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Tuesday Night Runelords: Traveling to Thistletop

Another report from Ranier:

Well, we finished clearing out the dungeon space today we found below the glassworks.  It was good karma that brought the Oracle and Paladin back from the ether.  We finished searching the room where we killed the quasit.  Pajar found some gold and a scroll.  I couldn't get my eyes on the scroll.  Axle found a couple of potions -- a potion of hiding and a love potion.  Axle got the potion of hiding and Jericho the love potion.  We didn't like the look of the magic pool, so we covered it with doors from the room per Jericho's suggestion.  The doors disintegrated and fell into the pool.  We left it behind to finish exploring.

Past the statue room we explored the last corridor.  Stairs lead to a room with a dark pool.  Past that we found a set of collapsed stairs leading up, that we reckoned probably lead up towards the lighthouse -- a set of local Thassilonian ruins.  Not surprising since these ruins look Thassilonian.  Pajar left.  The rest of us started to leave when a Varouille popped up out of the pool.  The others jumped in and quickly killed it.

Once back above, I got rid of some of the junk we found and picked up my any-tool.  I checked in on Amico.  She was doing better.  She pointed us at the journal passage talking about a ritual on Thistletop.

I went back to the Red Dragon, got some food, tried copying a spell from a spell scroll unsuccessfully, and got some sleep.  Next day we went looking for Shilelu.  She wasn't do back for 3 days and no sign of her.  Pajar looked over the journal and figured we could head north to Thistletop (an island) on our own.  We gathered supplies, I upgraded my scimitar, and headed out with Sol, my guard dog.  He needed some payback on these goblins too.

We started from the goblin camp on the beach and headed North.  I was doing my best to track.  Jericho was doing it, as well.  The nettles were brutal, but Sol kept pulling as I urged him on.  We weren't far from the coast -- you could still hear the waves.

Jericho had to abandon his horse as we entered a set of tunnels in the brambles.  It was soaked with goblin smell, goblin dog smell, and the smell of some other feline creature.  We started searching and eventually came across a group of 12 or so goblins.  The party attacked.  I grabbed the scroll of flaming sphere and gave it a dose of green topped powder.  If my thought was correct, it was going to change the fire into something different.  After reading it, a flaming sphere appeared and then changed into a 5 foot orb of acid.  I guided it over the goblins, one by one, and within 2 rounds, between the rest of the party and the ball of acid, all of the goblins were dead.  Still, we could hear more goblins nearby, and a crying.

The paladin found a goblin baby and seemed inclined to take it under his care.  Fighting is going to be awfully hard with a baby in one hand, but that is the life of a paladin -- hard, mostly by choice.




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