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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sniffles" data-source="post: 3339582" data-attributes="member: 30035">Caelen writes homeFrom: Caelen SiorathSharn, BrelandTo my family;Once again we've delayed our trip to Gatherhold. But it was a more worthwhile delay than caring for a diseased gang of thieves.The human and Dalia found more information about the false priest who took the enchanted key. He dropped a stone with some runes on it that the warforged recognized. We made our way to the Cogs in search of the place those runes could be found.After descending a long flight of steps we came to a chamber with a channel of lava running through it to a pool. Dalia searched the area carefully and found a way to drain the pool, revealing another flight of stairs. The pool started to refill quickly and I had to leap over the lava to get through the doorway.We came into a winding passage with more stairs. Zombies swarmed on us right away. Kylara sent several of them tumbling off the side of the stair into darkness. The rest overran the warforged and knocked it down. They clawed the changeling and weakened it before I could get into position to attack them. I destroyed one and Kylara took care of the rest.Dalia then found the mark of a green hand on the wall. It set off a blast of sound that hurt. This was by the entry to a room full of crates and barrels and discarded clothing. More zombies attacked while we searched. Kylara drove some of them off. I overran the zombies this time and killed two. The warforged fired energy projectiles out of its hand - a useful ability. The human fried some of them with lightning. They smelled foul. Kylara said they weren't typical zombies but something called ghasts.After we finished the ghasts off the human put an infusion on our weapons to harm undead. He's getting to be more useful now. I appreciate the belt he made for me. But neither he nor Dalia realized the danger when we came to a passage with lots of holes in the wall near the floor. We were swarmed by undead rats. They were hard to hit. The artificer infused us with resistance to flames and had his walking chest throw alchemist's fire on the rats, which did a good job of eliminating them. Perhaps I'll have him make me something that does fire damage.After descending further we came to another lava pool. Across it we could see a colonnaded structure. There was a sculpture of a dragon head protruding from the wall on our side of the pool. It reminded me of a mural we saw in the goblin ziggurat, you know, the one where we slew the vampire. I told the others what I remembered and Dalia realized that there was an invisible bridge across the lava.Creatures made of lava rose out of the pool and hurled blobs of magma at Dalia as she crossed. Kylara followed her while the warforged shot at the magma creatures. I ran across the narrow bridge and jumped past the women to get into the building. When I landed I saw a man come out from behind the columns. He yelled a warning out to someone called Veltargo - that was the name of the false priest. I charged him. A door opened behind him and a tall bony creature with long claws attacked me.I turned to fight the bony creature. It was like chopping wood with a sword. Even with the infusion against undead on one end of my scimitar it took me a long time to destroy it. Blasts of lightning and vials of alchemical fire flew over my shoulder as my companions attacked it too. Kylara summoned of a glowing thing to fight the man. I was sorely wounded by the time the bone creature fell. It had claws like long knives and unerring aim. I ran through the doorway behind it and found myself face to face with a soldier wearing the hated green claw emblem. I cut him down with one slash. There was a priest in the room. The warforged dropped him. But he wasn't the false priest we sought. The artificer ran back and opened a door, revealing a room containing the false priest and more green claw soldiers. He slammed the door shut, trapping the false priest in the room with us. The false priest had the magic key. The warforged knocked it out of his hand and he ran. I chased him, but he had some spell that would let him move in little hops and leaps, disappearing from view in between. He got away, but he took one of my arrows with him, stuck through his shoulder and coming out his chest.The artificer and Kylara and Dalia are all excited about some book they found. All I care is that the false priest was also the false vampire we met at Whitehearth, and the airship privateer who led us into trouble on the way to Darguun. It turns out he's a changeling called Garrow, if that's his real name. I'm going to have his scalp.Caelen____________________________________Quips & Quotes:[sblock]patv: "I don't do undead."Devo: "That's not what I've heard."DH: "You travel down to the bowels of the city."Devo: "Let's get out of here and disembowel ourselves."Zora: "Want somebody's knees broken? Because that's as far as I can reach."Zora: "I've only heard of crap rolling downstairs."Hedrin: "So you're at the bottom of the stairs?"Jubilee: "I didn't hear you rolling any dice!"DH: "I'm rolling them in my head. I'm that good."Zora: "Well there's something rolling around in there. I guess it's those dice you shoved up your nose when you were a kid."DH: "The dragon head has gemstone eyes."Zora: "Had."Devo: "They're very hot."Zora: "They will be once I take them."Zora: "Ooh, lava sharks jump over us."Jubilee: "I thought we were supposed to jump the shark."Zora: "Oh, we did that a long time ago."Devo: "So you're invisible and displaced?"Jubilee: "Aw, Dalia's a displaced person."Hedrin: "I attack with my longsword."Jubilee: "Wasn't that a bastard sword?"Zora: "Shrinkage."Jubilee: "Well, there are some cold spells in here."[/sblock]</blockquote>

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