Anevia sees Kosz fall to the ground and yells out, "NO!"
She quickly unleashes two arrows at the dwarf, but both fly wide.
Anevia fires off two stray arrows in a small fit of rage.
Max fires off a shot at the dwarf, somehow managing to see through the distortion to hit his target!
Tina 5 steps back to I-7 and jabs at the rat.
"Hells the big armored guy is down, we got take this dwarf out now," shouts Rex as he aims and fires his pistol.
You attacked us first! Tina shakes her spear ferociously.
Kel lunged forward at the crazed dwarf, stepping over Kosz's fallen body. "Haul him back and get him up!"
Tina skewers the final rat!
Horgus remains indifferent.
Kel steps forward and attacks, striking a hearty blow.
Deia uses her powers to heal Kosz and bring him back from the brink of death!
Aravashnial tries to throw his acid again, but fails to hit anywhere near the dwarf.
Rex fires at the dwarf, placing his shot directly on target.
The dwarf steps south and attempts to cast a spell.
Kosz regains consciousness. Shaking his helmeted head as he stands back up, he retrieves his morningstar from the cavern floor.
Kel swings at the dwarf in an attempt to stop his casting!
The dwarf powers through the attack and manages to cast his spell! A wave of bright colors and flashing lights spews forth from his hand!
Kosz and Deia succumb to the display and fall unconscious!
The dwarf cackles with glee through his bloodied grin.
Anevia unleashes another two arrows at the dwarf, burying one of the shots into his chest. The dwarf continues cackling even as he falls to the ground.
Anevia watches her shot fell the dwarf and then hobbles over to where the others are in order to retrieve the only arrow that didn't break when it hit the rocks by the dwarf.
"That was interesting. I wonder who he was."
Tina tries to get Koz and Deia awake.
Kel quickly drags the body of the dwarf back towards the group and sets up a defensive position in the bottleneck the dwarf had come from.
"Everyone alright? How's Kosz?"
I don't know why you bother. It's in your blood to hate each other.
Doesn't that mean it's in my blood to hate you?
Yes. That's what I've been telling you.
I don't
You will.
I'm trying to wake him back up. Tina splashes some water into Koz's face.
"Nice finish, Anevia. That could have gone very poorly without your aid. Don't worry about the folks on the ground - they will come to. I know this sort of magic well." Max takes a look at the wizardly dwarf for interesting magic, but he's unable to make heads or tails of most of it.
"This one is a potion of Invisibility," he remarks. "I confess to being ignorant regarding the remainder."
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Deia recovers from the spell affecting her and holds her head in her hands. "Uuuhhnnnnggg", she moans, "that will give you a headache but I don't think there is any permanent damage." She takes a short drink from her waterskin.
Looking up she asks "Is everybody else alright? Kosz is up and about?"
Deia helps Max inspect the items that the dwarf had.
"I agree with Max's assessmet of the invisibility potion. The cloak appears to contain some magic that helps you avoid or overcome dangerous situations. It will make you feel healthier, react quicker, and be more focused."
Rex holster's his pistol after reloading. "Strange, I wonder how long that crazy dwarf has been down here?"
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Tina holds the two potions and examines them closely..
A potion of invisibility. This would be good for scouting, although I don't know what the other is.
The dwarf probably had a camp further on if he was doing research as he said. Tina checks to see if the dwarf is dead.
For the second time in a minute, Kosz slowly rises from the ground. "Oww..."
Looking around at the others, he again reaches down for his morningstar asking, "Is everyone okay?"
I am fine, how is everyone else? We best get moving before any other nasties show up
The dwarf's camp is very spartan otherwise. It consists of little more than a tattered bedroll and a fire pit. A sack of preserved meats and fruit sits beside the bedroll along with a small, well-worn book and tiny marble statuette of a man holding a spear. Pinned to the sack is a small brooch in the shape of a bat perched atop a mushroom.
In the later pages he writes of crusaders watching him in the tunnels, laughing at his failures and waiting for him to sleep so that they can torture him. His descriptions of his experiments also become increasingly graphic and detailed. Accompanying these details are crudely drawn diagrams showing exactly how to reproduce them and formulae that seem to be what he based his experiments on.
The brooch is made from gold, but isn't really of note in any fashion. It could be sold for around 100gp.
