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Synopsis:

Player meets the skeletons controlled by Balthazar, the Necromancer, who is barricaded elsewhere in the temple. His skeletons meet the player in the hallway. The skeletons sense an attack and retreat to help defend the necromancer.
The skeletons speak individually, in turns, but are all the mouthpieces of Balthazar, the necromancer.
NOTE: the three skeletal voices/speakers can differ, but should flow in terms of tone as though they're ultimately coming from the one person - transmitting his words.

How to trigger:

Approach the trio of skeletons near X:-717 Y:798

2.
Reconstituted Duellist
: You do not belong here.^devnote
- 21. [Jump] Jump to Node 7 (1)
4.
Reconstituted Marksman
: You do not belong here.^devnote
- 40. [Jump] Jump to Node 36 (1)
19.
Reconstituted Duellist
: Your animal flesh does not fool me. You do not belong here.^devnoteWILDSHAPE
- 55. [Alias] SHA_Necromancer_HasMet
  - Alias to Node 25
  - 33. [Alias] ORI_Inclusion_ShadowHeart
    
    Alias to Node 41
    
    14. [Alias] ShadowHeart_InParty_Knows_SharWorshipper
    
    Alias to Node 52
    
    18. [Alias] ORI_Inclusion_End_ShadowHeart
    
    Alias to Node 39
    
    3.
    Reconstituted Duellist
    : Yet the Absolute has blessed you. Perhaps you will be useful. Present yourself at my camp and -^devnote
    
    11.
    Reconstituted Duellist
    : - stupid, worm-infested cockhead! You have awoken the shadows!^devnoteSHA_TadpoledSkeletons_Event_ShadowsAttack
    End
    
    50. [Alias]
    
    Alias to Node 43
    
    Link to Node 18
24.
Reconstituted Marksman
: Your animal flesh does not fool me. You do not belong here.^devnoteWILDSHAPE
- 36. [Alias] SHA_Necromancer_HasMet
  - Alias to Node 25
  - 28. [Alias] ORI_Inclusion_ShadowHeart
    
    Alias to Node 41
    
    27. [Alias] ShadowHeart_InParty_Knows_SharWorshipper
    
    Alias to Node 52
    
    Link to Node 59
    
    15. [Alias]
    
    Alias to Node 43
    
    59. [Alias] ORI_Inclusion_End_ShadowHeart
    
    Alias to Node 39
    
    17.
    Reconstituted Marksman
    : Yet the Absolute has blessed you. Perhaps you will be useful. Present yourself at my camp and -^devnote
    
    5.
    Reconstituted Marksman
    : - stupid, worm-infested cockhead! You have awoken the shadows!^devnoteSHA_TadpoledSkeletons_Event_ShadowsAttack
    End
38.
Reconstituted Duellist
: Your animal flesh does not fool me. You do not belong here.^devnoteWILDSHAPE
- 7. [Alias] SHA_Necromancer_HasMet
  - Alias to Node 25
  - 31. [Alias] ORI_Inclusion_ShadowHeart
    
    Alias to Node 41
    
    6. [Alias] ShadowHeart_InParty_Knows_SharWorshipper
    
    Alias to Node 52
    
    8. [Alias] ORI_Inclusion_End_ShadowHeart
    
    Alias to Node 39
    
    10.
    Reconstituted Duellist
    : Yet the Absolute has blessed you. Perhaps you will be useful. Present yourself at my camp and -^devnote
    
    53.
    Reconstituted Duellist
    : - stupid, worm-infested cockhead! You have awoken the shadows!^devnoteSHA_TadpoledSkeletons_Event_ShadowsAttack
    End
    
    47. [Alias]
    
    Alias to Node 43
    
    Link to Node 8
54.
Reconstituted Duellist
: You do not belong here.^devnote25c1ac70-f65f-4869-8a74-eff5827d9cde, 8a4a686d-6c47-411f-a0b3-d79ff33e2922, c6b28a2d-4095-40fc-bed0-de222e6af105
- 25.
  Narrator
  : *Your mind upends. Somehow, in the decayed soup of this creature's brain, a tadpole lives. Another presence nurtures it, manipulates it like a puppet.*^devnoteMINDMELDSHA_Necromancer_HasMet
  - 41. Player: [TagAnswer] ORI_Inclusion_ShadowHeart
    
