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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 2358174" data-attributes="member: 9255">EBERRON06/11/05SEGMENT 082“TROLL & SHORT”The group set up in a single room with two exits / entrances.  They give Taskerdoo their last healing potion and hope for the best (+5 bummer).  He seems to improve but is still too weak to do anything.  They block one entrance with blocks and branches.  It may not stop anyone but it will alert them, even a rogue or ranger.The other entrance is blocked with stones and more branches.  They take turns watching the barricades as they rest.  That night, something large is heard walking boldly into the cave.  The creature is taking deep sniffs and tracking the blood spilt from Taskerdoo and Black sands.  A troll.The creature bursts in and suddenly the group is in a great deal of trouble.  Without their druid / mage, they have little for fire and no acid.  They know enough about trolls to know this can be a deadly incident.They attack it and attack and attack it.  It regenerates some of the damage done each time but the damage is slowly overwhelming the creature.  Finally it goes down and they take turns hacking into it and burning it with lit stick.  The smoke can not escape the space well but slowly the troll is destroyed.  Black sands drags it away since the smell is so bad.Two days go by.Taskerdoo is weak but does what little healing he can.  It is little but enough to grow stronger.  They prepare to attempt to leave but see signs of the archer.  He is testing them and playing a game with them.  The troll may have been directed by the warforged into the caves for all they know.They decide to go deeper into the caves.  Maybe there is a secret way out or a magic item inside that can save them.  Instead they find many more traps.  Cedious is not impressed.  They are shoddy and yet one did knick him.  Nothing serious but it is so wrong.They come across a shoddy barricade.  Lose blocks of stone hold several branches up.  Cedious spots something in the sandy ground.  Sharshek spots an arrow tip in the branches.  “Archer!”  After everyone takes cover to the sides of the wall they see the trip cord leads to the barricade.  The bow must be set to fire if tripped.  This is a new trap and not built by the original occupants.  Short.  The warforged bastard.“Looking for me fleshbags?” Everyone turns and sees a short in stature warforged wearing a green and black cloak.  Strangely it is wearing leather armor also.  Its lower jaw is over sized and comical.“Not really but what the heck.” Offers the halfling as he hopes to escape.  They are not ready for this kind of battle.Sharshek considers the arrow trap.  It could be used against the warforged.Black sands says something that can not be repeated on EN World.Taskerdoo wonders how he will survive when the effort of walking hurts.  But the memory of his lost wolf is still strong in his mind.  He draws strength from his memory of Gnarl. (even if as a player he has already decided what his next creature will be)VERY suddenly the short warforged charges them.  Its twin glowing short swords flash as it draws them forth.  Black sands takes a vicious hit that nearly drops him.  The warforged ranger stops and twirls its blades to intimidate the group.  As one, they all attack and all miss the very agile foe. (AC 23 DEX 24) Black sands rages and attacks.  He is hit three times by short swords and nearly loses his head as the lower jaw lurches out and bites him cruelly.  He stumbles back in pain and surprise.  Sharshek decides this battle is over and goes to leave.  Taskerdoo has already left but is moving very slowly.  Cedious drinks his last potion of invisibility and back tracks hoping to hide in the darkness.  The rage is nearly spent by the surprise bite attack.  Black sands shouts curses and names while checking on his wounds.  He can not help himself.  On hearing “flesh bag” once more he attacks.Sharshek discovers the arrow and bow are rigged to a separate cord.  The trip cord Cedious found was a rouse.  Angry by how this forged is playing with them and their strengths/weaknesses; he strikes down the bow.From the safety of the barricade, Taskerdoo uses his wand of magic missiles to weaken the ranger.  The ranger charges them to their surprise and pain.  Sharshek goes down (-6  FORGOT  Species Enemy: Human) and finally realizing that if his teammates die, he will die soon enough, Cedious returns and strikes a vicious hit on the ranger.  Between the invisibility and the unique nature of this forged, Cedious scores a few sneak attacks.  Black sands crits and hammers it hard.  Suddenly there is hope.  The mutated ranger warforged prepares to kill Black sands when the weak halfling druid / mage strikes it with the wand once more.  The forged goes down.They stabilize Sharshek and look to loot the body of Short.  “I hate Talenta Plains… lets go.” Quips Cedious.No one disagrees, not even the local druid.DM NOTES:  Short is a member of the 87.  When the Lord of Blades found the creation foundry in the mourning lands he hoped to use it and improve on it.  He over powered the damaged unit and only 87 warforged were created before it broke.  These 87 all have unique abilities or properties. SHORT has no natural armor but is incredibly fast and has an overbite problem that it learned to use to kill with.</blockquote>

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