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| − | == Räddaren i nöden... == | + | == Segerns sötma == |
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| − | a few ancient rooms are looted, but they were not lightly guarded. | + | As we approached Sandpoint they had already heard that we were on our way, and people were gathering at the gate so see us. We were quite a sight to see. Nathaniel, tall in the middle, walking proud. Velicia just behind, closely followed by her floating disc, dominated by the big golden helmet that caught what I thought to be all the light of the sun in its shining surface. Dorothea walked just behind, strangely smiling at unknown pleasures. Honeypot and I was just ahead of Nathaniel on either side, smiling and jumping around of joy at the welcome. |
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| − | [[Image:Amulet of False Life.png|left|thumb|Amulet of False Life with Sihedron rune.]]
| + | The gathering crowd cheered as we entered the gates and more and more added to the crowd as we went through town. |
| | + | We stopped in the middle of the square outside the temple and looked around at all the people, shaking their hands and telling them short tidbits from our adventure. Soon the Mayor Kendra Deverin approached and she stood up on a table hushing the crowd. As the talk died down all looks turned to her, and she held a speech greeting us as heroes who had saved Sandpoint from a cruel fate. Everybody cheered and everybody started to offer to buy us beer and food at nearby taverns to hear our stories. It was hard to make sure that our treasure got taken care of first. Also we wanted to get the body of Nualia to the clergy in the temple as they probably would know what to do with it. |
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| − | After having defeated Nualia we took a short rest during which we found
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| − | an amulet with the same seven pointed star on that we had seen on some
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| − | statues, doors and stuff. There were also among some other things a book
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| − | of rituals and some sort of diary, written by Nualia. Honeypot was very
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| − | interested in that ritual stuff and since we felt confident that most
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| − | dangers was defeated we continued on without her.
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| − | We went through the door on the other side of the statue operating the
| + | == Party == |
| − | trap. After a short corridor it entered an L-shaped room. To the left
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| − | there was a staple of huge gold coins. I went up to them and took a
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| − | closer look. It turned out to be an illusion, and just made of stone,
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| − | but what a nice view. In the other end there were double doors decorated
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| − | with skeletons holding a scull between them. Nathaniel called us over as
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| − | Dorothea opened one door.
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| − | Inside there was a room with a domed ceiling and some pillars, but also
| + | Nathaniel invited us to a party in the Deverin manor. |
| − | seven alcoves with a sarcophagus in each and a statue in the middle.
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| − | This statue was complete and had not been hacked at as most others had
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| − | been, but was still of the same man with five bumps in his head and the
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| − | book and glaive. When we looked at the statue the sarcophaguses opened
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| − | and skeletons stepped out. I threw my dagger and slipped out of the room
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| − | and hid. A skeleton walked up to the door and took a swing at me with
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| − | his polearm, butt missed me. Then he shut the door. It surprised me.
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| − | Velicia opened the door and teleported into the room. I heard her magic
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| − | at work. I hid outside the door and threw my dagger at a skeleton just
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| − | inside the door destroying it, but then the biggest skeleton from the
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| − | only sarcophagus on the opposite wall shouted something Dorothea later
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| − | translated to "Get up you slothful dreg." which made the skeleton
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| − | reanimate and stand up. It walked up to the door, attacked me, but
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| − | missed, and shut the door.
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| − | I was shut out again! This was getting ridiculous. I opened the door and
| + | Vana is a big woman with an enormous family. |
| − | somersaulted into the room, trying in vain to avoid an attack from the
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| − | skeleton, and stabed another one next to Nathaniel. The big skeleton used
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| − | some old scary magic and scared the others and made them fall back
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| − | slightly. It was all well in the end anyway as Dorothea destroyed the big
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| − | skeleton and I struck down the one I had previously destroyed and another
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| − | one.
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| − | When I looked closer it turned out that the skeletons had masks on their
| + | The food is good, but I've had better in Sandpoint. There's lot of it. |
| − | faces that were made of gold and quite expensive. There were a lot of
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| − | text on the walls and Dorothea speak that language. She said it's called
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| − | draconic, and that the statue was of someone called Karzoug. The text
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| − | occupied Velicia a lot and when Honeypot heard that there were a lot of
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| − | cryptic runes on the walls she came running. I thought it was incredibly
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| − | boring and looked at the sacophaguses instead. They were all painted with
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| − | a picture of someone holding a polearm. In an alcove behind one of the
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| − | sarcophagus I found a secret door.
