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<blockquote data-quote="sniffles" data-source="post: 3333982" data-attributes="member: 30035"><p><strong>Letter #38</strong></p><p></p><p>15 Harvest</p><p>Zeif</p><p> </p><p>Dearest brother;</p><p> </p><p>I'm writing you from our camp outside the minotaur's maze. We've made our first foray into the maze and escaped relatively unscathed.</p><p> </p><p>We arrived to find the entry to the maze just as described. To get around the rugged terrain most of us flew up to the entrance aboard the flying carpet we purchased. It wasn't sturdy enough to carry all of us, so Thor cast a spell to shrink Beaker, and he himself flew alongside as an eagle. Shishir and Varian got to the cave mouth via a spell Shishir knows that allows the caster to cause two creatures to switch places with one another. </p><p> </p><p>We had to fight off some orcs and ogres and even a rather stupid hill giant, but we quickly eliminated them with little hurt to ourselves for the most part. After we entered the cave we were met by a dire bear, one we'd seen before when we fought the orc bandits. Thor couldn't persuade it to leave this time so we were forced to slay it. </p><p> </p><p>We started off down the passage into the depths of the labyrinth when suddenly the minotaur himself emerged through a wall. The ex-soldier had neglected to mention that this minotaur has <em>six</em> arms. I've never heard of such a creature before.</p><p> </p><p>The minotaur didn't attack, though. Instead it just threatened us, something about decorating its lair with our bones. There are in fact quite a lot of bones in the cave, but I doubt we'll be adding ours to the collection. Not when the minotaur turned and fled. </p><p> </p><p>Erasyne took a look through her gem to see if the wall was an illusion, but it proved to be real. We don't know how the minotaur was able to walk through it. As we were heading off down the passage in pursuit, the floor suddenly vanished beneath Thor's feet and he fell into a pit shaft. Strangely, he stopped falling about twenty feet down. In fact, he stopped moving altogether.</p><p> </p><p>Erasyne got a rope and dropped it down to him, but it quickly revealed that Thor was actually caught in some translucent substance that was burning him with acid as it held him immobilized. Unable to think of anything in our possession that would survive contact with the acid, Erasyne jumped down herself in hope of freeing Thor. Instead she too was caught in the gelatinous creature's embrace. I couldn't prevent Beaker from jumping after his master. He got stuck above Thor and Erasyne.</p><p> </p><p>Shishir decided that as we had plenty of healing available to us, he would try burning the creature. He blasted it with magical flame. Then his twin joined in with orbs of cold. The creature pretty quickly began to dissolve into a puddle at the bottom of the shaft, and we were able to lift our three comrades out with ropes. </p><p> </p><p>Once everyone was healed back to health and able to move again, we decided to make our way across the pit and continue on down the passage. I used my ring to lift me over the gap in the floor. Erasyne took point to look for other such traps, aided by the taciturn Xolo.</p><p> </p><p>It wasn't long before they located a trap that was apparently intended to drop stones on the passage below. Erasyne jammed it with pitons from her pack and moved on into the next connecting passage. As she did I heard a faint crackling sound. </p><p> </p><p>Once most of our party had passed under the overhanging stone, I glimpsed an arc of blue lightning shooting down the passageway. I heard yelps of pain from some of my companions. There were two lizard-like creatures that resembled rhinoceroses at opposite ends of the passage, and with them two minotaurs, smaller and with fewer arms than Mormog. </p><p> </p><p>I hurried under the stone and wielded my spear against one of the blue lizard creatures. They could blast lightning and apparently had some method of sending the lightning from one to the other, hence their positions. I received several painful shocks, being unable to get out of range of the lightning. </p><p> </p><p>After a short but nasty struggle we eliminated all four creatures. Thor and Shishir both wanted to leave the cave and rest at this point, as they'd expended most of their spells and it was already evening when we arrived at the maze. Varian was opposed to this, almost to the point of continuing on his own. But finally he was persuaded of the folly of that course and we agreed to retreat and spend the night at our campsite outside.</p><p> </p><p>Before we departed, Thor summoned a thoqqua and sent it burrowing through the stone that had fallen behind us while we fought the blue lightning lizards. Erasyne's pitons hadn't been able to prevent the stone from descending, though they had slowed it. It proved to be intended to block the passage behind us rather than to crush anyone beneath it. After the thoqqua burrowed back and forth several times and we allowed its tunnel to cool, we made our way back outside to the hidden location where we'd left our horses.</p><p></p><p><em><strong>To be continued...</strong></em></p><p>_________________________________________</p><p><strong>Quips & Quotes:</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>patv</strong>: "I'm amending your buckler to metal with a hole in the middle, Thor."</p><p><strong>Devo</strong>: "So I can wear it on my arm or on my waist!"</p><p> </p><p><strong>Zora</strong>: "Change into a chicken. Then you can run around for 10 minutes after you die."</p><p> </p><p><strong>Jubilee</strong>: "Do I get +1 for Trapsense?"</p><p><strong>patv</strong>: "It's not a trap."</p><p><strong>Jubilee</strong>: "Well I think it's a trap."</p><p> </p><p><strong>Jubilee</strong>: "Does Thor <u>look</u> like he has <em>word of recall</em>?"</p><p><strong>Zora</strong>: "He has word of recaw."</p><p> </p><p><strong>patv</strong>: "You're not feeling quite yourself."</p><p><strong>Hedrin</strong>: "Who are you feeling?"