Wounded Man: I am... badly..wounded...please..go to..
Kurien: Go where?
Wounded Man: To the..room under..the small...stairs...@there's medicine there... you'll need...this
Please....hurry!
Wounded Man: Thankyou friend.
Kurien: Who are you?
Wounded Man: My name is Gurai, a former servant of the@master. But what of you? Are you an outsider?
Kurien: I come in search of my friend, Suraea.
Gurai: If he came here then the master likely has him.
Kurien: Master?
Gurai: The master of this mansion. Yurich. Around a@year ago he began dabbling in the black arts. Then @a month or so ago the residents of this place began
disappearing, replaced by the twisted beings I have@no doubt you've encountered. He became little more@than an insane puppet master obsessed with the
recovery of an artifact which he believes will make@him a god no less. If your friend came here then he@may well be in the dungeon.
Kurien: Where is this dungeon?
Gurai: It is just down the corridor but the entrance@is locked. I know not where the key lays but take this.
It may help you get into the garden.
Kurien: Thankyou. I shall not forget your help.
Gurai: You go and try to find your friend while I try@to find a way out of here.
We shall meet again.
Kurien: ...Gurai.. you almost gave me a heart attack.
Gurai: I'm sorry... Have you found anything interesting?
Kurien: The door to this study was locked last time I@was here but now it's wide open. Did you unlock it?
Gurai: No. I don't have the key.
Kurien: Then who.... No it matters not.
Gurai: Right. I'll leave you to check this room out.@I'm going to see if there is a way to get out through@the waterways in the servant quarters.
Kurien: Okay. Good luck then.
Gurai: You too Kurien.
Yurich: I'm honoured you accepted my invitation.
Kurien: You are Yurich are you not?
Yurich: Correct. And you of course are Kurien.
Kurien: I came here only to discover one thing.
Where is Suraea!
Yurich: Heh. The question is not so much where is Suraea@but what is Suraea.
Kurien: Meaning what?
Yurich: The friend you trusted with your own life for so@many years is... different now.
Kurien: I grow tired of your blather Yurich!
Yurich: Very well then.Why not meet Suraea for yourself...
or what's become of him.. Hahahahahahahaaaaaaa.
Kurien: SURAEA!
Yurich: Marvellous... The Tome has made you very powerful.
Kurien: You BASTARD! You'll pay for killing Suraea.
Yurich: You cannot blame me for something you did.
Kurien: LIAR.... why are you doing this?
Yurich: For the Tome Kurien. The Tome is true power.@I have gone to great lengths to obtain it.
Kurien: What lengths?
Yurich: Fool... Why do you think you're here? Remember@the canyon Kurien? It was blocked when you were heading@home.
Kurien: You did that?
Yurich: That forced you to come through these woods which@led you right to my doorstep. Even Suraea blundering into@my hands was not mere fortune. He made perfect bait.
And now you're here, along with the Tome.
Unfortunately the tome has recognised you as it's owner@and so is bound to you so I cannot take it.
So the only way to obtain it's power.......
IS BY REMOVING YOU!
Yurich: uuuuuunnnnnnNNNNGGGGGAAARRGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!
I....shall...not be.....de..feat..ed...
HAHAAHAHAHAAHAAAAAAA! You will not win so easily Kurien.
Gurai: KURIEN!
What on earth happened here?
Kurien: Suraea is dead, and so is Yurich.
Gurai: I'm sorry Yurich got to your friend before we did.
However, now is not the time to mourn. We must get out of@these woods. Even if Yurich is gone, the madness@he created remains.
There is a bridge a few minutes from here that leads right@over a deep chasm and out of this forest.@I'll go on ahead and meet you there.
Kurien: Okay.
You hear a door open somewhere upstairs.
Gurai: Kurien! You made it. Quickly, we must......
Kurien: Whatever's on the roof is causing the walls to@collapse under the stress. this bridge is going to fall!
SURAEA!
Goodbye, Suraea......
The Abode Of Golgotha
Conceived and created by Oliver Smiles
Copyright 1999-2000 by Oliver Smiles
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Continue the story in Maw of the Umbra: Abode of Golgotha 2@available at www.hereticii.com/abode