Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-5583506-20150903185204/@comment-5583506-20150918020406

"I... I think I have found something here!" shouted the Redguard as he guided his lantern into a dark alcove.

His facial expression of relief turned into a grimace of sheer terror as the beast emerged from the darkness in front of him and wrapped its bony hands around his head on either side, utterly crushing it between its clawed fingers like a rotten melon.

"ArmiI!" shouted the Dunmer and readied himself as the creature tossed the headless Redguard out of his way to get to the next guard.

"By the Gods!" exclaimed Ganvalyon and tried to hide behind a pillar.

During this time Anhjari was slowly choking on the collar, meanwhile in the dirt pile beneath her feet a small plant would slowly rise up from the soil, taking the form of a humanoid being... An Alruna...

"It seems to me", said Montinette and examined the papers thoroughly. "Like it's some sort of notes concerning tests he has made. Most of them are really old and unintelligible. But I will see what they say from those who are written in the most recent decades."

Test Number 1412

''I swear this will be the last time I conduct this test. I know I should have promised myself that a long time ago, but this time I mean it. Chasing after shadows, trying to grasp a simple grain of Montinette's brilliance has proven to be a completely fruitless. And like a poison it still lingers in me... I want to... No... I need to find out what he knew that the Order didn't. He left us with nothing but a fraud recipe, destroyed his own study, and emptied the storage, immediately judging us for our corruption and dooming us to this... existence...''

''But guess who is laughing now, Montinette? You bastard... Had this curse you provided us with proven to be a punishment lasting for a matter of years, I might have been able to forgive you. I might even have changed my flawed ways, those you made me see so clearly. But due to this eternal nightmare you brought upon me... upon us... I will continue my research to achieve what you managed to accomplish, just because of my spite for you. Your curse over us may be eternal, but so is my hatred. I will therefore not stop trying to complete the Great Work, the Magnum Opus of us all. And once it is finished, I will find you... and I will show you just how much I am laughing at you...''

Rot in hell.

Montinette gazed up from the paper as if he had just awoken from a bad dream. "And then he goes on to rant some really hateful stuff about my forebear. It's like something straight out of a horror novel. Are you sure you want me to hear it all?"