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<blockquote data-quote="Tickleberry" data-source="post: 137954" data-attributes="member: 1565"><p><strong>There you go again needlenose</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"> <span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"> <span style="color: skyblue"> Just once I would like you to get the story right, but then, the world might end. I mean really, is your mind so gone? For one, yes, I did freak when the ghost geek showed, but you sure didn't see brown spots. Contrary to wireboy's words, I have never disgraced myself so.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">Alright, to start where I had left off. I was shivering in my bedroll, when it was time for me to take my duty shift. I got up, and heard a familiar voice asking to be let in. I thought it might be a mindflayer's trick, and said no. We counted bodies, nobody was left unaccounted for. Then, he literally walks through the door. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">Man, until that moment, I only thought I had done some amazing somersaults. I think I must have shrieked, because everyone was suddenly up. Once they got a load of what the little ghost wanted, the teasing started, and has yet to stop. Celwyn offered a suggestion for the little ghost to prove himself. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">He thought he was still alive! We couldn't convince him otherwise. I told him he could at least go check out the castle for us. Forget it, he wasn't having any of it. Then he wanted to get a little too close. I finally got the stupid gnome to quit snorkling long enough to banish him. Sheesh, the things I go through for this party.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">Celwyn, before he died, told me about an interesting dream he had. The mindflayer visited him, and left a vision of us all dead. Isn't that an irony? The creature didn't know where we were, and was trying to get a fix on us. Luckily, Celwyn figured it out in time, and fed him misinformation. I hope that thing rots in the deepest of nine hells.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">The next day, we go information hunting. Oh, not to leave out what we already had, we found messages and useful scrolls tacked on our door when we came home. Then, most of the warnings had been taken care of. For some reason, Celwyn decides that it is past time to check some of the warnings out, and maybe find information to fight the mindflayer with. Whoa, what we found when we got there.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">There was a major battle raging on the third floor. All kinds of explosions were going off, and then this character came out. I thought it might be the silver dragon, but later learned it was a villan making her escape. Too soon, we had a purple worm to contend with.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">I picked careful shots, while the fighters tried to close, and had really hurt the thing bad, when Celwyn takes out his crossbow. He carelessly takes a shot, and kills it. What I go through, sheesh.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">Darryl informs us that there are some other problems downstairs in the basement, two sorcerors and a gibbering mouther, to be precise.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">Everyone was crowded up on the stairs, so I slid down the banister, and tied up one of the sorcerors, hoping that they'd take out the other and the mouther before I was toast. It worked.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">The two new dwarves just plowed through the mouther, and then swatted the sorceror (with tactical strikes from the bard keeping them alive). Just in time to rescue me.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">Well, the building was now secure, and we searched in earnest for anything on mindflayers. Fat chance, the place had been picked over, but Celwyn's informants turned up some rather useful information about the manor: It was just about empty.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">Get this: the best plan they could come up with had me sneaking over the back wall, leaving a rope for them, and attacking the mindflayer from behind. that was it! Sheesh, think they had faith in my abilities? Well, Brandobaris was watching, 'cause I climbed up, set my grapple, and killed the one guard before anyone else noticed. In fact, the guard never knew I was there until he was dead. Never even got a chance to raise an alarm. I pity him, but I had a job that needed doing, and he was on the wrong team.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">Everyone made it up with some semblance of quiet, and after unlocking the back door, I let the tanks walk in first. Nothing went kaboom, so I entered, and starting checking for booby traps. (Considering the number of boobies I'm looking after, I'd better.)</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">Anyway, the gnome is the last one in, and he's being chased by a gigantic wolf. The bard, being the cool person he was, passed his hand right through it, showing it to be an illusion.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">Then one shows up on the stairs as we are climbing up. Celwyn says "Oh look, another illusion. . . Nice doggie" It's real. It was so comical, the poor bard there patting this huge slavering wolf. I get barrelled over by the chicken dwarves and Billen, leaving the gnome, Celwyn, and myself to take the thing out. Luckily, I'm very handy with a bow, and we kill the durned thing. Just in time to join the party upstairs.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">Here's where things get nasty. There's another one of those wolves, and I guess the things have something akin to dragon fear on them. I never notice myself. Billen is fleeing, and the floating mindflayer has bounced the dwarves' brains about. I fire at him, and the wolf, and get blasted myself.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">When I wake up, I'm told the Mindflayer took Celwyn. The dwarves woke up, Billen was able to come back after the wolf was destroyed, but not in time to save him. He's gone.