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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snipehunt" data-source="post: 1114715" data-attributes="member: 13142">Horatio and OsricHoratio finishes a last lullabye for the children in the nursery.  Kord's Temple takes in many orphans, strays, and runaways, but few of these wards are younger than five.  Kord's followers are a hardy and sometimes rough lot; although kind and caring, are not well suited for the very young.  Horatio always makes sure to spare some extra time for these little ones.Osric watches from the doorway, wiping off the sweat of a long workout.  The full plate protects him, but also prevents him from scratching the itches left by the sweat dripping down his back.  He backs into the doorframe, rubbing his back on the armor while hoping the doorframe will hold the armor in place.A glass window crashes in, tinkling shards of glass spreading over the floor.  The children start to wail as a dark, dank mist flows in the broken window.  A pale arm reaches in, then stretches to reach in further, becoming preternaturally long.  It grabs a screaming infant from a cradle, and stretches back out as mist blankets the room.The two brothers suddenly realize that a faint female voice started rattling through their skulls with the breaking of a window, a strange voice calling - Ah, a perfect strong the Sisters will be babe pleased the Three Sisters maybe I should ask hear that screaming voice just a little for a Dripping Rod stretch just a little more to reach thank the Sisters for the Dark Powers for almost hah! and out -that ends with the slamming of a door on the street outside, followed by the clopping of horses and the clattering of carriage wheels.Without a word, both brothers run into the mist-shrouded room and jump out the broken window.  Horatio drops the ten feet down without care, but Osric's heavy armor causes him to land hard on his left leg.  He rolls to the side, his armor taking the brunt of the fall.Through the mist, they can barely make out four dark horses dragging a black coach down the street.  The brothers run after it, the dark mist seeming to clutch at them and slow them down.  The chase it through the quickly-darkening streets of Greyhawk, barely noticing that the buildings surrounding them have subtly altered are slowly disappearing.  "Horatio, don't leave me behind!" Osric calls out.  Horatio notices that he has begun to distance himself from his heavily-armored brother.  He halts for a second, watching the coach disappear in the mist ahead of him, when he sees it turn sharply right at full speed, tipping dangerously as it turned.  Suddenly, a pair of horsemen appear out of the mist behind the coach.  A long whip tears through the mist from the front of the coach, initially missing the lead horse, then striking the horse as the whip recoiled.  The horse reared, and only a masterful display of horsemanship kept the rider in his seat.  The horseman slow as the coach quickly pulls away.As the mist slowly dissapated, Horatio and Osric see that htey are walking on a small dirt road through a dense forest.  The road joins a large gravel-covered road running North-South.  The two horseman, a man and a woman, are talking in low tones . . .</blockquote>

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