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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 2437246" data-attributes="member: 9255">EBERRON07/23/05SEGMENT 091“Death From Below”“I’ve seen smaller dragons!” complains Cedious as he swats at a woodland gnat.“Gold or Silver?” asks Vale not understanding the sarcasm.  “I have not ever seen a live dragon.  You are very lucky indeed.”The entire group, even their elven fighter rolls their eyes.  It has been five days now of walking through the dense forest that is the Eldeen Reaches.  The trees are tall and thick.  Thick vines hang from the high branches in this section.  There is little ground foliage. The group has seen several groups of wolves and even a bear from the distance.  There has been no other danger.  Once roughly every hour Vale checks if they are going in the correct direction.“I could go for a lift now that runs horizontally.” Adds Cedious.  “My blisters have blisters!”“Hurph.  Whatever.” Says the i/2 giant warrior.  Black sands is bored.  He has killed nothing in three days and the chipmunks did little to curb his needs then.  “How much longer until we find this “trap”?”“I fear we are many weeks away.  We are roughly 500 miles away.  That airship was supposed to bring us within weeks distance.  The Claw saw to us not having that advantage.”“So Cannith South will beat us there easily then.”  Says Taskerdoo riding his dinosaur that is beginning to show signs of fatigue.  The cold-blooded animal doesn’t much care for the cold and snow of early winter.  “I can only hope they are being delayed.  Some of our recon work suggested an outside party that is slowing down or at least challenging certain groups.  We ourselves were delayed when going to search for you in the Talenta Plains.  That delay allowed us time to discover the location of Drogan’s Trap.”“Really?  I can’t imagine anyone doing that with us.  Me especially.” Quips the rogue as he picks up several small stones.“We can not tell if this group is for or against us.  They help and hinder on a whim.”“If you do not know who they are can you tell us anything to aid us to spot them? Asks the Human fighter Sharshek.“Not much.  Many races are covered within the group.  There does seem to a pattern in dress however.  They allows have the colors of bronze, red and black.  And the members may have a lot of magic on them.  All of their weapons and their eyes glow bright blue.”Cedious fumbles his throw of the stone.  It bounces off a trunk and nearly strikes the elf that only scowls at the halfling.  “Really…. That seems odd.”Taskerdoo turns to him.  “Didn’t you say a bugbear with blue eyes required your aid in Darguun?”“Nope.  No such thing.”  Cedious suddenly realizes he has been duped and is quite embarrassed by it.  NO ONE has ever tricked him like this.  The bugbear and the human were using him.  Who were they and who was their boss?  More complications.Unnoticed by any but Taskerdoo, the dinosaur slows down and becomes nervous.  Taskerdoo shuts out the party’s conversation and listens.  Vale stops in mid stride.  “The insects and birds have stopped calling.”Suddenly the ground opens up beneath the elf and he falls in.  Taskerdoo whom was next to the elf sees a brief flash of armor.Sounds of death and screams of agony and terror erupt from the hole.  Cedious and Sharshek peer in with their weapons drawn.  About ten feet down a creature can be seen in part.  It has heavy armor plating.  It begins to back up as Vale steps up and drops a pebble with a light spell on it.  He hopes to see the creature better and maybe it will go away with a bright light being introduced to its tunnel.  A great roar comes out instead and the creature backs up and leaps to the top.  Taskerdoo recalls a creature of this sort.  “BULLETTE!”“Bull what?!?” yells Cedious as he moves away from the huge hulking creature of heavy armor plating and teeth (red with elven blood).  The group surrounds it to attack.  Many of their blows bounce off the plating.  Black sands takes a vicious hit.  Then Sharshek is leapt onto.  Everyone does what he or she can.  Vale has few spells to directly attack the creature.  He supports the group with healing and strength in the name of the Sun’s Spirit (Pelor).  Finally the creature is beginning to show signs of slowing down a second one shows up!“More blood for my weapon!” yells the barbarian as he switches targets.  The first Bulette blinds Sharshek as it tries to bite him again.  The light empowered pebble has been bitten and wedged into the teeth of the creature.  Each time it opens its mouth strong light pours out.  It looks more harmful than it truly is.  An observer would wonder what kind of breath weapon the Bulette has acquired.The first one goes down and then the concentrate on the second possible mate of the first.  It goes down shortly after.“AAAARRRRRRGH!   I want more!”  Bellows the enraged barbarian.  The party now worries more about their strong ally.They peer into the hole using the pebble.  The shattered and torn up elf is below.  It appears it was bitten but once then torn up.  Maybe elves taste bad adds Cedious as a joke.They try to save any of his equipment before moving on.</blockquote>

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