Long rest after the throne room by Alleraia | World Anvil

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Sun 21st Jun 2020 01:20

Long rest after the throne room

by Alleraia Ravenswhisper

We begin the day with a long rest, as we are all exhausted from our trials in the Throne Room. Osha calls first watch. Alleraia goes to sleep, turning off her light cantrip thrusting the barren room into darkness. Two hours into Osha's watch , she glimpses out of the corner of her eye an eerie blue/greenish glow eminating from Alleraia's bedroll. Osha walks over and digs the Orb out of the bedroll, causing it to glow ever brighter and cast the room in an ethereal glow. Suddenly, Osha hears a faint voice, thinking it's coming from the Orb, she examines the orb. "I hope you can hear me", says the voice, "I wish I could bid you farewell properly, but it seems as if i've failed yet again." Osha realizes the voice is coming from somewhere in the room, and she walks towards the sound. Peeking around the corner of the chimney in the center of the room, she is greeted by the sight of 2 familiar ghostly forms. They appear to be the spirits of the two skeletons they had found earlier on the cots. The ghosts take their places as if reinacting their last moments. The female form, who had previsoulsy owned the orb, begins speaking to it, "I thought I would live forever, but I guess that's a fatal mistake made by many of our kind. Just our luck that both chimneys would be blocked. Something other than ghouls bar our escape. We hear a cacophony of voices somewhere deep in the fortress. We've been in this room for 10 days and Neremon is fading. " she strokes her companions head, but then as his head lolls to the side she realizes he is dead and she decends into a quiet panic as her image fades away.
 
Osha is overcome with emotion at the vision, and decides to quietly put the orb back into Alleraia's pack. It ceases glowing shortly after she puts it away. Osha walks over to the skeletons and tries to investigate and find anymore information of the people, but is unsuccessful. Osha returns back to her place by the door to continue her watch. There is stirring from Pip's cot, and Osha asks if he is awake. Osha tries to guess his real name again, and Pip annoyed, rolls back over to return to sleep. Osha's watch ends without any further incident, and she wakes Siegrane to take second watch. She informs him that she has seen more spirits, but they were harmless. Osha finally gets a chance to rest after her terribly trying day!
 
Siegrane pours himself some Divine Ale to help pass the time. And other than a short period of increased Banshee screaming in the bowels of the Fortress, his watch goes well. Siegrane wakes up Alleraia and she scolds him for drinking while on the job, before she takes up the third watch. Alleraia quietly wanders around the room keeping watch over her companiions. She notices the orb begins to glow in her bedroll. The hairs on the back of her neck stand up as a voice outside the door begins to yell, "This way! Out this way!" then the sounds of chaos, but faintly as if it is far away. The orb glows ever brighter. After a while the sounds cease, and the orb goes dark. Finally Allerai's watch ends and the long rest is successful!