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Journal: 6/14/08

Dear Diary:

Day after day after day. We have been in these caverns forever. Were all out of rations. I left the majority of my rations back with my horse. I can't believe we were almost left to survive on 'left over', but fortunately we have two clerics and we were able to provide some basic food and water each day. Today we were forced to down a tunnel and it collapsed behind us and we were in a huge cavern. Being cut off from behind we had little choice but to go forward, but in front of us there were tons of goblins using stalagmites for cover, four giants, and a naga sorcerer. Needless to say the fight was on. It didn't start out to great either with both clerics going out first and taking on giants, the naga nearly webbed most of us, and most of our attacks had little if no affect on the naga even the numerous fireballs I directed at it and the hordes of goblins around it. Just as we thought we were getting a hand on the goblins and we managed to take out 2 of the goblins we noticed that the cavern was getting cold and ice was forming on the floor.

Needless to say we were not ready for the huge ice dragon that dropped down on top of us. The few remaining goblins were terrified in the corners, fortunately we all managed to hold our ground against the white dragon. It mumbled some words at us (basically saying that he was hired to kill us) and Bob summed up what we were all thinking, 'fuck you' eat some mace bitch. I guess not eating anything other than your faith makes a Bob cranky. Well needless to say it was on. Unfortunately, the dragon had rings (a ring of haste and protection) so we fought it out. The dragon breathed some terrible cold on us fortunately, I wasn't in the area of effect. Then it just leapt up and jumped on top of me and tore me to shreds. I was nearly dead and I just went with it and hoped to hell that would not continue, so I feigned death. It then turned on the dwarf and ripped him to hell and tossed him over to the side like a dead 'foo foo' toy. It was a lucky break for me so I quickly downed a potion of extra healing and continued to pretend I was dead. I lost track of what was going on with the rest of the crew, but I believe they finally took out the naga and the remaining giant. Somehow, Raven managed to get by me and slid me on over towards Brother Herb who began to drag me out. As I laid on the ground being dragged I noticed the dragon was on the ceiling so I zapped him with a fireball since nobody was in the area of effect, but unfortunately Brother Herb was caught off guard when the dragon leapt down directly in front of him. Pic Tooth retrieved the fallen dwarf and managed to revive him. I moved away from Brother Herb who was then torn up by the dragon (duh, you don't have to tell me twice)! The dragon then attacked the others and Brother Herb prayed for a mighty blow and struck the dragon down.

Afterwards, we healed our wounds and found the dragons horde and the numerous carcasses (even a beholder) that was left behind in its wake of destruction (I guess not all of the slaves were so fortunate). I don't know how we managed to carry all of it out, but we did (thank heaven for that Floating Disc scroll). We didn't have a whole lot of choices since we couldn't go back to the town, we had to go to the keep. For days we dodged patrols, wandering monsters, and things that go bump in the night, but we finally arrived at the keep. We were directed to the top man and there was a lengthy conversation that seemed to produced another problem for us to managed, but I however did not find out the vital information I needed to find out who I am (unless I want to go back, but that doesn't seem to be in the CM's cards).

Afterwards we headed over to the magic shop and the keeper made some deals for a lot of our unneeded magic items. We managed to make some reasonable deals (I know we could have made a better deal if we had actually negotiated, but with the amount of stuff we brought back to the keep we needed to make any deal we could otherwise we would have had to deal with others who would have wanted to 'help us out'). Unfortunately, we will have to wait a few weeks, but I need time to get my spell book together from the other books I have acquired. I need time to work on my arcane arts, now that I have my 30+ goblin ears I can see if the hermetic mage can actually help me, we shall see. For now it is time to celebrate our short earned riches, it seems the money never truly lasts very long (especially since we have to spend it in order to gain the additional XP)!
 

Kill them, Kill them ALL!

Gwen

-M51