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<blockquote data-quote="spacehulkster" data-source="post: 2080631" data-attributes="member: 13070"><p>The Dragon</p><p></p><p>That is, Meepo led the way until they got into the area of contention between the Kobolds & Goblins. He then started hanging behind Pudges legs, chattering nervously and constantly poking Pudge’s legs with his crossbow. </p><p></p><p>Slowly into the fountain room crept the party. As Valen noticed the Draconic along the fountain, he was sure that the fountain contained something. But not having pronounced the name aloud, the secret of the fountain remained a mystery.</p><p></p><p>Further down the corridor, Elric & Felix heard some chattering and scurrying. The rest of the party slowly makes their way down to the end of the corridor, where another dry fountain awaits.</p><p></p><p>Elric holds Pudge up, surveying the floor, “Wait, the floor panels are uneven, like a secret trap door or something.” “Well, lets take a look,” replies Pudge.</p><p></p><p>As the party moves into the room, carefully avoiding the floor panels, a couple of dire rats jump out of their hiding spots and attack Vern. The rats get a couple of good bites on him before he is able to get away from them. </p><p></p><p>Pudge and Dank quickly take up to slicing these rats when another jumps out at Dank, biting his arm. Dank throws it off into the wall. It quickly runs away into its lair, alerting the rest of the litter. Dank deals a death blow to the one he had started on. </p><p></p><p>Meanwhile Valen and Thalez, disgusted at not finding anything at the fountain, run up to help. Seeing where the rat had run off to, Valen quickly opens the door in hopes of getting a surprise shot on it. Instead, he himself is attacked by 3 dire rats and succumbs to their disease. </p><p></p><p>The two Elves are sickened at the site of cadavers, bones and filth in the room. That and the rather large rat snarling at them does not give Thalez any comfort. “Uh, guys. We got something big & ugly here. And I think its laughing at me.”</p><p></p><p>“How bad could it possibly be, you babies,” Pudge states, stepping into the room. “What the!” he yells upon seeing the monstrous rat. The dire rat is twice the size of a normal dire rat. “I have never seen …” he trails off as he attacks.</p><p></p><p>Elric and Dank lend Pudge a hand slicing the remaining rats, while Thalez carriesValen out and draws his own bow. Unfortunatley the fight ends before Thalez gets a chance to shoot.</p><p></p><p>Elric and Pudge search the filth and find what seems to be the body of one of the teen-agers they're looking for, because it is wearing a ring like one that lady Hucrele had described. They also find a few gems, gold, and a potion.</p><p></p><p>Finding no large passages out of the rat den, the party backtracks to an intersection they had bypassed. After listening and searching for traps they enter the empty room. Another door leads out and the same procedure reveals nothing new. Opening this door reveals a barricade at the end of a 30’ hallway and a couple of javelins heading Felix and Elrics way. Valen shoots one goblin down from behind the barricade and the other goblin takes off.</p><p></p><p>Pudge and Elric give chase. Elric successfully glides over the barricade. Pudge however, catches his foot and trips over the barricade, destroying it and his pride. With Pudge down, Felix runs ahead to cover Elrics back. They round the corner and open the door onto another "L" shaped passage.</p><p></p><p>“Stay back Felix, I want to take a quick glance around this corner first,” states Elric . “Why don’t I,” answers Felix, who immediately disappears from site. A stunned Elric turns to the rest of the group, slowly following behind, with a finger to his mouth motioning for silence.</p><p></p><p>“I think Felix went ahead to check,” he starts. “Nope, I’m back,” Felix states flatly. “There’s another barricade with a couple more Gobbo’s waiting for us.” “Hey, where are you?” whispers Pudge. “Right here!” answers Felix, tapping Pudge’s right leg “I’m going back in to get the drop on them.”</p><p></p><p>“OK, on three then,” Elric announces, nocking an arrow on his bow. Valen and Thalez also nock arrows, while Dank and Pudge heft their large axes. </p><p></p><p>“How about some quick spells?” Vern asks. “Na, not necessary. You just don’t get hurt,” Dank replies caressing his weapon. Dejected, Vern begins to load his crossbow and hides behind Dank. Elric begins to count, “One, Two, HEY!”