10
Many Meetings
When the companions came to the commons Sasha was already doing her rounds of guarding the entrance. Her eyes lit up a little as she saw Jehuty with David and Juan, finally an elf she could talk to. Then she saw Brionac with them and her face turned stone cold.
"Hi Sasha! Meet our new friends, this is Jehuty and Brionac." Juan pointed to the friends in turn.
"A drow! Tell me what is a drow doing here and how did he get past the guards?"
"That's the thing, we don't think we did. Thanks to Juan and David, we need a place to hide. I am Jehuty's brother by the way. Don't ask, it's way too complicated." Brionac replied.
Sasha raised an eyebrow. "I won't. I'll let you in as long as you promise you won't cause problems."
"I promise as long as you keep us safe in here." Brionac said coldly.
With that the friends walked into David and Juan's tent. It wasn't so big but there was room for all three when you take the table in the middle of the room and placed it outside. So Juan and Jehuty sat on a bed opposite another bed where David and Brionac sat.
"Now to business. The reason why we want to get to Neriak is because we are trying to get back the emerald crystal that was taken from us." Said Jehuty. "All of a sudden they showed up during an orc attack and my guess is they were working with the orcs as a distraction to get the emerald."
"They were a distraction. I can't remember much but the reason for it is because the Iksar came and asked my people to steal it so the Iksar can have it." Replied Brionac.
"Why would they want it?" Asked Juan.
"Because they told us it would help open a portal to the homeland of the gods and we would have all of our wishes granted. They would unleash hell on those who would oppose us and the Iksar." Replied Brionac with concern.
David made a humming noise and then sat quietly before speaking. "I think I know what they are trying to do. They want to open a portal to the Plane of Disease."
"Why? How? I didn't think anyone was able to enter the plane of the gods." Asked Jehuty.
"It is possible. I've read about such things in old scrolls during my time at Erudin and The Tower of Frozen Shadow. You see, each little section in Norrath like the plains, the desert, the forest, the oceans, wastelands and swamps, pretty much any place in any of the continents has a crystal of power. Each crystal helps maintain the area like its life force or something. Anyways if one was able to get the crystals, in the right shrines with the right combinations, one could open gateways to The Planes of Power." Answered David with a look that let everyone know he was recalling things from memory.
"What are The Planes of Power?" Asked Brionac. Juan and Jehuty watched and waited for the response.
"The Planes of Power is where the Gods live. There are many planes and because you need the crystals to access them and because there are many crystals to begin with, the combinations are endless and so there for there might be more planes then there has ever been recorded. Not to mentions how many Gods and Goddesses there could be.
"I have heard that when one is able to open a Plane of Power they may enter and challenge the being who lives there or they can choose to live their and someday, maybe become a demigod or become a guardian of the plane."
"Wow, some serious stuff we have here huh?" Answered Juan.
"Well I don't know about any of this Planes of Power stuff but all I can say is that we got to get back the crystal. So far, all we know about is that the one in Kelethin is gone." Jehuty thought out loud.
"I've sertainly never heard of anything about my people stealing the crystal from any other place. The only one I was around for was when the Iksar wanted my people to get the crystal from the elves." Answered Brionac.
Outside Sasha was walking around the entrance to the poor area when two guards walked up to her, by the looks of their attitudes and the way they spoke to her Sasha could tell that they were quite afraid of her. She doesn't recall though that one of the guards happened to be at the end of her hand in a severe spanking when he was a child and wandered in and stole something that belonged to an old woman.
"Mam, we are here to inquire about four people who had recently been seen at The Emerald Dragon Inn
