Well, I wasn't going to let a little thing like facing a city of monsters alone while lost stop me!! A gnomes gotta do what a gnomes gotta do!
I wasted no time and ran into the city (sneakily)!
As I walked around the streets avoiding elementals and rock golems and mice people (meople?).....I took a little time to observe their various shops, I could tell it was once a great city! Sweats, a tailors....a bank...wait a second....
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Ok, maybe escaping could wait a little bit ...
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But there was no leftover bank treasure...it seemed whoever had lived here before remembered to take their savings too....
I wandered the streets for what seemed like days!! How was I going to find this place to escape?! It could be anywhere!!!
From what I remember hearing, it was a room with 3 portals....one lead to safety, but the other two lead to the cities of dark elves and something else dangerous I couldn't remember.
As I sat thinking of what to do....I heard a voice from behind me.....
"Ha ha gnome, you are so lost!"
I looked around, but didn't see anyone there. Golems and elementals couldn't talk I didn't think.
"You lookin for me? Ha ha that is funny. You may be sneaky, but I'm even sneakier!"
"What?! Impossible! I'm maximum sneaksy!"
"Oh I know how sneaky you are gnome! Ha ha it's why I'm going to help you! A reward!"
Then he appeared....it was a halfling!! ....it was Bristlebane!!!!! No wonder I couldn't see him! He is the king of sneaksyness!!
"Finding a way out should be easy....you just have to start seeing like a thief!" He said as he threw some powder at my face.
When I opened my eyes he was gone. Maybe I was going crazy down here!
Then, slowly, as I looked around....the walls began to become translucent...I could....I could see right through them!!!!
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I had been given the ultimate thief's vision!!! I could see everything! In the entire city!! Every hallway! Every treasure chest!! Everything!!!
But I didn't have time to go after it all....I had been here so long, I just wanted to go back home! I walked around the city some more....looking through the walls trying to see where the secret exit might be.....
Eventually I saw a room a few floors down behind some secret walls. I would have never have found it on my own!!
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In the room I snuck past a solitary guard....and then...I was faced with a choice....which portal would be safety...and which one certain death?!
I sat there considering my choices.....I kept having a feeling about one of the portals....
Then, right before choosing, I changed my mind and picked a different one! It was now or never! Thinking any more wouldn't help me!! I jumped in!!!
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When I appeared, I was in a tiny cell. This was worse than a city of monsters....I WAS IN PRISON!!!! No! I'd been caught!! How could this be?!?!!
But, oddly enough, the door was unlocked.....
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"A gnome? What are you doing down here?"
It was an erudite! And he seemed friendly enough....if even he looked at me suspiciously....
"Noffin! I'm not doin noffin!"
I ran out of the room before he tried to charge me with trespassing or something. On the way out I passed even more guards.....this had to be Erudin!
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Finally I made it into the actual city!! I was free!!!!!!!!!
The first thing I did was head straight to the bank to make sure my treasure was still accounted for. I had over 1,000 platinums now in total!!!
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Adventure success!!!