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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 2525664" data-attributes="member: 9255">EBERRON08/20/05SEGMENT 106“Forest with Wood Bridges and Houses”The rogue opens the door after checking it for traps and other dangers.  A warm pleasant breeze comes in.  The sounds of birds chirping and startled chickmunks can be heard.  Opening the door more so that Sharshek may look they see large maple trees with green full leaves and a network of wooden bridges and homes within the trees.  Looking down they see grass and dirt.  The sunlight suggests it is mid day.Looking straight down, Cedious sees a mound of dry leaves and strongly considered jumping onto them.  Sharshek looks down and sees the rogue’s intention.  “I wouldn’t do that if I were you.”“Let me say what is good for me.”“Look again-  there’s a rock within those leaves.”Cedious looks again and frowns.  He missed that the first time and that would have hurt a great deal.  He shrugs his shoulders and jumps to the side of the pile.  The incredibly graceful rogue lands and rolls to a stop and waves for the others to follow.  The less agile ones that is.  Then he freezes.  From behind a large tree rises a long serpentine head.  Then another.  And another.  And more until six heads of a hydra snarl at the lone rogues.  He is no longer waving them on.  Now he is running away.   The Wolverine leaps into the creature and Sharshek is next whom drops and rolls.  The creature is very bad shape after having a one ton Dire Wolverine land on it and begin digging into its back.  Vale drops and lands with less grace.  Black sands looks at the creature and decides they have it under control.  He instead leaps into the tree to work his way down.The Hydra goes down very quickly as everyone piles on.  Cedious is only slightly chewed up by several bites that did land.“Find anything of use up there?” yells up the annoyed group to Black sands.“Only a tree house.”Cedious spots a wooden ladder to another tree house and runs to it.  Sharshek follows him to the tree.  They spot a halfling peering through some rails on the tree house.  “Hello!  Did you know you have a hydra here?” asks Cedious.  He continues to watch the halfling.  It doesn’t respond it merely steers.Cedious begins to climb up the wooden ladder.  Sharshek follows him.  Suddenly a large stone falls from above onto the ladder!  Cedious easily evades it and even Sharshek avoids it.  It strikes the ground before the Wolverine and the druid.  The ground caves in and crashes into a deep pit.“Bastard!” yells Sharshek at the halfling whom continues to peer out.“THAT   …that would have hurt.” Says Cedious whom scrambles up the ladder while trying to decide which organ to pierce with his rapier on the halfling.  At the top he looks at the halfling and sees only his face and arms.   “Spirit?”  Then he realizes what it is.  An illusion and bate to climb the ladder.  Then he can hear the druid yelling.The now opened pit has something within it other than the rock and debris.  Undead moans begin to emit from the darkness.  “Ghouls” answers Vale in displeasure.“Ghouls can turn us into ghouls … correct?” asks the Druid.“Yes….”, says the cleric as he reaches for his holy symbol of The Spirit (think Pelor), “…but I can destroy them.”The druid climbs off the Wolverine and it leaps in destroying a ghoul as it lands then tears them apart. “But NOT a Wolverine.” Smiles the druid.The Wolverine climbs out a few minutes later.  It is quite proud of itself.Cedious looks around for any thing of use.  Sharshek does so also after “cuffing” the illusion on the head.  Cedious finds a lose board and pulls it up.  Within are gloves with small hooked edges on the tips and webbing between the fingers.  Having a pair of these already, he offers them to Sharshek.  “They make you climb and swim better.” and he runs to the next bridge that leads to a new tree and dwelling.Meanwhile Black sands is investigating a very large tree house.  It is two stories tall and well made.  He climbs in (tight fit) and finds the first level is completely open.  Small furniture is thrown about and knocked over within this 15x15-foot space.  The ceiling is 7ft high thus his discomfort.  He spots a large batch of bloodstains before a plague.  It is written in a language he can not read.  He looks around some more and can hear the group yell about undead.  He pauses for a moment but decides there is no fight worth having there, as there is no sound there after of battle.  “damned cleric …ruins all the undead fun.” He quietly mumbles as he breaks a few boards looking for secret areas.  Finding nothing he looks to go up the stairs.  These stairs will not hold his weight so he is forced to back track and climb higher up the tree to reach the next level.Cedious crosses the bridge, which is covered with vines.  Vines of all kinds as it turns out.  As Sharshek walks under a hanging vine it suddenly withdraws narrowly missing his head.  “Damned thing tried to grab me!”Cedious stops and looks up to see what he is talking about and spots something else in the tree branches.  A long straight edged piece of wood.   Perhaps a staff?He climbs up there and finds the Assassin Vine is still coiling up and hacks at it.  Then he grabs the staff and comes down. (Pocket Magica page 98- Loremaster’s Aid).  He tries to identify it but can not.  The cleric follows and also can not identify it.  “Where is Black sand?” asks the cleric.  “That tree.” Says the rogue with little care.“All of this time?” asks the fighter.  “Shouldn’t we check on him?”Cedious scrambles over and finds the two-story building.  “wow….” He whispers.  “Maybe I should have looked here first!”  And with that the halfling investigates the dwelling.  His eyes spot the blood and follow it to the sign.  It is written in halfling.This is the meeting hall ofThe Tree Sliver Clan.  WeWelcome any and all whomAre peaceful and mean well“Uh ….Black sands ….are you here?”  He fears the “means well” part may lead to a curse against the ½ giant of questionable methods.  The creaks above suggest the ½ giant is still there.  Cedious takes to the stairs (designed for someone of his size and weight).  He hears the half-giant growl and drawing his weapon.</blockquote>

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