Metropolis (The World in Waiting) - Chapter One

[Fenris]

"Tell you what Ru, let's all go back to the main group and we can tell you a bit about who you want and you can tell us a little more about who sent you. Shambling corpes are best left accounted for" adds the human.

 

[Festy_Dog]

"So ... hi. I'm Ru. I'm looking for someone name of Ghost Hound? I don't suppose that's any of you?"

The half-orc remained quiet, looking down at the human impassively. In the light of the sunrod the small bits of glass and metal woven into his dreadlocks sparkled strangely against the backdrop of filth and death.

"This place is an abomination, even in the sewers. Normaly they can be quite plesant, as my village can attest to. The one you seek is back with the children, but he is here." Says the little halfling Taran from attop his dire rat mount.

The half-orc returns his weapon to his belt and indicates further back into the tunnel with a jerk of his thumb.

"Tell you what Ru, let's all go back to the main group and we can tell you a bit about who you want and you can tell us a little more about who sent you. Shambling corpes are best left accounted for" adds the human.

With violence not seeming to be an immediate threat, the half-orc takes a moment and hefts up the ettin heads, and ties each head to the other with their hair. He hangs them over his shoulder and waits for the others to head back to the main group, keeping his darkness-friendly eyes watchful as he guards the rear.

 

[jkason]

OOC:[sblock]FYI, Hurricane Wilma's supposed to make landfall in the vicinity sometime in the early AM tomorrow. Depending on what it does, internet access may be spotty. So if Ru seems really quiet for a day or so, that's why. [/sblock]

Ru nods his head to the advance party. "Sounds like a plan," he says, following them back. He suppresses a shudder as the orc ties two monstrous heads together like they're just a couple baubles. Trying to distract himself from just what might have been attached to those heads, he quips, "So, do any of you have names, or is it just 'Ghost Hound and his nameless band' down here in the tunnels?"

 

[Fenris]

OOC:[sblock]FYI, Hurricane Wilma's supposed to make landfall in the vicinity sometime in the early AM tomorrow. Depending on what it does, internet access may be spotty. So if Ru seems really quiet for a day or so, that's why. [/sblock]

Ru nods his head to the advance party. "Sounds like a plan," he says, following them back. He suppresses a shudder as the orc ties two monstrous heads together like they're just a couple baubles. Trying to distract himself from just what might have been attached to those heads, he quips, "So, do any of you have names, or is it just 'Ghost Hound and his nameless band' down here in the tunnels?"

"Yeah, that works for me." replies the human

OOC:[sblock] [[/sblock]

 

[Bront]

"I am Taran." replies the halfling. "And once the children are safe, we can deal with any other business, but their safety is of the utmost importance."

 

[jkason]

"I am Taran." replies the halfling. "And once the children are safe, we can deal with any other business, but their safety is of the utmost importance."

Ru raises an eyebrow. "Guess that article in the Herald was right, then. Someone was really swiping children and bringing them to ... this place?"

 

[Fenris]

Ru raises an eyebrow. "Guess that article in the Herald was right, then. Someone was really swiping children and bringing them to ... this place?"

"Friend, nothing in that article could ever encompass what is really going on down here. Taran is right, the sooner we get the kids topside and in the sunlight the better all of this will be. But it won't be over, no not by a long shot." says the member of Ghost's nameless band.

 

[jkason]

Ru's face darkens. "Is it down here, too, then? The dead who won't die?"

 

[Bront]

Ru's face darkens. "Is it down here, too, then? The dead who won't die?"

"As are those who's souls have been stolen from them," Taran says. "Master Vulgarth will want to see that the children are well, and my village is not far. If the others found anything, perhaps he can restore the soul of poor Stephanie."

 

[Fenris]

Ru's face darkens. "Is it down here, too, then? The dead who won't die?"

"Yes, that and worse. But what do you know of the dead that won't die? And what of these shambling corpses you spoke of?" asks the human of the group.