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The Darkness That Comes Before [IC]
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Erekose13
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Gespeth binds the woman's wounds making sure that any bleeding has stopped. The bruise on her side is not going away for a very long time. You also find something else that is very strange on the back of her neck and extending down beneath her armor is a strange hump. It is a decidedly different color with all the blue veins that run underneath it, given it a distinct blue tone. There is a small orifice at the nape of the neck that is currently closed. The strange orifice is purple and spidered with veins as well. The hump is soft to the touch and the skin seems to move or maybe something is moving underneath the skin. Whatever it is it is most definitely disgusting.
Dara cleans her blade and also drags the other unconsious cultist together with the others. While Nalya offers to tie the two of them up, preferably apart from one another.
Checking out the menhir, Ian determines that it is a single large stone about 8 feet tall and pyramidal in shape. The top appears to have been sundered by some form of natural occurance or possibly the rain has since eroded the edges as they are no longer sharp. It is about 3 feet to a side and covered in fading runes. The side that the leader had been reading (the one facing the glade which faces west-north-west) contains some of the more readable runes. It appears that the runes are written in several different languages. Most of which you cannot read, but you do find some that are written in Abyssal. It is difficult to catch much of anything though and will take time to decipher.
After the weeds have fallen silent and the zombies uncovered, Taneth and Nalya begin picking through the grass to find some of their bolts. Nalya is able to find about 3 usable ones having shot 10 and Taneth recovers 4 of the 10 he shot.
[ooc: Before I go denying you any knowledge what languages do Mahe and Donner speak. Here is the link to the language section: http://www.enworld.org/forums/showpost.php?p=1460653&postcount=44]
Dara cleans her blade and also drags the other unconsious cultist together with the others. While Nalya offers to tie the two of them up, preferably apart from one another.
Checking out the menhir, Ian determines that it is a single large stone about 8 feet tall and pyramidal in shape. The top appears to have been sundered by some form of natural occurance or possibly the rain has since eroded the edges as they are no longer sharp. It is about 3 feet to a side and covered in fading runes. The side that the leader had been reading (the one facing the glade which faces west-north-west) contains some of the more readable runes. It appears that the runes are written in several different languages. Most of which you cannot read, but you do find some that are written in Abyssal. It is difficult to catch much of anything though and will take time to decipher.
After the weeds have fallen silent and the zombies uncovered, Taneth and Nalya begin picking through the grass to find some of their bolts. Nalya is able to find about 3 usable ones having shot 10 and Taneth recovers 4 of the 10 he shot.
[ooc: Before I go denying you any knowledge what languages do Mahe and Donner speak. Here is the link to the language section: http://www.enworld.org/forums/showpost.php?p=1460653&postcount=44]
Ghostknight
First Post
Finding the hump on the body Gespath decides against casting the spell. Instead he inspects it closer, suspecting a parasite beneath the skin.
Gespath shouts out to the others
Over here, I think there is something you need see.
H ethen readies his dagger, when the others are there he will see what lies beneath the skin!
Gespath shouts out to the others
Over here, I think there is something you need see.
H ethen readies his dagger, when the others are there he will see what lies beneath the skin!
Thomas Hobbes
First Post
"Aye, abomination," says Mahe in response to Dara. "But let's not get carried away, eh?" He gives her a cocerned look. "Is anyone hurt?"
In reponse to Gespath, Mahe comes over only to recoil, his mouth pressed into a hard line. "Feh. More of an abomination that I thought." He turns back. "Hold off with that- we dinnae want to kill a helpless... woman, or whatever she is."
In reponse to Gespath, Mahe comes over only to recoil, his mouth pressed into a hard line. "Feh. More of an abomination that I thought." He turns back. "Hold off with that- we dinnae want to kill a helpless... woman, or whatever she is."
Ghostknight
First Post
I'm not going to kill her, just cut through the skin and see what's there. but I want the rest around in case whatever it is decides to jump me! Unless you would refer to do the cutting, I cannot say I have much in the way of surgical skills!
Thanee
First Post
Dara Dragondaughter
Shaking her head slightly, Dara's lips form into a faint smile. Her voice is being soft and actually quite pleasant, and it does not carry the rather arrogant tone of earlier.
“I'm ok, thanks.”
She then looks down towards the creature as Gespath asks everyone to come over. Slightly disgusted by what she is seeing there, she turns back to Mahe.
“I told you, I'm not going to kill her, don't be worried. It might seem that I get carried away in battle sometimes, but I do not totally lose control. Really, we should cut her head off right here, but I'll leave the decision for you. She could still give us valuable information about what is going in this wood on and the means to prevent it from spreading further. I'll take a look for tracks, once we are finished here, maybe we can find out, where they were coming from.”
Dara then stands a few feet back and draws her sword again to cover Gespath, as he said.
“I can't help you there, but I'll keep an eye on you.”
Shaking her head slightly, Dara's lips form into a faint smile. Her voice is being soft and actually quite pleasant, and it does not carry the rather arrogant tone of earlier.
“I'm ok, thanks.”
She then looks down towards the creature as Gespath asks everyone to come over. Slightly disgusted by what she is seeing there, she turns back to Mahe.
“I told you, I'm not going to kill her, don't be worried. It might seem that I get carried away in battle sometimes, but I do not totally lose control. Really, we should cut her head off right here, but I'll leave the decision for you. She could still give us valuable information about what is going in this wood on and the means to prevent it from spreading further. I'll take a look for tracks, once we are finished here, maybe we can find out, where they were coming from.”
Dara then stands a few feet back and draws her sword again to cover Gespath, as he said.
“I can't help you there, but I'll keep an eye on you.”
Serpenteye
First Post
Ian turns his back on the menhir and leans back at it. He feels wearied, not yet drained but shorter on energy than he had been in some time. He would have to conserve his energy better in the future.
Looking with interest at the infection in the woman's neck he says, "Perhaps it is better to question her before we begin cutting into her. If it is indeed a parasite it may be controlling her and killing it might leave her little more than a mindless husk. Or not." He shrugs and sits down on a smaller stone by the foot of the menhir.
Looking with interest at the infection in the woman's neck he says, "Perhaps it is better to question her before we begin cutting into her. If it is indeed a parasite it may be controlling her and killing it might leave her little more than a mindless husk. Or not." He shrugs and sits down on a smaller stone by the foot of the menhir.
Thomas Hobbes
First Post
"I kin wake her," says Mahe. "I've got more than enough healin' fer that. Question is, do we do it here, or elsewhere?" Mahe casts an eye at the Mehir, and frowns. Was this text always here?
Thanee
First Post
Dara Dragondaughter
“I'll check the surrounding meanwhile...”
Since it seems that the cutting and waking could wait a little more, Dara sheathes her sword again and starts to walk the clearing, looking for any tracks she can find and in what direction those lead (also if they are coming to the clearing or going from the clearing and whether they belong to the ones encountered here or someone else). Besides, there are more than enough present, so that the snake-woman shouldn't make any trouble.
OOC: Survival (track) +8, taking 10 for a result of 18.
“I'll check the surrounding meanwhile...”
Since it seems that the cutting and waking could wait a little more, Dara sheathes her sword again and starts to walk the clearing, looking for any tracks she can find and in what direction those lead (also if they are coming to the clearing or going from the clearing and whether they belong to the ones encountered here or someone else). Besides, there are more than enough present, so that the snake-woman shouldn't make any trouble.
OOC: Survival (track) +8, taking 10 for a result of 18.
