World of Warcraft - Interbellum (IC Thread)

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Marion Mordis

Marion's heart sank when they found the corpses of the two cadets, barely a few years younger than herself, strewn about in a macabre decoration to conduit whatever infernal ploy the dark practitioners were conducting.

What was equally disturbing was Marions inability to make sense of the arrangement. She understood Demonic, she knew the language and had read various black rituals that could be employed with living sacrifices. But this? She did not recognize this.

Withdrawing her journal from her pack, an ink pot and her pen, Marion started to quickly scribble down notes and jotted a rough outline of what she saw, so that she could return to this at a later date when experience had expanded her knowledge enough to face this puzzle.

Once that was complete, she sprinkled some sawdust powder over the page to help the ink dry before quietly blowing away, folding her book up and returning it to her backpack.

That done, Marion eyed the pile again, pursing her lips when she thought about retrieving proof of the cadets demise.

"Mor'lagh," the warlock asked, her voice soft and quiet as not to draw attention.

"Can you carry these two?" she asked, gesturing to the downed cadets.

"Returning their remains is our prerogative. Perhaps a priest may even be able to restore the damage done to their souls for the burial."

With her question asked, Marion turned her attention back to the pile...at which point she spotted something. Furrowing her brow, the Alteraci retrieved a stick and brushed aside the charred remains of orcs and ashened refuse to reveal the heart of the ritual - an unusually shaped heart of rock. To the uninitiated onlooker this may seem harmless, but Marion could sense something about it. She knew this was no ordinary masonry.

Putting a cloth over her hand, Marion retrieved the item and wrapped it in linen, before squirrelling it away into her backpack. She would study it later.

ooc:
Spending a VP to boost Investigation, and then retrieving the Infernal core.