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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stonegod" data-source="post: 3178752" data-attributes="member: 36973">Vignette 1: War is Hell[Lvl 1-2 Characters]Khensu, Jarrith, and MarotIn the Burnt Wood, a fire was burning. Far away, across Scion's Sound, battle were being raged amongst great armies, but here, a different sort of battle was being fought. The orders from the Cardinal were clear. For the Order of Illumination's first task for the two Templars Khensu and Jarrith was to investigate and report on the sightings of Khyber cultists in the Burnt Wood. They were to Olath to meet a warrior for the Church---not of the Church, the Cardinal was clear to point out---who knew more and then determine the level of the threat. They had done so, met the strange Marot, and now found themselves huddled in the shadows of a bonfire around which masked, war-clad forms now danced.But the forms were not human. They were something... else.Suddenly, one of the masked forms stops, and looks directly at the hidden trio. Their heart pounding in their ears, the three hunters hear the masked form cry, "Watcher! Intruders! The Ceremony is interrupted, brothers!" With mad menance, the others turn their way.What did the neophyte inquisitors do?Janis, Daellin, and SelaseThose the ir'Sandals did not support the crown's efforts, they supported Cyran troops who needed assistance and tending. This is how Daellin's outfit found themselves, billeted at some noble's estate across from Vurgensley near the border with what called itself Karrnath. They had fought a skirmish with the undead forces two days prior, suffered heavy losses, and now regrouped at the estate. He had seen little of the Lord ir'Sandal that owned the manner, but he was content to have his men tended.Janis was visiting her uncle's kin this fine day when the troops had arrived, bedraggled after their battles. She had been in conversation with an itinerant priest of that odd faith that was supposedly connected to the undead across the border. This Selase had been tending to some sickened farmer tenants of her uncle's kin, and thus been brought to her attention. Selase was certainly... different... from the few clergy of the Sovereigns she had encountered in and about Metrol.Suddenly, over the hills, a cry could be heard! A family of farmers were running madly, clutching their young as best the could, fearing for something that chased them. And over the hill, their pursuers appeared---a Karrn raiding party! Six riders on mounts that were no longer living; four of the riders themselves could no longer claim life either. And they were bearing directly on the ir'Sandal estate, filled with unknowing bystanders and 29 heavily wounded soldiers.Who won the day?</blockquote>

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