(RP) Dangerous Legacy

[hafrogman]

Liam backtracks down his hallway to rejoin with Sel and inform him of the noises heard from the archway. As he follows Sel down the other corridor and hears the shuffling again, he ponders just how many of these things there are.

 

[Knight Otu]

As he gets the feeling that approaching may be too dangerous, Sel retreats likewise and shares his findings.
"Whatever they are, we probably can't do much about it." Sel whispers "But what if they are between us and our goal?"

 

[hafrogman]

Liam scratches at his chin and shrugs.

"Then we try and find a way around them, or try and guess the password. Either way, we should make sure we've explored our other options before we go wandering into a horde of the walking dead."

 

[Knight Otu]

"Which means downstairs." Sel nods. "Let's go."

 

[hafrogman]

Liam nods his agreement.

"Indeed."

He joins Sel as they return to the doorway and staircase. He peers into the darkness, thanking whatever vagaries of his blood that allow him to penetrate these depths, and begins down the stairs.

 

[Vendetta]

The group begins to carefully descend the stairs. Dark flagstone makes up the steps themselves, with molds and other smallish types of algae and growth coming up between the cracks and seams like grout. The steps get steadily more slick as the group travels down and the amount of moisture increases. Strangely though, the temperature seems to increase by a degree or two rather than getting colder as one might think. There is no clue for you as to how far the stairs might go as the old stone stairs twist and turn everywhich way like a snake trail. "Nae should be much more now," Krueger says in a hushed sort of yell that only a dwarf can effectivly pull off, "we now well below tha floor above us." Dwarves have an uncanny ability to "know" where they are underground that other races just don't understand. With that said, you turn the next corner and see, some 20 feet in front of you, the stairs finally end and open into a hallway. At the end of that hallway is what appears to be an open doorway, perhaps with the door actually removed. You are facing east (according to Krueger) and the doorway turns to the south.

Unable to see much at all inside the room, simply because your sight line is broken by the walls themselves, you do make out that the wall you can see seems to have some kind of large bookcase or some such thing on it, noting that the stone of the "bookcase" is much, much different (being what appears to be solid slabs of stone) than the stacked stone making up the walls around you.

You step up to the room and peer in. The room before you appears to be a catacomb. The walls all the way around the room are covered from floor to ceiling with, not bookcases, but sarcophaguses. Some are broken open revealing the bones of the long dead. Many are clothed in what appears to be very fine clothing, and more than a few are wearing different kinds of armor. In the middle of the rooms, more sarcophaguses are stacked on top of each other forming a kind of a wall despite the lack of the actual earthwork. Each of the sarcophaguses open from the side, rather than the traditional removable top slab, mostly likely for this exact system of storage once used so very long ago.

You see only one other exit as you step into the room.

 

[Knight Otu]

Sel sadly looks at the broken graves. "I wish we had the time to mend the damage here. May this be why the dead are restless?"

 

[Vendetta]

"Who knows the wishes of the dead?" Jaeden replies, rhetorically, and in such a way that he sounds like he may be agreeing with the Elf.

"Et be down right unseemly, aye!" Krueger puts in, disgusted by the apparent looting of the graves. "Oberon wilt see 'em pay in'a next werld."

"Do the dead really get mad about that sort of thing? I mean, how would they know?" Gemble stutters.

 

[hafrogman]

Liam shakes his head slightly.

"I am more inclined to believe that the dead stir at Belhander's will. Perhaps this is where he found his army, but they could simply be more guardians. Be watchful for signs of unlife as we pass through."

So saying, he starts into the room, keeping an eye out for any stirring amongst the bodies.

 

[Vendetta]

As Liam strides forward, exactly as he had said, one of the bodies stirs to to unlife and flops out of the coffin onto the floor. Hate is seen in its fiery eyes as it turns its head and focuses on Liam.