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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iron Chef BBQ" data-source="post: 844483" data-attributes="member: 1844">Preview of what's to comeWhat follows is an edited email from our DM, KidC, detailing what the party found in the camp after we finished killing the mutant dwarves et al.  We play on Tuesday with this lead in:When last we left our intrepid adventurers, they had cleaned out an outpost of the Chardun Empire and thwarted their plans to dam the river.  Along the way, they fought and prevailed against 6 guards, 2 displacer beasts and a very angry dark servant of Chardun.  They also euthanized nearly a dozen twisted dwarven abominations.In the tent of the dark servant, they found a number of interesting magic items, and several books.  There was a holy book of Chardun, well thumbed, with approving notes in the margin written in what looks suspiciously like blood.  There were two volumes of the writings and wisdom of King Virduk (ruler of Calastia. Only very good paternal evidence keeps him from being a more complete bastard).  Both are handsomely bound in leather with gold trim. There is also a set of papers bearing the title "On the Inferiority of Races and Nationalities" by Lord Todschlag (excerpts to follow).  Similarity of handwriting between this paper and several of the administrative notes, book plates etc. in the tent lead the party to believe that Todschlag is the dark servant they have killed.Perhaps most interesting is a series of notes on the creation of what he calls the Verzehren, which translates from Calastian as "devourers".  The word also implies someone consumed by as well as consuming.  It's clear that they had not yet hit upon the ideal formula for the creation of these creatures.  They'd been experimenting with the proper dosage of what is indeed a potion of titan essence (Gaurak), healing potion, and other items.  Higher doses made the creatures more voracious, and they worked harder, but they also burned out faster.  Lower doses and there was a risk of their retaining some of their personalities, and they would fight their guards.  Either way, none of the creatures lived for more than a few months, as the titan essence would consume them, eating away their brains, and then their organs, and finally their spines until they were nothing but a mouth and an alimentary canal.Thus, with these horrors still fresh in their minds, our adventurers have come down out of the mountains, following the trail used by innocent goat herders and hunters who will never know how close they came to falling under the fist of the Calastian Empire...But what's this? A crude sign, nailed to a tree ahead of the party.  The writing, in a large, and inexpert hand, reads "Juls Polisshd.  Cheep."To be continued....</blockquote>

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