Staunton Bluffs Episode I: To the Borderstone

Don Fernando · Post by **Don Fernando** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 3:51 am

Jarryd still walks towards the entrance door very curious of what lies ahead.

kintire · Post by **kintire** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:33 am

Shana screams and leaps back, then tries desperatly to concentrate on the horror not being there before Tavian joins the bones...

Boccaccio Barbarossa · Mon Mar 20, 2006 6:37 pm

"I think you should have a look at..." His sentence hangs in the air at the sight of the charne; house before him. Talking door, a coin which figures a lost companion, a communal crypt, a satyr walking through walls...

"Can anybody read this?" He holds the cion aloft. "I would rather not contemplate that room...."

kintire · Post by **kintire** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 4:42 am

Shana glances at the coin impatiently, then double takes.

"Its PATH... but... how can that be? he vanished in the fog..."

Shana frowns thinking rapidly

"...or DID he?"

"uh... I have a theory... I think its possible Path is actually the one that DIDN'T vanish in the mists, and that this dream is his..."

Le Noir Faineant · Post by **Le Noir Faineant** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:19 am

[I proudly present you: The map of the house on the cliff...]

The pudding like mass in the northern room suddenly begins to move...

kintire · Post by **kintire** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 4:33 am

Shana is making for the empty room with beds, fast!

Tavian · Post by **Tavian** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 2:07 pm

Tavian stares, confused by the large pile of bones, as if it wouldn't quite register in his mind. When the pile begins to move, he snaps back to his senses and yets out a sharp "Yipe!"

With astonishing speed, Tavian slams the door closed and runs in the opposite direction, leaping over the fountain and nearly knocking over Shana on his way to the empty room.

Le Noir Faineant · Post by **Le Noir Faineant** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 9:35 am

Except for the furniture already described, the room is empty.

Still, Shana and Tavian can hear the woman's voice again, coming from the southeast...

The door that Tavian just shut begins to tremble...

Don Fernando · Post by **Don Fernando** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 4:31 pm

Jarryd is about to reach the main entrance when he hears a loud sound coming from one of the doors. Seems that someone or something is trying to get through that door. Hesitating, Jarryd extends the hand to turn the door knob, but the noise from the other door distracts him.

Instincively he reaches for his Scimitar. "I don't think that whatever is on the oher side of that door wants to give us a warm welcome.."

BigBadQDaddy · Post by **BigBadQDaddy** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 10:00 pm

Alain looks to Jarryd with a look of obvious foreboding.
"I don't believe anything has offered us a warm welcome since we got our invitations to the poisoned apple."
he then looks to the direction jarryd is looking.

Don Fernando · Post by **Don Fernando** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 5:18 am

"That is true my friend" Jarryd answers to Alain, knowing he's right. It seems they are marked for hostility. Somehow everyone they met has been attacking them.
"I think in these cases it is better to follow the shadow guide. Come Alain, let's follow Lodissio's shadow, after all he's still our guide.." Jarryd says hoping this choice will not lead them to their doom. The quest must still be finished. There is no time for failure...or death.

BigBadQDaddy · Post by **BigBadQDaddy** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 11:52 am

Alain seems to pur Jarryds suggestion over and over in his mind for a few moments. Then he sighs.
"yes, That is a good idea. At least if we come upon more danger we will have at least one more amongst our numbers."
He then follows along with Jarryd.

Le Noir Faineant · Post by **Le Noir Faineant** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 9:35 am

The girl Nicholas has been looking for starts to cry. "Run! Run for you lifes!"

Then she hastes into the room with the beds, stumbles and falls.

"Aah!"

Her leg is hurt and you can see the blood dropping on the ground.

But there are no veins or flesh behind her skin... Just a brown paste...

Wax...

And that wax is slowly melting!

The girl starts to decompose before your eyes, melting away like butter in the sun!

And behind you, the door is trembling!

My brothers my brothers, were have you gone...

A soft voice can be heard through all the chaos. Is this voice in your heads only, or is it real...?

Tavian · Post by **Tavian** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:50 am

Sprinting into the room, Tavian dives behind one of the beds.

Once on the other side, he tips the bed up, creating a barrier between himself and the doorway.

"Hurry! Defensive positions!" he shouts.

kintire · Post by **kintire** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:47 am

Shana glances at Tavian, then down at the decomposing girl

"right...when we're done retreating!"

She slips over to the other door and opens it a crack, taking a quick glance through

Café de Nuit

Welcome, friends, to our establishment.

Staunton Bluffs Episode I: To the Borderstone