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<blockquote data-quote="Hairy Minotaur" data-source="post: 1495701" data-attributes="member: 11574"><p>Tharhack walks along the wet street, muddied by the recent snows. Tharhack gets to within fifty feet of the large building on the right, and sees a solitary figure sweeping off the wooden steps leading up to a porch. A sign that reads "Oester Inn" hangs in front of the porch, as Tharhack makes his way towards the man, he notices bodies lying in the street opposite of the inn. </p><p></p><p>Keeping his eyes on the sweeping man, who seems to be completely oblivious to Tharhack, Tharhack walks to the nearest body. The body lies face down in the snow, but what surprises Tharhack even more is the clear sign of a drag mark in the snow leading from the inn to where the body laid. Without any training in survival, Tharhack had no idea how long ago the track was made, only that it had to have been made after the last snowfall. The body is partially eaten, large bite marks surround gaping holes in it's neck and chest. Festering boils seep a sickly yellow liquid onto the white snow and crows have managed to dislodge it's right eye and nibble on it. As Tharhack looked the body over, he could've sworn the thing moved, thinking it a trick of the light and his tired eyes, Tharhack dismisses the notion.</p><p></p><p>Tharhack looked up at the next body and found the same drag marks also lead from the inn, in fact Tharhack spotted three other bodies, all of them created a drag pattern similar to spokes of a wheel with the inn in the center. Tharhack heard the sweeping sound stop and looked up to find the man sitting in a rocking chair on the front porch of the inn. Confused, Tharhack hailed the man, but he didn't seem to register the hello. Tharhack made his way to the front steps of the inn, placing one foot on the first step.</p><p></p><p>"Good day to you sir! Traveled far?" The man's voice shattered the silence of the moment, startling Tharhack.</p><p></p><p>"I've been shouting at you for the past five minutes, are you deaf?" Tharhack counters</p><p></p><p>"No, I don't believe so. I hear my wife loud and clear." The man replies</p><p></p><p>"Did you drag those bodies away from the inn?" Tharhack asks</p><p></p><p>"I am merely an innkeeper, dragging bodies is not in the description." The man replies</p><p></p><p>"Well, then who did?" Tharhack asks</p><p></p><p>"Don't know, there are no other guests currently. I guess that just leaves you, maybe you did it?" The man answers</p><p></p><p>"Do not try my patience old man." Tharhack snarls as his ascends the porch steps to stand in front of the innkeeper.</p><p></p><p>"What's with all this hostility? Please come inside for a drink and some nice sweet potato soup." The innkeeper says, getting up and making his way to the door.</p><p></p><p>"No way old man, something very odd is happening here and I believe you know about it." Tharhack tells the man</p><p></p><p>"Please come inside, you look famished. Come inside and I will tell you what I know." The innkeeper says</p><p></p><p>"Why do we have to go inside? Why can't you bring it out here?" Tharhack asks</p><p></p><p>"Whatever you wish. My name is Fargus by the way, glad to have met your acquaintance." Fargus says as he retreats into the inn.</p><p></p><p>A few moments later, Fargus returns with a cup of water and a steaming bowl of soup. Tharhack's stomach rejoices with the smell of food. Tharhack takes a drink of the nice cold water and accepts the bowl from Fargus. Both Fargus and Tharhack devour their meals, as Fargus begins to tell his tale.</p><p></p><p>Fargus recounts how it was a plague that began when the tower was embraced with a blue light, that frighten the animals and children. Soon after that a man named Harstak fell gravely ill. Fearing contagion the steward ordered Harstack's house be boarded up while Harstak remained quarantined inside. We only left a small crack in one of the windows so we could give him food and water. </p><p></p><p>One night a woman named Laela was heard shrieking in terror, we found her fainted in the middle of the road, a nasty gash on the side of her neck where her flesh had been ripped off. After regaining consciousness, Laela recounted how a frightful man with "devilish eyes and skin so taunt that the bone underneath could be seen" was running towards her. Another shout came out that someone had broken into Harstack's house. A few of our braver men entered to find all of the food we had given him over the past five days rotting untouched.