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Message: <blockquote data-quote="War Golem" data-source="post: 953412" data-attributes="member: 142">The party prepares for their upcoming trip to the Frozen Bloodlands.Six spends some time arranging to hire on-site staff for her new keep. She settles on Reginald, an elderly nali butler who will supervise her staff as well as the initial furnishing of the place.Heian and Kimchee visit the Academy of Magic where they hope to both do some research and have Heian’s Gloves of Power examined more thoroughly. Kimchee ends up purchasing an annual membership to gain access to the Academy’s open stacks, where he spends the better part of a week researching various topics: Taukemel, the Radior Stone, the Crystal Sea, Kurag, Heian’s Gloves.Jenna is contacted telepathically by Rhianna Dale. The high priestess suggests the Questioning travel across the Crystal Sea to the Misty Lake and find the elf called Tam, who will aid their quest.Kimchee’s research on the Crystal Sea reveals that magic is wild and unreliable around this body of water. Six still wants to wind walk across the sea, but the rest of the party feels less confident in the magic. The party considers traveling overland all the way around the sea, but discards that route as well – the way is long and very mountainous. In the end they decide to ride north to Auralon and take ship across the sea.Oroluin and Falko are recruited to join the group on this quest. The party rides out of Bristol amidst a torrential downpour. During the ride, Heian spots a small chipmunk cross the road in front of the party. Later that night, Kimchee and Falko are on watch when they hear a very loud roar from a mile away. Soon after is a bright flash of light from much closer. The entire party is awake and donning their armor when a chipmunk runs into the light of their fire, looking scared. The party is trying to decide what to make of the little chipmunk when a huge beast appears out of the darkness in front of the chipmunk’s path. Twenty feet at the shoulder, with three-foot claws and razor fangs, the beast is like something out of a nightmare. The little chipmunk comes screeching to a halt and turns to flee back the other way, leaving the party facing the beast across the flickering campfire.The battle is joined as the party assaults the huge beast, but it seems more focused on the little chipmunk, around whom the beast creates a wall of fire. Heian decides the chipmunk is more then it appears and races through the wall of fire to investigate. He is only mildly surprised when the tiny chipmunk transforms itself into a twenty foot tall baboon creature and begins letting out ear-splintering roars.By now, the beast has turned its attention to the rest of the party and, despite its formidable natural weaponry, engages the party with spells such as chain lightning. Before long, the party proves too much for both of the beasts. The giant baboon flees into the nighttime darkness, and the beast, severely wounded, simply disappears.The party continues heading north towards Auralon. Once in the Wildwood, first Heian and then several of the party members become aware of creatures pacing them in the woods on either side of the road. On the third day of travel through the Wildwood, the stalkers attack - eight leopard-like beasts that transform into brutish, wolverine-like creatures. They are tough and aggressive, but the party dispatches them and continues on, not far now from their destination.</blockquote>

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