Item of Interest: Shadowy Tome - FAO: Gill

Miss_Behaviour

Oi Cutters,

This bod were banging around the Ca anthill with a handful of lemons from the Illuminated Blade and Fer-de-lance when unnatural dark clouds rolled in to the north.
Us bods were right close on the doorstep of Slingdyke in less than a tick and found it crawling with murky shadows that came to life. Boxed hundreds, but they kept coming.

Took the bodies a tick or two more to tumble to where the source was. Were inside the village.
All funnelled in and were met by pillars of purple gloom, bordering a what my brainbox is thinking's a conduit to the shadows.
Let the Mystran greybeard have a prod, but it weren't long til shadowy bones rose up outta the oily black.

Skeletal planar ain't let a word outta its bonebox, but offered up a tome covered in the same shadows. For a gad of clueless ~~ber~~ the lemons was wormy enough to hesitate. Cept one body what made a rush for the tome, careless of any pact made.
Her tag were Aelin or Bolt. Next to no Chant on her, so naturally the bodies are peery.
Tried to make compromise all diplomatic like, but she ain't having it, gets foamed up and leaves without it.

This bod's got the book and I ain't touched or read it. Mostly cause we can't bob the problem of the script we can't read.
Apparently this chant's similar to chant of how the Book of the Salt King came to be. Gad of shadows there too.

Said I'd write a report and pass one to each company on the ride.

Nix

[An addendum is added and not shared.]

Told the lemons Gill should catch a skeg of the tome to decipher it or give a hint what the script is, then discuss giving it to the Illuminated Blade since we ain't sticking around.

If it's useful to us bods, we come up with a rig to have them styx the memory.

Nix

@SpiffyMeister

Miss_Behaviour

Another encounter with this shadow. On a ride to deliver flowers to a Hightower tomb on the border of the Stormhorns.
Haunted. By a couple ghosts.
Worked through the tomb. It were desecrated. Placed flowers according to brief.

As we were leaving, Bolt caught a skeg of a ghost or spirit. It were writing in blood for us. Called a body a "Pretender" and told a tale of a master that denied their followers final peace.
Either Elias or Lucius Hightower is the bod thats got another running a black one for them. Most desecrated box.

Tomb began to collapse. Blood on the walls told us bods that "He knew we were here" and to run.
Escaped the tomb and a flood of shadows followed with the same big skeletal shadow. Couldn't spike it with my chiv so we gave it the laugh.

Nix

SpiffyMeister

Don't know, don't particularly care. I don't do shadow stuff.

Gills