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"There are a lot of people in these catacombs." Alphonse notes.
My friends and I were sent on a mission by His Eminence Cardinal Borgia to put an end to a group of devil worshippers who had dared to attack a holy bishop on the grounds of St. Peter's. Ancient texts lead us to believe that they were centered in the catacombs in Rome. We went to investigate, found some skeletons and then the bug man he says as he points to the bugman.
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Nacht is a decent guy...he's agreed to help us get rid of that necromancer. Have any of you seen this wizard? What he looks like?
We have to do this quickly....I have a meeting with a barmaid after this....
Hisao has been observing things very carefully for the few months that he has been traveling through France and generally skulking around Paris and suddenly comments.
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Nacht had completely remembered how the language of that other being , the excited one was and spoke, this time.. much less broken.
A cacophony of fast paced clicks comes from Nacht.
" Soshite, anata no gengo ga watashi no kuchi no naka de haruka ni yoi nagaremasu. Watashi wa, sore ga iwa rete iru ka o oboete iru to omou. Watashi wa hoka no ningen no supīchi ni kore o konomu. "
Nacht simply nods to this being and to the other being, the oe who spoke German.
And lastly an hispanic looking youth comes through the portal/altar, seeming quite baffled at the sudden transition from one catacomb to the next.
Jimeno looks somewhat flustered and suddenly remembers something.
"Equo, id est adhuc Roma."
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As one band of adventurers meets another, the wheels and gears of Fate turn inaudibly, fulfilling prophetic courses of Destiny unknown to the mortals swept up in the Cosmic Current!
"I should have known none of the newcomers would have the sense to speak a civilized language." Alphonse mutters to himself.
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Your language. It is like horking up to spit every time one speaks
The Chinaman has learned French!
Well Met, Sir Chinaman.
Your language. It is like horking up to spit every time one speaksThe Chinaman has learned French!
Well Met, Sir Chinaman.
Bugman has learned Chinaman
+5 to all social links!
I feel we should briefly return to Notre Dame above us, reconnect with Father Renaud the Cleric, and get our bearings before going further.
Knowledge Religion about Father Renaud
Nacht shakes his head in disagreement. For one he had no stake above ground as he would be deemed different. If the weak being had attacked him before what was too stop a strong one? That and the Necromancer had always been an issue with Nacht, that and some unbridled hate stewed within him every time the title was mentioned. If they left he would stay to hunt the man himself. He would need the accomplishment to even attempt to grace this outside world.
Nacht seemed to point in a direction he determined is North and spoke " Sore wa kitadesu. Watashi wa nekuromansā o koroshi tama de, watashi wa futatabi chōjō tsumori wa arimasen. Watashi wa ushinawa reta to wa naranai. Watashi wa futatabi kōgeki sa reru yō ni s#&*ai ot nodesu ka, watashi wa sō suru ningen o korosu koto ga arimasu. "
Nacht thinks remembering the language his just spoke was likely only known by the one from before and slowed his pitch and voice to the other language.
" Ce est du Nord. Je ne vais pas au sommet de nouveau jusqu'à ce que je ai tué le Nécromancien . Je ne deviens pas perdu . Je ne veux ot d'être attaqués à nouveau ou je peux tuer l'être qui le fait. "
Well then laddy, let's be going on to see this necromancer so we can get you back amongst us top-dwellers. Then we can hit the taverns and raise some trouble....
Ā, gengo no anata no rikai wa izen yori haruka ni sugurete imasu. Dakara wareware wa shisha no reizā o kari o s&**e iru? Ā. Kore wa tashika ni hijō ni.. Kōkina gen'indearu. Hijō ni eiyū-teki. Watashi wa iga han ni yotte kunren Hisao, ninjadesu. Anatadesu ka?
My name is Paddy, lad.
"Did everyone really learn to speak that one's language in a matter of hours?" Alphonse says.
Damn. Maybe my teacher was right when he called me an idiot. I always thought I was about average. Took me YEARS to learn the Celestial tongue. he thinks, sadly.
Nacht goes and tells the swift being what he knows.
" Sore wa, kokoro to bōeki no heiwa no tame no haruka ni eiyū yaku ika, yoridesu. Sore wa watashi ga itsumo, kono gengo o ninshiki s$@#e ita yōdesuga, watashi no kioku wa kiridearu. Watashi wa Nakuto to s@+%e shira rete imasu. Dono gengo de yoru o imi shimasu. "
Jean, steeling himself for whatever ELSE out of the ordinary may take place, silently offers up a prayer to the heavens, then with a grim stare looks to the hodge podge he belongs to.
"Well then... Let us be off to meet this blasphemer."
Nacht leads the way to the last place he recalled a mass amount of undead lay or the last time he saw the enemy.
