The true story: Rumours were coming up from Lower from several sources that a group of lowersmen were preparing to attack the in-between and bring back the body of William Pearce Danielsson to bury him. The Council had just passed a vote for taking the body down, but the sheriff had not yet approved it, so it could not be publically announced yet, in order to avoid an attack.

To save the day, Riddle took the paperwork and ran with it to the sheriff's office to get it apporved, so he would then be able to give the lowersmen the body without any bloodshed.

This log from Riddle's "conversation" with Azzam shows quite well what happened afterwards:

Riddle: [Talk] [Pants, he's obviously been running.]Sheriff [Pant] Azzam, sir. Edit: DM channel request fo possession somewhere here. Riddle: [Talk] The council has voted for the removal of the body of William Pearce Danielson from the in-between, and this needs to be stamped with your approval. Riddle: [Talk] There has been several reports from people walking up from lower that some men from there plan to take the body back -with force-. Removing it might avoid unnecessary blodshed, sheriff. Riddle: [Talk] However, rumours say they plan to attack -now-. Riddle: [Talk] So the removal of the body must be announced soon, which first needs your approval. Edit: Another dm channel request somewhere here + a while later a tell to Dan (Below). Riddle : [Tell] Can I assume the sheriff stamps and approves the passed council vote for removing Pearce's body from in-between, which Riddle is currently at his office to speak to him about? Spellguard Officer Barkely: [Tell] Give me a few moments. Riddle : [Tell] Great many thanks. Sorry if we're a few to many demanding your time. :/ Wyric Crowshire: [Tell] Any luck with sheriff yet? Riddle : [Tell] [Dan]"Give me a few moments." Riddle : [Tell] So, just a few minutes. Edit: A while later. DM channek question if Dan is still there to help me with this. [DM] Snotfaec : [Tell] Dan has left. Riddle : [Tell] Oh. Well, I was looking for an Azzam possession to get the approval for the removal of Pearce's body to avoid the lower attack... Riddle : [Tell] It was pretty urgent, but I can understand how it was not prioitiesed in the midst of all that spellguard explosion etc. [DM] Snotfaec : [Tell] It's completely irrelevant now. >.> Riddle : [Tell] Huh? [DM] Snotfaec : [Tell] The body is gone. Riddle : [Tell] O_O What? [DM] Snotfaec : [Tell] It was taken down. Riddle : [Tell] XD Riddle : [Tell] I've been at Azzam's place for a while waiting for him to be possessed, without contact with anyone. >_> [DM] Snotfaec : [Tell] Heh. <.< Riddle : [Tell] When I got here, it was there. -_- [DM] Snotfaec : [Tell] That must have been a while ago, then. Riddle : [Tell] Should I consider it approved, or that Azzam was much to busy with something else to speak to me. Riddle : [Tell] ? [DM] Snotfaec : [Tell] Well, it's hardly important. Just pretend he was too busy. Riddle : [Tell] Judging from the Acquired wages during this time, it's 30 minutes or so. >_> Edit: 10 gold/10 minutes Riddle : [Tell] Thanks.

So, if no one had come up with the brilliant idea of blowing up the Spellguard tower just at this time, then there would have been 5 less lower funerals taking place in a not too far future. >_>

*plays funeral dirge*

dragon

It was taken down amid a battle that had a cloudkill spell that pretty much wiped out most of the attackers in it and the rest were killed in various other ways including an animatron that kept beating the absolute shit out of someone nearly 100 times. The machine just kept jacking the guy at 4 attacks/round.

Irony plays well only for the living not the dead.

The Animatron was beating the shit out of Aurin. An undead Agent Kinrayse was controlling it.

:D

Oh! Oh! I lol'd so hard at that, Scalebane!

That made my morning. :lol:

djspectre It was taken down amid a battle that had a cloudkill spell that pretty much wiped out most of the attackers in it and the rest were killed in various other ways including an animatron that kept beating the absolute shit out of someone nearly 100 times. The machine just kept jacking the guy at 4 attacks/round.

I loved that animatron. It was making me smile.

Nah...Fredrick took the brunt of that animatron beating, was literaly standing him up with about every forth blow...good times :P

I tried to just grab the corpse *BEFORE* they even got up the stairs and run down with it-but couldn't get a DM in time.

This kind of stuff happens all the time on important events where lots of people want to do things at once and DMs need to be in several areas at once and can't.

Heck, I didn't even get a response to my requests to try to grab the corpse and rush down the stairs with it because the poor guys were so busy elsewhere.

Scalebane7676 The Animatron was beating the shit out of Aurin. An undead Agent Kinrayse was controlling it.

Screens or didn't happen.

Yeah, it really seems the DMs wanted this to go down a very specific way.