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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 2824948" data-attributes="member: 9255">EBERRON: THE CREATION SCHEMA02/18/06SEGMENT 192“Boddynoc Grinkle: Friend or Foe?”Capio arrives to see Cedious hacking away at a slagged chunk of metal while others are standing around him or speaking to the large Dire Wolf.  Cider turns with his blade at the ready- “Capio!   I could have killed you!”“Only if I wanted you to.  What is happening?”“It appears a friend of Cedious’ –““NOT a friend…” interrupts Cedious between swings.  His Adamantine rapier cuts into the sturdy metal but without enough leverage or raw strength, he can only cut so far and so deep.  He continues to cut at it like a sculptor would a piece of wood.“It appears Boddynoc may be alive and here trapped below.”“Incredible.” Says the mage with only some enthusiasm. Soon the halfling rogue has cut away a small piece.  It is just big enough for him to squeeze through and he does so.“Where are you going?   Wait for us.” Says Pebbles the cook while hefting her large hammer once more.The halfling waves and goes down without a further word.  Ticked off, the warforged warrior and Pebbles begin to work on the hinges.  They hope to pop the damaged lid off to follow Cedious.Cedious reaches the bottom and looks around.  The room is as he remembers it.  It is round with four colored doors.  Near the center is a podium with four colored slots where the keys go to turn or better –rotate the room into place.  He withdraws a colored key to follow what looks like a trail.  There is dried blood and oil like fluid on the floor leading to a doorway.   As he goes to enter the key he hears a hoarse voice call to him.In mid-turn he feels a beam of light wash over him and he finds himself stiffening up. A hold spell he curses to himself.A voice hidden in the darkness and with an invisibility spell mocks him.   “So –a thief comes to my new home.  I seriously doubt he sent you and I thought Cannith had given up on this place.  Who can this be?”Cedious wonders the same thing.  The voice and tone is not Boddynoc’s.  But when one breathes in a fiendish mutating gas that makes you into an undead one never really becomes warm and fuzzy anymore.  He wishes he could speak  …and curse out loud.He feels cold hands touch his rapier grasping hand and undead hands begin to appear.  “Argh.   Can’t pry it free.  Very well I will …cedious…..?”The [corpse Creature template] undead artificer stares at Cedious.  “It is you!  This is so good…. “, Darkness seems to dull the light of the lantern, “what are you doing here?”Cedious now knows that Boddynoc is to be trusted as a friend no longer.“You have come to steal from me!   You THIEF!”  The yellowed eyes bulge in anger as he stares at the rogue.  He withdraws a vile looking dagger and waves it before his face.  “I should gut you here and now.  It could only have been you that stole my belongings.  MY belongings.”  He goes to cut free the haversack when he hears a grunt and the snap of metal over head.  He pushes over the held rogue and drags him into a doorway once it is activated.  “How much longer will I be held?” wonders the thief.Above, The adventures have broken a damaged hinge and thus removed the melted and sliced up hatch lid.  They begin to climb down as Rorsa and her pack watch over the entrance along with a possible new member of the pack –Spirit.Capio, Cider, Pebbles, Bob and the warforged climb down and begin to search the round room.  Pebbles sees the old blood trail and decides to follow it.  She enters a new room and sees some tables and chairs.  Knowing when to strike, Boddynoc attacks before her darkvision begins to work.  The energy beam from his wand washes over her and disappears.  The next thing he knows is a large and heavily armored female dwarf is striking him yelling “Hammer Time!”  With his hand broken, he is quickly beaten down as the entire group surrounds him and beat on his undead body.  He never has chance to power up any rings or armor nor use his wands already empowered when discovered below the seas when he and asunder walked to shore from Starvos Island to Darguun.   Cedious comes out a mere moment later to find Boddynoc defeated.  He gives him a bone-crunching stomp anyway.  When Pebbles asks why he says that this undead has risen once already.They spend much of the late morning and afternoon looking around the facility.  Boddynoc’s slide into the dark side becomes most apparent when they discover the remains of a human and several warforged.  It appears the warforged (one was Asunder) was destroyed in a magical explosion and the human was slowly taken apart.  Many of these “pieces” were being assembled into a large freakish body.  Cider looked into a table with various items of power.  Many of these had water themes.“Com’on.  This isn’t why we came.  Lets look into the other hatches to find this Cannith guy in hiding.” Says Cedious.</blockquote>

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