The Game:
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| DM | Summary: The party has been
hired for a heafty sum to stop a potential zun invasion. After departing the
docks, the party found themselves upon a boat headed off to the supposed
location of a zun camp. On the trip, the crew were drained of life and the
party was teleported to shore to escape an ensorceled boat going who knows
where. The great MagnusQ that teleported the party to shore died a rather
grissly death as a blood vessel in his brain burst from Monty-ism... |
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| Arglor | Arglor laughs. |
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| DM | There are ash pits all
along the shore (in the clearing). The pits are approximately 2 feet in
diameter and free of other debris. The pits appear to be roughly 10 feet
apart in both directions along the shore. There is a forest approximately
200 feet from the shore. What do you do now? |
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| Heinrick | Heinrick walks to one
of the ash pits and holds his hand over it, guaging its heat and thusly how
old it is. |
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| DM | No heat. Somehow, they
don't look like old campfires. |
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| Arglor | Arglor scans the outlaying
area (also looking at his party members). |
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| Heinrich | "These pits are
over a day old, the orc kin has deserted the place." |
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| Anglor | Arglor scans the ground
for any trace of footprints. |
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| Bzar | (I'll just use Bzar and
try to hide behind my bigger, better friends. Try not to kill me. :) ) |
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| Heinrich | Heinrick digs through
the ashes with the end of the staff, "These are rather large for camp
fires." |
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| DM | These "ash-pits"
are in a line along the shore as far as you can see in both directions. No
discernible footprints, other than the party's. |
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| Latros | "Perhaps we should
head inland and head for a city" |
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| Anglor | Arglor looks to Heinrick..
"What do you make of these.. ash-pits?" |
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| Heinrick | "Bzar, do you
think they have religous significance, or are they for signalling?" |
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| DM | By the way, you are deep
in zun-held territories. |
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| Arglor | "They almost
looks like a signalling or a warning for people out at sea." |
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| DM | To reach a city, you
would need a boat such as the one that was just abandoned and burned. |
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| Arglor | Arglor turns to the
woods. |
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| DM | Arglor feels like he is
being watched. |
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| Heinrick | "Well, we'd better
get looking." |
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| Latros | "We should
move." |
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| Arglor | Arglor walks toward the
forest.. having his eyes scan the area ahead.. |
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| DM | It is about 4 pm and the
woods are a little dark, but not unduely so. |
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| Heinrick | Heinrick follows Arglor. |
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| Latros | Latros follows Arglor,
his hand staying on his sword. |
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| Bzar | Bzar follows behind the
group. |
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| Arglor | Arglor moves into the
forest. |
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| Bzar | Bzar follows. |
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| DM | Is everyone going into
the woods? |
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| Rial Darkfeather | Rial Darkfeather
is probably already there. |
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| Bzar | Bzar is following as
quietly as he can behind him. |
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| Heinrick | Heinrick follows the
group into the woods. |
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| Latros | Latros walks into the
woods. |
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| DM | The woods seem eerie somehow.
Evil? |
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| Bzar | (Cool, just my style) |
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| Latros | Latros is in the woods
behind Arglor. |
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| Heinrick | Heinrick is walking
behind Arglor. |
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| Bzar | Bzar is behind everyone
in the back. |
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| Heinrick | Heinrick is walking
between Arglor and Latros, scanning the dark woods. |
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| Arglor | Arglor keeps his eyes
scanning the woods. |
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| DM | Bzar- You feel a sharp
pain in your back! |
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| Bzar | Bzar yells, Quot;Ack!
I've been hit!!" |
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| Heinrick | Heinrick spins and
crouches behind a log, "Whats going on?" |
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| Latros | Latros spins and draws
his sword. |
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| Heinrick | (spins) |
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| Arglor | Arglor spins snaping
out his long swords and looking to the back of the group to see what the
loudness is.. |
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| Bzar | Bzar falls to the
ground. |
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| Heinrick | Heinrick looks hard
at the woods behind them. |
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| DM | Heinrick sees no one. |
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| Bzar | "I've been poisoned!
