Role

Chapter 2

Dark roots.
Added Mon Jul 23 02:19:07 2012 at level 15:

In the middle of the forest a dark robed mage stands in a decorative looking circle.
Within the circle there are a number of ornate looking items, five to be exact and
each one sits at the point of a star. Around the circle, 5 other hooded men stand
with a smaller person in a hood, perhaps a child or a women held in front of them.
The chanting began deeply but softly and then slowly began getting louder and
louder until it suddenly stopped. The woods were silent and the only motion came
from the 5 robed figures who pulled the robes off those stood in front of them to
reveal 5 naked women who were clearly with child. The robed mage let out a high
pitched scream and simultaneously the 5 women had their throats cut and their
bellies opened by the sharp daggers held in the hands of the men stood behind them.
The ground in the middle of the circle opened up into a dark portal and 5 demonic
quasits emerged. They looked at the dead women lying at the edges of the circle
and began to whine and let out a high pitched cry that was more like a wounded
animal than the child they almost resembled. They began walking about the circle
looking for a weakness and as they did so the dark robed mage continued to chant.
Suddenly and without warning the demonic looking quasits burst through the circle
and each grabbed the, now screaming, robed men around the circle. They clawed at
faces until they were eyeless and then they dragged them into the portal. The dark
robed mage began to panic and was waving his arms frantically as his chantings got
louder and faster. Then he stopped as he saw a dark-skinned, black horned creature
begin to emerge from the portal. He turned and ran through the woods, unable to
scream as each breath was a precious few more metres closer to safety. He could
see a light up ahead and scrambled through the edge of the wood towards a cabin.
As he broke the tree-line by a few feet the black horned creature grabbed him from
behind, by the neck and lower back in a paralysing grip and flew back to the woods
with him screaming 'Nooooooooooo!'
Ronas Broadoak and his wife stepped away from the window and looked at each
other. Role + 'Did you see that, Ronas?' she whispered.
'Yes, love.' Replied Ronas sternly. 'There is something in the woods. I need to go.'
'No, don't go!' she cried. 'I have a bad feeling'.
Ronas smiled as he said 'You always have a bad feeling'.
'I have a duty to the woods' and with that he grabbed his axe and left to investigate.

Back at the portal, the dark robed mage was lying in various places around the circle
and the black horned creature was crunching on a jawbone. The ground shook and
the black horned creature disappeared through the portal as thin bloody, black roots
began to push through the ground and a black tree began to take shape about the
portal.