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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TaranTheWanderer" data-source="post: 9686353" data-attributes="member: 15882"><a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/ooc-discussion-recruitment-the-dog-days-of-doom.713856/" target="_blank">OOC</a><a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/rg-dog-days-of-doom.713869/#post-9686313" target="_blank">RG</a>[HR][/HR]Chapter 1There is barely a breeze as the procession slowly creeps along the main road from Carysburgh to Erin Tor.It has been five days since a star dislodged itself from the heavens and seemed to grow in size, day by day, in the sky.  Whispers of dark prophesies.It has been three days since the Solstice and the death of  His Most Holy, the Radiant Servant, Levenshire.   On the Pelor's Holiest Day as the Levenshire performed his god's most important rites of the year and, while at the  altar, he suddenly clutched his chest and fell to the ground.  His head, hitting the altar, left a bloody stain upon the perfectly white Altar Cloth.As the blood pooled on the ground around the altar, the sky darkened as the comet blotted out the sun.In those three days, the days have been dark as the comet approaches.  Rumours of dark rites and death cults have spread.  Powerful adventurers have been sent out by the churches and the King while people quietly wonder what disaster awaits.As is tradition, a procession for the dead was sent out to bring Cardinal Levenshire to Erin Tor to be interred.  A long line of funeral carts, palanquins and mourners walk in the wake of the Cardinal's guard.In less than an hour, you will arrive at Erin Tor and its great Temple fortress,  where the light of Pelor and the Magic of Wee Jas protect the mighty crypt within.  Outside, in the Downs surrounding, the town are the burial grounds where the commoners bury their dead in the many crypts and graveyards, protected as they bask in Pelor's holy light.Despite the unnatural, shadowy 'dusk' caused by the comet, the stifling heat of the summer makes the procession long and arduous.You are among the people either along the road, watching the long line of pilgrims and mourners as they pass or part of the procession itself as it makes its way on the final leg of its journey.[SPOILER="OOC"]To start, feel free to introduce your character and why they might be along the road or in the procession.Also, to make some connections.  Whoever posts can make up how they know the person who posted just ahead of them.  Maybe you once adventured together or you stole something from them or you got them arrested - Whatever!  Or as simple as meeting in a bar and having some drinks together.  We will assume that things got worked out in the end and you can (mostly) trust the other person.[/SPOILER]</blockquote>

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