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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scotley" data-source="post: 5399967" data-attributes="member: 11520"><p>After a couple of false starts Zurrik makes his way to the door. It is held only with a simple latch. Getting it open allows a bit of light into the dim chamber. A macabre scene is revealed to all. The room is a large high ceilinged chamber, a great hall of sorts that fills most of the lower level. Open archways at the rear lead to an empty kitchen. Stairs lead upward to other levels of the tower. At two long tables animated skeletons and zombies are arrayed. They are engaged in acts of gluttony, greed and decadence. Some endlessly consume rotten food and spoiled beer, one polishes a staff of office while sitting on a throne, others count huge stacks of copper pieces, some are gaming with dice or cards, a group gestures encouragement to zombie roosters and skeletal dogs fighting, a pair of zombies even appear to be engaged in a horrid pantomime of a sex act with much thrusting and waving of rotting zombie flesh. The undead gathered here continue their tasks seemingly oblivious to you. From their dress you guess they were once fairly prosperous though something about their attire suggests that they were shady characters. From the wounds that felled them you'd also guess they died painfully and brutally before being animated into this bizarre side-show.</p></blockquote><p></p>