RJK'S Cairn of the Skeleton King

[Nephtys]

Maigreth looks down at him sadly, then up again at the dying undead. Macabre as the scene was it was also eerily beautiful. "Perhaps you're right. I hope you are. But that sort of thinking tends to be self-fulfilling. Fear builds upon fear, violence upon violence. If our only answer to evil is to destroy it, then there's nothing that separates us from them. Is it right to kill them merely because they are different? Maybe, in the greater scheme of things, it is. But then they are equally justified in killing us."

 

[Kafkonia]

"They are messssengersss," Timrek remarks. "Albeit of a mossst unusssual sssort." He glances at the banner. "Perhapsss their unressst isss related to the ssstrange goingssss on we have witnesssssed -- and perhapsss thisss isss a clue."

 

[ethandrew]

"But then they are equally justified in killing us."

"At least from my own personal experience, these beasts need no justification to slaughter innocent. These here few have been instructed not to harm us, for whatever reason I am unsure. But they could just as easily been told to rip us to pieces, and there would be no hesitation on their part.

"However, I still reiterate that we should leave this place as quickly as possible. I like it not. Messengers they may be, but their purpose has been served. Their message is clear, even to me: whoever's banner this is wishes to discourse with us, whatever dealings they might have is uncertain, but we have learned all we can in this place."

Rupert looks over at Anton and winks, "Just wait until I have a few drinks in me!"

 

[Nephtys]

ooc: Does the skeleton warrior still hold the banner, is it consumed by the flames or somewhere on the ground?

"True, nothing remains for us here."
Maigreth takes a last look around, snatching up the banner if it's within her reach, and turns to leave.

 

[zoons]

Zanax swoops to the ground and returns to human form.

"This only accounts for one of our prisoners and doesn't explain the decapitation of our Paladin friend and companion. Our payoff surely spent, I would not like to return empty handed without having so much as looked for our second escapee. These un-natural abhorant messangers aside, we may find ourselves in shackles or worse without a better explanation for why we return without our prisoners or a reasonable explanation."

Moja chuffs looks in the direction that the first prisoner came from.

"Yes, perhaps we should investigate in that direction, before turning tail?"

 

[DM_Matt]

For some reason, no one finds it unusual that a broad-shouldered, nearly eight foot tall, bald man with chisled features, wearing plate mail and an oversized spiked chain, is standing around the front of the group, instead of the petite professor. In fact, it like he's always been there.

He says, in a gravelly voice, "Hmmm, the bony men aren't moving. They not so observant."

"Yes, perhaps we should investigate in that direction, before turning tail?"

"Yes. Maybe more bony men thataway. Who here good with tracks?"

 

[Le Noir Faineant]

The scenery before you remains the same.

Within the fog, you see the undead burning...

The banner was given to Titus, who holds it in his hand.

(Noone coming to aid him?!)

The darkness around you seems to grow as you are talking... Wasn't it about noon only a few minutes ago? - Now you can see the moon and the stars...

 

[Vertexx69]

Regaining his feet from the brief shock, Battlehammer glances at the wall of flame consuming the undead with slight fascination, but the talk of simpathy turns his expression sour as Titus' attention shifts back to the party. "Your sympathy is misplaced comrades. These ...things time has passed. They only exist through distastful magics and are only fit to be crushed back into the dust from whence they came." Keeping an eye on the horde, Titus steps back to the party and examines the banner that is mysteriously back in his hand (since he distinctly remembers tossing it back to the party before he addressed the courier) hoping to gleen some sort of purpose to the strange course this day had suddenly taken."This sigil has seen better days, but if the former bearer is any sign, some long dead kingdom has awakened from it's eternal slumber with a design on the wildlands."

 

[zoons]

"Keep the sigil for now. Perhaps we'll find someone who knows more of it during our search for our other escapee. Now, what shall we do? Darkness encroaches even as the fire burns brighter, and the day stretches to high sun. I admit, I am at a loss to explain it."

 

[kinem]

"Not all undead are evil, and I suspect these are not, for they have not only not attacked, except for whatever they did to Titus but they didn't follow up on that - but they have attempted to communicate. They might be not the cause of the frost but other victims of whatever is.

Be that as it may, for some unknown reason, this place has become a focus for strange magic. I think that as soon as the fire subsides, and assuming the undead don't approach again, we should get the hell out of here" Anton says.