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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brown Jenkin" data-source="post: 466900" data-attributes="member: 2572">Notes from MirSo far so good, but we did skim over a little bit the incident at my grove. As was mentioned we were warned that my grove interested the bloodspeakers. Taking care of the incident required a little more than just firing the workers. In addition to O'Hisa, and Toshiro, and many others my own lineage from the heavens also was putting me at risk of kidnapping and sacrifice, not something I am particularly keen on. Fearing that the bloodspeakers were going to try to ambush and capture me at my grove we set up a plan to deal with the situation. Volar and I headed on out to the grove, with a little protective magic already in place, and went about normal conversation and inspection of the work. Something seamed suspisious about the way the workmen were behaiving though. As I went forward to get a closer look and inspect the work Things started to go bad. Volar fortunately had his bow out and was randomly shooting things, under the guise I believe that he was insane and this helped him relax, or something to that effect. One never knows about elves and Volar keeps up this image quite well (sometimes too well maybe confusing even me). As I was jumped by the foreman, Volar open fire for real with the bow. This was the signal, OK maybe not but we had failed to work out a proper signal so our being attacked apparently was it. At this point the Samurai who had been observing us from a distance came charging in on horseback to save us and destroy the bloodspeakers. The battle was on with full force with the Samurai attacking the workmen (OK obviously from the way they fought more than real workmen). I tried engaging the leader but had little effect on him. I did manage to keep him ocupeid though as I saw Volar trying looking like he wanted to drop a spell but was unable to because of my presense. Figuring he wanted to drop an electricity ball as was his habit, I yelled to him "just do it, don't worry about me" Knowing I hadn't been hit yet and my own inherent resistabce to electricity I braced myself for what was to come as the sparks started flying around us. Sure enough he came out of it worse than me, but he was still standing. As I started to flee Volar was able to finish him off with a Magic Missle or too. After the leader fell it wasn't to long before things were wrapped up by the Samurai.Upon investigating we found several vials of taint designed to corrupt my grove. These were removed and Shugenja from the temple were brought out to clean up the taint that had gotten out. My grove had been saved and I could sleep easy again. New capenters were hired to finish things and check for any other surprises that had been left behind. So goes the story behind the little line "Out at Mir’s grove, the previous carpenters (found to have Bloodspeaker links) had been replaced with a new group hired to build the shrine to the Oak Father as well as a tree house in one of the oaks for Mir’s residence. " Brakkus did show up after that eventually and he went over with me in more detail some of the items we had discussed previously. He agreed to teach me several thing before he had to be on his way again (He explained that he felt a great need to expore and travel, something we both had in common). The first thing he taught me was that as long as your faith in your god was strong all the rituals were not needed. This was a good thing since I no longer had access to any formal training and was winging it in several cases already. Secondly he began to teach me that the bounds between Arcane and Devine were not as strong as they apeared. While most of our spells were granted by the Oak Father, as I already knew by my bard training this same energy can be channeled by ourselves. We just need to be more open to how we believed. He expained that if you worked on it you could learn arcane spells, brew arcane potions, and even bond with a familiar while still maintaing your spiritual devotion. Eventually the urge to move on grew to strong and he had to leave. I was left with many more things to explore. For some reason I could not explain I was quite content to stay here and continue my studdies. I know it can't be true since we have checked on the powers of the coins and they are mearly to cast an Augury spell when used together, but maybe they do have some other power. My coin is of contentment and for the first time I don't feel the strong need to explore all the time, Mindra has the coin of honest work and is now one of the carpenters working on my house, Toshiro seems ever more in love, and Volar is starting to make a go of his new wizards academy. Why though if they have such a strong influence doesn't this radiate from the coins. More mysteries to look into sometime. I guess my next step though is to make use of Brakkus's teachings and maybe look up Volar for future access to his labs.</blockquote>

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