Take the dart or whatever it is out of my back!!" |
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| Arglor | Arglor runs up and kneels
down where Bzar is lying. |
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| Heinrick | Heinrick crawls back
into the bushes and stops where he is closet to Bzar. |
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| Latros | Latros looks at Bzar. |
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| Heinrick | "How bad is
it?" |
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| Anglor | Anglor shrugs. |
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| Bzar | "I don't know! Just
get it out! it hurts!" |
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| Arglor | Arglor looks around,
looking for who did it. |
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| Bzar | Bzar attempts to pull it
out. |
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| DM | No problem. You get the
dripping dart out. |
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| Bzar | Bzar throws it on the
ground and gets up, "That hurt!!" |
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| Heinrick | Heinrick pulls Bzar
into the bushes and begins to tend to the poisoned wound. |
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| Bzar | "Thanks Heinrick!!" |
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| Heinrick | Heinrick is adminisering
to Bzar's wound. |
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| Bzar | "Thanks again,
Heinrick!!" |
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| Heinrick | Heinrick cuts the wound
deeper and begins to let poisoned blood leak out. |
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| Arglor | Arglor looks to where
the dart had come from.. bringing his long swords close to his body.. |
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| Heinrich | "Hold still,
this'll hurt." |
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| Bzar | Bzar cringes in pain. |
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| Arglor | Arglor looks to where
the dart had come from.. bringing his long swords close to his body.. |
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| DM | Arglor sees no one. |
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| Arglor | Arglor jumps behind a
tree, if he can. |
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| DM | Arglor is behind a tree.
Rial Darkfeather has the next action. |
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| Bzar | "Does anyone have a
blank pellsheet?" |
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| Heinrick | "Nope" |
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| DM | Rial Darkfeather, you saw
what happened, but not where the dart came from. You are just coming upon the
party. |
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| Rial Darkfeather | Rial Darkfeather
looks and sees the strangers in the woods underfire, and whispers "Sshh...
I'm a friend... I will circle around and find out who is attacking you." |
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| Arglor | Arglor begins to mutter
to himself. |
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| Rial Darkfeather | I cast
Invisability upon myself and use the Ring of Telekinesis to move silently
around to the direction where the shot was fired. |
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| DM | OK |
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| Heinrick | Heinrick curses and
waves him on. |
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| DM | A mysterious cheer arises
from the air around you all. |
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| Bzar | (hmm) |
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| DM | Darts rain down from all
directions. Arglor is struck by a dart. Arglor fails his save miserably and
drops to the ground. |
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| Bzar | Bzar goes over to Arglor
and pulls the dart out immediately. |
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| DM | Rial Darkfeather sees the
dart come from nowhere. |
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| Bzar | Bzar then tries to bleed
the poisons out. |
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| DM | Darts rain in from everywhere. |
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| Rial Darkfeather | RialDarkfeather
utters a phrase and points, as thick, rubbery strands of webbing cover the whole
area where the dart was launched from. |
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| DM | Darts seemed to originate
from mid air. |
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| Arglor | Arglor lets out a moan..
and then looks to the dart.. cursing silently. |
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| Heinrick | Heinrick pulls a shard
of a tortoise shell out of his robe and begins to wave his hands and chant...
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| DM | For all: The darts appear
to be originating from mid air, but they appear to originate from 3 separate
locations as if coming through some invisible door. Rial Darkfeather cast a
web spell blocking one of the "doors". |
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| Rial Darkfeather | "One
down, two to go..." |
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| Bzar | I hide behind a tree,
trying to avoid all spots they fired from. |
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| DM | That is, the other two
spots, right? |
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| Bzar | Yup. |
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| DM | Two darts hit Rial Darkfeather.
The poison doesn't seem to affect you (this time). The darts came from one
"window". |
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| Rial Darkfeather | Rial Darkfeather
grunts as one dart grazes his arm, but no poison gets into his system. |
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| Bzar | Bzar stays where he is,
behind the tree. |
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| DM | The "webbed" window bursts
into flames. Out of the other 2 windows come 2 large orcs (1 from each window). |
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| Bzar | Bzar gets out his blowgun
and loads a dart. |
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| Arglor | Arglor jumps out from
the shadows.. slashing three times at an orc. |
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| DM | The orc drops from the two
deft blows from Arglor. |
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| Rial Darkfeather | Rial Darkfeather
points to the other orc and mutters a snatch of a song. |
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| Bzar | Bzar readys his blowgun. |
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| Arglor | Arglor grins as his long
sword sinks into the orc every slash.. cutting a wide swash into his upper chest..
and then into his stomach area.. and then once into an upper left right diagonal..
