A S O D Tethreceine
They marveled at the freedom placed on their creedance and chimera,the lovely land was a second heaven in passing un attended snowey reaches,that even wildlife at times was nary a chinook to the sweet calm.Thunder sounded once,and snowfall met the bestranged call of a 'wilder' hawk once,but easily the subdueing effects of the sole sentient party of biengs in these places was allowing for glamorous insight.Alliyah knew herself at times when independence from the wholeness of the catacombs of people was,kept away,and she flew as the hawk may have,in divinity of the hunter,the prey nor alive-surmised as a colder flight of valkyrie the individual could,she thought,make stern the courts of gods and wicked minnion keepers,shedding doctrines of prowess,and contemplation;who ever was so lucky as to make such passages untouched by all before times of war were granted a gift.The lip beyond the field of nether skoals layed them on a route through evergreens,then as the borders of Atheina,regular southern oaks,and Layzon trees,biting against winter with fearsome hides,gathered about the journeyers.A night spent camping when the path had dissapeared,and they used inner faiths,and Xeina's ability to call forth dungeon membranes,and discover their locations-helped the roughened forested pace.Finaly after two nights,beyond the first two spent,and hiking past a few low hills,they found the dungeon entrance,as evergreens were once again the ground statues of snow catching gaurdians,for the final few miles.
The front remains of what once may have been a gated arch entrance,was scaffed,and the features removed by years of weather.Signs that were used to ward off higher powers,glyphes conjured through them to illuminate unwanten vistors,those of doctrines of good were more present in it's history than it's physical appearance.The forewarning that decaying bodies,most certainly skeletons,and rigormortis bringing bayne through the halls,was implied when they realized the sight and approached.The task of searchng through a forgotton place such as this could not be taken lightly,and stilled revenance of doling out fatal strikes on undead,and breathing the mirths of stale air,were the just the short of what could be expected.
"I will send a prayer for our safety,and we can go inside"Xeina turned from dreamy speculation to the here and now first,and the three set from their rides and allowed the littanies of the cleric to wash them,a few supplies taken,they stood finally at the hall of enthronement to Techreceine.
"what little faith I have,Xenia Treaz,I hope you were able to bring about,for what we do now is maybe a greater judgement of our souls and grander show of skill that what any of us may have ever known"Chealsoroy,keeping a few items,especially potions,was the most layden with supplies,and in final contemplation the sword of compliment to powers of the arts was taken,and they made their way with torches lit into the first chamber.
This calm atmosphere was soon disturbed by the awfull sounds of screethcing.The blasts of dishevelled sounds could not be placed,though as they took on their implements for attack the presence was getting closer.Kiazo spun about,using the axe to justify a staggering manuver that brought a wild action,and there a mist formed entity was lurching in,set to strike at him.The axe cut the strange form,and another more demeaning shriek was cast out from it,the girth of the metal in friction was obviousley enough to hurt it,though wether weapons were enough to kill such an elemental form,was uncertain.They had unleashed the wrath of a Dungeon Prelafiend,and as the others made to take their own swipes at it,it lashed out and whipped wounds across every one of them,engauging an unseen might that left shallow slashes.Xeina knew what it was,a cartetaker of places layden with treasure,and often disbanded from the caster or creator,they searched for gold or treasure hunting parties,trying to steel what money was carried.
"I must cast a magic of dispelling air elemental-try to force it into a still"Xeina announced,while Alliyah had taken to side skirting it,occupied by the others- and swished her sword from a high arc,thinking to slash apart the unmaterial beast.
They considered how to make it easiest for the cleric to strike it with a tranforming spell,that in turn may make it a visible physical enemy,and slashable by weapons,and soon they each were dancing about to it's sides making it waiver from the left to the right,while Xenia had a direct path to it from several feet away.Shggggshw-a sentient trickling mist like ray flew from the hands of Xeina into the cloud,and whipping about like a fluster of breeze broken smoke,it screamed again yet a another new comment,this time of fear and anger-and suddenly the form lay on the ground a pinkened fluff,of densified muck.With a few slashes the silence told the tale of first encounter won,and Xeina wondered inwardly if this creature had friends,for such a craft of unwarrented power as materialization took too much energy,and the survival of the group may be harrowed,in a stripped of counter spells flurry if the Prelafiends were awaiting.
