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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 2169076" data-attributes="member: 9255">EBERRON04/09/05SEGMENT 063“RAIL WRECK”  PT 14The warforged is coated either as if splattered or if he did it.  It is standing completely still and there are no signs of life in its eyes.  Cautiously, Cedious looks in.  The halfling has no sense of fear but remains cautious.  She looks just as she did when he left but very dead.  Then he hears a thumping.  Or is it a heart beat?  It comes from a drawer.  Opening it, he sees a dragonshard attached to a gold chain.  “wooohhhh”He looks at her and decides she won’t be using it anytime soon and pockets it.  “Dismiss me will you.” He says.He is very careful not to touch the blood or the body then leaves.  He relocks the door and begins to walk to the diner car where at least the druid should be.  He keeps thinking to himself- that was a lot of blood to cover the walls so completely.The druid, Gnarl, Black sand, Sharshek and Balkroth are in the dining car.  They still place the tab on House Cannith.  Cedious makes it there and pulls the druid aside.  “You should be careful what your wolf eats.”“?”Cedious is watching the wolf.  He has located the hand that was missed during cleaning and is happily chewing on it.  The wolf looks up at him and his eyes turn red- blood red.“Your wolf is getting sick from it.”“What?” and the druid look to his wolf that is quietly sitting under the table.  He looks up and thumps his tail in happiness and in a greeting.  Deciding the rogue is playing a joke, he asks where he was.“I don’t think she is a vampire at least.”“Really” says the druid with no surprise.“She’s dead.  Someone killed her in her room.”“Show me.”  The druid looks to the group-  “I’ll be right back.”They get up and Cedious spots the new waitress.  She has some orcish blood based on her large square jaw.  She looks at him and smiles.  A barbed long tongue snakes out then retracts before anyone notices it.  Cedious is dismayed but keeps it to himself.  Orc mutation he figures.  The two of them go to her room and use the key to enter.  The room is perfectly groomed and clean.  Perfume is in the air.  The druid looks at the halfling rogue shakes his head and turns to his wolf and says it is time to go.  Cedious remains there alone wondering what is going on.When he comes back, he sees Black Sand is once more looking to start a fight with Emerald Claw followers at the diner car.  The others are talking him down so he leaves them but tries to remain intimidating.The noble woman, still incredibly beautiful and glamorous to look at, is calmly eating breakfast of eggs and Karrnath sausage.  Cedious stops before her to ask what gives.“Hello lover.  Did you like what you saw?”“awww – sure” wondering if he meant her naked body or the naked dead body.“You really shouldn’t steal.  It will catch up with you eventually.”He says nothing but notes the air around her is darkening.  He turns to warn the others but they disappear behind a veil of darkness and shadow.“You are a pathetic person.”“And you are ….different?”  What is she doing?  Why is no one acting on this.  The car is full of people.  Someone by now must be screaming.“I own you now.  Body and soul.  To use and abuse as I please.”“Like last night?” with more amusement than he meant to let on.“You disappointed me last night.  You should be punished.”“ I disap----now take that back!”“You disappoint all of the women you are with don’t you LITTLE HALFling.  Still-  you are my HALF a man.”Angry now Cedious balls up his fists.  “I saw you dead!  You were all torn up and bloody!”=cedddddiouuus=He swallows hard.  A third voice said that.  One without a body.=cedddddiouuus=The noble smiles a cruel smile then licks her lips to get the last of the egg or out of enjoyment he is unsure.=cedddddiouuus=“WHHHAAAAT?!?” he whirls in irritation.  He stops suddenly at whom he sees.Beth d’Cannith.  She and her clothes are pale and her clothes look tattered.=cedddddiouuus=“I’m here.  Stop freaking me out and talk to me.  We both know my name is Cedious”=cedddddiouuus.  You faaaailed me last niiiight=“I didn’t.  Your warforged did.  Where is this going?”He whirls around again and stares at the woman.  “This isn’t real is it.  Am I dreaming?”The noble puts her head down in her face as if to sob then laughs.  As she lifts her head up again a mask falls into her hands.  Her face now lacks skin.  The red muscles and white fat cells glisten.  Her white teeth are in a permanent grin.  “If you are dreaming- then wake up.”“EVERYONE WAKE UP!” he yells.  The room is still black.  Within the shapeless dark is the noble, her chair and table, her food (moving) and the wraith.  Behind the wraith, a door forms.“If it is a dream- then leave through the door.  But of course that means touching Beth and dying if it is NOT a dream.”Cedious doesn’t move.= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =  = = = = = = = = = = = = =Across from the druid and the Cannith members sit a possible adventuring party.  There is human mage, a warforged mage, a ½ elf cleric and a dwarven fighter.  Joining them is a gnome with heavy armor on.  The druid was bored with Black sand’s stories of glory he is telling the psychic warrior and fighter so listens to them instead.  They traveling through Karrnath and will get off at Fort Zombie.The dwarf is talking about battling Droaam forces there when the warforged mage begins to stare at the woman near the center of the car.  It is only now the Druid notes Cedious is there (3 foot tall in a crowded dining car of mainly humans).  “I think that halfling is charmed.”“..and me trusty axe an’ blade will…eh?” and the dwarf and others look.  “Heh-  me thinks she could charm any male.”  The dwarf licks his lips under his beard.  The ½ elf  looks.  “Charmed under the influence of magic or something akin to it.”This is when the druid notes the halfling isn’t moving.  He is just staring at the woman as she eats her breakfast.  A large warforged bodyguard stands beside her.  The wait staff merely moves around him with scowls of annoyance.   The druid also notes there are more Orien guards here than before.  They seem all to watching the halfling and their table.  Obviously House Orien is not impressed with them.  A guard can not take it anymore and goes to the halfling.  He places his hand on his shoulder.  “Move it Cannith.  No need to be rude and stand heeerrrreee!!!!!”  He begins to scream out and holds his hand as it were on fire.  “Diseased!  They are all diseased!” and he turns and runs out of the car.The human mage speaks up.  “He saw something that was not there.  Maggots and beetles with dead pulsing flesh.”“I grow bored with this.  There is nothing to gain by continuing to watch him be enthralled.”  The warforged mage makes a few gestures with his hand.= = = = = = = =  == = = = =  = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ==  = = = = = =“I don’t believe in this.  None of this can be real.”“You halflings are soooo fearless.  So much a challenge.  A delicious challenge.  Come to me my halfling.”Says the skinless woman.  “I need you- here and now.”Despite his natural urges- “nope.” And he crosses his arms in defiance.Her features twist and reshape then stop within mid motion.  Her eyes are wide within the mess of flesh that is the woman.  Slowly the darkness resides and before him is the woman looking at him with complete annoyance.  He catches her in mid sentence about how impolite he is being just standing there.  “Very well- sit down.”Many people are staring including the Druid.  Seems more real to him that before so he sits.  “Here is my address in Korth.” And she slides the paper to him.  “Whenever in Korth give me a call.  We can pretend again.”Pretend he wonders….about last night or just now?   Cedious is completely confused and doesn’t like the feeling.  He excuses himself and goes to the group.  Since they have finished, they get up and Cedious follows them.  He is not hungry and remains very confused.  Before leaving, Black Sand makes a rude remark to the dwarf and his beard.The dwarf freezes in mid push from the table.  The ½ elf waves a finger and quietly mouths “no no and no”</blockquote>

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