Tasen’s head begins to turn in different directions, up and down, side to side, and in circles.
Tasen’s vision blanks out as he hits the floor. His sight then soars far away from where his party members are, and he tries to look around. He turns his head every way he can but only sees mountains and clouds.
Tasen begins to speak, “Hey, guys? Something weird is going on. I can’t see you guys, but what I do see is clouds, mountains, and patches of ground. It looks like I’m seeing where we are above us. I also see a few forests. I’m not sure I have any control over my vision.”
Xander replies, “Well your eyes seem to have rolled back into your head. I have no idea what’s happening to you but we have to get moving. Jack, I need you to pick up Tasen and we need to keep moving.”
Jack then picks up Tasen, and they head into the black smoky mist. As soon as Tasen enters the black mist, his vision reverts back to normal, and Tasen is set on the ground so he can walk.
After a little while they make it to the mirror bedroom door and turn right towards the other door. As they come into view of the other door, they see these lizards searching the ground as if there looking for them.
Xander then says “Everyone, get down.”
After a few minutes the party hears a loud horn coming from the door and all of the lizards stand and begin to head back towards the door. After about a minute they see more lizards coming outside of the door and seem to take their places.
Xander then says, “I think we better wait until we find out their shifts before we do anything.” Tasen, Reed, Jack, Wrathale and Bhass all nod, and they sit in the smoky fog, waiting.
Xander, Reed, Jack, Wrathale, Tasen and Bhass sit there for a little while until the lizards begin to get close to them. The party begins to move slowly and quietly away, making sure not to be detected.
The horn sounds again, and the lizards head back towards the door and switch positions. After a few hours of this, they are finally discovered and run off towards the mountain door as the lizards chase them. When they reach the Bedroom door the lizards stop and run back to their positions as the horn sounds.
As the lizards switch positions, they converse with each other, obviously telling them that Reed, Tasen, Jack, Xander, Wrathale and Bhass are near by. Keep an eye out.
“So what do we do now?” Tasen says “It’s not like we can just waltz right in there, besides what happens if we get caught it’s not like we can fend off an army of those things…”
“Perhaps there’s another way through the mountain door.” Xander Replies
“Worth a shot I guess,” says Reed
Jack, Reed, Tasen, Wrathale, Bhass and Xander then run off to the mountain door. They make it to the mountain door keeping a quick and steady pace. They make it to the mountain door and run through. As Tasen runs through, he instantly falls to the ground, and his eyes roll back into his head.
Tasens vision then bolts back up into the sky. Then it gets slower and slower; then it keeps at a constant speed. He looks around, but he sees that his vision is still limited, knowing that he can’t look around.
After a few minutes he sees a small blue scaly wing off the right side of his vision. Then it disappears out of view. After a few minutes his vision returns to normal.
Xander looks back to see Tasen fall to the ground again, “Jack you know what to do”, says Xander, Jack just nods and heads over to Tasen and picks him up. They walk away from the woods out into a larger landscape. After about a half an hour Tasen’s vision then returns, and he begins to walk on his own.
The party walks off into this unknown landscape until night sets in.
“I say we set up camp for the night,” Says Xander.
Everyone then sets up camp. They keep their gear near them just in case boulders and trees or tree stumps are thrown at them again.
Wrathale goes off to get firewood as Tasen and Reed start the fire. Xander helps Wrathale grab the firewood. Then he hears some metal clanking along with some Grumbling.
“I’ll be right back. I’m gonna go Check something”, says Xander.
“Alright” nods Wrathale.
Xander heads to the top of this small hill to see something or someone walking a little close to camp. With closer observation he sees that it has a tail.
“Hail, friend,” Xander says in the Draconic language.
The figure turns and looks round and says “Who’s there?”
“No one but me,” Xander replies.
“Where are you? I wish to see who and what you are” says the man
Xander then lights a torch and sees that it is one of the lizard men. The lizard man looks all beat up with one of his eyes hanging from its socket and the other eye looking like some one smashed it into his skull.
“Well now, you seem to be beat up quite a bit.” Xander says.
“How can you see me, but I can’t see you.” Says the Lizard
“I’ve lighted a torch and I can see that one of your eyes is hanging from its socket and the other one is… well, pushed in rather far back”
The lizard fumbles his hands. He reaches towards his eyes feeling that one eye is hanging from its socket and the other one is quite far back in his head.
“I’ve got a cleric that can heal you if you wish” Xander says.
“How do I know it’s not a trap?” says the lizard
“If it was a trap you would already be dead, my friend. Now do you want to be healed or not”
The lizard takes the eye hanging from its socket and tries to put it back and says, “That would be most appreciated, but you will have to bring him or her over here. I’m not moving from this spot. I have my reasons.”
