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Message: <blockquote data-quote="InzeladunMaster" data-source="post: 4410423" data-attributes="member: 9774">Our Heroes:Bink - a wizardUlilia - a witchHamdin - a millerMara - a soul knifeHamdin encountered Aphar Ha'adamah, a little girl whose family vanished when a purple worm ate them. The worm was summoned by a Dark Man. The heroes examined the whole, tracked the Dark Man to the Seventeen Barrows of Solt, then on to Ugot City.Ugot City is a den of corruption. All is not well. Lord Nizn Thrildnest, the Seventeenth Baron of the Free City of Ugot (commonly styled simply "Lord Ugot"), is a brutal lord. The heroes hear of a missing child, the son of a nobleman married to Lord Ugot's sister, the Honorable Rast Thrildnest. The nobleman has been arrested on suspicion of selling the child to a den of prostitutes to pay off his debts.Further, they make inquiries to sell some of their loot and find Baronet Délood of Cerocia Manor willing to make a deal. He sent a thin servant to negotiate the sale of a tapestry. He then requested on of the girls to have dinner with him that evening. Ulilia agreed, with Hamdin taking the role of chaperon. In the manor, they found Sir Délood kept a strange manor, wherein he preserved corpses in life-like poses, dressing them in wealth. Later, Sir Délood suggested Ulilia ask Hamdin to leave, which he did. Sir Délood proposed marriage to Ulilia, who refused. Upon refusal, Sir Délood held her and tried to have her put into a sarcophagus which would have petrified her. After her clothes were removed, Ulilia broke the hold person spell and escaped. Sir Délood sent the thin man after her.  Ulilia streaked naked through the streets, using an obscuring mist to hide from the thin man.  In the meantime, the others had a lead to the Dark Man and encountered the thin man as they left their inn. After a fight, the thin man was killed, and the body disposed of by the deformed street urchins of the area.They went to a miller's house, learned stuff about a worm cult and heard the Dark Man was expelled from the Order. They were led to the new Cult Leader and Hamdin chastized them for letting the Dark Man go instead of dispensing justice (of course, what he didn't know at this point was that the Cult Leader was the Dark Man).They went to Lord Ugot and, in return for finding the missing boy (who turned out to be Lord Ugot's son), they would destroy the Cult of the Great Worm. He also found out about Ugot's penchant for torture. They also ordered the arrest of Sir Délood and access to his funds.Discovering the Cult Leader was the Dark Man, they led 300 soldiers into the den. They were attacked by the Rat-Things, the familiars of the worm cultists.  The head Rat-Thing cast spells at the party, but the things were killed when Mara raced them into the soldiers so they could be killed.The cultists - who were worm-people - tried to defend themselves, but the soldiers and the heroes cut them down.Although offered positions of power, the heroes opted to leave, although they created an agreement to change the balance of power in the city.</blockquote>

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