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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mantreus" data-source="post: 1348010" data-attributes="member: 8669">From the Journal of GnorricWill looked away from the horrid thing and I noticed that his normally pleasant features were horribly scarred. He gave an almost animal growl and buried his sword in the beetle with all of his might. It thrashed about briefly and expired. Kull was able to heal the damage to Wills face slightly, but it would be faintly scarred for the rest of his life.After the small bit of excitement after the beetle, we continued to search the room and found a locked box in the desk that Dargrim announced was magically trapped. We all immediately thought of the crystal key we found earlier and I retrieved it from my bag of holding and Will used it to open the box. I was still a bit concerned about it blowing up, but Will opened it without a problem.Inside we discovered another wand, a dagger that was obviously magical and a golden headband. This wizards mansion was proving to be most beneficial to myself! A fact that Kull apparently had not missed with his grumbling about useless magic sticks. I don’t understand what he’s complaining about. He did get a fabulous flail!Realising that if we were correct with out mapping of the mansion, that there was only a relatively small corner of the building left to explore, we prepared to meet whatever it was causing the cold. Obviously, nothing we had encountered so far had proved much of a real threat, so this was it! I cast a magical force about myself to turn away blows and prepared for the worst.We came to what was obviously an old disused laboratory. The entire room was covered with slick ice. Toward the centre of the room we could see a sword embedded within the ice. However, a smug looking ratman sitting on a throne (also made of ice) and his four ratman cronies got our immediate attention.The leader from the throne leapt to the floor and quickly stabbed Dargrim with a dagger obviously dripping of venom. Dargrim visibly weakened at the attack and I knew we were up against formidable opponents. It was then that Will leapt into the fray with amazing speed to move to the other side of the ratman leader and gave him a telling blow. However, this leaft the pour man open to the vicious attacks of the other cronies and Will fell under their blades before he realised what was happening… I almost felt the life leaving his body, and for the first time, I was saddened to see a corpse.The fight continued on however, with myself contributing a small amount by forcing one to sleep and my little Wee Bat performing some vampiric touch attacks for me. I embarrassed myself somewhat when I moved forward to finish off the ratman that I had forced to sleep. I pulled out my dagger, but I slipped in the process of cutting his throat and all I succeeded in doing was waking him up. It quickly leapt its feet and attacked me with a nasty blow, and I thought I was done for. Dargrim came to my aid having finally felled the ratman leader after a hard fought battle and quickly laid him low. Kull and Dargrim then quickly felled the remaining ratmen.To be honest, the battle was all a bit of a blur after Will fell. He was such a nice lad, and I shall miss his small chuckles whenever I mentioned my life’s work to him. Our little adventure wasn’t quite over yet though.We searched the laboratory and found a small ajoining cell containing what appeared to be four dead elves locked in the ice. Obviously the previous adventuring party sent to clear out the old wizards mansion. Kull grabbed Wills flaming sword to defrost the ice surrounding the elves with a short comment about having to get another deputy. He can be such an uncaring fellow, and I then and there resolved to see Wills mother on our return to see if there was anything I could do for her. I think she might like to have Will back helping about the house, and I could provide that service. Yes, I shall definitely go and see her…Anyway, Kull defrosted the elves, and they turned out to be alive after all. The leader mentioned that the sword in the ice was his, and called to it in a strange tongue and the ice began to melt instantly. I thought it was all over, but then a hideous creature made of the ice itself broke out and attacked Kull with a roar of triumph.</blockquote>

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