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-====== V2 Session Eight - 25 May 2007 - "Barrow of the Forgotten King" (part 4) ======
+==== V2 Session Eight - 25 May 2007 - "Barrow of the Forgotten King" (part 4) ====
 [[v2session07b|(Previous Session)]] [[v2#session_notes|(Back to V2 Index)]] [[v2session09|(Next Session)]]
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 | THF | [[Líkami]] | Human | Monk/3 |
 | VW | [[Heilli]] | Human | Soulknife/2, Psion/1 |
-| Kurt | [[Ketamine]] | [[Crag Gnome]] | [[Witch]]/3 |
+| Kurt | [[Ketamine]] | [[Crag Gnome]] | Barbarian/1, [[Witch]]/2 |
 | Chris | [[Yosi]] | Wood Elf | Barbarian/3 |
-| Val | [[Alleraia]] | Human(Aasimar) | Favored Soul/2, Fighter/1 |
+| Val | [[Allie]] | [[Lesser Aasimar]] | Favored Soul/2, Fighter/1 |
 //Note: This adventure comes from "[[http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=products/dndacc/959767400|Barrow of the Forgotten King]]",
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 **//9 March 1111//**
-After nearly being wiped out by the Hobgoblin Cleric, the main group returns to Kingsholm to rest.
+After nearly being wiped out by the Hobgoblin Cleric, the main group returns to
-The find Hergon, the halfling cleric and ask him about getting diseases (especially lycanthropy)
+Kingsholm to rest. The find Hergon, the halfling cleric and ask him about
-cured.  Hergon tells them he cannot help them, but that the cleric in [[Hardangar]] might be able
+getting diseases (especially lycanthropy) cured.  Hergon tells them he cannot
-to.  The party buys a donkey to help them make the trek to [[Hardangar]].
+help them, but that the cleric in [[Hardanger]] //might// be able to.  The party
+buys a donkey to help them make the trek to [[Hardanger]].
-[[Ash]] and [[Líkami]] return from their "babysitting" duties and tell them of a druid they
+[[Ash]] and [[Líkami]] return from their "babysitting" duties and tell them of a
-met named [[Cordelia]].  She not only has healing spells, but also offered them to the party
+druid they met named [[Cordelia]].  She not only has healing spells, but also
-as long as they pursued the evil threatening the region.
+offered them to the party as long as they pursued the evil threatening the
+region.
-The party travels to the foreigners encampment outside town where [[Cordelia]] heals [[Heilli]]
+The party travels to the foreigners encampment outside town where [[Cordelia]]
-of his magical disease, but is unable to cure his blindness.  The party spends the night.
+heals [[Heilli]] of his magical disease, but is unable to cure his blindness.
+The party spends the night.
 **//10 March 1111//**
-[[Yosi]] wakes up suffering from "Filth Fever" (an infliction contracted from the Wererat the
+[[Yosi]] wakes up suffering from "Filth Fever" (an infliction contracted from
-previous day).  [[Cordelia]] is able to cure him -- and (as a precaution) also casts her "Remove
+the Wererat the previous day).  [[Cordelia]] is able to cure him -- and (as a
-Disease" spelll on [[Freyrik]].  Since [[Heilli]] is useless without his sight, the party
+precaution) also casts her "Remove Disease" spell on [[Freyrik]].  Since
-decides to travel to [[Hardangar]] to see Baron Erik and ask for help.
+[[Heilli]] is useless without his sight, the party decides to travel to
+[[Hardanger]] to see Baron Erik and ask for help.
-After a day-long trip, the party arrives in [[Hardangar]].  They tell Baron Erik about the troubles
+After a day-long trip, the party arrives in [[Hardanger]].  They tell Baron Erik
-in [[Kingsholm]] and he sends them to the local temple, along with a letter of introduction.  The
+about the troubles in [[Kingsholm]] and he sends them to the local temple, along
-priest is unable to help that day, but says he can cure [[Heilli]]'s blindness the next morning.
