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Sat 22nd Jun 2019 03:52

Wave Echo Cave

by Nepheri

We've entered the cave. One of Gunnel's brothers laid dead outside the main entrance, so we did the only reasonable thing: we went in to investigate further. Which led us to a myriad of different tunnels of going back and forth.
 
This cave continues to be a maze of death and violence. Not only is it infested with the undead, but there are various kinds of animals that have made a home in various nooks and crannies. And for a while, we were scraping by without too much of a risk to our lives. Then we encountered a Flameskull. Of course, we're not the stealthiest of adventuring parties, I'll admit that we didn't employ much in the way of tactics, and I realised too late that I hadn't rested enough to turn the undead away from me.
 
Needless to say, the magic fireball the skull threw at us hit hard. I was only barely on my feet and Hurgh would have been out had the half-orc blood in his veins not made him more durable. The other three were unconscious and dying. Keeping Ellywick and Rupert from death while Hurgh woke Suffrax, I joined the others and ran.
 
We found an abandoned warehouse of sorts that we've barricaded and made into our camp during the night. Because we really need to regain our strength, and probably talk strategy, before we move on.
 
The night's rest had one other, big, advantage: I got to talk to Ellywick about the conversation I had drunkenly started in Phandalin the night before we left. I told her about how lost I feel. Or, at least I tried to tell her. I'm not sure she realises to what extent I've hurt people when I've been left to my own. But she insists that the way the Raven Queen came to me and selected me as her cleric, and the way my powers have grown, means that I'm trusted to do the right thing.
 
My powers have shifted slightly, lessening the focus on undead and making it easier for me to guard death's door and keep people alive. With Ellywick's words in mind, it seems the Raven Queen would entrust me to know when someone is to live or die? But what if I make the wrong call? Do I wait for the divine judgement of having broken the rules before I take a step back? With the knife to someone's throat, the wrong instinct can have more severe consequences than following the wrong trail in the forest.
 
I guess the point still stands. And I'm sure there are a million potentially deadly decisions a ranger makes while out travelling where their instincts help. I'll see what my instincts tell me. And I completely agree with Ellywick about one thing: the monsters in here cannot be allowed to continue.

Continue reading...

  1. Business...
    11th of Uktar, 1489
  2. I'm ready for you, Raven Queen
    2nd Uktar, 1489
  3. You killed my father, now prepare to die
    2nd Uktar, 1489
  4. Dust to Dust
    1st of Uktar, 1489 DR
  5. Redbrands I
  6. Arrival at Phandalin
  7. Daddy Dearest
    1st of Uktar
  8. Day after
    30 Marpenoth, 1489 DR
  9. Lawful Stupid
    29 Marpenoth, 1489 DR
  10. Saving private Rupert
    29 Marpenoth, 1489 DR
  11. Dead to me
    29 Marpenoth, 1489 DR
  12. Close to Harvest
    28 Marpenoth, 1489 DR
  13. Recovery
  14. Insane Plans
  15. By the Book
  16. Dead feelings
  17. Disposed
  18. Dead Necromancers are the Best Necromancers
  19. Catching up
  20. Shipping
  21. Friendly or Not
  22. Unexpected Meetings
  23. Worlds Collide
  24. A very different city
  25. Festive Thornhold
  26. Thank you, my Queen
  27. Friends. Right.
  28. This is awkward....
  29. Landslide
  30. Dangerous Gnoll-age (sorry... the puns are spreading...)
  31. Cenceptions
  32. Seduction
  33. Wave Echo Cave II
  34. Wave Echo Cave
  35. Return to Phandalin
  36. Rest in peace, Declan...
  37. Crisis of Faith
  38. Thundertree II
  39. Thundertree I
  40. Path to Thundertree
  41. Orc hunting
  42. Redbrands III
  43. Redbrands II
  44. Far From Home
    ?? ?? ???
  45. Cold
    Tal'dorei, day 2
  46. Life, interrupted
  47. Hot and Cold
  48. The Dragon's Lair
  49. In the afternoon, we plan!
  50. A Song of Ice and Fire
  51. Celebration
  52. Relief is one hell of a drug
  53. Flight and Flutter
  54. Freedom of Movement
  55. At dusk we... do something?
  56. Pray for a quick end to our deception
  57. Catching up
  58. Fall
  59. Lizards in a hole
  60. Not Today
  61. Released
  62. A broken soul
  63. Skyfall
  64. Acid Falls
  65. Roped in
  66. Faith in Friends
  67. Insight into Emon
  68. A Calling
  69. Hypothetical 1: Healer (Ginny Di video)
  70. Hypothetical 3: Matchmaker (Ginny Di video)
  71. Hypothetical 2: Villain (Ginny Di video)
  72. For my Beating Heart
  73. Hypothetical 4: Prison guard (Ginny Di video)
  74. Hypothetical 5: Bard (Ginny Di video)
  75. Plagued Possibilities
  76. Visits in the Cloudtops

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