(IC - D&D 3.5) Rathan's Problem Down Under

[Neurotic]

Berrek sneaks little bit around, if there is nothing else of note he starts back toward the camp. Heart racing, he moves more cautiosly then he was coming in. He could feel the power of starfall pressing in on him.

Once he is about 150' from the mound he starts running and is back to the camp within minutes.

 

[Rathan]

You make it back to camp just fine seeing as you didn't really get any closer look to the mound... the feeling that something about that place is definitely wrong still lingers within you both as you return back to the others...

 

[unleashed]

“So, did you two find out where was the light was coming from?” Eltyr asks the pair when they return from the mound.

 

[Ambrus]

Menhir rises up out of the ground once it senses that Berrek has rejoined the group. It offers a typically concise answer to Eltyr's question. "Burning wood." The elemental looks to Berrek, expecting the man to offer up a more insightful response.

 

[Neurotic]

Berrek quickly describes the scene.

"I think that there are two groups and not one group that was blown up by some trap. I think there were undead guardians and the group of men tried to enter the tomb. Now, I guess there could be fairly powerful wizard in the group who fireballed whole area once some of his comrades fell in battle. I don't want to think he incinerated living allies on purpose. Second scenario is that there is really some powerful trap on the tomb or powerful guardian and that the group that approached it had some undead in it's ranks.

Whatever that really is, I think it's worth investigating now. If something goes wrong we can rest and head back in the morning with full supplement of spells. On that note, once we head there Lidia keep an eye out for defensible spot. If needed Menhir might be able to raise makeshift earthen barricades or trenches to enhance some natural feature.

What say you? Are we going there? Even if we just stop some plunderers instead of encountering starfall fallout it's still worthy effort."

 

[Ambrus]

Listening to Berrek's elaborate description, it becomes ever more clear to the earth elemental that it lacks the proper context from which to recognize the significance of what it sees amidst organic beings. By the end of it, Menhir has only understood half (if that much) of the conjecture offered up for consideration by Berrek. Indeed, some of his words are entirely new to the elemental.

 

[ethandrew]

Anton begins equipping himself even before Berrek finishes his description. Once the scout has finished, Anton speaks clearly, so as not to confuse any with his words, "If there is a chance of the living dead, we must act upon it. I can't ignore that." His look is hard, resolved.

 

[Ambrus]

Anton's use of the oxymoronic term "living dead" recalls an earlier conversation which had similarly puzzled the earth elemental. Menhir struggles to find the right words to voice its question. "But aren't the... the living dead, the undead... *grinding sound* ...harmless?"

 

[ethandrew]

Anton considers the confusion Menhir must have on this subject, and he himself struggles to find the right words, "There's the living, like us. There's the dead, like those we bury in the ground, which I'm sure you've seen from time to time. Then there's the undead, those that should be buried, but are walking like the living. Those are dangerous. I don't understand how or why, but I just know they are an unnatural stain upon this land."

 

[Ambrus]

Menhir considers Anton's insightful answer for a moment before inquiring: "Dangerous. How?"