    52.
    Shadowheart
    : No - you do not belong. This is the Dark Lady's house. She has no use for old, faithless bones.^devnoteShadowHeart_InParty_Knows_SharWorshipper
    
    Link to Node 39
    
    43.
    Shadowheart
    : And you do? I won't allow some walking, talking feast for stray dogs where I belong or not.^devnote
    
    39. Player: [TagAnswer] ORI_Inclusion_End_ShadowHeart
    
    32.
    Reconstituted Duellist
    : You blunder.^devnote
    
    37.
    Reconstituted Marksman
    : You meddle.^devnote
    
    45. [Alias] MUTED
    
    Alias to Node 29
    
    46. [Jump] Jump to Node 0 (1)
    
    29.
    Reconstituted Duellist
    : You upset my plans. Leave.^devnote
    
    35. Player: Z'rell sent me. I'm here to help a certain Balthazar.^devnoteMOO_Executioner_Knows_BalthazarIsMissing
    
    20.
    Reconstituted Marksman
    : I see she sent the husk of Minthara to accompany you.^devnoteORI_Minthara_State_IsInParty, MINTHARA = False
    
    57.
    Reconstituted Marksman
    : Z'rell lacks imagination.^devnote
    
    34.
    Reconstituted Duellist
    : Z'rell lacks faith.^devnote
    
    22.
    Reconstituted Duellist
    : Z'rell lacks in many ways, but I do not. Leave, before -^devnote
    
    0.
    Reconstituted Duellist
    : - stupid, worm-infested cockhead! You have awoken the shadows!^devnote
    
    9.
    Reconstituted Duellist
    : My forces are split. The defences are thin.^devnote
    
    16.
    Reconstituted Duellist
    : Rally on me - a wall of bone and blade against the darkness. Now!^devnoteSHA_TadpoledSkeletons_Event_ShadowsAttack
    End
    
    13. Player: Three corpses sharing one personality. Who - or what - am I speaking to?
    
    44.
    Reconstituted Marksman
    : Your pet drow, Minthara, should recognise me. I'm her superior after all. As for these creatures.^devnoteORI_Minthara_State_IsInParty, MINTHARA = False
    
    48.
    Reconstituted Marksman
    : I am their creator. I saved them from life.^devnote
    
    23.
    Reconstituted Duellist
    : From death.^devnote
    
    42.
    Reconstituted Duellist
    : From their skin and their flesh. Now they serve me. Leave, before - ^devnote
    
    Link to Node 0
    
    49. Player: You leave. I belong in this place far more than some irate bone pile., SHAR['Lae'zel 1', 'Shadowheart 1', 'Wyll 1', 'Karlach 1', 'Halsin 1']
    
    49. Player: Meddling or trespassing I'd accept - but blundering? Spare me your insults, bone pile. , ROGUE['Lae'zel 1', 'Shadowheart 1', 'Wyll 1', 'Karlach 1', 'Halsin 1']
    
    49. Player: You leave. I don't answer to bone piles.['Lae'zel 1', 'Shadowheart 1', 'Wyll 1', 'Karlach 1', 'Halsin 1']
    
    30.
    Reconstituted Marksman
    : Bones? They are more than bones.^devnote
    
    1.
    Reconstituted Duellist
    : More than flesh.^devnote
    
    51.
    Reconstituted Duellist
    : More than skin, blood, hair and piss. They are more. They are mine. Now leave, before - ^devnote
    
    Link to Node 0
    
    60. Player: I've heard of making instruments out of bones but this is just ridiculous.BARD
    
    Link to Node 30
    
    56. Player: Turn to leave.
    
    26. [Jump] Jump to Node 0 (1)
58.
Reconstituted Duellist
: You do not belong here.^devnote
- 12. [Jump] Jump to Node 55 (1)