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<blockquote data-quote="wsclark" data-source="post: 799" data-attributes="member: 97"><p><strong>Session VI - We Got What We Came For, Now Let's Go Home</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Harvest 28th, 744 YND</strong></p><p></p><p>It's raining. No, it's pouring. No, it's coming down in sheets and waves as our intrepid group holes itself up for the night in the ramshackle shack that was once the prison workshop of Arowain the Alchemist. It has been a very, very long day and everyone does their best to fortify the entrances to the shack so they can get some rest. They stay in the shack overnight, through the entire next day and night finally felling fit enough to venture forth after a full two nights rest. While staying in the shack, they rummage around for anything useful, finding some alchemists tools, books and scrolls. Lulla takes the books and scrolls, figuring to start developing her ingrain talent for alchemy.</p><p></p><p><strong>Frosting 2nd, 744 YND</strong></p><p></p><p>The torrential downpours have made a mess of the area, essentially turning it into one huge mud puddle. The first order of business is the cremation of Arowain. The group is sorry that they must do this, but their is no way they believe they can make it back to Haanex with his body. After cremating Arowain, they check out the meteor. Yes, they is mithral in it, but it is going to take several days to get enough ore out to have a pound of the stuff.</p><p></p><p>To cover their backs, they decide to check out the caves to make sure the goblins aren't a threat. They enter the cave system to their right first as this was the one they were held captive in. Upon entering the cave, they find the door they locked smashed to pieces. The goblins that were inside are not there any more.</p><p></p><p>Off to the cave on the left, checking each room as they go by. The first guard barracks proves to be a windfall as they find a mithral nugget weighing a pound hidden in the bedpost of one of the bunk beds. Onwards they go, collecting anything useful they find along the way. Unfortunately for Pug, he is caught in a trap of flaming oil as they try to go into one room. And Chin finds a secret door that connects to the room they were held, in the other cave system. But that's all they find as the remaining goblins had pulled out during the first night of the vicious storm.</p><p></p><p>Now that they feel much more secure, they start to mine the meteor for another pound of mithral. The groups wants to keep the pound nugget for themselves, for it might be valuable. They mine the meteor for the remainder of the day and the entire next day. Finally on the following day, they start heading for home.</p><p></p><p><strong>Frosting 4th, 744 YND</strong></p><p></p><p>The air is turning colder with the approach of winter as the group starts the four day journey back to Haanex. About mid-afternoon, Chin spots something white slowing moving in a clearly off to his left. He takes off running towards it as it might be some animal to catch to supplement the dwindling food supplies of the group. He gets to about 30 feet from the clearing when a horses head comes up and stares directly at him. He suddenly stops. The horse doesn't move. Lulla moves up to Chin and after a brief discussion slowly walks to the edge of the clearing while preparing herself to speak with animals <em>(DM's note: Lulla has this because she is a gnome.)</em></p><p></p><p>When she reaches the clearing, she tries to talk to the horse. It is not going well, as she seems to get images of things in her mind, but nothing very coherent. It's just not working. One of the images catches her mind's eye, that of Chin preparing a rope into a lasso. As she starts to contemplate this, the pegasus in the clearing unfolds its wings and takes to the air. Everyone is astonished that they had a close encounter with such a magnificent creature.</p><p></p><p>They continue on, finding a good place to spend the night, which is uneventful</p><p></p><p><strong>Frosting 5th, 744 YND</strong></p><p></p><p>The group spends the entire day traveling back to Haanex, camping for the evening in a nice small clearing. While getting ready to prepare dinner, they spot some fire light from off in the distance. They quietly travel over to where the light is and see two large creatures by what looks like a cooking fire, apparently arguing. There is a large sack on the ground next to them and there appears to be something alive in it as the sack is moving a bit. Daloren over hears some of the conversation, with things like who is going to do the cooking and who is going to get to eat first. They decide that this is probably not a good thing for whatever is in the sack, so in order to find out what is going on, Lulla casts a ghost sound spell, sounding like a bear, off in the woods in order to lure the two creatures away.</p><p></p><p>The creatures don't quite believe the sound but head to the edge of the other side of the clearing, just to make sure. As they walk off, one of them takes a great club and lightly taps the sack on the ground, which crumples. Daloren and Chin quietly run up to the sack and look inside, seeing a dwarf. With not enough time to take him with them, they head back to the woods to tell the others what they found.</p><p></p><p>The group decides to rescue the poor dwarf. Lulla and Girion head off through the woods around towards the other side of the clearing while the two large creatures return to their fire pit and their arguing. Shaedra and Thalen take positions between where Lulla and Girion are and where Daloren, Chin and Pug wait to rush forth to grab the dwarf. With everything ready, Lulla casts a dancing lights spell off in the woods where she originally cast the ghost sound of the bear.</p><p></p><p>The ogres, upon seeing the dancing lights, go roaring off into the woods. This allows Chin, Daloren and Pug to race up to the sack, grab it and start to make off for the safety of the woods. Unfortunately, it takes a little too long as they make a bit of noise just as the dancing lights spell wears off. The ogres turn around and come running back after the puny humans that are stealing their dinner. The ogres catch up to the group of Shaedra, Thalen, Chin, Daloren and Pug. One throws his huge greatspear at Pug, but misses. Meanwhile, Shaedra and Pug go up to the other ogre, Shaedra severely wounding it with Pug finishing it off. This enrages the first ogres who now closes in on Daloren. Daloren tries to attack the huge creature but fails as he is pounded by the creatures enormous fists and knock down, critically wounded. The rest of the groups surrounds the remain ogre and takes it down.