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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RayneBlythewood9" data-source="post: 1973186" data-attributes="member: 25931">Sorry I've been quite busy lately, but let me get back to the last tale I was telling.The epic battle:It was actually very quick.  On the first round I was able to pop off a glitterdust to try and blind the rat group before the split up.  I reacted quickly and managed to act before them and blind all but the quick silver king's rat companion.  We were outnumbered until that point.  There was a rat ogre behind us.  Four rat henchmen, a purplish colored robed one and the QS King in front of us.  I managed to affect 3 minions and the king himself with my spell.  The gods must have been looking out for us in this battle.  I didn't think that he would fail against my little magic.     Blinded the QS King took the form of the silver headed rat and bit the tail of his companion who then scurried behind the throne leading his master away.  We tried to stop his escape, but were unable with the battle still going on.  We quickly dismantled the two minions that could see and the ogre also.  Marcus had a hard time dealing with the ogre's presence.  It seemed everytime he tried to cast a spell he would worry about the ogre being able to hit him and get distracted and fail.  Well that only happened twice I believe.     We finished with the battle that lasted less than the duration of my glitterdust spell, which should last around 30 seconds.  We then bursted into a few of the adjacent rooms trying to find where the rat's could have scurried off to.  Two rooms later and we found them hiding in some bedding.  Surrender he did.Trying to come to some type of agreement was difficult with this arrogant fellow.  He insisted that his defeat was based on us getting lucky.  He claimed that most of his minions were out doing chores and his defensed were greatly depleated at the time of our coming.  He insisted that if we didn't let him go we would all die and we found that hard to believe.  He could control rat swarms, but we didn't think he could do it while unconscious.  So we knocked him out and attempted to get out of the sewers.     It turns out that the last order he gave the swarms was to come in and kill everything if he didn't tell them anything in a minute or so.  So we had some hundreds of rats chewing through doors trying to get to us.  We woke up the QS King and told him to order the rats to stop and renegotiate.  He ordered them to stop, and as soon as he did Marcus the wizard tried to club him and knock him back out.  Marcus thought that the rats would obey the QS King's last order until he told them otherwise, which may have worked, but we never found out.     Marcus missed and Hal my robot cohort asked Marcus if he should knock him out and Marcus had doubt form in his mind about the mechanics of how he controlled the swarms and told Hal not to.  The QS King was rather upset about this attempt to decieve him, but could still do little.  We managed to get out to the sewers, but ran into two more rat henchmen with our Rogue guide.  They were shocked to see that we had the QS King captured.       Just then we had more negotiating to do and the QS King's was getting more leverage.  The terms that we finally came to let three of our party go with the Rogue guide and three of us were to stay and get all the information and questions we could out of the QS King and then let him return to the imperial side of the river.  We agreed and Ryu the ranger, Terek the cleric, and myself the whatever is needed at the time stayed behind to ask questions and find out more information.     The other three that left were taken in for questioning by the Guild about what had occured that night and were somewhat resistant in telling the story and were held.  A few hours later when we left the QS King we ended up getting the same treatment, but they were a little bit more flexible with me and I told them everything they needed to know.  I also had to vouch for my three companions and get them out of their cell.    I also inquired about any reward that their may have been and they said they would get back to me on that subject.  They asked us to remain in town and a few days later we recieved 8,000 gold for all the information we had on the QS King.  The reward was 10,000, but they felt that the guide that led us to were we wanted to go should get 2,000.If only we had known that little fella was worth two grand when we negotiated for his life down in the sewers.  He may not have made it up.Well I've got some errands to run.  Got to get some scrolls and such.  Marcus is going to make me a cloak to boost my charisma.  I also need to get some supplies for our next adventure.  Terak is going to upgrade Hal's armor and shield.  I also think that Terak is making his bow more magical and Marcus is making something for Ryu also.Until next time....</blockquote>

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