Chapter 4: Adventures in Blingdenstone

"They do speak to us, yes, when the earth is quiet enough for us to hear them, Gurnik says, a look of wonder and sadness in his eyes, "They tell us of a time before the 'intelligent' races started hurting the earth so much... it's a very sad song to hear."

"You are welcome here at any time, honorable warrior," Gurnik says with a wide smile, a touch of sadness behind his eyes, but mixed with a powerful determination, "Whatever may come, I wish you well."

Back to the next day!

You all stand around for a moment as the gnomes swarm Sarith, who looks over you and shrugs, obviously a bit amused by it all. After a minute or two of answering questions, Sarith clears his throat and points at your small group. The gnomes look at you and smile, Gurnik giving Mai'ngor a small nod.

"Ah, we've got good news this morning!" Dorbo says, nodding to Sarith, "I'll let our new drow friend here tell you."

Sarith nods, "As you may be aware, I served as an scout in the tunnels for years, so I know how to find things. Our new friends," it seems for a moment that he struggles with the unfamiliar word, "asked me to go out and look for Entemoch's Boon, an ancient gnomish holy place where they can summon the most powerful of earth elementals."

He stops for a moment to allow you to digest this information, then continues "I have found it, and just returned maybe an hour ago. Once they've set up there and begun their summoning, they say they will initiate battle with the slimes."

Seeing the raised eyebrow, Sarith shrugs. It appears that he is just as confused as you are!

"Of course, back to business!" Dorbo says, calming down (but only slightly) enough to begin planning again, "We are going to have Sarith escort a group of our finest priests to Entemoch's Boon and summon as many elementals as our gods will grant us to defeat the slime menace. You are, of course, free to stay here or go with them."

"Once they return, we will launch our attack," Senni says, "It should give us plenty of time to coat our weapons in oils to resist the effects of the slime's corrosion."

"Yeah, they die the same as anything else," Dorbo responds to Soliin, "just be careful what you hit them with, they seem to be able to eat through weapons and armor that aren't magical."

"Well, if you're ready, we leave in 30 minutes..."

"It can delay it for a while, and reduces the potency of it... I'm not sure what affect it would have if you covered yourself in it. We don't have a huge amount of it to go around, though, so I don't think we'll be testing it out right now."