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<blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 817908" data-attributes="member: 8530"><p><strong>Chapter 31, “To Catch a Thief”, July 8th, 1019, 9:45 A.M.</strong> </p><p></p><p>Furynick hands Narg back the jeweled box, saying “We got it to Kindor and back without a problem.” “Damn,” states Narg, “That little piece of excrement was supposed to steal it from you.” “It just goes to show you that you can’t count on thieves to do the dishonest thing,” Fiona comments. </p><p></p><p>Getting back to Hiroshi’s descriptions of the items, Serita asks “What can you tell us about the sphinx statue?” “Yeah, there’s a bunch of guys who are hot to get it,” Mojo adds. Hiroshi says “I’m not surprised. I visited their Kingdom to find out about it, but they were not very forthcoming with information. As near as I can tell, they think that the statue is made of part of one of their gods.” Mojo speculates as to “which part”. </p><p></p><p>Narg comments “I think we’ve had enough gods to suit us lately,” and makes a reference to the demigod Finder Wyvernspur who they met the previous year. Hiroshi states “Funny that you should mention that. One of the auction items was made by Finder Wyvernspur himself, created back when he was still a mortal.” “Which item is that?” Cassie asks. “The pyramid shaped gem <em>(picture attached below]</em>. It was the original prototype for the Finders Stone. The Finders Stone was his life’s work, a powerful artifact that Finder himself destroyed in order to kill Moander, the demigod whose power he then inherited. <em>(As depicted in the Forgotten Realms novel <u> Song of the Saurials</u> by Novak and Grubb.)</em></p><p></p><p>“So what exactly does the stone do?” Serita asks. Hiroshi replies “It has implanted into it all of the music and songs that Finder composed, and will reproduce them exactly as they were originally performed.” Narg comments “Great, a magic karaoke machine. Just what we don’t need.” Mojo says “Maybe we should consider purchasing that item for Finder. He has helped us out before. Don’t forget that Finder was the one who stripped Ailshear of his evil nature.” “But he then saddled us with the drow, I hold that against him,” Aradyn states. </p><p></p><p><em>[DM’s Note: The above incidents occurred in the latter chapters of the prior Silver Moon Adventurers epic “Chinese Take-out”, which can be found at the following link: </em></p><p><em><a href="http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/show...42&pagenumber=1" target="_blank">http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/show...42&pagenumber=1</a> ]</em></p><p></p><p>Hiroshi briefly describes the three weapons. The party have already heard the stories of both the Maul of Moradin and Drundarr’s Axe, so Hiroshi doesn’t supply much new information other than stating that those are the two items that the Highforge group is seeking. Both items tie in with Highforge history, with the axe having been made for Drundarr, the first King of Highforge. Everyone has also already heard the story of the Rock Hammer of Bold Edgar, that being a popular children’s story on this world. He also describes both pendants, repeating the stories they had heard before about those items.</p><p></p><p>The next item described is Lady Natasha’s Egg. Hirsohi explains that when a magical incantation is stated and the egg is then opened the jeweled ship inside will enlarge into a full-sized ship. “How do you get it little again?” Fiona asks. Hiroshi states “Another incantation. This item is of artifact proportion, as it uses rather powerful magic to work. The magic is primarily on the inside of the egg rather than the ship.”</p><p></p><p>The final item described is the Puzzle Box of Abu Bin Sala. “So that is what that box is? It doesn’t look like a puzzle box.” “Yes, that is part of he puzzle, as is figuring out how to open it” Hiroshi states. Serita comments “Blip says that she has spent days trying to open it. This will really drive her crazy now, since she makes puzzle boxes as her main hobby.”