Well, Radek, our intention is just to find some people who aren't already dead or want to make us so. Which has been more difficult thanks might think. he adds with a cheerful grin.
Were you here before or did you take this place?
Euron stands behind the crowned listening on at the two men at the front. He looks on in amazement at the mounted halfling. A flying mount i haven't seen a horse let alone a flying one since the harvest. It seems just like us they're telling their story so they can get on the right side of the wall like us."
Listening carefully to the duo, Radek plants his spear in between his feet and adopts a military 'at rest' position, which is likely as relaxed as he's going to get right at this moment. He continues glancing around as well at the two new faces.
Well Flynn, there were people here when we arrived, but not this community we have now. It evolved over the months since the harvest to what we have built up here today. We have fought very hard for what we have, and will continue to do so...
just that slight forthright tone as warning. He continues
Solace is ruled by a council. If you wish to join us you must agree to abide by the council's laws, as all in our community do. Everyone also has to contribute to the community. Keeping watch, foraging, scavenging for supplies, repairing the walls... This place works because everyone helps, there's always plenty of work needs doing
he offers a half-smile in an old soldier's attempt at diplomacy.
If you agree to those rules then you can live with us a week. After that we can have a conversation and if you both and the council agree that you can stay, then you have a home for as long as you like, bearing in mind those two rules. Sound fair?
He gestures back at Euron, Lilith, Lenneth and Azmerai
These men and women are new to the community and in their first week, you can always converse with them if you have questions about how we do things. There are no secrets here...
"It sounds fair to me. " Lives says simply. He turns to Flynn and raises a questioning eyebrow.
Flynn looks past the three mounted men to the people he indicates some distance away by the gate.
One of them looks desperately familiar. A human man he knows he has seen before but for now he cannot place him.
He looks back to the leaders of this community.
You won't need to worry about us pulling our weight. I've scouted out this land for ten miles in every direction and, as far as I can see from the air, yours is the only community standing. There's goblins in the mountains west. A farm or something south but nothing moving.
If nothing else Sky and I can offer you an early warning like nothing else you have now, I'll warrant. And Lives and I have been out there since the start, we know how to look after ourselves and deal with the dead.
So these newcomers are on probation, then?
He raises a hand to the people gathered at the gate.
I know that guy.... he thinks again, eyes falling on the broad, dark-haired human
Euron frowns at Radek talks of no secrets. No secrets.. not so sure about that something isn't right around here.
Seeing Radek pointing to them he nods to the men at the gate when he notices the mounted halfling seeming to stare at him.
Turning to the others in the group he whispers. "That halfling is giving me some strange looks, I hope this is over with soon we have to head out and look for the others."
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Lilith tentatively steps forward, her need overriding her timidness around new people and her position of new comer in the community. My name is Lilith. If you do desire to help there is something you can do for me right now Flynn. We… She hesitates, words getting stuck in her throat. Some of our party, friends, were lost yesterday. They fell into a ravine into fast moving water. We were fatigued and wounded and had to come back here instead of looking for them. With your mount, do you think you could go and look? there were three of them. And if all we can do is recover their bodies I want to do that. But if there is any chance that even one is alive and needs help, well I have to know. If Flynn is willing to help she will give details on where they were and what the missing look like.
A grim look passes over Flynn's face.
Lillith. he says, offering his hand for the woman to shake. I'm sorry to hear about your friends. If they fell into a river, there's at least some chance they survived. he says optimistically. But aye, I'd be glad to help. If there's anything to find Sky and I will seek it out. It shouldn't take us long.
It's tough out there now. The people we've met... it's all about survival now. They'll do anything, and most of that not pleasant. It took us days of arguing and three fly-bys before we decided to try this place. You haven't been here long, is it safe do you think? And that man; he indicates Euron. Was he here when you arrived? I swear I've seen him before and I'm wondering if it was on one of my flights over. I can't imagine where else it would have been.
Skyfall ruffles her feathers impatiently as her master talks. She never did like being grounded for long. Flynn adjusts the saddle as he talks and makes sure Sender is secure in the cradle he uses to carry the lance when skybound.
