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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seasong" data-source="post: 565321" data-attributes="member: 5137">The Temple of AllasThere were no more spiders. No more spiders! Greppa was practically beside himself in glee, as the youths went through the temple. Merideth continued to remind everyone of the couplet that went, "Aught you find..." until Athan and Greppa were about ready to leave off searching.Still, they did go through the shrine, the rooms underneath it, the rest of the cavern, and cleaned up or burned away spider webs as they found them... but no spiders. There were some suspicious looking, deep holes, but they were too narrow to really check, even for Greppa, and it seemed that the spiders had well and truly left.Even the briefest of searches revealed some oddities about the cave shrine. For one, it was a cave, not something normally associated with Allas; but more importantly, were the weapons. The temples to Allas that the youths were familiar with were practically pacifistic, with one or two 'warriors of the sun' wandering about... but this shrine had enough spears and cloaks for an orc warband.They resolved to ask the next priest of Allas they saw, and continued the search. Before long, the sunglobes began to dim, and glow deep red and orange, as the sun set outside the caverns. Athan admired the effect, while Greppa and Merideth continued to "find aught".The Stone was not found, but Greppa had already figured out where it was. When Athan expressed frustration about not finding it, Greppa just grinned..."I thought we were looking for aught... but it should be right here..." and he pushed his fingers through the char of the last hell hunter, until they hit the solidity of the Stone.Athan and Merideth just stared at him."What!? It was obvious."And with that, he hauled it out. Or rather, tried to. It weighed more than two thirds what Greppa did, so he more rolled it out. Now it was Athan's turn to grin, as he nearly effortlessly hefted it up, and began tying rope around it, to yoke over his shoulder.-----'Aught' turned out to be a pretty fair haul. Thirty very high quality spears, the same number of cloaks (all white silk, with a brooch of Allas' symbol), several potions of the same sort as Hurath's (and neatly labelled 'healing draughts', unlike those from Hurath's messy desk), a small chest of coin, some Allas-marked armbands and some ancient wine bottles (that were likely more vinegar bottles now). One of the spears, although of the same quality as the others, was obviously the leader's - it had a pair of loops for a pennant near the head of the shaft, and a crossbar beneath the blade for catching a charge.To Merideth's disappointment, there were no swords - she wanted something like Captain Agina had, but apparently priests didn't rate.Athan took as many of the spears as he could carry, including the leader spear, and Merideth took most of the healing draughts, but it was otherwise equally distributed. Everyone took one of the white cloaks, Athan and Greppa both took a potion or two, and the rest was saleable goods.Finally, night having long since fallen, they stepped out of the cavern temple and looked at the stars.</blockquote>

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