</p><p></p><p>Valen jumps the gun, with Thalez in tow. The two blood hungry elves round the corner and narrowly miss a few javelins hurled their way.</p><p></p><p>Elric rounds the corner and fires a blind shot into the barricade. Valen takes up a position in the corner and shoots down a goblin. Thalez’s shot also goes wild into the door behind the goblins. </p><p></p><p>As Pudge and Dank rush the barricade, Felix takes this moment to fire his bow and reveal his position, hitting a goblin in the arm. The door behind the goblins bursts open and two more goblins rush into the room, just in time to hold Pudge off at the barricade. </p><p></p><p>Exposed now, Felix is the target for a couple of javelins that fortunately miss. Vern rounds the corner and runs up to within 10 feet of the barricade and casts sleep. Pudge, along with the two remaining goblins, slumps to the floor.</p><p></p><p>Dank begins slapping Pudge after beheading the goblins. “wh…ah…what happened?” questions Pudge.</p><p></p><p>“Not much. The WIZARD decided to throw a spell!” Dank replies. “Hey, those goblins nearly had us cornered,” states an insulted Vern.</p><p></p><p>Before a scuffle begins because of poor planning, Felix and Meepo remind everyone that there are two other doors in this room, besides the one the goblins came in from. </p><p></p><p>Opening the closest door, the party finds 3 kobolds tied with rope to a large spike and a gnome resting in a rusting cage. Meepo immediately attempts to cut the rope on the kobolds. Pudge puts his hand on Meepos' shoulder to stop him cutting, “Maybe we should inform them of the situation first Meepo.”</p><p></p><p>“Meepo tell them, they help,” Meepo responds, quite happy to have found fellow kobolds.</p><p></p><p>“They don’t look in too good a shape to help anyone. In fact, why don’t you take them back to your leader, Meepo,” insists Dank. “Then get back to us as fast as you can.” “Great, that’s just three more we’ll have to kill later!” Felix complains as the four kobolds leave through the door.</p><p></p><p>“What about the gnome?” asks Pudge. “I think he’ll be fine,” Milo replies. “No, I mean does he have anything interesting?” Pudge retorts.</p><p></p><p>After releasing him and Milo giving him some healing, the gnome introduces himself and answers the party’s questions. The group finds out that the three teen-agers were captured by the goblins a month ago and then given to a druid who lives below. They also learn of a new threat of the twig blights and the tree on the level below. </p><p></p><p>“Those sounds like the thing that attacked you, Dank,” states Milo . “Are there a lot of these things?” Pudge asks. “I don’t know," says the gnome. I’ve just heard the goblins talking about the twigs, and the fruit that the druid lets them sell to the farmers in the area.”</p><p></p><p>“Should we move on or take Erky here back to town?” asks Felix. “Let’s go a bit further,” reply the two young Elves in unison.</p><p></p><p>The adventurers gather up Erky and opt to not open the second door. They instead open the door that the goblin reinforcements came from. They enter a 40 foot long hallway. Elric takes the lead, and at the end of the hall, falls into a pit trap. Thoroughly pissed at himself for not seeing it, he yells up to be pulled out of it immediately. He spends no time searching the pit floor.</p><p></p><p>Straddling the trap, Elric listens and checks the door it is in front of. Not hearing anything or finding any traps on the door, he opens it and hears a loud screech. Broken furniture litters the floor in front of the door. On the walls are poorly mounted trophy heads of assorted animals...and kobolds. A small white dragon sits on top of an overturned table flapping its wings.</p><p></p><p>Elric rushes in and promptly slides across the room into a door at the opposite side of the room. Thalez jumps the pit and also slides across the room head first into the wall. Elric announces from his prone position that the room is full of ice and to be careful jumping across the pit into the room.</p><p></p><p>Dank and Pudge take some time to rig a rope across the pit for the rest of the party to cross on. Meanwhile Valen jumps across the pit and successfully lands in the room and takes a shot at the dragon.</p><p> </p><p>“We need that thing alive!” screams Vern. “Subdue it.” Disgruntled at not being able to kill the dragon, the two elves attempt to regain their footing, only to fail and fall again. Valen drops his longbow and draws his sword, carefully stepping towards the beast. The dragon claws and bites at Valen, but he manages to dodge and keep his footing.