Chapter Two: Port Llast and north to Luskan
- After North Road and Mutamin’s Challenge
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All expenses paid, own room, promise of several thousand gold for helping translate a few dead languages and ask around, I’m good for that. Getting rather good at haggling for prices when I fence all the amulets and runic weapons I keep finding. Folk have no idea of the value of some of the things they dump!
After a liberating talk with a warrior woman I got drunk and in a fit of bravado entered some dungeon challenge, sponsored in part by blood thirsty nobles scrying our progress. Have at the traps, brave the denizens. No-one mentioned the ruddy spiders. I swear one was the size on a cottage, it was HUGE.
*Shiver*
I really don’t like those skittering things lunging at me, all hairy legs and dripping venom. Still, they say what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger and I’m certainly a lot tougher than when I faced by bloated arachnid in the crypts.
Level 3 Bard
Level 2 Rogue
Level 7 Red Dragon Disciple
HP 105
AC 32
XP 67,611
GP 24,183
(Appraise: ~19)
(Best price for a silver necklace: 300) - After Port Llast and surrounding areas
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OK, that’s it, I’m cutting back on all the magical potions I’m drinking when I’m out risking life and limps for these clowns. Times like this I wish I’d stayed with that dancing troupe! Wings, I ask you! I thought my armour felt uncomfortable; next thing I know I’ve got wings sprouting out my back. I wouldn’t mind if they were even useful, but they lack the strength to lift me. Wings are for flying, not ruining a perfectly good, not to mention almost priceless suit of enchanted leathers. All I can say is I’m glad I wasn’t wrapped in steel like some spit and polish knight-in-arms.
Added to this, I swear my skin is getting scaly. Either that or I’ve caught yet another unpleasant disease from all this unhygienic places I’m being sent too. On the positive side I seem to need less sleep and answers come easier to me. One can only hope the wings will strengthen in time, I rather like the idea of flying away from danger instead of running like a fool in speed enchanted boots!
Level 3 Bard
Level 2 Rogue
Level 9 Red Dragon Disciple
HP 127
AC 32
XP 98,423
GP 108,001 - After Luskan
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Enter the Luskan Tower of Sorcery, we’re right behind you…
Right! Like they were when I was dodging wererats, ghouls and worse in the sewers…
Supping temple wine and eating sweetmeats from silvered plates while I creep around some psychotic wizards den. If they even glance avariciously at this Daystar sword I found I swear I’ll belch and toast them on the spot.Made a few contacts in the underground here, with a network stretching all the way south to far Calimshar and sold all the artifacts I found ‘discarded’ in locked and trapped chested in some pirate captain’s quarters and throughout the Tower of Sorcery.
And don’t be here when I get back
, sayeth the disposed Lich. Not ruddy likely, I’ve just sold everything worth spit for a dragon’s fortune in gold and precious gems, just keeping a few back for my own use.
Level 3 Bard
Level 3 Rogue
Level 9 Red Dragon Disciple
HP 135
AC 33
XP 115,910
GP 632,755