Talk:Kelsey Williams
The Beast That Haunts
http://fatesharvest.com/w/Log:Autumn_Court_Meeting:_April_2017
"The next bit of business is going to be something that I hope all of you will help in. I've found a text that talks about a legendary beast. It doesn't state whether or not if it's a hedge beast or something not of this world." she tells them. "There are some pages missing though. So for the moment we are with half of the information to uncover this mystery. I think once we have the rest of the pages that we'd have a good change of seeing whether this beastie is just from someone's imagination or an actual old hedge beast." she tells them. "If you want to go on the first trip to collect the first set of pages, we've tracked them down to a place near Echoes Lament." she explains.
Ashe then bends to bring a cloth wrapped book from her bag and places it on the table where she unwraps it. It's a very old looking book. The leather is old and showing the signs of distress. The pages are yellowed and some of them look as if someone attempted to burn it. "I am trying to piece it together still. The book is unfinished, but one of the pages before a few of the lost one mentions Echoes Lament. I do not know if it's guarded or not. If it seems to be something that is too dangerous, we'll back off until we have a better plan." she tells them.
The book that Ashe settles in the middle of the table is delicate to the touch and written on old vellum or some type of paper. The burned pages are almost unlegible, but they also realize that there's different languages spread through the book along with long forgotten symbols. There is something that becomes apparent. It takes a lot of work to understand the pages without the others being attached, which would be a reason enough to want to get the other pages back.
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Down the stone corridor the path is covered by thick cobwebs that need to be cleared away as the group goes down it. No spiders fall onto anyone though. Once the cobwebs have been cleared they can head into a small room. In the middle of the room is a pedestal where an old skeleton is stuck in a kneeling position. Their hand is caught in what seems to be a rock enclosure.
In the middle of that enclosure and in the grasp of the skeletal hand are a few of those pages that needed to be collected.
Now it's time to figure out how to get them out.
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The gust of wind manages to rattle the bones of the skeleton. It dislodges the papers as the finger bones slump open. The pages seem to get caught on the inside of the stone prison. The wind was a definite help...but the process of getting the pages out still needs something else to make it work entirely.
Tristan moves toward Oliver when he draws his sword, sliding past him and then giving the blade an odd sort of handshake, dragging his palm along the blade near the tip, cutting his palm open. Once he reaches the pedestal, he holds his hand a good distance above it and lets some of the blood from his palm drip down onto it, prepared to step back should the hungry stone prove hungry for more than his meager offering.
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When Tristan's blood drips down over the stones there's a bit of a shiver that runs through the earth. That's before the pedestal crumbles and the pages get blown into the air, settling on the ground safely away from the blood and the skeleton of the dead person that tried to either get them here or take them. One may never know. Once the pages are freed, Tristan says a quiet "Thank you," to Oliver, for the use of his blade quite without permission. He then takes a step back to allow someone else to gather and take custody of them.
