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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wraithdrit" data-source="post: 866238" data-attributes="member: 10820">Session 6Ruins of TethyamarEleint 28th, 1372 Late Morning The three companions hated the waiting more than anything else. Tanerus sat in one corner, fidgeting with the corner of his cloak. Durgaden leaned on the wall near the door, fully clad in his armor, his shield strapped to his arm, the head of his axe resting on the floor, the haft leaning beside him on the wall. They waited for Will to return. It should be any minute.Tanerus spoke first, "Maybe something happened to him."Durgaden frowned, "Nothing be happening to him. He went to town."Amador sat on the edge of the ancient bed. The stuffing was long rotted away, but the edge made a good place to sit. "I don't think anything has happened to him." He got a sort of far off look."Why, your god be telling you?""No... I think I sense him coming." Amador could feel the charge settling on the room, then with a flash of weird light Will appeared in the center of the room. The form of their friend seemed to waver a bit. Amador frowned. There was an earthly scream as if some other worldly creature was trying to rip through with Will. Will was obviously still fine tuning the spell, his fingers moving in intricate patterns even as he seemed to fade in and out of existance. Finally his form solidified.Will promptly fell to the ground gagging. Tanerus and Durgaden lept forward but Amador called to them. "Its okay... its only teleportation sickness. He should be fine."Will recovered fairly quickly. When he finally was seated in a chair, sipping on his waterskin, he looked to his companions and frowned. "We have a problem my friends."Durgaden asked first, "What problem?""Drow attacked Dagger Falls. They were after the gem." Will fished it out of his pack and tossed it to Durgaden.Tanerus looked a bit confused. "What do you mean? How could they have known you had it, much less were in town?"Will held up a hand. "Let me start from the beginning..."I made it into town with little trouble. The shopping went fine, we can go over that in a minute. I also went to a sage friend of mine. Sergio. He had good information on the gem..."Will related to the party what he had found out about the gem, then continued with his story. "I and my guards went on a few more errands, then went back to my apartment. That is when they struck. They shot Terin in the back as he was entering into the building. Malik managed to slam the door shut, but they just broke in through the windows in the front and back of the house. I was able to quickly kill the two that came in the front, but the one that came in the back was a different story.""I was able to easily see through his invisibility with one of my spells, but most of the rest of my spells just bled right off of him. He tried to snatch the gem and actually had it in his hands when I finally managed to punch a spell through his natural resistances.""He dropped quickly after that. I later found out that they had attacked not only my apartment, but my parents villa as well. One of the ones I killed had this on him." Will pulled out the parchment of notes that Sergio had taken. It had blood splattered across it. "Sergio died because of what he knew of us. Somehow they know about us, that we have the gem, and that we are from Dagger Falls. Now they have a name to attach to us as well. My name."Durgaden frowned. "The gem, even if made by halflings, is the property of these mines and will remain here. The drow will have to pry it from my cold dead hands if they want it."Tanerus smirked, "That may be the point." The attempt at humor was mostly lost on the dark situation at hand. "So do you think this is the other force the Shadovar was talking about?"Will blinked, "Shadovar?" Tanerus quickly related the events that had transpired while Will was away.Will nodded, "That makes sense then, yes."Amador shook his head, "So we have a halfling gem and a dwarven axe wanted by drow who are working with the Zhentarim who hired the Thayans, all of whom the Shadovar wish to know about, and possibly prevent." He sighed. "This just gets better every day."</blockquote>

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