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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 7979317" data-attributes="member: 9255">EBERRON: FOR HIRESEGMENT 010“RETURN TRIP TO THE MISTS”4/26/20DRAVAGO 19, 1000Sir Ryner is chipper and happy to be walking again.  However, he is not fooling either one of them.  His eyes are red and his cheeks streaked.  He had been crying after burying his family.They enter the open fields where the strange cloud creature was ( Living Spell: Cloudkill ) and watch for it.  They don’t see it by the hay bales and move on a bit more comfortable.  That is until the warforged looks up and sees a giant bat above.“Sure it’s a bat?” asks the paladin squinting to focus on the circling flying creature.“Has leathery wings.  Its not very sunny.”“Could it be a dragon?” asks Silverwing.“I don’t see four legs.”  Says the paladin.  Then-  “Uh-oh……”Whatever the flying creature is, it has spotted them and either wants to look at them closer or feels they are food as it curls in it’s wings and drops from the sky.  There is no where to run and take cover for the three.  As it gets closer the creature has purple scales with orange highlights.  (Rift Drake)  It sweeps down the road and spits out a ball of energy over them as they turn to flee or at least hope for the best.  The ball of energy bursts and they are splattered by acid that burns and pits the armor of the warforged.“Try that again you blasted beast!” calls out the winged warrior whom took the least damage of the three.“Careful of what you ask for My Lady !” calls out the gnome.  The large drake turns and swoops back at them.  The gnome and warforged try to move away from each other but find they are suffering from a slowness they can not explain.The drake flies close but not close enough for the more agile warrior to reach it.  It lands twenty feet away and as it turns.  Both the warforged and paladin burst forward and attack it. The warforged channels energy through his halberd as he attacks making it very destructive to the creature.  By surrounding it they keep it from escaping and they avoid the bite and swinging tail.  It goes down with one final growl.Soon they can see the mists as they reach the shallow river valley.  They get closer and they begin to wonder what is ahead of them.  Something very very large is blocking the road as it enters the mists.  Very big.“What is it?” asks the winged elf.“Not sure.  It has a lot of metal on it.  Shields?”  wonders the paladin.“Several of my kind perhaps.  It is said there is a warforged leader in the Mournlands trying to organize a settlement.  Others say an army.”The paladin looks over his shoulder.  He sighs then says “Let’s see what it is.”Before leaving, Silverwing looks over her shoulder also.  Did he see something? “I could fly closer- in the air.  If its hostile, it will be less likely to see me.”The paladin thinks about this and how long the drake must have been flying over head before attacking.  “Very well.”She takes to the air as the two remaining hunch down behind a small rise of the road.  She flies high then over and sees just what is in the road-  Giant Warforged!  Military issue Titans!They look to be guarding the road as they are occasionally moving their upper bodies to search for something on the horizon.  Then they look up and one points!  At her!  She swoops back and hurries back to her fellow travelers.“What is she doing?” asks the gnome to the warforged.“I believe she is leading the two back towards us.” Answers the warforged as he gets up and readies his weapon.The two charging warforged titans are there very quickly.  For such huge constructs they move very quickly when they want to.“We are here to take all magic stuff” one of the titans state.The three travelers look at each other.  The paladin steps forward.“We came to tend to my deceased family.”“All are deceased.  Give us the magic so that The Lord of Blades may grow stronger.”“He is already mighty.” States Gyor.The paladin waves him back.  “I did find one thing.  Maybe he can use it.”  He fishes around on his hip pack and pulls out a metal and glass rod.  He then thumps the metal end on the ground that releases a fluid within the glass.  A bright light appears.  “Found it within the town back there.”“He can not see well in the dark.  That would be useful.  Give us.”“I could only carry this one.”It leans forward casting a shadow over the much smaller gnome.  “Give me the light stick.”“As I said- I have but one.  It was all I could carry.”  He begins to hand it over then pulls it back.  “There are more.”“Tell us.”“What do I gain from telling you this- secret.”“Life” says the second Titan as it now also leans over him.“If you can answer this one question I will.”“No.  Give us the light thing.”  It raises a stone block it has for a hand that is bigger than the gnome high over its head.“Tell me if this sentence is true.   As a paladin I can detect a lie.”They hesitate as they try to think this through.“Okay.”“If we are wrong you get smashed still.”“This Sentence Is False.”“Tell us the sentence.”“I just did.”“Retell”“This Sentence is False.”Confused and distracted, they lower their weaponized arms to think.“Sentence….False?”“No.  Give us Magic Now!”“I really shouldn’t.    I mean it is such a pretty well in the middle of the town”“The Well!” the two dim-witted Titans call out together and suddenly they stomp off towards town.“Let’s go.  Eventually they will know there is no magic there.”“Maybe they will stir up the last of those ghouls.”   Suggests the winged elf.They move quickly to the mists then pause.  The mists can be a daunting barrier to deal with.  They enter it slowly and both hear and feel their way along the broken road hoping it will not mislead them as it had Mohach and Ezmet a few days ago.  As they slowly cross they can hear wind over head wailing very loudly but nothing comes of it as they exit the mists and even on the road.</blockquote>

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