DH52 & 53 (May)
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Tom: Mescillius (fighter) & Metham
(cleric of Aemano). John: Blevin (halfling) & Percival
(magic-user). Damon: Tristan (elf) & Francis “the frail”
(cleric). Chris: Singen (magic-user) & Padre (cleric). Luke:
El-Rashid (fighter) & Silus “the sickly” (cleric of Fornast).
Jeff: Thimple (halfling) & Joshua (cleric of AeBalt).
Singen & Padre showed up (having
heard of the groups infamy and they signed up to help explore the
Hill with our group of misfits. The group was relaxing in town and
did some drinking. Gronn told them that he “blesses the God-Rocks”
every day. He does seem to have low-level cleric spells. The group
took some of the Withered Legion's armor, and picked through the
weapons. Then they headed back to the Hill from town.
When the group arrived at the bottom of
the Hill, the Green Dragon looked down at them. The dragon smashed
the side of the temple that it was wrapped around. It bellowed
“TRIBUTE! GEMS! GOLD!” Joshua gathered up about 1,200 gold
pieces and held it out in front of him. He was shaking like a leaf,
and he couldn't remember the Dragon's name. Some of the other
characters went up with Joshua. The dragon blessed the small group
of characters that came up with him. The dragon wasn't sure why
Joshua looked so familiar. It seemed to not remember fighting the
Withered Legion.
The group descended into the lower
levels. In a nearby room they heard the sound of weapons clashing.
They found clumps of bloody fur, and blood trails where they assumed
the bodies were dragged. They followed them. In a room there were
mud tubes on the walls, ceiling, and floors. They reminded them of
termite mud tubes, if the termites were dog sized. The group heard
various buzzing noises in the tunnels. The group had a difficult
time getting across the room, and some of the characters fell into
the tubes angering the insects within.
They saw a dark dwarf that asked him
who they served, and they didn't give a good answer. He rang a bell
and then they killed him. He cursed in the name of Murgulta the
Blood Moon Goddess. They entered a very large room with a meteor of
iron with an alter on the side of it. There were 7 dark dwarves in
the room. On the altar there was a beautiful humanoid woman of an
unknown race.
Metham cast Hold Person and four of the
Dwarves froze in place. The high priest unleashed a ray of black
energy that turned into and through Thimple. Blevins went and
attempted to destroy the woman on the alter and smashed her knee.
Francis put three more of the asleep. The priest turned out to be
Undead. Francis was lucky to have his amulet when another
necromantic blast of rats flew through his soul. Metham with his
Death to Death warhammer smashed into the high priest but it didn't
put him to a second death. Whoever damaged the high-priest was
cursed by him, and a unholy (holy) symbol of Murgulta was burned upon
their foreheads when he died
The woman had a strange alien beauty to
her. She was strangely perfect. They found her breathing shallowly
in a deep sleep. She didn't detect as evil, and they healed her
smashed knee. Joshua picked up the naked woman and carried her out
of the room.
They then talked to one of the dark
dwarves that was asleep after they woke up up from the magical sleep.
“If you kill me, those with the mark of Murgulta will follow me
down into death. I'll take them with me.” Metham thought that the
curse mark on their foreheads would make it very easy for a cleric of
Murgulta to use spells on them.
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They kept talking to the captured
Dwarf. He said that he now served the brother Borgius, since he had
the better claim to the Minotaur's throne. He told them about the
different brothers fighting each other for the throne. He told them
that the group has lit the hornet's nest on fire and started a civil
war. He asked them about the cannibals, and he was shocked to learn
that the group unleashed the cannibals into the room.
Francis attempted to kill the woman,
and Joshua cast Hold Person on him. Joshua was NOT happy with him.
Metham came out to find out what was happening and put a stop to the
confrontation.
The Dwarf told them Mardus was the
eldest and ruling Minotaur until the group slayed him. Borgius (the
next oldest brother) is fighting against his younger brother Kornas.
The various factions are lining up behind one or the other Minotaur.
