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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hairy Minotaur" data-source="post: 2695161" data-attributes="member: 11574">Sowing the seeds.........Korg and Gronar drag Paquito out into the hallway and prop him up next to Sillaqui. Ratchet goes to work on both and heals them as best he can. The giants then go about searching through the stacks and piles of bones strewn about the room. They also loot the armored sword wielding creature's body.Finrod and Lothred search the back of the room and advise that there is an exit on either side of the room. Luciann casts detect magic on the pile of looted belongings and separates the piles based upon his findings. Omar takes over the tending to the injured role once Ratchet's spells have been depleted, Ratchet climbs upon the bone sea and makes his way carefully over to the black drain hole in the center of the room. Once arriving, Ratchet feels an unearthly pull on his soul, as if the void hungered for it. Ratchet kneels down on the bones surrounding the well and moving aside a goblin corpse he finds symbols etched into the stone encasing the well's perimeter. Wiping away some of the goblin blood, Ratchet makes out ancient elven symbols that appear to have been contracted in on themselves, as if they had been written on stretched out elastic that was then allowed to retract. Ratchet remembered what the Luciann and Finrod called this room "Something of the World Tree", he then peered up at the ceiling and saw branches with leaves still intact, sticking out of the ceiling. Glancing around the chamber, he spies more braches jutting out of the walls near the ceiling all around the circumference of the room. Ratchet tries to imagine how big the tree that left part of itself embedded in the walls of this chamber how to have been when it still resided in this room. Ratchet's mind conveys an answer of one-hundred feet diameter for the tree's trunk, looking down at the twenty foot diameter void, Ratchet's mind reels with the power that must've been used here. Quieting his mind, Ratchet becomes in tune with his aura, regarding it as more of a living thing than metaphysical one, his mind wades through his aura and notes that five other divine auras either exited the well or entered it very recently. Ratchet snaps out of his trance and clears his sight searching for the rest of the party."Hey Luciann, we might have more company real soon, and I wouldn't go in either of those exits by yourself." Ratchet calls out to the first party member he sees."Why's that?" Luciann returns a question"I think five things came out of this hole, their divine essence left a trail leadi..." Ratchet's words trail off and the well sends out a burst of negative energy in a tight radius around itself, knocking the gnome unconscious.Luciann rushes to the gnome's side and he too feels the longing for his soul that the well exhibits. He drags Ratchet back to the chamber entrance, where Omar meets him and finishes carrying the gnome over to Paquito and Sillaqui. "What happen to lawn ornament?" Korg asks"That well thing over there did something and knocked him out, he was trying to tell me there were fives things that came out of that hole." Luciann explains"Hole in ground hurt Gronar battery? Gronar will smash hole." "I saw some runes on it when I picked up Ratchet, they looked elven but I didn't study them very closely." Luciann advises"Then I think one of one ought to go see what they say." Lothred says referring to Luciann and Finrod"I think it should be you, after all I got the words on the door wrong." Luciann says to Finrod."What? Are you guys trying to get me killed? I'm not going anywhere near that thing! Dammit I'm a swordsman, not a diviner." Finrod protests"You'll be fine lad, I have a padded red shirt in my backpack that I can bless up for ya. No worries." Omar offers"Absolutely not! Send her, she hasn't done anything productive yet." Finrod objects while pointing to Sillaqui"Can they walk?" Gronar asks Omar referring to Paquito, Sillaqui, and Ratchet."Sillaqui is ok, but the other two are going to need more rest." Omar repliesGronar wrinkles his nose and heads back down the long hallway to the trap door, he ascends the stairs but the door does not budge. The hill giant pounds on the door with his fists and rams it with his head and shoulders, but fails to lift it. The giant returns to the party with the bad news."Well appears are paths have been set for us, which way shall we sally forth. Left or Right?" Lothred announces, pointing at the two exits in the room."Right." Korg shouts while pointing to the left exit."Come Dorf, Gronar gonna need replacement for lawn ornament." Gronar says to Omar as he grabs the dwarf by the head and slaps Omar to his back. "Hold on tight, Gronar not have time to put in safety harness." "What about them? Shouldn't someone stay behind to protect them?" Finrod motions to Paquito, Sillaqui, and Ratchet"Nothing coming that way, nothing coming that way, and we go that way. Blue lady can yell if something come that way." Gronar says pointing at the various exits to the room.The party trudges thru the bone field and enters the left passageway, the giant's heads disappear from view."Ow, ow, ow I think there is a shard remaining in me that the clerics overlooked. No?" Paquito whinesSillaqui approaches Paquito to get a better look, as Paquito props himself up on his elbows. "Where? I am not seeing the telltale glisten of fresh blood." She replies"I think it pierced my heart, here feel. It does not beat correctly. No?" "I am unfamiliar with minotaur physiology, I can not be certain whether it beats correctly or not." "Well, just to be sure, maybe you should put some of that salve over it? No?" While Sillaqui rummages through Ratchet's belongings for some healing salve, Paquito uses this time to sit up and unfurl a sleeping bag and blanket from Gronar's sack he left for safe keeping while he explores with the rest of the group. Sillaqui returns and begins to apply the salve over Paquito's heart. "So tell me of your home. I love to hear stories. Oral history is a tradition in my family."Paquito nearly leapt from his reclining position, "she likes stories and is in to **** <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" /> , sweet heifer! I hope those lugs don't come back, then I could just teleport the two of us back to the maze." Paquito thought to himself."I shall tell you the story of how I came to bear this heavy burden that I carry within my heart. For you see I am an avatar of love, cursed with this body until I can find true love or baring that, a harem of one-hundred-and-one women. I am in sad shape as I have found neither in my four-hundred-and-ninety-nine years of searching. I have only two months to fulfill my quota or I shall be forever cursed to be a eunuch.” Paquito sheds some tears for dramatic effect “Your story is an amusing tale of a libido gone awry, perhaps the best thing for you is to become a eunuch?” “Damn, I thought my bluff skills were wicked good. Time for plan B.” Paquito talks to himself“Well, It was still partially a true story. You could help me make it better. No?” “I don’t know if that would be wise for me.”“Come, sit here next to me on the soft blanket, while we talk of things not yet seen nor heard of, I shall tell you of my daring exploits aboard the vessel Waterlogged. No?”“You were at sea? Most intriguing, please tell me more of the sea.” Sillaqui pleads with the innocence of a child. Paquito holds his arm out and the princess cuddles up next to the hairy beast.</blockquote>

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