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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 3825896" data-attributes="member: 11760">Kat holds one of the potions in his hands for a moment, then looks to the holes into which the creature escaped."T-this is disturbing," he says.An odd smirk crosses Ragglus' face, and he turns away from his companions. After half a minute, and a small shake, he turns back around, holding the once empty healing potion container now resealed and filled with his own urine."A little present for the runt," he grins, putting it down near the chest."I imagine most of this belongs to the townsfolk," Kat says. "Each of these could be easily carried by a small animal of some sort. Training that many, however ... His first instinct was to play the instrument. Tock, could you figure anything out about it?""Just a second," Renraw insists, snatching the panpipes from Katadid's outstretched hand. Renraw takes all the items recovered, mutters a spell and stares until his eyes burn."Dear gods, that's enough," he says finally, rubbing his eyes. He stands and begins pacing, as though delivering a lecture. "OK, young Leach, it is more or less as we'd surmised. The panpipes are used to summon small creatures, probably to help with the hauling. The potions emit faint auras of transmutation magic, which would be expected, given their labels. We can assume he hasn't pulled a switcheroo as old Chaplin here has."The potion the dwarf had on him is transmutation magic as well, but it's got a different aura than the others, leading me to believe it had something to do with his transformation into the badger creature."Also, perhaps interesting, the bow is imbued with some sort of transformative aspect. Chaplin, I don't suppose you feel at all transmuted, after having been shot with it?"Ragglus gives himself the once over, even turning around in place to see if he's grown a tail."Er, no?""But why have the reducing potions in the first place when you can turn into a badger that can easily fit into those tunnels?" Katadid interjects. "We see the map is obviously in relation to that, so a great deal more exists. Something doesn't quite fit here: We have potions that he doesn't need, and silver bullets that are tailor made to injure him. Why would he possess these things?"Stumped, the group prepares to return the recovered treasures to the surface. As Katadid, Tock and Ragglus load up the coins, gems, necklace and statuette into the bucket in the well -- which follows a careful rediscovery of the trapdoor and circumventing it, one by one -- Renraw casts a divination spell so as to catch all the small tunnels at the north of the dwarf's lair in its radius.A Blackberry deputy hauls the loot up and yells for lumber to be brought. In the interim, Renraw, satisfied with his contribution to the group, decamps himself to the cave with the fresh water supply with a triumphant flourish.There's a bit of excitement as some enormous fish or eel at the bottom of the well takes a test bite of the lumber that splashes down into it, but it gives up after realizing it's wood, not flesh, that has entered its domain. Carefully, Ragglus fishes out the lumber and the group forms a bridge over the pit.</blockquote>

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