[And now to return to my own adventures on Yacg'harr Island.]
DAY 536 (21th Eleasis) (August) cont...
In the morning I sent Jiggles back into town as our spy and instructed Jonathan to resume his flights around the island looking out for ships.
Sylvia finished her Hallow spell and after a bite to eat went to have a long nap.
With things more or less squared away for a while myself and Dak went off to spend some of our treasure in Sasserine.
The half-orc spent a good deal of his share on new armour, weapons and magic items.
My main purchases were to arrange with the city's most expensive magical tailor some items made from the hide of Despayr, the dragon we slew in the Plane of Shadows.
It will take a few days but I'll end up with:
- a powerful set of magical dragon hide armour (25600gp)
- a fetching dragonhide dress for the wife (4600gp)
- a similar doublet and hose outfit for myself (4600gp)
Also a Magical Map of Faerune for 10,000 gold, similar to the one Fenrir had that would always mark where you were on it down to about the nearest half mile (if you squinted).
Along with a Field Provisions Box, some Everfull Mugs and a magical longbow my purchases were complete!
We teleported back to the Barrow, then used the Map to pinpoint where some of the locations we were being transported to via the gate.
We found that the:
- Mansion House was to the west near Mezro
- The treasure chamber was just to the east, possibly under water?
- The 'tree' rune did indeed lead to the Black Jungle
- The 'cave' rune lead to a place just up from Lushpool
- The 'snowflake' lead to Icewind Dale
- The 'rock' lead to another plane as it did not show up on the map
We also tried new places:
Branch Yellow 1 - ?
Branch Yellow 2 - the small teeth mountains
Branch Yellow 3 - room, portal, and a sealed door. Near Dalelost. - stone slab, burial chamber style
Branch Yellow 4 - satyr returned, fell through portal, badly injured, slash marks and arrows in him
While were trying to get clues from the arrow, three black clad figures came through the portal. The attacked us without provocation and despite my efforts to parley.
I could see they were dark skinned, but their clothing gave nothing away as to where they had come from. The one that was trying to hit me looked like a young fellow of about my age.
I tried to speak with him, but he snarled and shot his crossbow at Lavinia!
Well, attacking my pregnant wife was not a wise move, as in my anger I turned him into a monkey with a Baleful Polymorph spell.
The small creature scampered away and crossed Sylvia's path, who then booted it up the arse and sent it flying through the portal, screeching and holding its wounded backside as it went!
Of the others, one was dead and one was being grappled by Dak. Molly wisely turned off the portal to prevent more intruders arriving.
I tried to reason with the attacker that we had captured, but when I asked Dak to let him go, he tumbled past everyone and fled out of the barrow.
We all piled out after him, but he was nowhere to be seen!
Dak ran off to the west, but it was not too hard to deduce that he had gone in via the other entrance, especially when we heard Silas screaming.
The attacker had him with a knife to the throat, down by the altar. By this time no one was in the mood for any more nonsense though and Irritator blasted the attacker with a powerful volley of Magic Missiles. The attacker fire a shot with this crossbow that injured Irritator, but the next volley was enough to blast him into chunks.
Silas was grateful to be rescued, but definitely needed a bath afterwards!
After things had settled down, we agreed that exploring the portals could wait for a while. We would try and make the place defensible as our first priority.
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