[HQ Ignorance] Scene 143: Conversational Zombies (was Re: Scene 141: The Duck's Soup)

[Lev Lafayette]

On Tue, February 11, 2014 11:37 pm, Michael Cole wrote:
>> "So, what brings you here? Someone upset Master Duck?"
>>
>
> Apparently.  Don't really know the details, but it has something to do
> with lizard-skin.  I believe that the original owner wanted it back.
> Possibly slightly selfish, but I can see his point.

"Hmmm... hmmm... Yes, I remember the Dragonewt being upset at that. *Very*
upset in fact. Didn't like being turned into the soup. Would have been
quite upset with the Master Duck turning his skin into a suit. Mind you,
plenty of people have snake-skin shoes and belts, so it's not surprising."

> So how long have you been here?  Do I take it that its rather recent?

"Oh no! This is my home village. I've been here all my life. And then
some. Haha."

"As a youngster trollkin I was sold to a wizard, Can Shu. Very clever
person, I must say. He told me that I was a very smart young trollkin with
clever tongue, which I suppose was true. But he also said that he could
make my intelligence and charisma even greater."

"The experiments were.. terrible. It felt like my mind was being torn
apart, exposed to the entire cosmos all at once. Yet, he spoke the truth.
When the ritual was finished, I was smarter and I had an uncanny gift of
the gab."

"I was returned to this village by Can Shu to deliver secrets of the Cult
of the Black Sun. But when I returned I realised I could not betray my old
friends. So I stayed and used my new found intellect for good."

"Can Shu obviously was not happy and sent some adventurers to fight us;
including the Duck Fwrack and the Dragonewt Oarssanai, and some humans. We
managed to defeat the humans, but the Duck and Dragonewt had their own
special magics, and we were all slaughtered - every single one of us."

"From what I've been told, the Dragonewt and the Duck had a falling out of
their own. The Duck realised that Can Shu wanted to use the secret Blood
Ritual to empower the Amethyst Dragon of Greater Chaos, and refused to
deliver the secrets, whereas the Dragonewt felt that the contract must be
fulfilled."

"The Duck defeated the Dragonewt and then stayed, learning the secrets of
the Cult, and learning the Blood Soup ritual. Perhaps the Duck had
sympathy with us from his experiences of his own persecuted people. In any
case he did more and more research and came to the conclusion that he
could reverse the trollkin curse. "

"You can imagine my surprise we I awoke to discover that not only did I
still have my full mental faculties and memories (unlike my poor friends),
but also the power of speech. It seems that Can Shu's magic even continues
beyond death itself!"


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