EveryoneThe sconces are caged and thus the torches cannot be removed. They seem unnatural. Each flame seems to be just as strong as the last.
Edwin realizes that the sound is of rushing air, and that it is steadily growing louder. It's just ahead of them somewhere in the dark.
XantalosThe room is square, tall and dim, the rough, uncut stone walls illuminated by the flickering red light emanating from the demonic forge dominating the far wall. Hundreds of man-sized roughshod portals are set into the surrounding walls. You have no idea where they lead, as you and the other occupants were led into the room via the massive portcullis directly opposite the wall, which fell closed sometime after the last demon was slain.
The nearby corpses you check don't have much to offer aside from a rusted shortsword that's just your size, still in it's leather sheathe. You have no belt, so you have to carry it in your hands for now.
While you're busy searching the dead, the survivors have organized and gathered nearby. There's roughly forty survivors out of the hundreds that filled the room moments ago. Most of them are too stunned to even stand, but about five of the tougher souls are talking in low voices nearby. "What now?" An elf murmurs meekly. "We get out. Those doors look promising." Says a human sharply. "Yes, we go straight through the rock!" The dwarves bark, ignoring the everyone.
Name: Vlad Lamora
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Appearance: Short and slightly built with short, dark brown hair, a mustache, and light grey eyes. He is neither handsome nor memorable.
Profession: Assassin
Health: Fine
Equipped: Clothes, leather boots, steel chain mail, dwarven bastard sword, steel full helm
Inventory - 2x leather boots, steel full helm,
Squishy Backpack: 15x wurm meat
Skills: Swords
Proficient, Throwing
Proficient, Cooking
Proficient, Lockpicking
Dabbling, Butchering
DabblingMagicks: Catch III - you can absorb energy at a mediocre pace, such as light; restores fatigue and reduces hunger; can store energy
Overcharge I - focus absorbed energy on your weapon or body for increased attack or defence; temporarily weakened when over
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Name: Clair Redfield
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Appearance: A red-headed, green-eyed woman. Her hair is in a short tomboy cut and she has a tattoo of a dull red star on her cheek.
Profession: Shepard
Health: Fine
Equipped: Leather Tunic, Leather Boots, iron staff, dwarven dirk
Inventory: Hunting knife, 2x clothes
Skills: Staves
Proficient, Butchering
Skilled, Cloth Work
SkilledMagicks: Repel III - manipulate air into a general or focused blast, pushing the target(s) away; little fatigue
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Name: Tali Bluestone
Gender: Female
Race: Dwarf
Appearance: A somewhat shorter than usual, but well muscled Dwarven woman stands before you, with dark black hair done up fashionably and tucked into a single long ponytail cut raggedly short. Piercing copper eyes radiate cunning and a cold intellect, and are framed by long, emotive eyebrows that give her a slightly unsettling demeanor, even after being imprisoned.
Profession: Explorer
Health: Fine
Equipped: Rags, Rotten Leather Boots, Sturdy Footman's Helm, Flimsy Leather Cuirass, Ebony Easterland Lance
Inventory: Lucky Coin
Skills: Navigation
Proficient, Pole Arms
Proficient, Herbology
Proficient, Architecture
DabblingMagicks: N/A
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Name: Edwin Malfonse
Gender: Male
Race: Elf
Appearance: Edwin has short cropped dark brown hair, green eyes and lightly tanned skin. He stands at typical elf height, 5' 4'', has a thin and wiry build that's thin even for an elf and seems almost eternally smudged with a small covering of dirt. He seems almost at home here, strangely enough.
Profession: Professional Thief
Health: Fine
Equipped: Clothes, Leather Boots, studded leather hauberk, 2x iron daggers
Inventory: 1x iron dagger,
Leather Weapon Pack:
Roaken, Sturdy Lockpick, Coiled Iron Chain w/ Cuff, Dwarven Claymore
Skills: Stealth
Proficient, Thievery
Proficient, Daggers
Proficient, Lockpicking
DabblingMagicks: N/A
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Name: Durmar Vorboksson
Gender: Male
Race: Dwarf
Appearance: A stocky man, even for a dwarf, Durmar has brown curly hair tied back in a ponytail, revealing suntanned skin and piercing blue eyes. He has a broad nose and a bushy mustache to match his eyebrows. Stubble grows upon his cheeks. He's relatively fit, and thanks to his vocation has more than his fair share of scars.
Profession: Former Chemist and Merchant; Deathseeker
Health: Fine
Equipped: Rags, Rusted Shortsword
Inventory: Sharp rock, Clockwork Blunderbuss
Skills: Fighter
Expert, Firearms
DabblingMagicks: Heal I - Close small wounds.
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Name: Grolburg
Gender: Male
Race: Orc
Appearance: Stubbly grey beard, missing his right eye, extensive burns on his left arm.
Profession: Guard
Health: Fine
Equipped: Rags
Inventory: Thin razor blade
Skills: Spears
ExpertMagicks: N/A