Planescape - Dead God Rising

[Nalfeshnee]

'Fool! Do not mock the Lord Tenebrous? May the power of my deity strike you down!'

The man leaps to his feet, and speaks dark words, invoking some dread power that strikes at Noch out of nowhere in the form of a bolt of darkness.

OOC: Noch make a will save. That would be the surprise action in the round. Since no one stated that they were being extra-peery no one else acts.

This should continue in the combat thread though ill post end of round round-ups here if the combat should last that long (i doubt it )

 

[Nalfeshnee]

Vhai'ik gets to his feet and blasts Nohc with dark energies, though his resistance is short-lived. Nuan and Noch, quickly followed by Kyran, Jema and Tyrjon's killing blow, bring his offence to a swift end.

The mans lifeless body lies on the ground, a slowly growing pool of blood beneath him. The room is silent but for the distant dripping of water and the sobbing of the prisoners.

Rubious moves towards the man's body and raises a hand to the man's forhead as though about to bless it. He hesiatates for a moment, then retreats the hand, turning the mans' body over instead. He searches through the mans' pockets and clothing, lookingfor anything that could be of help. A while later, he produces a pendant bearing the stylised skull-on-purple-background emblem of the Dustmen. He turns to the rest of you, his face grave. This could mean two things. Either this man is a Dustman or he is posing as one.'

Rubious rips the item off the mans' neck, shaking bhis head slowly. 'Let us hope this Mistress Keiria's sake that the rest of his posse do not bear the same symbol.'

'Did any of you understand what the man was saying?'

 

[Thanee]

Llyra

“Do you mean the words or their meaning,” Llyra says with a slightly sheepish grin. It's not really a question.

 

[Nalfeshnee]

Rubious
'Both, I reckon. First i though his bonebox was rattling gibberish... but some of what he said The Red Prison... maybe there was something to it.'

 

[Raylis]

Jema

Jema closes her eyes willing away the flames surrounding her hands and feet. She reaches out and touches Rubious' arm, "Kieira has a connection to the Dustmen. What is it."

 

[Nalfeshnee]

Rubious
'It would seem that way, yes. Though the name is not familiar. The dark of all this is only beginning to come to light. We... I must ask the Hig-ups when I return to the Mortuary. I may even need to go to the Fortress of True Death in the Negative Plane and speak with Oridi*'

[sblock=*]as the acting Factol of the Dustmen it is relatively common knowledge who Oridi is.[/sblock]

 

[Deuce Traveler]

Noch looks at his torn clothes and bleeding wounds in angry disgust. He takes a moment to walk to his attacker's corpse and spit on it.

He then tells Rubious in the most words he's used all day, "Tenebrous be Orcus. Tenebrous dead." He then makes a sign to show that the man was barmy.

 

[Nalfeshnee]

Rubious regards the words carefully and nods slowly, 'Some people do not know when one life ends and another begins. they just... carry on like mindless corpses thinking everything is the way it once was. Vhia'ik's belief in Tenebrous must have been greater than the gods' strength and it lingered past its destruction.'

'He has found peace now in True Death; may it be kinder to him than this life'

 

[Deuce Traveler]

Noch the Shadowswyft

Noch thinks on Rubious' words for a moment, shrugs and spits on the body again.

 

[Dire Lemming]

Kyran closes his eyes and takes several deep breaths as his emotions threaten to spill over. At times like this the sheer absurdity of his situation was almost more than he could handle. Still, losing it wasn't an option. He puts away his weapon and sets about trying to calm the prisoners. "My name is Kyran." he says, pointing to himself. "Everything is going to be alright." Noticing that they are looking rather emaciated he takes a ration from his pack and splits it between them it's not much but it'll take the edge off their hunger.

Diplomacy check for prisoners