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| − | When I mentioned it Dorothea immediately lost interest in the runes,
| + | Vana took me aside and had a talk.<br> |
| − | and Nathaniel started down a corridor closely followed by Dorothea | + | Pointed out that none of us girls is good enough to marry Nathaniel.<br> |
| − | and me. It split into two and then there were a few steps down before
| + | I told her that we have no romantic intentions within the group (yet), but that he might not be safe from others in town. |
| − | ending in a room. Nathaniel stepped out into it and Dorothea stopped
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| − | in the door. I could vaguely see the far wall and it had some painting
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| − | on it of spires and a mountain looking like a face. Then Nathaniel
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| − | said there were water and some creatures in the water.
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| | + | Nathaniel told me a story:<br> |
| | + | When he was a little boy, he and a friend broke into the garrison and stole trail rations. They were soon found out and then, as a punishment, they had to eat them. |
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| − | Velicia heard that and came running past us and cast one of her
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| − | powerful magic spells but complained that the effect was dampened by
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| − | the water. Then something sprayed acid on Nathaniel, Velicia and
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| − | Dorothea and they screamed that we should retreat. I ran up to where
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| − | the corridor split and took position there guarding the other corridor,
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| − | and that was a lucky move. Soon there came a swarm of disgusting
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| − | looking termites welling up toward me. I threw my dagger into them
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| − | killing several, but they continued on. I crouched down and slashed a
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| − | sweeping blow with my dagger, killing more of the termites and throwing
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| − | the others back down the stairs. Shouting "There's termites coming up
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| − | the other corridor too!" I retreated back into the room through the
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| − | hidden door. I was followed by Velicia, Honeypot, Dorothea and finally
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| − | Nathaniel who were doing a slow fighting withdrawal. I tried to support
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| − | him by throwing my dagger at the swarms that followed him, but with
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| − | mixed results.
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| − | [[Image:Kruthiks.png|300px|left|thumb|Kruthiks]]
| + | == Return to Thistletop == |
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| − | Velicia was very hurt by acid and took up position close to the doors | + | Velicia & Honeypot talk to a lot of stuffy old boring people. Brodert Quink, Chask Haladan, Sabyl Sorn, Ilsoari Gandethus and Lyrie Akenja. |
| − | and took care of her wounds. She also told us more about the creatures.
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| − | "They are called Kruthiks and said to live deep down in the ground. At
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| − | night they burrow up through the floor to attack little children in
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| − | their beds eating all the flesh off the bones. There are Hatchlings,
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| − | Adults and Hive Lords. We have met all of them." Then she thought of what
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| − | she had said and repeated "Burrowing..." looking at the closed double
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| − | doors we had come through. Nathaniel killed the last of the adult
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| − | termites and Velicia prepared to cast her magic at the doors just as they
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| − | were thrown up and a huge termite entered. Probably a hive lord. If that
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| − | thing ate the flesh off the bones it would probably swallow you whole and
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| − | spit out the bones.
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| − | Slightly damaged and blown back in the corridor by Velicias magic it
| + | They decide to bring them to Thistletop and we all help. |
| − | returned and sprayed us all in acid. Twice. It burned on my skin and
| + | We swim over to the ear in the shape of animals and enter at the lowest level, below where the goblins live. |
| − | especially my lungs. I felt blood running down my stomach. Looking around
| + | They look at old stuff. |
| − | Honeypot fell to the ground, Velicia was bleeding heavily and even Dorothea
| + | We attack Malfe |
| − | looked seriously hurt, coughing and bleeding profusely, but she teleported
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| − | to the rear of the big bug and struck it with her terrible magic. Velicia | |
| − | teleported to the other side of it and retreated down the hall. She
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| − | whispered faintly using message that she was badly wounded, coughing blood
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| − | and almost fainting. Feeling very weak from blood loss, with a tear in my
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| − | eyes thinking of Velicia and Honeypot almost dying I cartwheeled up to it,
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| − | using my momentum to drive my dagger through it's hard carapace, wounding
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| − | it. I tried to follow up with a nice move that would leave the foe wide
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| − | open, but it didn't fall for it. It was probably to stupid to even
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| − | understand my feint, and I was too weak and too teared up to follow it
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| − | through properly. Nathaniel poured a healing potion into Honeypot and
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| − | charged the big foe, hitting it hard. Honeypot ran up to the big monster,
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| − | flipped over it and continued on to Velicia holding out a healing potion,
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| − | probably saving her life. Being trapped between my and Nathaniel's strikes
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| − | from one side and Dorothea's and Velicias' magic from the other side the
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| − | big termite bug was finally killed, but it was close.
