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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4512961" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 12 - Revelations and Reckonings (Part 2)Kalarel stalked around the table where the goblin and the elf woman sat nervously. He marked each step with a thump of the skull capped rod he carried on the stone floor and knew that each blow emphasized his anger. The elf noted each thud with a nervous twitch while the goblin paid them little mind. Balgron the Fat was more used to brutal leadership than the fragile elven adventurer who might once have been Kalarel’s enemy.“They must not reach the lower levels,” said the priest at last. “The ritual is not yet complete. They cannot be allowed anywhere near me.”Kalarel surveyed the table and was comforted by the fact that his two servants had their eyes down, gazing at the wooden top of the piece of furniture. If he had betrayed any of his fear in his expressions they had not seen it and his voice, as always, betrayed nothing. The elf looked up warily then and met Kalarel’s gaze.“Then surely there was no need to bring me here,” said Ninaran in a weak, almost pleading, voice. “My place is back in Winterhaven watching our enemies. The adventurers returned yesterday from their journey and may already be plotting their return here.”“I am sure they are,” said Kalarel. “And forgive me, Ninaran, if I presume to decide what your place is. You are to wait until they venture forth once more and then bar their return to the town. You know what needs to be done.”Ninaran nodded, defeated , and the goblin smiled, a lop-sided, gap-filled smile. Balgron the Fat thought for a moment that he had escaped any role in the plan and that the losses he had already suffered in the excavation chamber were all that his warband would lose. Then his brain caught up with what Kalarel had just said about the adventurers venturing forth. He looked up and met the priest’s gaze as the dark haired, long-nosed man watched and waited while the goblin’s mind went through its inevitably slow thought processes. Balgron’s smile vanished as quickly as it appeared as the goblin’s deep set, pig-like eyes met the stern gaze of the priest.“When they come,” Kalarel said slowly. “You are to kill them all.”</blockquote>

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