Haunted by Dwarfs

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Episode no.	Episode 97
Date	2010
Game Master	Abbe
Characters	Honeypot Nathaniel Nell Velicia
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Haunting Dwarf.

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Haunting Dwarf.

I started looking around the house and found it to be in a mess. There were furniture and old clothes strewn about. I looked into a short corridor while the others went into another room. There were coats for rain and cold weather hanging there, but in dwarf size. To me that means just a little short but much to wide. Then the others said strange things using the telepathy. They all suddenly got very hungry. I was very strange. Apart from me only Velicia ever talked like that about being hungry. I was looking through the next room that was some kind of room between the house and outside, when Nathaniel said he got attacked by a hungry dwarf spirit trying to eat him. It turned into several and the whole house started shaking. Then I too started to feel hungrier. It was probably all that talk of hunger. I heard that Honeypot had taken out her horn of cornucopia and was trying to feed the hungry spirits, but I tried to find out if there was anything that could be the cause these haunts. Back in Foxglove manor it had been my grandfather who had tried to become a lich that had caused the death of many from my family and all those things had made it haunted, but after Aldern died, his wife disappeared and after we had exorcised Vorel all hauntings had stopped.

I sneaked outside through the coatroom. The blizzard still raged further out, but Honeypot's ritual had calmed it around th house. I took a good look under house. There were some old sleds but nothing that I thought could be the cause of the hauntings. I had thought there would be old bones or something. Through the telepathy I heard that Nathaniel suddenly attacked Honeypot and then when she ran away, Velicia. I sneaked back in making sure to avoid being seen. I didn't want to fight Nathaniel. Instead I hid in the room with coats and boots and listened to what happened and tried to figure out what to do. I heard Kaven coming up the stairs. I knew he too had been possessed by the insane dwarven spirits. That's when Velicia said that she had picked up the dwarven bones they had found in an inner room I never looked into. She was on her way out when Nathnaiel caught up with her following Honeypot, near the door but his insane, wild swings missed and she could continue out. I ran out too following her out into the heavy snowfall. I was very happy

Then Velicia ran out into the snow with the bones and I followed through the other door. No one else followed us out and soon I could hardly see the house through the snow. Honeypot told us that the hauntings had stopped and Nathaniel was back to normal when I noted something through the heavy snow. It came at us out of the storm, towards the house. It was a dwarven head that came floating in mid air. It talked to us.
"So, you survived? Well we didn't. Greed and hunger got us."
Then it warned us not to go to Xin-Shalast. It told us we would end up like he had, cold and dead. But if it couldn't dissuade us, it could help us to find our way if we helped it. The brother of the haunting ghost had died at the last mine they had and if we united the dead brothers, the ghost would reward us by giving us instructions on how to find Xin-Shalast.

We returned into the house and though the storm still raged further out, the house was still and we could finally get a little rest. I quickly

I looked around and found a secret room

There were sacks of gold sand and nuggets 5x1000 + 2x1500 Papers that interested Velicia more She found where the mine was Never any profitable

We set out into the heavy snow that turned into a blizzard as we left Honepot's area

We tied rope between each others Velicia wasn't sure it was that good idea

The ledge is covered with snow and get smaller

Velicia stepped through the snow and fell over the edge

I caught her in the rope and held on

She was very heavy

We continue and come to graveyard

Stones, not really worthy gravestones

Cave

Frozen body of dwarf fallen, broken, legs frozen to bits

Haunts

Suck in to thunder

Fight fight fight

Dazzling acrobatics

I strike it down