Epilouge

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=210 BGCOLOR="#99CC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="12a8dfc3.jpg"> <div> <B> </B></div> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=82 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="12b8dfe1esnpes.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#336666" FACE="Arial" ><B>Missiledine's Archives</B></FONT><B>     </B><B>|</B><B>     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Missiledines Archives"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id48.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Corren Rowan"><U>Corren & Rowan</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id114.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Corren Rowan II"><U>Corren & Rowan II</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id115.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Corren Rowan III"><U>Corren & Rowan III</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id116.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Corren Rowan IV"><U>Corren & Rowan IV</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id117.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Corren Rowan V"><U>Corren & Rowan V</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id118.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Corren Rowan VI"><U>Corren & Rowan VI</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id119.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Corren Rowan VII"><U>Corren & Rowan VII</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id120.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Corren Rowan IIX"><U>Corren & Rowan IIX</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id187.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Corren Rowan IIIX"><U>Corren & Rowan IIIX</U></A>   |   <B>Epilouge</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" Missiledines Archives"><U><B>Archive Directory</B></U></A></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=398 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="12b8dfc3.jpg"> <div> <I>Epilouge</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Your Healing (We are going to do this as a little PBEM to deal with a couple issues!  For accounting purposes the Healing will cost $750.) </div> <bR> <div> Arriving at Drunmore Cathederal, you go around to the Hospital entrance. (Rolb is with you to help you limp along on the crutch he has made for you from a tree limb.) </div> <div> There is a monk there as you come in. He will ask your name and what the nature of the ailment is.  After taking the needed information he will help you into a room full of sick and injured people, many of them clearly still bleeding. </div> <div> Rolb shakes his head and grumbles wordlessly as you sit down. </div> <div> Despite the crowd, things move pretty quickly.  The injured, who are bleeding, are taken first. Sometimes three or four at a time.  No one comes back through the waiting area, but they take new patients every ten to fifteen minutes.  Finally, after a about a two hour wait, they come for you.  Rolb (being a non believer) is not permitted any further. </div> <div> "S'all right laddie! I'll be a waiten out on de stairs." He says. </div> <div> The monk that has come to fetch you is very kind and helps you down a long hall and through an expensive looking velvet curtain to a richly carved, padded couch.</div> <div> He helps you get settled and helps you disrobe so that the afflicted areas are visible.  He clucks a bit when he sees the grayish, withered flesh, but says nothing else. </div> <div> The area you are in is brightly illuminated by a glowing ceiling, all the walls are the thick velvet curtains. Other than the couch you recline on, there is an ornately carved upright wooden cabinet with a plethora of drawers, doors and a fold out desk top. </div> <div>   About three minutes after the Monk finishes preparing you, the curtain is pulled aside and an elderly Senior Priest enters.  He introduces himself as Father Goran. He is not a very personable individual, but he is quick, efficent and seems to know his business. </div> <div> He examines your arm and leg.... feeling and pinching the flesh, studies the relatively minor wounds, then says. "How did you come by this injury, young man?"  </div> <bR> <div>  <I>"Sir, I fought several undead creatures that I believe are called "wights". Their hands, or claws if you will, penetrated my armour." </I></div> <bR> <div>   The Priest sets about preparing some concoction at the cabinet, but says. "I thought as much. Where were you when you encountered these creatures? Were they  destroyed?"</div> <bR> <div> <I>   "Aye, they were destroyed. They were guarding a Jhensari tomb in the Palood, sealed inside terracotta. I was contracted to assist err.... in looting it, I suppose." He looks at his leg. "Kicking one in the head was a bad idea." </I></div> <bR> <div>   He gives you a small clay jar of ointment.   "Rub this on your arm and leg twice a day until it is gone. If things are not back to normal in three days, return here."</div> <bR> <div> <I> Corren won't be chasing any girls until his limbs are normal..... </I></div> <div> <I>  </I></div> <bR> <div> <B>You and Rolb have been lounging about town for a few days, staying at an</B></div> <div> <B>inn called 'The Crow.'  It's one of those places that your type of scum</B></div> <div> <B>hangs out at....</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Eventually you hear a rumor going around town that the son of a wealthy</B></div> <div> <B>merchant has vanished while traveling to Drunmore from Glenluse. It</B></div> <div> <B>occured only a few miles from Drunmore, on the road from the town of</B></div> <div> <B>Girvan.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Then word goes around that the father has posted a reward!</B></div> <div> <B>Since you don't get around to well yet, Rolb goes off to see what he can</B></div> <div> <B>learn...</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>This is what is posted:</B></div> <bR> <div> "Two Hundred Gold Solar REWARD for the return of my son, Paldar Junuk.</div> <div> Last seen three days ago while traveling the road between Girvan and Drunmore.</div> <div> He is fourteen years old, 5'4" 120lbs, blonde hair, brown eyes, of good</div> <div> build and appearance.  He was dressed in blue tunic, leather jerkin,</div> <div> dark gray trousers and knee high boots. He was riding a bay pony and</div> <div> traveling with two companions, both of whom were found nearby, murdered.</div> <bR> <div> Contact Herdon Junuk with any information"</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Two hundred gold Solars is a lot of money! ($20,000)  Rolb learned that</B></div> <div> <B>Herdon Junuk is a wealthy merchant with business contacts all over the</B></div> <div> <B>Kingdom.  His son was apparently traveling to Drunmore on some errand</B></div> <div> <B>for his father and was waylaid on the road between Girvan and the city.</B></div> <div> <B>His two traveling companions, body guards, were killed and their bodies</B></div> <div> <B>dumped in a ditch. Girvan is a town of about three thousand people, 12</B></div> <div> <B>miles north of the City of Drunmore across the Lendalfoot River.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The road between Girvan and Drumore runs along the western edge of the</B></div> <div> <B>Girvan Forest, which is reputed to be haunted and has been known to hide</B></div> <div> <B>brigands and river pirates who prowl the Varsol River that borders the</B></div> <div> <B>forest's eastern edge.</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>