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Message: <blockquote data-quote="crazy_monkey1956" data-source="post: 4146219" data-attributes="member: 49514">The Afflicted DragonShraezek ponders Alaric's question for a moment, "Shraezek is not knowing about silver guards.  Maybe if human tells Shraezek what the silver is guarding?  Undeads, though..."  The dragon shudders a bit, "Shraezek's sees orc-humans with long blades, leading groups of walking dead things.  They go to attack orcs."Meanwhile, as the others are getting ready to move camp, a voice calls out, "Hail to the camp!"  The voice belongs to the figure Valen noticed scouting about the other camp.  As he enters the firelight, the group notes that he is elven, bow out and nocked, but lowered."I am no enemy, I come seeking...oh my, a centaur!  And a dragon!"The NecropolisWilliam and Estelle had traveled far since leaving Vedlund.  In that time, Estelle's nightmares had gotten steadily worse, preventing the two from forming a bond that perhaps they both desired but did not acknowledge.  Estelle seemed drawn in this direction, walking feverishly toward something with William having all he could do just to follow and keep her safe.Finally, cresting a small rise in the cliffside trail, the pair found themselves looking upon a city of darkness and death, the Necropolis.The city was mobilized for war.  Columns of animated skeletons and zombies, led by half-orcs bearing scythes, marched from the city into the eastern steppes where only orcs were rumored to dwell.Estelle left William behind then.  The answer to her affliction, or perhaps her birthright, lay within those foreboding walls, but she would not permit William to follow.  She made him swear to bring news of the armies of death to their former companions and to Azgund.  Though they didn't threaten Azgund, the fact that they marched could not be a coincidence with what had happened to the companions at the stone quarry.And thus, William was alone.  The journey back the way they had come was long and treacherous and something...a hunch based on the geography of this place...led him to believe that this cliffside path he found himself on might lead to a shortcut.  And to his right, the carved stairs leading down to the Necropolis...and Estelle.</blockquote>

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