002 - Damn Sand getting everywhere!

Well two days in a row... actually remembered to write... granted don't have anything else to do right now other than try and pick sand out from unmentionable places... but I'm getting ahead of myself. 

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.

A Beginning- 001

Well my brother convinced me to buy this bloody book so I might as well start writing in it.

If your finding it and its not next to a corpse of a ugly fella with more scars than good sense and fangs then keep on the look out for that fellow because he's going to come looking for this book.

So where to start? I never have been one much for writing, don't mind reading but don't usually have time between fights to sit around like a scholar and wax about life. But my brother says we should write down our adventures since we've done so much stuff and maybe it will inspire some other fools like us to go out into the world. I think it may also serve as a warning but since I've already started writing in this bloody fool thing I might as well keep going. I'm not going to go rehash much the past few years since my brother and I set out on our own. We've been part of grand wars, both on the winning and loosing side, all glorious to the followers of the great war god Kord. We have been participants in the falls of nations and the rising of new ones, but we always move on once the fighting is over.What you do need to know it was after one our greater victories we rode off into the sunset and found ourselves in the desert which starts this whole story.

We wandered for some time but eventually found ourselves into a very strange city called Tal'Nir... I do not feel comfortable in the place as I told my brother... The walls were all perfectly white seamless stone, as if someone had grown all the buildings, houses and towers from the same stone. This place is a fortress with the strength of the stone but also reminded me of a gleaming tomb. I tried scratching the stone with my claws and even they could not dent the stone. Its in this odd town that Reid bought me this journal and convinced me to start writing in this thing. When we first arrived in town we decided to get the lay of the land by finding the most important things in any town like this, the taverns! I was dying for some good ale and a brawl to show the locals how strong Kord must be to have a follower like me but we didn't even have to make it into a tavern before a fight found us. While outside one of the more rowdy sounding taverns called the "Hole in the wall" Reid stopped to talk to a drunkard sitting out front, or at least someone pretending to be a drunkard. I could see his eyes were two focused even if he was trying to make him sway like he was ready to fall over. Reid wanted to ask him about the town but as we stood their two fellows skulked up behind us. I heard them as they came up and tried to steal Reid's coin purse. We confronted them and as our backs were turned the faking drunk decided to try and spit my kidney with a dagger, thankfully I had been keeping an eye on him and was able to doge out of the way by grabbing onto the sign for the pub and then kick the man into unconsciousness with the plate metal of my boot.

We quickly had the three subdued and turned out their pockets in an amusing turnabout, the taking the coin that they had stolen from others to buy us drinks and a room for the night. We left two of them unconscious and the third we sent running trying to hold his ass after we made him drink one of my brothers concoctions, this one made to turn a man's bowels to water and send him howling for a hole to squat in.

While at the next tavern called the "Heated Brew" I was served a meal by the taverns little mascot, a gnome. He seemed to take great offence when I mentioned how funny it was for them to have a mascot, i've known a few to have tavern goats but never a gnome. He seemed to think that he worked there. I explained to my brother since he's not as worldly as I that he couldn't work there since no one would give a gnome a job, they were so short they didn't have souls so they weren't really people. He evidently overheard what I said and the poor diluted critter and even spit in my food. I'm a soldier by trade, and have been since I was conscripted in my early teens. A bit of gnome spit is far down on the list of fowl things I had eaten over the years, I thanked him for the gnome spit since I had heard it was good luck and continued my meal.

While we ate I overheard a Wilden that was speaking with the gnome about a temple that disappears out in the desert. I was curious and after the Wilden left I decided to ask the gnome what temple they had been talking about but the poor simple creature must have had too short of a memory and said he didnt know what I was talking about. We instead decided to research ourselves. Weset off for the library we had heard mentioned in town and on the way saw that same Wilden riding a spider! A giant fucking ugly hairy thing. I had to resist wanting to pull my ax out and dealing with the critter. We eventually made it to the library which was staffed by some old crone of a dark elf. My brother asked me what she was and I told him what I knew, about them usually living underground and being terribly evil creatures that slept with spiders like the one we had seen. We avoided her other than a brief moment of asking for some direction where to find the right books. We were lucky enough to find a book on the temple, it describing it being a thousand years old and a temple to the god of un-death Vekna.

Vekna is hated by my god Kord so Reid and I agreed we must go and destroy this temple in the name of our gods. We even found a map of the place. As we were leaving I decided to put a little bee in that creepy dark elf's bonnet by taking a book I found on Abyssal Orgies and dropped it off in the kiddy section. Sometimes all the order of a place like that just pisses me off and I need to fuck with it. But somehow the ancient spider humping biddy knew, even though there was no way we could see and sealed the doors with us inside till we fixed it. Eh, it was all in fun anyway. After that Reid and I headed back to the tavern for tonight which is where I am writing this. Its about time for me to pass out, tomorrow we leave early and leave for that temple. It was odd though, when I was down stairs getting a few pints before bed there was a little raccoon sitting at the bar drinking from a cup as if it were a patron, it had a pack and a knife as well. This is a weird fucking city. Looking forward to getting the hell out of here.