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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Selm" data-source="post: 85603" data-attributes="member: 1592">Episode 6-1Episode SIX - NEVER EVER left anyone behind - Part 1(It can always turn worse.)- Godsday 18th Planting, 23h30 -We are back with Diane when she is approaching the moathouse, this isa night of new-moon  and Diane uses a torch to light her way towardsthe old fortress. She cautiously enters the courtyard, no sound, nolight, it really seems quiet. She hasn't seen anything around, but only the stars light the area andthe fog is deep in the swamp at night, it's hard to see anything atall. In the courtyard, there isn't any sign of Lywen. Diane go roundthe courtyard, using a lantern to light the rooms into the partiallycollapsed building trough the arrow-slits. She isn't moresuccessfull. Then she decides to enter the building and starts withthe old tower near the entry, where she hides from the dragon somedays before. It is when she enters the room that she sees a form lyingon  the ground. She silently aproaches the man, as you could expect,it is Lywen. Diane unsheats her rapier and wakes Lywen by putting itunder his neck. "If I were an ennemy, you would be dead right now." says Diane to Lywen."If you were an ennemy I would never have allowed you to come so far..." responds Lywen with a smile shared by Diane. After a small discussion, they decide to go back to Hommlet. Dianesgoes out of the small tower ... and is hurt by a small crossbowbolt. She immediatly feel a strong poison going trough her veins andcan't overcome the paralysis power. Lywen, surprised, reacts quickly, he casts an invisibilityspell. Seconds pass, there isn't any sound to hear or anyone tosee. Lywen keeps his position invisible behind the paralysedDiane. One minute after, Dianes falls to the groundunconscious. Another minute passes, Lywen decides to flee. He goes outof the tower, runnind towards the broken entry door anddrawbridge. But if there is a thing Lywen does not do well it ismoving silently , especially when he is running as fast at thisnight. A thrown dagger stabs him right between his shoulders, with anextraordinary accuracy. He is no more able than Diane to overcome thepoison and after a minute of paralysation, he losts consciousness. It is now near 1AM, and we have lost Diane and Lywen ...-- Later, somewhere in a dark room --Lywen wakes up, he is in a pitch black room, his hands bounded behindhis back and linked to a ring in a stone wall and his feet also tiedup. Making some noise, he hears the voice of Diane near him, she isalso bounded to the wall. A strong odor floats trought the room, it seems to be an exotic essence.They do not wait long before the sound of a door and footsteps tellsthem that someone is approaching them. The voice of a man, stronglyshaped by elvish accent, asks them who they are and what they dothere? They do not respond clearly or say only weird things. The manseems to nearly enjoy the fakes, he doen't seem to be in a hurry andis finally satisfied when Diane says him that if he wants to learnanything about them he only has to go to Hommlet and asks hisquestions there. Still in total darkness, they hear the sound of his footsteps moving away.After two minutes, Lywena and Diane start to speak more frealy, hopingthat the man is really gone ... having nothing better to do, they tryto free themselves from their bounds ... -- The Others, Waterday 19th Planting, 8AM --Gandigoot wakes up, he immediately searches for Lywen and Diane. Theyare nowhere to be found and Lywen's horse is alone in the Inncourtyard peacefully eating grass (the wizard released it yesterdaynight to prevent it from beeing an easy warning signal for anynewcomer to the moathouse). As you could imagine, this is not good toreassure our gnome. Ezekiel and Killasha are not at the Inn, they went to the smithy toget some help for their quite worn and badly beaten armors. RousningFox is somewhere practicing his mratial artist skills. Gandigoot isonly able to find the young half-elf (and can have the joy to wakes upher today, revenge for yesterday <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ). He speaks with her about hisfears for their friends, Alahija understands but does not seems asafraid as the gnome. Gandigoot goes to the keep to see Rufus, he finds him in the firstcourtyard of the keep. They speaks about his fears, Rufus also tellshim that yesterday night, a strnage woman was at Terrigan's tavern,asking questions about "The heroes braving the dangers of the oldmoathouse". As Dianes express some worries about such strange factsyesterday, he tells the gnome to say that to her when he findsher. The woman was noticed especially becuase her skin is pearly whiteand her hairs blood red, she was also speaking with a clearly foreignaccent but Terrigan (who is a member of the town milicia) was unableto identify her origin. During this time, Alahija goes to the potion's shop, she wants to seeSpugnoir. Hopefully he is not yet departed for another reckless tripand she is able to find himat the shop. He gives her the items she letthere yesterday for identification, there is some minor arms andarmor, nothing exceptional but it will come handy. He only takes halfthe price as they saved him from the dangers of the evil priests (andhis daughter really lectured him for his foolishness <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ). It is mid-morning at the Inn of the Welcome Wench, Gandigoot entersthe main room and finds all his friends (less Diane and Lywen) waitingfor him at a table. They quickly discuss of their options and decideto go to the moathouse to find their friends immediately. -- Same time, somewhere in a now well known dark room --It is now several hours after their first discussion with theelf. Lywen quickly abandonned his tries on his bounds, Diane was moretenacious but not more successfull. They had some hard sleep, a bunchof hours bounded to the wall in a cold cell. And the sound of footsteps is once again heard in the next room, thedoor is opened and people enters the room, still unlit. They are twothis time, or it is what Diane heard from the footsteps. The elf once again asks them what they are doing there and who theyserve, they do not want to respond. A woman voice, with strong suloiseaccent (as Diane speaks old suloise she immediately identified it),says to the elf that do not have more time for these underlings, moreimportant matters must have their attention. The elf seems spoiled ofsome fun but accepts. He approaches Diane and Lywen and uses poison to make them unconscious. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" />... soon ...-----------------------------------------------------------Episode SIX - NEVER EVER left anyone behind - Part 2(It can always turn worse, even now.) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" /></blockquote>

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