A Planned Community

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We're back in Throal. After mourning Precious, I got a new mount. Spate is rather spunky and spirited. It will take a few days to get a working relationship going. Erasmus has been appraising equipment found in Parlainth. We're gonna head down to the area in Europa labeled on the brigand's map, Erendis. The trip was mostly uneventful this time. When we got to the place on the map, there's a big tall square thingy in the distance. 'Course, it's all big to me, an' I don't know why everyone wants things big. Just falls over more. This one's well made, though. Obsidude sez the walls look bad. There's a bunch of people farming, and there's a well and buildings and gardens. I wizzed around them, then got Spate and headed to the well. Warren went to the raised pool, but stopped and is now stupid or something. While we were looking through the boring buildings, Ricky found a woman. She stripped him, then made him stand in the corner when he started cussin' at her. 'Course, nobody else saw her. Right after, Ricky grabbed some paper in the buracrat building, and he's now filling out papers. Even Muggums did some paperwork. I found the woman floating in the pool on the altar. She's apparently Butterfly Roseblossom. Silly Muggums made a grab for her, and is now stupid too. Mixter made her dance; Blossom got annoyed and vanished. We got one of the farmer guys out. He started talking to us, and wanted to get away. He had been a caravaner. We started evacuating people. We got 108 men, women, and children out. We got them food from their gardens, and sent them to Europa. Erasmus shouted that we'd let all the slaves go. Roseblossom came out. She fried Tcho to a crisp with her fan, the commanded Erasmus to fix up her room. I tried to pull him out of her room, but was unsuccessful. Roseblossom got near the room, and I ducked behind a tapestry and hid. Kali followed Roseblossom in, and a long philosophical discussion ensued. She left to get her "people" again. I got into the bucket of the well. The bottom of the well opened up and had eight identical locked doors. Ricky, Erasmus, Ricky, Mixter, Koskar, and I went down the well. Erasmus bashed through the south door. Above, Roseblossom returned. Finding most of the party missing, she rounded up Petros and Muggums, who are still stupid. Tcho played dead for a bit more. Roseblossom removed the confusion from Petros and Muggums. Petros took off, but Muggums stuck around to talk to her. In the well, it's kind of like a caern, dedicated to Erandis. We found a large orachalcum seal thingy. It looks like it seals the caern. There's a lotta books. One book talked about a lot of things around here. Tcho musta gotten board, since he came down and found us. He sez that Muggums is getting buddy-buddy with Ms Rosy up above, and he was getting very rather uncomfortable. We got outta there when the nethermancer and Tcho started attempting to carve up the orachalcum. They didn't get very far. Muggy went all buddy-buddy with Butterfly. She found out that Rosy was originally Caligulaette Slavemaker, a horrible Theran slaver. We took off and looked for the shrine mentioned in one of the books from the caern. We found it, and it looked like it entered the compound. At a loss of what to do, we left to Europa. At the very least, we're gonna tell Phaledra that we alive, and that the raiders have been subdued. Well, we're gonna get a bunch of orcs together to kick some ass. We found out more about Slavemaker, and are getting a bunch of people together. Whoowee!