Seeing Lillith move forward, Euron does the same. "Greetings to both of you." He nods to each of them. "My name Euron Velren. It's good to see more survivors and ones that seem equipped to fight." He stares back at the Halfling for a moment before breaking the awkward looks. "Are my friend said." He looks to Lillith. "We lost some friends by the river last night, if you wouldn't mind flying down it. One of them Valex is a smart man he would live a sign, something for us to find them." If they made it out alive that is
Radek seems to relax a fraction as the two strangers agree to the community's terms. He nods at Flynn's description of the surrounding terrain.
Your report matches what our own scouts have told us. Of course the problem being you could hide a small army in that forest to the south without anyone being the wiser. We keep our own lookout that way too...
he waves his arm at Cale and Danel, and they both smile at Lives and Flynn before returning up the hill and back to whatever they were doing before the alarm was raised. Radek announces
Why don't you come in and take a look around, have a drink with us?
He eyes the giant bird warily
I'm not sure what you want to do with your mount...best place would probably be the tower but that would like as not give Mallis the fright of his life...
he shrugs
Regardless, we've only the one guest room, so as these folk are already using it you can either share it together or any of you are welcome to bed down in a tent next to the walls. It's colder but at least you can have your privacy
Radek waits, evidently keen on chaperoning his guests both old and new until he is sure everyone is ok. He seems to be watching and assessing, especially when Lilith asks her question about scouting the surrounds. He turns, expression dour
I had feared the worst Lilith, perhaps when you are all feeling up to it you can come and brief the council? We'd like to hear what happened, see if there's anything we can do...
Skyfall eyes the cat with some interest before Flynn gives her a stern Tut! and a raised finger right in her eyeline.
Euron. he thinks as the man approaches. Well the name doesn't ring a bell anyway.
Aye, I'll go and have a look as soon as I can. Hopefully they managed to make it out of the water and just holed up somewhere. If the worst has happened... I wont be able to carry them back. But at least I can show you where they are.
In answer to Lenneths question he answers;
Sky is unique. I'll tell you all about her when I get back. Maybe over a drink or two to celebrate our arrival? he adds with a grin
With that, he swings himself into the saddle and lowers his goggles. Sky begins to screech excitedly immediately, a piercing shriek and with a loud;
Up, Skyfall! Ha! Flynn takes to the sky, propelled upward on powerful wings. He swoops around Solace, showing off somewhat, before majestically climbing and streaking across the sky toward the south
"I am content to sleep outside, within the walls. " is Lives' only reply.
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As his companion agrees to scout for the missing people, he asks "Flynn, do you need eyes on the ground?"
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Lilith' relieve is painted on her face with Flynn agrees to go and search. She interrupts Radek when he suggests they come and have a look around. No! You do not understand Flynn is going to search for our friends now. Not later. He is going now, right Flynn? She looks almost frantic with the request.
Flynn pulls Lives to one side and says;
Eyes on the ground would be useful, but here and not out there. Get a feel for the place, and pay particular attention to that Euron guy. There's.... Something about him.
But most of all, keep yourself safe. Me going to have a look for their friends might earn us some trust, but we don't know if we can trust them.
He winks up at the tall Shoanti warrior.
I'll be back before you know it.
skyfall slices through the air toward the ravine. It takes less than an hour to reach and as Flynn spots the ruined rope bridge, he dives down toward the river and follows it course for several miles.
Euron watches at the halfling flys off. A flying scout.. what he could do for us and this place. Polo would have him search for his son.. but now we look to save those lost to us.
After a few moment he steps up to the other new member. "Lives is it? There is plenty of room in the guest quarters, i would help you and Flyn would join us. We're all new here after all, best to make friends early." He looks on at the man, trying to study him.
Radek's voice trails off as Lilith asks her question desperately, nodding to himself and at Flynn when he agrees to scout. Radek turns to Lives.
Well, any part of the wall that's not already taken is yours. Why don't you stick with Lilith, Lenneth, Azmerai and Euron for now, they can show you around and compare notes. You've missed breakfast but the main meal will be later at dusk, why don't you all foll...
