//------------------------------// // life or death? // Story: Rainbowdash and The Keeper of The Door (comment driven story) // by Tik-Tok-deerpony //------------------------------// Visit the mine and clear out the marauders. Once done, seek a necromancer and try again. You decide to take the job seeing as you really need the money. But as you except the job, you feel a little guilty at killing that human. You quickly shrug it off seeing as there was no way you can bring back the dead. The stallion was thrilled that you have taken the job. He quickly tells you that it is half way up a nearby mountain. You finish your meal and pay for it *100 bits left* and go to a black market that you occasionally visit when you head up this way. Once there, you purchase a set of magically enhanced saddlebags, some light chainmail armor, and a small but sharp sword *10 bits left*. After your shopping spree, you decide to take inventory of your equipment; small sword, chainmail armor, 29 weird cylinders, six-chamber device, hat, 10 bits, green paper notes. Pleased with your strange but weirdly satisfying haul, you take off for the mountain. After about an hour of searching the mountainside you find the entrance to the mine. You land quietly behind a large boulder and as silently as possible, you put on your armor. Once done, you head over to the mouth of the mine shaft and take a quick look around. You see about a dozen muscular figures sleeping on the ground. You decide to slit there throats while they sleep so you won’t have to waste time having to fight them. Once done, you pile their bodies against the wall and put your armor back into your saddlebags. Then you quickly fly back to town. It takes you about half an hour to find the stallion. Once you find him, you tell him the good news and he gladly hands you the bit. After you store the bits in your saddlebags, you start out again for Los Pegasus. But as you fly, you can’t help but feel guilty for killing that human. This feeling bugs you on and off for the next few hours. Giving in, you decide to go and seek a necromancer in the everfree. As soon as you land, a hooded figure approaches you from the forest. “So you seek a necromancer to right the wrong that you have made.” The pony says to you. You don’t waste any time wondering how he knew you were coming seeing as how it is well known that necromancer zebras always know when somepony is looking for them. “Yeah I’m looking for a necromancer, how much is it going to cost me to revive a human?” you ask him. The necromancer thinks for a minute. “I’ll take them green notes that you have in your bag.” He asks you. Confused you hand him the green notes, thinking that there worthless. “That should cover my trip to the Bahamas.” The zebra murmurs, but as you’ve already turned around and was heading back to where you stored the dead body, you didn’t hear him. Together, you and the zebra make your way to the dead human’s body, which you had stuffed into a hole in the wall. By the time you got there, the carrion birds had already landed and were trying to get at the body, but thanks to the fact that you had piled rocks up around the hole, the birds were unable to get at the corpse. While you chase away the birds, the zebra cleared away the rocks and started setting up his voodoo magic. He tells you to keep a look out for anyone approaching sense necromancy is illegal and is punished by death. The necromancer started to dance around the dead body and chant in a low voice. You are unable to understand what he is saying as you do not know what language he is speaking in. he kept this up until around midnight, then there was an explosion of light. The zebra stop what he was doing and with a cry, exclaimed “IT IS DONE!” then he quickly ran into the everfree. As soon as he disappeared from sight, the human sat up in confusion. The second his eyes lands on you, his face contorted into a look of rage. “THAT’S MY HAT!” and with that, he comes running at you and tackles you to the ground. He then yanks his hat from you head. “AND WHAT WAS THEPOINT OF KILLING ME AND THEN BRINGING ME BACK FROM THE DEAD? AND WHERE IS MY REVOLVER?” Think quickly now, the wrong answer will get you killed. WHAT DO YOU DO?