</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, up in the second floor hallway Mark and Vincenzo are standing on guard duty. Vinnie thinks hears the sound of a door opening. He tells Mark, who heads over towards Fiona’s room, where Blip is currently resting following the long night on guard duty in the dungeon. He tells Blip to wake up, that there may be trouble. </p><p></p><p>The inter-dimensional doorway to Kulp’s Comfortable Castle then appears, even though nobody has stated the necessary password to make it visible again. Vincenzo tosses a Dispel Magic into the hallway in front of the entrance to the dimensional doorway. He and Mark see before them the gnome, standing in front of the door and holding a key that he has inserted into the lock on the now visible magical doorway. Neither are close enough to the gnome to reach him, so Vinnie casts a Create Water in the air above the intruder, drenching the gnome. The gnome continues to turn the key as Mark charges down the hallway at him. </p><p></p><p>Mark strikes the gnome with his longsword. “Owww, not fair!” the old gnome exclaims in a high-pitched voice, while still turning the key. Vincenzo charges at the gnome as Blip steps out into the hallway. The gnome then pulls the key out of the lock, makes a few hand gestures, and then looks upward. The magical doorway to Kulp’s Comfortable Castle becomes invisible again. </p><p></p><p>Blip tosses a Blindness spell at the gnome, which appears to have no effect. Vincenzo grabs at the gnome, who manages to sidestep away from the cleric. The gnome is then pulled through the air by a rope tied to his waist, of which only the last six feet nearest the gnome is visible. Vincenzo activates his Shoes of Levitation to pursue. Blip dives onto her Broom of Flying, and flies up after Vincenzo.</p><p></p><p>Mark bangs on the window, alerting the rest of the party in the room below to trouble. They look up, noticing their rapidly ascending cleric heading through the roof. Serita’s instantaneous reaction is to grab the two party members closest to her, Narg and Kharole, and use her ring to teleport up to the roof. Not having been up their before, but having seen it from the air while in bird form, she guesses a little high, arriving ten feet in the air above the roof. The see both the gnome and a half-elf fighter on the roof, but are too preoccupied with falling to react to them. </p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, as the three adventurers all fall towards the roof with an ungracious “thud”, the 300+ pound Vincenzo is having a little difficulty getting through the two-foot-square invisible doorway. The gnome uses this opportunity to toss a Paralization spell onto Vinnie, who fails his save. Paralysis is a physical rather than mental effect and Vinnie continues to send commands to his Shoes, which continues his rise to and then above the roof. Blip flies straight towards the place in the roof where Vincenzo had gone through, flying up into the air above, having to fly to the side to avoid hitting the cleric. <em>[DM’s Note: The timing was close, with Blip barely getting through in time, as the gnome closed up the opening immediately thereafter.]</em></p><p></p><p>Kharole recovers from the fall and looks up from where she has fallen. The gnome is already gone, and she catches the last glimpse of the half-elf before he fades out. She tosses a Dispel Magic onto where the half-elf was, and both he and the gnome reappear. Narg jumps to his feet and draws his sword. The half-elf now has a panic-stricken look on his face, and starts to now lower the sword he is holding. Serita also regains her footing, and throws a Control Temperature onto the sopping wet gnome, rapidly cooling him off as the water freezes into ice (and also preventing the spell that he had begun to cast). Blip levels off and looks at the scene, taking in all that is going on below her. Meanwhile, Vincenzo is still paralyzed, but is able to mentally command his shoes to levitate down rather than up. </p><p></p><p>Narg is charging the now panicked half-elf, who drops his sword and turns to run. Kharole throws up a Web spell, anchoring it from the tops of the three chimneys and angled diagonally down onto the roof to catch both the gnome and half-elf. Narg has to stop suddenly to avoid running into the web. The half-elf is totally caught, but the gnome continues to swim through the web, albeit at a much slower pace than he moved before. </p><p></p><p>The gnome is waving his arms beneath the web, possibly trying to cast another spells, so Blip dive-bombs at him on her broom. Blip jumps off as she is right above him, startling the older gnome. Since she is wearing a Ring of Free Action the web has almost no effect on her, and she is able to quickly grab and subdue the much older gnome. Narg comments “Uh oh, two gnomes are wrestling on the roof. Don’t tell Timothy or he’ll want to be a part of it” <em>(The group has a running gag about the lawful good cleric being attracted to gnomes.)