In which we're off to see the wizard.
Last time, a dragon killed our goblin, we left a magic void in the forest, went to an oddly deserted town, and met a rat. The group went to sleep
The darkness slowly seemed to grow in on Sadun as her magical dark vision slowly faded throughout her watch. The squeaking snores coming from the barrel in the corner of the room on the right were the only sound in the dark hallway. The quiet was unsettling, as though something ominous were lying in wait. Sadun made a note to recommend the group not stay long into the morning. She sighed with relief when Cassian emerged from the middle room to relieve her, and the dragonborn was able to return to sleep on her bedroll in the rightmost room.
Cassian began his watch in his usual fashion, by working out. Talna came out an hour later after coming out of her nightly meditation to relieve the half-orc. "Ok, I'll take over, you get back to sleep," Talna said.
"Sure, let me just finish one last set," Cassian said, continuing to do push-ups.
"Just go to sleep!" Talna says, giving the half-orc a swift kick.
"Do you hear that?" Cassian asked. "Sounded like something scuttling around."
"Oh, probably just some of Fei's rats scouting the area," Talna said.
"I'll stick out the rest of my watch just in case," Cassian replied. The two sat in silence for awhile, and eventually the noise stopped.
"Alright, to sleep with you. We need to be well rested for the inevitable trials of tomorrow," Talna said at last. Nodding, Cassian retired to the well appointed bed in the middle chamber, stripped out of his armor and collapsed into slumber next to a contentedly sleeping Elle.
Talna stayed up the rest of the night, observing only the dead silence, though it did not seem as eerie to her as it had to Sadun.
When her internal clock alerted her that the dawn hour had arrived, the drow elf stood and walked into the right room. "Alright, time to get up!" She shouted, kicking over Pip Squeak's barrel. The rat rolled onto the floor.
"Why did you have to do that? I was sleeping!" Pip protested.
In the middle room, Cassian and Elle sat up, wiping sleep from their eyes, while Balazar and Fei, having taken the relatively nice cots in the left hand room for the night, also began to rouse.
As the group started gathering their gear in their respective rooms, they heard a loud slam behind them as all three doors simultaneously swung shut, followed by scurried activity and the sound of banging. Sadun ran to her door and pushed on it, but something was barring the door from the other side. Talna ran up next to the dragonborn and followed in the party's long-standing tradition of kicking the door open. Sadun lit her lantern and shined the light out, illuminating a group of kobolds with sheepish looks. Several held planks of wood, while others held hammer and nails. At the sight of the dragonborn the kobolds began to flee back down the hallway.
"What are you doing here?" Sadun demanded of the fleeing reptiloids in draconic. The group turned and looked back at Sadun.
"Shiny?" One of the kobolds said hesitantly, pointing at a gold coin from the nearby treasury that lay on the floor. "Keep shinies for ourselves?"
Sadun considered a moment, then plucked a gold coin from her pouch and tossed it to the speaker. The kobold caught the coin and said in awe "Shiny." Then it held up the coin and proclaimed "Shiny! The Dragonlord has come and given a shiny!"
"I think they want the gold," Sadun said to Talna, who did not understand the draconic speech.
"Well next time give them some of these coins we found in here, they're outdated and barely worth the gold they're made of, unlike that coin you just gave them," Talna replies, tossing a bag of outdated gold coins on the floor.
A series of loud banging noises heralded Cassian and Balazar's successful attempts to break down their respective doors.
"What do you think you're doing! We don't appreciate being locked up!" Elle shouted over Cassian's shoulder.
Balazar looks out as well at the thirty odd kobolds illuminated in Sadun's lantern. He quickly assesses the situation. He scooped up the bag of coins Talna had tossed and threw a handful at the kobolds.
"Another dragon lord!" the kobolds gasped in awe. "What does the dragon lord desire of its servants?"
"Where is the booze?" Balazar demanded.
"At once lord!" the kobolds squeaked, and a detachment of them marched off, returning a few minutes later with a keg of aging alcohol. "Booze for the lord!"
"Good, now dance for me!" Balazar said, laughing and tossing more coins as the kobolds formed a line and began to do a jig. "Dance for the lord who pays us!" they exclaimed.
"What is going on?" Sadun asked of the few kobolds still near her, handing more of the outdated coins to them.
"You are the lords!" the kobolds said. "We have waited for the lords to come!"