"well done-I suspect that even scince you're first deadly axe swipe the abbomination knew it was soon to meet it's match"Alliyah stated,as without request,Xeina had created a glowing orb that passing over each member,sealed and cured their trails of slashes from mists of malignment.
"what skills,I dare say it takes to remember ones way from the depths of dungeons,I hope one of thee is the friend able to do so"Kiazo spoke as they made to the first hall at the back of the room,perhaps games of maze memorization were not the best of a bartending orc.
With no response it was assumed that this concern could wait for some time,Cheasoroy paused to smell the air as they found that doorways were now layne,5 at each side.
"this one,I think there's-an interest shall I say..i don't think it's alive however"Chealsoroy opened the door,and cast the torch light into the 50 ft square room.
Shackled to the wall,rotting gnomes in platemail,that looked untouched as strangley as the dull black countanance they shed,were set into arm grasps chained high enough that their feet didn't touch the floor.Smeared with their own blood across their faces,the soot was now a corroded after fact,and skeleton like shape was taken from their withering skin.
"oh….there are the remains of the gnome army of Vret,that thought they could kill a thousand trolls in the special armour of their gods,-that was entirely wrong"Xeina related the view's history…and beguiled as the party was about the sight,they stepped closer to look about.
"gnomes,what silly god answers their requests anyway,certainly the trolls I fought had no fear of blessed smith work"Kiazo stated,while Alliyah set one of them on the ground,easily slipping the hands,which broke off from decay,from the clasps.
"better to have tried than let the cowardice of retreat be known –such was true of every realm at the time….Vret still stands,I have visited it,quite a beautifull towne"Alliyah knew of these gnomes and their attempt to defend the world with a siege on Tethreceine,but they had failed,and the image was a sorry clipping on their proud minds-though at least they could offer fire burial.
And so within a few taskings,they had set them in a pile,a marker written upon the floor by Xeina,and torches made the funeral pyre claim the unrested souls to a new place.The door creaked shut,Alliyah taking the last glimpse,and they realized that if so many fallen warriors were scattered about this could not be done as it should for all the corpses defiled by the deeds of the enemy,and unsent to a heaven for their kind.The other rooms that were revealed,held little interest,though a shelf of flasks,and a cauldren was found in one and Chealsoroy,took the time to thuroughly make certain that nothing good was there for the merits of this quest.That was certain by the last flask,however,in setting the empty potion glass back,he spotted a small trap door on the wooden shelf's flat,and pushing at it several times it opened and there in careening mithral purple velvet a platinum ring with a jagged trilled orange crystal sat.
"I've got it….a beautifull magical ring…ha haa haaa thought I was stirring up the wrong cauldren….Xeina….(they had begun to leave,and were 50 ft down the hall)Xeina!"-his calling finally caused her to turn around and approach,and the other's waited,not knowing what the commotion was about.
"ooooh,a platinum crystal fire ring,that is what you have mage friend,be carefull if you put it on,I'm not certain what language calls forth the spell,but it will be one of fire"Xeina handed the ring back to him,and he approached Alliyah and offered it to her.
"I think that's quite a nice gift,thank you good elf,for the good of the lady friends-eyhe Kiazo"Alliyah tried it on and was astounded with it's fresh look upon her finnesive leafy finger.
"good,good,a power word you say fine cleric,then it will be trollvish,gnomish or untzuhfeient,in all good respects,"Kaizo stated,priming the fact that the use of the item which was to be powerfull,was still a stab in the dark.
"'*****',no'*****',no-I fear I don't know the untzuhfeienten word for fire,of course-"
"'******'"Cheasoroy provided that before she could ask,and fortuntely she had turned towards a wall when saying it,though before was nearly set at an angle that could have found her and the rest whiplashed from a defelcting burn from the wall.
Sure enough the word caused a quick zap of light to form on the ring,through the crystal and about the entirety,and a swath of fire,simple and true,though orange,as a measure that maybe the crystal was the source of it's conjuring-flew forward starting it's course a few feet from Alliyah herself,-and finally fell from their view as the hall carried into another room.The effect was dazzling,and simple work of enemies ignorant of this, or suseptable to fire was to be theirs,at for as much as the ring was powered for.
