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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vimfuego" data-source="post: 931646" data-attributes="member: 12345">3/19/03The RuinsWe got the hell out of there to try to find the ruins we came looking for.Cael and Dryden caught up with us and got us pointed in the right direction, we saw the ruins and made camp. It was another cold evening so we made a fire.Morning breaks. We spot a small figure above the hill. It was a gnome. Cael yelled up to the gnome and it walked down toward us. I prepared to kill it.He said his name was Jays Splinter. We spoke with him for a few minutes and he wandered off, thankfully, smelly little bastard. Cael ran after him but couldn't find him.We headed out toward the ruins, circled around them to get a better vantage. Jon took a look with Cael's spyglass and said that the ruins were not made out of stone but were made out of iron.Cael mentioned something about an ancient iron fortress named Angrenost. Marston said that perhaps these are the ruins of Tal'More. A bunch of scholars I pal around with. Who cares what it is called?Tesmian and I head out to scout. We got to the walls and discovered that they were once massive iron walls, but it appeared that had been melted. I checked out the internal structures and it looked like a bunch of melted iron buildings. I waved up the rest of the party as it looked like there wasn't any activity.As I hooked around the side of the fortress I stumbled over a large lump of melted iron that resembled a head. As I looked about there seemed to be a bunch of them scattered all about the place. In fact they were scattered all over the area of the ruins and the fortress.Tesmian provoked a skeleton and a bunch of his friends chased after us. We got away pretty easily and then scouted out around the exterior of the outer wall. Tesmian is not counted among the great scholars of our band.We entered the city ruins from the other side and made it in a couple of blocks. There were lots of undead wandering about, a number of bodies that had their hands cut off, and an Ashen Bone Draco. We decided not to get too close to him. I climbed up the wall of a taller building and spotted a temple similar to the one that the Diamond Monks were occupying.We headed in a round about way toward the temple. As we got close to the temple we noticed that there were symbols on it similar to the iron heads strewn all about the area.Marston told us we are staring at a temple of Nyx, "The Triune One". I know he's a fellow Rover and all but sometimes I wish he'd just keep to himself. And the singing. I've got to talk to him about the constant singing, humming, whistling and strumming on his damn lute.We waited for a bit, when there was no activity I went across and checked it out, it was pitch black inside but I saw what appeared to be some scarlings inside the temple. I went back and reported what I saw.Jon decided that we should go into the temple. I circled around it quickly to check for other entrances or exits, but did not find any.The temple appeared to be unnaturally dark. Dryden said that Nyx is the God of Dark.Marsten made contact with some of the scarlings, including possibly Davey.Cael and Dryden ran away. Hopefully they would get all of they're philosophical conversations taken care of while they were gone.I moved up to the door as Jon and Marsten tried to talk to Davey. He said Cyrus was not around. The scarlings got angry and the three of them retreated. Davey asked where Cael was.We hooked back up with Cael and Dryden and got out of town. It was getting rather dark and cold rain began to fall. Dryden noticed some very large spiders.Spiders, spies of the undead. Turns out, the spiders weren't spiders but were animated hands wandering around.One of the geniuses was going on about Khors, God of light, anti-Nyx. I don't remember which one, I tend to zone out when they ramble on.Back at our old camp, made a fire. Cael blathers on and on and on about shadows and sorcerer lords and ancient wars. I could barely stay up. It was freezing cold so I stoked up the fire because Jon was talking to him about books and stuff.Ilmarin, Vain, Mithras, they just kept talking and talking and talking.The only action of the evening included Dryden trying to burn some book and Cael trying to cut it up. I nodded off.A hand woke me up.A Hand Woke Me Up.A HAND WOKE ME UP.A whole crap load of the animated hands found their way into our camp and attacked us.They scratched and cut at me with sharp finger nails. There must have been ten or twelve just attacking me. I tried to fight them off, then just tried to not get scratched but I fell to the ground and passed out from the pain.I awoke a moment later. Jon was touching my shoulder. I didn't know what was up with that, but I knew I wasn't dead and there were still hands all over the camp.As I got to my feet Marsten and Tesmian fell beneath the onslaught. Jon fell shortly after. I snuck over to Marsten to try to pull him away but I was weak and it took a lot of effort. Then Dryden fell and Cael ran over to help me, bringing all of the hands behind him. He may know his books, but a tactician, he is not.We dropped Marsten and tried to run away but the hands were too fast. I managed to grab my invisibility potion and gulp it down and hide. It worked and all of the hands followed Cael as he scrambled around.I snuck back to camp hoping Cael would lead the hands away. I got everyone near the fire and stabilized. They all seemed to be waking up when Cael returned with the little gnome we had run into earlier.I was too tired to kill him though. Lucky for him.#############Rath left-side / back<img src="http://nightmare.org/dnd/pics/med/2266.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Originally posted at: <a href="http://nightmare.org/dnd/thay/ruins.html" target="_blank">http://nightmare.org/dnd/thay/ruins.html</a></blockquote>

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