Feint Whispers Chapter #5: The Excavation

[Tokiwong]

Jericho smiles, "Aye stop ye blubbering, I ain't going to skin, yah, grab that gold, and carry it back to the camp. We will escort yah, aye feloows members of the Fist?"

 

[Mirth]

In response to Jericho's doubt, the man crawls up the stairs on all fours so that his head is close to the warrior boots, "No, no, sir. We be good people. I be Drasik. I come here for work, sir. The garrison needed a blacksmith. But Lord Hurazrod be turnin' to evil after I arrived. He be finding something under the keep that corrupted him and he started making with fould creatures like that janitor Wretch. He sacraficed we good folks to those horrors and raised the bodies as servants!!! Then the paladins came and attacked the Lord and his army. Me and these servant wenches here run for the woods to avoid the fighting, but Wretch caught us as he and the dead were collecting wood. After the paladins left, he returned to the keep and began digging for gold and evil, but he only found some treasure. It is in the bottom of the cellar, sirs. Please take it!!! That wee fiend was going to sacrafice us to his masters!!!" The women are gently sobbing. The glint of gold is apparent on the floor around their feet.

Drasik seems completly sincere.

"You," Tarowyn calls to the man. "Drasik, is it? We're looking for a man named Jorut who got lost around these parts. Do you know him? You haven't seen him, have you?"

The elf watches Drasik's face closely as he asks the question, thinking to himself, If this Drasik knows that Jorut is his cousin, the one we met in the caravan, then we'll know we've got our man..

 

[jasamcarl]

"You," Tarowyn calls to the man. "Drasik, is it? We're looking for a man named Jorut who got lost around these parts. Do you know him? You haven't seen him, have you?"

The elf watches Drasik's face closely as he asks the question, thinking to himself, If this Drasik knows that Jorut is his cousin, the one we met in the caravan, then we'll know we've got our man..

Drasik's eyes go wide as he turns his gaze to the elf, "Jorut? He be my cousin. He be an elder of a villiage east of here. What happened? Did the orcs raid his villiage?"

 

[Festy_Dog]

"No, he's fine, but he sent us to look for you," Norri says with a smile, "Pick ya'self up now, we got some travelling to do."

Originally posted by Tokiwong
"We will escort yah, aye feloows members of the Fist?"

"Most swertainly," Norri replies.

 

[Krug]

"Well are we going to get the gold?" asks Bhartus.

 

[jasamcarl]

Bhartus: Upon examination, you find that the three have been fed atleast a bare diet. They are all thin, but they can walk.

Drasik stands, "Good. I need not hear of a kin's plight before I be rescued. Girls, grab the sacks." The women proceed to dip into the shadows and emerge with two small sacks full of what sounds like coins. They collect the loose change on the floor into the sacks. Drasik turns back to the party, "We be ready when you bes sirs."

 

[Krug]

"Well lets be on our way," says Bhartus. "We'll get you some food once we're out of here."

 

[KaintheSeeker]

Whitney nods quietly, distressed at the idea of suddenly being corrupted by magics like thier old master was. "Aye, let's get going, these good folk need to be returned to their friends afore we run ill of more darkling folk."

 

[Festy_Dog]

Norri darts back upstairs and conducts a brief scan of the surrounding ruins from where he is, making sure they won't be interupted on the way out.

 

[Tokiwong]

Jericho nods, "Good enough for me, lets go.." if there are no objections, Jericho will lead the small group back to the camp.