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<blockquote data-quote="Rerun" data-source="post: 6023536" data-attributes="member: 6700532"><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">The only thing you’ll do is surrender said Trang. Then we’ll talk all you want.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">Oh I surrender elf. My tribe is dead, my home is conquered. In desperation I took refuge in the pit of formation but as you can see it has warped my body and mind. I only hope that my aid in your troubles will earn your mercy. The goblin climbed down the dryad and took a few steps toward us. His lopsided legs seemed to have trouble walking and he soon gave up and sat down. You may call me Kirluklik if it pleases you.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">We glanced at each other. What to do now? Kugo spoke up; speak on what you claimed to know. Tell us of the motives of the wood elves.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">The wood elf scouts that we failed to capture saw the results of our experiments with the pit. I imagine it alarmed them enough to send a force to take our lands from us.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">My people, the il-lang, moved into this territory generations ago. The wood elves had abandoned it, I don’t know why, but it seemed the protections they left warped and failed over time. The dryad behind me, I don’t know if it is a body or carving truly, controls all the plants near here, but not in any healthy way. Everything is overgrown and slightly moist and rotten. I suspect influence of the pit.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">What is this pit? I asked.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">At its bottom is a cracked seal to another world, one of madness and chaos. In the last five years, on orders of our ambitious chieftain Rath-Gul, the shamans and adepts experimented with pouring chemicals and concoctions down it, hoping to strengthen out tribe. You’ve seen the effects. I wonder if I am still a goblin at all anymore. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">You look goblin enough to me said Kugo</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">Why the anger orc? Our people have worked together at times.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">Maglubiyet always betrays. Kugo said it like he was intoning a mantra.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">And Gruumsh is a tyrant, but why fight about it, spoke Kirluklik, I may not of Maglubiyet’s brood at all anymore. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">The cracked seal sounded like a cover for the portal our employers had sent us here to secure. The officers would want this information.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">The goblin mutant turned to me. If I show you how the dryad can control the forest trees, will you let me go?</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">Surprising myself, I felt a rush of sympathy for the goblin. He’d lost nearly everything and was now reduced to bargaining for his life. It isn’t my decision I said, but I can recommend mercy.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">Trang spoke up for the first time. Your suffering and loss doesn’t make you less an enemy, and a cruel one at that. We’ll be taking you to Captain Montion and you can see what mercy you can wring from a dwarf.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">Kirluklik replied quickly. The dwarf is the druid is he not? He may object to the manner the dryad statue is used to destroy the trees your foes have raised against you. He may decide holding a sword over the head of your kinsmen is the better path. Will you stand for this Trang the elf?</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">Trang hesitated. What do you suggest?</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">Aid me in the ritual that will destroy the trees awakened by the wood elves. Then they can’t hope to attack you and the hostages are safe. Then let me hobble off into the woods as if I was never here.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">Questions will be asked if the trees simply fall over. Questions we’d be duty bound to answer said Trang.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">You might be, said Kugo, but I think saving the company takes precedent.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">You’re not thinking strait Kugo. How is keeping this to ourselves saving the company?</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">Kirluklik spoke up. Even if you are found out, or you turn yourselves in Kugo is right. You’ll have acted to save the company. You’ll be heroes.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">That brought me up short. Heroes? I stared at the goblin. Nothing on his face had changed but in my mind it started to look sly. Something is wrong here, I said. I’m calling for an officer.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">Don’t Kirluklik said softly.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">I paused, then shoved my doubts away and yelled that we’d found an enemy and needed reinforcements.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">What are you doing, we’re trying to save the hostages Morin said Trang.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">Kugo just looked confused.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">NO half yelled half whispered Kirluklik. You’re making a mistake. Hide me! It’s your only chance.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">It sounded strangely plausible for absolutely no reason at all. This goblin had some strange powers over the mind. Kugo, Trang, listen to me, this thing is dangerous I said. Lieutenant Komwill and three veterans ran into the temple.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">Where the hell did that thing come from yelled the Lieutenant.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">He climbed out of the pit sir, be careful it has some ability to control thoughts.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">Then knock him out, gag him, and give him to the wizards.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">Kirluklik let out a cry as we obeyed.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">A few hours later while sitting around a camp fire we learned the goblin had spilled his guts after a charm spell. Kirluklik revealed that sometimes the mutating effect of the pit brought about strange mental powers and surviving two days in it he found he could read and influence thoughts. He also divulged the ritual to destroy the wood elves trees. It seemed innocuous enough and the Captain was certain he could do cast it. Kirluklik was deemed too dangerous to live and executed. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">I don’t know what Captain Montion did in the temple, but a few hours later I watched through the gates as the wood elves’ trees rotted and fell apart. Two of the gates to the compound sealed themselves shut as well. The elves didn’t have a prayer of forcing an entrance through our spears; we seemed safe until relief arrived.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">The crow Trang had shot had also returned. She and I were talking with Lieutenant Komwill when it landed on the Captain’s tent.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">Sir, said Trang, that bird.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">I see it responded the officer.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">It’s not a bird. I think it’s an </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">Komwill cut her off. You think it’s a bird. Just between you and me, you might also think it’s our contact with the Elementium Corporation. And that’s all.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 15px">Trang didn’t look happy.