Originally posted to the DSC website on March 22d, 2010.
Korialstrasz,
The Dragonsworn Council has completed it's second mission for the Accord: an expedition to recover a powerful magical artifact called the Spell-Loom which may be instrumental in ending the Nexus War. On behalf of our allies in the Kirin Tor we penetrated the defenses of the warlock coven that operates out of the Slaughtered Lamb tavern in Stormwind. The leader of the coven was killed and most of it's members fled from our attack. Dostya "Gun Bunny" stayed behind to guard our exit. With the coven defeated we decended into the crypts beneath the city.
There we encountered an animated stone face in the wall that spoke to us... apparently it was some kind of ancient alarm system that no longer had a purpose. The poor thing was lonely and when Temlin offered to keep it company once a week it told our operatives what it knew about the crypts defenses.
Deeper into the crypts they found a mana wyrm in a room filled lit by blue torches. At first it seemed friendly until the mages Anthus and Temlin got too close to it. Then it tried to drain the magic from them! Luckily Tilby from the Bronze Wing managed to trap it in his... hat.
He still has the mana wyrm. Maybe it will come in handy one day.
Then Lyryll discovered that one of the torches was a sort of switch and when turned the torches turned red in color. At first our operatives thought they were in immient danger but nothing seemed to happen.
Moving on they accidently triggered a trap, even with the warnings of the animated stone face who had told them of it ahead of time. Leon Rosette found himself paralyized by a beam of light that came from the ceiling... his energy slowly being drained from him. Turk tried to save him but got caught in the beam himself and became ensared as well. Tilby was able to walk through the beam unharmed, perhaps because of the mana wyrm or perhaps just because he isn't... techically... alive. Temlin got caught as well before Lryrll came up with a creative solution with a coffin lid that allowed them to push everyone through.
They found themselves with a choice then. To their left was a stairway down but the way was blocked by some sort of purple mana shield. Straight ahead of them was another passage. Tilby went straight for the mana shield and passed through it unharmed. Unfortunately the barrier prevented the passage of anyone else and they found they could now neither see nor hear Tilby.
Tilby found himself facing a warlock and a voidwalker. Though he was able to dispatch the warlock the void walker seemed beyond his abilities. Tilby was left to face it alone.
Meanwhile unable to pass through the mana shield the others continued down the second passage. There they found an imp. At first it seemed they could negotiate with it but diplomacy soon broke down. It attacked and called upon a swarm of flame puppets from the next room.
With Tilby nearly overwhelmed by the void walker and the main group under assault by the imp and it's minions the outcome was very much in doubt.
Lryrll and Temlin kept the fire puppets back, Moralynn used her healing energies to keep the party alive, and Leon and Turk killed the imp by decapating it. With the imp's death the fire puppets dissolved and the battle was over. In the room beyond the imp's they found another room lit by strange torches... red. One of these was a switch as well and upon turning it the fires turned purple.
Turning back to the stairway they found the mana shield gone. It would seem blue torches plus red torches mean a deactivated purple mana shield.
They also found Tilby running hurriedly back to their position with a VERY powerful Void Walker hot his his heels.
Leon, Turk, and Lryrll moved to engage the demon in close quarters while Moralynn attempted to keep them invigorated once again and Temlin hit it at range. Leon was wounded in the battle and Turk was grabbed by the demon and used as a living shield.
It was at this point Turk was wounded by his overzealous companions.
And wounded again.
And again.
Eventually, though perhaps not soon enough in Turk's opinion, they managed to strike a blow against the eyes of the void walker forcing it to drop Turk on the ground after which they were finally able to dispatch the demon.
Returning to the room the void walker was guarding they discovered the Spell-Loom waiting for them. It too was guarded by a mana shield but with his mana wyrm companion Tilby had no trouble passing through unharmed and retrieving it.
Making their way our of the crypts and the Slaughtered Lamb they tended to their wounds. Tilby refused to give the Spell-Loom over to Nillian Fizzlefury, the Kirin Tor represenative who accompanied them on the mission, and Nillian grew angry. Transforming into an elder blue dragon he attempted to take the Spell-Loom by force.
It would seem that Nillian Fizzlefury is actually Nilligos the Warden, a very powerful dragon in the service of the Blue Dragonflight. Yes, we almost delivered the magical artifact that might end this war... right into the enemies hands!
Luckily he wasn't ready to take on our entire force and was forced to flee in the direction of Elwynn Forest. We had managed to retain possession of the Spell-Loom but we have no idea what it does or how to use it. However I refuse to trust it to the Kirin Tor as they were so easily fooled by Nilligos.
We shall have to discover Nilligos' plan and just what the Spell-Loom is on our own. To that end I am putting together a mission in an attempt to track Nilligos down.
May the Life-Binder bless our efforts.
-Rublestrasza, Matron of the Dragonsworn Council
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