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<blockquote data-quote="DevlinStormweaver" data-source="post: 2482501" data-attributes="member: 31501"><p><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">1st Eleint 1373</span></span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The party finds its self sitting around a table in the White Hart Inn in Ashabenford in Mistledale. The town is still celebrating after defeating the latest drow raids. The owner of the inn Holfast Harpenshield had kindly let us rent out two of his rooms for free for a couple of nights to say thanks for our help. While we were sat around the table, Holfast kindly asked us if we would speak to Haresk Malorn the High Councilor in the morning. We agreed and hoped that we would be offered a job as we were getting bored of just sitting around. It didn’t help with Grungni drinking like there was no tomorrow. He had been drinking since the fighting had stopped. He is always like this, but he will not drink if we are adventuring. The problem is that his drinking has got us into trouble before, but he is a dwarf and that is what I have come to except from him. Luckily he is a devout worshipper of Moradin and a handy addition to our front line.</span></span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">As the night passes I become aware that Grugni is taking an interest in Saskia, the landlord’s daughter. Both the son and the daughter have shown great interest in our exploits and so have spent a lot of time with us. The problem is that I have noticed their father seems to becoming annoyed at this and has asked us a few times for our date of departure. I don’t think he likes the idea of the dwarf taking a shine to his daughter.</span></span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">2nd Eleint 1373</span></span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> I awake bright and early for my morning prayers and soon the party is up and heading over to the high councilor’s house. Our luck is in, we have been asked to scout out the local area for any drow encampments. We were offered 50 gold per set of drow ears, but the dwarf managed to raise the pay to 55 gold. This was after we had been offered 60 gold but before we could accept Grugni shouted out 55 gold and nothing less. I don’t think he had quite sobered up. Once we had agreed we all went off and equipped ourselves. I do need to get a squire as I don’t like relying on a party member to help me into my armour.</span></span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> We set of with Corben scouting ahead with the rest of us in a loose formation some thirty feet behind. We hadn’t been travelling long when we heard movement in the trees. We stopped and waited, and then ahead of us appeared a dog like creature. The main difference been was the steam that rose from the hound. We carefully approached but as we neared it breathed flames on us. We quickly dispatched the hound and Grugni then set to work trying to skin the hound. He kept muttering that the skin would fetch a good price. I was wondering how a dwarf knew about such things when four more of the hounds approached us. Two came from the front with two more coming up behind us. Myself and Corben engaged the front two, while Cyranek managed to confuse the rear two. Grugni then looked up and decide to cause one of the hounds to run away and then went to help Cyranek and Dhavi. I don’t know what the three of them was thinking but they managed to group up and ended up being breathed on twice. This caused Cyranek to fall over bleeding to death, but luckily the two clerics were on hand. We soon managed to dispatch the hounds, but this time I insisted that we move on.</span></span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> As the day progressed we didn’t sight any drow, but a little into the afternoon Dhavi noticed movement. He then shouted Rust Monster and before you could blink an eye both he and Corden were up a tree. Deciding that to enter melee would be a financial disaster the rest of us drew our bows and started to make a tactical retreat. Eventually the Rust Monster caught us up but when Grugni hit it with his hammer it laughed. This shocked us all then before our eyes it turned into a Copper Dragon. It turns out that the dragon protected this area and liked to keep its self amused by scaring passing adventuring groups. It did pass onto us that there weren’t any drow in the area, so we moved on.</span></span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> As things seemed to be quietening down, we left the forest and entered the moors. As we crested one of many hills a strange sight meet our eyes. A glistening web about 15 x15 feet was stretched out in the dip. In the middle we could see four shapes wrapped in cocoons. We approached carefully, but as we neared the web started to advance towards us. Dhavi been scared of spiders decided to flee, while the rest of us searched for flammable material. This seemed to be a waste of time as the small explosions we produced seemed to have no effect. Myself and Grugni engaged the web, while Corben and Cyranek slipped around the sides to investigate the shapes. During the fight the web managed to entangle me and I spent the rest of the fight trying to break free. Luckily Grugni had sobered up and managed to hit the web, and not me, until it collapsed to the floor. As the web was destroyed my mind seemed to come under attack form many different memories. They seemed to have been released from the web; I will have to discuss this with my fellow travellers once we make camp.