Post by Dead Greyhawk on Sept 16, 2007 18:06:02 GMT -5
Following the defeat of the strange, hulking half-man and his demonic minions, the Company found in his traveling desk a book and some scraps of linen paper with writing on it. The writing is of a foreign tongue, but Raven's helm can decipher it.
The notes appear to be a report on the pacification of Sterich in the name of the Dead God from one Wearnes Lolthson to the Demon Goddess.
The notes read as if they are first or partial drafts of the report. They are in four large chunks, with partial sentences and phrases found on other scraps of paper.
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The notes appear to be a report on the pacification of Sterich in the name of the Dead God from one Wearnes Lolthson to the Demon Goddess.
The notes read as if they are first or partial drafts of the report. They are in four large chunks, with partial sentences and phrases found on other scraps of paper.
Chunk 1:
... undead of the master of death have proven immensely strong, much stronger than those raised by our former allies. They have shown their merit in all battles, except one outside of Longspear. The few priests weaklings of the gods of weal are invariably overconfident when faced by them, and the unlife are able to strike deep into their ranks, slaying them in their hubris. Kay-tarn grows ever more powerful though, and he has brought back from aeons ago the greater goblinoids his creatures to protect him. With the Dead God's usurpation of your eyes and ears, I can not be certain of ....
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... of Sterich has been reduced to a wasteland. No organized forces beyond our own exist there. It would be wise I humbly suggest implore beseech you to remove your influence around the fortress so that it can be used more offensively in the southlands. Your eyes and ears tell me that wall of blood ochre has avoid your egg, even though the timing of it was exquisite. I have scourged ....
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... have been cowardly inadequate unable to succeed at simple tasks. I request that I may augment increase the demonic troops under my command leadership direction you direct through me. The rutters are more than enough to overwhelm the stauchest of Keoish troops. The few dretch in my personal guard are enough to ...
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... totally successful in their efforts enactment of your plan. Your lesser children boil out of the mountains in a beautiful carpet, blocking the land from future habitation. The animals are slain, the trees cocooned, the waters befouled with their ichors. Within several seasons, the land will be purified in your name beyond any possible....