Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-28718853-20190825104341/@comment-36359477-20190830185925

After quickly inspecting myself I find that body had been completely restored without any signs of rot or decay. My mind swirled with questions, Why? Why did my friends turn in me like they did? Did I wrong them somehow? Or was it all out of petty envy? Or maybe they simply saw me as nothing more than a disposable pawn whom outlived his usefulness. Who or what brought me back to life? And for what purpose?

The sound of moaning and groaning brought me out of my ruminations as I noticed that the Undead women that were at first standing around the graveyard awestruck were now beginning to close in on me with looks of ravenous hunger.

“Oh no you don’t!” I say as I quickly cast a magic barrier around myself not wanting to torn apart after I’ve just left my grave. They’re soon up against the barrier beating their hands against it and groaning loudly as I begin casting a spell that would teleport me home.

“Wait! Don’t go! We mean you no harm!” a hooded women shouts from among the Undead hoard a black book barely visible under her arm but it was too late as my spell was complete and I soon disappeared from the graveyard.

The world around me soon shimmered from the graveyard to a familiar open plain with a lake nearby but as I walk up a small hill were I should find a small cottage which would be my home all I find is a ruin, there nothing more than crumbled walls and the rotten timbers of a collapsed roof, my home long since destroyed by the passage of time.

However I was never one to leave all my things in one place, the cottage was meant solely as a place to eat and sleep when I wasn’t traveling, not far from the cottage was a place were I stored all manner of thing such as equipment, potions, spare clothing, money, travel provisions as well as various thing I collected in my adventures like books of spells and other magic items. This place was my sanctuary which along with my home was kept as a personal secret.

I soon come stone cliff face where the Sanctuary entrance should be to find it overgrown with dense brush which was easily burned away with a flame spell revealing a set of double doors made black metal, there was no keyhole as no key was needed, the lock on the door itself opened when it sensed my mana signature. With a glowing finger I trace a finger down the doors and after a few minutiae clicks the set of doors open.

As I enter the door soon closes behind me and crystals lining the walls light up as I descend a set of steps into the Sanctuary itself, I soon come to the main hall that connect the various chambers, to my left was my workshop were I brewed potions, enchanted items to trade off or use for myself along with where I stored my travel provisions. Ahead of was a steady were I kept my personal library of books and scrolls. While the chamber to my right kept my money, staves, wands, spare robes and clothes. Despite the amount of time in my absence the Sanctuary itself was spotless, When I first set up this place I placed powerful enchantments that it all clean and to prevent my potions, books, scrolls, equipment and travel food from decay.

I first enter the workshop where there’s a small alcove where an underground stream flows past that I would use to draw water, with a water manipulation spell I draw some water to form it into a large floating ball and while heating it with flame magic take it into the equipment chamber to pour it into a tub that I would use for washing clothes. I take a glance in a nearby mirror where I notice that my eye colour was red instead of the green it had had been in the past also I went to shed the soiled and tattered burial clothes to wash off the grave soil I found that my privates were somewhat bigger than I recall. With a shrug I step into the tub to bathe. While in the water think on my next move, I need bring myself up to scratch in regards to current events particularly as to why all those Undead monsters were in the form of beautiful women, how much time has passed since my death, what with the changes to my body, maybe even learn the fate of those who betrayed and murdered me. The best bet would be the nearest settlement, if its still there.

Now clean and with a fresh set of clothes I pack a bag with some travel food, a water canteen, a spell book and a bedroll while attaching one or two potion vials to my belt before setting off from the Sanctuary for the town of Westcott with staff in hand, I just hope it won’t be a wasted journey.

However as I merge from the entrance a Portal opens and the Hooded women from before walks through with a few of the Undead women from the graveyard following close behind her. Her pale features were more obvious in the mid day light, she wore a black frock with short skirt beneath a  which accentuated her curves over which she wore a black cloak and hood, beneath which her cold dead eyes which glowed with a faint purple light looked directly at me.

“Who are you? What do you want with me?” I hiss as I ready a powerful light spell I’ve that used in the past to destroy undead.

In a calm monotone voice she spoke “I am the Lich Callia, I have heard of your story Sorcerer, of how you were once the friend of a group of lazy adventurers who rode to glory on the coattails of your achievements, of how they later murder you in cold blood out of jealous fear that you would leave them to fade into poverty and obscurity. I felt pity for fact you did so much for others yet never had the chance to know love so with lady Hel’s aid I returned you to the world of the living.”

With a spell her clothes fall away from her like dust leave herself naked, with arms outstretch she beckons me “Come, Sorcerer Corvus, let me give you in Undeath what you never had the chance to feel in life.” For some reason I simply can’t take my eyes off of her as the sound of her voice seems to put me into a kind of trance.

I feel a stiffness in my groin as I slowly walk towards her unknowingly removing clothing as a go.

(Not entirely sure if I should of made this longer, but I hope this version is ok)