Ptolus: The Legend of Longcoat

[Trollbabe]

"In some stories, severing the head from the body is an effective means of preventing the dead from rising. I fear, though, I am too weak at the moment to do this task. Burning the body might be suggested as well."

Garnet moves to his pack and opens it. Reaching in he draws out 3 pints of lantern oil. The young man then returns to the corpse of Longcoat. Once Ada has finished pummeling the corpse he begins to soak it in oil. "A bit of flame is all we need now... my flint should be in my pack." Moves to get the flint and steel.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

Vanden hands Garnet his tindertwig. "Perhaps this will do?"

 

[Erekose13]

Maugra leaves the gruesome task of dealing with Longcoat's body to the others and tries her best to ignore the accoutrements of the room while patching up Garn.

 

[Trollbabe]

Vanden hands Garnet his tindertwig. "Perhaps this will do?"

"That will do it... Thanks Van." closes his eyes for a moment to remember his mother then sparks the tindertwig and lights the oil soaked body aflame!.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

As Longcoat's coat and body burst into greasy black flame, Maugra staunches Garn's bleeding with sodden fabric.

 

[Voadam]

Garn's blood leaks out of his neck at a less alarming rate.

 

[Trollbabe]

"Shall we leave this cursed place? I really don't like being here." He watches the smouldering body.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

Gathering his strength, and leaning on the absconded scythe, Vanden nods at Garnet's suggestion. "I want to look in at the pentagram in the fountain room. Perhaps something about it has changed- I have a suspicion it is a key to this whole chain of events."

He will make his way back into the fountain room after seeing that everyone else is okay.

 

[Erekose13]

Maugra stays with Garn to make sure the bleeding has stopped. If no one goes with Vanden, Maugra will suggest it, "Don't leave him alone, I need to know if anyone else has fallen."

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

As the corpse of Longcoat goes up in flames, a ripple seems to move through the room, invisible and inaudible, but felt in the bones. Everyone present -- even the unconscious Garn -- feels a weight lift off their shoulders. This room is cursed by the blood shed here, and will likely be a dark stain in the Dungeon beneath Ptolus for years or decadees to come, but today, the threat of Longcoat has ended and the Docks are safe.

[sblock=XP!]For killing Longcoat and ending his threat, there's the XP reward and a bonus amount: Everyone gets 350 XP.

I can't help but notice that no one's keeping track of XP, though ...[/sblock]