Nacht leads the company of catacomb-crawlers deeper into the maze, to a great ossuary at the bottom of a long (100 ft) downward stairway.....
About halfway down the stairs, a chanting of numerous raspy voices echoes up from the dark ossuary below....
In Latin:
Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink of His blood, you shall not have life within you!
Nacht cannot understand the voices but motions to the other stealthier person to follow him as his skin seems to start to match the hue of the area around him. And suddenly he all but disappears without giving the party obvious tells of where his is to them.
Nacht then observes his surroundings to get an idea of what they may have to face.
Nacht cannot understand the voices but motions to the other stealthier person to follow him as his skin seems to start to match the hue of the area around him. And suddenly he all but disappears without giving the party obvious tells of where his is to them.
[dice=Spider Blend Stealth]1d20+13
Nacht then observes his surroundings to get an idea of what they may have to face.
[dice=Wasp Perception]1d20+10
Even as he fades into the gloom of his surroundings, the Beetle Man's superhuman senses form a mental model of the stairs and ossuary in his brain: a 40-ft-square vaulted ossuary, ceiling soaring to an apex of 60 ft, walls and vaulted ceiling engraved with relief images of angelic and more earthly forms--birds, beasts, men, women, and children, all presided over by a giant, skeletal, hooded and cloaked Reaper with great scythe in swing.... The floor is littered with the skulls, bones, rib cages, and pelvises of thousands of long-dead humans....
6 ghoulish figures sway and chant in the darkness, their hollow eye sockets burning with sparks of unholy fire!
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In Latin:
He that eats of my flesh, and drinks of my blood, shall have life forevermore!
Perception
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Perception
All six ghouls detect the approaching jangle of armored mortals, the whisper of their breathing, the beating of their hearts, the shuffle of their feet, and the hated glow of their lights....
The ghouls turn toward the stairs, eager for fresh meat!
Initiative
Nacht readies himself, Undead.. they were always an annoyance, this time he would be finally rid of them.
The party stands in marching order for a 10-ft-wide descending stairway. Their front rank is 50 ft from the bottom of the stair, which opens into the south side of a 40-ft-square-by-60-ft-high vault, the floor covered with skulls and bones to a depth of 2 feet (difficult terrain).
6 ghouls are arranged in a loose circle at the center of the vault....
Right! Sorry.... Father Renaud is a well-regarded and faithful old priest of Notre Dame, born in Paris and raised as an orphan by the church. He is known for charitable acts such as adopting stray cats and dogs, feeding street urchins, and healing the sick, even if they are too poor to afford the church's standard spell casting tithes. He is also known to be somewhat more fond of wine and young women than is becoming of a priest....
"More of these vile creatures!"
Nacht says a repetition of chitters something along the lines of a long cicada chirp near the bottom of the stairs, he then steps away the the left to allow his allies that were unaware of his presence be able to rush down the steps. In the chameleon-like cover of his skin pulling another Gladius, Having his longsword and 3 Gladius' poised to strike.
**Before combat **
Hisao looks upwards, though he cannot see the heavens, he still mutters a prayer
Somehow feeling that The Lord of the Monkeys is gazing back at him Hisao rolls his eyes and gets back to the business at hand.
Turning to Paddy he says with a quick bow
**
Hisao raises his eyebrows as the mysterious Nacht seems to blend into the surroundings
Hijō ni yoiga, watashi wa kono yō ni ryōkōde wa nai to shinjite
and so saying he disappears into thin air
Hidden in the shadows Hisao moves to flank one of the ghouls with a readied blade. He will attack after someone else in the party moves into melee to gain sneak damage opportunity.
The friar will begin a sermonic performance, speaking in Celestial [/b] We are strong in the Lord and in the power of His might! We are strong in the Lord and in the power of His might [/b]
Inspire Courage +1 (Su) Morale bonus on some saving throws, attack and damage
rolls.
Paddy readies his rapier, seeking a target to impale.
Jimeno draws his lance from his back and holds it out in front of him.
Too late to edit
Initiative
The friar will begin a sermonic performance, speaking in Celestial We are strong in the Lord and in the power of His might! We are strong in the Lord and in the power of His might
Inspire Courage +1 (Su) Morale bonus on some saving throws, attack and damage rolls.
"Yes we are!" Alphonse agrees, also in Celestial.
EDIT: Ninja'd
Iommi-Tyr Magnusson is in the rear of the party of PCs, learning to converse in Celestial: Practicing words & phrases, phonemes & morphemes.
FireSkorn!
Hisao!
Alphonse!
Paddy!
Nacht!
Tommy!
Jimeno!
Fray Manuel!
Ghouls!
TBD: Akio-San! Jean! Upchell!
Eeeeeek! Eeeeeek!