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<blockquote data-quote="Nebulous" data-source="post: 4571791" data-attributes="member: 31465"><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Adventure #5: Shadowfell Keep</span></p><p></p><p><strong>PART TWO</strong></p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/keep/keep.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>It is a lonely looking place, with hardly a tower still standing. Crushed boulders and debris litter the trail that they clamber up, and soon they’re standing at the summit. Nothing moves up here except weeds waving in a faint wind. A peal of thunder gently rumbles around them. It’s ominous. </p><p></p><p>They soon find a cleared area in the middle of the ruins where bushes and small trees have been hacked apart and pushed aside. A stairwell is revealed leading down. Natural sunlight illuminates the stairs, but artificial light emanates from the bottom. Footprints are near the entrance, from as small as a child to as large as a man, although they’re not quite as recent as today.</p><p></p><p>Everyone glances at each other. Someone or something is down there. The paladin descends first, bastard sword out. The others try to quietly skitter down too, but this group is not the stealthiest. Buckles jingle and metal scrapes on stone. Someone hears the faint chatter of rats, but the sound soon disappears. At the bottom of the steep steps is a thirty-foot by thirty-foot stone room supported by four pillars. There is an exit to the east and west and north, the latter of which is another set of shallow steps rising up. Oil lanterns on the walls look about half full and definitely non-magical, so something is down here refilling them. </p><p></p><p>Kerric skirts around the pillars and glimpses a shadow passing across the stairwell. He moves closer. The wizard follows, and the warlock goes the other direction. It is the dwarf Helga who steps between the pillars, and she encounters the first (and far from the last) trap of Shadowfell Keep.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.zikadik.com/shadowfell/rats.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>The section of floor between the pillars is just canvas disguised as stone, and Helga plunges feet first through it! The fall would have hurt more than it did if not for the cushion of ravenous RATS. The filthy beasts immediately begin crawling over her, their shrill voices splitting the air. If anyone else is down here, they definitely know that they have company. Helga starts screaming for someone to throw her a rope as she swats the rodents away. Irann the warlock tosses one end of her rope and braces her leg on a pillar.</p><p></p><p>“Grab it!”</p><p></p><p>And then Kerric sees a yellow-skinned goblin. It’s sticking its head out from the top of the stairwell, a tiny bow clutched in its hands. Erevan sees it too and tosses a glimmering magic missile that pierces the creature’s arm. Hissing in anger, it retaliates with an arrow at the paladin, who is mounting the shallow steps two at a time. A second goblin appears, likewise armed with a shortbow. </p><p></p><p>“INTRUDERS!” it screams in goblin, even as it notches an arrow to fire at the human paladin.</p><p></p><p>Helga clambers up the rope, miraculously unhurt by the rats, but the little beasts can’t get out of the pit and pose no more threat to anyone. Irann is the only person who speaks goblin, and she hears more voices:</p><p></p><p>“Open it!” a goblin is screaming. “HURRY!”</p><p></p><p>“I’m trying!” another answers. “It’s stuck!”</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.zikadik.com/shadowfell/cursed.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>The paladin quickly engages the goblin archers and decapitates one. Within seconds the warlock has cursed the other, and then seconds after that the dwarf is at the top, broadax sweeping through them, but the warlock’s curse devours the goblin in a plume of purple flames. There’s an open door to her left, and a closed door the right, but through the open door Helga sees two gaunt goblins manically trying to open a large chest.</p><p></p><p>A chest suspiciously labeled “GOBLIN TRAP.”</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.zikadik.com/shadowfell/gob_trap.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="http://www.zikadik.com/shadowfell/gobtrap.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>A goblin glances back and sees the gleam of doom in the dwarf’s eye as she charges them. “SHITS! Open it NOW!” He’s fumbling with a large iron key, but can’t open the lock before the dwarf is on top of them. She swings, missing, and they scatter two different directions…</p><p></p><p>…just as the chest thumps and quivers and hops an inch or two off the ground. </p><p></p><p>Something is inside. </p><p></p><p>The goblins pull out wicked shortswords, but they aren’t a match for an angry dwarf, a warlord with a polearm, and a holy paladin. The wizard Erevan runs into the other chamber, scoping it out, but only sees a single door exiting. The goblins are quickly annihilated, and the warlock bouncing across the room per usual in a puff of purple sulfurous smoke. </p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.zikadik.com/shadowfell/lonegob.