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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Oh, one thing I failed to mention is that we picked up a Wand of Wonder. One of the corpses in the little fort was clutching it. We did managet to the command word, Poopsie-Do!, but no idea how many charges. (We had a Wand of Wonder in a previous champaign that was weilded by my chaos mage. It caused a lot of trouble and saved the party many times. In the hands of a chaos mage, indispensible. One time, 'accidentally' killed a Handmaiden of Lolth with it. Good times.) Before leaving, we used Aoxor's Helm to see how one of the guys in the little fort had died. When placed upon a corpse and then worn, the wearer sees the last few moments of the deceased. Talk about handy in our situation. The corpse that we used the helm on was a mage. He was backed into a room and reading from a scroll. Behind him, a portal opened. He was reading a spell key for a gate. He then hid the scroll spell key in a table leg. Then a bunch of soldiers ran past him and through the portal. Right before the mage could get through, a giant half-man/scorpion thing got him. Ripped his heart out from behind and chewed his face off. A rather vicious and to-the-point death. So, we recovered the spell key from the table leg. Inside the table leg, we also found a wand and a ring. We were almost tempted to Identify, but no time at the moment with the Luskanites bearing down on us. Time to leave. For real this time. We went outside and used the spy glass to see what was around us. Since it doesn't show weather effects, like snow cover, a good way to scout. Well, we didn't like what we saw. We saw a bunch of yeti one way hidden under the snow, and a bunch of wolves the other way. We tried to go around the hidden yeti, but they weren't having it. They charged from a hilltop, came sloloming down. Zir used the Wand of Wonder and Fire Walled them into crispy yeti steaks. We actually took a few minutes to carve some yeti steak because elves have to eat too. More yeti coming down from the hill, so we ran back for the little fort. Yeti to the north, wolves to the south, Luskanites to the west. Damn. Actually, the Luskanites were coming damn fast. Using the spy glass, we saw one of the Luskan mages cast and everybody started moving damn fast. Like off of the ground kind of fast. We also finally got a good enough of a look to see that Andy is inded with them. Did Andy make it back to the giant's cave before the Luskanites got him? Probably not since no sign of the hostages. Poor guy. I'm sure the Fire Wall was seen by the Luskanites because that was when they started moving triple-time with a few between their feet and the ground. "Hey, guys! Here we are and in a fight! Come and get us!" Nothing like a flare gun that shoots flames 40' high when you are trying to be a little bit sneaky. Ugh. No real choice. Back to the little fort and use the portal. I activated the spell key. Zir jumped through. I grabbed the mage's corpse and jumped through with it. Once on the other side, I scrambled for my ward token and tossed it back through to the small fort. Cut that tie and there is no looking back. This whole time I've been worried about staying in the Luskanites good graces. Why? Because a few small towns in Evermeet and Luskan is all I've known. I have no concept that there is a bigger world out there with more people and different factions. That is about to change. Time for this elf to grow up a little bit and loose that chunk of naivity. Once on the other side, we got out bearings, but barely. Hallway made of stone, a few doors, and a window. Looking out the window, we could see snow and a battle raging. Humand and elves fighting side-by-side against a troup of undead. This human comes running by in a hurry and notices us. At first he is taken aback, but then takes advantage of us. He grabs us, runs into a room, and starts grabbing potions. He hands a bunch to us and yells at us to help him carry the potions to the wounded. We oblige. When we get to the wounded, we tend to them. Battle is raging just outside. One human in particular is literally destroying undead. I mean, they explode when he smacks them with his mace. Other priests of an unknown god are holding holy symbols trying to hold them at bay while the fighters do their thing. A few are running around gathering the wounded and bringing them behind the line to safety. Zir decides to entire the battle from a safe distance with the Wand of Wonder. She ends up shooting some kind of Colour Spray and blinding all of the elves and humans. The undead are, of course, unaffected. Some help. So I give the Wand of Wonder a go and end up shooting a Fire Ball. When the smoke clears, only a handful from both sides are left standing. Um, not good. We both look around real quick to see if anybody noticed our attack. We are both all Bart Simpson-like with "We didn't do it. Nobody saw us do it." So we decided to wade out and help more hands-on. I draw my short sword and she gets ready with the spells. Only three skeletons standing and they are frost giant huge. Things don't exactly go well. One of them gets utterly destroyed by the one priest with the mace. Then things go down-hill from there. In an effort to help, I don the Skull Mask. Suddenly, my head is a flaming skull and the undead attack me and only me. I start running in circles while the remaining humans/elves pound on the distracted undead. I most definitely go down, but they do manage to get the last two skeletons while they are kicking me in the ribs. My tactic worked, even if I did get my ribs cracked. Ouch. The sacrifices I make. Battle won and the wounded are tended to. Once I'm conscious again, we get down to business. The priest with the mace is suspicious of me because of the Skull Mask. So I tell him what the deal was with that and he eases up a bit. We fiind out we are in a town called Myth Glauvor or something. This town under constant attack because of the mythl, whatever that is. Apparently a mythl is some sort of super strong magic that is a part of the town itself. Folks want it. Zir hooks up with the human priest with the mace to find out more about where we are and their current situation. While they chat, I go outside and start using the helm on the corpses of the undead army that attacked. I try and do this on the sly as best as I can. Even though the helm only shows the last few moments of the deceased, I do manage to start to see a few common denominators after viewing a lot of the deaths. The undead army were largely slaves bought for the sole purpose of being murdered and turned into undead by a secret society of mages. I don't know the name of the society or from whom the slaves are being bought from, but I do know that the secret society is to the north in the direction of Hell's Gate Keep. I also pull out the blue gem to see what direction it wants to go in because we have no idea of where we are in relation to where we were. Of course, the gem wants to go north towards Hell's Gate Keep. It looks like the portal took us far to the east. The human priest with the mace gives us some local history and things. He tells us that we don't want to go to Hell's Gate Keep because a mythl was destroyed there and it has become a prison for demons. Apparently the mythl there was destroyed with crystals and it caused a huge flux of magical energy. Right up Zir's alley. And that's where we are. Time for the questions and what-not. Will the Luskanites still be able to track us? I'm sure they can, but it will take them some time to figure out how since we don't have my ward token anymore. I kind of wish I could be there when they bust into the small fort and see my ward token on the floor. Will I get over this guilt for cutting that tie with the Luskanites? Sure they were basterds in general, but they took us in and educated us. I don't like feeling like an ungrateful child. In the orc fort, we found two magical items heavy with necromancy - Aoxor's Helm and the Skull Mask. Is there a connection between these two being at the orc fort and the undead attack here in Myth Glauvor? In the same vein, is there a connection between The High Tower of the Arcane and the secret society of mages buying and killing slaves? Does the gem we are carrying have anything directly to do with the crystals destroying the mythl in Hell's Gate Keep? Considering what Andy told us about the gem and the end of the world, I'm thinking so. Speaking of Andy, is he okay? As soon as we settle for a bit, going to see if I can find a way to get him a message. Poor guy. We really did a number on him. Aside from those questions, there are a few things I am looking forward to. We are young elves from Evermeet. Our only contact beyond Evermeet has been 100% human dominated Luskan. Now that we are in the mixed company of humand and elves, things could prove interesting. "Are you tall for an elf or short for a human?" Hahaha, our first real encounter with a half-elf. Yet another chance for this naive elf's eyes to be opened a bit more to a wider world. I am also looking forward to going through this castle for things magical. Not so much items, but learning. Being that there is a mythl here, there has got to be an awesome laboratory or library or something. Pilage for knowledge. Cheers. Loading...
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