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Chapter 2: The Forge of Frightening Events |
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After returning to town and delivering the undelightful news, we said our goodbyes and headed for Blazingdell, a larger town to the East. Once we arrived, we immediately heard that there was a Barron in town looking for able adventurers to find some items for him. We approached him about this, and he gladly accepted our offer of help, for a small sum of compensation of course. It was then that I realized that I was no longer holding true to nature and nature's call; I had become a mercenary. I figured, "Ah, what the hell, " and decided to go ahead and give the mercenary thing a try. |
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In the morning we set out for the hills, looking for Durgaden's forge. Durgaden was a Dwarven weaponsmith who's weapons were of excellent quality and craftsmanship. Our mission was to find any of these lost blades. As we climbed through the hills and slowly to the mountains, I noticed some Orc tracks! So we followed them for awhile, until I realized that we were following them backwards. Those damn tricky Orcs! So I told everyone that they had turned around, so we'd better head other way. Hehehe. They believed me. |
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Finally we broke out onto a large trail, which looked like it definately went where we wanted to go. But those damn tricky Orcs, they had already found that trail and the forge and were shooting arrows at us! So we dove behind some large boulders on the path, and tried to |
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formulate a plan. Madrix cast a spell in front of the main doors and a bunch of vines came out. But no orcs came out, and we couldn't go in, so we were stuck hiding behind boulders. |
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We shot at the orcs hiding in the arrow slits, and finally killed enough to make a run for the front doors, through Madrix's trap. We made it, shoved the doors open, and hurried inside, killing anything that grunted along the way. There were these huge misquito things that tried to take our blood too, but we swatted at them and killed them too. They didn't grunt though, they buzzed.
There was a rickety old bridge which spaned a chasm to which we could see no bottom. It seemed like a beautiful bridge to me, very adventurous and fun to cross, but the dwarf disagreed. While we were arguing, Madrix found a secret door in the wall! So we decided that a secret door was much more interesting and fun to go through than a rickety old bridge, and we went in. There were hallways and more hallways and lots of dead orcs, and some live orcs that we had to kill. Eventually we came to a mean troll thing with angry attack dogs. We killed him though, but not before he killed me first. Our cleric saved me, again, though, and we went on. |
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We went deeper and deeper into the dungeon. Eventually we came accross a room with a LOT of supplies in it. We found everything we needed. It looked like a store room of some sort-- a store room of loot from raids on caravans. There were many passages leading from this room. One of them led us to a cell that had some people in it. One of these people was an bowman by the name of Dash Langley. We continued on, killing everything that moved. We got attacked by giant misquitos, and they really got Dash. I killed them though. We also encountered stinky Troglodites who had a bear. A bear is a beast, and I hate beasts, so I tried really hard to kill the bear. It didn't work though, and it killed me. And almost killed Durka. The cleric tried to divert the bear's attention by making a ghost sound of a female bear in heat. That didn't work, since the cleric had never heard a female bear in heat before. Dash saved us by hitting it from afar enough times to drop it. He then skinned it and tanned its hide. And the cleric healed me. |
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One passage out of this room led outside. I was mad at being killed twice in one dungeon, so I stood and stared at the stars. The party had a hell of a time trying to get me to stop. Eventually the convinced me to come back into the cave and continue going.
We came accross a large room with impressive stone pillars, and some funny looking old Dwarves working in it and around it in a forge area. The forge area had a stream running through it, and a big cravass on one end, into which the stream flowed. The ugly old dwarves all tried to kill us. Durka made a distraction by running down the big room with pillars yelling, |
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"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
::breath::
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR" |
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The lead dwarf fell for this plan and went after her, while we killed the rest. They were tough, but they all died in the end.
Then we went down more stairs and found a neat statue thingy with some weird magic type runes surrounding it. The wizard was intrigued. As soon as he approached the statue though, the statue's shadow started attacking us! Dash was closest, and tried hitting it, but his sword did no damage! Neither did Durka's! But my shiny morningstar hit him full force, and in no time it disipated, but not before badly injuring both Durka and Dash. They seemed much much weaker after being hit by it. After looking at the statue for a bit, Madrix realized that by standing infront of it and uttering a command word, it would make that person look really really hot. So he did. And it didn't help him. I thought that was funny too. |
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