The Boar's Head Pub

[VampiricDread]

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I wish I had more time to adventure...

[Downunder Tom]

We continue down the left checking the walls to see if there is anything hidden, the is a lighted area ahead, Downunder Tom grabs some ammo to load the hoopak ready....

[Drago]

Drago continues walking with Tom. He unsheathes his sword. He is prepared for battle, but hopes it will not be necessary. There has been too much death in his recent travels. May fate guide them in their endeavors.

[VampiricDread]

Deeply concerned, I see the poison is probably stronger than my puny attempts at countering it. My companion is not happy with the situation, and wants to use Rune Magic.

"If we use magic now, we might trigger a warning that may kill Drago and Tom", I said.

"If we don't, these two will die, Dread."

"Ok. I cannot argue you that. Are you able to do it by yourself, or do you need my help? Time's running short for these two."

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I wish I had more time to adventure...

[monty]

"I can do it," Monty says. "There's a couple of different ways. Give me a minute to come up with the best." Monty slipped into his backpack and went to work looking for away to save his companions...

[Downunder Tom]

Meanwile back in the cave...

The 3 friends enter the lighted area, it seems to be some sort of storage room, there are rats everywhere and what was in the crates, boxes and sacks have been long ago destroyed by the rats.



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With a little help from my friends , we can make Runesword the best RPG ever.

[VampiricDread]

I picked up my other lantern. I saw the Kender and Drago finding their way in, but moments later, it was blank, either to magic or loss.

Anyway, this showed that using magic to help our poisoned companions was not barred to us, since I was not getting to them.

"We can use magic, monty, without fear of detection."

Monty eyed me slantly, and kept on whatever he was doing... I thought not to interrupt him any further.

I longed to get outside, into the open.

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I wish I had more time to adventure...

[This message has been edited by VampiricDread (edited 28 June 2001).]

[monty]

((INSIDE the Manor))

Checking a door in the opposite wall, Tom heard many iron footsteps beyond. Sounded like many men dressed in heavy armor. A few stopped right outside the door.

"You hear something?" an authoritative voice said from the hall. "Sampers, check that door."

As quietly as they could (which is very quiet for a kender, not so much for the other two) Tom, Drago and the groundscreature hid amongst the boxes. The rats disguised much of the noise.

The door opened, and the three could see a man armed with a crossbow and dressed in light armor come into the room. Three other stood in the hall behind him.

"It's a storeroom. Rats." Sampers said.

"Get on in there and check it out. We don't want any more suprises."

Shaking his head, Sampers entered further and looked around. As he made his way around the storeroom, it was clear that he would soon be able to see the groundscreature...

((OUTSIDE the Manor))
Monty, assured by VampircDread that magic was allright, decided to use a nature-based magical approach anyways, so anyone who picked up on what was happening might think that the groundscreature was doing something.
As prepared as time allowed, Monty started with the elf, who was the easier of the two. Taking a good hard look at the poison in the elf's body, Monty determined that it was a magical poison, designed with elven physiology in mind. He also saw that it could not be easily rid of, it had to be in a host, or the one who made it would know what was happening.
Might not be as harmful to a human, Monty thought. Wasting no more time, Monty swept the poison from the elf's body from head to toe. The poison could be seen, as it became more and more concentrated, as a large black swelling. Monty directed the poison to the elf's left foot. Gathered in one place, the poison began to rot and destroy the foot. Monty quickly cut a slit in the elf's foot and sucked the deadly poison into his own body.
As ready as he was, there was still much pain. But he did not die. And there was more to do. Convulsing slightly, Monty transfered a liitle of the poison from his mouth to a small plant that Dread had picked earlier. With a touch or two of magic and a drop of elven blood, the plant was made into a simularucum of the elf lord. The plant wilted and died immediately. Hopefully that will convince anyone that an elf was killed from the poison, Monty thought. The elven lord would be OK. His left foot was black, swollen and bleeding, but he would live.
After he stopped shaking and sweating, Monty turned to the dwarf.
Looking closely at the poison, Monty sighed heavily, this one wasn't so easy. This poison was very deadly to anyone. But it was not like the other poison. It could be removed from the dwarf. Monty began to tend to the dwarf, but he could not do it, his strength was gone for the moment and he collapsed.
"Dread...you must...assist me. I.. cannot..."

[VampiricDread]

"Nice," I thought. Instead of two poisoned persons, I now had three in different stages of distress. To monty, I put another leaf in his mouth, and let it restore his tired body from the strain.

I attended the foot of the elf to the best I could, then turned to the dwarf. He would be naturally resistant to my magic, so I had no hopes there.

I had to do something, and fast.

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I wish I had more time to adventure...

[monty]

Monty rolled around, trying to shake off the poison. He knew that something had to be done with the dwarf and soon.
Monty stood up, although rather shakily and with the help of Dread. "I'm all right." Monty said. Dread wasn't convinced.
He went over to the dwarf and suggested to dread that together they might be able to heal the dwarf some.