Black Zenith [Adventure / RPG / Chapter Three: Forgotten Whispers]

[Supernerd]

So... Was I supposed to not get an update or did you miss my last post or?

[chimericWilder]

I didnt update officially, so nopeeee.

"Stop, stop, stop, Nos, stop. Don't go running off you hear? I'd appreciate it if you don't die or alert the entire compound just yet. Also: Dead guy, lets check him out."

Keeping her distance, Bohw scans the body with a glance, looking for anything of note while mentally running a checklist of the standard corpse examining procedure.

Actually, this whole thing is incredible suspicious, there was a good couple of cultists just in the room before, how have they not noticed their slain friend here? He might not even be dead... Maybe I shouldn't get too close. Still, lets see here... any visible wounds or blood? Which way is his body pointing? Holding anything? What kinds of woulds, if there are any? How much blood, if any? Are the wounds on the back or the front of the body, if any?

Mayor, keeps on his guard and peeks down the left hallway, while trying to determine why the hallway suddenly narrows or it's actually just a door.

Its pretty dark inside the ruins, seeing as theres no light sources other than a few occasional cracks in the stone ceiling, and they barely let any light through anyway. Impling's night vision is slightly better than that of many other races, though.

Anyway, theres no clear indication as to what actually killed the man. By the looks of everything, he just fell over, dead. Its more likely the cause is something you cannot easily discern, however. The body points down the hallway, arms outstretched in front, though not as if he was reaching for something, and more like he just fell that way.

The left hallway ends in a doorway, but theres no actual door in place. Its just too dark to tell whats on the other side, from this distance.

[BlazerC]

"Yeah okay, okay, Magic. We'll drum that one up as magic. I vote we move deeper in then, whatever killed him most likely came from that doorway so lets avoid that."

[SupahKiven]

"Let's go then. I'm getting the heebie jeebus just standing here."

[ICan'tGiveCredit]

"Going left then I presume..."

Watson heads through the left cavern.

[MasterBlade]

Thunderpaw thinks. "I dunno guys, if the cultists have headway in these ruins, couldnt the guy have been heading towards a base within the ruins? Maybe we should be going right..."

[Dais]

"You all mean straight, yes? Mhmm, it's alright, we'll all get lost before this is over. Confused too, most likely." Nos slowly walks over to the doorway (that he only knows is there thanks to Bohw), the skeleton sort of shadowing him. Nos coughs loudly for attention, as he draws a circlet in the air just above the skeleton's head, making a simple wreath of magical light that will be attached, relatively speaking, to the skeleton. Preferably for a few turns.

"Consider this. One man? Less than us. Therefore, a threat to one man? Not necessarily a threat to us!" And with that, Nos sends the now lit skeleton into the room past the doorway.

[ICan'tGiveCredit]

Watson looks back.

"Alright then I guess they haven't decided yet." and goes back.

"Doesn't that man's legs look like he has been running from the straight entrance and- Nos what in the heavens are you doing with your poor skeleton friend!? I believe he has feelings too. And you might've alerted the other cultists! And you know what they say about cultists! Because I most definitely do not know and hope that you might."

[MasterBlade]

With the group further down the hallway, Thunderpaw waves his hand to call a pause. "Now that we're out of earshot from the soldiers, there is something our ruins exploration party should know. Our objective remains the same; find information, seek relics. But there's more to it than that. A lot more. I think its time we discussed it in full."

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"My aversion to telling the full story is not out of distrust; rather, out of fear of the truth. Here lies a cult, hellbent on destroying the kingdom as we know it. Within its legion lies men and monster alike, with countless allies and shadow minions. Its highest-ranking all wield shadows as their weapon, and leave darkness instead of corpses. This is not an army of man; there isn't a single civilization responsible, no prize to be gained. Their leader isn't even human."

"A tear in the world, born of void and thirsting to consume everything. A Wyrm, if it could even be described as such. Long ago it devoured the world, the entirety of it. Heroes used a great light and kept it from ending existence, but not before it took their own. And yet, I doubt it simply ended there. Legend tells of our second sun, a great light, slowly growing dimmer over time. Now it acts as a void in itself, stealing the light of the sky. What was its bane I suspect now acts as our end."

"So how do we stop it? I honestly don't know."

"All we have are a few subtle hints. Aven'sera, a relic the cultists were after for one reason or another. She holds light that banes the dark, we just need to figure out how to use it. There's also the remnants of the brothers of arms; the ones that fought and fell before our journey. They certainly hold secrets we may need to stop this thing. However, as of now there is no escape. Everything we know /will/ be destroyed if we fail. It isn't the kingdom or a continent on the line. If we die, the world dies."

"It's surely some grim shit we got ourselves into. Steal yourselves. This journey's only just begun."

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[chimericWilder]

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