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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dantardis" data-source="post: 3824034" data-attributes="member: 46174">Some time later the group received a message from Lavinia asking them to return to House Vanderboren.  She told them that she was worried about her brother, Vanthus who had been missing for some time.  Vanthus had changed in the time he had been away from Sasserine, becoming bitter and twisted in nature.  Lavinia believd that Vanthus had fallen in with a crowd of smugglers and theives, and was believed to have a lover called Brissa Santos who lived in the Azure District of the city.  Eventually Aust managed to discover that Vanthus did tend to stay in the Azure District.  Whilst in the district a shady figure  who introduced himself as Shefton Rosk informed Aust that Vanthus tened to hide out on Parrot Island in the area where there were some smuggler tunnels.  Shefton went on to relate that Vanthus regularly hired a boat from a company called "It Still Floats" to row across to Parrot Island.   Hiring a large raft the group sailed across the bay to the island, which appeared deserted.  As they landed the raft they were surprised by a group of sand coloured crabs, one being large in size and two that were medium in size.  Fortunately Seti's snake managed to attack one of the medium crabs but only did some minor damage.  Erin tried to hit the large crab but missed.  In retaliation the medium crab hit Erin.  On the other side of the raft the large crab hit Morning and grappled her, doing some considerable damage.  Seki's snake managed to poison one of the medium crabs, weakening it.  Nimo, who was still in the raft, whispered some arcane words and a spray of various colours hit the large crab, but the crab appeared to resist the effects.  The large crab, meanwhile managed to strike Seti's snake and killed it.  Morning changed her aura to one which produced flame, doing damage to the large crab whilst it was holding her, effectively roasting the large crab as it held her.  The final medium sized crab  was killed by a mighty blow from Seki.   Shefton led the group across the island to a large trapdoor with a twisted rope hanging down from it, which Shefton stated led down into the smuggler's tunnels below.  The group clambered down the rope, taking Shefton down with them.  As Aust, who was at the back of the group reached the bottom, he saw a bearded face appear by the trapdoor, whom he recognised as Vanthus.   "Goodbye fools", shouted Vanthus, slamming the trapdoor down.  A few seconds later Aust heard the sound of boulders being rolled across the opening, trapping the group inside.  From within Grey and the others could hear a shuffling noise.  Moving through the tunnels, the group eventually came to a door, which seemed to be the source of the shuffling noise.  Grey readied a shot as Nimo opened the door.  The room that was revealed showed a hulking group of dead figures that moved toward the group.  Aust quickly turned on his turning effect and the dead figures cowered away and moved towards the end of the room.  A tenth figure who seemed slightly different to the rest, was also turned and cowered in the room.  Through a combination of slashing weapons and positive energy attacks the group quickly destroyed the undead.    In one of the rooms they discovered a chest full of treasure and a dead body who appeared to be carrying a note, which was written in blood and read as follows, "These bones once be Penkus, so if ye read this, I be dead, laid low by the sick put on me by that foul dead thing!  Yet even as me flesh wracks, know t'was not the dead what brought my doom, but one I 'til recently called friend!  Vanthus Vanderboren!  Your name fills me with bile!  Spineless, treacherous cur!  You left us here to die.  You left ME here to die, after all what I done t'get ye into th'Lotus!  Yer designs on the Lady of the Lotus be clear now, and with meself out th'way...ye doubtless move even now into power, slithering amid my vacancy like a hermit crab in a shell, or a cadaver worm to still-warm flesh.  CURSE UPON YE!  To th'one what reads this.  If ye have any honor or vengeance in yer soul, know that Vanthus must die.  He dwells in the lap o' th'Lotus, below th'Taxidermist's Hall.  Seek him there, but 'fore he dies he must ken it were Penkus what undid him and guides yer killing blow.  And if, by some cruel spite of fate, it be ye what reads this, Vanthus, know with certainty I wait for ye in Hell, where I intend t'rival the pit itself in yer torment."</blockquote>

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