Editing DnD Desert Raiders Campaign Rafa (section)

=== 24-02-2010 ===

On our way to town we come across the goblin named Priest, he seemed under the impression that were interested in what the sun was doing at that moment. The fact that it won’t become any lighter or darker where I am doesn’t seem to comfort him. Some people are just natural panic spreaders. <br>

As we walk towards the town my eye got distracted by something in the distance. It was like a immense large shadowy globe. It spread more than three thousand feet across and nearly two thousand feet high. <br>
My mind started to race like mad. What could this thing be? Was it connected to this weird eclipse thing of the sun? why didn’t anyone tell me this was here? How do I take it along with me? <br>

The other goblins also starred in the same direction. I could see the gleam in their eyes, could they finally have seen the beauty of shadows? We ran towards the globe as a mad horde that only goblins can make.  Priest and Scragg arrived first. In my eagerness I ran past them but came to a stop twenty feet in front of them. Eager as a was, I’m not stupid. There is no reason to go first if other goblins are willing to do it. <br>

Looking at sphere it looked like something that might have come from the shadow plane. Like a base or a ship. The walls looked like shadows but with a solid ring to them. Senka was able to enter and exit without any trouble but anything corporal was reflected without a bend. I was pretty familiar with using shadows as armor but not to build something this big. Only a god could have casted a spell this big. <br>

Out of the corner of my eye I could see Tick walking off. As the old saying goes: “follow others when they go exploring so that you can mark where the traps went off”. Sneaking behind him we looked as he stared at a door. After a few seconds he walked back past us, unaware that we had followed him. Scragg couldn’t contain his laughter any longer when he past us the second time. His sniggering must have set off the ring again and it started to talk about stuff I will never remember. <br>

I tried putting the hand with the ring in my pocked, this muffed the sound a bit but it was still clearly audible. The ring didn’t even seem to be aware of it. Remembering a tactic I once used so I didn’t have to share my food, I used the ring to scratch behind my male parts. I was born without the sense of smell but I have been told that the smell of the private parts of a goblin that hasn’t showered in month’s is enough to kill a cow. <br>
The ring however kept on talking. I hate to lose a magical artifact but if I find a bottomless pit it might “slip” off my hand. <br>

The others used this time to play with a door. As I watched I saw Priest use a mirror to walk backwards though the door. A few seconds later he emerged again unharmed. He isn’t too bad when he’s not talking about the sun and other nature stuff. <br>
Holding up my own mirror I ordered Senka to do the same. With all five of us walking in a row we set off through the wall. <br>

We found ourselves in a large hallway, it was over forty feet wide. Watching over the center where two large statue’s each fifteen feet long with here backs to the wall. They looked kind of like huge bugs. <br>
There gleaming material reflected the flickering lamplight though the entire hallway.  <br>

Priest started to search the room for traps. Going step for step and rechecking each step a few times. It was a slow process. The wait was made worse by the nagging voice of the ring, Suddenly the boredom was broken by a fierce display of lightning. Priest who had just disarmed a trap had thought that he was done and walked towards the other side of the hallway. Two steps later he was suddenly stopped by the lightning that came shooting from both statue’s. No one reacted while he healed himself up with his belt and started to work on jamming the tile. <br>
Spending another few minutes searching he finally made it to the other side of the hallway. There a large black portal was waiting. <br>
He stepped though the portal bravely followed by the sounds of splashing water and screams. It seemed that he fell into something wet that burned him. Normally I wouldn’t bother to save a goblin that kept getting in trouble. But this one had already survived two traps, he might find many more this way. <br>
As Senka and Scragg worked to get Priest back into he hallway I was left to watch Tick. I watched as he took a run and jumped face down onto the tile that Priest had just rigged. Light filled the room again as Tick was hit by many bolts of lightning. Crawling he made his way next to Scragg. <br>

Still feeling weak from my encounter at the beginning of the day I decided not to try and jump. So I had Senka carry me across. There I healed Priest and he was ready to explore again. The rope I had Senka give to Scragg to help Priest was now five foot shorter with a bad melt mark at the end. It was a good thing that Senka had chosen to give the old robe and not one of my brand new once. <br>

Using my pole Scragg tested the next hallway and jumped over the pit with Priest. As I stuck my head though the portal I could see a very large pit filled with watery acid below me. The bottom wasn’t visible but I could see that it was ten foot wide. In my condition there was no way I could jump that so I waited on this side while Scragg and Priest explored onwards. <br>
Looking around I could see another portal twenty foot away from me. On eider side of the path where plants. They were about ten feet tall with vines lying everywhere.  <br>
Senka also spotted the plants and started to attack them. They threw there vines wildly as he made his way across but all they hit was air. Slowly he ripped at the nearest plants life with a calm motion.  <br>

Priest in the meanwhile had learned his lesson. he stuck his head though the portal. From the other side I could hear spells being cast. Scragg and Priest seemed eager to do battle but I want about to cross this pit without a fast way of getting back. I could of course teleport but there was no need for the others to know about that. <br>
With more sounds of spell I set Senka to supported the others when they attacked. Tick summoned a slimy thing next to them and send it into the room. It gotten back looking allot worse than when it had entered. <br>

Priest took a glance inside and started to shoot trough the portal as Scragg pushed the construct back into the room. Then he jumped though himself followed by the sounds of magical chanting and explosions. I wasn’t sure who Scragg was fighting but I sure was glad that I was on this side of the hallway right now. <br>

Senka didn’t have his day. Unable to recognize the familiar sounds of battle he waited patiently. As I prepared to call him back he finally followed Priest though the portal. From the hallway we could hear the sounds of battle growing silent. <br>