There is a faint scream from inside the keep, barely audible from here, but it's enough to get your blood pumping with fear of what might have caused it. Radek immediately breaks in to a run and moves to head inside.
He almost crashes in to a pale-faced and out of breath Brae, her dress stained with blood
Come quick, the back store... it's Finas...
Running back through the hall, you follow in Radek's wake towards the back of the keep. A sobbing Tabitha is being comforted by a scared looking Ashleigh, on the floor by the door to the store. Discarding his spear and drawing his sword, Radek pushes open the door to see the unmoving body of a recently-zombified Finas. His head appears to have been caved in with an iron bar, now lying discarded on the floor amid the mess this side of the room has become.
Brae catches her breath and explains
Tabitha opened the store to get some supplies and Finas was in there, he...it tried to grab hold of her but I managed to grab that bar and bash its skull in
she speaks quietly, her face still wan. Radek surveys the scene and after kicking the corpse on the floor to make sure it wasn't still animated, sheathes his sword. Turning to Brae he grasps her on the shoulder and looks her over
Well done, without your quick action this could have gone far worse. You should take those two to the hall and brew some tea, it will help get some distance. Old soldier's trick.
He ushers them away, helping the younger girls stand and watching them go before turning to you.
Radek turns to you and sighs
Unpleasant though it might be, we need to deal with this, and everyone else is already out and about working. I'm going to go and tell Nikolai and Whisper, this room will need to be cleaned but I'd like to find out a bit about what Finas was doing in here and how he died. I'd like you to stay here for a while to stop others from interfering. I'll be back shortly.
With that he starts to leave.
The room is half well-ordered store and half chaotic mess...
Looking around the shop Azmerai checks for any useful things.
Lives shrugs and follows along with the group, breaking into a run when the screams sound.
The young Shoanti's eyebrows knot questioningly as he takes a few steps around the room, poking at the shelves.
"Does anyone know if all of the bars were in that pile, there? Would have been hard to grab one just coming in the door, if they were." he says, quietly. Glancing around at his new companions, he continues:
"Also, how bad was this room before these events? Does it look like a short fight like this would have torn the whole place up? Not knowing what it looked like before, I'd guess that either the dead one was moving around in here for some time, or..."
He trails off, apparently a bit embarrassed, and spends a bit more time looking around the room. He sinks into a squat, then something around the collapsed shelf catches his eye. He walks over, grabs the rope, and holds it up, eyebrow cocked in a silent question.
Following along, Euron looking in on the gruesome scene. "We'll hold the door." He nods at Radek as he begins to move in to the room still wary of the body.
"It would have taken a few blows to the head for this damage, and there doesn't seem to be any broken bones on the arms and shoulders, the blows were pretty accurate." Euron then rolls up the shirt sleeves. "Look here. Slash wounds across both wrists, this is how he died. These ligature mark on his ankle.. could he have been restrained?" Stroking his chin in thought. This isnt right..
Standing he takes another look around the room. "He has a very stylized black snakeskin hilt on his dagger last time we saw him. Where is it now?"
Hearing Lifes observation Euron nows sees what Life is pointing out. "You're right, there is a lot more disturbance here than there should be. None of this seems to fit together.. something isn't right." Sticking his head outside of the door to make sure the group is alone he moves back in. "Lives.. you're new here just like us, We all feel something isn't right i thought it would be best to tell you now. There's little things that just don't feel right about this place, secrets are being kept from us this could be something bigger than it looks."
Lives draws a deep breath and lets out a heavy - ever so slightly dramatic - sigh. "Well, that didn't take long..." he says with a wry smile.
"What can you tell me quickly, before this Radek returns?"
Flynn and Skyfall soar in to the air, the cold wind both bracing and warning of a harsh winter to come. In some ways, Flynn is looking forward to it, if only to slow the Walkers down. Being airborne, in truth he has managed to stay ahead of them so far, but for his friend Lives and now the others, any advantage over the dead was worth taking.
For several hours he searches the river but he is determined to make sure they are seen to be useful, having a place among the community was important for their future. And yet... that man. For the entire flight he had been wracking his brain for where he knew him but so far all that he could come up with was that he did know him.
