Kulan: Knightfall's Heroes of Carnell Game [IC]

"Hold on friends" Lorien says and kneels beside the body. "The mission was to find a key... As much I hate to dishonor the body, the key was the priority." He starts going through the body, checking pockets, possible chains around the lord's neck, pouches etc...
 

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"Emm, Yes. That." Quinn lowers his end of the body to the floor to help facilitate the search for the Key.
 

Aureus looks on as the the others begin wrapping the body. What about the key? she thinks. Just as she's about to say something to Phar, the elf named Lorien says something in the common tongue of Harqual.

Blackrat said:
"Hold on friends" Lorien says and kneels beside the body. "The mission was to find a key... As much I hate to dishonor the body, the key was the priority." He starts going through the body, checking pockets, possible chains around the lord's neck, pouches etc...
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She wished she could understand what he was saying, but she understands his actions clearly. She helps the bard look for the missing key.

Scott DeWar said:
"Emm, Yes. That." Quinn lowers his end of the body to the floor to help facilitate the search for the Key.
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Quinn helps Lorien and Aureus as best he can.

Lord Pendour's corpse is in rough shape. The body is waterlogged and putrid. There is no armor, but there is the padding that would have gone under it. The helm is there, however, and stuck tight around the head. The dead man's boots are still there, as is the scabbard that once held Cruel Justice. The rest of the corpse's clothing is in tatters.

The few pockets that are still whole are empty. There is no sign of a coin pouch, and there isn't a chain around his neck. With Lorien's help, Aureus manages to get the boots off the body. The smell from inside them is terrible. Aureus grabs her sensitive nose and tries not to sneeze. She holds them out for the others.

Quinn finds nothing inside them but a bad odor that reminds him of the death pit back home. The big fighter tries in vain to get the helmet off the corpse. It won't budge, and he almost tears the dead man's head off instead. Bones in the neck crack and skin stretches. A harmless but disgusting bug crawls out from under the man's under padding.

Aureus goes over the body one more time and then looks at Lorien. She shakes her head in failure.

OOC: Aureus' Search check > 1d20+13=23
 



Out Of Character
DM.s Note: At this point the PCs have just recovered the body of Lord Pendour and realized that they need to find the key. The following post by JustiinCase looks to be the first post after that...

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In Character
Holding out the magical sword at chest height, Caerth addresses the blade in a deliberate voice, "Cruel Justice, do you know where the key is that this dead man once carried?"
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OOC: This post was on p. 66 of the Google Cache. After this, I have 11 more pages saved from the cache. The next page, p. 67 is missing.

(It seems I forgot that it was Caerth who supposed to be carrying Cruel Justice, not Aureus.)
 
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Originally Posted by JustinCase
Holding out the magical sword at chest height, Caerth addresses the blade in a deliberate voice, "Cruel Justice, do you know where the key is that this dead man once carried?"
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"Open your minds I will show you the fallen lord's death once more," the sword speaks in its disembodied voice.

All but Aureus (who cannot understand the sword's words) are quickly shown a scene in their mind's eye. They once again see the death of Lord Pendour as he is overwhelmed by the rooks as he fights bravely against them on the parapets of the tower. As he falls, Cruel Justice falls from the man's hands and lands precariously on the edge of the tower.

The sword bares witness to the rooks defiling the body of the fallen lord, as they strip him of his valuables including a large key on a simple chain. The chain is taken while the key is tossed down on the flagstones of the signal tower. The rooks pay it no mind but a large rat skitters out of a dark alcove and steals the key away. The rooks caw at it and the rat runs away down the stairs back pass the look-out.

After that, Cruel Justice is knocked from the tower to fall where the group found it.

The vision ends as quickly as it begins. Aureus stares at them all with a curious expression on her face.
 

Originally Posted by Knightfall
The rooks caw at it and the rat runs away down the stairs back pass the look-out.
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"The rat took it that way, then" Quinn points toward the lookout as he saw in the vision. "That is simple so far. now we find the rat and get it to give us the key. Easy, right?"

There is no sarcasm in his expression, but his voice is dripping with it.
 
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Lorien pinches the bridge of his nose. He was developing a nasty headache. The detection spells he had cast earlier and the visions were starting to strain his eyes.

"Simple, yes..." He mumbles to Quinn. "Let's find us a rat's nest then..." He sighs.

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Quinn: *S*I*G*H*
 
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Here's the gap...

DM's Note: These two post were from this missing page, but were saved by my need to quote everything as part of my replies. The scene here is in the Main Hall of the tower where the PCs came across a large fireplace and are attacked by a single rook hiding in the fireplace's chimney. The two summoned celestial dire badgers led the PCs to this point. Here is the descriptive text for the hall from the module.

Ruined double bunks line the walls and floor, enough to have slept 50 people when they were still intact. To one side stands an open doorway that has been blocked by an overturned table and two wooden benches. To the other side is a huge open fireplace, cold at the moment. The floor is strewn with moor grass, heather, and herbs such as thyme and rosemary. A mound of this material has been gathered up in the fireplace, as if for kindling. Ahead, something white dangles from the dark opening in the wall.
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Knowing that there are still rooks who are living, Quinn remains vigilant on any upper reaches in case there is another attack.

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Phar follows the badgers eagerly. He follows their interaction with the sword with interest and plunges headlong after them headless of the threat of foes as he moves toward the goal. Once their interests diverge he decides to follow the bold badger to the fireplace. He takes out a small mirror and slides it into the fireplace with his staff trying to see up the shaft. He motions for Aureus to stick with the other badger. "We may need the sword for light here."
 

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