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Adam:
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Keeping the smoke between me and them,
I take out my tinder twigs, and being ordering them into letters
on the ground.
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Adam:
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I'm going to spell out Ignatius, first.
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DM:
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They don't do anything in the meantime
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Adam:
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then I'll put "It's me, " before my
name.
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DM:
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by this point, the smoke clears
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DM:
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The door is closed now
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Adam:
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I'll start drawing lines from the door
to the message. put rocks around it, anything to make it more
noticable.
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Adam:
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Is there a door bell?
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DM:
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You still have your key, too
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Adam:
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Well, I'm going to ding dong ditch and
hope they follow the bread crumbs to the messasge.
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DM:
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At this point, you see a figure on a
horse in the distance.
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Adam:
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I'll hide and wait.
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DM:
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The rain soaks you, and chills you to
whatever you have that counts as bone. You notice that the ground
around here has been eroded over some time.
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DM:
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You have been dead a while...
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DM:
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You hear the steps of a horse, walking
up to the house...
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Adam:
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I peer out at the doorway
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DM:
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You can barely see anything though the
mist, but...
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Adam:
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do I hear anything?
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Christopher has connected.
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DM:
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you hear the hoofbeats of the horse
still...
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DM:
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but... you see Constance!
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Ignatius Stendatem:
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Constance!
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Ignatius Stendatem:
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Constance! It's me!
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Officer Constance Stendatem:
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Prove it, then. If you are an
impostor, know that I have killed daemons before and can do so
again.
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DM:
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She looks older now, but the rain
makes it tough to tell
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Ignatius Stendatem:
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You're pregnant!
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Ignatius Stendatem:
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Or at least you were, last I saw you.
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Officer Constance Stendatem:
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Is that the best you can come up with?
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Christopher:
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gah, don't want to be so suspicious,
but in character...
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DM:
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Says who he isn't playing a daemon...
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Ignatius Stendatem:
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I, um, I'm not sure what's going on. I
guess I died the day you told me. Those creatures attacked while
we were held captive on the way to the Fort.
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Officer Constance Stendatem:
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Better. Describe the creatures.
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Ignatius Stendatem:
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there were about five of them. Their
leader rode a giant lizard and casted magic like I've never seen
before. I was surrounded by the rest of them when they grew to
great sizes.
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Officer Constance Stendatem:
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Okay, I think I might just be starting
believe you. Why were we there?
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Ignatius Stendatem:
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We were travelling. Looking for your
old, dead husband who left a letter on our bed. There were worms
there! We were travelling with worm creatures too. The Wishmaster!
We have to stop him!
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Officer Constance Stendatem:
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We did. Me and Hunter blew her flying
house to kingdom come, and I stabbed her to her apparent death
inside Fort Highpeak.
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Ignatius Stendatem:
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....
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Ignatius Stendatem:
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Wait, I think I was there. I was with
my father, and your old husband, and dozens of other people! I
think we were all held in some sort of prison that looked like a
bottle.
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Adam is disconnected.