Re: The Haunting of the Rose - Chapter 3, Against Nature
Midagarra had begun to speak, to which Morrey cawed and had just started speaking when he suddenly cut off as another’s words echoed, not in the air but within the chambers their souls YOU HAVE TARRIED FAR TOO LONG.
A thing the colour of long dead ashes and barely the shape of a man cloaked in roiling, oily shadow-smoke stood or perhaps floated at the edge of the bundle of adventurers.
UNLIKE HIS MASTER THE NECROMAGUS WILL SLAY THIS ENTIRE VILLAGE THEN YOU WILL HAVE NO CHANCE OF ESCAPE. the white, waxy death-mask of the creature stared unblinkingly at the party with the glowing blue embers of his eyes.
WITH SPEED AND WIT YOU COULD HAVE REACHED THE SARCHOPHUS BY NOW HAVE BEEN DONE WITH YOUR MISSION. ARE YOU SO FREIGHTENED OF THE FORCES ARRAYED AGAINST YOU THAT BELIEVE YOURSELVES POWERLESS? YOU FACE ONLY A SMALL HORDE OF A HUNDED OF THE WEAKEST OF UNDEAD CREATURES, YOUR GREATEST OPPOSITION IS THE NECROMAGUS AT THE ARMY’S HEAD AND HIS GREAT BEAST. STRIKE OUT NOW, THE CHAOS OF THE BATTLES IN THE VILLAGE WILL COVER YOU. JUST ACT RATHER THEN SITTING HERE WAITING FOR THE PERFECT MOMENT! DOZENS OF PEOPLE ARE DYING OUT THERE AND YOU CAN SAVE THEM IF YOU WOULD ONLY ACT!