</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DevlinStormweaver, post: 2482501, member: 31501"] [color=white][size=3][font=Times New Roman]1st Eleint 1373[/font][/size][/color] [color=white][font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font][/color] [color=white][size=3][font=Times New Roman]The party finds its self sitting around a table in the White Hart Inn in Ashabenford in Mistledale. The town is still celebrating after defeating the latest drow raids. The owner of the inn Holfast Harpenshield had kindly let us rent out two of his rooms for free for a couple of nights to say thanks for our help. While we were sat around the table, Holfast kindly asked us if we would speak to Haresk Malorn the High Councilor in the morning. We agreed and hoped that we would be offered a job as we were getting bored of just sitting around. It didn’t help with Grungni drinking like there was no tomorrow. He had been drinking since the fighting had stopped. He is always like this, but he will not drink if we are adventuring. The problem is that his drinking has got us into trouble before, but he is a dwarf and that is what I have come to except from him. Luckily he is a devout worshipper of Moradin and a handy addition to our front line.[/font][/size][/color] [color=white][font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font][/color] [color=white][size=3][font=Times New Roman]As the night passes I become aware that Grugni is taking an interest in Saskia, the landlord’s daughter. Both the son and the daughter have shown great interest in our exploits and so have spent a lot of time with us. The problem is that I have noticed their father seems to becoming annoyed at this and has asked us a few times for our date of departure. I don’t think he likes the idea of the dwarf taking a shine to his daughter.[/font][/size][/color] [color=white][font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font][/color] [color=white][size=3][font=Times New Roman]2nd Eleint 1373[/font][/size][/color] [color=white][font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font][/color] [color=white][size=3][font=Times New Roman] I awake bright and early for my morning prayers and soon the party is up and heading over to the high councilor’s house. Our luck is in, we have been asked to scout out the local area for any drow encampments. We were offered 50 gold per set of drow ears, but the dwarf managed to raise the pay to 55 gold. This was after we had been offered 60 gold but before we could accept Grugni shouted out 55 gold and nothing less. I don’t think he had quite sobered up. Once we had agreed we all went off and equipped ourselves. I do need to get a squire as I don’t like relying on a party member to help me into my armour.[/font][/size][/color] [color=white][font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font][/color] [color=white][size=3][font=Times New Roman] We set of with Corben scouting ahead with the rest of us in a loose formation some thirty feet behind. We hadn’t been travelling long when we heard movement in the trees. We stopped and waited, and then ahead of us appeared a dog like creature. The main difference been was the steam that rose from the hound. We carefully approached but as we neared it breathed flames on us. We quickly dispatched the hound and Grugni then set to work trying to skin the hound. He kept muttering that the skin would fetch a good price. I was wondering how a dwarf knew about such things when four more of the hounds approached us. Two came from the front with two more coming up behind us. Myself and Corben engaged the front two, while Cyranek managed to confuse the rear two. Grugni then looked up and decide to cause one of the hounds to run away and then went to help Cyranek and Dhavi. I don’t know what the three of them was thinking but they managed to group up and ended up being breathed on twice. This caused Cyranek to fall over bleeding to death, but luckily the two clerics were on hand. We soon managed to dispatch the hounds, but this time I insisted that we move on.[/font][/size][/color] [color=white][font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font][/color] [color=white][size=3][font=Times New Roman] As the day progressed we didn’t sight any drow, but a little into the afternoon Dhavi noticed movement. He then shouted Rust Monster and before you could blink an eye both he and Corden were up a tree. Deciding that to enter melee would be a financial disaster the rest of us drew our bows and started to make a tactical retreat. Eventually the Rust Monster caught us up but when Grugni hit it with his hammer it laughed. This shocked us all then before our eyes it turned into a Copper Dragon. It turns out that the dragon protected this area and liked to keep its self amused by scaring passing adventuring groups. It did pass onto us that there weren’t any drow in the area, so we moved on.[/font][/size][/color] [color=white][font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font][/color] [color=white][size=3][font=Times New Roman] As things seemed to be quietening down, we left the forest and entered the moors. As we crested one of many hills a strange sight meet our eyes. A glistening web about 15 x15 feet was stretched out in the dip. In the middle we could see four shapes wrapped in cocoons. We approached carefully, but as we neared the web started to advance towards us. Dhavi been scared of spiders decided to flee, while the rest of us searched for flammable material. This seemed to be a waste of time as the small explosions we produced seemed to have no effect. Myself and Grugni engaged the web, while Corben and Cyranek slipped around the sides to investigate the shapes. During the fight the web managed to entangle me and I spent the rest of the fight trying to break free. Luckily Grugni had sobered up and managed to hit the web, and not me, until it collapsed to the floor. As the web was destroyed my mind seemed to come under attack form many different memories. They seemed to have been released from the web; I will have to discuss this with my fellow travellers once we make camp.[/font][/size][/color] [/QUOTE]
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