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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Teneb" data-source="post: 1505224" data-attributes="member: 3572">Oooooh.  Shiiiiiiny.    We left the Underdark with the three freed prisoners in tow.  Only one died on the way back, victim of one last Grey Guy ambush.  We met the leader of the elves who explained that these disappearances had been occurring for some time.  They discovered that the portal we saw opened every seven years; the elves set up the Festival of Life to run concurrently so the nighthag wouldn’t kidnap elves but instead clueless merchants.  Nice of them.    Thoroughly sick of elves we decided to leave, picking up a young lass who’s master had left her.  Linder took young Gabby under his wing and started teaching her the ways of the bard.  We located a gentleman who needed stalwart adventurers to check up on a silver mine he had bought.  It seems the man had sent a number of agents to check out the previously abandoned mine, but they never returned.  Dangling the possibility of mithril in the mine which the group could use as payment, we set out for the Moonfog Hills.    Several days into our journey to Malthyn, the nearest village to the mine, we approached a small farm.  Somewhat out of place was the giant standing over the barn.  The brute was huge and misshapen, a third arm jutting from its chest.  Gruck and Sam charged at the thing on horseback while Linder, Tarrick, and Gabby (from the wagon) fired arrows at it.  Oskar rode around to flank while I summoned a water elemental to attend to the farmhouse, which was on fire.  I’m afraid I lost track of the details of the battle in all the chaos, but the giant was defeated.  Sadly, the farmer was killed.  We escorted the remainder of his family to Malthyn and gifted them with some gold to get them back on their feet.</blockquote>

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