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Neverwinter Knights - The Matter of the Chimera From the notebook of Elrylith Rebriviel: Kythorn 2-4, 1375: The students assist the clean-up process for Wyland and Simeowea. Wyland informs Barnaby he will clear five of the favors owed for this rescue of the professor. The students spend the night and then are off the next morning. They come upon a three wagon caravan with the middle wagon falling into a sinkhole. Barnaby, Darvin, and Harold run to help hold the wagon from sinking further (though the weight and rainsoaked ground make that difficult), as Matteo and Ignacio tie their horses to the lead bar of the wagon. Chand works his wagon around the mess. The wagon almost falls in, except for the superhalfling efforts of Barnaby. The students are able to pull the wagon free of the sinkhole. As they look into the hole in the road, they notice there are crossbeams in the collapsed pile, indicating a tunnel beneath. Three wraiths fly up and attack. Matteo manages to rebuke two of them and sends them to kill the one attacking Barnaby. However, they interpet this to mean to kill Barnaby. They destroy one wraith and Matteo sends the other two away. The students decide to take a lunch break to dig out the tunnel. Barnaby and Harold climb down. They find the expected tunnel and the two wraiths. With Harold's and Matteo's help, they destroy them. The tunnel goes for a short way ending in a door. They loot three bodies. Returning to the surface, they ride on. Camping that night, Darvin and Harold are enraptured by a beautiful elven woman in the fire asking them to rescue her from her ogre captors. In the morning, a trail they did not notice before proves to lead them to the cave of the ogres, where the students begin the fight to free the mysterious woman. Updated: July 21, 2005. |