02.07.2021 - Saving the Sword

Mr. Somulus pushed us forward to find his cool sword for him. We moved along the passageway that had walls covered in a strange oily substance and ahead we could see a hole in the ceiling filled with flashing colors. This hole was like a well Shadow Mother once told me about, but ours had a bottom to it that had some weird writing on it Jerome said he didn’t know how to read. He had us stay back while he tried some things like throwing his lunchbox on it and then stepping on the circle. The lunchbox did nothing, but when he stepped on it there was a loud booming like there was on that bridge where we met The Resistance. Marko and I immediately rushed forward to help our friend get off of the ground. Once he was back to safety I went to go get his lunchbox for him, but the wall moved into my way and I fell onto the floor! But, before I returned Jerome’s lunchbox to him I looked up and there was a huge shaft that seemed to grow smaller the further up it went. When Marko took a look at the writing on the floor, he immediately knew it said “thunder” on it. Jerome stuck his head up to look up the shaft to see what pointed out he said he saw a blue dragon head looking at him.

   We all talked for a minute before I flew up to peek at the dragon up above so that we would know what to expect from them. It was a pretty big room they were in with some glowing balls held by statues in the middle of the room surrounding a pedestal covered in blood splatters and a bunch of little dragon people (the whispers seem to think these might be those kob-lods we came to fight) by some statues on the second floor. One was looking around a garbage pit mumbling to itself. I message Jerome to tell him the situation and to tell him everyone should come up to see this cool room. It took Jerome a little while to figure out how climbing worked, but that is okay because Marko was very good at it so he could help and then Marko used a rope to help Klaub up the well.

   Once Klaub had made it to the top, we were spotted! The kob-lods sprung into action and started touching the statues on the second level to summon other things that flew towards me as the kob-lods tried to run away after we had killed one of them in the garbage pit. Mid-way through the fight Jerome tried to climb on the pedestal and it activated something and the pedestal shot up into the ceiling only to immediately fall down again where Klaub saved Jerome by pulling him from the pedestal. After we defeated all of the kob-lods and their flying friends, we started to look at the flashing orbs. Klaub activated one of them by hitting it with an icicle, but before anyone could do anything Marko touched the last statue on the balcony and a fire creature came out. That was okay though because I just threw an icey lizard at it and it went away, but then I went on a trip to a dark and floaty place off and on for a minute every once in a while coming back somewhere else in the room! It was a super cool way to move! Eventually, I stop blinking around the room and help remove one of the flashing orbs. We easily deal with all but one orb but Jerome has an idea to make electricity by rubbing up against Marko.

   As we completed the last orb, there was a pinkish light that came from the pedestal and a really red and shiny sword appeared hovering in the center. Jerome moved to grab it but the sword attacked him! We all started to attack it before it could hurt Jerome too much and after we cracked the ruby it was made of, a new sword appeared that was super shiny. This time Marko tried to grab the sword and it did not resist him, but he took off running back towards where we met Mr. Somulus. (The whispers tell me the sword made Marko think he needed to kill any dragons nearby.) Jerome followed behind but Klaub and I took our time and accidentally summoned another ice thingy while playing with the statues and orbs. We managed to kill it before it could do too much damage though which is good. Klaub then dug through the garbage and found a shiny agate in a belt. While he climbed back down to follow the others, I harvested some tails and wings from the kob-lods and I picked up one of those orbs before following.

   The whispers seem to think that Marko realized that Mr. Somulus was one of the good dragons who would probably not need to be killed even though he is a dragon.

   Jerome started telling Mr. Somulus the story of what we found and what happened while he and Marko waited for Klaub and I to join them. When he asked for us to hand over the sword, we all questioned him and asked questions about what we will get based on our agreement so he breathed on us and everyone else fell asleep. Mr. Somulus then picked up the sword and was very angry about it not being the right sword? He storms off before I can ask any other questions, but after he is gone I wake up Klaub and the others and we find out we have a Dragon Slayer Sword which Marko took.

   We headed back to the little town to get our sheet signed by Yorag for completing the job. (Jerome and I added some of the kob-lod parts to our basket for Plumph. After we played with Mr. Goat and Jerome got headbuted we headed off back towards Tannin.