Rikae and
Mac took turns guarding the entrance of the chamber the group was sleeping in. Would they have devoted more of their attention towards the inside of the chamber instead of the outside, maybe this story would have ended right here, but they were oblivious to what happened to some of their fellows inside. The wolves, on the other hand, knew
two rangers would be able to thwart all their effort. They needed to go.
Mac was sleeping soundly, and
Rikae quietly hummed a tune of old.
A thousand years ago, or maybe even 33
the ancient fraggles wrestled with a strange catastrophe
every time they wandered down a certain tunnel lane
one by one they disappeared like bubbles down a drain
a darkness closed around them and they never came again
A squeeking sound interrupted her song. Something was there....
Rikae nudged
Mac awake, and expressed the foreboding that they would never leave this place alive. He casually remarked:
It's not so bad!
Seeing
Rikae looking at him strangely, he added:
Well, I'm not saying I'd like to build a summer home here, but the carvings are actually quite lovely.
Suddenly, a dark shape moved into the passageway before them. Instantly, they were on their feet, skewering it repeatedly with their swords until it collapsed on the stone floor. The light from the chamber beyond fell on the creature, revealing it as nothing more than a rat of unusual size.
From the sound it made, I assumed it would be something even bigger - a werewolf, I feared. said
Rikae.
Mac replied:
A werewolf? That is more than unlikely, even in this place. What should it have done all this time? On what should it have fed? Rats? I doubt th...
No more words came out of
Mac's throat, for huge fangs pierced it from behind, took his breath, and killed him.
Rikae, at almost the same moment, was grabbed and her mouth shut by a large and hairy paw. The cruelty of what happened then is beyond this storyteller to recount.
*~*
Late did the members of the expedition awake. They expected to be woken by their two brave rangers and they walked around calling for them, but no answer came. Only when they stepped outside the chamber they saw what became of them. The floor was filled with pools of blood. Blood covered the walls as well. Tiny pieces of two human bodies lay all over the place. Then they looked up to the ceiling and thus horror was taught to them. For there, written in the blood of their victims, the werewolves wrote the words.
Calli lelyal ostosse!
All held their breath in dreadful awe. Only
Formendacil spoke up:
Heroses going in the city? What is that supposed to mean?
It's supposed to be "Heroes go home! came a voice from behind.
Everybody turned around in an instant.
"Who said that?"
No word was uttered.
This is ridiculous. Formendacil protested.
What is "Calli" supposed to mean? Plural of "Callo" is "Callor"! And "lelyal" is in the completely wrong form. We are given an order, so the imperative has to be used: "á lelya"! "Osto" makes the least sense of all! If it's supposed to mean "home" it has to be "mar"! And since we are told to go there, the allative case has to be used, not the locative: "marra"!
So enraged
Formendacil was, that he took some of the blood inside the pools and drew the correct phrase upon the wall. Slowly the others backed away from him...
*~*
Dead:
Macalaure and
Rikae (mods) - killed by wolves and turned into faulty quenya in Night One
Alive:
Feanor of the Peredhil -
visionary whose visions lean toward the abstract
Shastanis Althreduin -
loner roane
Formendacil -
snowbird
Kitanna -
phantom's business partner
Eönwë -
seller of pointless fakes
Nerwen -
treasure-seeker
Kath -
unemployed bum
Nilpaurion Felagund -
aged tale-seeker
Durelin -
eccentric, misanthropic archaeologist
Brinniel -
junk collector
Gwathagor -
warrior librarian
Nogrod -
pointless philosopher
Lalaith -
absent-minded professor
A Little Green -
blind astronomer who sells stars at the stock exchange
the phantom -
obtainer of rare antiquities
Thinlómien -
marine zoologist
Groin Redbeard -
dwarven miner
Mithalwen -
factotum
Day 1 has begun. Everybody talk!