House Millithor in COSQ: part 3

[Endur]

While the power of the Abyss floods Kripp's body and his form mutates, his brain is filled with strange, chaotic visions.

Kripp learns one of the greatest secrets of his cult, that the Lord of All That Swims in Darkness is held prisoner in a fortress on the surface world. The Lord can still grant spells to his followers, but he can not escape the bindings, and only the holiest of holy warriors can open the final seal.

Kripp sees a vision of the future and sees the holy warrior destined to open the final seal. A warrior from the surface world, known as the Axebane, and famed across the sword coast for his deeds of valor in the area around Baldur's Gate. A warrior who wields the Sword of Heroes, Carsomyr, and wears the legendary helm and armor of Balduran himself.

The vision (and the mutations) end when Kripp realizes that when the human opens the final seal, it won't be to free the Lord of All that Swims in Darkness, it will be to destroy Kripp's Lord once and for all.

 

[Endur]

Narcelia dreams her strangest dream so far.

She is in a zoo. A zoo where humanoids are kept in cages. She herself is in a cage and the sign says, "Matron Mother of House Millithor". Illithids come and look at her and other Matron Mothers in the zoo. The cage next to hers, with the sign "Matron Mother of House Baenre", is empty.

She does not feel any anger or frustration or any emotions other than simple happiness. Her clothing and all her possession are gone, but now she wears a valuable silver collar that the masters have given her in exchange.

Her Mother's good friend, Master Klaxeon the Inquisator, comes and visits her in the zoo every day. He asks her many questions about herself, her brother Marckarius, and her parents. Narcelia is always happy to answer questions. He also asks questions about her cousins Quertus and Eilos, and who they studied with to learn the magical arts.

 

[Paxus Asclepius]

The Bebilith stares at Tierak as if it does not quite comprehend Tierak. The Bebilith sends a mental image of the Bebilith slaying a surface worlder.

Tierak mentally curses herself for forgetting the difficulties of communicating with the Bebiliths. She instead orders one of the vampires to spy on the other surface-dwellers in gaseous form.

 

[Endur]

The Vampire goes off to spy upon the surface worlders. It returns sometime later, ignoring you while still in gaseous form, and heads on past you towards its coffin.

Zieggrek hears some yells in the distance, echoing off the cavern walls, "Evil around every corner.. Be careful not to step in any!"

 

[Paxus Asclepius]

"Damn. They're more powerful than I'd hoped." To two of the remaining vampires, "Escort our friend to Matron Millithor." To Zieggrek, "Perhaps we shall need to investigate ourselves. Be wary."

 

[Serpenteye]

"Damn. They're more powerful than I'd hoped." To two of the remaining vampires, "Escort our friend to Matron Millithor." To Zieggrek, "Perhaps we shall need to investigate ourselves. Be wary."

ooc:
[hint] Maybe our friend knows how powerful and how many they are. [/hint]
It also turns out that we have only two newly made vampires in action, well one now.

 

[Pyrex]

"Here you wait for That Which Swims in Darkness. Bride, Food, or Priestess, Not Yet Decided!"
The Claw hands Carcelon off to a trio of the Kuo-toa, who chain her to the rock while the drow male's body sinks below the surface of the lake.

OOC: Fortunately, a Mithril BP doesn't make swimming all that hard. Unfortunately, I really don't think it matters...

Once she sees that they mean to chain her to the sacrificial rock Carcelon begins to struggle, trying to fight her way loose from the three Kuo-toa.

OOC2: Probably can't out-grapple all three of them, but being strapped to a rock doesn't exactly make for a strong negotiating position.

 

[Endur]

The Sound of Thunder echoes down the corridor from behind the party of drow.

The Red Wizard winces at the sound, then turning to the Drow with a Beaming Smile on his face, "Let us make all haste to your Matron. I have an amazing offer to make her. An offer she will not refuse.

"Pay no attention to those cursed do-gooders behind us."

 

[Endur]

The slippery Kuo-toa manage to wrestle her arms into the chains. Her legs are left free. The positioning of the chains would cause her to be waist-deep in the water, if not for the water-walking spell Kripp had cast on her earlier.

Carcelon's darkvision allows her to see through the clear water. The rock is on the edge of a ledge. The water is only five to ten feet deep near the rock, but it falls off quickly and reaches depths exceeding one hundred feet in less than twenty feet from the rock.

The Kuo-toa and the Claw back away from the Rock.

It begins to grow darker. The water turns pitch black around the rock. Even the air grows dark.

Carcelon can no longer see. She can feel and hear commotion in the water.

Something comes.

Something large.

Something powerful.

 

[Endur]

Narcelia's strangest dream continues. There is no way to tell night from day in the zoo, but sometimes the Masters are present and sometimes they are absent.

In one of the absent times, she suddenly speaks a word in a strange language and the door to her cage opens. How strange, she thinks to herself, I'm speaking words I don't even know.

She walks out of the cage and out of the zoo. She continues to be in her happy frame of mind as she leaves the city.

At the edge of the city, her collar causes her pain, but she speaks another word that she does not recognize and she no longer feels pain as the collar falls off her neck.

Narcelia continues to walk away from Ornydoll, and her happiness gradually fades.