Ki-e & Bohe's Sidequest: Out of the Frying Pan...

Ki-e and Bohe arrived back from their jobs before everyone else. Stepping into the manor, they were suddenly surrounded by a gust of wind and a loud whooshing noise. They were lifted into the air, and their feet touched down in a dense, primeval forest. Small dark blue humanoid creatures with glowing red eyes began appearing in the trees, pointing at Bohe excitedly and brandishing nets. Bohe and Ki-e saw a settlement of wooden huts in a clearing to the north, but decided instead to head south towards the more defensible position of a stone tower on a hill beyond the edge of the forest.
As they run out of the forest, vicious whiplike attacks fell a number of the pursuing creatures. Seeing only flashes of a black cat-like creature, Ki-e's Arcana skill helps him recognize the attacking creature as a displacer beast and he encourages Bohe to run even faster. They soon leave the blue creatures behind to the tender mercies of the displacer beast, and are luckily not pursued.
As they approach the windowless, doorless tower, a stone face appears and challenges them. Accusing Ki-e and Bohe of being agents of someone named Umber, the face taunts the two with how well protected his master Moglodello is inside the tower and expresses his certainty that they will be unable to convince his master to make him open up the tower for them.
Ki-e and Bohe tell the stone face, "Look, we don't know who Umber is and we don't care about your stupid feud. But if you don't open up for us right now we're going to rip you a new brick-hole. Also your friend is dead."
After disappearing to check inside, the stone face returns to say, "Well, he's dead. Strange, I suppose sealing the tower air-tight in order to prevent an alchemical attack was not the best idea for a living creature. Alas, poor, poor Moglodello. Taken far too soon by the cruel sufferance of time." As he cries bricks, the two jump inside the tower to avoid the stone rain. Inside, they find a number of things, including a book written in an obscure elven dialect. The stone face sees them looking, and demands to be shown the book they're taking.
The stone face complains of the sloppy grammar in the book's spell to create a portal to the prime material plane, speaking out the proper, corrected syllables. As a portal opens and the two are getting sucked into it, the stone face begs not to be left alone. The two grab onto him, and all three are sucked into the portal. The portal takes them to a jungle, then underwater, then buries them waist-deep in snow in a blizzard. The cold bites into them, and only their ability to endure the harsh environment is keeping them alive...
Category:Sidequests