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Observed themar 13

Themar enters the sanctuary quietly scanning around he seems tense zilumin takes a few moments to notice him.

Z: welcome themar.

Themar hols up a hand to silence him and suddenly disappears.

Arghhh

Hands grab at me and I find myself held tight staring in to his shadowy hood his leg hooked through the sculpted vaults that hold up the roof.

T: grand master I know we've not always seen… Eye to eye, you viewed my leaving the under haven as rash and impetus, that I should have stayed with you longer and with hindsight you have a point but I couldn't ignore what was going on, on the surface.

He pauses gathering his thoughts.

T: I had wished to do this in person, to talk to you get your wisdom on what has transpired, I'm sure you would have had insights into the problems we face, but men plan and fate laughs so I must resort to this. Raphael a teifling that joined the guild not long after me a man I have fought and bleed beside, a man I called friend has betrayed us, me and the guild. He traded his soul and life for power, should we have guessed after his dealings with the hag maybe but that is behind us what matters now is that he is now a vampire a blood drinker and a demon summoner of the foulest arts and we can't best him on our own. As such all of us, the guild are sending out a call for help if the world is to be safe for the living Raphael must fall as such I beseech you to send reinforcements, the shadow monks could tip the balance in our favour and bring hope back to the living without you we may fail but I shall be there even if it costs me everything.

With that he released me and dropped back to the floor nodded to zilumin and walked away.

The next morning Zilumin comes to you. "As you know Themar, or perhaps you don't, there are some of our number out there in the world, we are not blind to the troubles of the world. We push a little here, pull a little there. We have no loyalty to those above, but we do have to live in their world, or at least close to it. We cannot stand by and allow it to be destroyed. When you march with your Guild in a few days time, look around you, but do not fear the shadows. They have long been your ally, and will be filled with friends."

Post battle

As the smoke clears and a new day dawns the quiet of the sun rise is broken by the moans of the injured and the silence of the dead. The crows and other carrion now appear hoping for an easy meal as themar enters the medical tents and finds the bed he's looking for.

T: they finally convinced you to lie down then.

Z: it's just a scratch on my shoulder I've got another there are people that need my help.

T: you're no good to them dead, you need to rest for a little while. You can at least tell me what happened.

Z: not much of a story I should have ducked a little harder damed demon caught me by surprise, not all of us can zip around the battlefield without a care in the world.

T: you must have done a great job I was pleasantly surprised by how many of the militias survived.

Z: they fought well like I said they had a good teacher but many more died the bullywugs and the dragon guard.

T: they fought bravely against an evil that should not be seen in this world. We were fortunate to have the robots to take the brunt of the attack they saved a lot of lives we might have to thank la forge for his efforts.

Z: he's still dangerous and slightly unstable no matter what his creatures have done, but all that is besides the point what happened in the castle.

T: honestly it was quite the let down, after all the build up it was just him and his hound and we were prepared to fight vampires we'd practiced on the ones in the mirror and while Raphael was stronger and a sorcerer to boot we had him out numbered five to one and for all his fancy torches that dulled magic and bonfires that tried to keep him alive he was just one man even in his layer that tried to burn us he went down easily anticlimactic almost then down into the crypt to stake the three remaining. Speaking of which here.

Themar hands zilumin a wine bottle.

T: I grabbed a load of them from the crypt giving them out as a thank you for the help sort of thing.

Z: its a good year I'll save it for a special occasion.

T: as I was grabbing those dora disappeared cass says she was dragged into the fairy world to tell someone what happened here part of some bargain they struck for the stake they used to finish the vamps.

As themar looks down he finally realised zilumin has finally fallen asleep.

T: I'll leave you to rest old friend we still have much to do.

As he turns to leave he looks straight up at me and bows low and walks out of the tent.