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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hairy Minotaur" data-source="post: 1283380" data-attributes="member: 11574">The party races into the dark corridor, Tharhack and Gothmog lead the way as Rebrey is unable to see anything in the pitch black tunnel. "Rebrey, don't you have a torch?" Tharhack asks "No, I didn't stock up before I left Thumble, and the last thing I wanted to ask a deity after meeting them is if they had a light." Rebrey answers "Huh?" Tharhack responds "I will explain later, I'm just glad you guys left some zombies for me, I thought I'd be shut out." Rebrey answers The corridor becomes increasingly dust covered, as they move further along. The passage also begins to incline and take a slight curve to the right. Gothmog brushes against the wall of the corridor, and using his hand to brush off the dust, finds that the wall is covered in a greasy soot like substance. "TharHACK what you think of this?" Gothmog asks Running his fingers along the wall, Tharhack feels the residue between his fingers, smelling the stuff Tharhack finally realizes what it is. "This is from a pyre." Tharhack announces "What that?" Gothmog asks "The walls, they're made from the scorched remains of bodies after they've been burned. It would take thousands of bodies to build this." Tharhack however has little time to explore his findings, as the zombies begin to filter into the corridor behind them. The party continues it's slow turn to the right, bits of debris litter the floor, a helmet here, a shield there. All are horribly rusted and aged beyond repair. The debris gets thicker, as the passage continues. Cobwebs now hang from the ceiling as they pass. Running now becomes impossible due the covering of the floor by scraps and trash left behind by others before them. They party can hear the zombies disturbing some of the first metal objects that the party passed. The clanging and clinking of metal as it is kicked down the corridor, echoes up the passageway the party is in. The party continues to advance up the winding and sloping passage, eventually coming to a halt when Tharhack and Gothmog notice the curved passage makes a hard right up ahead. Slowing down to a walk Tharhack makes his way to the edge of the turn, peering around the corner Tharhack sees that the curved passage ends in a small landing and ten feet from him on the same wall there is another opening. Tharhack motions for Gothmog to advance with Rebrey, and they both move up to Tharhack's position. "What do you see?" Rebrey asks Tharhack"There's another passage off of this room here. Looks like a perfect ambush spot." Tharhack answers"Well we don't have any other option, those zombies will never stop. We need to find a way to slow them down." Rebrey offers"Gothmog do it." Gothmog pushes Rebrey into Tharhack and against the wall. He gathers up some rags and pieces of moldy leather, asks for Rebrey cloak, and then clears an eight foot path in the dusty floor behind his pile of debris. Looking down the corridor they just traversed, Gothmog can see the forms of the zombies coming into view. Gothmog puts a fist behind his head, and shoots his arm forward to point at the pile of debris while uttering an arcane word. A stream of fire ushers from Gothmog's hand, pouring over the refuse pile, a large bonfire erupts in middle of the corridor. (burning hands)"Wow, how'd he." Rebrey starts but Tharhack interrupts him"If we make it out of here alive, we'll have to ask him. For now we need to stay ahead of the smoke cloud that's going to rise and follow us all the way up." Tharhack answeredGothmog stood admiring his handy work when Tharhack grabs his arm and urges him on. "We have to stay ahead of the smoke, it's going to follow us up." Tharhack yells over the roaring blaze, nodding Gothmog turns and follows Tharhack and Rebrey to the new passage.Rebrey who can see for the moment due to the flickering light of the fire, looks down the new passage and sees that this one curves to the left, and also inclines at the same time."Well looks like we're still going up." Rebrey announces to Tharhack and Gothmog *****************************************************************Emthur straps the gagged and restrained Xanoniel onto a slab of stone covered in runes, Xanoniel's fight ends when her skin touches the stone. Infused with energy from the negative material plane, the stone saps Xanoniel's strength and will like a leech, it's appetite is unyielding. Xanoniel tries to get Emthur to look into her eyes, hoping that she can convince him to let her go. Emthur however is too preoccupied with the ceremony and never looks Xanoniel's way. Undeterred Xanoniel focuses on the jailor who guards the door to the room. Looking into the dark recesses of his hood, Xanoniel tries to catch a glimpse of the man's eyes. The stone beneath her begins to give off a low droning sound, making her head ache as the pulsating vibrations seem to shake her very soul. Finding it extremely hard to concentrate, Xanoniel catches the sight of a red eye reflecting the light from a small candle at the top of the stone slab. Xanoniel looks into the eye and sends an image of her and the jailor in the throes of passion. The jailor stands motionless for a moment, then begins to walk towards Xanoniel. "Yes" Xanoniel says to herself, "it's working" The jailor stops just short of Xanoniel, and leans over her, his head directly above hers. Lifting back his hood, the visage of decaying skull appears. Worms crawl through one eye socket and drop down onto Xanoniel's forehead, his mouth opens to reveal countless more worms some the size of fingers. All of them wiggle and squirm trying to get to the flesh of the half-nymph. With her last bit of strength Xanoniel screams out in defeat.</blockquote>

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