h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

*these are dark, deep, winding caves made from the mining that the people of Imardin did years ago...the veins of the precious ore were used up and now the caves are almost unused, save for a few animals that may hide here for protection against harsh weather.*

*enters one of the low caves glad to get shelter from the sudden sharp winds which seem to have started tearing accross the land*
*sits watching leaves blow past outside before going further into the caves*

*staggers around in the darkness before giving in and casting a spell for some sort of light*
*a ghostly flame apperes, not so much deminishing the shadows as spreding them elsewhere*
*walks further into the caves comeing to a sort of fork though she is consious she probably passed meny in the darkness, goes right and walks down a sloping path*

*continues walking but eventually comes to a dead end.*
*sits on a pile of rocks to rest and looks around*
*takes a bottle of wine from her bag and some bread*
*she eats some of the bread then takes a long drink from the bottle*
*puts the last of the bread back in her bag*
*continues drinking as she looks around*
*spots something in the pile of rocks... a scelital hand*

oh... lovley...
*trys to stand up but sits down quickly before finaly hoisting herself onto her feet and staggering over to the scelital hand*

wha the ell is this...
oi mate... you dead?
*giggles*

*drops a now empty bottle onto the floor and tryes to focus on the hand*

aint this nice, ya walk... over the land en all you finds some dead bloke... wonder what e dided fom...

*takes a bell from the bellholder and rings it while swaying slightly*
*a ghost apperes*

oi... dead guy... why you dead?

[ghost] what is this? my slumber desturbed by a drunk! how dare you!

shaddup and tell me...

[ghost] I will have you know i have never been treated so poorly in all my life

well youz dont have none anymore. a life that is... *giggles*

[ghost] oh you may sneer... i find this highly annoying, if you must know I came here seeking shelter from a storm after visiting the village of altenz beond the plains

altenz... wha you do there?

[ghost] that is of no consern of yours young lady, why in my day... wait... if youve sommoned me you must be a necromancer

top marks for mr dead...

[ghost] well... so was i once

oh what you do exept die?

[ghost] i get the feeling i have met you before

maybe in altenz...

[ghost] you were there?

i born there... nice place it was... before it was levled to the ground...

[ghost] i gave it up... i couldnt summon anything anymore so i passed it on to a desendet...

not meny necromancers from those parts, they fohjt majic was funny

[ghost] i never said i was from there, only my desendet

hats nice... *hic*

[ghost] nice girl she was, might have met her

nah... was alone i was... till i got the bells then i was very alone...

[ghost] shame... *ghost seems to be grining widely*

what is?

[ghost] you really know nothing do you?

hey i wount say that, i went to school... i can write i can...

[ghost] oh lords.... look take the ring and a propper sword, that thing your holdings almost blunt

hey... its mine it is... what ring... what weapon

[ghost] there next to my hand... take them!

alright... gez dead guys... think they can boss you around

*takes the ring and slides it on and takes the sword but holds it*

[ghost] now i'm going to rest, il get in touch
*ghost fades*

I hate ghosts i do...

*sits back down looking at the new sword uncertenly*

*finaly stands up and staggers out of the caves following a gut instinct at how to get back out*

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*as if from nowhere Pesh swoops down into the cave*

Pesh:[No where do I go Lycan?]

*he starts fllowing the directions*

*Pesh gets deep into the abandoned mines and finds a "stash" piccking it in his mouth he runs back through the tunnels and takes off into the air outside*