So the group end victorious against a small part of the Barracuda Hoard, they return to Gomel with a handsome reward, and experience to boot! Now they can rest and wait until they are needed once more...

Mon Falstaff- Owner of the Nor'Keepin Inn

Mon Falstaff- Owner of the Nor'Keepin Inn

Musings in a dwarfs mind .................

Musings in a dwarfs mind .................
{I have not seen this much intensity, this much hatred for life since.....since the forest............the bloodshed, the running..........I thank the gods that I found respite and the friendship of Mon. Without that, I would hate to think I might have become something like the blind fools we face}

Helja's thoughts...............

Helja's thoughts...............
I am feeling so alive and rejuveniled now. ... and it really pays to be the one watching the backs of others ............. wonder how much gold or gems I managed to pocket? Must be enough to experience some luxery living for a change ........ I mean, if the rich folk can why can't I? 

We are so close to figuring this puzzle out too. Hope the village will be happy cos then I can start finding out a bit more of my deed maybe.......

Originally shared by Steve K

Originally shared by Steve K
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Zombies Are Evil. A Shek Hong Styled Poem, by your lovely bard.

Zombies Are Evil. A Shek Hong Styled Poem, by your lovely bard.

Zombies are heinous,
Obeying evil magi,
Malicious devils.

Bereft of all life,
Inclined to wander around,
Eating living flesh.

(Thokk's inner musings)

(Thokk's inner musings)
Hmmmmm, note to self - I wonder if the alcohol content of my fortified cider would make a good zombie flamer..........
Well, better focus on the task at hand: incoming steps moving fast - lets see how quickly this lot can fall, because if they ALSO keep getting back up, I am going to get annoyed!

Our group left Gomel heading to a small coastal town by the name of Gormanghast they seem to have a problem with corpses leaving in the middle of the night, now since corpses don't just go wondering on there own out of a graveyard there must be some outside influence involved.

Our group left Gomel heading to a small coastal town by the name of Gormanghast they seem to have a problem with corpses leaving in the middle of the night, now since corpses don't just go wondering on there own out of a graveyard there must be some outside influence involved.

When we arrived at Gormanghast after talking to the mayor there and sorting out suitable compensation for our troubles (A longbow for me.) we spent the night in the church hoping that someone would try to dig up another corpse.
Unfortunately no one dug anything up except Helja but ill get to that later, Thokk saw some movement in the night and at the location I found tracks that led to the wooden rampart of the town and a hidden door that went outside the walls, the tracks led off to the beach but they were lost in the sand. Searching the caves and both up and down the beach led to no discoveries so we headed back to town.

Just before midday Helja was looking at the centre of the floor in the church and asked if anyone can see that, no one had any idea what she was talking about so she grabbed the floor and ripped it up it was impressive she is as strong as she looks and has good eyes.
Where there is now a gaping hole in the floor is a hidden passageway to somewhere, so tacking a note to the door of the church stating that we are following a lead please do not enter the church we went down the hole.

I hope the town doesn't go into the church it would be a pain having to explain about the damage.

Helja's thoughts.........

Helja's thoughts.........
......(wonderingly)....... I am so strong now! All these things I can do, all the people I can help.........wait ..... what is that? I can hear voices......"helja, come on girl, open your eyes" ...... open? my? eyes? ... oooh but I hurt. What the hell happe.... oh ............ centipedes!

Thankful for the healing is Helja.

But now............. I go to cover a tunnel and I hear ....... everyone is shuffling shuffling................ better get it together if you want to survive down here Helja ol' girl.

The Battle of the Centipedes! By the beautiful and talented Skye!

The Battle of the Centipedes! By the beautiful and talented Skye!
I hope you enjoy!
♫Bravely down the deep dark hole,
Go our adventurers bold!
Down to the bottom the group hath climbed,
Nobody knowing, what we would find!
A dank dirty cavern, what a surprise,
The light cantripp'd stone is blinding our eyes!
Forward we go, Valasca leading the way,
Searching for tracks of our unknown prey!
Across a crumbly bridge, a ramshackle door looms,
And to our side, weak supports that could spell our dooms!
The door is misshapen and is poorly made,
And yet in front of it, our traps are now laid!
Along a side passage, Valasca still in front,
The party moves onward in this big treasure hunt!
Sneakily we move, along this narrow path,
When suddenly three Giant Centipedes appear, bearing much wrath!
They bite and they bite, Valasca and Helja both drop,
But Jerrick shoots fire, and nabs one with a sizzle and pop!
Two more remain, a horrifying sight,
as Valasca and Helja lie unconscious, despite all of their might!
Laurel moves in, whip lashing out from her hand,
Slapping the Centipede with a force that it could not stand!
The last Centipede comes scuttling, up on the wall,
Going for Thokk, but it made a misstep and took a big fall!
Thokk takes aim, and brings his hammer down like a rock,
As he shouts to the heavens "CENTIPEDE GET THOKKED!"
I rush over to our unconscious and poisoned heroes two,
And use my medical prowess, to cleanse both their wounds!
As we all take, a much needed rest,
I use my healing magic to make them feel the best!
Onwards we go, a secret door we do find,
And open it goes with a bump and a grind!
Into the room, Thokk and Helja enter with a grin,
and alert the beasts slumbering within!
Shambling and groaning, appear two abominations ahead,
I KNEW IT ALL ALONG, ITS FREAKIN UNDEAD!♫