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">Well, I tracked that silver dragon down, and asked her flat out if she knew how to plane shift. She said no. I asked if she knew anybody who could. No. Well, I'm still looking, because that thing took too many friends for me to just let it go. And don't think that I've given up on my friends. There's miracles in this old world, and you can bet your sweet patooty that this little hobbit is going to find three: Celwyn, Ember and Burke. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"></span> </span> </span> <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tickleberry, post: 137954, member: 1565"] [b]There you go again needlenose[/b] [SIZE=3] [FONT=times new roman] [COLOR=skyblue] Just once I would like you to get the story right, but then, the world might end. I mean really, is your mind so gone? For one, yes, I did freak when the ghost geek showed, but you sure didn't see brown spots. Contrary to wireboy's words, I have never disgraced myself so. Alright, to start where I had left off. I was shivering in my bedroll, when it was time for me to take my duty shift. I got up, and heard a familiar voice asking to be let in. I thought it might be a mindflayer's trick, and said no. We counted bodies, nobody was left unaccounted for. Then, he literally walks through the door. Man, until that moment, I only thought I had done some amazing somersaults. I think I must have shrieked, because everyone was suddenly up. Once they got a load of what the little ghost wanted, the teasing started, and has yet to stop. Celwyn offered a suggestion for the little ghost to prove himself. He thought he was still alive! We couldn't convince him otherwise. I told him he could at least go check out the castle for us. Forget it, he wasn't having any of it. Then he wanted to get a little too close. I finally got the stupid gnome to quit snorkling long enough to banish him. Sheesh, the things I go through for this party. Celwyn, before he died, told me about an interesting dream he had. The mindflayer visited him, and left a vision of us all dead. Isn't that an irony? The creature didn't know where we were, and was trying to get a fix on us. Luckily, Celwyn figured it out in time, and fed him misinformation. I hope that thing rots in the deepest of nine hells. The next day, we go information hunting. Oh, not to leave out what we already had, we found messages and useful scrolls tacked on our door when we came home. Then, most of the warnings had been taken care of. For some reason, Celwyn decides that it is past time to check some of the warnings out, and maybe find information to fight the mindflayer with. Whoa, what we found when we got there. There was a major battle raging on the third floor. All kinds of explosions were going off, and then this character came out. I thought it might be the silver dragon, but later learned it was a villan making her escape. Too soon, we had a purple worm to contend with. I picked careful shots, while the fighters tried to close, and had really hurt the thing bad, when Celwyn takes out his crossbow. He carelessly takes a shot, and kills it. What I go through, sheesh. Darryl informs us that there are some other problems downstairs in the basement, two sorcerors and a gibbering mouther, to be precise. Everyone was crowded up on the stairs, so I slid down the banister, and tied up one of the sorcerors, hoping that they'd take out the other and the mouther before I was toast. It worked. The two new dwarves just plowed through the mouther, and then swatted the sorceror (with tactical strikes from the bard keeping them alive). Just in time to rescue me. Well, the building was now secure, and we searched in earnest for anything on mindflayers. Fat chance, the place had been picked over, but Celwyn's informants turned up some rather useful information about the manor: It was just about empty. Get this: the best plan they could come up with had me sneaking over the back wall, leaving a rope for them, and attacking the mindflayer from behind. that was it! Sheesh, think they had faith in my abilities? Well, Brandobaris was watching, 'cause I climbed up, set my grapple, and killed the one guard before anyone else noticed. In fact, the guard never knew I was there until he was dead. Never even got a chance to raise an alarm. I pity him, but I had a job that needed doing, and he was on the wrong team. Everyone made it up with some semblance of quiet, and after unlocking the back door, I let the tanks walk in first. Nothing went kaboom, so I entered, and starting checking for booby traps. (Considering the number of boobies I'm looking after, I'd better.) :D Anyway, the gnome is the last one in, and he's being chased by a gigantic wolf. The bard, being the cool person he was, passed his hand right through it, showing it to be an illusion. Then one shows up on the stairs as we are climbing up. Celwyn says "Oh look, another illusion. . . Nice doggie" It's real. It was so comical, the poor bard there patting this huge slavering wolf. I get barrelled over by the chicken dwarves and Billen, leaving the gnome, Celwyn, and myself to take the thing out. Luckily, I'm very handy with a bow, and we kill the durned thing. Just in time to join the party upstairs. Here's where things get nasty. There's another one of those wolves, and I guess the things have something akin to dragon fear on them. I never notice myself. Billen is fleeing, and the floating mindflayer has bounced the dwarves' brains about. I fire at him, and the wolf, and get blasted myself. When I wake up, I'm told the Mindflayer took Celwyn. The dwarves woke up, Billen was able to come back after the wolf was destroyed, but not in time to save him. He's gone. Well, I tracked that silver dragon down, and asked her flat out if she knew how to plane shift. She said no. I asked if she knew anybody who could. No. Well, I'm still looking, because that thing took too many friends for me to just let it go. And don't think that I've given up on my friends. There's miracles in this old world, and you can bet your sweet patooty that this little hobbit is going to find three: Celwyn, Ember and Burke. [/COLOR] [/FONT] [/SIZE] :p [/QUOTE]
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