Moréna: Session Five

The Umbaran/Boros: The Wanderer character, played by both Lena and I. He's just discovered that his beloved sword  Moréna had been tricking him since the beginning, but without it his undead form will crumble away. He has gone East, toward a massive darkness in the Blue Mountains.

Somewhere in the Blue Mountains a great shadow flowed out from a cave. The Umbaran found this place by periodically putting down Moréna, which allowed him to see the darkness. Sticking his head into the darkness, The Umbaran found that, if he stuck his head in the entrance way, he could see. Without Moréna The Umbaran could see etchings on the walls, in various styles, haphazrdly placed, with the words "The Devourer", with drawings of mouths and teeth liberally sprinkled across the walls. Picking Moréna up The Umbaran entered.

As he rounded the corner The Umbaran heard a noise, something decidedly not eight-legged. The Umbaran drew Mairon. Out of the shadows came two enormous wolves. The Umbaran dropped Moréna, but the wolves continued to exist, and they charged him. The Umbaran swung at one and killed it, but the other wolf bit his arm and clamped down. The Umbaran bashed the wolf against a wall, grabbed its snout with his other hand, and began to push with his arm and hand, trying to break the wolf's jaw. But he slipped, and the wolf bit his right hand off. Pinning the wolf to him with his bloody stump, The Umbaran grabbed the wolf's head with his remaining hand and broke its neck.

All that remained of Moréna began to glow, and the blade's fragments disintegrated, leaving only the hilt. All of The Umbaran's wounds began to hurt, and with each step he took the pain increased.  His human senses began to return, and he found seeing to be more difficult in the gloom.

The tunnel opened up a bit, and the crystals in his pocket began to glow strongly. He took one out, and found that the entirety of the small room he was in had, carved all over its walls, the following:

The loss of infinity creates a need for it. Therefore, we will consume infinitely. Ungoliant is the only answer. She must devour. We are Ungoliant."

There was only one exit, a small tunnel at the bottom of the opposite wall, that stunk of corpses. He dropped Moréna, but nothing changed. Wrinkling his nose, The Umbaran crawled through.

The next room was enormous, and the crystal he held blazed. There was a still pool of dark ichor nearby. There was no shrine, no mother eating a child, nothing else but  the pool. At the back of the room was a crack, with black ichor oozing out of it.

"You've come a very long way" chuckled a familiar female voice.

"Well, they took everything from me".

Her voice rang with laughter. "You've come all this way, just to kill Lona Erehd. Well, here it is!" Barely visible, she pointed at the black pool. "It's been in front of you this whole time. This thing, it itself is Lona Erehd. And your family never died! You really came all this way because you thought they were dead?"

"They are, I saw them die!" He walked up to the pool, took out one of the blazing crystals, and dropped it into the liquid darkness.

The crystal dissolved.

She laughed even harder. "Then you really are a fool. If you want to destroy Lona Erehd then you will need that hilt of yours. Whatever it's worth now, that is".

The Umbaran shrugged, walked up to the pool of ichor, and threw Moréna's hilt in. He heard a chuckle, but ignored it. The crack before him opened up, and Boros walked through it.

There was a large pool of dark ichor in the next room, which began to move as he entered. It formed into a new Umbaran, an exact replica of Boros at the height of his undeath. Walking up to him, Boros eyed him up and down "Who're you?"

"I'm me," mocked The Umbaran. "Who're you?"

The crystal began to blaze, brighter and brighter.

"You're my copy", The Umbaran told Boros. "I sent you out to kill the enemies of Our Lady, so that way nobody could stop her when she went West to suck the light out of the world."

"I will reclaim you" declared Boros. "You're not real."

"Ha!  The copy thinks he's not real!" The Umbaran laughed at him.

Boros drew Mairon, and charged The Umbaran, who pulled a fully restored Moréna out of the pool, and the two began to fight. Eventually Boros backed The Umbaran up, and then swung his blade at  The Umbaran's neck; it went straight through. The Umbaran laughed. Mairon turned into black ichor, and Boros dropped it in shock. The Umbaran caught it.

He ran Boros through with both Moréna and Mairon.

The remaining crystal screamed, a sound which resembled the tearing apart of a soul. "She did it!" The Umbaran crowed "Light has been destroyed! The trees and their light will never return!" Boros slumped on the blades that had run him through.

The crystal roared back to life, brighter than it had ever shone before. Brighter and brighter it shone, until Boros' eyes, which were streaming with tears, could no longer keep the light out, even with shut eyes. Clutching the crystal tightly he thrust it into The Umbaran. "I'll never bow to the darkness, never again!" Boros shouted.

The Umbaran exploded and the light blazed. Boros could no longer see it, because he was now blind.

To be concluded...