Going Downstream

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I woke up the next morning. Everyone wanted to go back to Throal, catch his da' up on the situation. It took all day to get back. Chuck's da', Mr Ward, took it rather well, and had much more confidence than we did. 'Course, somethin' to put things in perspective: Chuck probably can't find water in a well. Mixter found that the Orachalcum Pendant belonged to some person in Europa. So, we're gonna look at returning it. We headed down the Alidar river to the Serpent river, down to a really neat cliff city. The obsidiman and nethermancer got lost, and we missed our boat out. We tracked 'em to an empty room deep in an abandoned part deep in the city. The nethermancer showed up after Tcho and Rick left. Apparently, the big plain wall is the liferock. Boring. We spent 3 days waiting for Erasmus. The big lummox finally came back. He couldn't even explain himself. We saw lotsa neat stuff, even a floating city. As we got near the floating city, we got attacked by One again. We all flailed around trying to hurt the dagh thing. Luckily, Mixter is a cool nethermancer, and took it to unconsciousness with a sweet spell. We smacked One as it sank, and killed it. Again. We eventually got to Europa. Kali got an appointment to see Phelaedra to give her the pendent. Mugguns adopted some more strays. Everybody except Rick went and visited the gardens to see if we're horror marked. None except Koskar and his horror-sword made the flowers glow. We went to see Phelaedra and gave her the pendant. She told us about the history of the pendant. Pheleadra kissed Ricky, and promised the party that she'd make us a song, once we built our legends. She's going to examine the plain steel key we found in the espagra nest. While she examines the key, we're going to take care of some brigands who have been killing and desecrating travelers. Well, Muggums sent out his dog and it didn't come back. I guess the parakeet died, huh. Muggums spotted the spotman for the brigands. Silly troll just spouted, "There's the t'skrang," and was promptly smacked down by lotsa firey arrows. Rick attacked with the name-giver sword and pretty much slaughtered the spotman. As I charged up the hill, Precious was shot out from under me and destroyed by the flaming arrows of the six archers. I charged up to kill the mount-killers. We slew several of the bastards, and Ricky chased them to their camp, where they escaped. Now I must bury Precious.