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marigoldmavlech · 3 years

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06/08/2021

I want to start this entry by saying fuck spiders, I don’t swear. But fuck spiders.

I have also since realized that the world is more dangerous then I had originally thought. and having a healthy fear of dragons big or small is needed, if it wasn't for the people I was on this quest with, I wouldn’t be writing this entry. I would be 6ft below the ground right now. I should probably mention to the people that I travel with that I would prefer my body to be burned rather than left to rot in the ground.

But I'm still here and I'm still standing which I am grateful for, I still have to build the church and hospital for this town. But let me get to the adventure we did go on.

We started our quest in the guild hall where Paavu pointed us in the direction of the blacksmith Saedrick. Our quest was to clear out the creatures in Saedrick’s mine in the mountains to the north.

Once we had met the blacksmith in his house forge? we found out that the trip was a two day trip away from the town and that’s walking. A two day walk with Valentina, Ithus ,Wennock, Dharcius and Alfr. Three people that I have traveled with before, a warlock and another Cleric but of the fighting type. I mean at least Valentina is here so I have another female to talk to. After gathering more information from Saedrick like the mine is separated into 3 main portions and one that we were told to leave alone and now I understand why. But i’ll get to that.

The First leg of the trip was North west along the rolling planes with tall standing grass. on our trip we were attacked. By not 1 not 2 but 4 Ankhegs. Wennock and Dharcius were the first targets being attacked from below, grappled in there pincer like grip as they harmed our friends. 2 more dug out of the ground and attacked. During this time Valentina revealed a set of bony wings, they were beautiful but also scary at the same time. During the fight, we almost lost two of our members. But we survived, thankfully. Unknown to us, this wouldn’t be our last deadly encounter for this adventure.

After our first near death encounter we continued North to the mountains. We did stop for the night and it went by uneventfully. The next day of trekking towards the mines was windy With the last leg of travel before reaching the mines I had a chance to talk with Valentina as the men kept guard. She’s sweet, and almost motherly, something i only every got from the priestesses at the temple. I wonder if my birth mother even cared about me. She did abandon me after all. Anyways, we reached the mines with no further issues; when we arrived the sun was begging to set and the party was tired from our journey. Looking around some of us noticed a small hut outside the cave entrance. It was more of a shed than a hut but it looked big enough for 2 and made for great cover and privacy Valentina and I took advantage of this and slept peacefully out of the wind. Whilst the males of our group kept watch.

The next morning we set off into the mines, and all way going well until we found out that Wennock and Alfr couldn’t see anything. This is interesting, I knew that there were some races that couldn’t see in the dark, and I mean I knew about humans. But it’s unlucky for those who can’t. We went slowly, to help those who can’t see. Dharcuis volunteered to move first and scout ahead. Where we came across 2 small slime like creatures and took them out without difficulty.

The path forward was a fork and we had to choose where we would go left or right. Valentina had asked me “hey dear would you like to come with little ol me and look down the right path quickly” I went along with her and we snuck down the path, the others noticed and followed shortly behind. We spent a good while making our way around the curving nature of the caves. A small mine shaft off to the side of the path lead to a hole descending so deep we couldn’t see the bottom. I lit a torch and dropped it down the shaft, where it landed with a small thud about 150 ish ft down. This is most likely the area we were warned about. We continued around the bends and with a large Smack of a great club Ithus was attacked by a large humanoid creature waiting around one of the corners. As 2 ogres were down within this section of the mine. They weren’t much of a problem for our party as we brought them down with great haste. In this section of the cave there were many corpses of kobolds one of which was holding a note.

“Go to the Northwest kobold Camp, Support them and back them up” Mugrunden Esterlyn

Mugrunden Esterlyn someone who we have heard about time and time again. He irritates me to be honest. Thankfully it seems these ogres helped a future problem. We made our way back to the cave we went to through the other section and then we were done with the mine. The path was short and with some quick scouting it was noticed that 5 strange retile insect like creatures where around the corner just wandering, waiting. After thinking of a plan we made our move, only to have them burst out of the wall infront of me. Reptilian Spiders. Fuck anything spider like. Valentina Set of a very loud spell that cause some sections of the cave to collapse thankfully we didn’t suffer any major problems. We finally killed the 5 spider things 1 larger beast and 4 smaller ones. At last we cleaned the mines. Even though Valentina and i wanted to leave it was decided that we take a quick look down the shaft before we head home.

Using some rope and a grappling hook i wove them a double braided rope about 80ft long and was decided since Valentina was the lightest that she would be lowered down. At some point she wanted to come back up that was until she head a voice. From her report the voice has called out “hello whos there, have you come for me”. Her name was Astrin. Valentina didn’t trust the Astrin so she had come up and swapped with Ithus and Wennock. The boys went lower than Valentina had and this was a mistake that shouldn't have happened. Because I was father back making sure the rope was secure i didnt see what happened. But after reading Valentina’s report. I should have been closer to help out.

From Valentina’s Report

Getting lower then I wanted to go wennock was about 20ft from the bottom where he was able to see this woman’s expression change from a shy to a smile holding out her hand and with a minor flash of arcane energy she said “come join me” wennock had been charmed. I was hearing ithus panic from up top unable to get a good grasp on what they were seeing. Ithus did what he could to break the charm and with some success they begin racing back up the rope to get away from this thing. Which it didn’t like. Using what I can only consider through some arcane knowledge a spell known as hold person as wennock froze in place on the rope. And this woman’s form became fluid in its nature as another slimy form sped up the rope getting just above wennock. All of us took action me included.

This was also apparently when Valentina figured out that Wennock is one of her three kids, Two of which she had apparently abandoned and the third that had died in a fire. When she realized this she shouted down the shaft “stay away from my son you bitch”

The creature which had a long slimy rope like tendril descending all the way back down. As this entity finally made its true presence know a large bubbling slimy mess with faces shifting around almost like its screaming over and over within itself as An Adult Oblex was attacking us. In fear we did everything we could to escape, and we just managed to. Wennock finally back up. Valentina had used her Bony wings again to bring fear to the creature. After this we were left alone. And we raced out as fast as we could for the cave exit. Wennock hid in the shed for a few hours as we waited until dusk to rest. But little did we know, staying would be our final mistake of this quest.

The first six hours went by uneventfully. but as we were about to leave I noticed a glint of red over the horizon and was met by the flapping of wings. And in an attempt to escape the wrath of a young red dragon we ran back into the cave. I dont remember what happened after aside from being waking up with Ithus standing over me. Burns down the left side of his face. We spent the night in the cave, barely sleeping while the dragon flew around outside and knowing the danger that lurked within. After we thought the dragon had left, we book it back to town. Coming across a group of horses and something flying in the distance.

I'm now very wary of what's to the north and I fear for what may happen in the future.

Faithfully

-Marigold

Exp Points gained: 813

Reached Lvl 3

Loot Gained: 13 Gold, 3 Silver

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