To be honest, I expected the spider chick's dad would be, well, a daddy long-legs. And maybe he is -- the head scholar we met claims he adopted her. So her true daddy long-legs might be sitting on the side of a house somewhere, pining away for his lost daughter. Maybe when we pull both halves of her corpse out of the bag of holding, we'll track him down and let him know.
I know that seems unusually caring of me given that I cut his daughter in half with my axe, but I just want our cleric to speak with dead and ask "Who's your daddy?". Can you blame me?
So, our next lead was the "Basc" trading company. It was right next to the Allen Qaeda Sand Emporium. The funny thing is, I think we could learn a lesson from their subtlety. Ahem, anyways.
We send in Livia to setup a meet with the trading company owner/manager, and she manages to do it without getting killed -- the owner lady pops into our (new) inn and Livia convinces her she wants to get involved in some illicit trading. Owner lady says to meet her at the trading company after nightfall, so we hang out in a nearby alley and keep track of Livia magically while she does the deal. Oby goes in as her manservant -- he finally took down his daily disguise so nobody would recognize him as the old feeble man he really is.
Finally, things start returning to normal. Livia and Oby get held up and manacled and Livia babbles about a coin and gets the trader lady all kinds of interested. Fortunately for us (not them) Livia leads them down the alley we just setup for an ambush. The fight was billed as "Monkeys In A Barrell" on HBO if you're interested in watching it again. Only the warlock got away!
We did manage to trap two soldiers, who let us know about a secret underground temple after peeing their pants. I guess they didn't want to ask for a hall pass for the bathroom.
Clearly, it would be a brilliant idea to sneak into the temple while they were on full alert. Don't ever say we are not brilliant!
Downstairs was the warlock, whom we quickly dispatched. Things got more interesting when we found the main altar. I ran in past a bunch of guards to attack the head priest, while some orb floated past and turned into a tentacled mass which blocked the doorway -- and no, it wasn't Sorcha. It was a bigger tentacled mass, and Oby wasn't making googly eyes at it.
The head priest started out rather wussy. I even managed to drop the guards that surrounded me with a sweet whirl of my axe! You perform it by drawing a circle with the stylus on the touch pad, centered around Link. It can be a little hard -- try drawing bigger circles if you have difficulty.
Things were definately going my way, at least until the priest turned into yet another tentacled mass -- smaller -- and tried to eat my head. I tried to tell him oby's brain would be a nicer snack, but he wasn't listening. Finally my prayers were answered, as I was teleported away from his grip and left Erson in his clutches instead.
And here we are, in the middle of a fight while I take the time to write Dear Diary. It's amazing what you can do with a free action when you own a magical Blog Of Posting.
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