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Topic/Postby Gergel » 12 Jan 2016, 11:21

Joe. The Skeleton.

Weird dude. His life (undeath) would probably be ever so much easier if he were to think about what he's doing for a bit.

Then again - skeleton. No brain. Not much to use for thinking. It's a miracle he's managed to get this far and not be all "hurr durr death to the living!"

So a few folks got together to have a nice picnic and chicken dinner with Adrenus. Insanity, yes, but those people seem have a morbid curiosity that forces them to join Adrenus in the adventures which inevitably end in battle. Well, Thelarwen probably joins the adventures because they inevitably end in battle. 'Cause, y'know, death knight. Chepi and Heretic probably just immensely enjoy Adrenus' company.

(There was no Serendipity and there was no Clara. This will be an important plot point later.)

Anyway, Adrenus in his infinite wisdom decided that the night would be excellent for a quiet (hah!) peaceful (hah!) dinner. The best place to have that dinner? A pub in Stormwind? Nope. Peaceful greenery in Darnassus? Bah, no way. Because what could be more relaxing than sitting among blue dragon corpses in the battleground just below Dalaran, right?

So Adrenus fired up a fire and chickened up a chicken. Which he then tried to cook on aforementioned fire. It only took... let me see now... Three minutes. Yep, three minutes from the moment Adrenus first mentioned "chicken dinner" to the moment an arrow landed in the middle of the group. An arrow fired by a human who quickly dropped his disguise and revealed himself as Joe the Skeleton. Apparently he had been looking for Adrenus and his compatriots.

Note to Joe: starting a conversation by firing an arrow at the people you wish to converse with? Not a good idea. It's not like you didn't recognize these people. You knew everyone in the group. So why shoot an arrow?

Anyway, no harm done fortunately. No one got skewered by an arrow. Conversely, no one reflexively shot a fireball at Joe in retaliation, or a tower of holy fire, or holy smite, nor inserted a big dreadful runesword between his ribs.

So Joe began to describe what had been happening in his unlife recently. Apparently he had decided to take up farming. Cows. In Netherstorm. Whatever gave him that idea, we may never know. Well, it's probably better than going on a mindless rampage. Except poor Joe could not enjoy his cows for too long, because a group of humans wearing Stormwind insignia had shown up one day and set Joe's farm and cows on fire. As he described it, they had been chasing and hunting him ever since that day. They were clearly very zealous and triggerhappy, calling Joe's cows "plagued". Joe's guess was that these wonderful folks were renegade paladins and priests that had obviously viewed the Scarlet Crusade as excellent role models and decided to emulate them.

Note to Joe: Netherstorm? Not the best place to start a farm. Admittedly there are the eco-domes, but those are also homes for unpleasant predators. We recommended Pandaria instead. Just hand out free beer to the local Pandaren farmers, and you should get accepted in no time.

Then Joe asked if Adrenus and Co. would be so kind as to find the group responsible and... convince... them to leave the poor skeleton alone.

Of course no one else had anything better to do (because the chicken dinner was by that time burnt beyond repair... kind of like Joe's cows) so the group decided to look into it. Unfortunately Joe had no idea where to start looking. But, as the culprits were human paladins, the logical place to start would be the Stormwind Cathedral.

It would have been an excellent time to put Serendipity's diplomatic talents into use, discussing the matter with the head paladin Lord Grayson Shadowbreaker. Unfortunately Serendipity was missing in action (she does keep saying "I could have been in the pub" all the time, so apparently she in fact was in the pub that evening). So Heretic took the lead instead. Lord Shadowbreaker was indeed aware of this new cult of zealots, but sadly he had no clues as to their whereabouts. He did mention, however, that an SI:7 agent had come to the Cathedral recently asking the same questions about the same splinter group.

So far so good. Adrenus and Co. made their way to SI:7 headquarters next. It would have been an excellent time to put Clara's connections or Serendipity's diplomatic talents into use, discussing the matter with SI:7 head Master Mathias Shaw. Unfortunately Clara was missing in action (probably hunting treasure) and the lack of Serendipity was already mentioned before. So it fell upon Heretic to do the talking again.

At first Master Shaw was rather brusque and disagreeable, referring to Joe as a member of the Scourge and a potential threat to the Alliance. Heretic and Thelarwen attempted to convince him that even if Joe was a threat, surely a lone skeleton in Netherstorm was less dangerous than a large organized group of extremist paladins who had, according to Lord Shadowbreaker's information, already attacked other Alliance settlers as well. Despite these attempts at persuasion, Master Shaw's tongue remained rather tied.

It didn't help that Heretic made a rather major diplomatic blunder by treating the SI:7 head as a simple person-of-roguish-persuasion and offering him a bribe of gold. It took a lot of apologising to mollify the obviously insulted Master.

Fortunately Shaw decided to become a bit more helpful from there. He did indeed know the approximate whereabouts of the extremist cult: Horde territory in Kalimdor. He recommended that Adrenus and Co. should meet up with one of his agents in Ratchet a week later. The seas were rough and stormy, it would be sensible to wait for them to calm. With that information divulged, Master Shaw dismissed the group.

Now they just needed to wait and reconvene next week.
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