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“I can’t say for sure how long he’s been here. Quite some time but the corpse has not been surrounded by insects at all. That is very strange, it might have contributed to the rate of decay as well.” |
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Posted On: 11/18/2007 1:12AM | View Night Gaunt's Profile | # | ||||||
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“Sure.” says Zak, and he begins unclasping the armour. Normally he might have been annoyed at being ordered around, but experience has taught him not to mess with the one who seems to know what he’s doing, even if he’s really weird. |
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Posted On: 11/18/2007 1:12AM | View Sabre_Justice's Profile | # | ||||||
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“Pray tell, does the armor have a pin in it? I know that some of those things do. If it does, then I think that I could certainly use it to get us out of here. I ran a locksmithing business, you know, before I was a merchant.” |
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Posted On: 11/18/2007 1:14AM | View genericangstypos...'s Profile | # | ||||||
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eponymous_ennui Posted: Like Almec’s own armour. Log in to see images! |
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Posted On: 11/18/2007 1:14AM | View Sabre_Justice's Profile | # | ||||||
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“Let me see…” says Zak as he turns the corpse over and removes the chainmail, and looks for a suitable lockpick. |
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Posted On: 11/18/2007 1:16AM | View Sabre_Justice's Profile | # | ||||||
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OOC: We all seem to have a lot of posting time now, but I have to go to bed sometime. I think we should make a post when we’re going to be AFK for an extended period, so the others can slow down a bit until we get back. |
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Posted On: 11/18/2007 1:20AM | View Sabre_Justice's Profile | # | ||||||
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OOC: I’ll be up for another 40 minutes or so but then bedtime for me too. |
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Posted On: 11/18/2007 1:22AM | View Night Gaunt's Profile | # | ||||||
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OOC: That is an excellent point. Just let us know when you’re going to go. I can go until whenever. |
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Posted On: 11/18/2007 1:22AM | View genericangstypos...'s Profile | # | ||||||
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Sabre_Justice Posted: You tug at the quick-release spool and the two outer buckles snap from the pressure, splintering uselessly and causing the front mail to fall off the corpse. Strange. The copper in the buckle must have been extremely eroded for it to snap like that. With the armour off, however, a gruesome sight is revealed. The whole upper torso of the dwarf has been flayed and skinned, the ribcage torn open to reveal the heart and lungs inside. There isn’t much left of the heart or lungs, though: everything inside has shrivelled and turned into a blackened, putrid husk of what it used to be. Within the chest walls you can see a white squirming mess of something, you have no idea what, but it’s definitely still alive. Cenbuma: The insides have underwent necrosis, as expected, but the wilting is new. Maybe it’s due to the slow rate of natural decomposition that causes the shrivelled drying-out of the organs. The insides are crawling with what appears to be, at first sight, maggots, but there are no flies buzzing around, so it does not make sense for it to be true maggots. The armour clanks dully onto the earthen floor, the insides of the front completely covered with clotted gore and blood. The back mail, still trapped by the corpse’s position on the floor, remains in place, though you can see that a pool of blood has obviously collected onto it from the spillage. The air in the cell is now filled with the tart stench of decay mingled with the metallic overture that comes with so much blood. |
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Posted On: 11/18/2007 1:22AM | View eponymous_ennui's Profile | # | ||||||
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Dropping the armour, Zak stands back. “What the hell is that?!” Sabre_Justice edited this message on 11/18/2007 1:25AM |
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Posted On: 11/18/2007 1:24AM | View Sabre_Justice's Profile | # | ||||||
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Being hung over, and of a weak constitution, Jason almost decides that now would be a good time to lose his lunch. Fortunately for all in the cell, he’s able to hold it in. “What in Baator is that?”
Of course, at heart, Jason is a practical man, even in his disgust. “Also, did you find that pin?” genericangstyposter edited this message on 11/18/2007 1:27AM |
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Posted On: 11/18/2007 1:26AM | View genericangstypos...'s Profile | # | ||||||
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Sabre_Justice Posted: |
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Posted On: 11/18/2007 1:30AM | View eponymous_ennui's Profile | # | ||||||
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Adin reals back a bit surprised at the finding. He grips the handle and carefully prods at the squirming mbum all the while muttering, “how interesting!” |
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Posted On: 11/18/2007 1:30AM | View Night Gaunt's Profile | # | ||||||
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genericangstyposter Posted:
Unfortunately, while a good number of armour types have pins, this one does not have any. At least, not at first sight, and not as far as Almec knows. However, should anyone decide to run a Search on the corpse, who knows if you might find otherwise; but that, of course, means said person has to actually touch that corpse. |
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Posted On: 11/18/2007 1:31AM | View eponymous_ennui's Profile | # | ||||||
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“Can you tell us what it is?” Zak asks Adin. |
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Posted On: 11/18/2007 1:32AM | View Sabre_Justice's Profile | # | ||||||
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Night Gaunt Posted:
The worms wriggle even more as you prod them, and a small number of them falls onto the broken handle and starts crawling, extremely slowly, up towards your hand. It might take them anything from a whole minute to reach any part of you, though, so you’re relatively safe from actual contact with those things.
For now.
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Posted On: 11/18/2007 1:34AM | View eponymous_ennui's Profile | # | ||||||
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I do another search check, this time on the corpse. It’s still 10, but I want to do it without touching the corpse whatsoever, which I’m sure would give me quite a big penalty. |
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Posted On: 11/18/2007 1:37AM | View genericangstypos...'s Profile | # | ||||||
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[b]Roll a religion check to see if Adin can think this has anything to do with religious ritual perhaps.[b]
Adin carefully taps the handle against a rib to shake off the worms. “I think,” he says quietly, “that you should not touch these false maggots.” |
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Posted On: 11/18/2007 1:38AM | View Night Gaunt's Profile | # | ||||||
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genericangstyposter Posted:
Hrm. You could do a Spot check on it (+0 Wis), but Search necessarily means that you need physical contact with the thing you’re searching with. |
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Posted On: 11/18/2007 1:39AM | View eponymous_ennui's Profile | # | ||||||
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“You don’t need to tell me twice.” says Zak. “Care to explain why?” |
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Posted On: 11/18/2007 1:39AM | View Sabre_Justice's Profile | # | ||||||