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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sir Kendrik" data-source="post: 160576" data-attributes="member: 123">Here is the next thrilling instalment in the adventureCallin fearing that the statue would easily kill Fr Arton charged in, and launched himself in a flying tackle, taking himself and Fr Arton away from his pursuer.Marban, moving quickly, tried to trip the statue but was not able to topple the heavy animated object. The statue swept the barbarian aside, forcing Marban to take a step back as it continued moving toward Fr Arton.The statue moved into the space that Arton stood, and brought its mace down hard, smashing into the ground where the priest once stood. Sir Kendrik stepped forward, raised Arton’s mace in his hand and struck at the statue, the mace bouncing off the stone jarringly, almost shaking the knights arm out of its socket.Callin regained his feet and drew his magical short sword, attempting to stab at the statue, connecting with stone and causing chips to fly off the statue.Marban attempted to trip the statue but was again unsuccessful in his attempt.Friar Leo, invisible to all moved quickly to Fr Arton and asked him to pass the scroll to him. Fr Arton, seeing the wisdom in the request, passed the scroll to the Friar. To all involved, it appeared as if the scroll seemed to be floating in thin air.The statue stopped in its progress toward Fr Arton and turned its attention to the floating scroll.Fr Arton, seeing his chance to escape, rose quickly and moved away to safety, as he had no weapon to join the battle.Sir Kendrik realising that the mace was not working, threw it away toward Fr Arton’s direction and attacked the statue with his keen sword, his blade chipping bits off of marble.Callin again drove his sword into the side of the statue, his sword not penetrating as it had previously.Marban once more attempted to trip the statue and again he was unsuccessful, the statue continuing as if he was not there.Leo moved further away from the statue hiding in the opposite corner to where the combat was taking place.The statue turned and headed as fast as it could toward the scroll case. As it past Sir Kendrik the young knight struck at the statue, connecting it solidly.Fr Arton now behind the statue stepped in and lodged his mace securely between the statues legs, causing it to topple and Sir Kendrik moved in striking the statue with his longsword.Callin stabbed at the statue with his short sword, chips flying up from the prone statue.Marban took a slash at the statue with his longsword but his blade just bounced off it.Friar Leo decided that the statue must have been after the scroll and not the case, so he removed the scroll from the case and hid it in his magic bag.The statue arose looking for the scroll, not seeing it anywhere it went berserk, flailing its arms about forcing the heroes surrounding it to dodge the wildly swinging arms.Sir Kendrik, refusing to attack the statue from behind moved to ensure he fought with honour, slashing at the statue from a more frontal position. The blows the knight landed taking more chunks from the statue.Fr Arton, pleased at his previous trip attack, struck again with the same tactics. Again, to the astonishment of his companions and himself, the young priest tripped the statue.Callin made another attack at the now horizontal statue, his sword’s blade biting into the stone. Marban bashed at the statue with his shield, to his dismay even this attack made no impression.The statue once more rose to attack the heroes, but in its berserk state failed to connect with any of its blows.Sir Kendrik slashed away at the statue with another series of blows, but only connected once with his mighty blows from his sword. Fr Arton continued his tactics and tripped the statue a third time, the young priest proud at his prowess at bringing the statue down.Callin drove his sword in, a chunk of marble rolling off the statue onto the floor. Marban attacked with sword and shield but his normal weapons had no effect on the effigy of St Darius.The statue climbed back to it feet, swinging its arms around in a forlorn attempt to beat the heroes. Sir Kendrik raised his trusty sword, Razor’s Edge, and slashed down, the sword biting deep into the torso of the statue. The statue froze mid move and toppled over, crashing to the floor as minute fractures rippled along its surface, and finally lay still.Marban continued to strike at the now de-animated statue as the other heroes composed themselves and opened the scroll. Friar Leo ascertained that the scroll was written in legionnaire, and relayed to the group that the scroll contained the instructions on how to make Perdita Mortua. Arton explained that with this knowledge, they should now be able to repair any damage done to Perdita Mortua by the priests of Virakus. Pleased with the knowledge that they had found this scroll first, the heroes decided to go and investigate the lower level of the monastery, even though they were tired, and in much need for rest. Friar Leo, having thought about what had happened in the shrine, relayed to the other heroes that the prophecy they in their possession described the statue, not Virakus, and that removing the key, the scroll, in its fist would awake the “sleeping god”, the statue. The young halfling friar postulated that the person who wrote the prophecy believed in many gods and saw St Darius as one of those gods. The line that referred to being in “his prison of frozen reflections” didn’t mean trapped in frozen ice, but the statue was a reflection of the saint’s life work. “The blood soaked god” referred to St Darius in his guise as a slayer. “Through darkness crawling” referred to the slaying of the black dragon and “The children of the martyred god’ referred to St Darius’ disciples.Where to next for our intrepid adventurers?  TO BE CONTINUED</blockquote>

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