Fall of the Dead: Hidden Menace

[Callos_DeTerran]

"Eh? You look troubled young man, is there something that troubles you? We often have visitors to the Tor you know, mostly young barbarians trying to learn more about their heritage but not this pair. They drove a pair of wagons into town drawn by half-dead mules. Didn't say much and they didn't interact much with anyone else...just spent the remainder of the night at the inn and left before many people were up. Silent folk who didn't cause any trouble." The man said confidently and nodding his head as if confirming what he said in his own mind. Soon enough his eyes opened and he shrugged before speaking once more. "Didn't get any supplies or things from the town if I remember correctly. You might ask the inn keeper, he might know something I don't."

Despite Bryan's further questions unto the nature of the visitors the elder is regrettably unable to provide anymore useful information about the duo with the wagons. Still in search of information the young cleric follows the elder's directions to the inn that the wagon had been put in at. Arriving at roughly the same time as Kayden, Bryan sought out the inn keeper and questions him as to what he knows about the patrons from the last couple of days. From him Bryan learned that both of the duo were tall men with wide-brimmed hats and darkly colored cloaks. Pale to a fault they had eaten a quiet meal then gone straight to sleep. The stable boy had peeked into wagons, for which the inn keeper had thrashed him and forced him to apologize, but they had been forgiving enough about the incident. After which they had left and the stable boy had run off as petty revenge for the beating, still not having returned to work yet.

[Parsley Man]

Bryan

Having found the dead end he eats a hearty meal and goes to sleep; in the morning over breakfast he fills in the group:

"It seems there is a gathering, pale men who eat nothing riding in carts full of deadly cargo pulled by sickly mules have been making their way to the crypt. It seems they have avoided attention killing only those that stick their noses in the wrong places however I would caution you all. Necromancers, Vampires, Wraiths, Zombies, Skeletons; all this is likely and possible. If you need anything this may as well be our point of no return; I am ready and will be waiting in the cart."

[Callos_DeTerran]

((For the sake of continuity Bryan briefing everybody would happen AFTER this post.))

The night passes quietly for all those inclined for such things, not many people taking notice of the duergar and half-orc each taking their own rooms or maybe they simply decided to keep such business to themselves instead. When morning came thick clouds hung black and heavy in the sky above, rumbling threatening at moments and allowing rays of sunlight through at others. Gathering in the common room of the inn proved simple enough though it took from time for Norgrim to join the rest of you, bearing a black eye and a joyous grin at what was apparently a good time. But from the looks of it somebody, or multiple somebodies, had paid for his good time in the process.

[ChronicLunacy]

Norgrim

Norgrim dunked his hands in a flower vase and used the water he found to rub his face. Despite the black eye, he seemed in high spirits. He spit into the makeshift wash basin and clanked past the perturbed inn owners to join the others. "Ready to go then, eh lads and lassies? I reckon there are some more nasty beasties out there we might meet today. Some good brawlers in this town, but nothin' like the fight we had on our hands yest'r'deey." he grinned fiercely.

[kuja.girl]

Kayden

Kayden wanders down to the common room and orders breakfast. She'd woken up early and spent about an hour reviewing her magic and still found that she'd woken before everyone except Bryan.

She'd thought that Norgrim had been joking when he'd spoken of getting into to bar fight the night before but evidently he hadn't been. She was glad that she'd finished making her purchases last night, otherwise it might have been impossible to get anything depend on who the dwarf had sent to the local healer.

"Lets go then. The sooner the better."