waysoftheearth wrote:
waysoftheearth wrote:
Dorgan has never understood the inclination of Men to bury their dead in such shallow graves; the Dwarfs honour their own dead in the deepest vaults, or else send them to the Great Furnace whereto their remains can never be distrubed.
This here graveyard is a forlorn and lonely place, Dorgan surmises as he trudges along the gravel path. Most of the headstones are of the very simplest kind; a flat rock, crudely shaped by a mason and graven with a name and a date before being stuck upright in the earth before a grave plot. Fewer of them are more ornate, with a plinth base or guardian gargoyles, or an Enigma of Thuul to watch over them. The least number of graves are full crypts with stairs descending to tiny, underground burial chambers.
There are plenty of empty plots, and a number of these house empty graves; apparently awaiting their tenants. But most of these are at the bottom end of the bone-yard (furthest from the gate), and Dorgan reckons they have never yet been used.
As to fresh diggings... (1d6) he has almost searched every meandering path before he comes across a plot that looks to have been freshly dug. And wait, there are a few of them... two, three, four. Half a dozen graves, all around a particularly ancient crypt down the back of the cemetery appear to have been exhumed only recently.
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Golgildir the Elf Medium (MV 12", AC 9, HD 1, hp 1/1, AL N) great cloak,
lantern; spells: color spray; scrolls: sleep, sleep, charm person
Hirelings: Georges;
torch[/f]