He told them that the Dwarves were hired by Borgius, though they
haven't fully decided to officially support one or the other brother.
El-Rashide was an eloquent spokesperson to try to use one side
againt the other.
The group told them that they might
offer them more than Borgius would. This was very interesting to the
Dwarf. He told them that some of their number had fallen in the war,
but also that the cannibal hordes had taken a toll. The Dwarf tod
them they wanted to use the woman's healing properties for their
side. They are getting hired by Borgius for 50 silver each per
month. The group discussed moving the Dark Dwarves to Nahm, to help
populate the town, be soldiers in the militia, and to run the local
temple, or to at least help with the running of it.
Those in the party that were injured
were completely healed. Characters that were horribly wounded
suddenly became healed. Mescillius' eye grew back, Thimple's dead
patch of skin on his face healed. Her powerful healing abilities
were very evident.
Singen handed out a torn piece of cloth
so that those with Murgulta's Curse mark on their foreheads could
hide them. Some of the characters refused and considered it a battle
scar to keep.
The Dwarf's name was Kergil (cleric of
Murgulta). The offer was to give them 6 gold each for serving them.
He set up a time and place to meet them. They told them to meet them
in the room above the burrower insects. He told them when they land
on your face that they breed, so they wanted to avoid those insects.
The Dwarf wanted the girl back, but they did not give into this
demand. He told them that the plan was to have the girl heal their
soldiers faster than the other side. He told them that he would try
to convince the Dark Dwarf leader to meet them. When they let the
Dwarf go he showed them a trick to put the buzzing mud tube insects
asleep. They let him keep the amulet off of the old high priest. He
just got a promotion, so he wasn't too upset by it all.
Joshua carried the woman out of the
dungeon, with the rest of the group in tow. He then walked up
towards the Green Dragon on the surface. The Dragon looked surprise
to see Joshua again. “You gave tribute, why are you here?” The
woman healed the injuries, the growth, and his scales grew back where
they were missing. After one hour it seemed like it was completely
healed. The Dragon told him that, “They no longer needed to give
him tribute. The Hill is yours, the Temple is mine.”
The woman was muttering something under
her breath. Blevins thought that she was saying something in some
Divine tongue, perhaps some sort of Song of Creation. They were
trying to figure out which god or goddess had a domain of healing.
When Joshua started praying to the statue of MurGwala (the Green
Moon) in the Temple in the town of Namh, the statue... changed to
look just like the healing woman. They guessed that the woman might
possibly be the goddess of the green moon.
They did some research on the solar and
lunar eclipses, and the books in the Temple said that during such
times that the gods were closer to the mortal material plane.
They brought Gronn in and told him to
see and then guard the goddess. During the night, those that slept
in the Temple had very violent dreams about nature, and the animals
in nature.
The next day the lunar and solar
eclipse seems like it is starting to go away. The moons will go out
of alignment in this order: Blood (MurGulta), Green (MurGwala), and
then White (MurAlta). Plants started growing in the temple around
the goddess, and worshipers from the town have come to revere and
pray to the goddess. The donations to the Temple increased
dramatically with the goddess there.
The group headed back to try to meet up
with the Dark Dwarves. They talked with the leader of the Dark
Dwarves. They told the leader that they could still work for Borgius
but that they REALLY would be working for them. They told them that
they got along with the Dark Elves, but they wouldn't mind if they
could be... eliminated. They gave them a map explaining what areas
they had control over. They told them that some Sleegos were aiding
their side. Half of the pink ones sided with Borgius, and the other
half support Kornas.
Kergil pulled out a Murgulta Blood
Dagger. The leader cut his hand with it, and then held it out. He
then grasped El-Rashid's hand. He told them that there were 50 in
total, and that not all of them could be here. They paid them for 20
for the full month, and promised to pay the rest of them. Metham
paid for the rest of the month for the Dwarves.
They promised to give them refuge in
the Dark Dwarf territories. They were also given a message to
perhaps allow them to pass by The Withered Legion without being
harmed. Of course since Lekorh knows about them... this might not
work.
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