Who? Who did what? Who murdered you and how did you get into that compartment? What happened here anyway? Help us bury you so you can find peace!
Still heaving and seeking support from the doorframe, Lalali shouts at the apparition.
"The body have to be laid to rest in a proper burial place in order to placate the poltergeist. But no way I'm going back in there. That thing is just too freaky..." She's almost shaking with fright as she turns to see the new guy.
"Wait, who are you. You're all wet. Did you come from the ship?" She makes big eyes with surprise.
"Are you sure you're not a Goblin? That would make a certain amount of sense." said Caiden seriously, then breaking into a snicker.
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Outside
Grym looks familiar to those of you still outside, you never interacted with him but saw him around the ship.
Inside
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Mak Diplomacy Aid Another
Vigny speaks, "Help us help you!"
Mak just shrugs, this is not something he expected to encounter and is unsure of what to really say.
"He stabbed me, why would he stab me, we were friends!" the Poltergeist shrieks as the objects still swirl around the room in mid-air.
"It sounds bad in that church." Darvan says.
"That's why my religion just worships by throwing sacrifices into the ocean."
As the terrible, terrible voice inside the church speaks, Caiden continues to run away in a panic.
How terrible! Why would he do that, betray you like that? And who was he? And who are or were you by the way? Let me help you! Tell me all that happened and guide me on how to help you best!
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Grym, you open the door and see the spectral body of some undead thing!
"Rayland Arkley! He was my friend!" the figure screeches once more.
"Who am I? I am I am... I'm Silas. Silas Weatherbee.
Everyone began acting. Strange. Out of character for what I knew of them. So I sought out Rayland, he was my best friend in the Colony and then he... he stabbed me. Twice. But I got away".
Mak stays there, listening to the spectre. It seems something turned all the colonists mad. He'd like to ask the apparition more things, like where are the others, what happened that made all act strange, and else, but he decides to stay silent. Too many talking at a time might piss off the ghost, and no one wants that.
"It sounds like she's in there making friends with a ghost."
Oh no Silas Weatherbee! Why did Rayland Arkley do it? Betray you like that? Was he mad? Or maybe sick? What happened to the other people in the village? And what happened to you after you got away? How did you die?
Lalali, still dry heaving and leaning on the doorframe, seems to be too sickened to be really bothered by the ghost.
She might not really have realized what's going on in the room, still a bit bend over facing the floor, in case she hasn't finished emptying her stomach yet.
”Seems like it. Let’s hope Poltergal in there doesn’t get eaten by a ghost or somethin’ nasty like that.”
"Surely the poltergeist in there is the thing that scared away in the village. Even I couldn't stand to be near it. It's terrifying. Still, it would be good to try to put it to rest rather than antagonizing it further by attacking it. Someone have to get the body out and give it a proper burial. But I'm not going back there." Neziana says as she looks back at the chapel with trepidation, ready to bolt if she sees the poltergeist coming out.
"I can manage the body" Mak offers, "if someone else manages the ceremony."
Caiden spends the next few rounds running, then turns around and comes back.
"If you want to toss 'em off the end of the pier, I can say a few words."
"Alright then, get something ready and I'll fetch the corpse." Mak then waits for a sign that Grym is ready, after which he picks the body by the ankles and moves it wherever needed.
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"The stab was too much, I tried to hide and then slink away but I passed out and then... and then...
I... I don't know what happened to this place but I want to know. I have to know!
Will you help me?"
As Mak moves towards the body of Silas, the spirit of Silas swoops towards him, objects swirling in the room, "What are you doing!"
Darvan is keeping his distance from the haunt.
Aleziella cautiously approach the poltergeist again after recovering from her fright. "We want to know what happened to this place too. Of course we will help you. But we have to put this body to rest first."
While carrying the body to where he's told, Mak answers the spirit. "I'm gonna put this body to rest! That should give you peace!"
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The poltergeist grimaces as he watches his body being moved, "Alright.
I want to know why and what.
Find out. Tell me or I will.. I will.. I will be back!"
The spirits body expands and in a flash of light is gone, the items swirling about the room all drop to the floor with smaller and larger thuds.
Your new companion Grym finds what appears to be a suitable place to bury Silas. However, as you dig, you find another corpse...
Once he returns, Caiden offers to help bury the body, and is surprised that there is already a body here. He looks around to see if there is other recently upturned dirt.
"This must be one of the first victims" Mak comments on the new found corpse, "from where they still had time and people to properly bury the dead." Of course is only a hypothesis, but I've that should calm those who might freak out about it.
Neziana does what she can to help, but she's more about speed rather than raw strength. "This could just be someone who died in an isolated incident, but somehow I kinda doubt it. It would be nice to figure out what killed them or who they were. " She leans down to examine the body more closely.
”What’re the odds of that, I wonder? Findin’ a corpse right where we intend to bury one...”
"It's like that halfling knew there was a body there....."
Yes, that is oddly suspicious and stupid at the same time. Except he plans to poison us or something else.
Lalali inspects the body, hoping to learn how he died and when.
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Lalali and Neziana inspect the corpse, it appears to be shriveled as if all of the liquid was drained from its body. The body was that of a human male.
Farther into the jungle to the east there are a handful of other graves, each corpse, was slain in this same fashion. That accounts for now four of the colonists, three slain in this horrific manner and Sylas, stabbed by whoever Rayland Arkley was or perhaps, is.
"We're still missing a large amount of people. Did anyone have any luck with tracking?"
Darvan studies the ground to look for tracks.
"There should be tracks in a settlement this size."
"They've faded .... so that means it has been some time since these people have disappeared."
"I think any more clues will have to come from searching the other buildings."
Mak comments his thoughts casually. "Three guys drained of all blood and another stabbed? With what, a wooden stake?"
"What specifically are you thinking Makanaky? Vampires? If so, they would have exploded in the sunlight when we unearthed them."
"Mmm... yeah, right? I don't know... I was just thinking aloud. But I know the reason beyond the lack of blood in their corpses is one I won't like when we find out." He keeps helping with the physical job, for what he's better qualidfied, performing a holy symbol with his hand to protect from evil spirits.
Neziana frowns with worry. "No matter what happened here, we should finish burying the bodies. Then we should stick together. There's more going on here than is obvious at first glance."
"I agree with that" Mak says, and puts his hands to the job.
Gnarok nods, "You make a fine point, Shouty."
He pauses for a minute before saying, "Hm, bloodsuckers and someone stabbed with a stake. Either vampires, or somethin' similar enough as to be indistinguishable."
"Let's search the rest of these buildings." Darvan says.
"Let's check the house just east of the chapel to see if there any signs of people or violence."
Mak agrees. "If we're going to check everything, we should start somewhere."
He directs his steps towards the house that Darvan pointed out.
Caiden reburied the body he had uncovered and said "keep your eyes out for more graves like this, as well as whatever buried them. I doubt the Goblins did it."