Kadest and I spent the night in Rivervale....deciding it was best to figure out Innoruuks plans in the morning.
When we woke up the next day, he said he needed something from Kaladim first....so away we went!!
It is pretty nice traveling with a druid, everything seems so much closer!!
When we got there though....the first thing he did was pick a fight with the banker!!!!
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I wasn't quite sure what it was all about....but I couldn't let Kadest die before we could stop Innoruuk! So I healed his wounds a little. The banker definitely didn't like that too much..... but what did he want me to do?! I couldn't let another wood elf get beat up!!
After that we considered going back to the Burning Woods to talk to Telin....but...we also knew we would need to be our strongest if we were to stop Innoruuk!!
I told Kadest about my quest to learn the Call of Flame and how I only needed one more item for Ganelorn.....maybe if we got that first , it would better prepare us for what was coming next!!
So we left to seek out the last item....a ring from the giant hand at the bottom of old guk....
I had hunted in the upper parts of guk when I was a younger archer, but it had been so long since I was there...and traveling down to the ghoul frogs was always too dangerous.
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We soon arrived in the swamp near guk and I followed Kadest ....
It seemed like we were traveling a lot longer through the swamp than it normally takes though!! In fact, I was almost positive I had seen some of the trees twice on our rout there!!!!!
I don't want to say Kadest got lost.....but he sure had a creative way of navigating swamps....
Oh well, eventually we made it!! And after drinking a couple invisibility to undead potions.....we snuck deep down into the dungeon.
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I was surprised to see when we got there that the ghouls seemed a little more dead than usual.....
Had another ranger beaten us here?!
After looking around a bit, we discovered it wasn't another ranger....just a lizard and druid hiding in the corner..... guk was a pretty strange place.....
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We soon found the room the hand was said to live in after that. Somehow a pool of water floating above us guarding it.....
Yup, Guk really was pretty strange....
Oh well, wood elves are renown for our great swimming abilities!!! Having been forced to often swim the channels of Crushbone for our lives!!!
After setting up, we lured the hand down through the water....the battle had begun!!!!!! Even better, I could clearly see the hand had a ring!!!
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I shot arrow after arrow! Remembering to switch to my hunting bow instead of my dragons bow....knowing the dragons bow power would be suppressed!
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First the hand fell.....and then all that was left was the knight....
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Once the fight had finished I bent down to take the ring from the defeated foe....
But as I tried to grip it....my hand passed through the ring!! And then, the ring vanished!! It was an illusion!!!!!
Had the hand been using its magic to create a false ring?!
This was a problem...a big problem!!! We decided to rest a bit as we thought out what to do next....
After a little bit we heard fighting further down the hallway..... someone was having trouble....
We rushed down the hall and discovered a troll!! Who was attempting to battle the lords room alone!!! And the troll was losing!!!
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Obviously we couldn't just let the troll perish to the ghouls!! So we stepped in!! Trying to control the situation as best we could....
I channeled as much of my power into the troll to heal its wounds.....and Kadest did his best to try and root the other ghouls.....but the troll panicked and backed into even more ghouls!!
Soon the troll fell....leaving me and Kadest.....
"Teleport us!!! Hurry!!"
"I'm out of mana!!"
It was the last thing I heard as the largest ghoul closed down on me....sinking my feet into the ground ....the last of my power draining away to try and close my wounds.....
And then things went dark.....
The next thing I knew I was in the upper parts of guk with Kadest......but nothing could see us.....were we ghosts?!?! We had to be ghosts!!!
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We roamed the halls for a little bit, until we came across another dark elf....but this one was a cleric!! They are known for their ability to communicate with the dead!!
"Woooo we are the ghosts of fallen wood elves.....save usss clericccc....wwooooo".
Sure enough the cleric could hear us! If even he couldn't see us!! And he ventured into the lower parts of guk to perform his magic!
We were saved !!!! Had we not run into him, we would have likely ended up haunting the hallways forever!!
After that we returned to the commonlands.....
There I hear rumors that a rogue had snuck down to Guk several days ago...and stolen the magic hands ring. That the hand, in embarrassment, was using an illusion to pretend he still had his ring......to avoid the shame.....
Humm, perhaps I could track down that rogue....surely he would be selling it? Right? That was my next step! I had to find it! And learn the spell from Ganelorn! Not just for me....but for the world!! To stop Innoruuk!!!