Guild:Solar Brigade/Runes Reports

Nanshi Urbaz

Solar Brigade,

While I have a minute, I thought I'd jot down some of my notes regarding our last meeting together. This was our first meeting together with the whole team for quite some time. Although we were missing a few who were traveling at the time and couldnt make it.

We met at the Foaming Mug Inn and enjoyed drinks and conversation with each other while updating each of the groups on the latest happenings. Soon, some odd creatures (humans with tiger heads) appeared out of nowhere and started attacking us. We eliminated them quite efficiently, but the tavern workers kicked us out anyways. I guess they were just grumpy about having to clean up more mess than usual. I just thought that dwarves were used to bar fights and stuff? (I'll have to chat with Rolly about that some day.) Kili was her usual nice self and didnt want to cause any troubles with the management and either did we, so we left.

We then decided to find a more secluded area and have one of our mages give the orb shot to try and locate another piece of the map. We moved to an less travelled area north of the Inn and made preparations. It was decided that Marin would try to harness the Orbs powers.

Soon there after, we were attacked by a powerful mage that appeared out of nowhere again. This was a nasty looking creature too. He used darkness to initiate his assault and soon followed up with a series of grasping hand spells and other misc ones that temporarily incapacitated many of us. We all fought against this creature with swords and spells flying everywhere, but he was extremely skilled and most of us were overcome. After a while, he must have been running low on spells and I thought we had him, but he speedily ran off leaving a huge red/amber dragon behind to block his escape.

I know we all may not want to hear this, but this creature did collect the heads of most of our party members. I believe this was to show proof of his kills to his client. It is likely that this was one of the assassins we feared might come after us after being hired by the bandits. Oh, I forgot to mention that at one point in this battle, the mage stuck a card on me while I was held in one of his spells. It apparently was one of his business cards. It simply stated "Bloodhound Daemon for hire."

In any case, we might meet this one again possibly since it did not get all of us. Some things to keep in mind if we meet it again:

• It does have potent spells including the kind that seem to stop time.
• I was able to knock him down which seemed to disrupt him.
• He used protections that would not allow my weapon to damage him until it was magically enhanced by our mages.
• He used a dispelling magic often to bring down our protections.

I'd recommend that if possible, our mages keep a few silence spells and dispelling magic spells handy in case he does show up again. I'm sure our mages in our group will have some other advice for dealing with him.

After the battle, we collected ourselves and returned to the city of Nanshi Urbaz and discussed the need to locate a safe haven for us to use the orb. Hence, the proposed vote by MJ on approaching FEAT for use of their cave. If anyone else has ideas for locations we could use, please let us know.

Rune