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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jeffwik" data-source="post: 612523" data-attributes="member: 9739">Event Two:  When Last We Left Our Heroes…    Atarax and Foleful, only survivors of the horrible spider attack in the Hellmouth, return bloody and half-dead to Gulg.  There they lay low and lick their wounds.  They also learn that Smedley the Dealer, the merchant who had commissioned their group to venture into the Hellmouth and fetch back some spider venom sacs, Smedley of the odd and misshapen body, was dead.  Found dismembered in a panic room in his compound in Gulg, with resurrection-proofing poison in his veins and a sheet of paper with “D” on it pinned to his chest.  Rumors of D., the drow hit man, were running rampant.    (Personally I’m hoping D. turns out to be one of those adamantium knights, the ones who replace parts of their bodies with prosthetics… it reminds me of Thomas Pynchon’s V., the titular character of which replaces her eyes, feet, teeth, and God knows what else with plastic prosthetics in an attempt to channel the Spirit of Modernity.)So it was just as well that they had come back from that expedition with no venom sacs and two-thirds of their party dead.    While Foleful bought a big hat and lay low, Atarax communicated (magically) with Thar, his comrade from a ways to the east.  What with the notorious murder, Gulg had been pretty much sealed up, and Thar wouldn’t be able to get in.  Ergo, after some thought, they decided to meet up in Freetown.  Foleful, who’d lived in Freetown seven weeks prior, suggested the residence of Doon, a troll who kept to himself and was less malicious than most trolls.  Foleful wasn’t too keen on meeting Thar, but Atarax rattled off a list of twenty or so former player-characters who died defending New Blarkarg and its people, and assured Foleful that Thar was good people.    Once out of Gulg, Foleful used his divinatory powers to ascertain the situation in Freetown, and learned that the city was divided into rampant chaos on the one hand and tight-fisted tyrannical order on the other.  (So what better place than Freetown to meet Thar?)     Atarax and Foleful take Foleful’s secret way out of Gulg and into the Hellmouth (again) and start meandering through the Hellmouth towards Freetown.    Then someone throws a pebble at Atarax’s head.  Foleful nearly panics, but it turns out it’s a strange little woman Atarax knew back in the day – Kirkara, the dark creeper rogue.  Krikara does not explain why she is walking moving sneaking traveling motating through the Hellmouth, but seems pleased surprised happy neutral excited to see Atarax again.  She cheerfully joining adding venturing the two, and the three of them move on through the Hellmouth.    Kirkara takes a few minutes out to explain Dark Creeper monotheism to Foleful, whose secular humanoidist arguments are ill-equipped to refure actual theology.  It’s something he’ll have to think about.</blockquote>

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