At the lair of the sister of the assuredly supremely photogenic, but positionally unlucky Bernie...James realizes that Bernie's sister is right! Nudity is not an acceptable state of being for someone like him! He needs clothing! To this end, he steals some
bloody levy leather armor and puts it on! He isn't naked anymore! However, he is still unarmed! To mitigate this, he takes the halberd he narrowly dodged a few seconds earlier. Hey, when gods chuck halberds at you, you take them and stab the bastards right back!
Having done that, he ponders what the rebels might be up to.
[Intelligence roll: ?+1]
They probably didn't get very far. They are filthy peasants, after all. Motivated by heresy, yes, but the peasantry are never to overestimated!
He asks
Vincent what the plan is! Vincent calls him an idiot and tells him that he should do everyone a favor and die! Say, that's not a very nice thing to tell your friends!
Meanwhile,
Leon decides to search for weapons and armor!
[Leon search roll: 2]
His search in the mausoleum proves uneducational and totally fruitless. It doesn't occur to him to loot the corpses just outside! Hooray for obliviousness!
Samuel and
Jordan decide to head to the nearest town they know of, Richardsburgh!
[Samuel speedy travel roll: 5]
[Jordan speedy travel roll: 5-1]
They decide to race each other as a way of speeding their progress along! Surprisingly, Jordan keeps up with Samuel quite nicely, but the skeleton manages to beat him there by about five minutes anyway. Having reached his destination, he raises his arms in victory! Then lowers them once more as he notices that Richardsburgh is completely burned down! Jordan arrives soon afterward!
"I say, the inn fire must have gotten out of hand! So out of hand that the entire village went up in flames! Bloody fire didn't even spare the basements! Or the stone walls! My word, those mages should be careful with those fireballs. They could seriously hurt someone!"Samuel shrugs uncertainly!
"I say, are there any other towns nearby?"[Samuel local knowledge roll: 4]
[Jordan local knowledge roll: 4]
They both look at each other in complete agreement: they'll follow the road! It's bound to lead somewhere!
[Samuel speedy travel roll: 3]
[Jordan speedy travel roll:
3-1]
They proceed along the road, Samuel slightly leading ahead, but they seem to be a bit too demoralized to race again! Guess seeing the charred remains of a place you were at a few hours ago does that to you!
[Samuel convincing excuse roll: 6]
While traveling, Samuel thinks of a convincing excuse on why he is a skeleton that he'll be able to provide to any distrustful magical merchants! He was polymorphed! Or metamorphosized or deskinned or whatever it is they call it these days. He'll say it was because he slept with a witch's sister! The witch was very angry because she was in love with Samuel! But that's because his twin brother seduced the witch while claiming to be him! Because they have a long-standing rivalry that bases itself around the fact that Samuel and his identical twin brother, Dirk, were separated at birth, the result of which was that Samuel was brought up in relative prosperity while Dirk was forced to eke out a living on the rough streets of the city of Fiverock! Dirk had grown up despising his brother while Samuel was totally ignorant of Dirk's existence! When they finally met, they agreed to trade places for a day to see what the other was living like! Dirk used the opportunity to cause trouble while Samuel fixed all of Dirk's problems!
It is truly a story to move men to tears! It also provides a convenient excuse for Samuel to use when somebody tries to bring him to justice! A true achievement in lying. Samuel practices the story several times in his head, making sure to keep all the made-up facts straight! He also works on his body language, trying to remove all compulsive signs of lying!
That is, until he remembers that he cannot speak and the story is too long to just write out in a store. Oh well.
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