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<blockquote data-quote="elfstone" data-source="post: 5674056" data-attributes="member: 83937"><p><strong>Session THree 09/02/11</strong></p><p></p><p>From the recollections of Dageus the Britain Druid</p><p></p><p></p><p>I think it has only been four or five days since the storm that left us stranded in this desert. Of our original company, only Belrix, Dageus and one of the slave still remain. The dangers in the pyramid would have been a challenge for the them, but fortunately a rogue by the name of Umbra led others into the ruins and the two groups united.</p><p></p><p>There was Charzek, a mage, and his companion Grundark, an ex slave, and Caiphus, a Roman priest.</p><p></p><p>Together we stripped what we could from the fallen and abandoned the bee filled chamber. Charzek claimed the sack of coins which bore 175D and 270S in coins. It was clear by the number of bodies in the room beyond it that the risk was not worth the reward.</p><p></p><p>We traveled back to chamber were we encountered the beetles and where Dageus was nearly left for dead and continued through the northern most of the two remaining doors. Umbra more than earned his place in the party by carefully checking for traps along the way. His discovery saved us all from additional harm, even if it meant that he bore the brunt of several of the traps along the way.</p><p></p><p>With the glowing orbs we pried from the beetles lighting our way, we soon came to an abandoned, dust covered room filled with rotting linens and crates. Nothing was salvageable there, so we moved on. The next room we discovered was occupied small people with delicate wings. I suspect they were sprites. They were not hostile and seemed eager to talk. Charzek and Umbra were able to communicate to the small creatures as some spoke Greek and others spoke Egyptian.</p><p></p><p>The sprites were having what looked like a party. Dageus even hummed along to their singing while the others tried to communicate with them. The dance floor was a half dozen crates. Like most of the items found the crates were in poor shape and only two had anything of value in them. Several small bags of some sort of black powder (6 in total), 5 paper and wooden candles, an additional five candles mounted on sticks with long wicks and 16 strings of finger like candles. Charzek took the bags and hung them from his belt, then we left the sprites on what I believe to be good terms.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately we were still no closer to finding food or water.</p><p></p><p>The next room we explored had three urns, each about four foot tall, by the door. Two of the urns were empty and the third was filled with sand. Inside the room, the floor was covered in a wet, green slimy substance. Grundark entered the room and the slime with a dagger. The slime corroded the dagger and Charzek dragged Grundark out of the room.</p><p></p><p>We had reached a dead end and decided to go back to the beetle room and try the last doorway. Before leaving Dageus created water in one of the urns. It was not much, but it served to quench our thirsts and to fill two of the waterskins.</p><p></p><p>Back to the beetle room, we pushed on through the third door. Umbra continued to clear the way ahead of us with Belrix never too far from his side. An abandoned room was discovered that contained a wooden holy symbol, and across the hall from it was another one, but as we stepped into the room a blue spotted lizard climbed out from behind a rotting bed. It had been feeding on a man when we startled it. Belrix charged in and swung his axe. The force of the blow nearly destroyed the bed, but completely missed the lizard. Caiphus and Umbra stepped forward to assist him while the others remained outside the room. A second lizard fell from the ceiling attacking Umbra while Belrix was bitten several times by the one in front of him. Instead of continuing to fight them, the group made a strategic withdraw out of the room, securing the door behind them.</p><p></p><p>Caiphus prayed to his god to heal the wounds suffered by Umbra. The combination of the attack and the traps had taken their toll on him, and he would have had a tough time of it without the healing Caiphus offered. Caiphus was also able to bandage the wounds suffered by Belrix.</p><p></p><p>Seeing the lizards as a potential food source, it was decided that the group would attack them again. This time one of the two flasks of oil would be used. It would be lit on fire and tossed into the room then the door would be sealed. When the oil burned out, the group once more rushed in. The fire claimed one of the lizards, but the other was only slightly singed. The band attacked together, but the lack of food for the last several days was showing its effect as swing after swing seemed to have little aim or effect against the creature. Finally though, they were able to bring down the last lizard with only minor wounds. Grundark with a new dagger provided by Dageus rushed in to stand with Belrix and the others and took a few minor scratches for his trouble.