AAR: [2nd] Searching Reagents (2020-02-09@21:00 GMT)

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Re: AAR: [2nd] Searching Reagents (2020-02-09@21:00 GMT)

Post by etherial » Thu Apr 16, 2020 1:26 am

I have reawakened thanks to the efforts of the Guild of Nethermancers and Alchemists, and they are excited that the Scourge is over. I confess, I had few dreams during my centuries-long slumber, but over such a span, perhaps more would have been disturbing of my sanity. One of my hosts is excited by the Kaer's opening and is funding an expedition to collect items of alchemical interest, the supplies of which had long since been exhaused, and the fauna from which were far too dangerous to be kept underground for such a long time.

We met up with genherds, those fools or heroes who have moved to the surface to tend the animals chewing the green grass that blooms under an unpeopled sun. My compatriots are all newborns compared to me, they gawk in awe at the ceilingless sky, they shiver at the slightest breeze, and fear the calls of the animals at night. The genherds lead us to a glen where the flock was last seen, and sure enough, the little monsters are active. Some are chased away or have wandered in search of easier prey. Others were defeated by Zil's clever use of the Icy Surface spell, tripping up their ravenous rushes with slips and falls. We gathered their birthing cauls, sacks of nigh-impenetrable interstitium, and traveled on. We had no need of killing these tiny, hungry babies, just disabling them long enough to collect. Bite on, fierce creatures.

At the edges of the jungle now called Servos - simultaneously a shadow and a rennaisance, more like new growth from a parent forest than the one I knew before the Scourge, lay abandoned mines, believed to be home to some Horrorspawn known as Jehuthra. Now, Jehuthra are known as terrifying monsters liable to kill stout Journeyone Adepts, so I was skeptical that we would even survive this encounter, but our host assured me that they had a line on some hatchlings that would be of extreme alchemical interest, and so we sought out the carapaces of monsters that would surely kill others if we did not our own lives risk.

The largest of the Jehuthras within had come into some of its power and summoned a web of metal wires, sharp and catching on any who hurried past them. The cries of pain, surprise, and rage of my allies came to my ears from places unseen, and I hoped that I could rescue them before they were silenced. I was not alone, however. Another hatchling came for me and another who was caught beside me and gnashed at us with is fangs, scissored at us with its talons, and scurried away when we wounded it. Slowly, we were able to make our way to the others and rescue them. All Jehuthras slain, our patron pronouced the mission a success, and assured us that more hunts were forthcoming. That bodes well for my purse, but not for those living on the surface.


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Re: AAR: [2nd] Searching Reagents (2020-02-09@21:00 GMT)

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