CROBHEAR STONE
Jürgen and his Host watched the drastic and sudden change in the Portal Stone, and the leadership of the Host set to conversing.
"What need have we of traversing into these Wilds or that Sea?" said Lucius Reik.
"There may yet be...interesting creatures," said Lord Mulder...
THE MASSACRE AT CROBHEAR STONE
Every adventurer who had answered the call and gone to the Crobhear Lake Portal Stone lay dead at its base.
King Jürgen Kaiser walked among this field of the dead. They were some fifty or so in number, these adventurers whose fate it was not to be heroes or...
He lay dying on the ground. And though it seemed so distant to him, the thudding footfalls and knucklefalls of the creature--that beast, that grinning thing--as well as the shouts and battlecries of his fellow Guardsmen came from further inside the interior courtyard of the fort.
His name was...
Ah, I see.
I mistakenly took the "The short hair lady bowed to them" and the following dialogue about interruption as being directed at Jürgen, thinking that Lionel had sent Khali ahead of himself as a representative of sorts.
I can correct it.
"Then it is agreed," Jürgen said to Lord Mulder. "Shall I send a labor force to help you and your kin relocate to Reikhurst?"
"Yes, yes, yes indeed," said Lord Mulder, turning his old hands over one another with a brimming excitement. From his throat came the low rumble of a scheming giggle...
Jürgen had been making his way around the dance floor, intent on eventually going to speak with the tall albino vampire. Yet as he went the dam of curiosity broke for a duo of vampires that had been eyeing the Bloodstone earlier. Jürgen was approached by a pair of fledglings, clearly here...
He did not like what he saw.
None among those he surveyed stood out as having merit--at least, no observable merit by Jürgen's lights. And what did he expect at a ball hosted by vampires, other than hedonism and vain self-indulgence? If there was anyone here who lived not in the ceaseless...
The clanking of metal sabatons by the ballroom entrance. And the Third King of Reikhurst, Jürgen Kaiser, entered into the underground ballroom.
It disgusted him. The mere sight of all this. Of vampires (perhaps fittingly) deluding themselves during this masquerade ball of their own devising...
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