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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lars Frehse" data-source="post: 271775" data-attributes="member: 1674">A veshian VoyageThe armored slitheren charged into the adventurers and engaged in melee while the two bowmen shot arrows. Torn and Jan tried to get to Karst, but one of the armored ones kept blocking the way.Torn fell into a rage and swung his axe. He hit him with the rage of Kadum in his body, and hitting his neck, he chopped off the slitheren’s head. Then, he charged at Karst, but the slitheren cast a spell and disappeared. By now, the other armored ratman had wounded Niklas, and as Ben healed the monk, Eochaid crossed his sword with the blade of the slitheren. Meanwhile, the rat-druid had cast a spell, and he was throwing small balls of fire that kept appearing in his hand at the adventurers.Jan defeated one of the bowwielding rats with his sword and Trepat killed another one by magic, but then Karst reappeared behind the druid and cast a spell at Eochaid, knocking him out with a magical missile.Torn and Jan now engaged the remaining fighter. This one was obviously more experienced and disciplined then the ones they had fought untill then. On his shield, he was wearing the sign of his brood- a white ratskull on a black background.He blocked Torn’s axe and then used Torn’s rage against him- the half orc had opened his defense, and the ratman struck him at his neck. Torn fell down bleeding, and Ben circled around to close the wound of his dying friend.Trepat cast a sleep spell at the druid and the wizard who had posed as a human earlier, and the wizard fell asleep. Now, the other rat cast a spell, and a scimitar of fire appeared in his hand.Just then, Jan succeeded in finding an opening in his tired opponent’s defense and struck him down, just in time to face the druid of Chern. Trepat and Ben where holding their fire, since they didn’s want to hit their friends, and Jan struck the remaining rat, but as the rat attacked in turn, they saw that his armor offered no protection against the fire of the blade. Heavily wounded, he went down.Now, Ben and Trepat shot their sling and arrow, and they hit him again. The druid was heavily wounded but still standing by now, and he went after Ben. The little halfling dodged his blows, and as he was avoiding the blows, Trepat hit the rat again, felling him.All their enemies were defeated by now, and not losing any time, Ben went around and healed his companions while Trepat walked to the sleeping wizard, and chopped of the slitheren’s head with his scimitar.When Eochaid was healed, he pointed at the symbol the rats wore:” Those are Chern’s followers, the diseased ones. They seem to be interested in uniting the other slitheren under their fist, and they are also the most civilized ones. As far as we know, they have entire towns and cities in the mourning marshes.“Actually, we have waged full scaled battles against them, and not won all of them. I can imagine that they intended to strengthen their ties with the blood witches with the amphora…”Once all off the companions were doing well enough to be standing again, they thanked their gods for victory and then went over to looting their defeated enemies. Then, they followed the slitheren’s trail, and turning around a corner, they stood in front of six strange beasts.They were horsesized rats, and they wore saddles and bridles. Obviously, they were the riding animals of the heroes’ purchasers. Ben cautiously approached them, making calming noises, and after a little while, he had succeeded in putting the beast at ease about his presence.He examined the animals that towered above him and seeing, that their front legs were shorter than their hindlegs, he figured out that those rats seemed to walk on their hindlegs and run with their bodies almost paralell to the ground.“I could ride one of those”, he said, smiling brightly and then went over to examine the animals in order to find the strongest and kindest one for himself.Once he had picked a female as his riding animal, he cut the others loose, sending them of into the night.Niklas approached him:”You know that we are in the grainbelt of Vesh, here?”“Sure. This means that they won’t have to suffer from starvation, at least!”.Niklas shrugged and after Ben had cut them loose, the sun was already rising, and they rode towards Lave. Ben used his druidic powers to bond his horserat to himself, but the horses of the others were still nervous around the rat, and so Ben stayed in the back, happy as a clam about his new companion.The sun was shining down at them and later that day, when Torn was riding next to Jan he asked the Paladin:”And, you don’t mind he let those rats lose here in the middle of all those farms and villages?”“Oh, don’t worry. I have checked, and they aren’t evil”, Jan answered.But this doesn’t dull their claws and teeth, Torn thought. He was pretty certain that a farmer or a cow was no match for a rat like the one Ben was riding now. Jan had a good heart, but sometimes he was a rather naïve man…For the rest of their journey to Lave, nothing exciting happened. The only hostility they encountered were occasional farmers who weren’t happy to see a rat that was bigger then any of their farm animals. But seeing a Paladin and a Vigilant usually convinced them that everything was under control.So, after another week, they reached Lave, the capital of Vesh. The city was built with granite and marble and it’s rooftops were shining in the sun. Leaving Ben, who’s rat wasn’t allowed inside, behind, they walked straight to the Hall of Command.After stating their purpose, they were shown directly to Vigilant Marshal Kinthas Ardante Silverblade, the highest ranking Vigilant. The seasoned veteran thanked them, and at last, they were able to give the Amphora out of their hands, and for all of them it felt like rocks that were no longer pressing on their heart.They were rewarded with gold and a wand that enhanced the strength of a man, and then after a small dinner in their honor they were free again, and they could resume their journey to Mithril at leisure.The next days, they relaxed and recovered, replenished their provisions and bought some scrolls and a new wand of healing, since the one they had found in Squirrel Nutkin’s forest was almost emptied by now.Then, they said good bye to their new friend Eochaid, and left Lave, following the Hornswythe river towards Mullis town.</blockquote>

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