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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hairy Minotaur" data-source="post: 2707412" data-attributes="member: 11574">Ooh, a giant-sized taser!The giants lead the rest of the party through a winding tunnel, Omar alerts the party that the tunnel is descending  as it meanders. "I don't think this is the way out." Lothred states"That because elfy never been in mines before. Just because tunnel go one way, does not mean tunnel stay that way." Gronar answersThe party rounds the next turn and they see a reddish glow pulsate from the tunnel around the corner. Gronar motions for the group to stop and to be quiet. He then sticks his head around the corner. Up ahead about thirty feet is a large room with a huge spinning red crystal, that gives off the red glow as it hovers above a painted symbol in the floor. Four trolls sit in a square shape around the crystal, kneeling to the crystal, their backs to the wall behind them. "Gronar see two trolls and a big red rock." The hill giant explains.Confused looks cross the faces of the rest of the group."Gronar going to sneak up on trolls and see what they doing laying on floor like that." Gronar spins around the corner and creeps down the short hallway to the room's threshold. The rest of the party follows, huddled closely behind Korg as they peer around the legs of the giant."Stinky troll! Gronar want to know if you see other elfys?" Gronar calls out to the trolls."Hey, there's four trolls in there. Don't you know how to count?" Luciann asks"Gronar can count number of times it takes to split your head open." Korg answers, speaking up for his friend"Hey!" Gronar shouts again to no avail. The hill giant turns around and plucks Finrod out from behind Korg."Hey! Stinky trolls see other elfys, look like this?" Gronar asks while waving Finrod around like stick in front of a dog."Hey, hey, hey what are you trying to do? Get me killed? Put me down!" Finrod shouts Gronar shrugs his shoulders and flips the elf out of his hand, to land ten feet inside the room to the right of the entry way. Finrod immediately jumps to his feet and readies a weapon, the trolls however stay motionless with their heads pressed to the floor, touching the outer ring of the arcane symbol beneath the spinning crystal.Luciann watches Finrod go flying across the doorway and throws a flaming sphere into the room, he has it roll up and onto the nearest right troll. It's dingy loincloth catches fire and seems to snap the troll out of it's trance. The troll stands up to pat the flames out and gets jabbed by Gronar's longspear for it's troubles.The Lothred points his staff at the one Luciann awoke and sends a corrupt acid bolt into it's midsection. The troll reaches out with it's right hand towards the spinning crystal as if to balance itself, however the troll merely brushes it's fingers across it's spinning exterior and a bright blue flash of light erupts from the crystal and forms an electric tendril that lashes through the party. Omar reels from the bolt, his eyebrows and beard singed and smoking, he is thrown back from Korg and lands near the turn in the tunnel behind him. Gronar grabs his blackened stomach in pain with his left hand, and spears the troll with his right hand. The spear thrust severs the troll's left hip and the creature falls to the floor bleeding. Luciann sends his flaming sphere into the troll behind the dead one and starts the process anew, as the troll rolls to his feet and surveys it's attackers."Fan out, don't let them catch us in a line!" Lothred words were drowned out by the crackle of electricity as another bolt shot forth from the crystal. This time it shocks Gronar, Korg, and Luciann.Finrod shields his eyes and waits for the light from the lightening bolt to die down before leaping into combat with the alert troll, slashing his weapon into the gaunt ribcage of the creature.Gronar staggers in and skewers the standing troll into the wall behind it. It's twitching dies down and Gronar releases his hold. Gronar then heard Luciann's voice and saw the flaming sphere out of the corner of his eye."Stop!" Gronar shouts "Elfy, turn off fireball. Gronar not want no more trolls to wake up."Startled, Luciann ends his spell. "What do we do with these two?" Finrod asks Gronar about the two remaining trolls.Gronar smiles, and grabs the heads of each troll, the creatures roll their eyes trying to refocus on the present, when Gronar shoves their heads into the spinning crystal. The troll's heads are soon reduced to bloody nubs as the entire chamber is splattered with troll brains.With the death of the last troll, the spinning crystal slows down to a near stop. Upon closer inspection, the crystal is a single chunk of red granite chiseled to give it a diamond shape. Korg walks up to the granite shard and tries grapple the rock."What Korg doing?" Gronar asks"Korg want red rock thing." "Why would you want that?" Finrod asks"Korg want to light torches and fireplace from other side of room." After unsuccessfully getting the rock to stop spinning, even with the help of Gronar, the party gives up and retraces their steps back to the bone room."Ah! My eyes!" Ratchet screams as he recoils away from Paquito"What?" Paquito asks"What? I wake up to find you around a blanket, naked with her in your arms! Go do that somewhere else." Ratchet criesPaquito flings the blanket off and Ratchet twists his neck around, shuts his eyes, and then covers them with his hands."You gnomes are a peculiar race. No? I offer a lady the warm place to sit in lieu of a fire and you immediately accuse me of improprieties. You would like to sit on Paquito's knee while I tell stories little boy? No?" Paquito answersSlowly Ratchet turns and peeks out through his fingers to find that Paquito was telling the truth. "I apologize." Ratchet offersThe sound of crunching bones and giant voices echo the return of the rest of the party."Maybe we should go join them?" Ratchet says"And miss the rest of my story? Surely not. No?" Unwilling to traverse the bone field alone, Ratchet sighs and walks over to Paquito, who folds back the blanket even more and pats down a spot for him on the bedroll."No thanks, I'd rather stand." Ratchet says, Paquito shrugs his shoulders and replaces the blanket's edge."What's the story about anyway?" Ratchet asks"It's called The Sinking Books." Sillaqui answers"Obviously, books don't swim." Ratchet states"Hush! You'll ruin the punchline. No?"</blockquote>

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