You look at the little kobolt, who seems a little scared. He's a little guy, to be sure, smaller than even Eveline. Despite his fear, he's doing his best to look "proper". It's just kind of weakened by the constant shaking. It seems... odd that a mind-controlled servant would be afraid of you. You decide not to say anything, however. No need to spread the seeds of revolution on a likely tattletale. You pick up the book and drop it down the back of your dress. With your sheer amount of trunk, the junk will stay in place. No need to leave a valuable book like that behind, no sir!
You try to make a little small talk as the kobolt escorts you, but he mostly just remains silent while smiling at you in minor terror. Most likely, he isn't allowed to actually speak to you beyond what was needed. So you can't discover much about the servants from him, sadly. You'll have to do some snooping of your own, or just find somebody that's a bit more talkative.
The castle is surprisingly bare, all things considered. It's hard to tell when it's just a little spider looking around, but it's mostly kind of samey. Sure, the curtains are fancy, but there nothing exceptional on display throughout the halls. When you reach the dining room, however, you can tell that he makes it count in here. It's not quite so animal head obsessed as his throne room, but there's a lot of stuff, most of it eastern. Probably a storage of all the fancy gifts he received over the years.
The little kobolt bring you to the edge of the table, which has some pillows in place of an actual chair. It's been improvised a bit hastily, most of these are clearly meant to be on a bed rather than the typical couch/carpet pillows. You're not picky, though. You notice that there are multiple chairs ready, but you're currently the only one here. However, almost instantly after you thought that, the doors open to another one. You recognize this one from your spider, the one with the strange helm and all the eyes. He looks... really weak now that he's just walking here. Stumbling and shuffling, he doesn't look like he can handle the weight of that helmet. He sits next to you on the massive, massive table, meaning there's still about three meters between you. You can hear his breathing, ragged and weak, and you'd feel bad if it wasn't for the fact that he'll most certainly try to kill you and possibly be quite good at it. After a short while, he turns to you. You feel eight different eyes staring at you, but contrary to last time you were looking, no lights seem to be blinking at the different eyes.
hnn. new one. know you. switch sides? His voice is raspy, and it sounds a little like he garles tar for a living
What?nnf. He looks away from you, and you see the eyes on his helmet light up one by one until they remain at one.
enemies disturbed. hm. "surprise" guest?I guess I am. What the hell's up with you?not important. leave you to the boss.An awkward silence fills up the next few minutes before another merc enters the room. The silence doesn't quite end when you see WHO it is. The Hellborn. He looks sootcovered, and still giggling a little to himself about something. When he notices you, he turns his head like a dog. Clearly confused, but he's not planning on attacking you, at least.
OoOOOHoh! The QUEEN HAS ENTERED THE FOLD. HERE, TO SUCK AT THE SWEET FRESHMEATS OF THE BIG BOY! he yells. You're kind of too exasperated to grant that a response. Fortunately, before the awkwardness could continue, the next figure appears. Emphasis on the "appeared". Suddenly, there's just a young girl lounging on a chair opposite to you. The Hellborn hadn't even reached his seat opposite the helmet-man when the little figure appears
Heyyy, 'nother one to the fold!? I thought I was the only one new, but 'parantly they got a spider, too? She is absurdly young, probably not even out of her teens!
I'm not entirely here by my will, to be fair. Ohhh, I see. That bloodsucker's taken a likin' to ya and now 'e wants to have a little gander at you in his neck o' the woods. ...That's about the short of it. I'm guessin' you're the leader of the bunch tryin' to bully boss mosquito? Why would you say that?Yer the biggest one around, unless you got a troll with ya, which I doubt. On top o' that, yer pretty and probably pretty smart if you're not tryin' to stab Mr. "I 'ain't eaten no food in a million years" she says, while gesturing to the helmet-man. He makes a grunt as answer.
I don't have a sword, after all...She giggles to that answer. She's certainly excitable.
Say, 'ang on? You a bonewizard?I'm a necromancer, if you mean that.Oooh! Coincidence! But yer gonna see why that is on yer own. But ey, pleased ta meet ya, Sidders!Does she know your name? Did the vampire tell her? Considering the vampire even hired her, there must be something more behind her, and you know not to make assumptions over the looks of somebody. You also note how her clothing seems a tad too large for her, and most certainly too fancy for how she acts and talks.
