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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greybar" data-source="post: 924187" data-attributes="member: 4938">The Tree of Corruption, part 1Karrinkas leads the group into the thick of the wood.  As night is about to fall, they come upon a strange scene.  Two men are burying something in the middle of a clearing.  Cautiously, the heroes approach with a "Ho there..."The two clumsily turn, their motions jerky.  They reach for axes lying on the ground."No need for that, we're just looking for Adolphus and some of the other..."The men charge with strange groaning sounds.  As they close, our heroes can see that their faces are strangely distorted.  Green veins stretch down their faces, pulsing to an irregular beat.  These veins stand out on their hands, their chests, anywhere that their flesh is visible."We should take one of them alive, they may know where Adolphus is!", Karrinkas says as he pounces forward.Our heroes blur into motion quickly.  Samus and Balius cut one man down swiftly, though they notice that the man's body seems hardened and oddly rigid.  Karrinkas disarms the other and wraps him up in a tight grapple.  The man seems undetered, grunting and groaning as he tries to reach for his axe.  Failing that, he scratches and bites at Karrinkas mindlessly.  In the end, Karrinkas renders him unconscious and steps away.Samus steps forward to look at what they were burying.  He moves aside the loose earth with his hands until he uncovers the top of something hard.  With a few more scoops, he has it unearthed - a man's head.  At the top of the skull is a swelling of green and brown which stretches tendrils down across the head and face."Uggg... What happened to these people?" Samus wonders aloud.  As if in response the eyes open wide, shot with green with flecks of earth clumping over their lashes. It opens its mouth and begins to scream.  It is a high-pitched, inhuman sound that echoes through Samus' head.  Instinctively he grabs his greataxe and brings it around in a wide overhead arc, smashing down to split the skull of the thing wide open.Balius speaks what they all pretty much were thinking: "They were planting him..."</blockquote>

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