Last Stand of the Dorinthians (Chapter 2 - Illusions)

[GlassEye]

Silas is grim-faced and silent. Will these threats to our safety never be put to rest? Finally he speaks up. "Of course you can count me among those who go to confront this renegade." Silas will take little of the gnomes' supplies knowing that they will need what they have to recover from the attacks that have nearly destroyed their homes.

Silas approaches Alexander: "By your leave, I would like to use my magics to see what can be learned about the elven armor that you now wear." If Alexander agrees then Silas will cast Comprehend Languages upon the runes on the collar of the armor. Once he's read it he'll relate whatever information he's able to glean to Alexander and hopefully Kel will be present as well to maybe give more insight.

Silas will also want to check out the rune-filled book that was taken from the kobold leader. He'll use Read Magic or Comprehend Languages, whichever he determines that he will need to use if he can't read it. Other than that, Silas will rest in order to heal and prepare for the journey down the Salz River to Five Peaks.

[sblock=OOC]We have 132 gold and 65 silver. Are we splitting it four ways evenly?[/sblock]

 

[Land Outcast]

"Read them if you can..." answers Alexander to Silas' request, not caring much, but not devoid of interest...

OOC: coin has no real interest for Alexander, as long as he has what he needs to fight, eat, and sleep

 

[Deuce Traveler]

The party begins to gather supplies, restocking on food, water, and ammunition. Horacios is kind enough to cast a detect magic on Alexander's new armor, but it comes up empty.

Land Outcast
OOC:[sblock] What will you do with the chain shirt you have?[/sblock]

Silas casts his spell and the words on the armor and book form for him.
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Kel was very close. The armor says 'Larinthree, the Tree of Life'. As for the book, you realize instantly that it is a spellbook with the following spells:
ghost sound, read magic, detect magic, disrupt undead, touch of fatigue, burning hands, color spray, cause fear, chill touch, ray of enfeeblement, scorching ray, spectral hand, mirror image
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[Land Outcast]

"Well, now we've still got the armor found at the kobold's complex, maybe someone could do good use of it"

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Now, curious, he asks Silas' opinion "Does it say why an elven armor would have this built, for a stronger body?"

 

[GlassEye]

Silas looks perplexed. "I'm afraid that I'm only able to decipher the runes. Which, incidentally, read 'Larinthree, the Tree of Life'. Why the elves forged armor so much larger than their body type, I don't know. Maybe Kel or another elf would know. Or perhaps a bard might know some history of the armor.

Maybe it was intended for this golem Horacios mentioned. Ah, which reminds me..." Silas falls silent as he seems to retreat into his thoughts. Absent-mindedly he wanders off, muttering about golems and peering about the gnomes' warrens.

[sblock=OOC]Silas is wracking his brains for all information that he knows or may have heard about golems. +8 Knowledge (Arcana). And he'll seek out Horacios to see if the gnome can offer some information about golems and Astraughlay's abilities as a wizard to help prepare them for the upcoming confrontation.

Later, Silas will pore over the kobold's spellbook. (What language is it written in? I'm assuming kobold which means I'll have very limited time to study it ) His goals are simple: learn the spells he is able to learn and study those he can't to learn the effects if they are cast. He is assuming that Astraughlay will be able to cast these spells and he wants to be forewarned of the potential dangers.[/sblock]

 

[Land Outcast]

Alexander is just realizing he hasn't a fixed opinion about Silas, he is for sure a brave man, and a smart one... but he doesn't really know how to feel about the absent look which sometimes invades his eyes... Alexander, since birth, had been accustomed to emotional reactions and clear, practical thought, the kind of thought The Hunt required...

Strange... maybe he had someone close to him die? he is far too different from those called scholars to be one of them...
I'll better ask him, later... it is dangerous someone to be lost in thought

Even tough he doesn't usually care about this matters, centering himself on The Hunt, of late he and Kel have been the main guides of the party, he's starting to feel somehow as a pack leader... and therefore, he cares

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Alexander spends some more time around there, asks Kel the same he asked Silas about the armor, and then goes on to investigate about the "resources" the gnome spoke of sharing with them.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

Horacios and Silas move sadly through the remains of the gnomish library, picking through some of the more helpful tomes about golems. The two discover that flesh golems are invulnerable to most magic, although fire and cold will slow them and electricity will heal them. It is possible that bathing a flesh golem in constantly burning magical flame will disable the creature, but that is something beyond either of your magics.

Alexander is able to find the following from what the gnomes scavened off their dead, and the gnolls and goblins:

Medium-size equipment:
13 Battle-axes
10 Spears
2 Longspears
6 Maces
3 Morningstars
4 Clubs
15 Daggers
3 Longbows
2 Crossbows
27 Arrows
19 Crossbow Bolts
16 Backpacks
10 Suits of Studded Leather
3 Large Wooden Shields
27 Rations, Trail
14 Waterskins

Small Sized:
12 Suits of Padded Armor
10 Suits of Leather
4 Chain Shirts
3 Suits of Studded Leather
20 Wooden Bucklers
15 Hand-Axes
5 Battle-Axes
5 Short Swords
10 Small Crossbows
100 Crossbow Bolts
50 Rations, Trail
25 Waterskins

Finally, the leader of the gnomes pulls Dartis aside once you make your preparations and says, "Young noble, be careful out there. We've recently put some 2-gnome patrols out to search the area and one was ambushed a short while ago. Poor Draphreen was attacked and dragged off by some large, giggling monster before his friend could come to his aid. We found the corpse, or most of it. His arm had been torn off, gnawed clean of the flesh clear to the bone, and left a few hundred feet away. The patrols never did find his head. Again, be careful out there. I don't know where this giggling creature came from, but it seems there are worse things out there now than kobolds," Loughphray says, his eyes distant as if from shock.

 

[D20Dazza]

Accepting only some rations and waterskins as payment Kel withdraws himself from the company of the others "I will be outside in the open. You will find me before departing" the last said as a statment not a question.

Once on the surface Kel tries to rest but nightmare visions plague his reverie, he finds solice in communing with The Huntress and spends the night in prayer.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

Harindan Loughphray looks at Kel in shock as the druid interrupts his discussion with Dartis to delcare he will sleep outside. "Alone? By the gods, Dartis! Is your friend mad? Did you not tell him about our slain patrolman?"

OOC: To speed things up, let's say you shared the information from my previous post with one another. Otherwise, I would have placed it in an sblock.

 

[D20Dazza]

Pausing at the words of Harindan the solemn elf replies "Then I will be just inside the cave entrance and it will be the easier for me to be found" he drops his head and starts to walk, deep in thought "I yearn for the feel of the skies above me. I must at least step outside for a moment" he says.