Best not to trust her, regardless of how affable she seems.
Finally, the doors are opened by some servants, and the vampire enters. With him comes the food, brought on literal silver platters. How... extravagant.
He takes place at the top of the table, close to both you and the new girl. The servants place a platter before everybody, and a goblet of drink. Different foods for everybody, it seems. You get a large, bloody steak, alongside some kind of variant on potatoes. Cut into small sticks and cooked in oil. You... can't deny you're hungry, at least. Still.
Your drink seems to be very... red. The same red as your host is enjoying at moment. You can think that it's wine, but that's unlikely to be true. You're not really suffering from any thirst, at the moment, so you'd prefer to just... let it lie.
The vampire is oddly silent, although he keeps a close watch over you. It's... not as business-like as you'd hope on that end.
Enjoy the mealIf he meant to kill you, he'd have done so without poison. Just enjoy it, for now, and try to get some information out of people. Don't eat anythingPoison doesn't have to be lethal. Who knows what he might be trying! You'll jsut try to chat with people, insteadJust leave the drink alone.You won't drink any more blood than you strictly need. You'll still enjoy the rest of the meal, and chat up the restAny of the above, but no asking questionsBest not initiate conversation. You don't know where you stand, at the momentDon't even answer anything directed at you.You're going to remain entirely silent for the rest of the meal. They won't get the satisfaction!Other[/spoiler]
Basic Stats
Level: 10
HP: 20/30
Mana: 25/53
Stress: 30/61
Thirst: Sated
Items and equipment
Equipment:
Extravagant blue ballroom dress, with ample space for the back.
Items:
Abomination's Skull
First Tome of Eternal Darkness
Stashed away:
Spare clothing (x13)
Fancy clothing
Skills and spells
Magic:
Resurrect vermin: Allows you to resurrect very small creatures such as rats(invests 2 of your max mana) (no mana cost)
Resurrect average beast: Allows you to resurrect creatures such as dogs, cats and other similar-sized creatures.(invests 7 mana) (no mana cost)
Resurrect Humanoid: Allows you to resurrect humanoid creatures. (Invests 10 mana) (Costs 15 mana)
Reshape minion plus!: Allows you to majorly change the appearance of your resurrected minions.
Minion Vision: Allows you to see what a minion sees. The minion must have eyes.
Animate Piece: Allows you to animate just a piece of dead tissue. It requires your constant attention, and cannot act independently. (Drains 1 mana per three seconds)
Graft: Allows you to use dead tissue as a replacement limb. Requires a lot of mana. (2 per second) (average limb takes around 20 seconds to properly graft)
Gather Soul: Allows you to make a soul visible. You could try putting it in a flame of some sort to keep it around. (10 mana)
Soul battery: Allows you to use a soul-infused flame as a small mana-boost. This snuffs it out, however
Undead flashbang: Allows you to blow up a minion for a flash-bang effect. (10 mana)
Stitch: allows you to close a wound and stop bleeding as fast as you can stitch. Costs very little mana, but requires something to stitch with.
Siphoning Cloud: Breathe out a cloud that drains the life from victims and gives it to you. Adds a LOT to intimidation (5 mana)
Smoke Cloud: Breathe out harmless but thick smoke. (2 mana)
Deathbolt: A bolt that hurts the body's connection with it's soul. Causes minor wounds to appear over the body as it attempts to compensate (2 mana)
Doombolt: A more powerful version of the above (5 Mana)
Familiar
Tiny Skeletal Dragon (Percussive) (Close. You think it may be just outside the room)
Skills:
Poison Stinger (leaves a sack inside the body, which pops.)
Crossbow usage: Novice
Oral Fixation: Can cast spells spells from the mouth.
Draining Limbs: Can drain blood using pedipalps.
Major experience in blocking and swords.
Climber
Crafty: Bolas
Cooking skill: Excellent
Corpse Cutting: Quite Decent.
Animal handling: inexperienced.
Necromantic knowledge
Soul Sniffer