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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dimsdale" data-source="post: 5666979" data-attributes="member: 79956">The cleric can't hold his excitement at the amount of interest that has been generated from his initial call for help. He motions to everyone to come forth. Come...come! everyone come sit. Please, listen to what I have to say. The cleric gets up and pushes additional chairs from other tables and slides them to his table, then sits back down. As the adventurers gather around and sit at the table the cleric speaks. Before I get to the task at hand I must give you a little background of recent events. He clears hit throat and begins. Recently the proud nobel of Daunton, Lord Weinfurter, discovered a strange mark on the forehead of his daughter Lerrick. After visiting a cleric, brother Navio, a well respected cleric of  the temple of Lauto, the nobel found out to his horror that his daughter had been marked for sacrifice by the dreaded black dragon Bosch. However, much to his relief, the nobel learned that the mark could be removed by a ritual that few people know. One who knew the ritual is brother Buchta, another cleric of the Temple of Lauto. Lord Weinfurter hired a group of adventures to escort his daughter to brother Buchta’s residence so at he could preform the ritual to remove the mark from Lerrick, ending any chance of the sacrifice to take place. The last I've heard from brother Buchta is that servants of Bosch had entered his home and that he and his comrades were holding the them off until the party got there. Since my last correspondence with him, I've learned nothing more. The cleric looks up at the party and continues...Since that departure of the party, I have been working feverishly doing research on the black dragon, the results of which have made a bad situation into a dire one. I have discovered that the dragon is now in possession of a powerful ancient artifact called the Amulet of the Shadows. This amulet gives the one who possesses it the ability to deflect damage from spells and absorb vast amounts of physical damage, thus making the black dragon far more powerful. The party helping Lerrick knows nothing of this artifact. The cleric stops abruptly,  mumbles a prayer and then speaks. I pray that the party is okay.  However, after researching the history of the amulet, I have discovered that another artifact exists that can temporarily neutralize the power of the amulet. It is a shield, which by itself, has no power. However, when seven metallic orbs are placed in the correct locations of the seven notches carved into the front of the shield, it will trigger a power, that when activated by the wielder, shoots a ray of arcane force that will render the artifact useless for a temporary amount of time. The shield is in our possession. The orbs are not. The cleric stops and asks a waiter for a ice water. After receiving it, he continues.  I've recently discovered the location of one of the orbs and have sent out one of my most trusted friends to retrieve it. Three days agao I received word from my friend that he had the orb in his possession and was on his way back to Daunton. A look of concern appears on the brother Navio's face. I was supposed to meet him at   a predetermined location at a certain time. The details of which I speak are no concern to you. However, my friend, Lord Weinfurter, was not there to meet me. I suspects foul play is involved.  In order for him to conceal his movements, Lord Weinfurter had to travel through territory now in the control of rival clans of goblins. The cleric fears that his friend may have been captured by one of these clans . These clans, especially the clan of the red scar, have been becoming more and more daring in raiding caravans and kidnapping.Your task, should you accept, is to find the location of my friend Lord Weinfurter, rescue him...if he's still alive, and retrieve the orb so that I can give it to the one with the shield. Brother Navio waits for replies from his audience.</blockquote>

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