IC: Dichotomy's Age of Worms Redux, Part II

[michael_noah]

"I suppose this falls to me as well, eh?" Boldak questions the others. He proceeds to gather the remains as carefully as he can, under the watchful gaze of "Alendar".

"Tell me, then, sir, if interring your remains will put you to rest, how are you going to open the door for us?"

 

[Dichotomy]

"On my way out," the ghost replies softly.

 

[michael_noah]

"Let's get to it then. If you'd like, feel free to um... explain who you are on the way."

Boldak leads the others back out of the cairn and wherever the possessed elf leads them.

 

[Dichotomy]

"Oh, no, no. I can't leave, not even like this. Ummm..." The ghost gives Boldak directions to a farmstead roughly 10 minutes east of Diamond Lake. "Good luck, I guess, for both our sakes."

The ghost then leaves Alendar's body. For a moment, flying above the elf, you see the translucent form of a barely teenage farmboy with a boken neck. The image then melts away.

Alendar vigorously shakes his head. "Don't say anything." He wordlessly moves to get Berth's body. The party, sadly, has two corpses to bring with it.

 

[o3caudata]

Alexis begins to cry softly. Turning to the wall, Alexis says "WAIT! Tell us your story. How did you happen to get here? Who did this to you?"

Turning to Boldak she continues, crying all the while "Is he one of the disappeared children? The ones who used to sleep here in the cairn? Do you know his home? When did he disappear?"

Looking toward the body of Breth, Alexis 'collapses' to the 'floor' and says to no one in particular, "WHY!!! Gods what is this place..... This is not ok..."

For a time, Alexis continues her self-involved sobbing, and shortly rising and rubbing the sadness from her eyes. "Let's get them back to where they belong now. This place will wait for us, and we WILL be returning...."

 

[worthley]

"So, we better get these remains to a proper burrial plot. For both of them. Everyone deserves to rest in peace"

 

[Dichotomy]

Once everyone has composed themselves some degree, the party begins the cumbersome task before it. It takes some effort to return out of the cairn with the two corpses in tow, but the group runs into no snags along the way.

Soon Viktor, Boldak, Alexis, and Alendar are on their way back on the path.

"I guess we need to do something about this," Alendar tactlessly brings up the hard topic.

 

[worthley]

"We could burry Breth by the mine office. Otherwise I could speak to those in my church about getting him a burrial plot in the garrison's cemetary. As for the boy, we should do as asked. I am sure we have the time to take a day to greive."

 

[michael_noah]

Boldak thinks for a bit after the others have spoken before adding, "I don't think it would be wise for us to wait long before returning to the cairn. There's nothing to say whether the ghost will keep his word, or how long the door will stay open if he does. We'd best get done what we need to and be on our way back. If that means sending a few of us to town to take care of business while the others take care of the body, well, then that's what we should do."

 

[o3caudata]

"I agree with Boldak. I'd like to take the boy, or at very least go with whoever does. I can't imagine Breth wanted much of a ceremony for his corpse though, so it may not even be necessary to go to town, unless we have other things that need doing. We should be as quick as possible."