When we last left our Heroes, they returned to the dungeon to recover the Mage, Carter Wilroar. Carter attacks the Heroes and tells them to run for their lives. The Heroes, if they want to get to the Mage, must break through a wall of Essence. The Ranger tries to convince the Mage to take his own life but is unsuccessful. Jeric and Sigfried decide to further explore the dungeon in hopes to find another way around. The two are successful, however there is another wall of Essence blocking the back door to the room. The Ranger finally unsheathes the mystical magical sword he acquired (but doesn’t want to share with anyone), but it has no effect on the Essence wall. The two keep searching while Alex thinks of “useful” ideas to hurt the Mage. Santos and Darious begin burial rights on the scattered corpses whether they be bugbear or not. Santos also asks Carter if he would like to repent. The Mage replies, “The Gods have no love for those who challenged them.”
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Sigfried rolls into the room and a cockney named Barnaby tries to bluff with a couple of his friends, threatening the Ranger with poison arrows. Barnaby “invites” the Heroes into the room which doesn’t seem too promising. The Cleric decides the thieves don’t seem trustworthy and casts sanctuary on the Ranger – allowing Sigfried to run without being fired upon. The Heroes proceed to have a conversation through the door with the thief. Barnaby says they have valuable information, but have already ransacked the dungeon. Opening the door, Sigfried (still covered in the light of sanctuary) continues the conversation with the thief face-to-face. Barnaby, a member of the Black Shepherds, mentions to the Ranger, “You’re sparkly.” “It’s my personality,” Sigfried says dryly.
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After a week of shopping, gathering supplies, waiting for Jeric’s shiny new mithral armor, and Santos recruiting Darious (who turned out to be of fair [not black] skin), The Golden Saviors (as our heroes have been named by the masses of Valencia) finally gathered themselves together. After a song and dance (almost literally) by Niven the Bard (in which he tells the rest of the group he will be striking off on his own to spread the story of The Golden Saviors’ victory in the ziggurat), our great and valorous band head out to the Mage’s dig site.
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The battle rages on in the depths of the ziggurat and the Heroes continue to put on a fantastic display of tactics and brute force; showing that despite their many differences they have gelled as a cohesive unit within their short time together.
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Faced with a plate activated pillar trap in one direction and slightly roasted orcs in the other, the heroes have to quickly figure out which way they wish to continue. Jeric, taking matters into his own hands, decides to jump the gap and narrowly makes it. On Jeric’s first attempt to help another person across, Ralg jumps and Jeric nearly kills the Necromancer in the trying.
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When we last left our (so-called) heroes some of them had gone off on their own never to be heard from again and new ones were waiting around the corner getting themselves into something that showed they clearly had no idea what they were in for…
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Confronted with the Darkbringers, the Party negotiated to let them pass with no blood spilled. Tensions were high; as the lead Darkbringer engaged Sigfried, Otto (one of the supposedly hapless Town Guard) summoned red tendrils through some use of magic. The manifestations paralyzed not only the Party but the Darkbringers. Otto then tells a tale of destruction for believers of the Parent Gods. Systematically, he cruelly beheads all of the Darkbringers and sets his sights on the party.
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After their battle with the giant spiders in the forest clearing, it is decided it is too dark to enter the forest in search of the troll (or whatever might be aligned with or controlling the spiders) so the group returns to the farm with the dual purpose of making camp for the night and staking out the farmer’s livestock from the barn. Upon morning, it is assumed to be an uneventful evening until the Ranger comes clean about some activity during his part of the watch, the last of the night. The most Sigfried will say is that he found something attached to the side of the barn. Handing it over to the rest of the group they see that is a page of parchment. It is a drawn portrait of Jeric.
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Jeric and Santos quickly apprehend both Bereks. The Berek at the door suddenly teleported away, claiming that he would report the intrusion to the local militia. During the scuffle Taran began to approach the apartment. With Jeric’s thorn chained belt Sigfried is able to bind the other Berek’s hands to be sure he would not also pull a disappearing act. While Santos talks to Berek, Sigfried and Jeric are having a standoff outside with Taran, who claims to be sent to protect Santos. Moments later a halfing named Tallbottom also approaches and the stand off only extends. Finally they all decide to wait out the militia if they show, since Berek was more than unwilling to go with the heroes to the militia head quarters while bound.
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