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| − | Honeypot and Velicia was still being burnt by the acid when the beast | + | Malfe skriker<br> |
| − | died and Nathaniel helped them get rid of it.
| + | Lyrie attakerar thunder - daze<br> |
| | + | Nell kastar kniv<br> |
| | + | Doro gör svart hemskt moln<br> |
| | + | Malfe skriker hemskt igen.<br> |
| | + | Kastar igen men missar, precis som Nathaniel. Velicia eldar<br> |
| | + | Honeypot förvirrar demonen<br> |
| | + | Knivar hårt<br> |
| | + | Dorothea blir svart och hemskt själv.<br> |
| | + | Honeypot dansar och frestar Malfe.<br> |
| | + | Kastar kniv och sänker den. |
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| − | == Begärets dunkla mål... The dark goal of greed ==
| + | Har en sköld som armband. |
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| − | the heroes at last find the demon and some information about the old runelords
| + | Brodert Quink betalar oss 500gp för resan. |
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| − | We all retreated out
| + | == Play == |
| − | into the L-shaped room and took a rest. As we took care of our wounds
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| − | Nathaniel and Dorothea started talking of the large treasure that was
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| − | in the room where the monsters came from. Peeking down the tunnel the
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| − | large termite had dug I could see silver and gold glitter in the water.
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| − | It was really soothing sitting there looking at the precious metals and
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| − | stones glittering in the water, listening to Honeypot singing. I felt
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| − | a lot better and checked the illusionary gold coins in the other end.
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| − | Doroythea pointed out that there were slots next to it. We pointed
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| − | them out to the others, but before opening any new passages we made
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| − | sure that the treasure was taken care of. The room sloped down into
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| − | water, but it was clear and the floor was covered by mostly silver
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| − | coins, but there were also gold and precious stones. An enormous giant
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| − | sized golden helmet dominated the treasure and a little suspicious after
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| − | the illusion I checked it carefully and concluded that it was actually
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| − | a working, practical helmet of brass and only covered in a thin layer
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| − | of gold, but it was still valuable. I just barely reached the bottom
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| − | at the deepest end and dove down into it picking up valuables. I noted
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| − | that Nathaniel took of his jacket and breastplate while picking up the
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| − | treasure and his shirt clung nicely to his chest. Then I realized that
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| − | my top did cling too. Anyway we got the treasure out and went back to
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| − | the illusionary stack of huge coins.
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| − | It was pretty obvious that you should insert gold coins into the slots
| + | Cracktooth’s Tavern<br> |
| − | to get it to open. Dorothea suggested we should try the old coin on a
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| − | string trick and I agreed. We knit a coin to a string each, but Velicia
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| − | said that we couldn't use any trick, but should just put the coins in
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| − | and started doing that. We put our coins in to and it worked as the
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| − | staple lowered into the floor. When we pulled out our strings they were
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| − | empty of the coins but the knots and loops were still intact. Some kind
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| − | of magic had made the coins disappear.
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| − | We entered a new room that was T-shaped. In it was three double doors.
| + | Ovanligt mycket folk efter en föreställning med inbjuden uppsättning. |
| − | The ones to the right didn't have any handles. They also seamed to be
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| − | magical. We went straight ahead. It was some kind of ritual room inside
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| − | with three operating tables, surgical instruments and a seven-pointed
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| − | trowel with spikes and knobs on. There were also human remains. I didn't
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| − | like the room at all and left. Looking at the strange doors I went back
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| − | in and brought the trowel and held it up to the doors. It looked like it
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| − | would fit.
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| − | Then we looked through the other ordinary double doors and that was some
| + | Jag introducerar Honeypot |
| − | kind of throne room where an old illusion of some old king talked to us
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| − | in that strange language again. Dorothea told us that it was an old
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| − | message mentioning a name, Alaznist. Velicia told us she had heard that
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| − | name before and that it was some kind of runelord, that lived forever
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| − | and ever ago. She, as it was a female name and still not called a
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| − | runelady, was connected to "wrath" in some way. There were also "sloth"
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| − | and this place was apparently "greed" and there were some four more.
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| − | Otherwise there were nothing of interest in the room.
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| − | Velicia told us that the last pair of doors had some magic that could
| + | Hon spelar vemodig låt som övergår i gladare och sedan får med folk i en vild dans. |
| − | hold an extremely powerful creatures trapped. Then we realized that the
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| − | demon, Malfeshnekor, was probably just behind these doors and by free
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| − | it meant open the doors and let it go not free it from the depths of hell.
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| − | I don't know if even she knew it.
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| − | Dorothea thought that we should take a peek, but I reminded the others
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| − | that Nualia thought that she could use the demon to destroy all of
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| − | Sandpoint and that it would probably be very powerful. We agreed to
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| − | think about it and Dorothea, Velicia and Honeypot who knows about that
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| − | magic stuff would think about if it would work.