Euron. Why can I see you dressed differently? Not in armor but in dark clothing. Like a thief. Or a spy...
Finally downstream he spots something in a bend in the river, miles downstream of the clifftop. It looks like a body. He swoops down beside the body and pulls back on the reigns, asking Skyfall to use her powerful wings to hold them there, just for a few moments.
The body has snagged on a tree whose branches dangle in the water. Coming closer you it is apparent that the corpse has the telltale spasming and occasional groaning of a newly risen zombie. He can see it has the features of a female elf, though dark-skinned, unlike any other he has seen. He isn't sure if this is the elf the woman, Lillith, described or not but he could not leave her as she was. He unslings Sender and holding it like a spear, drives the lance into the creature's unbeating heart.
She has probably died of exposure. Her leg looks broken and he cannot imagine the desperate loneliness and fear she must have felt over the hours it would have taken for the cold to claim her. He decides at that moment to tell the others she did not survive the fall. Better they not think of her suffering that way.
The only thing that remains on her person is a vicious-looking dagger, tucked in her belt. Landing, he drags the body out of the water and takes the dagger, proof that he found their friend, though neither he nor Sky can carry her.
Satisfied he can do no more, Flynn remounts Sky.
Come on girl, let's get back. At least we found something.
As she takes to flight again, his thoughts turn back to the man called Euron.
Where could I have seen him? There's no way he came to the village. Outside of the druids and the occasional ranger, no humans ever did.
So that means it must have been afterward. After everything went to hell.
He strains to remember, turning all his thought on it. His bird knew the way back so he didn't even pilot her, just tried to relax and think.
The silence of this altitude was startling. To those who have never flown it would be something unnerving, where all you hear is the occasional beat of wings and the constant, soothing rush of wind. He found it amazingly calming.
Or was it after...? he muses. What if it was just before?
And then suddenly he did remember, the memory coming not in shadowy, watery pictures but in stark, exact images.
It was him! Flynn roars suddenly, startling Skyfall who screeches in protest.
Come on girl, we have to get back, they have to know.
The wind fairly rips at Flynn's hair and cloak as he streaks through the sky, pushing his mount ever harder. Instinctively she rides the currents of air, alternatively climbing and diving to slice through the air like a blade.
Flynn can feel her powerful heart thumping beneath him as he bends low over her neck, Solace just coming into view through the morning mists.
Again looking around to make sure no one else has sneaked up on them he turns to lives. "It's all these little secrets. What we've found is the priest Violet they so reaver here claims to be a cleric of Abadar, but her mannerisms they way she speaks of Abadar and they prayers is all wrong. If she was of another faith why hide it? They lock her up all day and she is only let out during meal times to speak a prayer. We tried to go speak to her but she wouldn't come to the door."
Pausing for a moment he looks out side the door again. "Also this council, they don't like to speak about any of it. It's just not right, i want this place to work but you can't build a new world on lies and mistrust. Now look at this, it all seems wrong Finas turning in the store room... it just seems staged." He then looks to the others for some backup so he doesn't continue to sound like a madman.
Looking around Azmerai checks for useful bits and pieces. Weapons armor or raw materials
[ooc]Lives: there was some 'gaze meeting' among the three as the events were recounted by Brae, there may be some things they left out but the emotions, the fear and concern, were genuine.
Brae reappears a couple of minutes after Radek leaves.
That's quite the mess he made of our nice neat storeroom
she says sadly, evidently speaking of Finas. She glances up the corridor to make sure no-one else is in earshot and adds
I don't want Radek to find out, but Ashleigh and Tabitha took my key to open the store and grab some things, they were going to make something special, I'm sure the idea's gone right out of their heads now she shakes her head sadly
Anyway, they aren't supposed to be here without someone supervising and I don't want them in trouble...I came running as fast as I could, just in time it seems, no-one was hurt so I'd appreciate it if you didn't question the girls about it, they're delicate as you have seen.
she smiles appreciatively, then gestures at the room
Any theories before our stand-in constable comes back and tells us it was all an accident and we need pay no attention?...