</p><p> </p><p><strong>patv</strong>: "Are you sure you're not going to touch it?"</p><p><strong>Jubilee</strong>: "Will it level me?"</p><p><strong>patv</strong>: "You mean will you level up or will it level you?"</p><p><strong>Jubilee</strong>: "I want to be flat on top."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sniffles, post: 3333982, member: 30035"] [b]Letter #38[/b] 15 Harvest Zeif Dearest brother; I'm writing you from our camp outside the minotaur's maze. We've made our first foray into the maze and escaped relatively unscathed. We arrived to find the entry to the maze just as described. To get around the rugged terrain most of us flew up to the entrance aboard the flying carpet we purchased. It wasn't sturdy enough to carry all of us, so Thor cast a spell to shrink Beaker, and he himself flew alongside as an eagle. Shishir and Varian got to the cave mouth via a spell Shishir knows that allows the caster to cause two creatures to switch places with one another. We had to fight off some orcs and ogres and even a rather stupid hill giant, but we quickly eliminated them with little hurt to ourselves for the most part. After we entered the cave we were met by a dire bear, one we'd seen before when we fought the orc bandits. Thor couldn't persuade it to leave this time so we were forced to slay it. We started off down the passage into the depths of the labyrinth when suddenly the minotaur himself emerged through a wall. The ex-soldier had neglected to mention that this minotaur has [I]six[/I] arms. I've never heard of such a creature before. The minotaur didn't attack, though. Instead it just threatened us, something about decorating its lair with our bones. There are in fact quite a lot of bones in the cave, but I doubt we'll be adding ours to the collection. Not when the minotaur turned and fled. Erasyne took a look through her gem to see if the wall was an illusion, but it proved to be real. We don't know how the minotaur was able to walk through it. As we were heading off down the passage in pursuit, the floor suddenly vanished beneath Thor's feet and he fell into a pit shaft. Strangely, he stopped falling about twenty feet down. In fact, he stopped moving altogether. Erasyne got a rope and dropped it down to him, but it quickly revealed that Thor was actually caught in some translucent substance that was burning him with acid as it held him immobilized. Unable to think of anything in our possession that would survive contact with the acid, Erasyne jumped down herself in hope of freeing Thor. Instead she too was caught in the gelatinous creature's embrace. I couldn't prevent Beaker from jumping after his master. He got stuck above Thor and Erasyne. Shishir decided that as we had plenty of healing available to us, he would try burning the creature. He blasted it with magical flame. Then his twin joined in with orbs of cold. The creature pretty quickly began to dissolve into a puddle at the bottom of the shaft, and we were able to lift our three comrades out with ropes. Once everyone was healed back to health and able to move again, we decided to make our way across the pit and continue on down the passage. I used my ring to lift me over the gap in the floor. Erasyne took point to look for other such traps, aided by the taciturn Xolo. It wasn't long before they located a trap that was apparently intended to drop stones on the passage below. Erasyne jammed it with pitons from her pack and moved on into the next connecting passage. As she did I heard a faint crackling sound. Once most of our party had passed under the overhanging stone, I glimpsed an arc of blue lightning shooting down the passageway. I heard yelps of pain from some of my companions. There were two lizard-like creatures that resembled rhinoceroses at opposite ends of the passage, and with them two minotaurs, smaller and with fewer arms than Mormog. I hurried under the stone and wielded my spear against one of the blue lizard creatures. They could blast lightning and apparently had some method of sending the lightning from one to the other, hence their positions. I received several painful shocks, being unable to get out of range of the lightning. After a short but nasty struggle we eliminated all four creatures. Thor and Shishir both wanted to leave the cave and rest at this point, as they'd expended most of their spells and it was already evening when we arrived at the maze. Varian was opposed to this, almost to the point of continuing on his own. But finally he was persuaded of the folly of that course and we agreed to retreat and spend the night at our campsite outside. Before we departed, Thor summoned a thoqqua and sent it burrowing through the stone that had fallen behind us while we fought the blue lightning lizards. Erasyne's pitons hadn't been able to prevent the stone from descending, though they had slowed it. It proved to be intended to block the passage behind us rather than to crush anyone beneath it. After the thoqqua burrowed back and forth several times and we allowed its tunnel to cool, we made our way back outside to the hidden location where we'd left our horses. [I][B]To be continued...[/B][/I] _________________________________________ [B]Quips & Quotes:[/B] [B]patv[/B]: "I'm amending your buckler to metal with a hole in the middle, Thor." [B]Devo[/B]: "So I can wear it on my arm or on my waist!" [B]Zora[/B]: "Change into a chicken. Then you can run around for 10 minutes after you die." [B]Jubilee[/B]: "Do I get +1 for Trapsense?" [B]patv[/B]: "It's not a trap." [B]Jubilee[/B]: "Well I think it's a trap." [B]Jubilee[/B]: "Does Thor [U]look[/U] like he has [I]word of recall[/I]?" [B]Zora[/B]: "He has word of recaw." [B]patv[/B]: "You're not feeling quite yourself." [B]Hedrin[/B]: "Who are you feeling?" [B]patv[/B]: "Are you sure you're not going to touch it?" [B]Jubilee[/B]: "Will it level me?" [B]patv[/B]: "You mean will you level up or will it level you?" [B]Jubilee[/B]: "I want to be flat on top." [/QUOTE]
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