</em></p><p></p><p>Blip soon has the other gnome’s hands pins, and manages to tie them behind his back. Serita heads around the other side of the web, and strikes the gnome on the head with the Staff of Cancellation, to hopefully negate any memorized spells. Vincenzo lands on the roof. Narg prepares to grab the half-elf as Kharole cancels the Web. The half-elf offers no resistance. Blip strips the older gnome of the ring on his finger and the pouch of spell components and thieving tools on his belt. He also makes no attempt at resistance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silver Moon, post: 817908, member: 8530"] [B]Chapter 31, “To Catch a Thief”, July 8th, 1019, 9:45 A.M.[/B] Furynick hands Narg back the jeweled box, saying “We got it to Kindor and back without a problem.” “Damn,” states Narg, “That little piece of excrement was supposed to steal it from you.” “It just goes to show you that you can’t count on thieves to do the dishonest thing,” Fiona comments. Getting back to Hiroshi’s descriptions of the items, Serita asks “What can you tell us about the sphinx statue?” “Yeah, there’s a bunch of guys who are hot to get it,” Mojo adds. Hiroshi says “I’m not surprised. I visited their Kingdom to find out about it, but they were not very forthcoming with information. As near as I can tell, they think that the statue is made of part of one of their gods.” Mojo speculates as to “which part”. Narg comments “I think we’ve had enough gods to suit us lately,” and makes a reference to the demigod Finder Wyvernspur who they met the previous year. Hiroshi states “Funny that you should mention that. One of the auction items was made by Finder Wyvernspur himself, created back when he was still a mortal.” “Which item is that?” Cassie asks. “The pyramid shaped gem [I](picture attached below][/I]. It was the original prototype for the Finders Stone. The Finders Stone was his life’s work, a powerful artifact that Finder himself destroyed in order to kill Moander, the demigod whose power he then inherited. [I](As depicted in the Forgotten Realms novel [U] Song of the Saurials[/U] by Novak and Grubb.)[/I] “So what exactly does the stone do?” Serita asks. Hiroshi replies “It has implanted into it all of the music and songs that Finder composed, and will reproduce them exactly as they were originally performed.” Narg comments “Great, a magic karaoke machine. Just what we don’t need.” Mojo says “Maybe we should consider purchasing that item for Finder. He has helped us out before. Don’t forget that Finder was the one who stripped Ailshear of his evil nature.” “But he then saddled us with the drow, I hold that against him,” Aradyn states. [I][DM’s Note: The above incidents occurred in the latter chapters of the prior Silver Moon Adventurers epic “Chinese Take-out”, which can be found at the following link: [url]http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/show...42&pagenumber=1[/url] ][/I] Hiroshi briefly describes the three weapons. The party have already heard the stories of both the Maul of Moradin and Drundarr’s Axe, so Hiroshi doesn’t supply much new information other than stating that those are the two items that the Highforge group is seeking. Both items tie in with Highforge history, with the axe having been made for Drundarr, the first King of Highforge. Everyone has also already heard the story of the Rock Hammer of Bold Edgar, that being a popular children’s story on this world. He also describes both pendants, repeating the stories they had heard before about those items. The next item described is Lady Natasha’s Egg. Hirsohi explains that when a magical incantation is stated and the egg is then opened the jeweled ship inside will enlarge into a full-sized ship. “How do you get it little again?” Fiona asks. Hiroshi states “Another incantation. This item is of artifact proportion, as it uses rather powerful magic to work. The magic is primarily on the inside of the egg rather than the ship.” The final item described is the Puzzle Box of Abu Bin Sala. “So that is what that box is? It doesn’t look like a puzzle box.” “Yes, that is part of he puzzle, as is figuring out how to open it” Hiroshi states. Serita comments “Blip says that she has spent days trying to open it. This will really drive her crazy now, since she makes puzzle boxes as her main hobby.” Meanwhile, up in the second floor hallway Mark and Vincenzo are standing on guard duty. Vinnie thinks hears the sound of a door opening. He tells Mark, who heads over towards Fiona’s room, where Blip is currently resting following the long night on guard duty in the dungeon. He tells Blip to wake up, that there may be trouble. The inter-dimensional doorway to Kulp’s Comfortable Castle then appears, even though nobody has stated the necessary password to make it visible again. Vincenzo tosses a Dispel Magic into the hallway in front of the entrance to the dimensional doorway. He and Mark see before them the gnome, standing in front of the door and holding a key that he has inserted into the lock on the