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| − | That left me to doing fun stuff instead. I went back to the treasure
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| − | room and sorted all the coins and gems. It was 1273 gold coins all with
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| − | an old stamping and 40000 silver coins. I'm not exactly sure about that
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| − | sum. It was to many coins to count twice and then you cant be certain
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| − | of the result anyways. It turned out to be a total of 80 gems, of
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| − | different kinds.
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| − | Nathaniel said that the others were finished researching. I felt very
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| − | refreshed after counting the treasure. When I asked if it was safe to
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| − | open the door Velicia started assuring me that the magical barrier
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| − | would not be broken by opening the doors, when Dorothea immediately
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| − | answered yes, without any hesitation or explanation. I got a feeling
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| − | she didn't really know if the demon would still be held within the
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| − | room by the magic. While I hesitated at the answer she opened the door.
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| − | It was a room lit by many candles and a big burning pit in the middle
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| − | of the room. There were still shadows in the corners of the room. I
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| − | hid as well as I could so the demon wouldn't see me. The other went
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| − | up to the protective magic, and when the demon realized that we
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| − | wouldn't just walk in to the room it showed itself. I peeked around the
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| − | corner and saw a very big demonic creature with four arms and two had
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| − | huge claws instead of hands. I moved back as far as I could without
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| − | leaving the room and held my dagger at the ready. Dorothea liked this
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| − | and taunted the demon that apparently banged against the magic, but
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| − | failing to penetrate it continued to throw whatever there was to throw
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| − | at us. Several of the things later turned out to be quite valuable.
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| − | I suggested that we should put a seven pointed star on a map with a
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| − | point on Sandpoint and one on Thistletop and see where the other points
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| − | would be, but somehow it didn't work. I don't understand it.
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| − | Bringing the helmet and Nualias body to Sandpoint.
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Segerns sötma
As we approached Sandpoint they had already heard that we were on our way, and people were gathering at the gate so see us. We were quite a sight to see. Nathaniel, tall in the middle, walking proud. Velicia just behind, closely followed by her floating disc, dominated by the big golden helmet that caught what I thought to be all the light of the sun in its shining surface. Dorothea walked just behind, strangely smiling at unknown pleasures. Honeypot and I was just ahead of Nathaniel on either side, smiling and jumping around of joy at the welcome.
The gathering crowd cheered as we entered the gates and more and more added to the crowd as we went through town.
We stopped in the middle of the square outside the temple and looked around at all the people, shaking their hands and telling them short tidbits from our adventure. Soon the Mayor Kendra Deverin approached and she stood up on a table hushing the crowd. As the talk died down all looks turned to her, and she held a speech greeting us as heroes who had saved Sandpoint from a cruel fate. Everybody cheered and everybody started to offer to buy us beer and food at nearby taverns to hear our stories. It was hard to make sure that our treasure got taken care of first. Also we wanted to get the body of Nualia to the clergy in the temple as they probably would know what to do with it.
Party
Nathaniel invited us to a party in the Deverin manor.
Vana is a big woman with an enormous family.
The food is good, but I've had better in Sandpoint. There's lot of it.
Vana took me aside and had a talk.
Pointed out that none of us girls is good enough to marry Nathaniel.
I told her that we have no romantic intentions within the group (yet), but that he might not be safe from others in town.
Nathaniel told me a story:
When he was a little boy, he and a friend broke into the garrison and stole trail rations. They were soon found out and then, as a punishment, they had to eat them.
Return to Thistletop
Velicia & Honeypot talk to a lot of stuffy old boring people. Brodert Quink, Chask Haladan, Sabyl Sorn, Ilsoari Gandethus and Lyrie Akenja.
They decide to bring them to Thistletop and we all help.
We swim over to the ear in the shape of animals and enter at the lowest level, below where the goblins live.
They look at old stuff.
We attack Malfe
Malfe skriker
Lyrie attakerar thunder - daze
Nell kastar kniv
Doro gör svart hemskt moln
Malfe skriker hemskt igen.
Kastar igen men missar, precis som Nathaniel. Velicia eldar
Honeypot förvirrar demonen
Knivar hårt
Dorothea blir svart och hemskt själv.
Honeypot dansar och frestar Malfe.
Kastar kniv och sänker den.
Har en sköld som armband.
Brodert Quink betalar oss 500gp för resan.
Play
Cracktooth’s Tavern
Ovanligt mycket folk efter en föreställning med inbjuden uppsättning.
Jag introducerar Honeypot
Hon spelar vemodig låt som övergår i gladare och sedan får med folk i en vild dans.
