The Death of Coalbrow

Cute and Quiet. Makes a lot of hand gestures, a bit like Yoda, but less green.

Topic/Postby Gergel » 10 Dec 2012, 16:30

Part 3

Time passed. Lives went on. There were still toasts to Coalbrow in the Stormwind pubs. In the Blue Recluse these were always accompanied by the barkeep's deep sighs.

It was a rather unpleasant evening. A stormwind was upon Stormwind. Lightning flashed in the sky, rain poured in a torrent the likes of which were usually only seen in the jungles of Stranglethorn or the forests of Feralas. Everyone with any sense in them was huddled up in a bar, pub or tavern. Even cutthroats steered clear of the overflowing streets.

The heavy steps at the door of the Blue Recluse came as somewhat of a surprise. Was some poor sober bastard really braving the weather to make a late entry among the crowd of drinkers?

Clad from head to toe in what at first glance looked like massive saronite war plate, the newcomer stepped into the light. His armour covered him entirely, only cold twin orange flames could be seen from the eye holes of his helm.

A Death Knight? Not an unusual sight in and of itself. A few years back quite a few of them had emerged from the Plaguelands and lent their strength to Alliance and Horde in their battle against Arthas, the Lich King. But since Arthas had been defeated, no new Death Knights had arisen. There were rumours that the Dark Lady of the Forsaken had been trying to duplicate Arthas' achievement, but she had been utterly unsuccessful.

Therefore this unfamiliar Death Knight was a surprising sight.

Rainwater dripped from his armour. Droplets gathered on top of the metal spikes that adorned it and splattered on the pool at his feet.

The figure picked a heavy metal staff from his back. A staff? Yet another curiosity: Death Knights wielded swords or axes, none had been seen with a staff before. It was covered in runes and at its top was a huge amber gem. The figure raised it a little, then brought the bottom end of the staff down on the floor with a dull thump. Immediately all water on his body jumped outward and splattered on the floor, leaving him completely dry. For some reason there was a rather strong smell of alcohol in the air around him, although few noticed it because of the rather strong smell of alcohol all around the pub.

That was even more unusual. All eyes turned towards the newcomer.

"Oh, hello Coalbrow!" said a voice in the corner. "Did you find the flying murlocs?"

People rolled their eyes.

"No, Tormeron," the Death Knight said in an echoing voice from beyond the grave. "But ah did find an Elder God."

He reattached his staff to the holder on his back and lifted his heavy helm off his head.

It was definitely Coalbrow. But not the jolly living Coalbrow everyone knew and remembered. His face was ashen gray, his beard and hair had gone from bright orange to black as coal. And his eyes glowed brownish-yellow.

"Ah need a drink." The dwarf stepped towards the bar. Poor Blue Recluse barkeep seemed unable to move -- he just stood and stared. Those glowing eyes stopped on him briefly, then Coalbrow reached out his arm and a bottle of Sulfuron Slammer leaped from a shelf and into his waiting grasp. He dropped a coin on the bar-top. "How ya been, mon?" Coalbrow asked as he sat heavily down at Tormeron's table and poured himself a Slammer.

Then there was quite a lot of noise, people running about, shouting, asking questions, carrying around and consuming alcoholic beverages.

"So," said Tormeron completely unfazed by the commotion. "Death Knight?"

"Not quite. Booze Knight."

Tormeron rolled his eyes. "And people call ME crazy."

Coalbrow lifted a finger. All of the ale in Tormeron's mug rose out of the container but still retained the mug's shape. A moment later it gently lowered itself back into the mug.

"Booze Knight, eh? Still not the weirdest thing I've seen. This one time I saw a dwarf that spoke like a troll..."

At this point the commotion reached their table and there were quite a few questions (and even more drinks).
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