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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Goonalan" data-source="post: 5421009" data-attributes="member: 16069">A letter from Drake to his Mum, possibly written while in the Dragon's lair.Mum,Today was the longest day of my life; it feels like a year has gone by since I last wrote. I'll do my best to recall all of the day's events but I apologise if I leave something out; some things are perhaps best not remembered. The day started early (a lot earlier than I'm used to) and we mapped out our plan; during the night I spotted a procession entering the Library and, as we were also asked to investigate the library's basement, we made our way there first. Inside we came across a group of Goblins and a fight broke out. It was one thing fighting wolves; I had practice with defending myself against such creatures. However, to fight against sentient beings such as Goblins? It was an altogether unreal experience. At first I was somewhat afraid to inflict harm upon these people but I soon noticed that I would be screwed if I didn't at least defend myself.It was tough but we eventually overpowered our adversaries. Their leader (a polite mage named Rort) gave himself up once we vanquished his underlings. He was genuinely apologetic and was willing to give up any information he had, so I persuaded my peers to leave him in the vault (with provisions) until we had finished our search. I later learnt that my friends stabbed both Rort and I in the back. Fortunately for myself it was only figuratively though their betrayal still hurts. As I sit here writing this letter I can't help but wonder who I'm really travelling with and why; are these really the "good guys"? Don't worry though Mum, even if they are capable of evil I do not think they would put me in danger so easily; they need me after all.Prior to Rort's demise he informed me of a secret passage down to the basement of the library. I happily shared this information with my peers and we descended the steps to the bottom. On the way we were attacked by two groups of frog-like creatures though, of course, we managed to overcome them each time. Finally, at the bottom we came across a locked door. Have you ever noticed how small events can repeat themselves? Well, just like yesterday, one of the mages was wiped off his feet by a flood of mud that came bursting through the door and, just like yesterday, Resolute saved him. Inside the room we waded through mud, fought off some weird mud-like men and retrieved (what we assumed) was one of Treona's artefacts.Having completed one of Treona's tasks we set off towards the temples in search of the slaying stone. We first arrived at a temple devoted to Pelor; I'm sorry to say that the place was in ruin. So much so that we had to fight off a horde of rats and stirges that had taken up residence. It was obvious that there was nothing in here for us so, after a prayer, we left and headed towards the temple of Sehanine.Inside this comparatively untouched temple we found and befriended Kiris Hoyt, son of the Petreus Hoyt who founded this village. I won't tire you with the history of the village (as this letter is so long already) but in conversation we did learn that the village was abandoned 8 months ago and Kiris was left behind to fend for himself. He also gave us a fair bit of information about the squatters in this village.Unfortunately, during our discourse we were attacked by a group of Goblins while simultaneously Kiris transformed into a beastly were-rat. After the Goblins were defeated their leader, Trifik, gave himself up and Kiris returned to normal. During Trifik's interrogation (for which I made myself absent) we learnt of their leader, his pet Drake and a group of Orcs that recently entered the village for some yet-unknown purpose. Neither party knew the location of the slaying stone and it was clearly not in the temple, so we set out once again through the village. During this we stumbled upon an underground lair and, much to our astonishment, it was guarded by a bronze dragon. Have you ever seen a dragon, Mum? It was amazing and beautiful. It confessed to being the guardian of the slaying stone and offered it to us if we proved our worth. In order to do so we must take care of the Goblin & Kobold leadership.I have so much more to tell you but my eyes grow heavy, I hope to write more in the morning.I would have slept like a log if not for the worries on my mind; primarily who I am adventuring with? I'm not sure I would have so boldly taken up this venture if I'd known their evil intentions.Anyway, it was a long few battles but we managed to take down the leadership of the Kobolds and defeat the second-in-command of the Goblins. Today, I think we're planning on taking down the big chief himself. I'm not entirely comfortable with all this slaying but I'm focusing on the end goal; the retrieval and destruction of the slaying stone.I hope I'm able to write again soon.Drake</blockquote>

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