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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pogre" data-source="post: 553221" data-attributes="member: 6588">Episode 19Episode 19Pogre’s campaign – To Save a Soul“Does the staircase go up or down?” Johann asked.“Up,” Scapa answered. “It appears that the entrance area is pretty wide open.”“Come on back,” Johann ordered. “Let’s check out the other passageway.”“Good idea,” agreed Scapa. He slinked back to Johann’s side. Shannon led the way through the other door. It opened into a vaulted symmetrical room with four alcoves. Each alcove had a statue of a warrior woman armed with a spear and shield.“Slow down,” Johann warned. “I do not much like the way these stone wenches look.”“They are statues of Marrkidia’s Shield Maidens,” Shannon stated.<img src="http://www.divinebattlelust.com/story_hour/0405_into_Marrkidias_temple_th.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> <a href="http://www.divinebattlelust.com/story_hour/0405_into_Marrkidias_temple.jpg" target="_blank">Marrkidia’s Shrine.</a>“Whose side is she on?” Johann asked.“She is the Goddess of Military Strategy,” Bridget answered. “Considering our last few scraps, she probably is against us.”“This conversation on religion, while enlightening, is getting us no closer to those bounty hunters,” Scapa reminded the group.“Hey, there is something lying in the corridor here,” Shannon announced. “It looks like it used to be a Goblin. Whew, he has been here a while. He also has our favorite tattoo.”“Theta again?” Bridget asked.“None other,” Shannon answered. “It just does not make sense. Orcs and goblins with tattoos of Theta, they must have one weird Shaman working for them.”<img src="http://www.divinebattlelust.com/story_hour/0406_Shannon_Leads_down_the_hall_th.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> <a href="http://www.divinebattlelust.com/story_hour/0406_Shannon_Leads_down_the_hall.jpg" target="_blank">Shannon leads the group down the hall.</a>Shannon led the rest further down the hall. The hall ended at a stout door. Shannon put his ear to the door. He heard the guttural sounds of Orcs talking. He whispered back to the group, “Orcs.”“How many?” Scapa asked.Shannon returned his ear to the door and listened again. He heard several voices. “There’s at least a dozen,” he answered. He returned his ear to the door again and then returned to the group. “I think a dozen might be conservative.”The group returned to Marrkidia’s Shrine and discussed the situation. “We probably would have surprise and I could spray a lot of them with magic,” Scapa offered.“That’s a lot of orcs,” Johann countered. “If it’s more than a dozen we could have a very tough time.”“We could lure them into a fight in the hallway,” Bridget suggested.“I am not sure we even need to take these Orcs on,” Shannon remarked. “Let’s try to sneak upstairs and see what we find up there.”The adventurers sneaked up the stairs and were confronted at the top landing by a seedy looking human in studded leather. “Who are ye’?” the human asked.“We’re expected,” Johann answered and held up the Theta holy symbol they had stolen off the Orc earlier.To be continued…</blockquote>

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