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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mathew_Freeman" data-source="post: 4595663" data-attributes="member: 1846">Whispers In The DarkIben stared around him at the inside of the great tower of Glorium. Rubble lay across the floor, from the upper storeys and from now-ruined columns. The only light came from shafts of sunlight, breaking through old walls higher up. The dim light only emphasised the shadows.A shiver passed through the young Kindraeder, swiftly supressed. Thousands of tiny spaces honeycombed the walls, and from each one Iben could see the remnants of a buried king or warrior. Lifting his eyes up through the tower, past the ruined floor of the next level that stood thirty feet over their heads, he could see the tower roof was more than a hundred feet up.Sigurd whispered a quiet word, and from her hand a golden radiance spread, illuminating the space around her. It revealed, on the far side of the room, a ruined staircase winding around the edge of the tower.“With your permission, my Lord?” asked Karl, and at a nod from Aengus he started forwards. “I shall scout ahead,” he continued. “Don’t get too close – this staircase doesn’t look too safe.”With Karl going first, and Aengus in the middle, the group began a slow and careful ascent of the stairs, mindful of the crumbling stonework. The staircase hugged the wall, but had no railing or other method of support, leaving a yawning gap to the group’s left.After a short climb, Karl came to a gap. The staircase ahead had crumbled away, leaving a five or six foot space before it continued. Peering over the edge, he could see that the drop was somewhere in the range of fifteen feet to a hard stone floor – the sort of distance that could easily break a leg.After a short discussion, Thunder wrapped a length of rope around himself, with the other end attached to Karl. After a short run up and jump, Karl easily cleared the gap. With a little more work, everyone got across safely – Thunder himself landing with a loud thud on the upwards stairs.Karl continued his slow ascent, keeping a careful eye on the tombs embedded in the walls. As he climbed, he could see that the bodies within were becoming less well-preserved. In some cases, only the skeletal remains of the inhabitant could be seen.Iben suddenly became aware of a whispering – a quiet chorus of voices lingering in the air. Straining his ears a little more, he could hear a word, seemlingly being passed back and forth around the inside of the tower.Kindrader…Glancing around, he could see that the others could hear it, too. Thunder heard an ancient name for his kind, Sigurd a quiet moan of Ausssssslander… Weapons were loosened in their sheaths, spells and prayers brought to mind.As he rounded the final corner to arrive at the upper level, he could see ahead of him the remains of the floor of the second level of the tower. Upon that floor, kneeling quietly, was a single figure. Bone white in colour, skin stretched tightly over it’s frame, Karl could see it’s hands ended in viscious claws. It seemed unaware of him for now.Using the mage hand power of his gloves, Karl sent a tiny handwritten note back along the stairway, keeping half an eye on it as it floated gently along in the air....and as such, he saw a white blur of motion come down the wall, leap, grab the paper and disappear into the darkness below.The whispers got louder.Note: This was a very creepy moment for me, playing Thunder. We had no real idea what was going on, or what sort of threat we were going to face. Having something just leap out of the darkness was a horrible reminder that we might be in well over our heads!Next session: We gain a new player, as randomling joins the group! Enter the Dragonborn!</blockquote>

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