now visible magical doorway. Neither are close enough to the gnome to reach him, so Vinnie casts a Create Water in the air above the intruder, drenching the gnome. The gnome continues to turn the key as Mark charges down the hallway at him. Mark strikes the gnome with his longsword. “Owww, not fair!” the old gnome exclaims in a high-pitched voice, while still turning the key. Vincenzo charges at the gnome as Blip steps out into the hallway. The gnome then pulls the key out of the lock, makes a few hand gestures, and then looks upward. The magical doorway to Kulp’s Comfortable Castle becomes invisible again. Blip tosses a Blindness spell at the gnome, which appears to have no effect. Vincenzo grabs at the gnome, who manages to sidestep away from the cleric. The gnome is then pulled through the air by a rope tied to his waist, of which only the last six feet nearest the gnome is visible. Vincenzo activates his Shoes of Levitation to pursue. Blip dives onto her Broom of Flying, and flies up after Vincenzo. Mark bangs on the window, alerting the rest of the party in the room below to trouble. They look up, noticing their rapidly ascending cleric heading through the roof. Serita’s instantaneous reaction is to grab the two party members closest to her, Narg and Kharole, and use her ring to teleport up to the roof. Not having been up their before, but having seen it from the air while in bird form, she guesses a little high, arriving ten feet in the air above the roof. The see both the gnome and a half-elf fighter on the roof, but are too preoccupied with falling to react to them. Meanwhile, as the three adventurers all fall towards the roof with an ungracious “thud”, the 300+ pound Vincenzo is having a little difficulty getting through the two-foot-square invisible doorway. The gnome uses this opportunity to toss a Paralization spell onto Vinnie, who fails his save. Paralysis is a physical rather than mental effect and Vinnie continues to send commands to his Shoes, which continues his rise to and then above the roof. Blip flies straight towards the place in the roof where Vincenzo had gone through, flying up into the air above, having to fly to the side to avoid hitting the cleric. [I][DM’s Note: The timing was close, with Blip barely getting through in time, as the gnome closed up the opening immediately thereafter.][/I] Kharole recovers from the fall and looks up from where she has fallen. The gnome is already gone, and she catches the last glimpse of the half-elf before he fades out. She tosses a Dispel Magic onto where the half-elf was, and both he and the gnome reappear. Narg jumps to his feet and draws his sword. The half-elf now has a panic-stricken look on his face, and starts to now lower the sword he is holding. Serita also regains her footing, and throws a Control Temperature onto the sopping wet gnome, rapidly cooling him off as the water freezes into ice (and also preventing the spell that he had begun to cast). Blip levels off and looks at the scene, taking in all that is going on below her. Meanwhile, Vincenzo is still paralyzed, but is able to mentally command his shoes to levitate down rather than up. Narg is charging the now panicked half-elf, who drops his sword and turns to run. Kharole throws up a Web spell, anchoring it from the tops of the three chimneys and angled diagonally down onto the roof to catch both the gnome and half-elf. Narg has to stop suddenly to avoid running into the web. The half-elf is totally caught, but the gnome continues to swim through the web, albeit at a much slower pace than he moved before. The gnome is waving his arms beneath the web, possibly trying to cast another spells, so Blip dive-bombs at him on her broom. Blip jumps off as she is right above him, startling the older gnome. Since she is wearing a Ring of Free Action the web has almost no effect on her, and she is able to quickly grab and subdue the much older gnome. Narg comments “Uh oh, two gnomes are wrestling on the roof. Don’t tell Timothy or he’ll want to be a part of it” [I](The group has a running gag about the lawful good cleric being attracted to gnomes.)[/I] Blip soon has the other gnome’s hands pins, and manages to tie them behind his back. Serita heads around the other side of the web, and strikes the gnome on the head with the Staff of Cancellation, to hopefully negate any memorized spells. Vincenzo lands on the roof. Narg prepares to grab the half-elf as Kharole cancels the Web. The half-elf offers no resistance. Blip strips the older gnome of the ring on his finger and the pouch of spell components and thieving tools on his belt. He also makes no attempt at resistance. [/QUOTE]
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