</p><p></p><p>Soon Laela became as sick as Harstak, and she too disappeared into the night. Soon more disappearances occurred and everyone wondered would they be next. That's when people started leaving. Then the final straw came when horrifying creatures emerged from the woods, these creatures looked like fellow villages but they didn't act like them. Attacking anything that moved on sight, sometimes each other. That's when the remaining villagers left.</p><p></p><p>"Why did you stay?" Tharhack asks</p><p></p><p>"My wife didn't want to move, she stubborn like that sometimes." Fargus replies</p><p></p><p>"Where is your wife?" Tharhack asks</p><p></p><p>"She's off with my daughter picking berries for dinner tonight, they'll be back soon." Fargus answers</p><p></p><p>"Aren't you afraid for their well being with all these creatures running around?" Tharhack asks</p><p></p><p>"Nonsense, they only come out at night." Fargus answers</p><p></p><p>Tharhack tried to stand up, but his head felt dizzy. Tharhack felt his eyes want to close, quickly Tharhack cast a detect poison spell and saw the bowl and glass of water turn a bright red. Looking back at Fargus, Tharhack saw him get up from the rocking chair and squat next to Tharhack.</p><p></p><p>"My wife will be home for dinner soon, I hope you will be as nice a guest for her as you have been for me." Fargus tells Tharhack, as Tharhack falls asleep.</p><p></p><p>**************************************************************************************************</p><p></p><p>"Ha, ha ha, ha. Dumb orc, he fell for the lamest trick in the book. Maybe this one isn't as bright as a half-orc." Loki almost falls out of his chair with laughter.</p><p></p><p>"My lord, there is news from Mulliken." A lowly dretch announces</p><p></p><p>"I'm waiting" Loki answers</p><p></p><p>"Seems that Tharhack has left Mulliken with a paladin of some small renown, and is headed for Oester." The dretch announces</p><p></p><p>"What? Are you blind?" Loki says before smiting the dretch into a pile of goo. Loki then sits quietly, contemplating. "Let's have a look."</p><p></p><p>"Impossible. Someone's trying to play a trick on me! Let's just see who the real Tharhack is?" Loki stands motionless over his scrying pool for an hour before a succubus dares to speak.</p><p></p><p>"What is it your excell.." Is all the succubus got out before Loki picked her up and broke her in half. Then thrust the twisted demon into the scrying pool.</p><p></p><p>"This is not possible, someone is cheating. That's my job!" Loki rants</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hairy Minotaur, post: 1495701, member: 11574"] Tharhack walks along the wet street, muddied by the recent snows. Tharhack gets to within fifty feet of the large building on the right, and sees a solitary figure sweeping off the wooden steps leading up to a porch. A sign that reads "Oester Inn" hangs in front of the porch, as Tharhack makes his way towards the man, he notices bodies lying in the street opposite of the inn. Keeping his eyes on the sweeping man, who seems to be completely oblivious to Tharhack, Tharhack walks to the nearest body. The body lies face down in the snow, but what surprises Tharhack even more is the clear sign of a drag mark in the snow leading from the inn to where the body laid. Without any training in survival, Tharhack had no idea how long ago the track was made, only that it had to have been made after the last snowfall. The body is partially eaten, large bite marks surround gaping holes in it's neck and chest. Festering boils seep a sickly yellow liquid onto the white snow and crows have managed to dislodge it's right eye and nibble on it. As Tharhack looked the body over, he could've sworn the thing moved, thinking it a trick of the light and his tired eyes, Tharhack dismisses the notion. Tharhack looked up at the next body and found the same drag marks also lead from the inn, in fact Tharhack spotted three other bodies, all of them created a drag pattern similar to spokes of a wheel with the inn in the center. Tharhack heard the sweeping sound stop and looked up to find the man sitting in a rocking chair on the front porch of the inn. Confused, Tharhack hailed the man, but he didn't seem to register the hello. Tharhack made his way to the front steps of the inn, placing one foot on the first step. "Good day to you sir! Traveled far?" The man's voice shattered the silence of the moment, startling Tharhack. "I've been shouting at you for the past five minutes, are you deaf?" Tharhack counters "No, I don't believe so. I hear my wife loud and clear." The man