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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Systole" data-source="post: 6300873" data-attributes="member: 93930">Gemma shadows Eanos and Heinrich as the pick their way around the island.  Tyrien keeps a watch from the boat, bow at the ready.As he picks his way along the dead coral, Eanos steps on something that crunches, and looking down, he finds he's put his boot down on a sea-snail.  Actually, its shell is colored dark blue, like most of the small periwinkles that spend their time on rocks at tide level.  This can't be one of those, however, since periwinkles are about the size of a fingernail, and this was almost the size of a man's fist.  As he looks down, the foul, rotting odor of the creature wafts up and Eanos' stomach turns over for about the tenth time today.  Looking around, both Heinrich and Eanos realize that there are more of the creatures, and they're indeed periwinkles but they're periwinkles which have been bloated and sickened by the residue of some whatever foul magic clings to this place. In the lagoon, there's another burst of small bubbles ... no, two ... no, three more bursts of bubbles.  They're concentrated in the southern half of the lagoon, now.Moving southwards even more carefully now, Eanos and Heinrich reach the arcane marks cut into the coral.  Not surprisingly -- and probably, just as they feared -- the circle is some sort of necromantic invocation.  Blasphemous runes spiral into a circle for raising and containing a dead soul, but the circle is blasted and empty, having served its purpose.[sblock=Heinrich]The runes for this invocation seem overly complex, somehow.  Or maybe ... incomplete?  Yes, complex and incomplete -- deliberately incomplete, in fact.  The invocation for wholeness of body is rather ordinary, but the invocation for wholeness of memory seems to be missing a key rune.  Whatever or whoever was raised here came back without a piece of its memory.  Unfortunately, the whole invocation was tailored to the resurrection of a specific individual, and without an extensive knowledge of that individual, Heinrich can't know exactly what the necromancer wanted the raised undead to forget.[/sblock][sblock=OOC]Perception checks for Eanos and Heinrich.  Tyrien, please roll an attack as if for a surprise round.[/sblock][sblock=Map]<img src="http://i1257.photobucket.com/albums/ii513/pnthffr/Atoll_x.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock][sblock=Mutant Periwinkles]<img src="http://www.brueckenkopf-online.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/SM_chaos_snail_1_p_03.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]</blockquote>

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