Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-24685738-20170623221726/@comment-7262318-20170626030919

Phantom glanced sideways at the mage before shrugging it off. "This was a long, long time ago... Over in Morrowind, I was tracking down a criminal to a small village just on the border. He was a murderer. Lots of people who knew him went missing. Some we never found traces of, and had their heads nailed to their doors. I had been chasing this guy for a while, and every time I thought I had him cornered off, he would get out of my grasp. I could have him cornered down an alleyway with an army of a hundred men at my back, and he always got out."

"So you suck at your job?" Edwin interrupted.

"Let me finish..." Phantom paused him. "So I come to this village, and he's not running anymore. He's just out in the middle of the town, plain as day. I come up to him, and I could tell he had some sort of trap layed out for me. He always had one. And sure enough, it turns out that those people that went missing, the ones that we never found... well, here they all are in this village."

Phantom leaned back. "This man brought all these people he killed back to life, and he had direct control over every one of them. The kids, the women, the farmers, the soldiers, and the beggars. They all had his mind in them. So here I am, with my little group of assassins, fighting this huge horde of the exact same guy..."

He chuckled. "That was probably, the longest battle I had ever been a part of. Partly because once we stabbed them, they got right back up and kept fighting with these huge swords sticking out of their gut. Chopped their heads off, and everything neck down kept fighting."

"That's horrible!" Bagarok whined. "Did you... kill the guy?"

"Well, once I figured out I had to cut down command central, I did," Phantom nodded. "I chased him down to the town's church, which was all devoted to him, and I had one last fight with him. Put a dagger between the eyes, and put all those tortured souls he was manipulating to rest..."

He sighed wearily. "Only regret of that day is that I wasn't able to do it sooner."