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Message: <blockquote data-quote="maddman75" data-source="post: 99479" data-attributes="member: 2673">Fighting for peaceThe King agreed to see them, especially given the nature of the charges they brought against the guildsman.  They were under heavy guard and the citizenry seemed to look on them with distrust.  The King listened to the story, and the nobleman denied nothing.  The King ordered him stripped of all titles and sent to the slums to live as a beggar.Vartan spoke up here, and beseeched the King to be merciful.  After all this dwarf may have been foolish, but he thought he was following the edicts of his god.  The King relented, and allowed him to work as a miner.However, all was not peaceful.  The dwarves and humans had broken into the same cavern, and the dwarves had several scouts disappear from there.  They accused the humans of murdering them.  The PCs promised to find out what was going on.After traveling to the human mine, they discovered the same situation.  The humans claimed that the dwarves were murdering their scouts.  The PCs decided to scout the area themselves and find out the truth.  They went out into the cavern and looked for anything unusual.They were soon attacked by a pair of grimlocks.  The creatures were tough, but defeated after a scuffle.  They had a small lair off to one side with several half eaten human and dwarven bodies.  The odd thing was that all the heads were missing!The only other passage led to a chasm decending into the darkness.  They first cast a coin over the edge to see if it landed on rock or water.  They didn't hear it land at all!  Vartan next tossed a torch over to see what happened.  The torch tumbled down about a hundered feet and stopped.  Then flames spread out from it and it tumbled on down.They were perplexed and spent several minutes trying to figure out what was down there.  Finally they decided to tie a lantern onto a rope and lower it into the chasm.  It went down to the same level as the torch had but no farther.  Unable to explain what was going on, Beltar voluneered to climb down and have a look.When he got down there, his foot got tangled in something.  Suddenly it made sense - his foot was in a spider web.  And three very large spiders were scuttling toward him.  He fought them as best he could - as the rope was in teh webs as well, his friends couldn't pull him up.  With his strength sapped from the creature's poison, he barely managed to fight them off.  He burned the webs away and the group got down to the bottom.They found a small chamber off to one side.  It was an ancient burial place, and a couple wraiths gave them quiet a scare.  A second room had some type of summoning circle.  When they entered it, an earth elemental rose up and attacked.  Luckily Helios had a couple Protection from Evil spells to keep it at bay.In the third room was a small desk with a few scraps of paper and quill shavings.  In one corner was a sack.  Opening it Helios lifted out the head of a dwarf.  It had a hole in the forehead and the skull was completely empty.He looked at the group and said one word"Mind Flayers."</blockquote>

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