</p><p> </p><p>After rigging the rope securely, Pudge is the first to attempt to cross the pit, but looses his grip on the rope and falls.</p><p> </p><p>Once again the elves try to regain their footing and help Valen subdue the dragon. Pudge climbs out of the pit on the side by the door and promptly gets a waft of cold air for his trouble, chilling him to the bone.</p><p> </p><p>Dank, Milo and Vern finally make it over the pit and help out the elves, who are having a terrible time subduing the dragon Calcryx. With great effort and many wounds, the party is finally able to subdue the beast and tie it up for transport back to Meepo’s cage. </p><p></p><p>Searching the room before they go, they find a figurine, silverware, a goblet and a sealed scroll case of bone with crumbling parchment inside. They decide the bone scroll case is of no value and discard it. Pudge makes sure he packs the silverware and goblet carefully away and the group travels back to the kobold area.</p><p></p><p>After giving the dragon back over into Meepo’s care, they confront the Kobold martiarch,Yusdrayl. Again with Valen as interpreter, and under close guard, the matriarch asks them what would they like as a reward. Eyeing the throne beyond her, Pudge spots a metallic key in a carved dragons mouth, ”How ‘bout that key there?” </p><p></p><p>Yusdrayl agrees and gives them the key. “What door does this key go to?” Vern asks Valen to translate.</p><p></p><p>Responding to the question, Yusdrayl says she has no idea and offers another reward if the adventurers can destroy the goblins so that her clan can take over the entire keep and grow. The group agrees that they will do what they can, but for now they must retire to heal and sleep.</p><p></p><p>“I don’t like the idea of working for kobolds,” Felix states. </p><p></p><p>“True. But at least they seem nice,” Milo points out.</p><p></p><p>“You obviously haven’t seen them look at you,” Vern adds.</p><p></p><p>Oblivious to the conversation, Pudge fondles the key and asks, “I wonder what this key goes to?”</p><p> </p><p>It’s at this point that Dank informs the party that he has had enough of this citadel and country side. He feels the caverns calling him and has decided to go wander the depths below for an unknown amount of time. </p><p></p><p>“You take care of yourself, Dank,” Vern says, with a tear in his eye.</p><p></p><p>“We’ll meet again. Of that I am sure, Wizard.” Dank states patting the gnome's head. He marches off as darkness falls.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spacehulkster, post: 2080631, member: 13070"] The Dragon That is, Meepo led the way until they got into the area of contention between the Kobolds & Goblins. He then started hanging behind Pudges legs, chattering nervously and constantly poking Pudge’s legs with his crossbow. Slowly into the fountain room crept the party. As Valen noticed the Draconic along the fountain, he was sure that the fountain contained something. But not having pronounced the name aloud, the secret of the fountain remained a mystery. Further down the corridor, Elric & Felix heard some chattering and scurrying. The rest of the party slowly makes their way down to the end of the corridor, where another dry fountain awaits. Elric holds Pudge up, surveying the floor, “Wait, the floor panels are uneven, like a secret trap door or something.” “Well, lets take a look,” replies Pudge. As the party moves into the room, carefully avoiding the floor panels, a couple of dire rats jump out of their hiding spots and attack Vern. The rats get a couple of good bites on him before he is able to get away from them. Pudge and Dank quickly take up to slicing these rats when another jumps out at Dank, biting his arm. Dank throws it off into the wall. It quickly runs away into its lair, alerting the rest of the litter. Dank deals a death blow to the one he had started on. Meanwhile Valen and Thalez, disgusted at not finding anything at the fountain, run up to help. Seeing where the rat had run off to, Valen quickly opens the door in hopes of getting a surprise shot on it. Instead, he himself is attacked by 3 dire rats and succumbs to their disease. The two Elves are sickened at the site of cadavers, bones and filth in the room. That and the rather large rat snarling at them does not give Thalez any comfort. “Uh, guys. We got something big & ugly here. And I think its laughing at me.” “How bad could it