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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 4677593" data-attributes="member: 9255">SIBERYS SEVEN 002FAMILY SECRETS SEGMENT 029“Elderich Complex”“Whoa-Ahhh!   I wish I was there to beat on some zombies meself!” hollers out the buzzed dwarf named Hooch.  Hooch is the caretaker of the Elderich clan tunnels and complex.  He is untidy and often smells of strong drink but is friendly and caring.  Generally he is there alone except for the Security Guard- a warforged named Overbite (88).  He is so named due to his enlarged jaw that often is used as a weapon.  He has two pet construct dogs, or Iron Guardians that he trains to aid in his work.  He and his dogs, Lockjaw and K-9 (89) both watch silently as everyone eats and drinks late into the night.Bora has taken it apon herself to outdrink the dwarf.  Her eyes look glassy but she still remains awake.  Aura and Incarnum watch with mixed reactions. Dura is buzzed and snorts through her nose.  Vander stares at his mug deciding if he can drink more or be ill.  Mania is keeping pace with Bora and Hooch but due to his unique nature, the strong drink is not affecting him much. Leeya …. Well she is ….smashed.“An thens Duras drops ‘nto the hole wan’ing a figh with the snakeperson.  SPLOOSH! SPLASH!  Shes all wut’”  Leeya exclaims while interrupting Dura’s retelling of their adventures.  Leeya leans forward to touch Dura arm and instead over balances and falls out of her chair with a series of thuds.  Vander looks down at her and smiles then proceeds to have more drink after all.  It is another five minutes after finishing the tale that Leeya begins to snore loudly from under the table.  Everyone laughs including Vander whom holds his drink close to his chest.“Hooch… is this your private stock drink?” asks Dura.“Yup.”“Ah…. Good.  Cause I’m seeing double after a mere… ,” Dura stops to count the drinks on her fingers, “…four drinks.   I was afraid my tolerance was getting low.”Bora blasts out a belch that pushes her hair away from her face.   Everyone laughs again.“I wish Kim was here.  He needs to let it all out over some drink.   He is …. Caught up with life.” Says Hooch as he tries to stop laughing.Wishing for a serious tone to be established to the late night gathering, Aura changes the subject.  “Where is Kim Elderich?  He seems to never stay anywhere for long.”“Heeeee-yo!   That izz right.   Kim, he a busy dwarf for sure.  Between the Khyber Crawler, Siberys Heir and the Creatio….ahhhh  exploration he is busy.”  Hooch tries to change the subject again.  “Where you guys going next?”“Siberys Heir?   What is that?” Asks Dura as she tries to focus on one of the now three Hooches before her.“Did I say Siberys Heir?  I meant ….something else.  Heeheehee.”  He tries to belch silently then re-asks where the group is going next.“I believe it is time to call it a night Hooch.” Says Overbite.  “The young men and women before us seem to be done in.  He looks at Vander whom seems to have fallen asleep holding his mug to his chest.  A silly smirk on his face.Bora stumbles over to where Leeya collapsed and picks her up easily.  She stumbles towards the rooms set up for them.  “You okay Vander?” asks Mania.   No answer.  “Leave him.  He’ll be alllrighty right there.” Answers Hooch.The women go to their rooms except for Aura whom has her own room.  The others get up to go to their rooms leaving Hooch, Overbite and Incarnum.“You are a most talkative person there Incarson.  Even for a warforaged. Urrmmmm.” Hooch says as he gathers up the mugs left behind.“I find listening to people I learn more than talking to them.”“Hee….. I thinks the ‘forged may be right there.  What say you Overbite?  Listening better than talkin’?”“Emotions and Interaction are strange concepts for many of us.” He answers.  “Emotions rule most of the races.”“Ehhhh I always thought it was sex and money.”  Hooch answers slyly. Deciding their conversation wasn’t worth eases dropping on, Mania moves away.  His supernatural eyes scan through the dark hallways.  He has seen the dining hall, the greeting rooms, the trophy rooms and the guestrooms but he has yet to travel deeper into the complex.He thinks about the reported millions in gold and artifacts Kim Elderich has hidden away.  Where is it?  How did he get it?  Never being one to ignore his inner questioning and curiosity, the ½ Vampire walks away.It seems Hooch and Overbite are very secure in feeling no one would snoop, as most doors are unlocked and even open.  He enters a large hallway that has scratched in grooves on the floor.  The path leads to a large double door that he has never been beyond.  He goes there and pushes open the heavy door.  The sound of rushing water assaults his ears.  Being limited in range of sight, he wanders out from the door following the grooves on the stone floor.  The grooves lead to a rail bridge.  Mines he thinks.  The grooves are from heavy ore filled carts from the old days.He walks up to the railed bridge and spots rushing water that falls into a deep chasm.  The bridge disappears into the darkness that is beyond his limits of nightvision.“It is rude to skulk around in a guest’s home.”Mania turns and sees Overbite and his two construct dogs.  “Meant no harm.  I can’t sleep.”“Guessed as much.   You strike me as a creature of the night.”“You could say that.  Where does the bridge go?” Mania says looking out over the waterfalls.“To the other side.  It is not safe beyond these waterfalls.”“Really?  Did the Noldrun have a waterfall?”“You go too far.   I can see why Kim likes you.”Mania is silent as he tries to figure out what he meant by that.   “So what is so dangerous over there?”“ Years ago we were invaded from some under ground.  Fiends from Khyber.  We fought them back but they still lurk around in the darkness.”“What were they looking for?”“What do any evil creature want?  Come.  We need to return and I will bar this door again.”Mania walks back wondering if the Khyber Crawler and this have any connection.= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Leeya murmurs in her sleep.  Her face shows a look of fear.  “no…. the people….. oh the people…..” she tosses and churns under her covers.  Bora looks up from her bed.  She doesn’t remember going to bed. “No…..    the people will die……”  Leeya rolls over and reaches up to the ceiling.  “NO!” and she bolts upright.  Bora falls out of her bed and remains still.= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =  = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Hooch sits and stares at his holey socks.  He looks up to the mirror and looks at his reflection.  “The things one must do to save the world.” He says.  There is a knock at his door.  “whoa-ho- enter.  Its unlocked.”Overbite walks in.  “I found Mania snooping.”“He is a young man rogue that doesn’t sleep.  Not surprising.”“He was at the bridge on the waterfall.”“What of Dura?  Kim’s grand daughter?”“Asleep.”“Good.   She has quite the day tomorrow.  Many of them will have quite the day.”</blockquote>

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