Skye's Notes ♫

Skye's Notes ♫
11th Reepwynd Undey
I've finally learnt how to influence the magical notes I've been playing into physical and mental forms! I knew my ability was strong, but I didnt know that I was this magical! I feel fantastic! I felt like I didnt contribute much, aside from saving Thokk, so hopefully now I can be a help to my "team" now. Harvest Festival is coming up! Today some Laurel Pennsdotta girl came in asking if she can join us, the group decided that we should let her try it out, she looks around my age, I could make a friend. later on some guy named Largard comes up to us and asks us to help his small community. He says a village elder send him to help out with some disappearing dead bodies. He wants us to solve whatever problem they're being afflicted by. I smell black magics. We made it to a small village named Gormanghast. Go figure the town with dead people issues would be called Gorman-GHAST! We ended up in the church, and had a discussion with some dude for terms of payment. I wasn't really paying attention but he allowed us to stay in the church, where all the things have been happening around. We took turns watching out. Nothing seemed to happen.

12th Reepwynd Torsdey
The others found some random secret passage by the church and they started to try and figure out what that was about. I had some free time, so I went  to the tavern and told them the story of the necromancer priest and the brave heroes who stopped him, in an attempt to make the townsfolk a little more at ease with the commotion. Hopefully the others can live up to the hype I created of them, otherwise what good can they possibly be for my stories of grandeur? My story seems to have made the townsfolk happy and full of hope. It's things like that that give me INSPIRATION. I went back to the others, they were about to explore the beach. So we waited on the beach. Went back to the church after nothing happening, thought about what we'd do, and Helja ripped out a trapdoor from the church floor. I have no clue what's down there, but hey, if today is the day I die, so be it. Fates be gentle.

Hey guys I have a question about magic, materials and spell focuses. If a spell cost material to cast, but I have spell focus with my instrument, does that negate the material cost? I've been reading the spell focus thing and I recall somethign from that. This is my first magic using class, so I'd like to make sure

Wow that was fun down in the sewers the smell was not nice but hey who cares we saved the child killed some heretic worshippers and even managed to capture the ones that did not drown in the sewers.

Wow that was fun down in the sewers the smell was not nice but hey who cares we saved the child killed some heretic worshippers and even managed to capture the ones that did not drown in the sewers. 

The townspeople were very thankful and offered to train and give us some basic supply for the rescue, The guard also said we could even keep the gear of the heretics it was a win win situation..... I wonder if there are any bandits around that we could hunt?

Helja's amusings....

Helja's amusings....

Fighting those sorcerers and bad men, rescuing the child. I ... I feel so happy. The hitting, and kicking and smashing of bone, the gurgles as they die ..... was very ............... satisfying.

The child's family are happy and together and the town offered us a reward. Most grateful. It may aid me to visit my old village soon.

I did not enjoy the stink of sewer though. Hung on me for days, even after scrubbing with the soapthistle Mon found.

I am content now, resting here at Mons, talking to the stray dogs that come for scraps...... (not that Mon knows I find what I can for them)

Skye's diary.

