Date: 2/25/96

Players: JC, Richard, Chris, Kathy

Characters: Rio, Glow, Elrinith, Raagnar, Dre

When Elrin finally gets to the grove that afternoon we fill him in on the events of the night and then our visit to the Monster Shop and the information we gained about Angstroms magic's and the rings of protection we could get. Elrinith says that his guilds interests and ours seem to be in sync at the moment and they'd be willing to assist us however they can. The first thing we do is go to his guild hall so Rio can assist with the spell of location. We get to the Great Hall and Elrinith introduces us to the mage who'll cast the spell. The first part is an ESP reading of Rio. He thinks about being in his world, stepping through a puddle and appearing at the Wood Between Worlds, meeting the others, the appearance of the old man being attacked by Angstrom and his calling on Tyr which prompts Eric to follow and then the rest of us. The next part is a scrying. Using Rio's mental images the mage (Jallarzi Sallavarian) then concentrates on Angstron and is able to locate him at work in a laboratory. We watch him for a few minutes at work on a large wicker shell of a humanoid creature then some kind of alarm goes off (we're not sure of its origin) startling us as well as Angstrom. He looks around the room he is in and then seems to focus on us. The spell he was casting is the time into the creature he then diverts at us. A FIREBALL. It comes through the crystal ball, which then explodes, and we all take both fire and physical damage from the glass shards. The guild people have potions to help the wounded. Glow is the worst off having being knocked down near death. Jallarzi gives us some scrolls and potions to help in our quest. We leave around dinner time and go get some food. Raagnar is hungry (like barbarians are ever not hungry) and we head for The Yawning Portal.

After dinner we head to the Bowels of the Earth. On the way there we cut through an alley and interrupt a rape in progress (3 fighters, 2 humans and a gnome raping a young human). Raagnar, Elrinith and Dre charge to attack. Rio looks to make sure Glow is not also charging into battle and is relieved to see she is standing still watching the others. She has a look of intense concentration on her features and is actually causing a 'molecular agitation' on one of the humans sword. Rio cast Hold Person on the gnome and is successful. Glow continues to concentrate causing the man to drop the sword. When it hits the ground it is literally red hot. The others dispatch one of the humans and then the other surrenders. Rio goes back out to the main street and calls for the city guard who show up fairly promptly. We turn the two over to them and they depart saying we'll have to come in and give another statement. Elrin keeps the sword that the human dropped. It very nice and after a moment he says that it is magical.

We then continue on to the Bowels of the Earth. It's a rough dump with a hard crowd. Raagnar leads us in. Rio sees immediately that the group may have to defend themselves here and is a bit concerned for Glows safety. We order a round of drinks. The crowd is singing along with a band playing a very quiet music that seems WAY out of place. A LARGE dwarf is screaming along with the group and protecting them from flying pottery. After a while a group of the city guard come in and appear to be looking around. They approach our table and say what an honor it is to meet 'The OtherWorlders' and now that they're off duty ask were wondering if Glow and Dre could dance. Then the large dwarf comes over and challenges Raagnar to a dwarf throwing contest, winner take 100GP. Raagnar accepts. We all go down into the basement to the tossing arena. Raagnar takes the first toss. Raagnar takes the second toss. The Dwarf cheats and takes the third coming up with the better overall score. Raagnar calls the cheat and the two break into armed melee. Raagnar (rolling terribly to the DM's 20's) is dead before anyone can intervene. Dre goes nuts and attacks the dwarf. Rip, the dwarf that Raagnar threw catches the Druid by the arm in the chaos and says the game was rigged. Hearing this Rio joins the battle and gets in one unsuccessful blow before the city guard come in in numbers and break the whole thing up. Neither Rio or Elrin is willing to have his weapon confiscated after the battle and a confrontation with the guard seems imminent. Rio shows the guardsmen the marker of the Lords of Waterdeep and they agree that if we will come peacefully they will allow us to keep our weapons. They take us back to the castle. Glow has not been identified as being with us and blends into the crowd as the group is led out. Raagnars body is brought along. Rio, Dre and Elrin and are taken to nice quarters complete with a guard outside the door. Elrin casts a wizard eye which locates the dwarf in a cell sleeping. Rio changes form to a hawk and flies out the window returning to the grove. He alights in the window of the great druids hut and waits for Glow who shows up a few minutes later. The two converse via Glows telepathy, Glow promising to show up at the palace for the proceedings tomorrow, and then Rio returns to the palace. He doesn't change back to human form until later in the morning when we are brought to have breakfast with Lord Perrigrin. 8 days until High Harvest. Raagnar is there at breakfast and we greet him with great joy and a little surprise. He was resurrected during the night.

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