"How long have you been here?" Sadun asked.
"We come here daily!" the speaker said.
"Where do you normally live?" Sadun asked.
"We live with the Big-Eye One," the kobold replied in common.
"Oh no," Talna breathed.
"Thank you," Sadun said.
"Of course my lord!" The kobold said.
"Where is the one-eyed one staying?" Talna asked.
"In the cave!"
"Where is the cave?" The kobold points in a direction, which Sadun recognizes as the same direction the king had identified a beholder lair.
"How long do you have to travel to get here?" Talna asked.
"Not long, the wizard helps us."
"Interesting," Sadun muttered.
"Which wizard?" Pip Squeak asked.
"The wizard in the tower, over there!" the kobold pointed in the direction of the tower the group had spied in the distance on approaching the town.
"Will you take us to the wizard?" Sadun asked.
"Of course lord! Whenever you are ready we will take you there."
"Why have you been coming here though?" Sadun asked.
"The Big-Eyed One has us bring weapons from its cave to keep here," the kobold explained.
Sadun turned to Cassian. "Do you recognize any of the weapons Cass?" she asked, pointing at a pile of weapons the kobolds brought with them.
"No, nothing famil- wait, this dagger... my friend used this to open letters from the king!" A tear welled in the corner of Cass's eye. He pocketed the dagger. "Leroy loved this letter opener."
"Well, we should probably go see the wizard," Sadun suggested.
"Minions! Take me to the wizard!" Balazar yelled.
"Of course lord!" the kobolds exclaimed, and began leading Balazar from the underground barracks. The rest of the party followed.
"Wait wait wait wait wait!" Pip shouted after them. He pulled Sadun aside. "I know we made a deal to not stab each other during the night, but you seem to be in charge of this swarm. Could I come with you? You seem to be traveling and I am looking for something."
"Absolutely my friend," Sadun said with a toothy smile. "If you help us, we will help you, so long as it is mutually beneficial. That is how society works."
"Deal," Pip said.
The adventurers followed the kobolds to the surface, and out to the edge of the abandoned town, observing scores of kobolds stashing items in the housing along the street.
"Don't worry, they're with us! They're going to see the wizard!" The kobolds told the others. "They're generous lords!"
"How many kobolds are there?" Sadun asked a nearby kobold in their group.
"How many? One... two... four... five... seven?"
"Ok, I get the idea. Lots of kobolds."
The group walked out of the town into the forest.
"Why are we going to see the wizard again?" Talna asked.
"Someone suggested we do so in the first town," Sadun pointed out. "I think they told Max about it."
"We're listening to Max?" Talna asked, aghast.
"This Max doesn't sound very smart," Pip said.
"Elle, what do you think?" Talna turned to the gnome, who was mugging furiously and pointing to the stone rat on her shoulder. "Oh, I forgot. Elle, one moment, hold still." Talna begins to cast Remove Curse.
As the cleric reached forward to touch the mouse, Elle heard a voice in the back of her mind say "Yes, yes free me!"
"Wait Talna, I don't think this is a good idea!"
"Don't you want it off you?" Talna asked, surprised.
"I do, but it's saying weird things and I don't want it to be bad!"
"It's talking?" Talna asked.
"Yes it talks, it talks to me!" Elle said in a panic.
"Well, that's great," Sadun said drily.
"A cursed object that wants the curse removed..." Talna said. "Well, it may be best to leave it be for now... Sorry Elle."
The group continued on for a few more yards.
"We could just remove the arm," Cassian suggested.
"Yeah, I could make you a new one! Look I make things all the time," Pip Squeak said to Elle's sounds of horror. The rat threw a glass globe on the floor which exploded into a flash of blinding light, blinding the entire party for a moment. Talna fell to the floor, hands covering her eyes and whimpering.
"Oh no, wrong one!" Pip said, as Cassian grabbed him by the robe. "I wasn't going anywhere!" Pip protested.
"What the hells was that that you threw?!" Cassian demanded, wiping at his eyes.
"Oh, I made it, it's pretty neat isn't it. They didn't tell me what it's called so I've been calling it brighty."
"From now on you warn us before you throw anything! Am I clear?!" Cassian demanded.
"Fair enough," Pip said sullenly.
Ahead of the group, the kobolds who had kept walking through this interlude reached a clearing that surrounded a tall tower, and abruptly vanished.
