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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 2821149" data-attributes="member: 198">Written by AviLazar:Session 15 - December 3, 2005After a few minutes of recovering our health we begin to search the piles of treasure.  While this is the most amount of money I have ever seen at one given spot, I am actively searching for Kizmet.  We find, in addition to the gold, many magical items.  I claim a cloak of resistance for myself, a minor one, but the rest of the group gets some other items.  This is the second magical item I found due to the group.  It will help!  Alas, Kizmet is not to be found, and I find myself very upset.  Killian gave us bad information.  With the items we find a strange letter.  Strange, not because it is magically guarded, but because it is addressed to us and is dated one month ago.  The information on it also is strange as some of it is information that very few know of.  It warns of danger from Daask, especially if we take the treasure – which we ignore since we know Daask will come after us anyhow.  The person who wrote the letter, Sora Teraza invites us to join him/her so we can receive aid.  Sora says that I need to find my sword – as it will be needed.  The group seems interested in this Sora, and at the very least Sora suggested to the group to help me find my sword first.  We leave the dead bodies, first smashing their faces in so a Speak with Dead spell could not be used.On our way up we pick up Menna and head out.  We hear the zombies up ahead, the ones we encountered before, and Menna decides to take a different route.  We start to encounter more undead, gnoll ghosts, and decide to run as we are ill-equipped to handle such a situation.  After a while, more mists arise and we try to outrun them only to be stopped by five vampires!  We should have been dead, but instead they invite us to speak with them and we do so.  They ask us for information of the top world, and inform us of their plights.  They seem lonely and only want non-harmful contact with others.  After the meeting we continue along our path and get topside.  Lalia heads back home, giving her share of the treasure to the rest of the party.  I kiss her on the cheek and tell her I will see her later.We head back to the inn, and immediately go to sleep.The next morning we wake up to find Six left to see Karr’Aashta.  We start to break fast and then Flim from the newspaper shows up.  I ask him to excuse us for a minute as I want to speak with the party first in private.  I explain to the party we should continue to keep most things a secret – we don’t Flim anything – and that everyone blurting out will come of no good.  We agree on a story, and make sure we do not mention our encounter with Daask.  The group then blurts out Killian’s name – which they apparently do not care about.  I tell Flim if anyone’s name comes out in the paper without authorization he can forget about ever getting a story.  Flim says he will respect the privacy of our sources.  I then start to argue with the group that they should not start throwing out names without a damn good reason.  Nameless and I begin to argue and I inform him that our sources can burn us just as easily as we can burn them.  I don’t know why this group has such a hard time with the word “discretion”.  And they call me noisy.  We tell Flim about the drug den raid and the vampires.  We make sure to mention that Boromor were the ones who came in and stole Daasks drugs.After the meeting we take Corven to his mages guild so he can continue his work.  I then follow the group to Kidro’s store.  Kidro is a gnome who likes to collect rare objects of historical value.  The group has been negotiating an expedition and I flat out state that I will not go anywhere until Kizmet is back in my hands.  After the meeting with Kidro, we head to see Flamewind, who is a sphinx.  Nameless refuses to go and seems a bit uncomfortable at the thought of being there.  He goes to his guild while the rest of us head to the library.  We meet with Flamewind and Luna almost hands her the letter as I snatch it away.  We keep cycling on this issue, but apparently it is impossible for the group to grasp the thought of discretion.  I read the key passages to Flamewind…those that we need information from.  Flamewind is curious about the rest, but lets it slide.  Once we are finished, we head back to the inn for dinner and we meet up with the rest of the group.  We head down to visit Killian.Once we got to the Lucky Nines Casino, we meet with Killian and I get into an argument with him.  Killian casually fends my statements citing that sometimes bad information happens.  Killian promises to work harder to find the truth, and I am having a hard time of telling if he is lying and hiding it very well or he is actually telling the truth.  At one point Killian slips in a threat saying that it would be a shame of Daask were told who robbed their payroll…I inform him that it would be a shame if Daask finds out who sent us there.  Killian may think he has the upper hand, but he forgets that he is just as cozy in bed with us as we are with him.  Killian does mention his interest in our spending habits.  Though the people who are spending a considerable amount of wealth are those who had the money for a while – up until now Luna has not really been a big shopper.We head back to the inn and go to sleep.  The following morning, very quickly after I get up, I head over to Karr’Aashta’s office.  He reveals my sword and I leap past every and over the table to grab it.  It feels different, however.  It looks exactly – every single inscription, and symbol – but it just feels different.  Karr’Aashta says the sword is a flaming sword, and this is confusing – it never did that for me.  Karr’Aashta activates the swords power, which is even more concerning.  I try and activate it and nothing happens.  I then take my dagger and slash my arm, and attempt to activate the swords healing powers.  Nothing happens.  Something is strange.  I cannot see the people who stole the sword making a replica – not in such a short time – not to mention why would they bother?  This sword, however, seems different.  I pay Karr’Aashta for his services – money which I plan to take out of the person who sold him the sword --- the drug fence.  He owes me a lot of money, about 3000 gold, and I will have it from him.  It will also be time for him to die; we do not need another drug fence.  One thing that interests me is that Karr’Aashta says he should have charged me more for the sword.  While I agreed with him to pay for any expenses; this isn’t buying an item at a store- his job is to recover things.  This puzzles me – but it is a good thing he did not try and sell it to me for tens of thousands – he would not have liked my answer.After our talks are complete we head down to Kielstons shop to continue our Zokar mission.  We enter the room, well armed and prepared, and then a dwarf walks in.  The dwarf is very surprised at the sight of us.  Luna then flies into attack – without any provocation.  I scathe her for it later.  While she was correct our target was evil – she had no evidence and could have easily attacked someone innocent.  The battle ensues and a mephit on their side casts a web spell.  I finally manage to break free of it, but Luna yells at me for not coming up soon enough – as if I could!  She did what the group always yells at me for – charging in blindly, and I got there as fast as humanly possible.When I can finally swing my sword, I summon the power of the Silver Flame and smite my target, using as much of my strength as my skill allows.  I do considerable damage to the swordsman and then continue into the fray.  The battle continues with Luna, Six and I heading in and dispatching everyone.  Corven and Nameless are in the back providing excellent support.After the battle we try and save as many as possible for future questioning.</blockquote>

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