replies "Did you drag those bodies away from the inn?" Tharhack asks "I am merely an innkeeper, dragging bodies is not in the description." The man replies "Well, then who did?" Tharhack asks "Don't know, there are no other guests currently. I guess that just leaves you, maybe you did it?" The man answers "Do not try my patience old man." Tharhack snarls as his ascends the porch steps to stand in front of the innkeeper. "What's with all this hostility? Please come inside for a drink and some nice sweet potato soup." The innkeeper says, getting up and making his way to the door. "No way old man, something very odd is happening here and I believe you know about it." Tharhack tells the man "Please come inside, you look famished. Come inside and I will tell you what I know." The innkeeper says "Why do we have to go inside? Why can't you bring it out here?" Tharhack asks "Whatever you wish. My name is Fargus by the way, glad to have met your acquaintance." Fargus says as he retreats into the inn. A few moments later, Fargus returns with a cup of water and a steaming bowl of soup. Tharhack's stomach rejoices with the smell of food. Tharhack takes a drink of the nice cold water and accepts the bowl from Fargus. Both Fargus and Tharhack devour their meals, as Fargus begins to tell his tale. Fargus recounts how it was a plague that began when the tower was embraced with a blue light, that frighten the animals and children. Soon after that a man named Harstak fell gravely ill. Fearing contagion the steward ordered Harstack's house be boarded up while Harstak remained quarantined inside. We only left a small crack in one of the windows so we could give him food and water. One night a woman named Laela was heard shrieking in terror, we found her fainted in the middle of the road, a nasty gash on the side of her neck where her flesh had been ripped off. After regaining consciousness, Laela recounted how a frightful man with "devilish eyes and skin so taunt that the bone underneath could be seen" was running towards her. Another shout came out that someone had broken into Harstack's house. A few of our braver men entered to find all of the food we had given him over the past five days rotting untouched. Soon Laela became as sick as Harstak, and she too disappeared into the night. Soon more disappearances occurred and everyone wondered would they be next. That's when people started leaving. Then the final straw came when horrifying creatures emerged from the woods, these creatures looked like fellow villages but they didn't act like them. Attacking anything that moved on sight, sometimes each other. That's when the remaining villagers left. "Why did you stay?" Tharhack asks "My wife didn't want to move, she stubborn like that sometimes." Fargus replies "Where is your wife?" Tharhack asks "She's off with my daughter picking berries for dinner tonight, they'll be back soon." Fargus answers "Aren't you afraid for their well being with all these creatures running around?" Tharhack asks "Nonsense, they only come out at night." Fargus answers Tharhack tried to stand up, but his head felt dizzy. Tharhack felt his eyes want to close, quickly Tharhack cast a detect poison spell and saw the bowl and glass of water turn a bright red. Looking back at Fargus, Tharhack saw him get up from the rocking chair and squat next to Tharhack. "My wife will be home for dinner soon, I hope you will be as nice a guest for her as you have been for me." Fargus tells Tharhack, as Tharhack falls asleep. ************************************************************************************************** "Ha, ha ha, ha. Dumb orc, he fell for the lamest trick in the book. Maybe this one isn't as bright as a half-orc." Loki almost falls out of his chair with laughter. "My lord, there is news from Mulliken." A lowly dretch announces "I'm waiting" Loki answers "Seems that Tharhack has left Mulliken with a paladin of some small renown, and is headed for Oester." The dretch announces "What? Are you blind?" Loki says before smiting the dretch into a pile of goo. Loki then sits quietly, contemplating. "Let's have a look." "Impossible. Someone's trying to play a trick on me! Let's just see who the real Tharhack is?" Loki stands motionless over his scrying pool for an hour before a succubus dares to speak. "What is it your excell.." Is all the succubus got out before Loki picked her up and broke her in half. Then thrust the twisted demon into the scrying pool. "This is not possible, someone is cheating. That's my job!" Loki rants [/QUOTE]
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