each time the orc wails in surprise.. untill he hits thr ground not breathing.. Arglor
retracts and looks to the corpse.. and smiles. |
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| Heinrick | Heinrick notices a spider
in the braches above him, he appolzises to to it as he pulls down the strands and
begins to chant, aiming to engulf the clossest orc and the window it came through
in strong strands of spider web, like Rial had done with the first. |
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| Rial Darkfeather | Rial Darkfeather
mutters to the others "These are not average orcs, my friends..." |
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| DM | The remaining orc is trapped
in webs. |
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| Heinrick | Heinrick frowns, "I've
noticed friend!" |
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| Rial Darkfeather | "It resisted
my song of slumber, which weaker minds usualy succumb to." |
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| Arglor | "Whatever manner of
creature these are, they aren't friendly. So save the chat.. and work on making
corpses of them.." |
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| Heinrick | Heinrick grabs a stick
that had be lighted by the original window's expoding and lights the second web
on fire. |
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| Arglor | Arglor spins around..
slashing towards the next orc.. |
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| DM | The orc drops. |
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| Rial Darkfeather | Rial Darkfeather
points to the third portal, the one that he webbed before and they burned through,
and mutters a piece of a haunting melody. |
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| DM | The web bursts into flames,
but the orc is unfazed. |
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| Heinrick | Heinrick curses in
astonishment and stumbles back under cover. |
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| Arglor | Arglor curses and does a
back flip.. landing on his feet.. staring into the eyes of an orc-kin.. and
begins cursing.. and readies his longswords for another go. Arglor watches as
the orc stares into his eyes.. and then suddenly lets out a small gurgle..
falling to the ground. Arglor looks to the orc in astonishment.. but shakes it
off.. turning toward the window. |
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| DM | 3 vials fly from the portals.. |
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| Bzar | Bzar dives for cover!!!!! |
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| DM | 2 from the (as yet unwebed one)
and 1 from the (first webed one). The vials break upon striking a surface (a tree,
a rock, and the ground). The entire area is bathed in flames. |
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| Arglor | Arglor curses!! Man, just
my luck. I just had to get hit by one. I passed all but the last one. Arglor does
two back flips.. then lands in the explosion of the last. Arglor hits the ground..
and doesn't move. |
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| DM | The whole area smells of napalm. |
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| Rial Darkfeather | (Nasty) |
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| Bzar | Bzar looks up. |
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| Heinrick | Heinrick runs and dives
out of the way of all. Heinrick lands on the ground past the flames and is still. |
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| DM | Arglor and Heinrick are down. The
mages deduce that the orcs are in rope trick spells. That could mean as many as 18
(-2 dead) orcs. |
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| Rial Darkfeather | Rial Darkfeather
charges into one of the portals, blades at the ready. |
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| Bzar | "Oh no.." Sigh. |
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| Bzar | Bzar charges the portal, slashing
all the way. | |
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| DM | Bzar drops from wounds suffered,
Rial Darkfeather is alone. Do you press forward or aid your companions? |
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| Rial Darkfeather | Rial Darkfeather
chants for a moment. |
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| Xeryex | I tend to the wounds of the
group. |
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| DM | 1 person per round and who do you
start with? |
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| Xeryex | Arglor. Wait. Heinrick. I
start with Heinrick. |
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| Arglor | Arglor stands weakly. |
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| Rial Darkfeather | The area the party
lies in is suddenly covered with what appears to be darkness, but from the outside it
looks like a huge boulder. |
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| Arglor | Arglor shakes his head. |
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| Rial Darkfeather | "Shh!", Rial
whispers quietly "Make no noise... we are disguised by an illusion..." |
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| Arglor | Arglor brings his gaze up to
Rial's. Arglor 's eyes narrow. |
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| Rial Darkfeather | "I will bring
the fight to the enemy in a moment, but I wanted to ensure your safety first." |
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| Arglor | Arglor shrugs and sits down
silently.. meditating.. Arglor whispers very low.. so only Rial can hear. |
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| Rial Darkfeather | Rial looks to the
newcomer, "You watch over these people while I'm gone, alright?" |
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| Arglor | Arglor closes his eyes. |
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| DM | One BIG orc steps into the darkness. |
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| Arglor | Arglor suddenly begins to drift
off.. then his eyes open. |
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| Rial Darkfeather | Rial Darkfeather attacks. |
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| Heinrick | Heinrick wakes up and
winces at his burns and notices Xeryex "Who are you?", nods his thanks
and lets his head fall back to the ground and promptly passes out again. |
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| Rial Darkfeather | Rial Darkfeather
attacks. |
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| Arglor | Arglor jumps up.. drawing
his long swords with expert style and presision.. |
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