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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elocin" data-source="post: 2140756" data-attributes="member: 207">Chapter 1 - The Whistling Stag"The Spine of The World is known for a great many dangers including dragons.  There are no known dragons around these parts...Well at least we have not seen any around this town anyway."  Quickleaf mentions with a chuckle.  "What is most on people's mind around here are obviously the lycanthropes in The Moonwood and outside of that are the normal groups of monsters that inhabit the mountains around us, basically you name it we got it up here somewhere.  So definitely be careful when you travel in this parts as you might be hunting something but I can guarantee that something else is hunting you."One of the older gentlemen sitting near Quickleaf speaks up when he hears Pemberton ask about the History of the Monastery.  "Sit down my young friend and I will tell you all I know about this Monastery, well I will tell you what stories were told to me by my grandfather anyway.  More than a century ago a group of monks founded the Fire Opal Monastery and they had little to do with the surrounding lands, thankfully as we found out later on.  It turns out they had dealings with the creatures of Hell.  See one of them monks was a little more evil than the others, His name was Endigon - Well if memory serves I think what his name, anyway back to the story.  He made an alliance with a Harpy Cleric from the Abyss would wanted some gem for some evil plot.  He then allied himself with a band of gnolls to assault the monastery so he would be able to get his hands on the gem and give it his new master.  As the gnolls were making short work of the other monks Endigon and the leader of the gnolls ventured into the dungeons os the monastery in search of the gem.  Well the Gnoll leader turned on Endigon and killed him before they found the gem.  The story says that this gnoll vowed to never leave the monastery until it found the gem and as far as my grandfather was concerned he is still there."  Looking into his empty mug the old timer continues, "Most people don't believe this story and to be honest I am not so sure my grandfather knew what he was talking about, he was just a simple farmer, but I did love the story none the less and have kept it close to me this past years.""Yes kind sir you can find Peryton's around here but they are at least two days travel to the north east of here on the other side of The Moonwood.  They can be quite difficult to hunt, what with them flying and all, but if you know how to track them and know what to look for they can be easy prey."  Looking around him a bit he leans in, "If you are interested in hunting them I would be more than happy to lead you as I am the best hunter around in these parts."  Again you see him casually look around to see if anyone over heard what he just said.(ooc: still working on getting that map up for you guys.  My weekend was somewhat filled with too much World of Warcraft but I did make it to level 60 Sat night, Yea!!!)</blockquote>

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