+with a letter of introduction.  The priest, a man named Sebastian, is unable to
+help that day, but says he can cure [[Heilli]]'s blindness the next morning.
 **//11 March 1111//**
-The priest in [[Hardangar]] casts "Remove Blindness" on [[Heilli]].  The party sells some of the
+In [[Hardanger]], the local priest, Sebastian, casts "Remove Blindness" on
-loot they pulled from the dungeon, buys some new equipment, then returns to [[Kingsholm]].
+[[Heilli]].  The party sells some of the loot they pulled from the dungeon, buys
+some new equipment, then returns to [[Kingsholm]].
 **//12 March 1111//**
+=== Interlude 1 ===
+//Far away, a man jogs past the last few yards of the clearing and steps
+hurriedly into the cave entrance.  He stops and turns to check behind him, a
+habit formed over years of living in a hostile land.  The morning sun has
+already burned away most of the mist -- is he really that late? -- but the
+forest canopy below is still obscured.  He locks his gaze on the spire -- the
+only object from horizon to horizon not made by nature.  At this distance, he
+can't tell if any of the watchers are present on the upper balcony, but he
+assumes they are.  They **always** are.  The rising sun is behind him, so he
+knows they can't see him even if they know where to look.  Still, caution backs
+him deeper into the darkness of the cave.  It would be very bad if they found
+him now.  He is **so** close -- and his targets have almost certainly awakened
+by now -- if they are not already underground.//
+==== ====
 Back into the dungeon...
-//Area 11)// Decipher the riddle and open the magically sealed door; Retrieve a cache of magic items.
+//Area 11)// Decipher the riddle and open the magically sealed door; Retrieve a
+cache of magic items.
-//Area 12)// Discover a {{krootad.pdf|"draft good"}} given to Krootad, "a Hobgoblin" from the "House of Circlet".
+//Area 12)// Discover a {{krootad.pdf|"draft good"}} given to Krootad, "a
+Hobgoblin" from the "House of Circlet".
 //Area 13)// Dark Islands -- fight a Lurking Strangler.
-//Area 14)// Enter a twisty maze of passages, all alike.  The party is tricked by a Magma Mephit into
+//Area 14)// Enter a twisty maze of passages, all alike.  The party is tricked
-splitting into three groups.  While split, [[Heilli]] and [[Líkami]] fight a pair of Fiendish Dire Weasels.
+by a Magma Mephit into splitting into three groups.  While split, [[Heilli]] and
+[[Líkami]] fight a pair of Fiendish Dire Weasels.
+=== Interlude 2 ===
+//The heat from the furnace greets and soothes the man as he approaches it. The
+decades in this climate have done little to adapt him to the cold, so the
+perpetual fire here is always a welcome respite.  Today, however, he has another
+use for it.  He reaches his right arm into the open flame and waits for his skin
+to darken.  As it changes from pale to brown to black, he gestures with his
+other hand and spits out a sequence of ancient words.  Removing the burnt arm
+from the fire, he moves it in a simple circle in the air, deftly wiggling the
+blackened fingers as he does so.  The still flickering flame from the charred
+skin leaves a glowing trail in the air, while the finger gestures surround the
+circle with a curving, elegant sigil.  The air within the circle shimmers
+briefly and sputters to black. "Damn!" he mutters in the local language -- a
+brief curiosity flared: when had he started cursing in Rotan?  He concentrates
+again and the skin on his hand fades from black to brown to gold, and finally
+into the native pale. If luck or some other force has shielded the twins, he
+would have to try one of the others.  The planetouched siblings were the obvious
+choice...//
+==== ====
 ^ # ^ Challenge ^  CR ^
 | 1 | Lurking Strangler |  3 |
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 | 2 | Fiendish Dire Weasels\\ ([[Heilli]] and [[Líkami]] only) |  2 |
 ^ ^ Total XP (each) ^  500\\ +600 ^
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