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Shizuru and the detective were still in the tavern bar/inn that Shane owned. "Seriously..." The skeleton looked like it was still crawling around. "Hi, young lady," the doctor said to Felecia. "You shouldn't be wandering the streets now."

As Shane spoke with Lyris, he noticed the skeleton point to his badge and shrug its shoulders, then point to the North Gate. "Hmm.. I don't like the feeling of this, but I guess we should..." he was stopped as the skeleton started walking and the man and his elf-friend followed it. Raising an eyebrow, Shane stood up and started following as well, but turned his head back and asked, "Coming, Lyris?"



Lyris was leaning back, arms crossed, trying to catch the attention of the elf-girl who had appeared when Shane knocked him out of his concentration. "Coming, Lyris?" Lyris leaned forward, noticing that the other two had already started with the skeleton. Lyris sheathed his swords and shrugged, "Suppose so." He started forth, but not out of interest for the skeleton. He was interested in something else. His job. He had a slight suspicion that this was the work of demons, and spoke his suspicions to Shane and Shane alone.


(You remember Lyris is a demon hunter, correct?)

((By the way, you can manipulate that thing at the East Gate if you'd like since you introduced it to the role play.

Ah, I forgot to mention this earlier. If anyone has issues with Adam cursing so much, I can tone it down.))



Adam stared down at the elf with hard eyes. You mean this damn punk's just been following that thing around?!! he thought. "Goddamnit. We don't have time for this s**t. Men, ready the door and get that thing out of here!" Better the skeleton outside than inside.. though it was intersting that the skeleton that was with Shrava had not attacked anyone and was making its way to the gate.

Some of the men shied away from the skeleton as it approached. Who could blame them? It wasn't an everyday sight, and it defied logic.

The skeleton looked back at Shravra again and nodded at the sword and pointed at the gate.

Following Kira's orders, the crowd surrounding her scattered as the fire sprung to life in her hands. A simple fire ball, that was all she had called up. Faintly in his own guttural language, Ian cast a supporting spell of accuracy and damage over the fireball, intending to help out without being seen to. The actual effect of the combined spells caused the fireball to speed up and grow in size, before decreasing again as it compacted, making it denser and more solid. The troll however still seen it coming. Rather than moving to cut it out the sky as it had done with the arrows, it lifted up one of the soldiers on it's own side as a shield, which disintegrated with the power of the flames. In response to the magical attack, the troll let loose a roar that deafened the soldiers immediately around it, and sent the horses into a panicked frenzy. The riders would be able to regain control, but that would take time to calm the horses down again. The enemy, spotting an opportunity, gave another battle cry and charged once more.

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"Goddammit. We don't have time for this s**t. Men, ready the door and get that thing out of here!" Outside the gates? What's outside the gates? Something dangerous? Rushing to a small view point set into one of the walls, Shravra found that their was a hoard of soldiers in strange garb, with a different skeleton terrorizing the front few rows. That was enough to clear any doubts in his mind. Stopping the skeleton as it reached the gate exit, he bowed in respect of what the elven bones were about to do, presenting his sword at the same time. ”Captain, I'm going to hope you trust me on this one. I don't think that these skeletons are out enemies. This one has came from the other side of town and has done nothing dangerous at all. It wanted to come here for a reason, and I think that reason is to help defeat the enemy outside the gates.” Lifting his head again, Shravra watched as the skeleton moved out the gates and towards the soldiers with what he would believe to be a determined walk. I just hope I'm right with this one...

Shizuru frowned. "You sure you're ok?" The investigator was her patient, and she wasn't going to let him go unless he was fine. As for the girl that had just sat down and started reading, Shizuru blinked. The same timid girl she had yelled at earlier to get away. "Well, you seem calm," she said flatly.

"Let's go to the town hall. Maybe they can tell us what the hell is going on, and why we're all hallucinating and seeing skeletons!" she grabbed Felecia's shoulder. "Come on."

Shizuru still didn't believe in magic, but skeleton's walking didn't make sense unless it was a puppet being moved by strings from a distance. A very convincing puppet.

The other skeleton would make things more difficult to explain as he didn't know that ones intentions. Not that he knew the others intentions either, but he could guess on that case. ”I'm not sure about the one that was already here, but I don't think that the one I followed isn't out enemy. It had every chance to attack the city on the way over, yet it didn't. Instead it goes out and attacks out enemies. That sounds like an ally to me.” Shravra paused to think about the other one. There was something that didn't fit in what the captain had told him. And then it hit him. ”Captain. You said that the skeleton attacked you. That doesn't sound quite right. Did you perhaps attack it first, thus provoking it to protect itself?” That would make more sense from the magic hating captain.

((Postie post. Just so you all know, I'm in the last three weeks of classes leading up to finals. I have several papers of unholy length to contend with so I may be touch and go. Feel free to ghost me along and I'll catch up as soon as I can. 3nodding ))

Haucon wished there were something he could do to comfort Aidan a little because honestly, compared to her, his day was a picnic. He pat her on the shoulder somewhat awkwardly and perhaps a little too hard, like he would to a reassure one of his equine companions. "Well, it can't get much worse, right? I mean, we're literally following death right now..." he said with a sort of laugh.

They followed the road and he and Aidan started to catch up to Shane and Lyris. Haucon nodded to the barkeeper, but still couldn't remember his name. Before long the cemetery came into view and a shudder ran through Haucon's body involuntarily. There, where there should have been a peaceful graveyard with tasteful headstones, there were many open graves. He knew without having to look that they were empty, their previous occupants having climbed out with the same phenomenon that brought their guide to them.