Staunton Bluffs Episode I: To the Borderstone

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Jarryd still walks towards the entrance door very curious of what lies ahead.
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Shana screams and leaps back, then tries desperatly to concentrate on the horror not being there before Tavian joins the bones...
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"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...."
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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..."
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[I proudly present you: The map of the house on the cliff...]

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The pudding like mass in the northern room suddenly begins to move...
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Shana is making for the empty room with beds, fast!
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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.
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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...
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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.."
"6 out of 10 Rakshasas eat Whiskas"
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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...?
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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.
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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
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