Forgotten Heroes IC

[Voadam]

Voadam grins. "That's vampires. Jam a sharp piece of wood through their hearts to pin the soul down, then chop off their heads and stick a holy wafer in the mouth to make sure they don't come back. It's bloody work with the staking but worth the effort. Which reminds me, I forgot to stock up on wafers while we were in town. No knowing what kind of undead Nass has working for him and its good to be prepared. Tell me Kay, do Johanite rites involve holy wafers? Do you or Kralek here carry any?"

 

[Scotley]

Eglath

Satisfied with the good fight. Eglath remains silent. So much silly debate. They won. What else matters? The discussion of what to do with the dead man is equally distasteful and Eglath instead stands watch on the surrounding swamps while the others debate.

 

[Voadam]

"The black teeth are interesting as well. Wait, is that eight eyes like a spider on it or are there only six like an insect? Interesting beast. Rudimentary intelligence you say?" Voadam rises from his inspection of the render and moves to the man, looking for marks of death and identifications before the clerics bury him.

 

[Shayuri]

Lily sighs theatrically and crosses her legs, "sitting" in midair. She then leans forward to rest her elbows on her knees and support her head in her hands.

"Please tell me you're not going to string those eyes on a cord and make them into a necklace," she quips. "That'd just be weird. Also, don't bother cutting chunks out of it. I'm not eating anything that might have eaten a person. You are what you eat, you know."

 

[Voadam]

Lily sighs theatrically and crosses her legs, "sitting" in midair. She then leans forward to rest her elbows on her knees and support her head in her hands.

"Please tell me you're not going to string those eyes on a cord and make them into a necklace," she quips. "That'd just be weird. Also, don't bother cutting chunks out of it. I'm not eating anything that might have eaten a person. You are what you eat, you know."

"I don't know enough about the affinities of renders to make a useful necklace, and I don't think the golden eyes would go with your mail so you'll have to wait a little while longer for a love token I'm afraid."

Voadam continues his inspection of the man "Armor and a mace. Looks like potions and a scroll. No apparent holy symbol or spell component pouch though. No mistletoe." Voadam looks at the dead man's hands "No signet ring." The wizard looks for signs of rending or other marks indicating cause of death as well as symbols or markings on his clothing or gear that might indicate an affiliation. He picks up the mace and shakes off swamp muck, then inspects it closely looking for house insignia or a maker's mark.

 

[Amazing Triangle]

The man's body is not torn in bite and claw fashion. The markings on the man's bones and armor were made by a sword or other slashing instrument. His flesh was eaten at after he died by either the render or some other creature that is more prone to scavaging for its meal. The render being as big as it is would not be too prone to eating something that was already dead when it could get a fresh easily enough for its self.

The sun has just pasted the mid-day mark and the swamp is coming alive with all kinds of insect sounds and frog calls. Each of you slowly gets worried because you now notice that the sound of anyone's movements in the swamp would be muffled until the were too close for comfort. The humidity has climbed in the swamp to the point that it is overwhelming making it an unbearable, sticky, and wholely unpleasant in the swamp.

 

[Voadam]

"There is somebody else with a blade out here. Keep your eyes sharp. I suggest you say last rites for him and we move on." Voadam will keep the mace in hand as he travels.

 

[hafrogman]

Chester gives Lily's last comment a quirked eyebrow.

"If you are what you eat, and the render at people, then he would be a person, and if you ate him, you too would be a person. Really, your statement makes no sense. I would say we don't eat it because it looks revolting."

He stands watch while whatever is done with the body is done, helping as needed, and then stands ready to move on, axe balanced on one shoulder.

 

[Shayuri]

Lily snorts and "stands up", flying higher.

"Everyone always overthinks what I say," she complains. "It's a -figure of speech-. Also, it's hot, and it stinks, and can we get going again? The less time we have to spend in this festering armpit of a place, the happier I'll be."

 

[Moonstone Spider]

"And most important of all, we can't eat it because it's got no alchohol content."