Azmerai looks around for anything of use, and remembering Lilith's request from so long ago, spots two pieces of parchment and an ink bottle, which quickly make their way in to his pouch. There are no weapons to speak of in here, most of the contents are balls of twine, some lamp oil, hemp rope, blankets, a large pile of bad-smelling tapestries and other assorted bric-a-brac placed in here for safekeeping in case it 'might be useful one day'...
Lives is silent as Brae returns, looking around impassively. HE is curious as to the reasoning for not wanting the girls questioned, and wondering if this "Brae" is hiding something. In any case, he does not offer any theories when Brae asks.
"Brae, this has all gotten out of hand. It only takes one to spread through the castle and bring this place to the ground." Letting his words hold in the air for he studies her for a moment.
"What were Ashleigh and Tabitha here to make? We may have to speak to, i know you want to protect them but we have to find out what happened here. You seem to know this was no accident. You need to tell us if anything like this has happened before, you need to help us." He begins to show a look of seriousness, wanting to get to the bottom of what's happening around here.
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Lilith notes the inspection of the parting women with some admiration, glad that Radek is taking proper precautions. At the "store" she inspects the scene, finding the rope constraints and pointing them out to the others. She takes a moment to combine with those with a good heal check tells her with what she has found and then with shock showing on her face she postulates Finas was tied up here. He was put down with that bar while tied up.
When Brae makes her request its all Lilith can do not to challenge her immediately but has learned from experience its better to let those who are more diplomatic talk first. She quietly moves to block the door though and watches and listen for a response to Euron.
Brae sighs as her question is ignored
The girls heard you got back last night, and that some of you didn't return. I believe they wanted to make some bags for you.
she considers Euron's question
Nothing like this has ever happened before. Talk of what might happen should someone die in their sleep has been raised in the past, the council considered options but there isn't enough space for everyone to have their own rooms to sleep in. Anyone who is ill gets their own room, helps with infection as well as what might happen if they... she trails off, pointing at Finas.
She continues
He wasn't tied up when he was discovered, Tabitha opened the door and he lunged at her straight away, he couldn't have done that if he was tied up. I barely had time to grab the nearest thing and strike with it. Do you know how he died?
Radek reappears and looks at Brae, she glowers back then moves back to her charges. You hear her muttering under her breath about being shut out of the council process again.
Thank you for looking after this for me.
he looks around at you all then shrugs
Nikolai is of a mind to let you investigate this, as a third party group that couldn't have had anything to do with it given when you got back this morning. We want to ensure everyone understands this is an impartial process.
he fixes you with an easy stare
It's up to you, I know your minds must be grieving, but perhaps this can help. I always found work to be an escape of sorts from the perils of memory... I hope you agree. The council has agreed to let you talk to anyone you wish to investigate this. Come and talk to us about your findings at the end of the day
His search evidently completed, you hear the cry of Flynn's mount echoing faintly from the hall.
The castle now known as Solace begins to appear out of the mist, like some waking creature.
Flynn presses his mount ever harder until the grey walls streak beneath them. He sees a man in the watch tower instinctively take evasive action though Sky passes nearly twenty feet over him.
Don’t worry fella, we aren’t looking for you. the Halfling thinks.
Throughout the journey back he wondered what he would say, how he could convince the others that a snake was among them. He wondered if appealing to their sense of outrage was the best method, or reminding them of the fact they had just lost their friends. But in the end he decided there was only one way to deal with a snake and once again his hand on the smooth wooden grip of his lance tightens.
He swoops around in a wide arc, banking at an angle that almost puts him perpendicular to the ground. The courtyard is beneath him now and he can see several people pointing but not his quarry.
And then there he was.
The man called Euron strides out beside the large half-orc and the elf who asked him to go on the search in the first place. It had occurred to him that all of them were in on it but he quickly dismissed that when he remembered Lillith’s pleading eyes. She looks up at him now, shouting something he cannot hear.
