Ptolus: The Legend of Longcoat

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

With peace and quiet having descended on the room at last, the group is able to look around, and immediately regrets it. Even before the fight, the room is more grisly and horrifying than they'd thought at first glance, but two things jump out at them:

First, there's a long iron-bladed scythe leaning against one corner, its blade reddish with a mix of rust and caked on blood.

Beneath it, a freshly skinned severed head rests on an ironbound chest.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

"I hight Vanden," the eunuch introduces himself, following Maugra's prompt. further reply is cut off as he takes in the carnage of the room. "Gods..." he mutters, as he notices the head for the first time.

[sblock=ooc]Grant, Akilu, or Jossen? Or someone else entirely? Also- does Longcoat appear to be healing yet, or still non-mobile?[/sblock]

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

[sblock=ooc]The head is skinned. It appears to have been human. Akilu's head is still attached to his nearby corpse.

Longcoat is face-down and immobile in a pool of blood.[/sblock]

 

[Trench]

"Ada," she says without looking at the others. She winces as she stands. "And if no one else is going to do it..."

She searches the body.

 

[Trollbabe]

Garnet gags a little and looks to the new comers. "Garnet... thanks for the help." He raises his arm up over his mouth as he looks about the room.

 

[Erekose13]

Far too much for Maugra, she'd void her stomach were there anything left in it. Instead she'll remove the room from her sight and face the corridor, speaking to those inside while facing the opposite direction. "I know you are on to something Vanden, just be careful. I wish I could do more, but I have expended Tuen's power for today. Do either of you have anything that might help our friend, he's a bit too pale for my liking?"

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Searching the body, Ada turns up several grizzly momentos -- she's sorry once she's identified a fleshy blob as an ear -- and a small iron key.

 

[Trench]

Searching the body, Ada turns up several grizzly momentos -- she's sorry once she's identified a fleshy blob as an ear -- and a small iron key.

Ada smiles as she holds up the key to the others. "Here we go," she says. She walks over to the chest and looks at it warily. "This thing isn't going to bite my head off is it? We've had cutlery take shots at us already tonight."

 

[Cthulhudrew]

"I should be careful if I were you," Vanden warns. "Longcoat- or Crofter, or whoever this is- has a tendency to use traps. We had the misfortune of discovering that for ourselves in a room back that way." He waves offhandedly towards the fountain room behind them.

Not seeing anything that seems to tie to the ghost, he calls out softly, "Coraithe Whitetree- are you still with us? Your murderer is at last slain."

 

[Voadam]

Ada smiles as she holds up the key to the others. "Here we go," she says. She walks over to the chest and looks at it warily. "This thing isn't going to bite my head off is it? We've had cutlery take shots at us already tonight."

Garn stomps on Longcoats face with his bootheel. "That's for mom you #$%^." He turns to Ada "Yeah, it could. There was a dart thrower earlier and mist that sucked your blood as we bled, why not a chest that bites. Just use your left hand to open it so you still have your right if it does bite."