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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vimfuego" data-source="post: 931656" data-attributes="member: 12345">Starvation3/26/03StarvationEveryone talks to the gnome, he seems a bit stand-offish. He _finally_ leaves.We move camp further away from the ruins. Stop, dig a pit, decide to move even further away.Day 2 in the Month of MarketsTesmian and Cael headed off in the morning, I was hungry. No one would seem to listen to me telling them that we would starve out here.Tesmian and Cael return, they spotted some beheaded pyramids/temples and wanted to investigate. I wanted to get the hell out of there but everyone else wanted to check out a temple.At the first temple we investigate we found a buried entrance. I wanted to head back to Midvale but everyone else seems determined to stay out here and die of starvation.They finally make enough room for me or Marsten to get into the Temple. Marsten went inside.He finally comes back to report an animated skeleton somewhere inside. He says the temple has several levels all the way to the top, and a throne.Jon went inside. Cael tried to climb in behind him.They managed to dispatch the skeleton and most of us went in. We searched around, noticed some of the weapons had gems, gathered a few. Tried to get the top hatch open, but it wouldn't budge.Marsten sat on the throne and fired off his last light spell. When he sat on the throne the side of the temple became blurry and we were able to see the outside. A group of horsemen appeared to be approaching.Do you know what Nemesis means? Nemesis is the daughter of Nyx, but they are apparently not on speaking terms. Xu'Syl is a shadow lord.We foolishly decide to leave the defensible position of the Temple and ran out into the open fields. Some day I will run this crew. Some day soon.Cael manages to lead us away from the riders. I vow, if I ever make it back to a town, village or city to never leave again, especially not with this group of half-wit tacticians in charge.The Diamond monks are in cohoots with Nyx.We Camp to the south.Day 3We went back to the temple/pyramid.Marsten and Cael went in, I headed to the top with Cael's spyglass to scout out the area. The cap from the temple which was on the group next to the pyramid began to hum quietly. I yelled down to Jon to tell them to stop whatever they are doing.We evacuated the temple, spotted someone who spotted us. Headed southwest then west, finally, whomever was watching us disappeared.We continue to head west, deciding to go back to Midvale. Unfortunately our food supply was all but gone and Midvale was several days away. We made it a couple of hours west of out last camp site and made camp.Day 4In the morning Cael was gone. Tracks led away to the north. I considered taking over as leader.Cael came back from wherever he was, asks if there was anywhere we could go, where would it be? Jarspar, of course.*ZAP*We stood before the front gates of Jarspar.Cael later explained, He was kidnapped by the Nemesis followers, who took his book (and kept it, he of course, hadn't bothered to make a copy either). They told him that the book was left here by Xu'Syl to bring him back from the dead, but Nemesis locked the book up. Cyrrus was used unwittingly to get the book.The Shadowbane instructions were added to the book by Nemesis. The Diamond monks are followers of Nyx and have Cyrrus Roby.The gnome was tracking us, helping Nemesis' followers. The Nemesis followers decided, for some reason, to do us a favor and teleport us out of there to Jarspar. I'm sure they will want something in return later on, but I'm glad we made it to Jarspar.I went to lookup Cash. Work to do.#############Jon Shieldmangler:<img src="http://nightmare.org/dnd/john/040903/med/jonshieldmangler.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Originally posted at: <a href="http://nightmare.org/dnd/thay/starvation.html" target="_blank">http://nightmare.org/dnd/thay/starvation.html</a></blockquote>

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