
How ghoulish to ask who we are and immediately attack. Search the robes for goodies and perhaps we should wear one too?
So we reap the rich's of our quest and pocket the vial and the extra dagger ...
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(398) You quickly pat the robes down, searching for anything useful. In one, you find a large and valuable looking pearl, which you may keep. You are just getting around to searching the last cloak when the opposite door begins to open! Not knowing what else to do, you throw on the cloak and turn away. "Father," a man's voice calls out, 'the congregation awaits." You nod and slip the hood over your head. You turn around to see a short man in a black frock holding open the door. You walk out into a narrow hall and he follows you. Go to 153. |
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(153) The hall winds to the left after a few meters, and you find three more men in black frocks standing silently against the wall. As you pass, they bow their heads and fall in behind you, single file. After a few more meters, the hallway opens out into an alcove. Uncertain as to what you should do next, you stop. One of the men places a hand on your shoulder. "Whenever you are ready, father," he intones, and then proceeds to walk around to the other side of the alcove, disappearing behind a wall. You glance behind you to see the three remaining men standing with their heads bowed in reverence. You must decide whether to follow the first man around the wall (5) or make a break for it past the men, back down the passage (256). |
Take everything. Making a break for it at this point may be unwise, so let's follow the first man around the wall.
We have a majority now of 3 out of 5 so we shall press on! Sorry but I like to try and keep this moving. After all we have just begun!
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(5) As you walk around the wall, you see that you are in a very spacious chamber. You seem to be standing on a platform, with a dais in the center. Steps lead off the platform to the ground, and you can see two sets of pews running almost fifty feet back. They are full of figures in black robes, who slowly raise their heads as you enter. But what has your attention most of all is the figure of a young woman tied to the dais. She is wearing a simple white robe. Her eyes are open but her breathing is shallow. It dawns on you that you are in the place of the high priest, and unless you have an incredible stroke of luck or divine intervention, you will soon be discovered. The congregation stares up at you expectantly, and the gravity of the situation hits you (add 1 fear point). You force yourself to think. Looking down at the dais, you see that beside the body of the young woman there is a black chalice, a dagger, a set of candles, and a rolled up parchment. Will you light the candles (184) unroll the parchment (325) pour the black liquid of the vial into the chalice, if you kept the vial (137) raise the dagger (197) or wait for something to happen (36)? |