The brooch is made of fine gold, and the bat's eyes both house tiny amethyst gemstones. Though not particularly special, the unique design and the skill that would be required to place the gems into the eyes may cause it to fetch a higher price of around 200gp.
0 - Acid Splash, Detect Magic, Ghost Sound, and Read Magic
1 - Color Spray, Detect Secret Doors, Grease, Mage Armor, Magic Missile, Shocking Grasp, Silent Image,
2 - Blur, Fog Cloud, Invisibility, Levitate, Resist Energy
I managed to stabilize the dwarf but he is almost gone, he needs to be patched up a lot if we want to talk to him.
Tina looks disgusted at the 'camp' How foul! Torturing these poor animals!
The brooch is gold and seems to be about 100 gold, the statuette is about 45 gold coins
Max enters the stinky camp and picks up the book from Tina. . "Curiously enough, these ramblings have a distinct pattern. It's as if... it's a spellbook! Unless anyone else minds, I think it would be quite useful for me to hold onto this for future study"
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Deia walks into the camp with the rest of the group. "Gross! I can't imagine how somebody could live down here like this. I guess that also explains why he was so crazy."
As they are inspecting the camp, she looks at the brooch and statuette with Tina. "I don't know, Tina. These look more valuable than that to me. They both have quite nice craftsmanship. At the fair in Kenabres, I'd think we could get closet to 75 for the statue and 200 for the pin."
Addressing the group, she asks "Now what to do about the dwarf? He attacked us, but leaving him here half-dead doesn't seem exactly right, either."
"He's a madman and a powerful mage. Who knows what kind of abominations he might have created with these rats and darkmantles. I have little mercy for this Millorn."
Max picks up the crossbow and bolts. Keeping 5 bolts for himself, he adds 7 cold-iron bolts into the mix and hands the crossbow and bolts to Horgus. "Perhaps not your weapon of choice, but surely better than nothing at all."
Horgus looks at Max with contempt as he offers the crossbow.
"You don't honestly expect me to use that thing, do you? I'd much rather let you all do the fighting. You seem to be handling yourselves well enough, though I do think you could use some more practice."
Pointing at Anevia he adds, "Especially you. I've never seen someone miss so many shots with a bow before."
Anevia glares at Horgus.
"You try aiming a bow while holding yourself up on a crutch. Or better yet, just take that crossbow and try it now."
"Excuses, excuses, woman. I thought you were supposed to be a trained soldier. Anyways, I'm not fighting until I need to."
Horgus grudgingly takes the weapon from Max and slings it on his side.
While trying to feel his way around the room by his staff, Aravashnial decides to join the conversation.
"I really agree that this Millorn deserves little sympathy from us; He did try to kill us after all. It would have been one thing to leave him bleeding after that, but since the kind woman has apparently tended to his wounds it would be something else entirely to kill him now. You've put us in quite the situation, ma'am."
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"I never said it was wrong. In fact, I don't think that even the noblest of paladins would be likely to show such kindness to someone who attacked them in such a fashion, so it's most noble of you to do so. It just leaves us with a bit of a quandary that we have to think about."
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Well I don't really have anything good to say about him, especially after seeing what he was doing with these creatures. Perhaps we can get him to tell us about a way to the surface.
Kosz turns to regard the unconscious dwarf and small woman, "The dwarf lives. Tina is right in that if he regains consciousness, he may know of a way to the surface."
"Thank you Horgus. We need all the fighting strength we can muster." Max withdraws, not wanting to offend the sour aristocrat any further. His attention returns to the fallen dwarf. "Well, Tina, I can't fault a healer for applying her skill in the art. Let us get him standing again and take him into custody until the authorities can take over again." Max wasn't entirely sure if there would be any authorities left, but he chooses to remain optimistic.
Tina nods to the others. Perhaps we can take a little rest and have fruit and water. We should put these poor animals out of their misery.
Not really knowing what to say about the dwarf, Kel keeps quiet and looks around the area in case the mad wizard wasn't alone.
After taking your time to check the area thoroughly, you only find evidence of a single person having lived in this cavern. However, you do find an area of recently turned soil about 3 feet wide by 4 feet long along the southern wall.
"I've got something buried over here? Or maybe just a garden. Someone want to take a look?"