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Message: <blockquote data-quote="H.M.Gimlord" data-source="post: 5494166" data-attributes="member: 79440">Retaehceht brings his goblet to his lips and drains it down, "Ah, well then," he leans forward, "I don't deal in contracts.  Your word is as good as any signed document, so let's be on our way."The drow leads the unlikely duo out onto the street under the light of the evening's oil lamp, "I didn't want to tell you this while we were inside," the two turn to face the drow, "You know how excitable people are when they see strange things," he walks toward them gesticulating dramatically, "Why, did you see the look on those faces when that girl stepped through the portal? You'd think they'd never seen inter-dimensional transport before." As he approaches the pair, his armor begins to shimmer.  At first, Tikchik thinks its the oil lamps playing tricks on his eyes, but he soon becomes convinced that the dark elf is actually changing shape...and growing.  Elf-like features shrink and vanish, replaced by enlarging, blue scales on Retaehceht's skin.  His face and teeth elongate into a grizzly, horned maw, while leathery, blue wings sprout from his back, "What do you think they would have done if they had seen this?"The transformation occurs so quickly that the two have no time to react.  In one fluid movement, the magnificent blue dragon grabs Tikchik and Sheng in his massive claws and leaps into the sky.Sheng's first instinct is to struggle, and then he thinks better of it when he realizes the altitude the dragon has already achieved, "Hang on gentlemen!  It's going to be a long, rough ride."As it turns out.  The dragon is not joking.  He heads out over the harbor and makes for the open ocean in what turns out to be the beginning of an extremely long journey.  For weeks, the dragon beats the air and soars over thermals, catching the wind in a glide where he can.  The wind rushes by the faces of the two adventurers clutched in his claws as they try desperately to keep from freezing in the endless storm clouds that seem to follow the dragon wherever he flies.Only a diffuse remnant of the sun's light makes it through the clouds, and the two have long since lost their bearings, giving up all hope on exactly how many days its been.  Sheng counts twenty-three times that he's managed to fall asleep in the clutches of this enormous wyrm, and those have been due to sheer exhaustion.Presently, the beast lowers his altitude below the cloud deck, and an island looms into view.  It is an island amid an inland sea fed by tributaries from  mountains to the north, a direction Sheng is pleased to divine from the newly emerging sun from behind a cloud.  To the west, a single river drains the contents of the inland sea in a meandering course off to who-knows-where.It is to the western edge of the island that the dragon takes them, approaching from the east, he passes the western shore and circles around low over the water headed directly for the face of a cliff wall in which marks the mouth of an underground river, vomiting a white foam of rough water into the inland sea.The wyrm tucks his wings and glides into the cave at a frightening speed until he reaches a point where the cave widens and splits off into large side passages.  Opening blue, sail-like wings, he comes to a jarring halt and angles to the left to light on a platform next to a rope bridge that extends across the river.  One passage, across the river, leads off into a dark cave, guarded by sleeping dire wolves, while the another on their own side of the bridge leads off into the bedrock.Five unusually large kobolds stand silently at attention when the dragon comes to rest on the underground bluff.  The dragon growls an order "Rechan astahi persvek astahi persvek wer platohol. Tir ti svent astahi, shar tir ti xurwk astahi lapirul. Si geou return ihk astahi poktosh," and throws the two to the ground in front of the clutch of kobolds who quickly bind them and lead them off down the second corridor into the bedrock beyond.Spears and sword points, as well as the exhaustion from the taxing journey convince the two that they had better play along for now.  If that dragon wanted them dead, he would have just dropped them into the ocean.The corridor widens into an ancient dungeon containing various instruments of torture as well as four holding cells, one of which stands ready to receive its new charges.The kobolds strip the two of all clothing and armament, carting the stash away and out of viewm, and with two swift kicks, one after the other, the naked duo are thrust through the cell door which slams home behind them with aclank! that echoes down the corridor through which they came.  A corridor that closes in on itself and disapears, taking the form of the rock from which it was carved, "Aldoer ekess Uoinota!" One of the kobold guards cackles through the cell bars. [sblock=Map]<img src="http://i571.photobucket.com/albums/ss151/HMGimlord/ThePrison.png?t=1300071766" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock][GM]Next move:  Wait until Retaehceht comes back, or until you are rescued....Sorry guys.  This might take a couple days.  The group is in the middle of a fight right now.  When they're done, I'll get you all together.Tokens:Sheng's token is shown in spot Q46 on the mapTikchik's token is shown in spot R26They are not shown naked for decency's sake <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/angel.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":angel:" title="Angel    :angel:" data-shortname=":angel:" />.Renau1g:  I prefer to use a top-down tokens, but I  cannot find a suitable top-down image of a thri-kreen on the net for use here. If  you come  across one, or have the artistic talent to create one on your own,  please feel free to profer it to me.  Otherwise, I might just have to  get out the old pen and paper and do the best I can.You can follow the action in <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/living-4th-edition/297150-adventure-land-ho-fwbthw-dm-h-m-gimlord-judge-ozymandias79-19.html" target="_blank">Land Ho</a> (if you haven't already).  There are other creatures in the other cells. If you wish to converse with them, please post in Land Ho under a spoiler titled "Cell Conversations".  I will post NPC responses during the combat updates.[/GM]</blockquote>

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