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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Demetrios1453" data-source="post: 9534570" data-attributes="member: 6801060">Curse of the Azure Bonds (Part 26): Return to Haptooth VillageFirst, maps of Dracandros' Tower, since I forgot to put them in the previous posts:[ATTACH=full]389275[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]389276[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]389277[/ATTACH]As we prepare to leave the tower, let's level Akabar for fun, even though it's meaningless.[ATTACH=full]389278[/ATTACH]Not bad - he went from level 5 to level 9 in just his time with us. Pity about his horrendous stats though. At least his HP went from awful to tolerable...We head up from the cave to the courtyard.[ATTACH=full]389279[/ATTACH]We'll head to the wilderness this time.[ATTACH=full]389280[/ATTACH]We'll head back to the village. We have stuff to sell and need to rest up after that last battle.[ATTACH=full]389281[/ATTACH]We head to the store to sell what we can.[ATTACH=full]389283[/ATTACH]Let's see what we can sell...[ATTACH=full]389284[/ATTACH]He's no fool. As much as we praise its workmanship and that it's really, really not going to evaporate here shortly, he's not taking our word for it. I guess with a drow city somewhere not too far below, he's seen drow items before and knows what befalls them...[ATTACH=full]389285[/ATTACH]On the other hand, we can fool him here and get some decent cash for a cursed item.As I'm selling, I swap some items around since our nice drow items are shortly going to disappear.Bant gets the dragon slaying sword, since it will be a bit more useful than his axe. He grumbles.[ATTACH=full]389286[/ATTACH]Bragir gets Buffy's old bracers and sells his banded mail. It ends up being the same AC, but his encumbrance and movement will be much improved.[ATTACH=full]389287[/ATTACH]Brother Baltor gets the gauntlets of dexterity that have been floating around. He doesn't really need the 19 DEX, but it's still nice anyway.[ATTACH=full]389288[/ATTACH]Everything sold, we head across the street to the inn.[ATTACH=full]389290[/ATTACH]The innkeeper is going to find quite the treasure when we leave, since we are far too encumbered with all our coins from selling everything. [ATTACH=full]389292[/ATTACH]Now unencumbered, it's time to memorize spells! Bragir especially is looking forward to this with his new ring of wizardry![ATTACH=full]389293[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]389294[/ATTACH]I give all the scrolls to Brin to see what was on the new scrolls we acquired from Dracandros and what can be scribed.[ATTACH=full]389295[/ATTACH]Well, she scribe a two spells. At least they are reasonably useful ones.After passing them back to Bragir, he can scribe one spell.[ATTACH=full]389296[/ATTACH]That's... slightly less useful.So, we rest - healing, scribing, and memorizing. With that, it's time to say farewell to Haptooth Village and head on to our next destination, wherever the third of our foes may be hiding out.[ATTACH=full]389297[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]389298[/ATTACH]Yeah, no need to go back to those caves.[ATTACH=full]389299[/ATTACH]Well... that was rather abrupt. Farewell Akabar! May you roll better stats in the future![ATTACH=full]389300[/ATTACH]And there they go, as we knew they would, and as abruptly as Akabar. Pity, they were more useful than he was.The party camps immediately after leaving Haptooth Village, before heading out across the world map. With so many changes of gear over the last little bit, here are screenshots of what everyone is carrying:[ATTACH=full]389301[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]389302[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]389303[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]389304[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]389305[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]389306[/ATTACH]I'm hanging on to those crossbows for one very particular reason that will come up much later in the game.And here is a quick overview of the characters as we head out into the wilderness:[ATTACH=full]389307[/ATTACH]Next time, we move quite a bit around the world map, headed to the lair of our third foe!</blockquote>

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