1 Cursed summoning

"Its dark in here.." a young cleric said. She was obviously afraid of the dark. "Theres a candle literally sitting next to you... don't be lazy, light the damn thing!" A thin swordsman stated. A small group of adventurers have found an abandoned house on the outskirts of an old town called Diremoor. This town has been abandoned for more then a century. Only your occasional adventurer or two would wonder thru this run down town. Nobody cared about an old town that doesn't offer adventurers good quests or good monster drops.

Inside this abandoned house was mostly tattered books and rotting furniture. There was even your occasional rat or two that would scurry along the floor in search of food. "Damn rats, SCRAM!" Said a robust shield warrior. "Sounds like the rats like you Ironfist!" The cleric started laughing while watching the shield warrior named Ironfist. "ENOUGH! Stop messing around Graceful light , help me with these drawings." "Yea, yea don't get your panties in a bunch Brave eagle.."

The three adventurers where scattering old drawings on top of an old table. These drawings emanated a strange eerie feeling when handled. As time passed by, the three adventurers put all the drawings in place which formed a circle with scriptures formed on the inside. Graceful light then pulled out another piece of paper that had an incantation on it. "I hope you know what your doing" said the swordsman. They then began to recite the incantation at the same time.

The more and more this group of adventurers recited, the more dark and gloomy their surroundings became. Finally after the 10th recital of the summoning did they see any changes in the drawings. The pages started to glow and emit a small vibration in space. "Hey man, im having a bad feeling about this. You sure this was part of a quest?" The shield warrior sat there with a worried look on his face. Cold sweat even started to drip down his brow. "Yes im positive! This old man gave me a quest while I decided to take a shortcut to get to the other side of the market in Windreach town." She said so proudly. As she thought of the wonderful gear and gold she might get from this quest, the others thought likely.

As soon as they thought things couldn't get worse, a dark red beam shot up into the sky from the middle of the drawing. That beam resembled the dark red color of blood. Everyone was shocked of the event that just occurred. Soon the beam began to envelope the whole drawing. "Why cant i move!" The beam emanated a strong force that made the adventurers weigh heavily to the ground. They could barely keep their heads up because of such a force.

In the distant town of shadehill one can barely see a red beam being shot into the sky to the east. Not many people cared of such a sight. These Adventurers would see all kinds of things going on in this world that they payed no attention to weird sightings anymore. Next to a fruit vendor an old man stands looking up at the beam that splits the clouds. He has a smirk on his old wrinkled face. He pulled his hood over his head and walks into an alleyway. One would be stupefied if they watched this old man walk into an alley and suddenly vanish from thin air.

"Graceful! Please! Lets stop this summoning! Nothing good will come of it!" "Your such a spoil sport! I want to see what I get for such a great quest!" The shield warrior and swordsman didn't care about the quest anymore. They didn't want to know what the consequences would be if they some how died. One could lose an abundant of XP or they could even lose their belongings. At worst they could be barred from logging in for the day. As soon as Brave eagle thought of that he lifted his head up and looked at Graceful light. His heart dropped. He saw that her eyes where blood shot and tears of blood where coming down. It was getting harder to speak, so all Brave eagle can do is grunt. Then in an instant, Graceful light exploded into a cloud of red mist. The mist began to swirl within the blood red beam.

The shield warrior and swordsmans jaws dropped. They couldn't believe what happened. "WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED?!" Both of them where able to move but they where too shocked to do so. Their cleric literally exploded right in front of them. "Was this some sort of cursed summoning that would randomly sacrifice a random person?" Soon the dark red beam dispersed and the pages of the summoning circled scattered all over the room and burst into pitch black flames. Just as the two where about to start investigating they heard something break in the next room over. Both their faces turned pale while they stared at each other. "Was that you?" Said Ironfist. "Im standing next to you, so how could it possibly be me you idiot!" "I don't like this one bit.." said ironfist.