Captured...Again!

I don't know what's up with us and getting captured, but as we were heading up with villagers in tow, we came across a group of elves who accused us of killing the necromancer. The others seemed to know one of the elves, and thought that at the time, the elf was pretty decent, well, for an elf.

We counted at least four of them, and while in normal situations, I'd been confident to being able to fight through them, after killing that skeleton and the golem, most of my divine abilities had been used up for the day. Obegard had tried to reason with them only to be met with a ray that rendered him dizzy. Ili, in all of her wisdom, decided that it would be best to attack and for that she paid the ultimate price...

We were transported a ways away into a anti-magic prison that rendered our powers useless. We were questioned several times. First, by the queen in a public chamber, simply stating that we must be guilty, and that we'd be executed in a week. Then, by her in private where she offered the possibility to spare our lives if we named House Netheren as our co-conspirators. Finally, we were questioned by that "friendly" elf. He game us the counter offer: if we named the queen as the head of the conspiracy, then he'd send a rescue party and return all our possessions. The last offer seemed to be the best -- we'd work for the least distasteful party, regain our belongings, free not only ourselves but the villagers as well, and finally, cause internal strife within the elven ranks. With the human lands besieged upon all sides, it seemed the wisest thing to do.

The day came and we made our statement. I was surprised that we weren't killed on the spot for accusing the queen, but we were sent back to our cells. That night, the promised help arrived, and had spells that allowed all of us to walk through the walls of the keep. They also returned our equipment. We ran all the way out of the city and into a clearing before the spells expired. I'm not sure what was the reason for the next betrayal, but our rescuers unexpectedly turned on us. I don't know if it were all planned out, or if they simply decided that killing us outside of town was good sport. In either case, they were clearly overconfident in their own abilities, as they had foolishly returned our weapons before attacking us. It didn't take long before we had slain them. Unfortunately, in my haste to escape, I had forgotten to take one of their corpses for later questioning, as distasteful as it would have been. I guess now, we'll never find out why they attacked us.

We returned back to our keep with the help of several Dwarven wizards that were sent alongside Obegard, and planned our next move.