After huddling in the corner like a scaredy-cat for a while, the sense of fear wears off and I’m able to get my armor back on. Just as I’m pulling on my boots, the hallway goes black like POOF! Like somebody turned all the lights out and there’s not a single bit of light anywhere.
A little voice comes out of the darkness. The tiny voice hmmms between sentences as if he’s still thinking through his offer while he gives it. He tells us that they’ll give us back all the slaves and leave the area if we leave them alone.
Helion asks how many of them are left. “I won’t tell you,” the voice says, “But here is a symbol of our good intentions.“ Two human slaves come out of the darkness.
We huddle up and whisper to each other, all team-like. After some discussion, we take their offer. Helion speaks for us, letting the slavers know that we will give them one day to get out and then we’ll be back to check on them.
Eight more slaves stumble out of the darkness, including Lyssa. They’re alive but in really bad shape. “True to our word,” Helion says, “We’re leaving now. Goodbye and I hope our paths never cross again.” There’s no answer.
Thank Moradin we had those town guards with us! A couple run up ahead and come back with carts so the rescued slaves don’t have to walk the whole way. We make it back in the early evening and find a few hundered people outside the gates to town. There’s a huge party to celebrate the return of the missing townsfolk and honor us as heroes – US! I’ve never had a party for me other than a birthday party, and seriously, you kinda HAVE to have a birthday party. This party was totally optional and they did it for US! So freakin’ cool. Errich slides over and tells us he has something to do and he’ll meet back up with us at the inn. People are handing us drinks and huggin’ and kissin’ on us. Having a destiny is pretty awesome!
We finally manage to work our way through the crowds of admirers and get to the inn. We meet up with a new guy, who I have to say is pretty gross. He’s a dwarf, but he’s got this nappy hair that looks like it’s caked in – ew, I’m gagging just thinking about it! – blood. We’re talking with him and considering him as a replacement for Drash when we see the guards taking Errich off to jail. What?!?
Helion explains to the guards how we saved the slaves and he’s one of us – a hero! Fin tells them to tell Lady Woden that Errich will come with us. The guards say that he was caught with stolen goods and must be taken to the jail. Fin goes with him since he has the best relationship with Lady Woden.
We all go to bed in the Slumbering Drake. I have to say, it’s really nice to be able to wash up and sleep in a bed again. I’ve never had such a good night’s sleep!
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DMs can never just let you be the hero can they? Always gotta haul someone off to the pokey!
I don’t know how you payed attention to D&D last night… Your Nerd-Fu is superior to mine!
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@Darius: at this point, the heroes were low on Healing surges and were thinking to leave the dungeon. As a DM I thought, what would the slavers do after the heroes leave, as they seem to slaughter them… They would leave killing the slaves, or at best taking those with them. And I wouldn’t want the quest to end badly, because I had some ideas in mind… So the slavers, not knowing that the heroes were ready to leave, have decided to discuss with the heroes not to be killed. One of the characters (Helion) being a ferocious orc-hater (if you have followed the write ups) I thought that it would be a fun negociation. But they just accepted…
But it’s not over… *evil DM grin*
@e: the birthday party part made me laugh real hard ^^
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@Hyb. – Good to see monsters with plans for their futures. Most DMs I have played with make everything fight to the death. I don’t know about you, but if I were a goblin and saw my buddies getting pwned… I just might get the heck outta there!
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@ Darius – Actually, most of my session write-ups are at least a few days after the session. This one is actually over a week late.
Tuesday is the no-game night, even for Hybban it seems! (I think he has a game on every other day of the week now.)
@Darius: yes, my monsters are not all stupid
@e: I have no game on Fridays either. And most games are not every week, so I have plenty free evenings to spend at the pub!
Hyb’
Cool ending to the adventure. Was Errich being arrested a metagame way to swap characters for the bloody dwarf (and I mean that in every possible way) or was that an in-game consequence?
I enjoy reading the Moradin’s Lass campaign journal very much. Please feel free to continue. Hint, hint.
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@ Patrick – Hehehe, that’s just a mini-ending. Mielka’s group still has like 13 levels of Castle Whiterock to get through! Mwah ha ha! We will finish that damn box if it kills us all.
Oh, and Errich will be back. He’s just got some problems with the law. It’s Drash’s player who left us (abruptly) and he’s the one that the dirty dwarf will be replacing.
@e : you haven’t done 1/3rd of level 2. But as it should be empty now….
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@ Hybban – “Should be”?
Now that sounds like the DMs I’ve played with!
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