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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	A knock at the door. There is a female human standing there in leathers and thiefly gear. She lets us know that she has been assigned to watch over us and "keep us out of trouble". We said, "Okay," and shut the door. No sense in a dragging out a conversation with her because we knew she wouldn't tell us anything useful about what's going on. But knowing that we have an assassin for a guardain angel is somehow comforting. Somebody really cares about us. It brings a tear to my eye. Another knock at the door and we were summoned. We were told that we were to go back out into the wild because our mission was deemed incomplete. One guy from Waterdeep survived and that's one guy too many. We were to capture him and find out why they were in the area to begin with. Or maybe we were to go back out and recover the treasure that we did indeed recover and hid so well in our digestive tracks. Yeah, that. Two days to prepare, which is plenty of time for the guy from Waterdeep to go elsewhere. This time we were given seriously proper guards. Ten fighters properly armed with good weapons, damn fine armour, and magical items. Wow. We were also equipped with several Potions of Warmth and Potions of Healing. Super wow. We head out on our horses. The yeti cave to be our first stop. Several hours out, I catch wind of an attack. As soon as I whisper in Elven to my partner, "We are about to be attacked," the fit hits the shan. A group of humanoids in all black break out and attack the front and one side. When I say all black, I don't mean dressed in black, but black. Shades - oh man. first a guy made of ice, now several guys made of shadow. What was next? Efreet? When the guards circled around us, my first thought is that they were apart of an attack on us elves. I was certain that we were about to get hacked by our guards and the shades. But after a round, they were indeed on our side and trying to protect us from the shades. In the next two rounds, some spells came flying in from some unknown assailant. Black lightning type stuff. Judging by the in-coming spells, Zir and I would be toast if we got hit. Zir and I decided to make a break for it and we broke formation. One of the guards, Chuck, followed us. As soon as we were out of the circle, tons of guards, shades and horses just plain fell down stone dead. I mean, they just died in one round. Fell down. Dead. Not cool. Judging by the sudden deaths of guards and shades, it was an area spell. Whomever cast it, waited until Zir and I were clear of the area. So, the assailant was after the guards and not us. The plot sickens even further. Someone wants us to do our thing, but unimpeded by the prying eyes of others in the High Tower. All said and done, I, Zir, and Chuck where the only survivors. Everybody else, including the horses, got toasted extra crispy. The battle scene was smoking black bad. From the battle scene, I did manage to recover a magical sword from Edwin. I managed to do so without Chuck noticing. I also managed to recover a good set of lockpicks, something I wasn't able to have in the High Tower. Chuck wanted to go back to Luskan immediately. We were insistant on not going back yet again as the only survivors. We had to move on and hope to find more answers before going back. Chuck was under orders, so he did have to concede. We went to the yeti cave and found it stripped of all treasure. Upon seeing no treasure, Chuck became very insistant again on going back to Luskan. We told Chuck that the treasure was taken by orcs. We had seen orcs on our previous jaunt, but we avoided them and didn't think anything of it at the time. He immediately insisted on going after the orcs to recover all of the treasure. We told Chuck that we have the real treasure. He changed his mind again and started insisted on going back to Luskan. Apparently Chuck knows far more than what he's letting on. Basterd. We set up camp in the cave. While they were sleeping, I caught someone sneaking in. It was the guy from Waterdeep that had survived the battle the yetis. He wasn't too happy. But I talked him down and filled him in on some of what has been going on. He immediately insisted on taking us to Waterdeep. We call him Andy. Can you feel the love? So we tied up Chuck while he was sleeping and I left a single Elven word written in the snow: East. It was the direction that the gem wanted to take us, so that's the direction we headed off in. Taking several things into account, it would take Chuck and Luskan reinforcement about 2 weeks to catch up with us. As we traveled east, we got to know Andy a little bit better. His girlfriend was a priestess of some kind and she was sent on a holy mission to seek and destroy the gems. He wanted to destroy the one we already had, but we convinced that we needed it to seek out the gems...for him to destroy later. Too easy. We eventually caught up with the orcs that took the treasure from the yeti cave. A pretty decent fort with around 20 orcs including a chieftain and a shaman. The chieftain with literally a flaming skull for a head. Literally. How do three little low-level pudges take on a fort filled with 20 orcs? Guerilla warfare. I would sneak in, one of us would create a diversion, then we would hit them for a few rounds. I would be hand-to-hand in the fort and they would snipe with arrows and Magic Missiles from a distance. Retreat, do it again later. We had some damn awesome coordination going on. By the third sunrise, the chieftain and the shaman went down in a hellish toe-to-toe battle. As soon as they went down, the remaining 3 orcs ran for it. We took on 20 orcs in a fort and won. Mind you, I, Zir, and Andy no more than 3 hit dice apiece. We took on 20 orcs in a fort and won. It still blows my mind. Time to celebrate and take the pick of the treasure. Yeeehaaa! [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/351]warjournal[/url] on 05-31-2007 11:12)[/small] Loading...
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