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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hairy Minotaur" data-source="post: 3238219" data-attributes="member: 11574">How much is your faith worth?Paquito asks the giants and Coridorrian to take a contingent of minotaurs back to the lich’s lab and bring back anything not nailed down. Once down at the lab however, the giant’s and the minotaurs reach an impasse.“Gronar want to go look where dragon came from.”  The hill giant stood defiantly as the minotaurs loaded up books and manuscripts on top of an old table they transformed into a serviceable skid.“We don’t know what’s in there we might all die, and WE can simply not afford that.” Coridorrian states, emphasizing the word “we”“Korg, want you think? Gronar think horn heads is too wimpy. Gronar think giants not have any problems down there.” Gronar replies pointing down the long hallway from which the dragon came yesterday. Korg however had other things on his mind, as he failed to hear Gronar’s question.“Korg?” Gronar said as he nudged the fellow hill giant, “Korg!” he yelledKorg snapped out of his daze and just shrugged his shoulders; the beaten and broken body of the dragon brought back memories of his visit to Umtala’s realm. Korg’s failure weighed heavily on his mind, “Korg, going to help minotaurs today, then think about what Korg will do tomorrow.” Gronar felt hurt as Korg seemed to ignore him, ever since they triumphed over the dragon and lich, Korg seemed to not want to be bothered.With the last of the loose ends of the lab packed up, Coridorrian checked out the three large glass tubes filled with an opaque liquid that bubbled every now and then. Press an eye to the middle tube, she was startled by something dark squirming against the inside of the tube. Steeling herself, the maze mage peers into the tube again and gets an eyeful of terror as she twists away from the tube and backs up a good twenty feet, she then order her minions back to the maze with the recovered items as quickly as possible. The two giants comply while looking back at the tubes, but do not peek inside them.Once they group had returned to the maze, Coridorrian orders most of the books to her private quarters and the rest of the manuscripts and supplies she has brought to the armory. She requests a meeting with Paquito and waits impatiently outside of his room.Korg declines a lunch with Gronar, and instead retires to his quarters where he sits in quiet meditation, sitting in the dark naked with as much of himself in contact with the earth as possible.“Korg!” Omar shouts as he nearly breaks down the door to gain access to Korg’s room. Korg jumps out of his meditation and into the now as Omar rushes to Korg’s side and shakes him, trying to wake him from what Omar assumes is a nap.“What dwarf want with Korg? Dwarf not tell when Korg meditating to Umtala?” The hill giant protests“Gah! You’re naked!” Omar shouts as he averts his stare to the opposite wall, “Korg, I’m in big trouble. I’ve got no spells and I seem to have lost contact with my deity.”“Korg think you not pray hard enough. Maybe you need to dig hole and sit in it for a week to get closer to your god.” The hill giant offers“You got to help me, I can’t fix what’s wrong if I don’t know what I did.” Omar weeps“Squat one make good point. Although Korg hardly the person to fix your problem. Dwarf need to find someone else of dwarf faith.” Korg explains“There is no one and if we go back down to wipe out the umber hulks, I’ll be useless. What is a cleric without access to healing or spells? A beggar, that’s what.” Omar pleads“If Korg try, will squat man leave Korg alone for rest of Korg life?” The hill giant asks“Yes, I promise!” Omar begsKorg nods and returns to a sitting position on the floor, Omar watches as Korg’s body seems to melt into the floor below them and disappears altogether. Having seen this before, Omar pulls a pillow off of Korg’s bed and sits himself down on it to wait for the giant’s return.Paquito finally rises from his nap and lets Coridorrian into his room.“Look at this! I found this below, I thought you would want to see it first before word got out amongst the rest of the them.” The maze mage advises, referring to everyone else currently in the minotaur’s maze.Paquito turns the cured skin of some animal’s hide book cover over in his claws and looks up questionably at his maze mage, “Surely I will contract some sort of disease from this. No?” “Start near the back, it’s a journal. Reads the last few entries.” Coridorrian pressesDay 78 – Managed to convert most of the dragon’s hoard into raw materials, thanks to the gate in the Unclean book. A group of elves wandered up through the dragon’s auditorium, apparently planning on watering the plants I killed off a week ago. I surprised them and all five succumbed to unconsciousness. I will use them for barter with the yugoloth.Day 91 – Lac is complete, I have begun taming the local umber hulk population, and they tell me of a minotaur tribe above us. I re-sculpted my construct to the likeness of a minotaur.Day 112- After finally breaking through to the maze above us, I have discovered the tribe in disarray and without effective leadership. I have begun picking off stragglers here and there, and plan to trade them to the yugoloth.Day 113 – I traded the minotaurs, the elves, and some umber hulks to the yugoloth for the ioun stone and the Hammer of Making. My lab is now complete. I scryed for a gorgon and upon locating one some distance from here, I brought back it’s carcass to the lab.Day 114 – The crossbreeding is a success, my gorgotaur stands ready to serve me, as the fading minotaur tribe is starting to put up a resistance to my minions. I have located the body of their former leader along with a powerful abyssal conduit. I am going to try and merge their dead leader with a summoned osiluth to see what pops out.Day 115 – My new creature walks today, it’s former husk crawls with thousands of fiendish scorpions, I have sent it up to terrorize the last vestiges of his former tribe. I need no interruptions as I complete my next experiment. The dragon had a visitor today, a dryad walked into the lab, surpassing all of my wards. I crushed her will, then her spirit, then pillaged her body for replacement parts. The rest of her I will see what can be used in my experimentsDay 119 – I traded the rest of the dragon’s forgotten hoard for a block of metal from the prison walls of Carceri, the emerald armor of a disgraced paladin, and the flayed skin of a nalfeshnee. I have added on an additional holding tank to my lab and will try to combine inanimate objects along with the creatures with my next round of creations.Day 120 – I have decided on my next direction, however I felt the teleportation magic from an old source above me. The life sols have nearly doubled, the minotaurs must have gotten outside assistance. I smell a half-blood among them, I feel I shall have more samples to play with soon.“I fear once the elves learn of the dragon’s fate, we will be unable to stop the blood that will be shed on both sides. No?” “Actually I was referring to the crossbreeding experiments, maybe we could use them for our own purposes?” Coridorrian responds“Oh sure, there’s that too. Maybe you should look into that. No?” Paquito replies to the excited maze mageKorg resurfaces in front of a weary Omar.“What did you learn?” Omar says as he leaps to his feet“Your god is angry at you for the part you played in the destruction of the dragon.” Korg’s voice was deeper and much more articulate that Omar ever remembered it being.“How do I fix it?” Omar inquired as he cut off Korg“Umtala has agreed to grant you atonement, but you must declare you faith to be that of the Fire and of the Earth, instead of the Forge and Fire.” Korg announces“Agreed!” Omar shouts without thinkingDisappointment rains upon Korg’s face as he begins to intone the words of the spell, Umtala was right. This one had no faith worth saving.</blockquote>

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