The Dark Lord Morgoth's Call Forth Darkness

Game Master Lieutenant Paladine

Mordekai sits down and process what just happened for a couple of seconds. "Well then, do we keep moving and exploring or wait for the aid that the wench told us of?" Mordekai stands up and looks around the area. "Also has anyone seen Oswald?"

Edward looks around at the bodies surrounding them, giving the corpses an appraising look. "A moment, please. I have been putting a great deal of effort into researching a particular sort of magic, and I believe that my study may now bear fruit."

After taking some time to recover from the battle, Edward pulls out his spell book, spending a couple minutes to familiarize himself with a pair of rituals detailed within (preparing two castings each of blood money and animate dead in his open slots). He then pulls his voidstick out of his pack and plants it in the ground creating a desecrate effect.

He begins casting, slicing open his hand as he does so (taking 1d6 ⇒ 6 damage). Blood floats from the wound, forming an onyx gem. Dread incantations echo in the tunnel as Edward calls the souls of the boggards back to reanimate their corpses. Flesh slips off the bones of the dead, who rise covered in a slick sheen of gore.
Edward gives a wolfish grin. "Seems that it worked." He repeats the process with relish.

2nd Blood Money Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 5

With desecrate, I am able to animate 28 HD of undead with one casting. I'm making them all bloody skeletons, which doubles the cost. 4 boggard corpses (12 HD, doubled cost to 24) rise under my control. 24 HD costs 600 gp, so 2 points of STR damage from blood money. Doing this twice, for 8 bloody skeleton boggards and 4 STR damage.

"Bravo Mister Edward, Bravo. Undead make for wonderful minions. I tend to think that devils are better but that is merely my monumental ego talking." A small devil flies beside Mordekai. It's lower half is a large fly and it's upper half is a fat baby torso. it is dressed in a regal purple robe that covers it's "human' part. "Here I am Master Mordekai. It tok me longer to assume a form on this plane then I expected. Please forgive Oswald, your humble servant." The small fly bows to Mordekai.

After the undead are created the party starts hearing a mess of sound coming from farther within the cave. It is hard to make out what this sound is. It is simply a mess, there is no harmony whatsoever or semblance of form or organization. Like many beings all yelling something random at the same time. However, soon a harmony starts to form from the discord. Sounds start over lapping and almost clarity. Maybe you can start hearing words. It is Boggard words but words none the less. As you listen more you start hearing other languages and recognizable words, names actually. Names of important places from your past and people. Names that would only hold meaning to you. What names do your character's hear and in what language?

Soon who hear one voice over powers all other. It clearly cuts through the song but is somehow part of it. Giving mean to nothing. "Edward, Mordekai, Vyllaria. Fellow worshipers of the devils! COME! Your servants await. Zikomo-hears-the-Mother awaits his lords."