Skye's diary.
32 Hisun Undey

Super Awesome Adventure Log!
Wow I feel like a real adventurer now! Where to begin?!
So the day started all normal and fine, got to the tavern in the afternoon, and I really rocked the house! During the performance however, Jerrick shouted something about a child gone missing, and Mon went over to the table and dragged Jerick to the wine cellar. I dunno what happened there, but Jerrick comes back out and he starts rousing people to follow him. I knew I smelt adventure! I followed him off to the house of the missing child and Jerrick was talking to the father about possible theft + kidnapping. Thokk made a really bad joke, it hurt my ears. And the Jerrick hit him! Damn men and their testosterone. Helja on the other hand was talking about some penticles, that girl's one string short of a lute.. anyways, Jerrick started picking around with front door lock, checking for scratch marks and stuff, he couldn't find anything so he asked me to have a look, I saw knife marks, but for some reason I was compelled to not tell him they were there. So strange!
Anywho~ The boys went out back to look for tracks, whilst we stayed inside. During the convo though Thokk said to the parents of the child that they deserved to lose thier child! So rude! I promptly slapped him! Such a jerk >:( We ended leaving out into the back alley, and Jerrick was staring at a sewer, they wanted to go in, but apparently humans cant see in the dark, hmph that's something I dont envy about them. We went back to my place to grab some torches off dad, and we returned to the sewer. A man named Sven, son of Sven joined us. Apparently he heard the rousing rabble speech in the tavern that Jerrick created, we all climbed into the sewers. We made some good progress, Valasca leading the way, until we rounded a corner and some goddamned rats attacked us. They got some good bites in but I noticed they were just trying to run past, so I stepped to the side. We needed to rest after that. We rounded some more corners after the rest and encountered a long corridor. Nobody saw the light at the end of the hallway except for me, but I managed to tell them to stop in time and extinguish thier lights. Suddenly Thokk runs across the ledge to get into a better position, and falls into the water and bumped into Sven and alerted two men to our presence! Clumsy oaf! The two men came wading thier way down the tunnel and I recognized them as two of the men I saw the other day! I knew they were up to no good! We took them out pretty easy, even though another came around the corner. Helja took him out, damn that lady is strong! Anyway Thokk ran around the corner and got knocked out by another man! I looked down the corridor and apparently people were casting some dark ritual that involved 'sacrificing' the child! Filthy swines! Helja passed back Thokk to me and I managed to stabilise him. Thank Gaia. The others managed to defeat the evil guys, and we took everyone back. Jerrick and I went to the parents house, and they were ecstatic to have their child return to them! I went home afterwards and mum grounded me! I saved a child's life and she grounded me! The bitch. sigh well I guess I'll have to sneak out again. I dont feel like I did much. All I really did was save Thokks life, and even then, someone else probably could have. sigh I wish I could learn how to focus these magical tunes. Now I think on it, we never did find that damned cat.

33rd Hisun Torsdey
Had a rest today. Mum scrubbed me til I was raw, but we got that sewer smell off of me. Even dad looked unhappy about me going into the sewers without proper protection. Man, did I screw up?

34th Hisun Midsdey

Today the townsfolk rewarded us for saving the child! Apparently word got around of my friends' brave exploits, I feel happy for them. I dont think I really did much, I felt more like a burden. A man came to me however and offered to teach me how to focus my spells, in place of my father. He was from the College of Lore. Maybe now I can become a real adventurer!
I still feel really awkward around the others, I cant help but feel I'm still a burden, they all have such...lack of care for hurting things. I dont really fit in.

Well it turns out that not only was some animals that went missing but some child has been taken as well, Hopefully we find that child before he gets sold or something.

Well it turns out that not only was some animals that went missing but some child has been taken as well, Hopefully we find that child before he gets sold or something.
The tracks around where the child was indicates a travelling boot of someone of medium to heavy build and it led out the back of the building which we got kicked out of after Thokk insulted the parents, the tracks lead down into the sewers.... Great.
Rats I mean literally, Rats a whole god damn swarm of them came running round the corner scrambling over our feet biting as they went, must remember to keep a eye on the tiny scratch I got as rats aren't very clean especially ones that live in the sewers. Ah looks like we are heading off again after our rest lets see if we can find where these tracks lead....

Hey guys, quick question, do you guys have any goals you're willing to share with the rest of us? I'm bored, and curious.

And here is Skye's father, the famous Shek Hong bard, Cheng Wo.

And here is Skye's father, the famous Shek Hong bard, Cheng Wo.
Cheng Wo is renowned most of all for his previous adventures into incredibly dangerous waters, where he is fabled to have fought off the kraken, not once, but twice.

I finally got around to it, I should probably post this once we hit level 1 so I can get some xp for it ( LOL ) but oh well, I'll live.

I finally got around to it, I should probably post this once we hit level 1 so I can get some xp for it ( LOL ) but oh well, I'll live.
Here is Skye's Mother, Sairah (sa-ee-rah) Leafsong.
Sairah Leafsong used to be a noblewoman, until she eloped with Cheng Wo, and now she is as unwelcome in her ancestors home, as much as a human is.

Our groups new motto?

Our groups new motto?