crest since it was first forged. My great-grandmother slew the black wyrm Arzipalihan with a single spell! My grand-uncle defeated the Third Uprising by plunging his spear into a pit fiend's heart, and dying in the beast's death throes! I..."

The elf trailed off, abruptly realizing what was happening. Her mouth snapped shut and she looked away, folding her arms.

"It doesn't matter. You can't get to me. Just search the room and have done with it."

 

[Leif]

Swift, halfling rogue

Swift appears to recover some measure of his senses, although he looks like he has just seen his future and been very alarmed by how short it may be. He blinks rapidly a few times and then sets about searching the room. As he goes to do so, he reaches back and checks to see whether he has inadvertently filled his britches. Thankfully, he has not, and he lets a relieved sigh escape him. He thinks to himself, "Dammmmmit, Swift, the next time you get a 'brilliant' idea to torque-off someone who can pinch off your head and crap down your neck, just DON'T!!"

 

[Kobold Stew]

Bartleby enters the room cautiously, and whispers under his breath to Swift, "We've all been there. Don't worry." He then proceeds to search the room.

 

[Li Shenron]

After searching around for a couple of minutes [OoC: no need to roll] it seems to you that nothing of interest seems to be located around this room, with the obvious exception of the two skeletons near and on the stone slab. A glance at the woman's corpse below the veil is enough for you as a Dwarf to notice that she is wearing beautiful jewelry.

 

[wedgeski]

[OOC: [MENTION=4936]Shayuri[/MENTION], are you up for a bit of player-driven development with regards to Sulannus' history?]

 

[Jimmy Disco T]

Tock meanwhile has entered the room and is investigating the second skeleton at the foot of the tomb, the one with the dagger.

"How strange. Why would a person ever choose to end their own life?" he asks to nobody in particular. "What would have driven them to make such a decision?"

He kneels down by the corpse and absent mindedly prods gently at the dagger with his finger, before gently trying to pry it loose from the skeletal hands - more out of curiosity than anything else.

 

[Shayuri]

"If they had nothing left to live for," Sulannus says, "Or for honor...there are reasons. It's a sad thing, but there are reasons."

(wedgeski, sure! )

 

[Li Shenron]

[/COLOR]He kneels down by the corpse and absent mindedly prods gently at the dagger with his finger, before gently trying to pry it loose from the skeletal hands - more out of curiosity than anything else.

The dagger isn't coming out particularly easily. It seems it was thrusted hard into the sternum, and is still a bit stuck there.

 

[Leif]

Swift, halfling rogue

"What about the jewelry on the body? I don't think she'll miss it in the slightest. Are we thinking that this other person was her fella, who was so bereaved that he did himself in?" Swift tries, but he can't resist giving Sulannus a wink and a grin.