Whispers at the Fire
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_A few hours later, the combined group can be seen retreating back from the graveyard, badly wounded and exhausted looking after what appears to have been a large battle in the graveyard.
After seeing her people tended, Kara rushes off to try and find Dwin quickly, leaving the militia to barricade off the entrance to the graveyard._
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As the soft morning rays lift over the hills in the nars, a group of heavily armed paladins can be seen leaving from the Shrine of Kelemvor and moving towards Norwick's graveyard, where they meet up with some norwick militia and then proceed to set up a camp in the Graveyard and start fending back the rising undead. Among their duties, the paladins are seen to be returning the walking corpses to the graves they rose from and uttering a quiet prayer to bring them peace, before returning to their posts.
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One evening the druid Wolf was seen guiding a lost deer through the south gates, and the witch Raisa came running after him. The gates were closed, but the nightwatch relate they had a cold, rainy shift full of shouting, whining, and sobbing all in that bleating druid tongue. With the morning, the woman returned to town, soaked, alone, and leaning heavily on her staff.
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@e795df31ea=Darkspyr:
The guard grips their staves and grin as they follow the odd fellow for a bit but he wanders aimlessly out of town and they return to their posts dissapointed
lets leave the NPC's actions to the DM's, shall we?
thanks
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The guard grips their staves and grin as they follow the odd fellow for a bit but he wanders aimlessly out of town and they return to their posts dissapointed
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_Dwin points to the helm-wearing fool and then snaps at 2 guards.
He makes the "watch him and toss him in jail with the Orc if he keeps acting like that" sign with his fingers, nods, and continues into the barracks._
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Rumor has it that a man with a helm always on is acting more strange than normal. Occasionaly muttering things some obscene language and chuckling a lot. This man can normaly be seen with a torch in hand no matter the hour of the day. In passing you may occasionaly see him wobble or stagger as he walks.
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The guards begin to talk openly of a recent meeting between the Advisor and the elf Raryldor just outside the south gate. It seemed nothing unusual at first, until the advisor raised his voice, pointing a finger to Rary and spouting something that seemed rather harsh, though the whole time speaking elven. In the end, the advisor stormed back into town followed by a calm and unshaken Raryldor.
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::Kalith laughs heartily at the newest rumor::
Bane walking around here? If that was Bane, why would he bother to summon lesser beings to do his bidding when he could of just with a thought have killed them?
::chuckles::
Sounds like someone playing games.
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Rumours spread that the Selunite Priestess Nyda has outdone herself in her most recent exploit. Upon finding a magical circle surrounded by staked corpses in the Pass, next to the Monument to the Unknown Soldier, she and a member of the black sails were confronted by a being that radiated pure malevolance and power. Laughing at their insignificance the being summoned a powerful creature to go and destroy Norwick. Giving chase they were joined by others and destroyed the beast just outside Norwick. The being, whose power felt to be that of a deity, summoned another that was slain just inside Jiyyd. After much taunting and argument with the deity, who was revealed to be Bane, or at least claimed to be and had the power to back it up, summoned a third more powerful version that slew a pair of helmites in Jiyyd before being slain.
Bane caused great wounds on several of the people around the Circle during this, though seemed unable to hurt Nyda when he tried. They spoke in both common and infernal, though none of Nyda's answers seemed to please the self-proclaimed Dark Lord until she threatened to put him over her knee and spank some sense into him. This amused him and he took her away for a private chat. Whatever the result of this he then left for good the magic circle fading. Throughout she denied his right to take anyones free will, and refused repeatedly to bow or kneel to him.
Though he did appear to her again outside Jiyyd and confirm that his thrice refused offer to her stood if she ever tired of mortal men.
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At hearing this Juster quickly begins to ask around as t whether or not Will was found.
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For a while the people of Norwick can gaze upon the body of a slain spider, lying right in front of Praeth' shop. Those asking around, quickly find out that the very spider was found feasting on a boar not far from Wald's mill and after done with that went after a man. It was only defeated through the help of one of the brave militia men of Norwick.
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_The young knight Lope and a traveling scribe named Kirlan are seen entering Norwick through the northern gate, carrying a bloodsoaked and unconscious man in robes who some might recognize as Alexei Shivarn. Talking in low tones, they carry him directly to Friar Fred's.
Asked by townsfolk afterwards, they explain that the unfortunate man was ambushed near Sam's Hill by abnormally large hobgoblins… "Larger and fiercer than the frothing kind!"... and that they and some others rescued him. His companion, they hint sadly, may not have been so lucky... was possibly eaten. They know nothing of him, save that his name was William.
It's widely agreed that the rescue was a praiseworthy deed, but more attention and concern is paid to the fact that such well armed and trained hobgoblins were able to slip right up to the very hills lately claimed by Norwick. Many people wonder what became of the guards posted. Lope says apologetically that she saw no sign of them... just a campfire and a heap of empty bottles... which, she hastens to add, may have been used potion bottles, not necessarily whiskey._
-Lagermane
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A merchant putting up at the Boarshead tavern is overheard telling his partner over a mug of ale:
_"…night while I was travelling through the Nars, I saw some glowing lights flickering in the distance. I could have sworn I heard a high pitched whining noise too, like the ringing of metal after being struck by a hammer, only faster.
Those things gave me an uneasy feeling, I had to go out of my way to avoid them. Must be the wild magic or some wizard fooling around...if the hobgoblins aren't trouble enough already..."_
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The two day shift guards at the south gate Pete and Jorge mention the advisor being in a horribly foul mood the other day. They say they left the advisor at the gate to have a conversation with what they saw as a very pleasant, non-threatening stone skin covered goblin holding a cute little dagger in its hand. Afterward, the advisor…short a few hundred coin... stormed back into town barking orders to both Pete and Jorge, telling them to take up their positions by the gate and protect citizens from goblins. Red faced and a bit flustered, the elf spat out a few more harsh phrases in elvish before storming back to town hall.
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Rumor has it Rando has ordered the new trainees to Move Sam's hill to Peltarch.
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New militia recruits Shay and Belin Review the damage done to the encampment on Sams hill along side the advisor of Norwick. After speaking with William, they follow him to the Kelemvor temple to retrieve the bodies of the fallen guard, including the heroic sergeant Plato who had held the hill valiantly for so many months prior. The three then hauled the bodies on carts, taking the fallen back to the friars in Norwick. Later that day, Lucidious is seen walking with Aelthas from the crossroads toward Norwick, explaining the situation in detail. Aelthas simply nods in response, a slight frown upon his face as they go to raise the fallen Norwick guardsmen.
(( EDIT: the bodies were at the kelemvor temple, not jiyyd. My bad. ))
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The rumor continues that the knight was barely stopped from branding Bane's mark on the unconscious Tormite by a bard and a black sail.
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something foul was in the air, rumor has it the Black Knight perched on sams hill defeated a follower of torm in a duel.
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A few days later the same man who was seen confronting the messenger is seen over looking sam's hill, the messenger had killed the men stationed their and the man feeling guilty took up their position on the hill killing any hostile creatures that would do harm to citizens of the land, while on this duty however he was visited by an unknown entity claiming to be a "Pale Rider" They had a brief exchange mostly to be in regards to the mans lost faith, shortly after the conversation the man could be seen heading toward Jiyyd
