Lorewalker Cho

@CrusaderKings Alba Longass. (It's not swearing if you're talking about donkeys)

Name this #CK3 Empire, wrong answers only! 👑

@WoWRPGM @YuGwai @Qon_Zhizhu Dead. Probably. We never confirmed the kill.

@YuGwai @Qon_Zhizhu @ChobbyCub Though you might very well be the last female mogu. The consorts are dead, so... what happened to the one who showed up for that arena fight?

*Chen, @YuGwai and @ChobbyCub come closer to the cliff that leads the way to Krasarang - but before them stands a hole in the ground, and the familiar stones of a mogu artisanry*

@WoWRPGM @YuGwai @Qon_Zhizhu *Cho has a hard time concentrating* Since the rise of Lei Shen? About... 16 000 years.

@YuGwai @Qon_Zhizhu @ChobbyCub Well... how long has it been, exactly? Cho?

@WoWRPGM @YuGwai @Qon_Zhizhu *Cho is meditating to restore his energy*

@YuGwai @Qon_Zhizhu @ChobbyCub Do you realize how long it's been, sorceress? *Chen grabs his barrel and a mug and pours himself one and immediately downs it*

@WoWRPGM @YuGwai @Qon_Zhizhu I'm alive too! *Cho sits up, grabbing his head* Remind me never to copy a spell from someone with a hangover again.

@YuGwai @ChobbyCub @Qon_Zhizhu Uuugh... *Chen groans in pain, grabbing his chest* I'm alive... I think... but it feels like I wasn't. *The mogu sorceress drops out of the pillar, barely conscious*

@WoWRPGM @YuGwai @Qon_Zhizhu I will help you, friend! We must do this! *Cho quickly copies the spell with a spark and floats into the same position*

@YuGwai @ChobbyCub @Qon_Zhizhu *Chen is still doing it, but he's now in visible pain* I can't... do this... The gem was trapped. All the bad Chi... is hurting me. If I keep going... both of us might die.

@WoWRPGM @YuGwai @Qon_Zhizhu ...She was kept flesh, and alive, with this gem. She truly is... alive. The Thunder King's cruelty knows no bounds!

@WoWRPGM @YuGwai @Qon_Zhizhu *Cho runs in and takes a closer look, grabbing a shiny stone in the pillar's chest* Oh, I'm afraid it's quite possible. This stone... it is not just ornamentation. It is a powerful lock. One filled with Chi energy. She was not turned into stone...

@YuGwai @WoWRPGM @Qon_Zhizhu But at least... you had some time to be yourself. She... if this were all true... all she would have would be... this dark room.

@ChobbyCub @WoWRPGM @Qon_Zhizhu I imagine it would be much like mine... More than ten thousand years, being able to be myself only in the night... and being an unconscious witness during the days. Only able to see Lei Shen turn my people into an instrument of evil and being unable to fight.

@YuGwai @WoWRPGM @Qon_Zhizhu They said she was made into living stone. Her eyes forever open, but unable to act or move, forever still in the darkness, her loss her only companion... I cannot imagine the pain she would be through if she was still alive.

@YuGwai @WoWRPGM @Qon_Zhizhu Oh, of course. Qon Zhizhu, the living pillar. It is said that Shan Bu came to the Valley and the magic of the two clashed in a mighty storm that ravaged the land. Until Shan Bu triumphed and cast her into stone.

@WoWRPGM @YuGwai Indeed. And... she looks familiar. Hmm... a stone pillar, a female mogu... where did I hear this... @Qon_Zhizhu

@ChobbyCub @YuGwai *The door opens slowly with the loud noise of a grinding stone, revealing another large chamber behind - but in this one, a stone pillar resembling a female mogu sits in the center* Look at this, a female mogu. That must be rare.

@WoWRPGM @YuGwai *Cho finishes the puzzle and opens the door* Hmm, there was a special trick to this one. I think I will write about it in my next book.

@ChobbyCub @YuGwai *Nothing happens - the stone quilen remain as motionless as ever* We are lucky this mechanism has eroded. This must be very old if even mogu traps are failing.

@YuGwai @WoWRPGM *Cho slips and something rumbles behind them* Oops?

@YuGwai @WoWRPGM *Cho jumps off behind him* Oh, I know this! *he grabs a sliding puzzle next to the door and starts sliding* Someone less wise would probably make a few errors, and wake up the stone quilen on the other side of the corridor

@YuGwai @WoWRPGM That does fit the placement of the bodies. They were all facing outside.

@WoWRPGM @ChobbyCub Not immediately, no. But I imagine they were badly wounded, ran outside in fear and died there.

@WoWRPGM @YuGwai What if there is no monster?

@YuGwai @ChobbyCub *Chen follows behind, only giving small glances towards the incinerated goblins and blood elf shish-kabobs* So where's the monster?

@YuGwai @WoWRPGM I thought the seven trigrams were made by Lei Shen as an image of perfect order by his design?

@WoWRPGM @ChobbyCub Seven trigrams. One of the most ancient sacred mogu patterns. It is said the first mogu saw it embedded into the face of god when they awoke.

@YuGwai @WoWRPGM Of course! The traps! It's the seven trigrams!

@WoWRPGM @ChobbyCub Halt! *Yu Gwai points to the tile pattern* Traps. That's what killed them all.

@WoWRPGM @YuGwai Oh my. *Cho follows closely behind Chen*

@ChobbyCub @YuGwai We ARE the adventurers! *Chen puts on his hat and takes out the staff* Come on!