One of the questy things that happened during the aforementioned hunt for Draclivis. I had just camped:



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Your sleep this night is fitful and restless, doing very little to refresh you.

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You're dragged into a deeper sleep and feel your awareness shift, tugged to a dream that quickly becomes a nightmare.

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You are pinned beneath a cloudless sky, left completely open to the elements.

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Looking down at yourself, you see small wooden stakes are thrust through various parts of your body, driven down into the earth.

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You feel ready to search out herbs once more.

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A figure wrapped in black furs suddenly leans over you, enveloping you in the scent of rot, death, and disease.

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A bone-dry whisper rasps from it. "You think you've broken yourself from the curse? That the Ancients respect your little show of strength?"

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The lich laughs and stabs your side roughly with the blackened haft of a broken spear.

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"You freed yourself, Azhelak, but not the way you wanted to. The Ancients held me back from the power in your bloodline. And now you've broken their bond."

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"You've been so proud and you think yourself so free now. Instead, I'm the one who's free. To break you and in doing so I will erase from Thera the only thing that could destroy me."

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"Your life is still vibrant. I want the essence of it, and I know exactly how to force you to give it to me freely."

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The lich kneels, grabbing your ear violently and pulling it to his bony visage.

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"I'm going to ruin everything you care about. Your precious Tree will burn. You'll never see the sun again for the conflagration I will set upon your home."

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"Your tribe will be skinned. I will start with the ugly children my curse has spawned."

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"But what I will enjoy the most is what I plan to do to your precious, innocent elf. I was a part of you for so long, I know your feelings and motivations. Every movement."

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"Worse, your desires of what you want from her. She'll think it's you when I break her body and that will break her soul."

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"The only thing that will save them is your sacrifice."

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The lich tucks the blackened shaft, though as it glints in the moonlight you think you catch sight of familiar runes. He pats it, as though assuring himself it is safe before he draws a dagger.

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Twisting your ear even more angrily, it slices into the flesh behind it and fills a vial with your blood. It is corked and tucked away for safekeeping.

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With a harsh cackle, the lich gestures and each of the stakes come flying from your prone body, releasing you.

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You feel an endless moment of falling before breaking out in the cold sweat of fear.