Night's Embrace: Part 1--A Touch of Darkness

[Rystil Arden]

*Going back to the lefthand path, he continues downward, and the corridor turns and descends before branching in two again.*

 

[Boddynock]

Blunt shrugs and takes the right hand passage.

 

[Rystil Arden]

*Blunt follows the righthand tunnel a bit deeper underground, reaching a small room. There is a bed, a bookshelf with a few books, and a table with papers on it and a pen. Most prominently, in the middle of the floor is some kind of pentagram in glowing red, covered in blood. Tied up in the middle of the pentagram, but still alive, is a beaten young elven woman in tattered clerical vestments.*

 

[Boddynock]

Blunt steps into the room and speaks to the woman.

"Who are you? Are you all right? What has happened to you here?"

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: She appears to be gagged)

 

[Boddynock]

"Is it safe to cross the pentacle? Just nod."

 

[Rystil Arden]

*She is too tied up at the moment to, for instance, shrug, so she reluctantly nods.*

 

[Boddynock]

Blunt picks up on her reluctance and moves instead to examine the books in the bookshelf and the papers on the desk.

 

[Rystil Arden]

*He can't read any of the papers--he can't even make out the alphabets. Then again, he only knows Common, so that isn't saying much. The same goes for the books. At least he can tell that one of the books that is kind of stacked more haphazardly might be in Elven. The tied-up girl looks a bit distraught when he passes her by to start looking at books, though.*

 

[Boddynock]

"It's no good - I can't tell if it's safe or not. Here goes!"

He steps forward to untie the young woman.