Leaving Runeforge

“Leaving Runeforge”
Rise of the Runelords episode
Episode no.	Episode 93
Date	2010
Game Master	Abbe
Characters	Honeypot Nathaniel Nell Velicia
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In this chapter when preparing to leave Runeforge the heroes encounter unexpected trouble.

Leaving Runeforge

Velicia studied a lot of the documents we had gathered from the different parts of Runeforge. She said that she knew how to make the ritual that would make sure our weapons were powerful enough to kill Karzoug. She started to prepare the ritual. It would be held out in the hall with the fountain in the middle of Runeforge. As she started and Honeypot helped I and Nathaniel kept watch to make sure we wouldn't be surprised. It went well until Nathaniel, who went first put his sword into the fountain. Velicia pointed out that it was important that he didn't take it out too soon or it might loose all it's power. Then the huge statue of Karzoug came alive.

The Karzoug statue comes alive.

The heroes enchanting their swords.

Quickly I jumped on the statue grabbing hold of it and stabbed it continuously. The statue only made a single attempt to hit me with its big polearm, but I easily avoided it. Honeypot ran over to me to help me fight the monster, while Velicia stayed to protect Nathaniel who was still holding his sword in the fountain. Some creature rose from the dangerous magical liquid and attacked her. Finally Nathaniel could use his sword and after attacking the creatures in the fountain he turned his attention to the big statue. As Honeypot couldn't hit it she left for the fountain, where the creatures became more and more as the statue could make more of them all the time. I made big cracks in the statue and it was failing when it suddenly stopped. Neither Nathaniel or I had destroyed it. It just stopped working somehow. We left it to destroy the creatures it had summoned. Together we quickly destroyed them. Nathaniel went back and hacked off the head and arms of the statue of Karzoug.
"Just to be sure." he said.

We finished the ritual and all of us put the blades of our swords in the fountain and enchanted them in this way. Then we discussed what we would do then. I wanted to go home. Velicia wanted to stay there to to research all the magical tombs we had found. Honeypot wanted to join her. There they hoped to find not only magical knowledge but also knowledge of how we could find Kharzoug and his hiding place Xin-Shalast and how we could stop him if we found him. We now had the weapons, but we also needed to find him. Nathaniel wanted to train the warriors in wrath for the upcoming fight against the forces of greed, but first he needed to make sure Orik and Shadowmist was safe back in Sandpoint. Velicia was sure she could create a portal in Runeforge making it possible for her to go to Sandpoint or Magnimar or wherever she had another portal she knew of and that way she could help him come and go from Sandpoint. Nathaniel decided to join me to return to the druid circle where Kaven, Orik and Shadowmist and Creampuff would be waiting. We went to wrath and there Velicia helped us teleport in the magic circle. A portal opened to the druid circle and Nathaniel and I stepped through.