[Unbounded World:The Aeterian Expedition] (Now With New And Improved Amulets!)

[Kalanyr]

Duncan's inspection of his left hand shows the shame sigil shimmering on the back of his hand.

The resoration takes effect and Talsia feels Paradox's power flow through her as it cleanses her mind of the barely remembered horror as the shimmering diamond dust vanishes. Followed by a wave of healing energy (75 hp restored)

Teppic

Spoiler

in response to Duncan's query, you know that using Speak With Dead is acceptable except on the clergy of Aeter and the higher nobility, the inner secrets of Aeter are not for foreign clerics.

(I will assume Taslia casts her Speak with Dead spell and asks the indicated questions so far)

Taslia asks "Where where you when you contracted the affliction ?"

(All the corpses answers are in Aeterian but due to the tongues spell I will bypass that for the moment)

The corpses shudders and responds
"What affliction ?"

"Before you became that thing did you notice any strange marks on your body ? "

The corpse groans
"I was no thing; I made the streets safe as best I could. "

(6 questions remain)







Taslia: 18 damage remaining.

 

[hafrogman]

Teppic gives Duncan a curious look.

"It is not a crime in this case. Which is a good thing for you. If it had been, and you had tried to circumvent the law, I am almost certain you would not be able to do that without at least one officer of the law noticing. Namely myself. You would be wise not to forget where my loyalties lie when suggesting criminal activities."

He turns to Taslia.

"You may go ahead with your spell."

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Once the magic has been summoned and the first questions asked, Teppic considers the corpse for a second.

"It perhaps might be an idea to expend a question to determine whether or not it recalls it's existence as that creature. You could ask what it was that we had to 'see'. Otherwise, we might ask if he met any strange or unusual phenomena on his duties recently, or even who was the last person he knew that he saw before he died or stopped being himself."

[ooc - note to Kalanyr, these are suggestions being put forth to the group. Don't waste half our remaining questions on my personal brainstorming ]

 

[Lichtenhart]

"Actually, I was trying to help your country. It doesn't look like your guards are prepared to face these things. The more we know about them, the sooner we end their threat. Wouldn't it be what you want too? Or are your laws more important than your people's lives?" Duncan replies, shrugging as if that closes the arguement for him.
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"Teppic is right, Talsia. Try to find out whatever it is that he last remembers."

 

[Sollir Furryfoot]

Talsia continues her questioning, "What do you remember yourself last doing?"

"Did you recognize anything strange or out of the ordinary occuring to you within the last week you can remember?"

"Do you recall a glowing sigil ever appearing on your left hand?"

 

[Kalanyr]

"What do you remember yourself last doing?"
"The pain, the torment, it consumed from before and after, here and there, inside and out, forever and ever and ever, and it was only a fraction, a shadow, oh Aeter the pain. And they watched, they all watched, hooded figures in robes of red." The corpses voice is slurred and shuddering.


"Did you recognize anything strange or out of the ordinary occuring to you within the last week you can remember?"
"Talking to a foreigner, and then there was nothing, and sand and heat, and the silver, winged , fiend and the bones and the stone, and the way, and the stone moved, and then inside, the resting place. And then the pain, the pain"


"Do you recall a glowing sigil ever appearing on your left hand?"
"Sigls, everywhere, in the air, behind my eyes, everywhere!" The corpse is still shuddering and writhing around.

 

[Sollir Furryfoot]

Talsia shudders at the revelations the corpse gives her...she's a hardened adventurer, for sure, but the pain the once living man infront of her strikes a tone to her core. She questions again in a solemn voice, "Is there any message that you would like me to deliver to any family or friends you have?"

"What do you wish to be done to the remains of your body?"

After hearing the corpse's replies, she ends the spell.

The cleric finds an empty space and then vomits, swearing to herself that she will find the perpetrators who masterminded this attack.

 

[Kalanyr]

"Tell the captain, that they were there, in the place of stone. I'm so sorry. All lost. So many children. "

"The clerics of Aeter will perform the rites. Deliver me to them, please. "

With the ending of the spell, teh corpse shudders and lays still.

 

[Sollir Furryfoot]

Assuming no one objects, Talsia will get their help to deliver both corpses to the temple, hoping to locate a priest who can do the rites and who knows where the former warrior's captain can be found. She will also attempt to find the names of the warriors as well.

 

[Kalanyr]

The guardpriest helps you deliver the corpses into the temple.

"The temple guard was Leth, he died in the course of duty so I am sure he will be granted the highest of honours. I do not know who the guardsman was, but the guard captain is Verric, he will probably be find at the guardhouse, at this hour. "

 

[DrZombie]

"Screw this. This is no way to fight. I'm gonna teach these red-robed pieces of horse-dung a lesson they won't forget in a hurry" Skor says, sounding disgusted at the sorcerous ways of the unknown opponents. "If those cowards are too scared to come to us, let's go to them. They're probably after the sword as well. They might even give us an answer. And what was that about children? Teppic, do you know anything about children disappearing herabouts?"