</p><p></p><p>Daloren is healed by Lulla and the group takes a quick 5 minute breather. The question is, what are they going to do with the dwarf?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wsclark, post: 799, member: 97"] [b]Session VI - We Got What We Came For, Now Let's Go Home[/b] [b]Harvest 28th, 744 YND[/b] It's raining. No, it's pouring. No, it's coming down in sheets and waves as our intrepid group holes itself up for the night in the ramshackle shack that was once the prison workshop of Arowain the Alchemist. It has been a very, very long day and everyone does their best to fortify the entrances to the shack so they can get some rest. They stay in the shack overnight, through the entire next day and night finally felling fit enough to venture forth after a full two nights rest. While staying in the shack, they rummage around for anything useful, finding some alchemists tools, books and scrolls. Lulla takes the books and scrolls, figuring to start developing her ingrain talent for alchemy. [b]Frosting 2nd, 744 YND[/b] The torrential downpours have made a mess of the area, essentially turning it into one huge mud puddle. The first order of business is the cremation of Arowain. The group is sorry that they must do this, but their is no way they believe they can make it back to Haanex with his body. After cremating Arowain, they check out the meteor. Yes, they is mithral in it, but it is going to take several days to get enough ore out to have a pound of the stuff. To cover their backs, they decide to check out the caves to make sure the goblins aren't a threat. They enter the cave system to their right first as this was the one they were held captive in. Upon entering the cave, they find the door they locked smashed to pieces. The goblins that were inside are not there any more. Off to the cave on the left, checking each room as they go by. The first guard barracks proves to be a windfall as they find a mithral nugget weighing a pound hidden in the bedpost of one of the bunk beds. Onwards they go, collecting anything useful they find along the way. Unfortunately for Pug, he is caught in a trap of flaming oil as they try to go into one room. And Chin finds a secret door that connects to the room they were held, in the other cave system. But that's all they find as the remaining goblins had pulled out during the first night of the vicious storm. Now that they feel much more secure, they start to mine the meteor for another pound of mithral. The groups wants to keep the pound nugget for themselves, for it might be valuable. They mine the meteor for the remainder of the day and the entire next day. Finally on the following day, they start heading for home. [b]Frosting 4th, 744 YND[/b] The air is turning colder with the approach of winter as the group starts the four day journey back to Haanex. About mid-afternoon, Chin spots something white slowing moving in a clearly off to his left. He takes off running towards it as it might be some animal to catch to supplement the dwindling food supplies of the group. He gets to about 30 feet from the clearing when a horses head comes up and stares directly at him. He suddenly stops. The horse doesn't move. Lulla moves up to Chin and after a brief discussion slowly walks to the edge of the clearing while preparing herself to speak with animals [i](DM's note: Lulla has this because she is a gnome.)[/i] When she reaches the clearing, she tries to talk to the horse. It is not going well, as she seems to get images of things in her mind, but nothing very coherent. It's just not working. One of the images catches her mind's eye, that of Chin preparing a rope into a lasso. As she starts to contemplate this, the pegasus in the clearing unfolds its wings and takes to the air. Everyone is astonished that they had a close encounter with such a magnificent creature. They continue on, finding a good place to spend the night, which is uneventful [b]Frosting 5th, 744 YND[/b] The group spends the entire day traveling back to Haanex, camping for the evening in a nice small clearing. While getting ready to prepare dinner, they spot some fire light from off in the distance. They quietly travel over to where the light is and see two large creatures by what looks like a cooking fire, apparently arguing. There is a large sack on the ground next to them and there appears to be something alive in it as the sack is moving a bit. Daloren over hears some of the conversation, with things like who is going to do the cooking and who is going to get to eat first. They decide that this is probably not a good thing for whatever is in the sack, so in order to find out what is going on, Lulla casts a ghost sound spell, sounding like a bear, off in the woods in order to lure the two creatures away. The creatures don't quite believe the sound but head to the edge of the other side of the clearing, just to make sure. As they walk off, one of them takes a great club and lightly taps the sack on the ground, which crumples. Daloren and Chin quietly run up to the sack and look inside, seeing a dwarf. With not enough time to take him with them, they head back to the woods to tell the others what they found. The group decides to rescue the poor dwarf. Lulla and Girion head off through the woods around towards the other side of the clearing while the two large creatures return to their fire pit and their arguing. Shaedra and Thalen take positions between where Lulla and Girion are and where Daloren, Chin and Pug wait to rush forth to grab the dwarf. With everything ready, Lulla casts a dancing lights spell off in the woods where she originally cast the ghost sound of the bear. The ogres, upon seeing the dancing lights, go roaring off into the woods. This allows Chin, Daloren and Pug to race up to the sack, grab it and start to make off for the safety of the woods. Unfortunately, it takes a little too long as they make a bit of noise just as the dancing lights spell wears off. The ogres turn around and come running back after the puny humans that are stealing their dinner. The ogres catch up to the group of Shaedra, Thalen, Chin, Daloren and Pug. One throws his huge greatspear at Pug, but misses. Meanwhile, Shaedra and Pug go up to the other ogre, Shaedra severely wounding it with Pug finishing it off. This enrages the first ogres who now closes in on Daloren. Daloren tries to attack the huge creature but fails as he is pounded by the creatures enormous fists and knock down, critically wounded. The rest of the groups surrounds the remain ogre and takes it down. Daloren is healed by Lulla and the group takes a quick 5 minute breather. The question is, what are they going to do with the dwarf? [/QUOTE]
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