From: John Constable (john_at_kript.net)
Date: Mon Nov 10 2003 - 16:35:46 GMT
On Sunday, November 9, 2003, at 01:03 am, Naron wrote:
> Todiel devotes himself completely to Temorya, making sure the troll is
> comfortable and always in his sight. He only talks to those that
> Temorya has words with and stands with him at all times. At night,
> when the temperature drops, he sits with you all around the small fire
> you allow, trying not to waste the dwindling firewood that was laid
> out in the chamber. You ask him of the darkness that exists and he
> seems reluctant to talk of what he has seen. But slowly you draw
> information from the Windling who once was a troll. The darkness has
> taken many forms over the years. Todiel tells you that he has been
> working here for at least 7 years, in an attempt to make the area
> safer for travellers to the area. He travelled here alone and set to
> work, going into the Kaer only to get food as often as needed. The
> Kaer is well populated by its former residents, mainly in the form of
> cadaver men, who wander the kaer keeping everything clean and in
> place. The only area they leave is the food chambers due to the
> nature of them they have little interest in it.
>
> He has not seen the horror that must lay in wait somewhere in the
> chamber, though once there was a creature made of bone that came up
> the passage and moved about the chamber. Todiel managed to stay away
> from it undetected but looking at the ball of bone it drove him to a
> great thirst. At first he thought that this must be the horror but on
> my next trip into the Kaer he saw two of them in the area, which
> suggests to him that they are constructs of the horror. Generally
> this chamber is ignored by the inhabitants below and the visit from
> the bone thing and one or two cadaver men the area has been occupied
> only by Todiel. He tells you that you are not the first to have
> arrived here and that at least two seperate groups have descended into
> the kaer before you. What happened to them he has no idea but none
> have ever returned.
As Todiel finishes, Pean fishes some coloured chalk from a pouch, and
asks him to draw a map of the Kaer, or as much as he knows..
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