Hewligan's Rise of the Runelords: The Skinsaw Murders

Jovik looks at Danth quizzically "Honestly Danth, you're getting as bad as Jokad. Charging at every shadow. This place is evil I agree. But let us know what we are up against first. And in any case. Until we know what manner of eveil lies outside, how wil we know whether it is even safe to stay inside or not? Why wait inside to have the evil come at us in the dark of the night?" asks Jovik as he peeks out a window to accertain the threat.
 

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Stifling a chuckle at the seriousness of his companions, Jovik moves over to one of the thick paned glass windows and peers outside. The window is caked in a layer of dust and grime, and he has to swipe at it for a moment with his bloodied sleeve. He peers forward again.

Outside he can see the ground moving away back towards the ruined bard and distant path that they came here via. The land outside is spotted black with the countless bodies of those darn black birds that they saw congregating as they first came in here. He scans the land before him. The barn is covered in them, the lawn too. He cannot count them, but it is somewhere in the hundreds.

Just birds, though!
 


Danth hurries to stay with Jokad, the cleric's hand going to his holy symbol. Perhaps, if these birds were truly the source of such evil, he would be able to channel his divine power to drive them off. He takes a deep breath to steady himself, and prepares to meet the evil outside.
 

"Why start making the smart choices now, right boy," says Kael as he ruefully smiles at Mal before giving the others the nod. With a grin, Kael states,"Who wants to live forever?"

With a spell on his lips, Kael is as ready as he is going to be.
 

Jovik shakes his head "Watch out for the invisible flying monkeys Jokad" calls out Jovik.

Mal sensed something, usually that isn't a dead something, so Jovik followed along very warily.
 

Jovik shakes his head "Watch out for the invisible flying monkeys Jokad" calls out Jovik.

Mal sensed something, usually that isn't a dead something, so Jovik followed along very warily.

Jokad grunts, ignoring Jovik's playful warning as he shoulders the door open.
 

Danth mutters prayes under his breath as he steps up behind Jokad, determined to face the evil beyond the door bravely.
 

Danth mutters prayes under his breath as he steps up behind Jokad, determined to face the evil beyond the door bravely.

OOC

Not to jinx us, or anything, but has anyone else seen the end of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the good one with Neuman and Redford?

For some odd reason, those birds feel like the Bolivian Army...here's hoping we get the myth and legend ending, instead of the movie one. ;)
 

Jokad shoves the front door open with his shoulder and strides out confidently (or at least looking confident). There are hundreds upon thousands of sickly looking ravens perched quietly across the entire area, covering every square foot of the ruins. These ravens are disturbingly silent and still, watching as you all move outside the house onto the path.

Mal growls. Kael silences him with a reassuring stroke, but he can feel the tension coursing through the body of his loyal friend.

Danth doesn't like the look of these things. It is not so much the fact that their small bodies have turned the ruins black, but that he can see an edge of red in their eyes, and on some a form of decay that shows too much of the fragile bone structure that lies below their feathers. He things they may be undead, or at least tainted in some way.

The group move forward hesitantly, walking in a tight group, moving slowly down the path. The ravens follow your progress. You make it some forty yards from the door to the mansion before they finally, inevitably, take to flight. It happens quickly, as if some invisible message has been passed between them, and they rise almost as a single body into the sky.

Hundreds. Thousands. The sky turns black with their bodies.

And then they begin the swoop towards you that you knew would come.

OOC: Friadoc ... good film, but these birds are not Bolivian. I checked the stat-block ;)
 

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