"Where did our guides go?" Sadun wondered aloud. Peering across the field, the party could make out small red-orange dots of the kobolds on the tower steps, disappearing into the door.
"There must be some sort of teleportation magic involved that only grabbed the kobolds," Talna said.
The group ran across the field, but arrived too late to alert their erstwhile guides as to the predicament. The door was shut. Sadun began walking towards the staircase leading up to the tower, and found herself behind the group walking forwards.
"And this must be a defensive ward," Talna observed, as Few and Balazar also disappeared from in front of her only to appear behind. Elle ran at the tower, and began looping around, sprinting as long as she could but only making it to the same location. "Hello in there! We would like to talk to the wizard!" Talna shouted out.
Halfway up the tower a window opened. "Be quiet out there! By the gods, you're so noisy!" And the window slammed shut.
"Well Hells take you too!" Balazar shouted out, hurling a rock at the window. The rock bounced off the air in front of the tower before it hit the wall.
Talna cast Dispel Magic, but nothing happened.
"If he put this up, he may not want us to come in," Pip said. "Is this the best way to talk to him?"
"Maybe we should try funneling under the field," Fei pondered.
"I already tried that," Pip said, pointing to a ten foot hold behind him. "It goes down a ways."
Fei began hurling magic stones at the tower, observing where they bounce off the invisible shield, and Cassian began walking around the tower, noting a door on the opposite side of the tower. He attempted to walk to the back door and found himself standing with the party again. "There's another door back there, but it also placed me here."
"Knock it off!" a voice came from above. "Do you know how expensive that is?" The figure holds up a ball of fire, threatening to throw it.
"Wizard, we request an audience!" Cassian shouted politely.
"That sounds pretty boring doesn't it!" The voice shouted, down, and the window slammed shut again.
The group continued to hurl arrows and rocks until finally a kobold appeared at the door. The kobold walked up to the group. "The wizard would like you to- hey! Put me down!" the kobold squealed as Talna lifted it by the shoulders and ran to the door. She slid inside and tossed the kobold outside behind her as the door slammed shut. Standing up, she found herself surrounded by hostile looking kobolds, reaching for their weapons.
"I have shinies," she tried, to the sound of weapons being drawn. She emptied the bag of old gold on the floor, and watched at the kobolds talked in draconic. "So, where's the wizard? I have a meeting with him," she asked. The kobolds whispered amongst themselves, and one ran up the stairs while the others inched closer, weapons ready.
Outside, the kobold Talna had thrown out stood up. "That was rude," it said, as Cassian picked it up and handed it to Sadun.
"Maybe Sadun should do this," Cassian said. Elle jumped onto Sadun's shoulders, and the rest of the group walked over and touched some part of the kobold. Sadun pressed several gold coins into the poor creature's hand.
"I'm sorry about this," Sadun whispered. The group walk to the door touching the kobold, until they can get inside the door.
"Your lords are here!" Cassian declared, as the group entered the tower.
"Lords? I didn't know about any lords," the kobolds whispered amongst themselves. "Maybe we should get the wizard."
A larger kobold descends the stairs, holding a stick and dressed in a dark blue robe covered in arcane sigils. "What do you want?" the kobold wizard demanded.
"We were told to come see a wizard," Sadun said.
"You saw me, now you can leave!" The kobold declared.
"You haven't answered any questions," Balazar pointed out.
"Who said I would answer questions?" the kobold demanded.
"We have some things to discuss," Talna said.
"Fine then go ahead, so you can leave sooner!" the wizard said testily.
"What's this about a big eye?" Balazar asked.
"It's the beholder in the cave. Next!"
"Do you serve him?" Talna asked.
"No! I serve the kobolds. And by that I mean they serve me."
"And your kobolds serve the beholder?" Talna asked.
"No. But if they don't do what the beholder says they die."
"Do you want to help us kill the beholder?" Fei asked.
"No! That is too dangerous."
"So wait, you're looking for the beholders?" Pip said from the back of the group. He was roundly ignored.
"Is it a proper beholder or is it one of those offshoots?" Talna asked.
"Go and see so you can leave me alone!" the wizard said.
"Do you have any artifacts to help us?" Balazar asked.
"I've done this seven times before with other champions," the wizard sighed. "I don't have anything that will help you."
"If we kill the beholder, what would we get from you?" Elle asked.
"Why would I give you anything? I'm not sending you up there," the kobold declared. "I just want you out of my tower!"
