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Message: <blockquote data-quote="spacehulkster" data-source="post: 2349225" data-attributes="member: 13070">Earlier that morning Pudge, Meepo and the 3 Elves (Thalez, Elric and Valen) are feeling brave and investigate the large hall that lays beyond the goblin barracks.  The hallway has three other exits.  One on the North, East and South.  They choose to go north.  This door leads into another hallway with two other exits, North and East.Again they choose the north door and enter what seems to be some sort of garden with a bugbear tending to some burnt plants.The encounter is short, but raises all 5 of the parties bloodlust.  They race through the only other exit from this room into a chamber with an eerie reddish glow, emanating from the eye sockets of a huge marble statue of a rearing dragon atop a circular dias.  This stops the party cold. “Let’s leave this statue alone!” Valen exclaims.  “I’ve got a creepy feeling.  Let’s take this exit here to my right.”“What harm can come from us searching this statue.  Those eyes have to be gems of some kind!” Elric points out.“Let him look,” Pudge seconds.  Meepo eagerly nods his head up and down to Pudge’s words.“I’ll be by the door here,” Thalez says cowardly.As Elric begins to examine the statue, he feels a cold touch go through him, but he is undamaged.  A second later Pudge cries out, “OOH, that’s cold!  I feel weakened.”Valen spots the shadow and attempts to launch arrows into it, to no effect.  Thalez, following the path of the arrows, sees it also and begins an assault with his sword, striking home.  As the shadow retreats for cover, Elric is able to land a telling blow and the creature is no more.“Pudge, you all right?” cries Elric.“I…I don’t know.  I feel similar to when that Quasit hit me a few days ago,” Pudge reflects.“Meepo help fanged friend,” the kobold offers a shoulder for Pudge to rest a leg onto.  Pudge quickly declines Meepo’s offer after taking note of Meepo’s relative height to his own.“I can make it, onward!” insist Pudge.The next room holds a library, now in a shambles.  Broken bookshelves, torn and burnt pages and scrolls litter the floor.  Not interested in reading anything and hungry for blood and treasure the five press on.  They find a stairway down going under the garden area they had entered previously.  It raises up on the other side and the hall turns to the south.  Elric keeps a slow and watchful pace up front, checking for traps.  The hall ends with two doors on the east wall 30 feet apart.Elric approaches the first door and checks for traps.  Unable to determine whether it is was trapped, he moves to the second door.  He determines there to be no traps on the second door and opens the door.  They look into a partial room with three cut walls, but the south wall is missing and beyond it, it is cavernous.  Sporadically spaced throughout the cavern, are briars, bushes and low brick crumbling walls.  A luminescent fungus covers the walls of the cavern giving off a violet hue.  “What place is this?” questions Thalez.“Meepo no like!  Meepo stay here,” Meepo whimpers.“Hush little buddy.  You’ll be fine!” encourages Pudge.The group slowly moves into the grove.  Valen warily notches an arrow.  Elric steps quietly towards the west wall of the cavern, attempting to hide.  Thalez trails behind, constantly checking his bow, dagger and hefting his sword.  They are all on edge.“Did you see movement ahead?” whispers Valen inquiringly.“Watch yourselves, these briars are barbed,” Elric points out.Thalez hears something behind him and whirls around, his sword sweeping in front of him.  But upon surveying the area, he sees nothing.At this point, they all stop, gaping in awe at the large tree ahead of them.  Three human figures stand under it.“Welcome, we have been expecting you.  Please come forward,” the robed figure with a sickle motions.Elric instinctively flattens against the shadowed cave wall.  The other four step apprehensively forward ten feet.  A giant frog jumps in front of the robed figure, as does the male human, drawing his sword.  The female stands beside the robed figure, motionless.  In front of the male, 3 twig-bush like creatures rear up taking humanoid form.  “I’m not within a good range yet,” Valen whispers.“Who are you?” questiong Pudge.“I am the keeper of the Gulthias tree,” the robed figure responds.  “My name is Belak.  Please hold your actions a moment, you do not know what you do!  This tree brings life to the earth and it can bring you peace and a new life as well.  Submit to the tree peacefully or it will go worse for you!”“I’ve heard enough!” cries Valen, loosing an arrow at the robed figure.  The arrow is deflected by some sort of force field, “Oh poop!”</blockquote>

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