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bindsthedead[Sabriel's voice sounds alarmed and exhausted, like she's just run a marathon.]
I'm not sure what's going on in this town, but we need to figure out what it is, because right now it feels like I'm either going in circles or running into a wall.
As far as I can tell, the people here are alive- and so were the bandits that attacked, I felt some of them die, and their corpses felt like corpses- right up until they just... vanished a few hours later.
[Which is... disturbing, but between the tasteless food and the apparently mindless locals, it's not that surprising. Except for...]
And it wasn't just the bodies. When people die, it leaves an... imprint. Something any necromancer could sense. Except when the bodies vanished, so did that imprint. And even before then... when I went into Death to speak with them, there were no spirits around, and I don't think they'd have passed that quickly.
Also, before then, when I visited the graveyard... well, it felt like I'd expect a graveyard to feel like, except- the most recent death happened a bit over a year ago, a man named Glen McGuire. And everyone, with absolute sincerity, gave me wildly varying accounts of his death, with only a few similarities between them.
I don't think the people here are going to be a helpful source of information.
[And Sabriel takes a deep breath, because this is the most alarming part.]
I also tried to feel if there were any recent deaths in this town that no one told us about. At first- it was like something was blocking me. Then as I kept pushing- it was like the Kilnan mission, when the orb tried to feed on us. I had to stop trying before it drained me dry, but- I believe the orb is within the town somewhere, rather than outside of it or hidden in the mines.
[And Sabriel takes a deep breath, trying to steady herself.]
I'm not sure what sort of bargain was struck with the orb here or what the price was, but I'm not sure how much of what's happening in this town is truly real. I suspect that the orb started feeding on me because I got too close to the truth- but I'm not sure what that truth is.
Also... The goal I got from the orb is to seriously injure one of the crew. I'll heal you afterwards, of course.
[ooc: Feel free to use this as an information sharing post, if you'd like.]
I'm not sure what's going on in this town, but we need to figure out what it is, because right now it feels like I'm either going in circles or running into a wall.
As far as I can tell, the people here are alive- and so were the bandits that attacked, I felt some of them die, and their corpses felt like corpses- right up until they just... vanished a few hours later.
[Which is... disturbing, but between the tasteless food and the apparently mindless locals, it's not that surprising. Except for...]
And it wasn't just the bodies. When people die, it leaves an... imprint. Something any necromancer could sense. Except when the bodies vanished, so did that imprint. And even before then... when I went into Death to speak with them, there were no spirits around, and I don't think they'd have passed that quickly.
Also, before then, when I visited the graveyard... well, it felt like I'd expect a graveyard to feel like, except- the most recent death happened a bit over a year ago, a man named Glen McGuire. And everyone, with absolute sincerity, gave me wildly varying accounts of his death, with only a few similarities between them.
I don't think the people here are going to be a helpful source of information.
[And Sabriel takes a deep breath, because this is the most alarming part.]
I also tried to feel if there were any recent deaths in this town that no one told us about. At first- it was like something was blocking me. Then as I kept pushing- it was like the Kilnan mission, when the orb tried to feed on us. I had to stop trying before it drained me dry, but- I believe the orb is within the town somewhere, rather than outside of it or hidden in the mines.
[And Sabriel takes a deep breath, trying to steady herself.]
I'm not sure what sort of bargain was struck with the orb here or what the price was, but I'm not sure how much of what's happening in this town is truly real. I suspect that the orb started feeding on me because I got too close to the truth- but I'm not sure what that truth is.
Also... The goal I got from the orb is to seriously injure one of the crew. I'll heal you afterwards, of course.
[ooc: Feel free to use this as an information sharing post, if you'd like.]
