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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 7557112" data-attributes="member: 9255">UNDER A DARKSUN“LOST & MISERABLE“SEGMENT 160WINDS     DAY 23YEAR 23    RAL CONTEMPLATION KING’S    AGE 190CRESCENT FOREST- BETWEEN GULG AND NIBENAY“Breakfast is ready.” Cosa announces.The erdlu eggs were a welcome find.  Escaping with them from an angry mother- not so welcome.They discover a small trickling bit of water coming out of a crack in the rocks.   They wash and later frolic in the water as young lovers will.  Refreshed, they head out from the nice little grove.  The whole time they were being watched an elven druid.   She says and does nothing as the two have done nothing to harm her grove.  That said, using birds and little creatures resembling rats with furry tails, the druid follows their progress to the NE.“I hope she is okay.”“I am sure Belinda is fine.  From what we found out in North Ledo, it is someone whom knows her that has taken her.   He is returning her to their home- in The Black Spine Mountains.  We’ll see to it she is fine and if not, get her out of there.” Adds Mania watching a strange insect with large and colorful fluttering wings.  “HEY!    I know what that is!  It was in one of your books…. A fire…. No…a fairfly…, a Fairy!” “No silly boy.   That is not a fairy.   Those have been dead for several centuries. It’s a butterfly.”  Giggling, she hurries after him and the butterfly.   They give chase for several hundred feet until they find themselves exposed in a field of dry tall grass and brush.  “What is that?”Cosa motions to the forest’s edge once more.  They can see remains of a stone structure largely surrounded by shade trees.  Going there Mania slows down and places his hands on his weapons- two Singing Sticks.  “I think we are not alone.”  He nods to a spot near the structure.  In the deep shadows, standing in thick green grass stands a dark slender figure.“Maybe we should just go.   I’m sure how close we are to the territories of Gulg or Nibenay but we don’t want to alert the Templars of either to know we are here.” Cosa adds placing a hand on his.Watching the figure, they witness the figure drop to the knees as if injured.  Both can’t help it but move forward towards the shadowed figure.  As they get closer, they see a nude dark skinned female with elven traits but short- very short for an elf.  Perhaps a child except for she has a grown woman’s figure.  She has dropped to her knees next to a shallow pool of water that lies under the shadows of the trees here.“Hello?   Hello- What is wrong?  Can we help?” Mania calls out.A burst of small animals scurry away into the woods and birds fly away.  Ripples within the water suggest animals moving away here also.  “We mean no harm.” Calls Cosa.[DM NOTES nat 20 and 19 on saves- nice]The young woman is crying and sobbing.  Both the warrior and mage can feel her pain and sorrow.  She is incredibly beautiful and seems like a perfect fit for this area.She looks up , tears are streaming down her cheeks.  “The land…..it is sick…. I weep for it.”Looking warily to each other the two stop about 30ft from her.  She is unlike anything they have seen.  Mania looks her over carefully from foot to head and back.  Trembling more than he realizes, he speaks softly to her.  “Are you…. A Fey?”   Cosa crushes his hand for suggesting such a thing.The sobbing woman stops and sniffles a bit.   She slowly gets up and turns around to face the darker areas of the forest.  She looks over her shoulder in a tempting way and begins to walk away.“No!   please- wait.  I want to talk to you.  He would have chased after her if Cosa was not holding his wrist.  The woman looks back once more then her dark skin begins to blend into the dark shadows and she disappears.  Together, Cosa and Mania cautiously walks to the pond and looks to where she disappeared.  A small cave, maybe four foot high and wide can be seen.  The woman’s home they guess.  Before Mania can suggest they investigate something disturbs more birds from the ruins.</blockquote>

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