</span></span> </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rerun, post: 6023536, member: 6700532"] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]The only thing you’ll do is surrender said Trang. Then we’ll talk all you want.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]Oh I surrender elf. My tribe is dead, my home is conquered. In desperation I took refuge in the pit of formation but as you can see it has warped my body and mind. I only hope that my aid in your troubles will earn your mercy. The goblin climbed down the dryad and took a few steps toward us. His lopsided legs seemed to have trouble walking and he soon gave up and sat down. You may call me Kirluklik if it pleases you.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]We glanced at each other. What to do now? Kugo spoke up; speak on what you claimed to know. Tell us of the motives of the wood elves.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]The wood elf scouts that we failed to capture saw the results of our experiments with the pit. I imagine it alarmed them enough to send a force to take our lands from us.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]My people, the il-lang, moved into this territory generations ago. The wood elves had abandoned it, I don’t know why, but it seemed the protections they left warped and failed over time. The dryad behind me, I don’t know if it is a body or carving truly, controls all the plants near here, but not in any healthy way. Everything is overgrown and slightly moist and rotten. I suspect influence of the pit.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]What is this pit? I asked.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]At its bottom is a cracked seal to another world, one of madness and chaos. In the last five years, on orders of our ambitious chieftain Rath-Gul, the shamans and adepts experimented with pouring chemicals and concoctions down it, hoping to strengthen out tribe. You’ve seen the effects. I wonder if I am still a goblin at all anymore. [/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]You look goblin enough to me said Kugo[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]Why the anger orc? Our people have worked together at times.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]Maglubiyet always betrays. Kugo said it like he was intoning a mantra.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]And Gruumsh is a tyrant, but why fight about it, spoke Kirluklik, I may not of Maglubiyet’s brood at all anymore. [/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]The cracked seal sounded like a cover for the portal our employers had sent us here to secure. The officers would want this information.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]The goblin mutant turned to me. If I show you how the dryad can control the forest trees, will you let me go?[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]Surprising myself, I felt a rush of sympathy for the goblin. He’d lost nearly everything and was now reduced to bargaining for his life. It isn’t my decision I said, but I can recommend mercy.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]Trang spoke up for the first time. Your suffering and loss doesn’t make you less an enemy, and a cruel one at that. We’ll be taking you to Captain Montion and you can see what mercy you can wring from a dwarf.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]Kirluklik replied quickly. The dwarf is the druid is he not? He may object to the manner the dryad statue is used to destroy the trees your foes have raised against you. He may decide holding a sword over the head of your kinsmen is the better path. Will you stand for this Trang the elf?[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]Trang hesitated. What do you suggest?[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]Aid me in the ritual that will destroy the trees awakened by the wood elves. Then they can’t hope to attack you and the hostages are safe. Then let me hobble off into the woods as if I was never here.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]Questions will be asked if the trees simply fall over. Questions we’d be duty bound to answer said Trang.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]You might be, said Kugo, but I think saving the company takes precedent.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]You’re not thinking strait Kugo. How is keeping this to ourselves saving the company?[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]Kirluklik spoke up. Even if you are found out, or you turn yourselves in Kugo is right. You’ll have acted to save the company. You’ll be heroes.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]That brought me up short. Heroes? I stared at the goblin. Nothing on his face had changed but in my mind it started to look sly. Something is wrong here, I said. I’m calling for an officer.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]Don’t Kirluklik said softly.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]I paused, then shoved my doubts away and yelled that we’d found an enemy and needed reinforcements.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]What are you doing, we’re trying to save the hostages Morin said Trang.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]Kugo just looked confused.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]NO half yelled half whispered Kirluklik. You’re making a mistake. Hide me! It’s your only chance.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]It sounded strangely plausible for absolutely no reason at all. This goblin had some strange powers over the mind. Kugo, Trang, listen to me, this thing is dangerous I said. Lieutenant Komwill and three veterans ran into the temple.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]Where the hell did that thing come from yelled the Lieutenant.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]He climbed out of the pit sir, be careful it has some ability to control thoughts.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]Then knock him out, gag him, and give him to the wizards.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]Kirluklik let out a cry as we obeyed.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]A few hours later while sitting around a camp fire we learned the goblin had spilled his guts after a charm spell. Kirluklik revealed that sometimes the mutating effect of the pit brought about strange mental powers and surviving two days in it he found he could read and influence thoughts. He also divulged the ritual to destroy the wood elves trees. It seemed innocuous enough and the Captain was certain he could do cast it. Kirluklik was deemed too dangerous to live and executed. [/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]I don’t know what Captain Montion did in the temple, but a few hours later I watched through the gates as the wood elves’ trees rotted and fell apart. Two of the gates to the compound sealed themselves shut as well. The elves didn’t have a prayer of forcing an entrance through our spears; we seemed safe until relief arrived.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]The crow Trang had shot had also returned. She and I were talking with Lieutenant Komwill when it landed on the Captain’s tent.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]Sir, said Trang, that bird.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]I see it responded the officer.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]It’s not a bird. I think it’s an [/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]Komwill cut her off. You think it’s a bird. Just between you and me, you might also think it’s our contact with the Elementium Corporation. And that’s all.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000][COLOR=white][SIZE=4]Trang didn’t look happy.[/SIZE][/COLOR] [/COLOR][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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