Adventures in the City of Wishes

The smell of blood

With Vonk in the lead, the party headed back down the hallway in search of a way out, or at least more treasure anyway. The hallway went around a corner and widened into a large chamber. The chamber looked old and mainly untouched except by time.

The room appeared different than the others they had seen so far. The main difference was that the floor was just dirt instead of old stone. The other oddity is that there were rows of tombstones filling most of the room. Near the back of the room there were large sarcophagus lining the walls. No one was able to remember any stories that would explain why this room would be buried under the city.

The party began to search the room, not sure what they are looking for exactly, though they all had hopes of stumbling across some threasure. As they examine the gravestones, they found them to be covered in humorous sayings.

Here lies good old Fred A great big rock fell on his head.

You're standing on my head.

Here lies a man once called Ned. Now more properly called dead.

Reading the tombstones caused the party to drop their guard and they began to laugh and joke as they continued searching the room. Waaagh noted that it felt like the room must have been used for some type of ceremony in the past since there were strange runes on the ceiling and the tombstones. No one, other than Waaagh, even paused to wonder why everything in the room was covered in runes and continued their search without hesitation.

The party's search eventually lead them to the large sarcophaguses in the back of the room. They party could see that they were covered in runes just like the rest of the room. Waaagh moved closer to them and ran his fingers over them.

“Should I cast a spell to see what these runes say or what do you guys think?” Waaagh asked.

“I say screw it. We should just open it and see what is inside. And by we, I of course mean Vonk,” Journey said. It was clear that the party was not very concerned with the strange runes that surrounded them.

“I agree. Vonk can take whatever it can dish out. Right Vonk?” Ari'el said.

“Vonk look! Vonk want more pretty armor!” Vonk said.

Vonk quickly moved to the nearest sarcophagus and started smashing on the lid with the bone he had been using as a weapon. If Vonk has been able to read the runes, he would have known he was smashing the rune that actually said, those who disturb this tomb shall face the wrath of those who came before, but Vonk couldn't read anything, let alone magical runes.

Vonk made quick work of the lid and stood back to reveal the contents inside. “This one only have body,” Vonk said. He went to the next done and did the same with the same result. While the party was busy watching Vonk, they didn't notice that all of the runes in the room were slowing coming to life. Soon, the whole room was lit up by the light blue glow coming from them.

“Maybe this wasn't such a good idea. Vonk, you should probably stop now,” Waaagh said.

“Why Vonk stop now?” Vonk replied.

Waaagh didn't need to answer because it soon became obvious to everyone, including Vonk, what Waaagh meant. The ground in front of the tombstones began to push upwards. Arms, legs, and eventually whole bodies soon followed. From the sarcophagus emerged two swarms of rats and a large creature that the party had not seen before.

“What the heck is that?” Asked Ari'el, pointing towards the strange creature. It looked like it had been human at one time, but it had long ago left that life behind. It was thin, so thin that it looked unnatural as it moved its long arms and legs. Its skin was a light purple and was stretched tight over its frame. It smiled at the party with razor sharp teeth.