Nell's diary

Rise of the Runelords

This is the diary as written by Nell. She started writing it as an exercise in learning to read and write.

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We returned and went through a short corridor to a room that had a lot of chalk goblin drawings on the wall. They showed, among other things, a large cave beneath the fort in which there was a goblin drawn as if it would be 30 ft tall if it was to scale.

We continued through another corridor and looked through a door to a large hall looking like another evil temple. There was a large monstrous statue of mother of all monsters with things glowing of frost and fire. There were lots of pillars in two rows along the hall. Nathaniel bravely stepped into the room, lighting it with his just started sunrod, when we noted there were monstrous dogs hiding behind the pillars.

Nathaniel took a few steps and attacked one of the dogs, wounding it deeply. Honeypot followed him in and further, attacking another. The strange looking dogs melted into shadows and appeared at new locations attacking from directions you wouldn't expect. I threw my dagger into the one Nathaniel had hit hoping to kill it, but my dagger barely hurt it. I retreated back into the corridor we came and hid. Suddenly one appeared right in front of me and attacked me. It's <claws?> cut deep and I counterattacked stabbing it slightly. Then it disappeared. I ran back to the entrance into the room and threw the dagger once again but missed. As the dagger appeared in my hand again I threw it once more but missed, again. I retreated to hida and sneaked up and attacked but missed yet another time. Luckily the others had not been as unfortunate as I. The bodies of the dogs disappeared and when Nathaniel was about to wipe the blood of his sword, it was clean.

There was an altar at the furthest part of the temple that was raised higher than the rest of the room. The statue stood behind an altar. I thought we should make sure the temple was destroyed, but thinking about how hard it was to get father Zantus to go into the tunnels below Sandpoint, even with us guarding him, it would probably be near impossible to get him here through goblin infested woods. I suggested that we, or rather someone bigger and stronger than me, would smash parts of the statue and perhaps even of the altar, but Velicia didn't want to destroy it. She said it would be better to decorate it with flowers and ribbons. I was skeptical. If the evil ones returned they would just brush it off and have their evil worshiping place back.

After a well needed rest we continued to the next room from the raised part of the temple. It turned out to be a torture chamber. There were cells and even an iron maiden. We checked it but thankfully it was empty. a short corridor led to a new room with several doors and an opening where some stairs started.

Before entering the next room Nathaniel as usual listened through the door. He could hear noises. He opened the door and I threw my dagger at a goblin just inside. It was one of the female cheering goblin types. From far in the back of the room a strange looking goblin halfbreed, probably Bruthazmus came running past us all. It strangely disappeared in the shadows. I retreated into the torture chamber and hid. After gathering strength I charged back out flipping through the corridor, right at Bruthazmus, but missed. I quickly stabbed again but still missed. It tried to get away and turned to run and I managed to stab it in the back and Nathaniel hit it so hard with his longsword that it lost balance and got nowhere.

Honeypot moved in behind it and I somersaulted up to it burying my dagger deep into its gut using my legs for strength, rolling away to avoid the blood that gushed from the wound as it fell to the ground. I felt pretty good having just killed two leaders of goblin tribes in one day. It wasn't by myself but I am still pretty proud.

Then we went to check the other rooms and the stairs he had been heading for. The room looked like where you keep chickens. Someone said that that's how goblins breed their small. The stairs led up. At the end there was a door but it was blocked from the other side. Dorothea told us that there were someone at the stairs we had blocked and we told her that it was us.