(039) Dusk 'Til Dawn

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danhem wrote:
Ulric will take a watch as well.

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doctorx wrote:
Josiane completes her evening devotions as best she can, falls into bed and sleeps fit to wake an Armiger! [img]images/smiley/smiley.png[/img]

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sulldawga wrote:
Seeing as how there are others willing to stand watch, Dorgan will opt for the full night's rest and the extra level.

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waysoftheearth wrote:

Since Highbough isn't leveling up, he'll fill the missing watch.

He spends his watchful hours meditating on the magic sword (without touching it!), trying to sense what he can of its nature.

This meditation would be considered "alert, but distracted", as opposed to "alert, and on the look out".

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waysoftheearth wrote:
Very good.

The night gets on, and it is Dieter on first watch, then Highbough on the midnight watch, and Ulric on the dawn shift.

Everybody else retires to their respective rooms, strips down to their night clothes and tumbles into their pallets to fall into an exhausted sleep...


The house grows still, and the fire begins to burn low.

An hour or so after his watch begins Bennug enter the great hall where Dieter still hulks before the fire and informs him that the staff are retiring for the evening. Dieter grunts his permission, and swallows the last of the thin wine, then (after the Goblin butler has departed) stokes up the fire to see out his watch...

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waysoftheearth wrote:
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waysoftheearth wrote:
When he can stay awake no longer, Dieter tramps up the stairs and knocks on Highbough's door.

The old Elf rises somewhat crankily, and relieves Dieter of his watch. The big fighter thankfully retires to his own room to get some well deserved rest...

Highbough walks all the silent corridors of the manse in his inky black Robe of Elemental Night being hardly more than a shadow himself.

Eventually he returns to the great hall where the fire is still burning low, and carefully unwraps the fell blade that Guntrum recovered from the tomb, and leaves it laying upon the table.

He examines it in detail with sharp eyes glittering hungrily in the low light. There is something totally alien, yet vaguely familiar about the cold, sinuous blade. It certainly has a malice about it that Highbough cannot quite put his finger on, though he dredges all of his long and deep memories... (1d6=4)

But ponder the blade though he might, he cannot identify its maker or purpose without visiting a library of great lore.

The fire burns down to embers as the night passes by the witching hour...

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waysoftheearth wrote:
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waysoftheearth wrote:
Eventually Highbough covers the blade over again, and decides grumpily that it must be Ulric's watch. He pads upstairs like a ghost and summons the wizard to his watch before returning to his own rooms for some additional shut eye.


Ulric makes a scan of all the passages and rooms before swishing downstairs to the great hall where he stokes up the fire once more and settles in for the duration...

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