OotS 841 is up

[Dioltach]

Giant In the Playground Games

 

[prosfilaes]

Someone got here not too long before them, apparently.

 

[Argyle King]

What's the deal with the arcane markings on the walls and all of the dead people?

 

[Aran Thule]

Just goes to show that chips and cabbage do not make a healthy meal.

 

[Dioltach]

Someone got here not too long before them, apparently.

But long enough for the place to be swarming with vermin.

 

[Nyeshet]

Or it could be an epic level illusion.

 

[Kaodi]

Are those markings not supposed to be dragon tattoos? I think all of those people are members of the Draketooth clan; look at the hair.

And I would not be surprised if those bugs are all scarabs...

 

[Henry]

Yowza.

Even with stick figures, it looks creepy.

 

[SnowleopardVK]

That's not encouraging...

Hopefully it's an illusion.

 

[Celebrim]

That's not encouraging...

Hopefully it's an illusion.

Yeah. Because really, only Xykon (of known NPC's) is powerful enough to kill that many people before they can even react.

If it is an illusion, then the question becomes, what is Drake trying to accomplish? How does this throw would be gate finders off the scent? You could do this with a treasure that was mobile, the whole, "Some one has already come and taken what you were looking for!", shtick, but it doesn't really work with the gate. I suppose you could be trying to lure foes into a false sense of confidence, but right now I'd be thinking, "Oh crap, something is here that killed off an Epic level illusionist's family. We need to be extra careful now!" If you were going the 'false sense of confidence' route, you'd have an illusion of skeletons, not recent corpses.

So, right now I think we have to operate under the assumption 'Xykon was here.'