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>But the box. That damn box. Something inside is SLAMMING against the lid. Something wants out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nebulous, post: 4571791, member: 31465"] [SIZE=4]Adventure #5: Shadowfell Keep[/SIZE] [B]PART TWO[/B] [img]http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/keep/keep.jpg[/img] It is a lonely looking place, with hardly a tower still standing. Crushed boulders and debris litter the trail that they clamber up, and soon they’re standing at the summit. Nothing moves up here except weeds waving in a faint wind. A peal of thunder gently rumbles around them. It’s ominous. They soon find a cleared area in the middle of the ruins where bushes and small trees have been hacked apart and pushed aside. A stairwell is revealed leading down. Natural sunlight illuminates the stairs, but artificial light emanates from the bottom. Footprints are near the entrance, from as small as a child to as large as a man, although they’re not quite as recent as today. Everyone glances at each other. Someone or something is down there. The paladin descends first, bastard sword out. The others try to quietly skitter down too, but this group is not the stealthiest. Buckles jingle and metal scrapes on stone. Someone hears the faint chatter of rats, but the sound soon disappears. At the bottom of the steep steps is a thirty-foot by thirty-foot stone room supported by four pillars. There is an exit to the east and west and north, the latter of which is another set of shallow steps rising up. Oil lanterns on the walls look about half full and definitely non-magical, so something is down here refilling them. Kerric skirts around the pillars and glimpses a shadow passing across the stairwell. He moves closer. The wizard follows, and the warlock goes the other direction. It is the dwarf Helga who steps between the pillars, and she encounters the first (and far from the last) trap of Shadowfell Keep. [img]http://www.zikadik.com/shadowfell/rats.jpg[/img] The section of floor between the pillars is just canvas disguised as stone, and Helga plunges feet first through it! The fall would have hurt more than it did if not for the cushion of ravenous RATS. The filthy beasts immediately begin crawling over her, their shrill voices splitting the air. If anyone else is down here, they definitely know that they have company. Helga starts screaming for someone to throw her a rope as she swats the rodents away. Irann the warlock tosses one end of her rope and braces her leg on a pillar. “Grab it!” And then Kerric sees a yellow-skinned goblin. It’s sticking its head out from the top of the stairwell, a tiny bow clutched in its hands. Erevan sees it too and tosses a glimmering magic missile that pierces the creature’s arm. Hissing in anger, it retaliates with an arrow at the paladin, who is mounting the shallow steps two at a time. A second goblin appears, likewise armed with a shortbow. “INTRUDERS!” it screams in goblin, even as it notches an arrow to fire at the human paladin. Helga clambers up the rope, miraculously unhurt by the rats, but the little beasts can’t get out of the pit and pose no more threat to anyone. Irann is the only person who speaks goblin, and she hears more voices: “Open it!” a goblin is screaming. “HURRY!” “I’m trying!” another answers. “It’s stuck!” [img]http://www.zikadik.com/shadowfell/cursed.jpg[/img] The paladin quickly engages the goblin archers and decapitates one. Within seconds the warlock has cursed the other, and then seconds after that the dwarf is at the top, broadax sweeping through them, but the warlock’s curse devours the goblin in a plume of purple flames. There’s an open door to her left, and a closed door the right, but through the open door Helga sees two gaunt goblins manically trying to open a large chest. A chest suspiciously labeled “GOBLIN TRAP.” [img]http://www.zikadik.com/shadowfell/gob_trap.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.zikadik.com/shadowfell/gobtrap.jpg[/img] A goblin glances back and sees the gleam of doom in the dwarf’s eye as she charges them. “SHITS! Open it NOW!” He’s fumbling with a large iron key, but can’t open the lock before the dwarf is on top of them. She swings, missing, and they scatter two different directions… …just as the chest thumps and quivers and hops an inch or two off the ground. Something is inside. The goblins pull out wicked shortswords, but they aren’t a match for an angry dwarf, a warlord with a polearm, and a holy paladin. The wizard Erevan runs into the other chamber, scoping it out, but only sees a single door exiting. The goblins are quickly annihilated, and the warlock bouncing across the room per usual in a puff of purple sulfurous smoke. [img]http://www.zikadik.com/shadowfell/lonegob.jpg[/img] But the box. That damn box. Something inside is SLAMMING against the lid. Something wants out. [/QUOTE]
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