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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DiFier" data-source="post: 907494" data-attributes="member: 2345">Arsindis continued to lecture the woman.  Ciramar enveied her blank stare, perhaps she didn't understand them.  Ciramar Wished he didn't have to hear the lecture.  He checked on her bounds again.  She had almost Worked her self free.  Ciramar tightened them down again and wispered to the woman "On no, if I have to listen to this so do you."  He called over Kyodai to check on the knots he had tied just in case and then continued walking he began thinking about their mode of transportation here.  The fog had been odd but not magical. It had either caused their travel or masked it.  He had asked the spirit trapped in his staff if it had know anything about this but it had not.  He hoped the temple would have something useful.  Arsindis had stopped.  Ciramar looked around he recognized the location from when they had been traveling to the village this morning.  It was where they had seen the remains of zombies.  Ciramar was about to say something, when Kyodai put his finger to his lips and pointed into the forrest.  Ciramar saw only trees.Out of the corner of her eye Arsindis had seen something, something glowing. Out in the forrest.  As she stopped she saw Kyodai drop into a crouching position.  She could barely make out a figure of a man.  He was half hidden behind some trees standing just back a ways in the forest.  In his left hand he held a glowing axe.  "Hello?" Arsindis walked to the edge of the road, "did you kill these zombies?"  Nothing for a second and then "yes.""Were there any other zombies traveling along this road?""No""Why did you Destroy these zombies""the residents of these parts needed my protection from them. ""We are traveling from the temple beyond.  We will be returning to the village tommorow to destroy the zombies there, would you like to acompny us tommorow?""No""You don't want to help us?" "what goes on in the village and the temple is not my consern."Arsindis moved partialy into the forrest she got a better look at the creature.  Dark skin and horns it wore a blue robe and a rice hat.  The trees were still blocking the right side of the creature.  Or  . .  No.  The creature didn't have a right side.   It was split straight down the middle the rightside wasn't there, yet it stood as if supported by the missing leg.  She looked down at Kyodai and then turned to Ciramar who was still squinting into the dense folliage.  when she turned back it was gone.  "What was that?" Kyodai shrugged, "guardian spirit? I guess."After they described the spirit to Ciramar he asked the spirit in his staff what it was.  "It was a  Doc cu'o'c, a territorial guardian spirit that protects a piece of property and cares not for any area around it.  They are extermely dangerous if they view you as a threat."  They continued toward the temple.  discussing the Doc cu'o'c and wishing that they could give the scorpian woman to it.___________________________________As they aproached the the fire gate of the temple of the the elements they noticed something was wrong.   The guards were not at their posts.  They ran to the gate. The guards bodies lay strune about each looked as though they hadn't known their attackers were there.  At the Air gate the guards were also slaughtered one clutched a horn.  At the Water gate one of the stone dog statues was shattered 30 feet from it's base.  the earth gate was similar.  They hurried Toward the gatehouse. At The gatehouse there was signs of a struggle.   A body they didn't recognize.  Three men apperanetlly some kind of fighters.  They wore simple peasants outfits but with armored leather vests.  They had been shot with arrows.  The gates to the temple were open.   they found a 4th dead attacker in the gatehouse.  "We should cut off their heads just in case", said Ciramar.  Kyodai's sword flashed in the light of the setting sun and he chopped off the one's head.  Green puss poured out of the neck.  one of the Sohei threw up.  Ciramar covered his nose and with out touching the puss inspected it.  He thought for sure that he saw finger tips inside the neck of the fallen . . . thing.</blockquote>

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