The World of Telvar

Bugbear encounters -- July 29 -- While Dari was sleeping to get back her spells on the first day, bugbears from the ruined city approached us at Middle. The bat boys found them and reported back to us. We sent out a small party to talk with them with them. The bugbears had come to warn us that new snake worshipers had entered the city and caused mass destruction. They were scared and were thinking of actually going so far as to leave the city. While we were talking to them the bugbear ambassador, who was leading the discussion, suddenly keeled over with an blot stuck in his side. We saw something move in the bushes and pursued it. Unfortunately, we weren't able to either apprehend the thing in the bushes or save the ambassador who had died instantly from, we think, poison on the bolt. The other bugbears who had been with the ambassador were scared and one in particular was saying that the humans were traitorous and we should attack him. He also suddenly keeled over however, as someone bent down to touch him, his body turned to white flakes and disappeared.

Upon examining the tracks in the bushes, it was found that they went a ways through the woods and then just completely disappeared at a log.

When the party got back to the city they had a discussion over the event and Eli told the party that he had seen a snake crawl out of the bugbear that had disentegrated. Upon hearing this story the whole party tromped back to the scene of the encounter before dark. The disappearing tracks were still there and I think they were human size. We cast a detect magic on the tracks but found nothing untoward. Examining the log did no good either.

A locate animals spell did find a snake though, and upon casting detect magic on it, we found it was magical. Alegra dispelled it and it turned into a bugbear. The bugbear was very confused and paranoid and had definately been well on it's way to loosing its mind although it could still speak. It said it had been working for the demon worshipers. Faranynn convinced it that we were demon worshippers ourselves and were testing it. In this way we were able to extract its mission (to create strife between the humans and the tribe) and the fact that it referred to the city as "The City of the Rising Spire" . We did not get much more than this out of it until it pretty much completely broke down and starting asking for mice. Dari good naturedly fed it and we decided that the kindest thing we could do for the bugbear would be to release it in the woods well on the far side of the ridge.

July 30 -- We decided that the best thing that we could do about the bugbears would be to send a message to them telling them we were sorry for what we had happened and would like to stay at peace with them. To this end, Dari, invisible, snuck to the bugbear compound and dropped the message at the bugbear gate. She watched as a bugbear came out and found the tube. She then returned to the party having had no encounters.

August 1 -- Group of three bugbears respond to our message. A small party is sent out to talk to them. They say they are not ambassadors and can not speak officially but have come to tell us that it seems that the demonworshipers have left the city traveling east with 6 "stupid" bugbears. They thought there were only 3 or 4 worshippers. They also let us know that there are factions within the bugbears on issues dealing with us and what to do in response to the demon worshippers. The bugbears believe the demon worshippers have only gone for reinforcements and will be returning.

Group to End -- July 31 -- Eli, Bluebear, Xavier, Claude, and Sahrak headed off to End. Bluebear found that no recent purchases had been made at the music store. Xavier found that the patients at the sanitorium were making progress but could do nothing so complicated as talk yet. Eli and Sahrak purchased the info from the file on the old ones from the sage for 500 gp. The info from that will be in the next letter.

Ludo's Adventure!! -- night of Aug 1 -- Ludo is walking through the streets of Middle when suddenly a peasant woman comes out of nowhere and gestures at Ludo. She then lunges at Ludo and Ludo takes off running. She utters a spell at Ludo and Ludo is surrounded in inky blackness. Ludo runs! She makes a few more grab attempts at Ludo, but luckily Ludo is a slippery fellow. Ludo starts yelling for help, and running like crazy although he can't see where he is going! Luckily our policemen do hear the yells and head in Ludo's direction. Ludo, panting, takes out Alexis dagger activating it. This creates a flashing of normal blackness interspersed with the inky variety. Being able to see the woman now, Ludo grabs for his sling and throws one of his exploding mithril bullets at her. (This does 22 points of damage and a triple wound). The policeman arrive on the scene at about this point and start shooting at her. She turns a pile of sticks into snakes and flees. The police leader is able to apprehend her, and deals her a final blow, although he is bitten by a snake, and looses conciousness shortly afterward. On examining the body we found that the woman had scales rather than skin on much of her body.

The police leader was taken to the Nevronian temple and a scroll of slow poison was read for him.

Faranyn and Ceydric sealed the city just after the encounter, and that is where we leave things....

Rachel