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Post by Kuru-Coo’coo on Aug 5, 2018 14:44:03 GMT -5
I’ve taken so many good notes for the library! These frescos are so detailed I could stay down in these halls forever! These people keep getting themselves in trouble, and I keep having to break my drawings to help get them out.
We found Zenith! He threw a beautiful orb that I wanted to look at, but it broke before I could get anything meaningful (don’t worry, I got a drawing of it after it broke). I went to go attack him, and passed right over some sort of circle on the ground, that teleported me back to the room with the statue I was drawing, and rushed back to make sure they knew about the teleportation circle before anyone died! That drop would have been deadly for anyone else. Some invisible gust of wind was attacking Harriet, and we fought it off.
I went back to continue my drawings after Zenith was knocked out, and—like I said—there’s some beautiful stuff down here.
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Post by thorthunderpants on Aug 18, 2018 18:42:06 GMT -5
After a month of steep taxes on the civilians by the Lord Mayor (thank the Stern Lady I'm not a citizen!), and Morgunn working hard to give work to the people who were incarcerated, we heard of a debate taking place regarding the merits of the taxes. Maavu showed up to argue that because all the people Morgunn got out of jail were not paying taxes, the slack was being incurred upon the merchants and wealthy families. Morgunn gave a vehement defense for the taxes being placed so they could go towards civil services, and this kept going back and forth and back and forth until someone threw a knife at Maavu! A riot broke out, and Morgunn jumped to Maavu's defense, so I flew down to assist the guard captain who was being overrun to get him to safety. Out of the corner of my eye though, I saw Maavu getting the life sucked out of him by some air beast, and we all came together to defeat it, and get Maavu to safety.
When we all met up with Maavu back at the Fuzzy Wuzzy, he told us of the Chisel (the conglomeration of families descended from the original founders of cauldron) and Alek Tersival were being turned into the local unloved stepchild here in Cauldron. They were being blamed for a lot of the bad luck going through Cauldron, and the Chisel/Maavu want to find out why. We said we would meet him there in a few days, so we could complete the last of the things we meant to do in town, which gave me another chance to get in with the Lady of Book & Bones.
I waited in the cemetery for them to show up for their daily rounds of cleaning of the tomb stones, and helped them tend the site. One of the worshipers started to talk to me, and walked with me inside to take some of their meal because of my help. As soon as I walked in to the cathedral, I was blown away by the sheer volume of books! There had to have been twice, no three times as many books here than at the Blue Crater Academy! When I recovered myself, the two of us joined the other acolytes at the meal, and he told me a bit about the High Priests and that they had been out of town for a few months, which was why the church had been closed a while. He also said that the library I see is just the publicly available library, and that there was more upstairs (restricted to all but the High Priests), and the one downstairs (only available to the other acolytes). He also whispered of rumors: there was a hidden pool on the roof of the library! It sounds like a fool's dream, but I promise you that when I went to investigate, I found it myself. It was hidden under an illusion, and only upon going through said illusion was the pool visible. As if to make this dream more tailor made, there were bookshelves upon bookshelves here too, a whole row of which held books on... you guessed it: WHISTLE PIGS! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!!!
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Post by thorthunderpants on Aug 26, 2018 13:07:54 GMT -5
I thought I saw my uncle Greg today, but it was just a roc though. Freaked out for a second: Greg’s a dick.
We met up with a couple new people, who joined us on our walk to Red Gorge, a little boy, and another paladin. Somehow, it seems we’ve run into more holy people than I expected. Ups and downs, I suppose. We’ll see how all of that pans out. Hopefully we don’t get too many conversion attempts my way though. The Stern Lady would not be too happy with that.
When we spoke to the Chisel, I left the listening up to the group, and I drew all the images on the walls for the various libraries i subscribe to. Hopefully they like them! We then left town via river to this broken statue, and the Masked Messiah said this was the place, even though the Demonskar was nowhere near by. Grogrot laid a smackdown on the new Paladin in the group, who tried to kill the Gnoll he was talking to. Super awkward: I was actually gonna do that myself, but luckily I’m so much faster than him.
We finally got to the opening of the Demonskar, and descended into the tunnel to a huge windy chasm. I definitely should have stayed on the ground, but of course I forgot high-powered winds do things to the wings. We snuck up on a giant, and I put an immovable rod on his lap, to prevent him from warning anyone else in the tunnels. We’ll see how it goes!
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