"Do you ever leave your tower?" Cassian asked.
"No, I am safe here. Why would I leave?"
"And may we ask your name?" Cassian prodded.
"You may call me wizard. That is all you need to know!"
"That sounds a lot like Wizred, or whatever his name was," Talna observed.
"That apprentice of mine was never a wizard!" The kobold sneered.
"I'll call you Theodore, want to be a Theodore?" Talna asked.
"Get out!" The wizard shouted.
"Do you know what happened to the town?" Sadun asked, in a measured voice.
"Travelers wanted to be there, they found it too close to the beholder, so they left," the wizard said.
"Is there a reason the beholder is having the kobolds take weapons to the town?" Sadun pressed.
Behind Sadun, Elle attempted to take a book off one of the shelves lining the walls. "Hey, get away from there!" The wizard shouted, and a stack of kobolds moved to block her access.
"Have you seen any other people like me?" Pip asked.
"Yes of course!" The wizard said. "In my crystal ball."
"Where are they?" Pip demanded.
"I don't know, I see them in the crystal ball, it doesn't tell me where I'm looking."
"There must be something we can do to gain your favor!" Cassian pleaded.
The kobold turns and pulls down several shades over the windows nearby. Each shade reveals the five faces. Each face has a red X drawn through it. "These champions said they could get my favor, and look at them all. All dead."
"If help us try to succeed, even if we fail you lose nothing. But if we succeed, you would gain a lot," Cass reasoned.
"What would I gain? Everything I have is in this tower. Even if you were to kill all three Beholder Lords, which I don't think you can, I would have no reason to leave this tower."
"Oh, there are three of them," Talna whispered.
"Do you have more of those glasses you're wearing?" Pip asked.
"I have five actually, why would it matter to you?"
"We came here to ask for any information about artifacts that could counter the beholders you may have," Fei said.
"Yes, artifacts are everywhere. I have three on the shelf over here," the wizard said, gesturing. A shelf nearby held three rings similar to the ones the party had received from the king, but shinier.
Talna gestures Elle forward. "Show him the ring in your hair," she whispered.
"Oh, sure," the gnome raised a lock of hair braided through one of the king's rings.
"Ah, I see my apprentice is a fool and tried to make copies again," the wizard said, inspecting the ring. "Well, apprentice is a loose term. He was hardly interested in magic, he just wanted my books. He couldn't even read them, which made it worse! He's certainly no wizard. An alchemist, if anything, and not a good one at that."
"So how badly did he mess up on this ring?" Balazar asked.
"Oh, just don't touch any weapons and your soul will be fine!" The wizard said, looking at Balazar's ring.
"Why am I wearing this than?!" Balazar said in disgust.
"What about mine?" Cassian asks, holding up his hand with the ring shards embedded in it.
"Wow, your battle reflexes are terrible with that stuck in your hand," the wizard observed. "You will be very slow responding to anything. Did you try to disenchant this? You did a terrible job!"
"Do you think you could do better?" Cassian asked.
"Of course I could do better, but why would I?" the wizard asked.
"Prove it," Cassian challenged.
"I might as well," the wizard muttered, turning to Balazar. The kobold held up his hands. With some chanting and a spark of light, the ring slipped off of Balazar's hand and clattered to the floor. "See? Easy." The wizard picked up the ring and tossed it down the stairs disdainfully. "I did one, I showed you I could, what now?"
"What would you like in return for removing the ring shards from our other friend's hand?" Talna asked, indicating Cassian.
"Your hand is completely terrible, you should have that looked at. Not here, somewhere else." The wizard said.
"It seems to me that your apprentice may be better than you are," Cassian said.
The kobold stuttered is disbelief. "Just look at your hand! It looks terrible! You want me to feel bad?" Magic sparked from the kobold's claws.
"What can we do about his hand?" Elle asked.
"You could take it to the lake. I wouldn't recommend it, there's a giant monster there," the kobold said.
"We met it," Talna muttered.
"What about the lake would help?" Elle asked.
"The monster emits powerful electrical energy. Stick your hand in there, and if you survive the metal will come right out. Every weapon down there is magical now."
"Weapons?" Elle asked.
"Yes, everyone who tries to fight that beast dies, so the beast drags them down to the bottom of the lake. The weapons at the bottom of the lake get enchanted from being around the beast so long."