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Butchering one of the corpses provided meat for the party. The second corpse was left on a trap to keep it from resetting. The body that they were consuming was a pale humanoid wearing a feather outfit and a golden bird like mask. Charzek claimed the mask.</p><p></p><p>We moved on from this room to the end of the hall where it joined with another running perpendicular to the first. We took the right path and soon discovered another trap. I had lost count of the number that we had found, I was just grateful that we managed to avoid most of them. This one was a pit trap that when triggered opened two panels at the bottom. Nothing seemed to happen and we decided to climb down and then up the other side to continue down the hall.</p><p></p><p>At the end of the hall was two doors on the right and a statue of a bearded man at the end. Umbra was excited as the statue appeared to be gold, but Charzek discovered it was simply wood with a golden paint on it. Probably worthless unless one was a collector.</p><p></p><p>Growing tired, and perhaps a bit reckless, Caiphus opened one of the doors while Umbra opened the other. Room after room had been abandoned, so it was no surprise that we expected these to be as well. They weren't. In one room was five men and in the other was six. Both rooms contained bunks and the men all wore the strange bird like masks. Clearly outnumbered, we tried to be as non-threatening as possible in an effort to befriend these folks while Charzek tried to explain about the mask we had found.</p><p></p><p>Fortunately we made a good impression. It seems they are the Brotherhood of Gorm, and their leader is Grandmaster Kanadras. He was easily identified in the group by the higher quality of the mask he wore. They have rivals, the Magi of Usamigaras and the Madians of Madarura. It not an open conflict, but it does sound like it has the potential to turn deadly.</p><p></p><p>They asked us to join them and they would provide us with food, water and supplies. They seemed very eager to gain the favor of Umbra and Belrix. The two men who looked most different from them. Before making any commitment we asked to hear more about these men and the others that inhabit these ruins.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>DM EDIT: the Brother of Grom wore Golden mask of a bearded Man with a Stern look, deffently not the Bird like mask you found earlier. and her by Man it looks Roman,greek or possiably illerian however it quite strange and kind og looks like all three bleanded together.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="elfstone, post: 5674056, member: 83937"] [b]Session THree 09/02/11[/b] From the recollections of Dageus the Britain Druid I think it has only been four or five days since the storm that left us stranded in this desert. Of our original company, only Belrix, Dageus and one of the slave still remain. The dangers in the pyramid would have been a challenge for the them, but fortunately a rogue by the name of Umbra led others into the ruins and the two groups united. There was Charzek, a mage, and his companion Grundark, an ex slave, and Caiphus, a Roman priest. Together we stripped what we could from the fallen and abandoned the bee filled chamber. Charzek claimed the sack of coins which bore 175D and 270S in coins. It was clear by the number of bodies in the room beyond it that the risk was not worth the reward. We traveled back to chamber were we encountered the beetles and where Dageus was nearly left for dead and continued through the northern most of the two remaining doors. Umbra more than earned his place in the party by carefully checking for traps along the way. His discovery saved us all from additional harm, even if it meant that he bore the brunt of several of the traps along the way. With the glowing orbs we pried from the beetles lighting our way, we soon came to an abandoned, dust covered room filled with rotting linens and crates. Nothing was salvageable there, so we moved on. The next room we discovered was occupied small people with delicate wings. I suspect they were sprites. They were not hostile and seemed eager to talk. Charzek and Umbra were able to communicate to the small creatures as some spoke Greek and others spoke Egyptian. The sprites were having what looked like a party. Dageus even hummed along to their singing while the others tried to communicate with them. The dance floor was a half dozen crates. Like most of the items found the crates were in poor shape and only two had anything of value in them. Several small bags of some sort of black powder (6 in total), 5 paper and wooden candles, an additional five candles mounted on sticks with long wicks and 16 strings of finger like candles. Charzek took the bags and hung them from his belt, then we left the sprites on what I believe to be good terms. Unfortunately