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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James McMurray" data-source="post: 1545318" data-attributes="member: 743">Most of the group deposits their gold in the keep’s bank, but Lord Tahm has bigger plans He petitions the city to allow him to purchase and refurbish the burnt out church. Its an expensive endeavor, but when it is done he and his fellow mercenaries wil have somewhere to stay and use as a base camp.The group takes a few days to recuperate and celebrate, then decides to head back into the tree city to explore. When they arrive, they climb back up the ladder and check the bandit hideout. It has been uninhabited since they cleaned it out, so they continue their exploration of the city.One thing they notice that they had been too busy fighting to see before is that the entire city appears to have been grown. There are no seams in the bridges, nor breaks in walls. It looks as if the forest was coaxed into becoming a city.Nadeem heads to the ladder up he saw before, and climbs. At the top he peaks over the ledge and sees a large eagle-headed winged lion in a nest. It sniffs at the air and looks his way, pulling itself up on its haunches. Nadeem waves the group forward, and slips aside to let people pass. Vides climbs up the ladder and the griffon charges the moment he is up top, clawing and pecking the wilder mercilessly. Duerf also climbs up, only to be shocked and hurt by a screaming griffon dropping from the sky to claw and bite.The rest of the group climbs up, except for Vides, who stays down below taking pot shots up top. The griffons rend and tear into the wilder and the egoist, dropping them both and setting their sights on the rest of the group. The party is forced to flee back down, and they rush into an empty tree to fight on more favorable ground. One griffon is killed and the other driven off, so the party stops yet again to lick their wounds. This time recovery is hastened by assisted healing, and when the Duerf wakes up he fixes them up by taking the wounds onto his own Vigored body. Ever vengeful, the group decides to assault the griffons again. This time when they climb up. They are attacked by only a single griffon, but it screeches and another appears. The battle rages, and it seems fairly even. The party is taking slightly more damage than the griffons, but then the tables turn. The sounds of fighting attract three more of the strange creatures, and the party wisely decides to retreat. This time the griffons do not follow. Yet again the group is forced to rest before continuing their exploration of the city’s lower level.</blockquote>

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