"I want a magical bow," Elle sighed, dreamily.
"Yes! Go! Go! Leave me alone!" the wizard encouraged.
"Could we dip our own weapons in the water?" Cassian wondered.
"No, the weapons have to be down there for years for the magic to seep in. But the weapons at the bottom are amazing! Now go, get killed, it will be great!" the wizard urged.
"What can you tell us about the monster in the lake?" Elle asked.
"Don't fight it," the wizard suggested.
"What can we do to get you to take the shards from my friend's hand?" Talna asked again.
"Get me the crystals from the back of that monster in the lake. Then I won't need anything!" The wizard said gleefully. "They're full of so much power they would make my tower indestructible."
"You're not planning to fight against the beholders?" Fei asked.
"Why would I want to do that? I'd lose immediately."
Fei pulled out the magic watch the king gave her.
"Where did you get that?" the wizard asked, noticing the watch immediately.
"The king of the last town," Fei said. "I never asked for his name."
"Why would the king give you something like this? Especially a champion, you lot are weak!"
"I feel the rings are more important to our survival against the beholders than this is," Fei said. "So I would like to propose a trade."
"For that?" The wizard thinks a moment. "I will give you three rings of protection from beholders in exchange for the watch."
"Since it's so valuable," Talna said, "Could you also throw in removing the ring shards from Cassian's hand?"
"I don't want it that badly, it's one or the other!" The wizard replied. "I told you, it's easy to deal with the shards, just go die at the lake!"
"Are these better rings than the ones we got from the king?" Fei asked.
"Of course they are, I made them! I make the rings, I give them away when I want to, which I don't but you're trading for them so I'll take it."
"Wait!" Pip said, as Fei went to hand the watch to the wizard. "Throw in the glasses!"
The wizard looked at the ratfolk. "I'll give you a pair of glasses," he said slowly, "If you give me a sample of the smoke in your flask. I'll even give you two pairs, I'm generous!" The wizard pulled out a second pair, this set tinted.
Now it was Pip's turn to consider. As one of the lesser kobolds took the watch from Fei and gave her three rings, Pip made his decision. "Done."
Another kobold came up to Pip holding a tube connected to a flask. Pip opened the stopper on his flask and allowed the gas to flow into the new container. The kobold sealed its flask quickly, coughing in pain as it got a whiff of the gas, and fell to the floor as it walked back to the wizard.
"I remember my first time too," Pip said.
"He'll be fine," the wizard said. "Here are your glasses. Do you want to know what they do?"
"Wait, they're magic?" Pip said. "I thought they were just neat looking glasses!"
"Yes, they'll let you learn the qualities of magical items you look at through them," the wizard said. "So, are you done? Will you leave now?" the wizard asked.
"I'm done," Pip said, turning to leave the tower.
"I have two thoughts," Sadun said. "One, why are the kobolds storing weapons for the beholder?"
"Well, from what the beholder says, his cave doesn't need anything that's not extravagant like he is," the wizard said with a sneer.
"Fair enough," Sadun replied. "Two, hypothetically, what if there was a giant void orb in the middle of the forest near the lake that was slowly drawing things into it?"
"And magic doesn't seem to work near it," Talna added.
The wizard takes out a crystal ball and manipulates it until the void orb shows in its depths. "What in the nine hells is that?" he cried out.
"We don't know either," Sadun said.
"We had a party member who gambled his arm away to this god of gambling, and it became this void in his arm that would suck things in and shoot them out," Talna explained. "Sometimes the items came out with magical properties. He... died."
"Let me see if I understand this," the wizard said. "A god bestowed one of the champions a radiant gift, the most amazing gift anyone could receive, and you let him die?"
"Let is a strong word," Sadun said. "There was a giant lightning breathing serpent and he didn't dodge it. Or even run away."
"Yeah, he antagonized the thing in the lake," Talna said.
"I doubt someone as gifted as that would do something so foolish," the wizard said. "That kind of magic is ridiculous! If I had it I would be amazing!"
"How do we stop the orb?" Talna asked.
"You don't."
"So it will be there forever, draining th life and magic of the area?" Talna pressed.
The wizard took out a notebook and wrote some equations. "It should be there for about three hundred years," he said. "Or if you get a diamond," the wizard pulled a diamond from his pocket, "and throw it in the void at the exact moment it is about to pulsate, you might be able to close it and get a nice gem out of it. If you miss, you might die."
