Chapter 3 – Deal with the devil
After the extremely unsuccessful attempt to take down the sorcerer, we regrouped at White Town. We got hit so bad that a couple of us had to be treated by the healer for over a week! Before getting destroyed by a bunch of brainless lotus harvesters, we did notice there were lots of black lotus flowers in there! Our financial situation wasn’t particularly great, and considering that we planned to take down the sorcerer, we needed some source of income in order to get the appropriate equipment for this quest. Decision made: let’s go and steal the sorcerer’s lotus. A Job that we completed smoothly, despite the presence of several lotus farmers. Because this time we were intelligent enough to allow Rozilla to use her crazy alien gun. Not a single scratch on any of us! We got the lotus and traded it with the red people for potions, weapons, poisons etc. Finally we felt ready for fighting the sorcerer!
On the way back to the caves we came across a slave train, similar to the one where we were kept few days earlier. We decided to attack the slavers and in the process free the slaves using Rozilla’s psychic powers to open the cages, so that we could get some extra help from them. The plan worked quite well, but just when everything seemed to be going smoothly Pearl (Oli) engaged combat and died. Same process again: decapitation of the dead body and head in the jar. Now we carry two heads around with us.
Three of the slaves (I still like to call them like that, even though they are freemen now) joined our party and followed us to the caves. There we first looted what looked liked a lab of an alchemist. Carrying on our exploration we met two servants of the sorcerer, but managed to (temporarily) talk our way out of a potentially sticky situation and pretended to have an appointment with their boss. We continued our search for a bit longer and managed to get attacked by some bats, which poisoned Claudia (Fabs) and Jim Bridger (I know it’s not the actual name…but I thought I’d pay tribute until I know the actual name of Oli’s new character!).
---digression 5/Bats rabies
It’s worth remembering that, because of the rabies, Claudia and Jim will attack anybody during a fight unless they make a save!! Until they get healed, watch your back!
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In the caves we found an impressive mushroom forest where we got stopped by a huge robot. We managed to convince it that we were waited by the sorcerer. The robot took off and we followed him, managing to locate the sorcerer’s hideout. But just when we were preparing an ambush the sorcerer came out and called for us. The tension was pretty high and it seemed like things were going to escalate quickly, especially after Rozilla used her telekinesis to steal another ray gun from the sorcerer. For some mysterious reasons we decided to listen to what the sorcerer had to say, learned more about his job and the stuff that goes on around the area. And then we got a job offer: we are slavers now!
---digression 6/The Sorcerer
The sorcerer lives in this caves where he harvests lotus and carries on his sorcery/voodoo shit. He needs people to farm lotus though, so he pays mercenaries to give him new peasants, who are treated with lotus themselves and become brainless. We have agreed to become his providers of slaves now and he’s requested 10 people. We still have to figure out how to do it stealthily though!
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