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<blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 8430870" data-attributes="member: 813"><p>Escella takes a sip of her drink and sighs as talk of gnolls abounds. During a break in the conversation she speaks, evenly, not too loud, not to soft. Having spent some time with her, you find this is how she always speaks, "When I first started working for Kelson, I was a scout on the road between Daggerford and Waterdeep. It was maybe my third or fourth mission when I disappeared for three months. It seems my movements had not been as unobserved as I had thought. The old me would have some witty statement about this to tell.</p><p></p><p>"A trap was laid and I fell for it. Or into it. It was a pit, at least thirty feet deep. I definitely broke an arm and twisted my ankle. I lay there in the pit for several days, hungry and dehydrated when a fever overtook me. I remember waking once in darkness. There was a silhouette of a humanoid standing at the top of the pit. I think it spoke to me. I did not understand it. It danced and then something landed next to me. It burned releasing a lot of smoke. I was knocked unconscious by the smoke. The next morning there was a water bottle nearby. I couldn't trust it but I needed water. It was cool and potable. Days passed. Water and food would arrive but my fever continued and I started hallucinating. Every now and then the hallucination was too real to be all in my head. An old gnoll shaman stood at the top of the pit and danced. It would always end with a burning human-shaped doll made of straw landing next to me. The smoke seemed to knock me out every time.</p><p></p><p>"At the time I had no idea who long this lasted. But eventually the fever broke and my arm and ankle healed sufficiently for me to stand. I waited until the gnoll visited one last time and then crawled out of the pit. I managed to walk back to the road and a kind merchant let lay in the back of his cart. He took me to Waterdeep where I delivered the message I was supposed to deliver three months earlier. In Waterdeep, while waiting for a ride back to Daggerford I discovered I had magic. When I fell into the pit, I had no such ability. I found my way back to Daggerford shortly after that. And once I was strong enough, I took a mission to come to these estates and that's when I met you all."</p><p></p><p>She pauses in her story to take another sip. "The gnoll shaman was real. And I believe he imbued me with my arcane abilities. But I have no idea why. He never spoke to me when I was lucid enough to understand."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jmucchiello, post: 8430870, member: 813"] Escella takes a sip of her drink and sighs as talk of gnolls abounds. During a break in the conversation she speaks, evenly, not too loud, not to soft. Having spent some time with her, you find this is how she always speaks, "When I first started working for Kelson, I was a scout on the road between Daggerford and Waterdeep. It was maybe my third or fourth mission when I disappeared for three months. It seems my movements had not been as unobserved as I had thought. The old me would have some witty statement about this to tell. "A trap was laid and I fell for it. Or into it. It was a pit, at least thirty feet deep. I definitely broke an arm and twisted my ankle. I lay there in the pit for several days, hungry and dehydrated when a fever overtook me. I remember waking once in darkness. There was a silhouette of a humanoid standing at the top of the pit. I think it spoke to me. I did not understand it. It danced and then something landed next to me. It burned releasing a lot of smoke. I was knocked unconscious by the smoke. The next morning there was a water bottle nearby. I couldn't trust it but I needed water. It was cool and potable. Days passed. Water and food would arrive but my fever continued and I started hallucinating. Every now and then the hallucination was too real to be all in my head. An old gnoll shaman stood at the top of the pit and danced. It would always end with a burning human-shaped doll made of straw landing next to me. The smoke seemed to knock me out every time. "At the time I had no idea who long this lasted. But eventually the fever broke and my arm and ankle healed sufficiently for me to stand. I waited until the gnoll visited one last time and then crawled out of the pit. I managed to walk back to the road and a kind merchant let lay in the back of his cart. He took me to Waterdeep where I delivered the message I was supposed to deliver three months earlier. In Waterdeep, while waiting for a ride back to Daggerford I discovered I had magic. When I fell into the pit, I had no such ability. I found my way back to Daggerford shortly after that. And once I was strong enough, I took a mission to come to these estates and that's when I met you all." She pauses in her story to take another sip. "The gnoll shaman was real. And I believe he imbued me with my arcane abilities. But I have no idea why. He never spoke to me when I was lucid enough to understand." [/QUOTE]
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