Reid and I got up at the ass crack of dawn, most folks in the town were not up yet but we wanted to get started. Thankfully the guard were up to let us out at least, no having to jump from another city wall, that's hard on the knees. As we headed out toward the direction of the supposed temple we saw footprints in the sand, We didn't figure anyone else would be up this early but sure enough we ended up catching up to that same odd little raccoon. We at first tried to ignore him since... well its a fucking raccoon not much for conversation, I figured it was following its master some where but after a little bit the little bastard pulls out a chalk and board and writes a greeting too me. I looked around to see if someone was laughing somewhere and this was a big prank. I glanced back to the raccoon and decided to just roll with the prank but after a few exchanges with me asking him questions and him responding on that board it explained that it was a fellow before, and got turned into the raccoon by someone.
I felt bad for the little fella, having spent a short but uncomfortable stint as a rabbit once after pissing off this dragon born chick in a tavern. Seems they get pissed if you mistake their gender... I cant help it if all the robes she was wearing hid her curves... well what curves a dragon-born has.
Anyway, after a bit of time we hear more noise and look back and there is that fucking Wilden on his huge ass spider. Fucking thing sent my fur on edge as it came waddling up. Of course he was going to the same place as us since I'd overheard him speaking of it. After a bit of time with all of us walking in the same direction we started talking and decided since we were all going to explore this place to work together.
The Wilden asked Reid his name and Reid gave it but refused to give his back. He asked for mine and I told him I wouldn't give it till he gave his. Of course about 5 minutes after that Reid asked me a question and used my name in front of him. Still don't know his fucking name, Reid and I just call him the "Wilden" and the raccoon "Raccoon, or Hey you!" seems to work fine.
We eventually came to the area that the temple was supposed to be, we had read in the book it hadn't been entered in a thousand years or some shit but sometimes travelers would see it appear out of nowhere. As well looked around a bit four little sand twisters showed up and started attacking us, it was pretty fuckin weird fighting sand and damned uncomfortable. It gets everywhere! We finally beat the last one down and just as we were starting to recover there was a creaking under us and we fell down into darkness. It was a good distance of a fall but we thankfully landed in a big pile of sand. After digging ourselves out and getting at least some of the sand out of our armor we decided to explore. Turned out we had fallen into what looked like the main cathedral to Vekna, the place looked the age we had been told it was, all weather-beaten and crumbling. I kicked over a few of the pews and we ended up finding a hole in the wall shaped like this.
We found two doors leaving this room, the thing was each one was pitch black... as in no light at all went through at all. Reid threw a sun rod through one and once it crossed the threshold it disappeared. I wasn't a big fan of this magic bullshit, but tired of dickering around I walked through. Turns out it was a teleporter, it bamfed (it actually was silent but a fucking teleportation spell should make some Kord's damned noise in my opinion) me into one of the rooms under the temple.
I'm not going to go into huge detail of all the bullshit we murdered down there but I will say there are less proto-dragons and skeletons and giant scorpions in the world. We had a few scares too, we found a room full of traps and had to make our way through, seemed every other fucking step was boobie trapped but we made it through with only a few of us getting stabbed by spikes or set on fire. Reid at one point had to jump over this pit and the sand slipped out from under him. We all ended up catching him, one big dangling train with me grabbing onto the raccoon's tail. It kinda pissed it off so it ended up clawing Reid's face and then my arm for it but it was the easiest thing to grab.
It was interesting to see the other two fight. The Wilden and his spider seemed to work together, very in-tune as they took down creatures and the little raccoon seem to have some sort of lightning magic. Once it evidently fucked something up and ended up shocking all of us instead of the monsters, Reid ended up punting the little critter into one of the things we were fighting... I was really proud of my brother for that, seems I'm being a good influence.
We fought hard as well, working as our usual team, showing the might of Kord in action.
We ended up finding another weird room, it was black and seemed to go off on each side forever. The only way to cross it was a fucking narrow as shit strip of stone. The Wilden just strolled across on his spiders back and left us to figure a way across. The raccoon tried to cross once and fell, we though that was the last of him but he ended up landing instead atop me. Was kinda weird Reid had the same problem but eventually we strung a rope across and used it as a guide to make it with out falling again. Now were going to bed down for a bit in the temple and continue tomorrow, hopefully we can find something in here to destroy, I'm feeling the need to bring Kord's wrath to this temple.
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