Adventure 1: No drow .. only death and spidermonsters
Adventure 1: No drow .. only death and spidermonsters
Day One
At the edge of our territory we were approached by a human. I don't know his name, but have seen him around in the woods a few times before. He understands the way of things, to bad there are only so little others who do. He told us he came with a message from
Randal Morn from
Dagger Falls, the human settlements are his territory. I can remember walking around there, between the buildings, but it seems like a lifetime away. I read the message ... it asked for our help and said there is meeting in
Dagger Falls today.
We decided to go there.
Sharp will go to the meeting, while I stay just outside town. She's better in that anyway, and the town makes my fur shiver. The guards got a little scared and seem none to bright, letting her walk through town by herself. All went well and
Randal seems a stable man. There were some others to, and he told them and
Sharp about the need for the meeting. A few farms and small villages have been attacked by drow. The people and cattle have been killed but nothing of value has been taken. I can't understand this. How can two species of elves be so different.
Killing without reason ... not even for food. I think its a good thing if we help them with this problem,
Sharp agreed, but more because we can't have all these killing in our territory. They will become better protected and that will seriously cut into our access to the cattle.
Sharp proposed to ask for a lessening of the hunting in the area ... quite a good idea
, so she asked.
Randal agreed to take care of the matter when we had some succes.
The others also agreed. They seem an odd bunch.
Sharp introduced herself to them. The orc
Grudash seems a strong man, with a strong smell ... the human
Lorgan is a strong warrior to. I don't see why the elfwoman
Jallarzi is here ... she is small and weak.
We will leave tomorrow, the tracks of the drow lead to old crypts about ten miles south.
Day Two
After a nice meal of deer,
Space went to
Dagger Falls again, to scout for the others.
They emerged from the town long after sunset, and we joined them.
Sharp told them who I was and we went to the crypts. They were pretty amazed at the stones circling above me, if only they knew. It took hours more to reach the crypts ... it is amazing how these creatures can survive ... being so slow.
Outside the crypthill there were two stone buildings. They seemed undisturbed. There was some weird smell outside one of the buildings, but I haven't been to crypts this old before, maybe human bodies smell like that after generations.
The elf called us because she'd found evidence of breaking in at the main doors. The orc and the human pushed the doors in and a strong smell of recent death came out. We found some dead drows right in front of the doors. They haven't been dead more than a few days.
The stones of the building seem really old, but nothing grows in here. The path leads on and around a corner. There is a smell of drow leading around the corner. I made my stone illuminate the area and we went forward. Most of the doors seem undisturbed, and don't smell of anything else but decay. The drows smell leads onward, down a set of stairs. We didn't go there just yet, because one of the doors here has been disturbed. The orc opened the door and got jumped on by a
Dire Lion, quite a magnificent animal. To bad it's summoned and attacked us ... so me and
Sharp tore it apart. The others went in and waited for the other
Dire Lion to attack them !!! I really don't understand. They didn't stand in my way, so I clawed at the other one too and he went down pretty fast.
In the cave there were several crypts, with one disturbed. The elf took a chain from it, I remember that stuff being worth a lot to humans. She later took a long time trying to open another door with small things ... I don't know why. We went down the stairs, following the drow scent. There was a cave with a lot of skeletons, with a
Yellow Mold shooting spores in the air. We dodged that and walked on. The rest seems scared and always stays behind us, but maybe that's because we are just faster.
In a cave with a large statue
Sharp and me were suddenly attacked by long tentacles. We smelled it just a little to late.
Sharp was hit and dragged towards the creatures.
The tentacles attacked again soon after and dragged her even closer. The orc showed strength and rushed forward to attack it with his metal-thing. I severed the tentacles that held
Sharp she could get away. She seemed really weak, it must have drained her somehow. Soon after it attacked again, hitting me and pulling me close. That made it even easier to tear it apart.
Sharp is really hurt bad, she is weak like a
Black. She told the others that and the human showed his healing power, I was real surprised. Together with my own, her strength was restored, though she was still a little shaken.
We walked on again, the crypt seems to have ended, because these are all natural cavern. We found a piece of wall that didn't seem right, and my paw went right through. The orc and me stepped through and were attacked right away by HUGE spidermonsters with stong claws. They damaged me a lot and tore the orcs metal right off. We sought safety and ran back a little. They are to big to get out of the cave, but can probably claw their way out if they have enough time.
Soon after we stopped in the other cave, the orc nearly fainted. He seems extremely weak now, poisoned or something. I carried him out on my back, while
Sharp looked for a place to sleep. While I carried the orc, all he could mumble about was getting revenge at the monsters. I think its a good idea, these monsters don't belong here and will do enormous damage when they get out of the crypt.
Day Three
The orc and the human talked about how to make themselves stronger with magic, so
Sharp asked if they could make me stronger. The orc said he could, so he cast two spells on me. They seem almost the same as my own nature magic and made me a lot stronger. I made my claws better, as I do every morning. I wish I could do more magic, to make
Sharp stronger too, but I don't ... so she has to stay outside, it's just to dangerous. I am glad I can talk to her mind, it wouldn't be good if the others heard our fights.
So without
Sharp we went back inside. The orc made a passage smaller, so the spidermonsters will have a harder time clawing through it. I summoned some
Browns, they went scouting to lead the monsters back to us. One encountered a humanoid and was killed by it. The others saw a humanoid too, in the cave of the spidermonsters. Just after they saw and smelled it, it was gone again. The orc and the human went through the crevice.
I ran away from the elfwoman to get more protection. These creatures seem real strong, so I need all I can get. I hate that I have to be in this form, even if it's just so short ... they can't see me like this ... I can't stand me like this. I returned with my old shield hovering besides me, which surprised the elf. Turning into a
Black to push through the crevice and turning back again afterwards really shocked her.
The orc and the human searched the cave, while I stayed a bit in the middle, and the elf remained at the side. When the two spidermonsters suddenly appeared, we were ready. The orc and human cast their magic, and one of the monsters disappeared again. I spit the other in his eyes, blinding him. We ran towards it and hacked away at it. It hit me only once, I have to remember blinding monster more often. The others attacked it with all they could but didn't really hurt it. The orc did hurt it a little with his magic. I tore it apart with my strong claws ... !!! WWWWRRRRROOOOOAAAAARRRRR !!!
