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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 2822165" data-attributes="member: 198">Written by AviLazar:Session 22 - January 28, 2006We finish up with the battle and heal our numbers, as well as search the bodies of our dead prey.  We gained a giant’s armband, worth a lot of money, but we also had some deaths – Collus and Maura, plus a dead porter.  That is a travesty – these were not combatants, but scholars who were on an exploration for knowledge.  We redistribute our supplies, including burying some of our supplies, since the porters cannot carry everything.We continue along our path, and eventually find some big hooked talon tracks.  According to Arrok, it looks like a Talenta clawfoot, only bigger.  We eventually come to some ruins and we search around.  Nameless casts his detect magic, and even I even perform a detect evil.  We find a magical adamantine dagger that is sized for a giant.  We give it to Six to hold, though I would imagine it is quite unwieldy for any of us.  We travel some more, and go through a huge crater, which provides some interesting banter for Six and Nameless.Eventually, after a long day of traveling, we make camp.  Later that night – I wake up, and I hear a sad song – it reminds me of my mother and grandmother – when we buried my father.  I am not sure where this song comes from, but I head towards it.  Who or what hear could possible know the sadness I experienced at this funeral?  Maybe they can help me, maybe they have magically contacted my father and he wants to pass a message to me.  I travel onward, and for some reason things try and get in my way.  Something tries to entangle me, but it will not hold me down.  I must find what is causing me this sad memory – what message is trying to come across to me.  Finally I reach a gigantic tree, and cannot help but stand there and listen to the sad tale.  I try and converse with it, but it does not respond – it just sings to me, and I want to cry.  Then, as I do not think something can get any sadder I get smashed in the face by a branch.  I was charmed, how I do not know, but I retreat, and get hit again – just barely standing, only because I healed myself before I moved.  I get out of the way of the tree, knowing that melee combat with it will prove futile.  Spells start to fly, and I realize this battle is not something I can contribute to.  The awesome blows of this creature are too much for me to handle and ranged attacks are the only method we can use…unfortunately, as I have seen – Six’s arrows are bouncing harmlessly off the creature.  Luna and Nameless all start hurling spells.  Eventually, after many spells, the tree collapses.  We go and heal people – though Urdern and one of the porters died.  Nameless starts berating me for not entering the combat – but I guess he would have preferred if I walked in and got killed in one hit.  I saw the creature hit Luna – that hit would he killed me as it almost killed her.  We head back to camp and bury the dead as well as go back to sleep.After traveling we encounter some more sounds, creatures fighting each other – but at least they are not fighting us, so we hide and let nature take its course.  We eventually encounter a large gully, that Luna found, and we go inside that way.  We hear a loud noise, almost like a heard only to find out as Arrok screams it is a dinosaur stampede.  Nameless starts casting web to hopefully hold the stampede or slow them down.  I ask him to cast fly on myself so I can get the porters out of here, but instead he casts fly on the porters – which I question.  They are unreliable, in my opinion, and how much can each of these porters carry.  Six climbs out of the crevice and Corven uses a potion of levitate.  Luna is off flying somewhere, so I am left down below with a couple of porters.  I look for a niche in the wall and try and flatten myself, casting shield of faith and shouting to someone to get me a rope.  I then feel a rope being thrown at me, unfortunately, Luna threw the entire rope.  Seeing the hopeless position I am in, I cast bears endurance to give myself some extra health.I then see an amazing sight, two gigantic dinosaurs charge head first into the web knocking them off balance and causing a cascade effect as other dinosaurs run into them.  I then get clipped by a dinosaur, luckily not squashed, but still a pretty good hit.  And then, I see something even worse, some clawfoot dinosaurs – small dinosaurs – that get very hungry come jumping towards me.  The first clawfoot gets stepped on by a bigger dinosaur.  It then recovers and comes at me again, but I slice at it with Kizmet.  Note: At this point I am in serious trouble.  Without any allies, if I get surrounded by anymore of these little dinosaurs I will not make it.  Luckily, the stampede – by this point – passed us.  We recover our numbers and I found out the true reason why Nameless casted those spells on the porters instead of me.  He is trying to curry some special favor with them.  This is confusing on a number of different levels.  While the porters are helpfully at what they do, they offer very little in the way of combat prowess – not to mention they cannot heal, and let us not forget – Nameless and I are group mates.  I am a bit more reliable then a hired porter when it comes to helping the group.  I remember Nameless trying to gain control over Zeke a while back – is Nameless trying to dominate people and becomes some lord?  This is something worth keeping an eye on. Megalomania has no place in this world – it leads to evil.  We got lucky without casualties, and continued on our path.Going along we encounter an area of magical illusion.  It is a large area, according to Nameless larger then what a spell of this type is normally.  Whoever casted this spell must have used some great magic.  We are close to the city and decide it is best to camp now, and get to the city refreshed in the morning.At night, I am giving some of the porters a lesson about the Silver Flame.  I eventually notice the rest of the group is not around and as I stand up to look for the group I see a giant walking in.  I tell the porters to stand back, but do not attack – just in case the giants are non-hostile.  The giants begin to shout in their language and Corven says they are calling us food.  We go into battle – with spells flying – Nameless and Luna start to disable their targets with area spells that blind and hamper movement.  Impressive!  I charge forward to attack one of the giants, and he hits me once before I get to him. Then Nameless gives me some support by throwing two of his pseudonatural bison at the giant I am fighting.  As the creature is distracted, I smite it with all my strength and divine might doing considerable damage.  This creature, cries in pain and then turns to me.  I have a feeling he would kill me, but then he smashes down on Kizmet – shattering it to pieces!! Not again!  I scream in anger, and the giant turns and ignores me for the bison.  Then the giant goes down, and I ensure it’s death by stabbing the remains of Kizmet into it’s throat.As the group goes to make sure the other giants are dead, I gather Kizmet and carefully put it together, assembling the pieces on the ground – the porters look at me oddly.  I then place my hands upon it, praying to the Silver Flame to grant the same miracle as it did once before.  My hands start to glow, and Kizmet forms back on itself – I am exhausted – a lot more then the last time.  It feels as if more of my souls has been sucked from me – but Kizmet is whole and it seems stronger then before.I grab Kizmet and I feel a sensation of relief, but it takes me a moment and I realize the sensation is not my own, but of Kizmets!  It feels now, and I can tell that it feels!  Kizmet is sentient.</blockquote>

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