possibly be, you babies,” Pudge states, stepping into the room. “What the!” he yells upon seeing the monstrous rat. The dire rat is twice the size of a normal dire rat. “I have never seen …” he trails off as he attacks. Elric and Dank lend Pudge a hand slicing the remaining rats, while Thalez carriesValen out and draws his own bow. Unfortunatley the fight ends before Thalez gets a chance to shoot. Elric and Pudge search the filth and find what seems to be the body of one of the teen-agers they're looking for, because it is wearing a ring like one that lady Hucrele had described. They also find a few gems, gold, and a potion. Finding no large passages out of the rat den, the party backtracks to an intersection they had bypassed. After listening and searching for traps they enter the empty room. Another door leads out and the same procedure reveals nothing new. Opening this door reveals a barricade at the end of a 30’ hallway and a couple of javelins heading Felix and Elrics way. Valen shoots one goblin down from behind the barricade and the other goblin takes off. Pudge and Elric give chase. Elric successfully glides over the barricade. Pudge however, catches his foot and trips over the barricade, destroying it and his pride. With Pudge down, Felix runs ahead to cover Elrics back. They round the corner and open the door onto another "L" shaped passage. “Stay back Felix, I want to take a quick glance around this corner first,” states Elric . “Why don’t I,” answers Felix, who immediately disappears from site. A stunned Elric turns to the rest of the group, slowly following behind, with a finger to his mouth motioning for silence. “I think Felix went ahead to check,” he starts. “Nope, I’m back,” Felix states flatly. “There’s another barricade with a couple more Gobbo’s waiting for us.” “Hey, where are you?” whispers Pudge. “Right here!” answers Felix, tapping Pudge’s right leg “I’m going back in to get the drop on them.” “OK, on three then,” Elric announces, nocking an arrow on his bow. Valen and Thalez also nock arrows, while Dank and Pudge heft their large axes. “How about some quick spells?” Vern asks. “Na, not necessary. You just don’t get hurt,” Dank replies caressing his weapon. Dejected, Vern begins to load his crossbow and hides behind Dank. Elric begins to count, “One, Two, HEY!” Valen jumps the gun, with Thalez in tow. The two blood hungry elves round the corner and narrowly miss a few javelins hurled their way. Elric rounds the corner and fires a blind shot into the barricade. Valen takes up a position in the corner and shoots down a goblin. Thalez’s shot also goes wild into the door behind the goblins. As Pudge and Dank rush the barricade, Felix takes this moment to fire his bow and reveal his position, hitting a goblin in the arm. The door behind the goblins bursts open and two more goblins rush into the room, just in time to hold Pudge off at the barricade. Exposed now, Felix is the target for a couple of javelins that fortunately miss. Vern rounds the corner and runs up to within 10 feet of the barricade and casts sleep. Pudge, along with the two remaining goblins, slumps to the floor. Dank begins slapping Pudge after beheading the goblins. “wh…ah…what happened?” questions Pudge. “Not much. The WIZARD decided to throw a spell!” Dank replies. “Hey, those goblins nearly had us cornered,” states an insulted Vern. Before a scuffle begins because of poor planning, Felix and Meepo remind everyone that there are two other doors in this room, besides the one the goblins came in from. Opening the closest door, the party finds 3 kobolds tied with rope to a large spike and a gnome resting in a rusting cage. Meepo immediately attempts to cut the rope on the kobolds. Pudge puts his hand on Meepos' shoulder to stop him cutting, “Maybe we should inform them of the situation first Meepo.” “Meepo tell them, they help,” Meepo responds, quite happy to have found fellow kobolds. “They don’t look in too good a shape to help anyone. In fact, why don’t you take them back to your leader, Meepo,” insists Dank. “Then get back to us as fast as you can.” “Great, that’s just three more we’ll have to kill later!” Felix complains as the four kobolds leave through the door. “What about the gnome?” asks Pudge. “I think he’ll be fine,” Milo replies. “No, I mean does he have anything interesting?” Pudge retorts. After releasing him and Milo giving him some healing, the gnome introduces himself and answers the party’s questions. The group finds out that the three teen-agers were captured