Happenings --<br/><br/>Roldare quickly shut the door after them and locked it.  He then peered into the darkness of the hallway through a slit in the door, and then started barricading the door.<br/><br/>"The dead, they came out to kill us, one by one," he said.   "While we slept, they did.  Took my sister, they did.  They did, they did."  Roldare shook uncontrollably now.   "Down below."<br/><br/>He tried to control himself, but he couldn't.  Each time he attempted to put a sentence together, he would spasm uncontrollably.  Keep that in mind as you read his responses.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"Are you alright?"</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>"Aye, aye," he replied.   "I managed to fight em' off, I did.  But Gerol an' Vark weren't so lucky.  I saw the walking skeletons hew them to pieces, an' I alone managed to escape."<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"What's happened here?"</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>"The dead!  They rose!  How, I do not know, but they have, and they killed us.  All of us, except Roldare, and my sister, though she is probably dead now."<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"Roldare, how did you end up in this place?"</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>"I told you--I was sleepin' in the main chamber's after we prepared the Room of Mazes for ye," he said.   "Every year, I help prepare the Room for the seekers, and this year was no different," he added.   "All of us had gone to sleep, but we were ambushed in the dark."<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"Why would the other villagers come here knowing the dangers?"</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>"But we come every year," Roldare said.   "Every year, we set up traps and encounters for the seekers, but this year..."<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">”What was that about the speaking dead?"</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>"... A skeleton, in ancient mail, with a voice like death,"[/color] Roldare managed to say.   "I fled from him in terror."<br/><br/>Edit:  Forgot that the corpses out in the main chamber had names.