Groundhog Day (18th July 2018)
The Dragon-Ogre (Day 14 – the Void)
The water genie, Candice, tagged along with us but did not
get involved in any of the encounters with those phantasmagorical beasts. We carried
on regardless to the final platform and although a few of us got lost on
occasion, we always managed to make our way back to the rest of the party.
We finally reached the centre of our part of the Void and
was instantly approached by a very large half-dragon, half-cyclops type
creature that emanated cold from every pore. Grumbold tried to negotiate with the
beast for the return of the rod but the beast would have nothing to do with it.
Combat ensued but our fighters (Millie and Grumbold) had a tough time keeping
their feet and striking a deadly blow in the icy conditions. It was down to me
to remedy the situation. The wand I had picked up a while back enabled me to
shoot Fireball after Fireball at the beast but it just took
the damage and kept on fighting despite us being told by Jahir (our friendly
neighbourhood magical item seller) that it was susceptible to these kinds of
attacks. The beast took me down on a couple of occasions, and were it not for our
bold cleric and the lady Annabella, our strange hanger-on, I would not be alive
to tell the tale of how my last blast from the wand took down the troublesome beast.
After an exhausting and bloody combat, we retrieved the rod
and returned to the carnival tent for our rewards. The genie, however, acted
far more quickly than we did, grabbed her lamp and disappeared out of there
lickety-split. Probably worried in case we harangued her for a free Wish or whatever for rescuing her.
Back to the carnival
(Day 14 – early afternoon)
We reappeared back in the same tent at almost exactly the
same moment we left it. Jahir, the resident magical item seller, was still
mid-sentence and ushering out pose. He greeted us warmly as we handed over the rod
to him and claimed our rewards – several tomes that would increase our vigour
in some way.
Suddenly we heard a scream from outside the tent. We rushed
outside to see a person run past covered in blood and the rest of the village turning
on each other, some with weapons. As we looked around for a source of the panic,
the tent shimmered and we could see a figure in the distance shining a bright
beam of light at us.
We awoke to the sound of breaking glass and the exact same
events as what appeared to be the day before. We were fully-healed from our
exploits in the Void, and all of our spells and powers were at full strength.
When we got down to breakfast we found Lord Frak sat at the
table. He asked for a temporary parley and informed us that he too had been
stuck there for several days and was trying to figure out what was happening.
He mentioned that he was also having great fun with some of the townsfolk as he
could torture them one day and go back for a repeat session the following day
to inflict new torment on his victims without them knowing what had previously
gone on before.
We resolved to try to find out about the supposed vampire
from the rumours we had heard the previous day, so the agenda for this
particular “day” was to investigate what we could at Lord Cambridge’s house
(the village elder).
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