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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Seule" data-source="post: 440279" data-attributes="member: 407">Spoilers: Of Sound Mind 1Dear Dad,I hope you and Karla are doing well, and staying away from Bellhold.  I for one will not stay one second longer than I need to and hopefully will not be returning anytime soon.  You might not want to read all of this to Karla, it’s been a bad day.I had a horrible dream last night, and I had trouble waking up from it.  It was terrifying, bloody, and painful and I am not sleeping in this town tonight!  Nowyn’s screaming finally woke me this morning, apparently whatever is affecting the townspeople has already attacked our group.  We all met for breakfast, and we all had rather poor sleep due to dreams.  We waited for Othic to join us, but when there had been no sign of him we finally began to eat.  We were interrupted by the lead hand at Othic’s farm, who ran in to tell us that Othic had been murdered.  We quickly went to the farm.I won’t give you the unpleasant details Dad, but to say Othic had been murdered was a gross understatement.  Even the term butchering doesn’t do justice to the reality inside that barn, and I quickly lost what little of breakfast I had.  While I was trying to calm myself outside of the barn, I heard one of our signal whistles coming from a paddock behind the barn.  Benton, Ving and I ran towards the noise to discover the two horses we herded just yesterday attacking Endrin and Noewyn.  The horses were slain, and Endrin discovered crystals embeded into their brains.  This explains their bizarre behaviour, but we don’t know how the crystals got there.After comforting the farm hand, we headed back to town to gather more details on the missing children and adventurers.  Our best source of information continues to be the innkeeper Tokket as Captain Holdeck seems dangerously distracted.  Tokket directed us to the river where the children had been playing before their disappearance.  We did manage to find some tracks from the children, but they were mingled in with goblin tracks!We (okay, Noewyn) followed the tracks to the remains of the copper mine outside of town.  We climbed up the mountain past the mine entrance until it was impossible to climb further without equipment.  Assuming that goblins carrying children might also be without climbing gear we descended back to the old mine entrance and went in.  We had to lower ourselves down on a rope to a very unstable platform…which collapsed shortly after but we all managed to get into the tunnels.  There was quite an extensive network underground, complete with more gross ‘décor’ and lots of bugs!  Nowyn and I might have to work on our stomach control.  We fought some smelly zombie creatures and won, although I don’t remember the fight very well.Anyhow, we finally found a room with an enormous statue of a dragon, and an enormous bowl of offerings to it.  We had to fight a strange bone creature, I managed to knock it over a couple of times (DM: Stomp) but when I joined in the fight I was quickly knocked out and woke up surrounded by bones with Benton feeding me a potion.  In the meantime, Endrin and Noewyn had given chase to a smelly lizard man who seemed to be a bit of a magic man.  From him we found out that there is a way to upper levels of the tunnels through the dragon room, but he didn’t know how to use it.  Well, this next part takes a lot of explaining so I’ll stop for now and send you the rest in my next letter.Love,Lyran</blockquote>

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