"How close do you have to be to pull this off?" Talna asked.
"About thirty feet," the wizard said.
"And if you tie the diamond to an arrow?"
"It would be too fast."
"What about hurling the diamond with a magic spell?"
"The void would take the magic before the diamond," was the reply. The wizard tossed the diamond to Talna. "So yeah, go try this, have fun. Will you leave my tower now?"
"I am ready to go," Sadun said.
"You have no further information on the beholder?" Talna asked.
"Not willingly," the wizard replied.
Fei hands the three rings out, one each to Sadun, Talna and Elle. "Could we pay you to give us more rings in the future?" Fei asked.
"I have all the money I will ever need," the wizard replied, "but if you caught me on a good day I might give you one. But if you want to find more yourselves you will need to find another wizard, which you won't, because there are no other wizards as powerful as I am."
"Could I trade you this unique potion?" Fei asked, pulling out the potion of Blindness. "It was made on accident."
"Yes, I think I could actually use that. What would you like for it? It's not very amazing, but it is neat."
As they talk, Talna castsRemove Curse on Cassian's hand, and managed to succeed in causing the slivers of ring to fall from his hand. The wizard looked vaguely impressed.
"Could you exchange for something that helps us deflect blows?" Fei asked.
"Of course, what would you like?" the wizard said.
"Bracers of Defense?" Fei asked.
The wizard tossed the druid a pair of bracers. "Sure, for the potion. Enjoy. Thank you."
"Mister Wizard, could you tell me what this does?" Elle asked, pointing to the stone rat on her shoulder. "I can't say anything bad right now."
The wizard looked at the rat.
"Apparently it wants us to remove a curse from it," Talna said.
"Of course it does. I don't know why it ended up on THIS plane of existence. What kind of fool brought this thing over? Well, it doesn't matter now," the wizard held up a hand and summoned a ball of fire. "You leave the tower right now!"
"Ok Elle, let's go," Sadun said, beginning to pull Elle away.
"Wait wait, is it a bad curse?" Elle pleaded. "What does it do?"
"I will not have an Old One in my tower!" The wizard shouted.
"Oh shit, hells, shit," Talna said. "Elle, we need to go."
Sadun picked Elle up and walked out of the tower.
"You're sure it's an Old One?" Talna asked, from the door.
"Hmm, if only we knew a powerful wizard who would know that sort of thing," the wizard said.
"For such a powerful wizard you sure are hiding a lot," Balazar taunted.
"Of course, I'm still alive. There are three beholders, I was one of the first, but now I stay here."
"Were you one of the first champions?" Talna asked.
"Out! Out!" the wizard said, shooing the rest of the group out.
Fei handed the bracers to Sadun as they regrouped outside the tower.
"What is the Old One?" Elle asked Talna, once they were safely away from the wizard's door.
"They were the first beings, and were once worshipped as gods. However their worship died out, and they are vengeful now, desiring to become gods again."
"Oh. Oh no," Elle said.
"I'm afraid I cannot free you of this curse," Talna said. "Maybe someday I will find a way, but I cannot right now."
"So Mister God Person, can I borrow some of that magic?" Elle said aloud.
"Elle!" Talna exclaimed.
"Yes," the rat said in Elle's head. "What are you willing to bargain?"
"Um, I don't know..." Elle thought to the rat.
"Well let me know when you decide since my other potential disciple is dead."
"Elle! No!" Talna said, seeing Elle's expression.
"Deals with Old Ones are a bad idea," Sadun added.
"Ok!" Elle said brightly.
"Elle, seriously. Don't do it," Talna said. "Did we not have a talk about making bad decisions?"
"We'll talk about this later," Elle thought to the rat. Out loud she said "Yes of course!"
"If you make a deal with this Old One, I will never forgive you," Taln said. "Keep that in mind."
"Counter point, I can make you taller," the rat said into Elle's mind.
"Where are we going next?" Cassian asked.
"I need to meet my fellow druids," Fei said. "The meeting is tomorrow."
"We may as well do that," Talna said. "Maybe we will get some information from them."
"I doubt they will be willing to help us," Fei said. "They respected my mentor more than me, and they do not trust outsiders. You may be attacked if you come. However, they may know of items that would help against the beholders."
"Whatever it takes to get stronger, we should do it," Cassian said.
TO BE CONTINUED
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