we were still no closer to finding food or water. The next room we explored had three urns, each about four foot tall, by the door. Two of the urns were empty and the third was filled with sand. Inside the room, the floor was covered in a wet, green slimy substance. Grundark entered the room and the slime with a dagger. The slime corroded the dagger and Charzek dragged Grundark out of the room. We had reached a dead end and decided to go back to the beetle room and try the last doorway. Before leaving Dageus created water in one of the urns. It was not much, but it served to quench our thirsts and to fill two of the waterskins. Back to the beetle room, we pushed on through the third door. Umbra continued to clear the way ahead of us with Belrix never too far from his side. An abandoned room was discovered that contained a wooden holy symbol, and across the hall from it was another one, but as we stepped into the room a blue spotted lizard climbed out from behind a rotting bed. It had been feeding on a man when we startled it. Belrix charged in and swung his axe. The force of the blow nearly destroyed the bed, but completely missed the lizard. Caiphus and Umbra stepped forward to assist him while the others remained outside the room. A second lizard fell from the ceiling attacking Umbra while Belrix was bitten several times by the one in front of him. Instead of continuing to fight them, the group made a strategic withdraw out of the room, securing the door behind them. Caiphus prayed to his god to heal the wounds suffered by Umbra. The combination of the attack and the traps had taken their toll on him, and he would have had a tough time of it without the healing Caiphus offered. Caiphus was also able to bandage the wounds suffered by Belrix. Seeing the lizards as a potential food source, it was decided that the group would attack them again. This time one of the two flasks of oil would be used. It would be lit on fire and tossed into the room then the door would be sealed. When the oil burned out, the group once more rushed in. The fire claimed one of the lizards, but the other was only slightly singed. The band attacked together, but the lack of food for the last several days was showing its effect as swing after swing seemed to have little aim or effect against the creature. Finally though, they were able to bring down the last lizard with only minor wounds. Grundark with a new dagger provided by Dageus rushed in to stand with Belrix and the others and took a few minor scratches for his trouble. Butchering one of the corpses provided meat for the party. The second corpse was left on a trap to keep it from resetting. The body that they were consuming was a pale humanoid wearing a feather outfit and a golden bird like mask. Charzek claimed the mask. We moved on from this room to the end of the hall where it joined with another running perpendicular to the first. We took the right path and soon discovered another trap. I had lost count of the number that we had found, I was just grateful that we managed to avoid most of them. This one was a pit trap that when triggered opened two panels at the bottom. Nothing seemed to happen and we decided to climb down and then up the other side to continue down the hall. At the end of the hall was two doors on the right and a statue of a bearded man at the end. Umbra was excited as the statue appeared to be gold, but Charzek discovered it was simply wood with a golden paint on it. Probably worthless unless one was a collector. Growing tired, and perhaps a bit reckless, Caiphus opened one of the doors while Umbra opened the other. Room after room had been abandoned, so it was no surprise that we expected these to be as well. They weren't. In one room was five men and in the other was six. Both rooms contained bunks and the men all wore the strange bird like masks. Clearly outnumbered, we tried to be as non-threatening as possible in an effort to befriend these folks while Charzek tried to explain about the mask we had found. Fortunately we made a good impression. It seems they are the Brotherhood of Gorm, and their leader is Grandmaster Kanadras. He was easily identified in the group by the higher quality of the mask he wore. They have rivals, the Magi of Usamigaras and the Madians of Madarura. It not an open conflict, but it does sound like it has the potential to turn deadly. They asked us to join them and they would provide us with food, water and supplies. They seemed very eager to gain the favor of Umbra and Belrix. The two men who looked most different from them. Before making any commitment we asked to hear more about these men and the others that inhabit these ruins. DM EDIT: the Brother of Grom wore Golden mask of a bearded Man with a Stern look, deffently not the Bird like mask you found earlier. and her by Man it looks Roman,greek or possiably illerian however it quite strange and kind og looks like all three bleanded together. [/QUOTE]
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