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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deuce Traveler" data-source="post: 2919995" data-attributes="member: 34958">Rix goes across first, then ensures the rope is secured properly on the other side.  It begins to come loose after Silas comes across, but with Rix's help, the rope is tied strongly against the middle of a large tree.  The rest of the group comes across afterwards, Alexander guarding the rear.The party flees further up a nearby hill, stopping in time to look down and see a couple of worgs with goblin riders sniffing at the bank they had just left.  With another howl the worgs are led by their riders in a fruitless search for a way to cross.  Happily, the party is able to continue, and arrives at the gnome hills without further incident.(Everyone except Lira earns 600 XP (500 normal, 100 each extra for role-playing) and 100 gp.  Please let me know any other actions you are taking between this mission and the next).A few other Dorinthians have made a home out of one of the chambers inside the gnome tunnels.  With some reluctance, Lira decides that it is better for her to leave the party and report the group's progress to the elven kingdom.   Dartis Kalnian, an experienced warrior and member of Dorinth's royal family, steps from your camp and volunteers to add his combat expertise to your group (feel free to introduce yourselves).The goblin totem staff was supposed to be a goblin artifact capable of causing the sun to disappear, earthquakes to be felt, and death magic to destroy its enemies.  As Horacios Tanastigan, the gnomish expert on enchantments, discovers, this staff's magic was actually a fake.  A wand of darkness was hidden in the shaft of a normal staff and was activated with a command word.  It would seem that the staff was a faked copy of the artifact and that the wand simulated one of the legendary items' effects.  This allowed the shaman to claim leadership of the tribes.  Horacios' chuckle disappears as he explains these facts and seems to be disturbed by what they mean.  He expresses a doubt that a goblin shaman could have created such a thing.  Horacios hand the wand back to Alexander, then throws the now-worthless staff away.OOC: Please feel free to make dialogue with one another.  We'll move to the kobold tunnels on Monday.  Good job getting away.  I'm surprised no one used the staff's darkness affect during the escape, though.  Also, feel free to buy any needed equipment using the price guide under the PHB.  Though they are having a large border problem with kobolds and goblins, the loss of population has kept the inflation down.</blockquote>

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