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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 6902279" data-attributes="member: 2012">At the Inn in the MorningOOC: DM's Note: After this post, there is a bit missing of the discussions at the Felled Ogre in the morning.Shrough makes his way to the burned out section of the Market District and heads into the Lofthouse where he's been staying. The clientele are mostly newcomers to the city with nowhere else to stay. The proprietor charges a minimum fee for a place to sleep amongst the others and a bit more for one of four private rooms. Shrough took one of the rooms since the price was nothing compared to what the others would pay at the Ogre.The room was undisturbed, which didn't surprise Shrough. There was no way he was going to leave anything valuable in this place while out in the city. It had been a crazy day, and he was glad for the rest. He was close to what humans call exhaustion. Slipping into the elven trace came easy. In it, his mind is at peace, at first.Then Rihards Ozolinsh is standing before him will the relic he seeks in Rihards' hand. The man laughs at him. As Shrough tries to reach out for him, the man's visage changes to that of Yenejg holding his amulet out in front of him with the demoness hovering over Shrough ready to slice the elf man to bits. The unknown man, Odals Alzota, speaks to him about death and evil in Shrough's soul. Shrough cannot see the man but he knows it is Alzota as the estate of Kailer Galoda burns down around him. The treasurer himself stands in the center of the inferno on fire. "Find my killer," he pleads. Then the floor disappears underneath them. Kailer falls into the Abyss while Shrough falls down into the Underearth where he is surrounded by horned faces of evil.Shrough wakes to the dawn, sweating.Once asleep, Sarten dreams initially of home and then a vast desert filled with giant scorpions and cackling embermages. The sun turns into ice and the world freezes under a mountain of snow. Ice trolls stalk through a familiar city killing and eating the citizens. At first, he thinks it is Bard's Gate, but eventually he recognizes it as the City of Delights, Huzuz, in Zakhara. Great towers of ice rip up through the ground and a powerful voice commands Sarten to 'freeze forever in darkness little dragon, just like your kin'.Caldrin follows Sarten and his friend to The Felled Ogre to see if they can still get in to the inn. They find a note for them on the door, in an obscure Elvish dialect that Cal can read, telling them 'to go to the stables, if they want to get in for the night'. There, they find the boy named Chadwick sleeping in amongst the horses. The boy has a key for the back door of the inn around his neck. After waking and seeing the note, he leads them to the door, unlocks it, and then locks it again after they've entered."Even I feel like I could sleep," Cal says wearily. "Good night."Vak'tiel dreams of hellfire and angels all fighting for his soul. Cal sees lost loves and the many deaths he's witnessed in his waking dreamstate. Each hero is then confronted by the worst version of the other. The person his friend would have become if they had not met. Both hear disturbing laughter near the end of the dream as they fight against their dark friend-fiend.Caius stays in the stables and find a comfortable place in the loft. His dreams, unlike the others, are quiet.Those events invade Jagr's dreams, and he sees sights of ancient wizards and cunning villains that seek to pry open his mind and learn his secrets. The magical face of Vectēvs appears at the edge of his dream sight, and it sounds like it is whispering his name and the same phrase over and over again, 'Beware the wizard'. As the dream progresses, the whispering increases in volume until the face is screaming at him. 'Jagr, beware the wizard!'Jagr wakes shortly after dawn. Someone is knocking on his door. "Jagr, are you awake yet?" It's Caius.. "I thought I heard, um, growling."_________________________________In Wilie's home, the halfling sleeps fitfully while Borya dreams of his sister, Sonya. He often dreams of her and often they are filled with woe. But this dream is different. She is running through the forests of their homeland. She is screaming Borya's name while blood flows from her eyes. She cannot see where she is going and falls down in the cold snow several times. Borya can hear wolves baying in the distance and somewhere a man's voice laughs at Borya's plight. 'You cannot save her, Borya. She is mine now. And, now, so is Wilie and his kin.' The scene changes to Wilie's home on fire and his halfling cousin and his wife and children hanging from a lamp with their eyes burnt out."Borya!" a little voice yells, then the big man is "oof"-ed awake by a small halfling child sitting on his chest, shaking him. "Get up, unca. It's morn." It is Bitters, Wilie's youngest boy. Papa's making breakfast. Flatcakes and sausage. Yum."Borya can smell the food cooking, which reminds him of the fire in his dream.DM's Note: Taking a bit of a break before adding more to the rebuild. The rebuild likely won't be finished tonight. There is A LOT missing near the end that I will have to completely redo from memory.</blockquote>

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