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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Droid101" data-source="post: 1848312" data-attributes="member: 942">That night, Bloodthorne was up on the roof of the inn everyone was sleeping at.  He never slept, so generally he kept watch.A figure climbed up the wall and hopped up onto the roof, walking over and looking down over another edge of the building.  He had blonde hair and fair skin.  He carried a longsword and a dagger…Bloodthorne approached him.“ ‘ello mate, ‘ow are you?” Bloodthorne’s blades were out in a flash, before the man could respond.  A deep slash to the stomach had the man grimacing in pain.  The man cursed and jumped off the roof.  On the way down, he uttered an arcane phrase and vanished.“That was easy.”The Heroes gathered at their under-construction headquarters in the morning.“Are we ready?” Grog asks, feeling his own flesh and blood hand attached for the first time in a couple of days.“Waiting for Bink to get back from the castle, then we leave for Rigus,” Ogrim says.Eltharion gets a message in his head.Bink returning book to mentor, find adamantium without him.  Good luck.“Looks like we can leave now, I just got a message from Adlai saying that Bink isn’t coming with us,” Eltharion tells the others.“All right, let’s get going then,” Blaze says.Eltharion and Bloodthorne summon the candidate they picked out to head their household in Sigil.  A dwarven jack-of-all-trades named Bellamy Bill.“All right mate, yer workin’ for us now,” Bloodthorne says.“I’ll leave you with 500 gold.  Make sure you help the carpenters whenever you can.  We left a big safe in the basement with some of our valuables.  Watch over those as well,” Eltharion explains.“Don’t worry, leave it to me.  This place’ll be tip top when you return,” Bellamy Bill responds.Ogrim, Grog, Blaze, Bloodthorne, Eltharion and The Necromancer head out into the city of Sigil.  They soon come to the portal that Ogrim had found out about.“This is the portal to Rigus.  This is where Adlai ordered the adamantium.  From a merchant named Gev’jin,” Ogrim explains.As they are about to step through the portal, a huge shining form drops onto Ogrim from above.  Its metal claws and teeth dig into him.The thing is a 10-foot long metal catlike creature.  Blaze immediately slams into it with his axe, but to no effect.  Eltharion fares better; his blades cutting into the thing easily.  The Necromancer backs off.Bloodthorne flies upward and out of sight, singing a children’s fairy tale song.“What the heck is he doing!?” Eltharion calls out.  Grog slices into the cat as well, his blade quite effective.Ogrim wrestles the cat off him and gets up.  His axe doesn’t affect the thing either.  It was larger than the one he had fought by himself in Brunswick.Blaze enchants his axe with a greater magic weapon and moves into position.  The Heroes surround and take the thing down without further complication.“Those things are tough… I hope there aren’t too many more of those…” Eltharion says.  Bloodthorne comes flying back.“Let’s get movin’!” Bloodthorne says, walking through the portal.“I think he’s a little… spacey,” The Necromancer says, studying Bloodthorne carefully.They all step through the portal.  The city of Rigus is clean and perfect.  All the buildings are perfectly squared off.  All the streets turn perfect 90 degree turns.  Everything is like clockwork.“Halt, visitors from Sigil.  Please peace bond your weapons,” a pair of ornately dressed guards approach.“Anything you say,” Eltharion comments, and the Heroes oblige.“Please wear these until you have left the city,” the guards give them each a small wooden tag that they wear around their necks.  “These identify you as visitors at all times in Rigus.  Please, go about your business.”“A stuffy lot,” Bloodthorne states.“Hold on, do you know where a merchant named Gev’jin is?” Ogrim asks a guard.“Yes, please head down this street and turn left on 3rd street.  It should be on the right side,” the guard responds quickly and crisply.The Heroes head there, and knock on a door.  The building looks like all the others; square and perfectly straight.A squat looking red-scaled lizard creature standing on two legs opens the door.“What is your business?” the thing hisses.“We’re looking for Gev’jin,” Ogrim says.“He’s not here.  Wait outside until he gets back,” the lizard closes the door with a hard slam.“That was rude,” Blaze says, brushing a hand through his loose blonde hair.The Heroes sit down on the steps leading up to the doorway and wait.After at least an hour of waiting (and Bloodthorne skipping off more than once) a large creature riding an even larger red-skinned lizard-looking thing approaches.“Who are you?” the almost red-skinned 8-foot tall humanoid riding the lizard asks the Heroes as he approaches the stairs.“I am Ogrim Oakenshield.  I am here on behalf of Adlai Stormseal of Brunswick.  We are here to inquire about a shipment of adamntium he ordered from Gev’jin the merchant,” Ogrim says.“I am Gev’jin.  And that shipment was sent.  If he didn’t receive it that’s not my fault.  Now get out of my way,” Gev’jin says haughtily as he tries to maneuver his lizard past the Heroes and into his house.“Wait a minute, can we ask you a couple of questions at least?” Eltharion asks.“Uh!  Fine!  You’ve already wasted my time, why not waste some more,” Gev’jin’s small white horns protruding from his head glint in the light.“Have you heard anything about missing shipments lately, other than this one?” Eltharion asks.“No, I haven’t heard anything, now leave,” Gev’jin is clearly impatient.“Can we have a refund for the adamantium, then?” Eltharion pushes on.“No, and you can quote me.  Now leave!” Gev’jin ends the conversation.“Are you sure?  Any big metal cats?” Eltharion prods.“… metal cats…  All right, all right.  If you promise to stop those damned metal cats from killing my workers, I’ll tell you what I know,” Gev’jin concedes.“Done; we’ve already killed two of them,” Ogrim puts in.“Okay.  Yours is not the only shipment that has been intercepted.  All my metal shipments, whether it be mithril, adamantium, obdurium or another, have been intercepted.  The delivery men are killed.  Any who survive speak of giant metal cats.“I have looked into the matter, and have found that these cats are coming from a certain portal here in Rigus.  A portal that leads to the plane of Archeron, out near the abandoned warehouse at the end of this street.  But that’s all I know,” Gev’jin says.“So if we can stop this from happening, you’ll give us a refund?” Eltharion asks.“No.  Good day,” Gev’jin finally maneuvers himself into his house and slams the door shut.“Fine, we don’t need his money.  If we find who is taking the adamantium, then we’ll have plenty for Adlai to use,” Eltharion grumbles.“All right, let’s find this portal to Archeron,” Blaze says, and the Heroes start down the street.Can the Heroes find the adamantium?  Are the dark elves really planning on attacking Brunswick?  How much time do they have?  Find out all this and more, next update.</blockquote>

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