“Very well” Xander replies.
Xander then heads over to camp and says, “Bhass I need you a sec”
“What fer” Bhass replies.
“I need you to do some healing,” Xander says.
“What ye hurt yerself. Ye don’t look hurt.” Bhass replies.
Xander then says, “No, I need you to heal someone perhaps he can help us.”
“Alright,” Bhass says.
Tasen and Reed, who were listening to the conversation, follow Xander and Bhass, dragging with them Wrathale and Jack.
“Alright I need you to heal his eyes.” Xander says as they make it back to the Lizard.
“Yeh want me to heal that thing, they’ve been chasin us for quite some time now. Have yeh gone crazy?”
“No. it’s like I said; perhaps he can help us. Heal him please.”
Bhass looks at Xander, “Fine!”
The lizard stands still as Bhass begins to heal the lizard’s eyes. After a few minutes Bhass finishes healing the lizards eyes.
“There, he should be able to see out of the eye that was sorta of hanging. The other one needs to be healed further.” Says Bhass
Bhass then removes his hand, and the lizard man looks around. “So which one of you was the one that found me and which one healed me?”
Xander then says “I was the one that was talking to you earlier, and this one here.” he points to Bhass, “was the one that healed you.”
“Thank you for helping me. However, you look like you have been running around for quite a while. Where were you heading?” Says the lizard man.
Xander looks at the lizard man and says, “we’ve been running from your kind for a little while. We have also killed some of your people. We were sent here to look for a Princess. We found her Body and we went back to get our reward. Then we were told by Tarix’s cousin that her soul’s missing.” Before he could go on the lizard man says “Tarix! You’re working for TARIX! How dare you work for that monster! He has betrayed us at every turn. You’re lucky he hasn’t betrayed you yet!”
Tasen then remembers to translate what they’re saying to everyone else and explains what’s going on.
Xander then says “What do you mean.”
The lizard man calms down a little “Our people were to give him an amulet which has the Princess’s soul in it. I haven’t seen it myself, but it was at that time very valuable to Tarix. No he wasn’t there himself, but anyway we were trading it for our own realm because Tarix had said that he can make us one so we could be alone. However, as we were there we handed them the amulet and they took it with glee. We told them that we want our realm now! They just laughed at us. Then we wanted the amulet back so one of our kin grabbed it and took it from them. After a few minutes there was some loud stomping, and the earth began to shake. We realized that it had to be something big. We looked around and coming out of the woods was a giant. He had destroyed Tarix’s men and all except one of our men. He ran back to our domain without the amulet and told our Elders what happened. They went back to grab the amulet, but it was gone along with the armor of our kin. Only the bodies were left. Tarix’s men’s bodies were there also and they were also striped of there armor. We then sent our men after this giant. None of them lived to tell the tale.”
The lizard man takes a deep breath and continues the story “We have tried many times to kill this giant but he has become stronger for he has fashioned himself armor out of everything that’s attempted to kill him; robes, clothes, chain, plate, leather. He has it all fashioned into armor for himself. He has become difficult to kill. I was in one of those raids. All forty men died except me so I guess that makes thirty nine men killed from the last raid. Back to Tarix. After what happened he never wanted to hear our side of the story we tried telling him that the giant had taken the amulet he called it just a story to cover up what we had done. Even though we had done nothing wrong. So, here we are fighting this nation’s higher power. All because of that stupid amulet.”
Xander then says “Hmm… very interesting… so he may very well turn on us too?”
“Most likely” the lizard man replies.
“Well, I guess we should take these off.” Xander says, revealing the Chain armor with the Symbol of Tarix on it.
“After all, they did say it was supposed to teleport us to Tarix once we got the amulet. If Tarix can activate it well we don’t want that now, do we?” says Xander while he takes off the armor.
Tasen, Reed, Jack, Wrathale and Bhass follow suit taking off the Armor and setting it on the ground.
The lizard man says, “Wise choice.”
Xander then says, “What is your name, by the way?”
“My name is Kasshhikoraka, but they all just call me Sword” says the lizard man
“Well, Sword, my name is Xander the gnomes name is Tasen the rest of their names are Reed, Wrathale, Jack, and Bhass.” Says Xander Hold out his hand for a hand shake
Sword takes his hand and grabs Xanders and they Shake hands.
“Well,” Xander begins, “Any idea how to get us out of trouble with your people?”
Sword thinks for a moment “Yeah, I believe so, but it will be difficult.”
“And what would that be?” says Xander
Sword begins to smile and replies “Killing the giant and retrieving the amulet…”