He pulls hard on Skyfall’s reigns taking her up, climbing almost vertically away from the castle. It was a manouveur they had practiced a thousand times and now instinct and muscle memory took over for the creature. As they reached the apex of the loop she gives a single, powerful beat of her wings to propel her ground-ward before tucking her wings in and cutting through the air like a blade. The ground rushes up at a terrible speed but Flynn’s heart rejoices in the moment as he let’s go completely and trusts his ability to grip with his knees and Sky to keep him steady as he draws Sender from it’s harness and takes hold with both hands, ready to drive the weapon through Euron’s chest at a devastating 40 miles per hour. He sees people begin to scatter and his quarry look up with wide, staring eyes as the shadow falls over him.
Too late! Flynn thinks. But then, at that very last moment he realises that killing him would be scant conciliation for all that has happened. What he really wanted, was to know why.
As Skyfall earns her name and streaks toward the ground like red-gold vengeance, Flynn tucks Sender back into it’s harness and kicks his feet out from the stirrups. Incredibly, he launches himself off the saddle so that no longer is it the bird plummeting toward Euron but the Halfling himself, wind tearing at his hair, fist raised in fury.
RRRRAAAAAAAA he screams as he rockets toward the ground like a comet, slamming his fist into Euron’s face with a tremendous force that sends the bigger man staggering backward.
The fall should have broken Flynn in half but he lands on his feet with barely a grimace and within moments has ripped his blade from it’s sheathe.
he screams.
Sky swoops down and hovers beside her master, screeching warnings in every direction.
I remembered where I'd seen you. I just want to know why.
"We want to get to the bottom of this. But first we need to find out what happened to our friends." Euronm says as he watches Lilith leave to meet with Flyn.
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Stepping outside, he begins to hear the commotion and before he can work out what its all about he is stuck from above, seeing the halfling for only a second before he feel's his fist connect with his face. Staggering back lost unsure of why, he falls to one knee holding his face as it begins to swell.
Time seems to slow down, as it all begins to register with him. Flyns accusations... Flyns knowledge he knew him before the red harvest, he knows the dark secret he had hoped he could forget for ever only to be braighr up in his worth nightmares. He quickly shouts out to defend himself. "શું ?! શું તમે વિશે વાત કરવામાં આવે છે !? શા માટે તમે મને હુમલો આવે ?!" His words flow out like pure blackness a language like nails on a chalkboard, he quickly stops himself covering his mouth as he realises what he's just done, then quickly looking back at his friends as he shakes his head. Is this how it end?! is it my time to pay for what i did? A slip of my curse when I loose all my control!"
Radek draws his sword but doesn't interfere, and motions Cale and Danel as well as the others who have come running, to stay back. They look at him nervously, but obey.
Currently he appears to be content watching to see what develops, evidently leaving the newcomers to their argument, at least whilst it doesn't immediately threaten the community.
Lives follows the others out into the courtyard as the sound of Skyfall reaches his ears.
When he sees the climb and dive, his eyes widen. He stares, dumbstruck, never even thinking to lower his gaze, see what Flynn's target acutally is. When the halfling piles into Euron he moves quickly toward them. Euron's reply - and that it was in some sinister language he did not recognize - did not even register with him.
As Flynn drew and stepped up, Lives, hands raised placatingly, palms out and loose, steps nearly between them.
"If we have a fight, you know I am with you. But, take a moment - If you wish to be here, maybe it is time for words, not swords."
The Shoanti's tone is even, neutral - despite his plea for reason, he seems to not really care which way the confrontation goes.
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Lilith is ready to summon her most deadly arcane energies to defend her friend but when he speaks she pauses. That is Necril. Why would Euron speak the language of the undead. She pauses, unsure, as she counts the few days she has actually known Euron. Then her rational mind takes over as she considers the fact that Flynn did not use lethal force.Is there some meaning to this attack? She finally manages to ask Flynn.
Flynn grimaces as he hears the horrid, guttural language.
Fill your hands with steel, you son of a b*tch, let that do your talking for you! the tiny figure yells
Wheeling on Lillith, his handsome little face a mask of fury, he spits;
Since the second I laid eyes on him I knew I'd seen him somewhere before, it just took some time before I remembered where.
