Being Afflicted-Day 28

a half-afflicted aerocuda barrels into the cliff wall that is immediately next to the main hideout entrance, the impact killing it nearly instantly. The scroll that was clutched in it's classic tumbles out onto the ground and springs open. Anybody who decides to inspect the letter will read the following:

Dear clansmen and clanswomen,

My state has worsened considerably since my last letter. In fact, I am not even writing this, a steward construct is, because I am too weak to pick up anything, or move at all for that matter. I fear I shall succumb to the Affliction soon, and then will likely have to die at your hands if a cure is not found. However, I shall do everything in my power to resis-

the scroll cuts off there, because the rest of it had been burnt and clawed at so the rest of it is either missing or undecipherable. Suddenly, a small horde of afflicted bokoblins and moblins surge up the path toward the hideout, commanded to attack the hideout by Zero's will.