by the goblins a month ago and then given to a druid who lives below. They also learn of a new threat of the twig blights and the tree on the level below. “Those sounds like the thing that attacked you, Dank,” states Milo . “Are there a lot of these things?” Pudge asks. “I don’t know," says the gnome. I’ve just heard the goblins talking about the twigs, and the fruit that the druid lets them sell to the farmers in the area.” “Should we move on or take Erky here back to town?” asks Felix. “Let’s go a bit further,” reply the two young Elves in unison. The adventurers gather up Erky and opt to not open the second door. They instead open the door that the goblin reinforcements came from. They enter a 40 foot long hallway. Elric takes the lead, and at the end of the hall, falls into a pit trap. Thoroughly pissed at himself for not seeing it, he yells up to be pulled out of it immediately. He spends no time searching the pit floor. Straddling the trap, Elric listens and checks the door it is in front of. Not hearing anything or finding any traps on the door, he opens it and hears a loud screech. Broken furniture litters the floor in front of the door. On the walls are poorly mounted trophy heads of assorted animals...and kobolds. A small white dragon sits on top of an overturned table flapping its wings. Elric rushes in and promptly slides across the room into a door at the opposite side of the room. Thalez jumps the pit and also slides across the room head first into the wall. Elric announces from his prone position that the room is full of ice and to be careful jumping across the pit into the room. Dank and Pudge take some time to rig a rope across the pit for the rest of the party to cross on. Meanwhile Valen jumps across the pit and successfully lands in the room and takes a shot at the dragon. “We need that thing alive!” screams Vern. “Subdue it.” Disgruntled at not being able to kill the dragon, the two elves attempt to regain their footing, only to fail and fall again. Valen drops his longbow and draws his sword, carefully stepping towards the beast. The dragon claws and bites at Valen, but he manages to dodge and keep his footing. After rigging the rope securely, Pudge is the first to attempt to cross the pit, but looses his grip on the rope and falls. Once again the elves try to regain their footing and help Valen subdue the dragon. Pudge climbs out of the pit on the side by the door and promptly gets a waft of cold air for his trouble, chilling him to the bone. Dank, Milo and Vern finally make it over the pit and help out the elves, who are having a terrible time subduing the dragon Calcryx. With great effort and many wounds, the party is finally able to subdue the beast and tie it up for transport back to Meepo’s cage. Searching the room before they go, they find a figurine, silverware, a goblet and a sealed scroll case of bone with crumbling parchment inside. They decide the bone scroll case is of no value and discard it. Pudge makes sure he packs the silverware and goblet carefully away and the group travels back to the kobold area. After giving the dragon back over into Meepo’s care, they confront the Kobold martiarch,Yusdrayl. Again with Valen as interpreter, and under close guard, the matriarch asks them what would they like as a reward. Eyeing the throne beyond her, Pudge spots a metallic key in a carved dragons mouth, ”How ‘bout that key there?” Yusdrayl agrees and gives them the key. “What door does this key go to?” Vern asks Valen to translate. Responding to the question, Yusdrayl says she has no idea and offers another reward if the adventurers can destroy the goblins so that her clan can take over the entire keep and grow. The group agrees that they will do what they can, but for now they must retire to heal and sleep. “I don’t like the idea of working for kobolds,” Felix states. “True. But at least they seem nice,” Milo points out. “You obviously haven’t seen them look at you,” Vern adds. Oblivious to the conversation, Pudge fondles the key and asks, “I wonder what this key goes to?” It’s at this point that Dank informs the party that he has had enough of this citadel and country side. He feels the caverns calling him and has decided to go wander the depths below for an unknown amount of time. “You take care of yourself, Dank,” Vern says, with a tear in his eye. “We’ll meet again. Of that I am sure, Wizard.” Dank states patting the gnome's head. He marches off as darkness falls. [/QUOTE]
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