The druids in my community knew something was unbalancing nature, they found out about some death cult that was meeting in the mountains and asked me to spy on them. Before I could report back or really do anything, he says helplessly The world ended. And he was part of it! he points with his small sword
Walking forward with his hands like slabs of meat Azmerai is ready to defend Euron, but something in his heart stops him. Listening to the halfling words he looks at euron. "What do you say about his accusations?"
Taking a few deep breaths, seeing those he considered friends seeking answers he would rather not give. Calming himself down he tries to speak again. "It's.. it's not as simple as that!" He finds himself shouting now. "We've all done things we can't take back! Let me just explain, somewhere not so public. Please let me just explain." He tries to plead with the others hoping they will hear him out.
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Defending Euron with words rather than spells Lilith fires back I know this man through his actions of the last few weeks. He is brave and has defended us at risk to his own life. He has stood watch while we slept. He has shared food and other resources with us and has proven true. If you strike him again, unless it is in self defense I shall name you enemy and do my best to put you down. Sheath your weapon and listen to Euron's reasons.
When everyone else in the world is dead maybe hindsight is a wonderful thing. None of us are saints but he was there at the beginning, he helped cause this! He helped kill every single person you've ever known, don't you get that? He asks of the wizard incredulously.
He then turns back to Euron.
Tell them I'm a liar. he challenges
With a look of defeat he speaks out. "Reasons? I had no reasons... I had a will. I had a will to live! I won't lie to you anymore, I lived in Magnimar all my life I grew up in the slums. I had no one i had nothing. I never knew how deep it all went, they just needed me to smuggle a few things a few people get my hands dirty... But they showed kindness, i fell for a woman you could say that made it easier for me i was young i didnt know this would happen. He gestures around him.
"I could say i did it for love, i could say i did it for a million reasons but none of it will change what i did. I helped bring this all about." He then slumps to his knees in front of Flyn, his eyes welling up the look of a broken man.
"The action i took after it all happened. I turned my back on them, I saw the light I was blessed in the last seconds before the harvest was complete. I was given a cause i was given a curse, so those i met would know I was marked to speak the black tongue of undeath." He moves his neck closer to Flyns blade. "Take my life is you must, all i have left is my mission to help those still alive. To try and write my wrongs, i don't deserve to live in a new world but i will help those who deserve it bring an end to all this undeath." He stares at the halfling. "I won't, i can't lie anymore. If this is my penance then so be it."
Flynn knows all he need do is push forward with his blade, the easiest thing in the world. But he hesitates. The man before him looks broken.
Grabbing Euron by his throat and lifting him easely in the air and with a shout of utter despair and rage a wordless cry of rage, of despair and of fury he whirls the man away from himself. He did it, he is responsible, h.. Kill him, break his neck, maim his bod... "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" [i]I am... I am no slave, no beast to my fury
"Tell me ... why I not break you now?"
Euron falls to the ground, a puppet under Azmerai's strength."Azmerai please! We fought together we lived together, you saved my life as i have done for you!" He shouts out as he reach for his tender throat. "I had no idea it would come to this, i had no idea what they were planning. I tried to stop it I tried to take it back but it was too late. I was given this power this curse to change what i did to make right my wrongs, please!" He pleads with the half-orc knowing he could kill him at any moment.
Everyone back! shouts Radek at the assembled onlookers. They stand dumb just staring until he roars again at twice the volume
Cale and Danel use the shafts of their spears to form a makeshift barricade and physically push people to get them moving. The area around the party empties as most of the Solace community cowers in fear.
Radek adopts a battle stance, sword held high with vengeance in his eyes
It matters not what you do now, you are forever marked, blackness on your heart!
he moves towards Euron with hate-filled steps, but suddenly stops and looks down. It takes a moment to realise what just happened, but you can now see Whisper stood in his way, dagger drawn and touching Radek's stomach. She shakes her head at him, and without looking away from Radek, uses her other hand to throw something behind her.
It lands in between Euron and Azmerai, a simple wooden carving depicting a whippoorwill clutching a thornless black rose.