Episode 16

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## Plot Summary

This is a prequel episode set 17 years before the events of Sahlen’s Legacy.  Colin Longflare, Vothya, and Stephan Swiftblade, have all been hired by King Sleekrun of Copperforge.  They have all met each other in their mercenary work.  Colin has organized the team and the travel together to Copperfoge.  Before the main gate is a cabin with a pumpkin patch behind it that they have never seen before.  Vothya throws an ax at the pumpkins and an old man admonishes her.  Colin apologies and asks if they can stay the night.  The old man agrees, saying that they were expected.

As they enter, they see a cluttered room full of antiques and odds and ends from all over the world of Sahl.  Voytha look around and she spots a large pit with clawed feet, humming with energy.  The old man offers it to her, but she takes a smaller one instead, which bursts into flame in her hand.  It is not meant for her, but the larger one is.  Stephan examines a small model of Copperforge Mountain that is exquisite to the smallest detail.  When Stephan asks the old man if he’s made another one, he says to “look outside.”  Vothya, not trusting the old man, does not sleep while the others rest.

In the middle of the night they hear a whistling, a great cracking, and a large boom.  A wave of fire destroys the cabin as they run for it.  The old man runs off.  At the southeast foot of the mountain, Colin sees flames and an impact crater.  The side of the mountain is scorched.  Making their way toward the flames, they spot hooded figures in the forest.  They also see a rickety carriage coming from the west with a lantern with a glowing green light and a red hoop sigil on the side.

The party hides behind some rocks to see what’s happening, but Colin steps on a twig.  Some other figures head toward them, encircling them.  They say that they only want the wagon, and will leave the party alone.  The leader of the bandits, a grey minotaur named Greyflower, promises that they will not hurt anyone; they just want loot.  Colin gives the okay, and the minotaurs charge the wagon.  Within minutes it is knocked over, and the party can hear screams coming inside, including those of a baby.  One of the gnomes takes the green lantern, whispers a magical phrase, and becomes covered in magical green energy (Green Lantern character drop).

Colin fires an arrow at the green figure due to his hatred of green beings and a battle ensues between them.  The minotaurs continue to attack the wagon, but one is crushed under it.  Colin brutally murders the green gnome.  Vothya and Stephan watch on and can see black figures and royal guards approaching.  The minotaurs loot the wagon as the remaining gnomes flee toward the fire.  The cloaked figures put out the flames with their chanting, revealing a pulsing green rock in the middle of the impact crater.

Colin heads toward the guards, Vothya and Stephan follow the gnomes, but they are spooked and continue fleeing.  Two peel off and head to the mountain, but two continue toward the cloaked figures.  The party catches up to the two gnomes and Vothya feeds them some pumpkin.  They are scared of Colin, who has just arrived with the guards.  They are confused why he murdered their cousin; they only came to mine the stone.  Vothya offers to travel with them to the stone and protect them.

Everyone hears a crack and a hiss as the stone splinters at the top, violently releasing steam.  Vothya picks up the male gnome to prevent him from going to the stone.  They hear horrific chanting on the wind.  The two gnomes attack Colin when he arrives.  As Colin and Vothya bicker, the stone explodes, peppering everyone with shrapnel.  All of the stones glow bright green.  There is one huge black hooded figure, it has too many eyes, mouths, and limbs.  There is also a normal human being with silver hair, standing at attention: it is Snips Cutlass, head of the mercenary’s guild.  There is an even larger figure behind them, sitting.  All they can see are its teeth.

Where the stone once was there is now a woman, flowing long hair, colorless and radiating light.  They recognize it as a Sahlite.  Vothya picks up a glowing stone, hands it to the gnomes, and tells them to leave.  The cultist attacks the Sahlite.  Colin, badly injured, stays behind to defend the gnomes.  Stephan recognizes the big figure as Kloch, son of Kloht.  An annoying human walks up (Ryan Reynolds character drop) and heads toward the cloaked figures.  Colin shoots an arrow at the seated large creature, which hits, but the creature just laughs.

The Sahlite uses half of her light to heal the party.  They line up behind her.  Vothya picks up a stone in the shape of an axehead and hands it to Stephan.  Stephan holds the seed that the old man gave Vothya; it hums when pointed at the cloaked figures.  He sneaks toward them and plants the seed.  It buries itself deep and then roots burst out of the grown around the cultists, restraining Kloch.  The human tries to punch the demigod, but get’s his hand bit off.  Kloch summons a deer and converts it into an abomination.  He then sloughs up part of himself, which operates independently.

Vothya charges the demigod, but the deer grapples her with its antlers as she passes.  She is so enraged that she glows bright red and a being takes shape out of her, the embodiment of righteous rage, Remodi (character drop).  Colin is able to hammer the deer to death.  Snips Cutlass creates a glowing black blade and attacks Colin.  The human tries to punch Kloch again but is wholly devoured.  Kloch frees himself from the roots and creates a snake abomination.

The two gnomes return and start picking up some of the glowing stones.  Colin grabs them and throws them to safety, tossing them a few more gems.  The royal guards arrive and try to flank the cultists.  Remodi attacks Klock, but it is also devoured.  A Quai arch-druid named Minifis (character drop), sensing the destruction of nature, arrives to help battle Kloch.  He puts one finger into the earth, retracting the vines.  The Sahlite puts more of her power into inspiring the fighters.

Kloch approaches the Sahlite and stabs her with his spark-like arms.  Having never felt pain before, she lets out a sorrowful scream.  The vines burst out again, wrapping up the seated figure.  The Sahlite frees herself and flies into the air.  The royal guards finally arrive and attack Klock, but are immediately corrupted and deformed.  A huge flame soars out of the sky and smashes all of them while a laugh can be heard.  The old man returns along with a human and they approach the large restrained figure.  The arch-druid declares the Sahlite lost and follows the old man, as does the party.

The old man and the human blast the large figure with fire and magic.  The human is holding a book.  They call out to the others to attack the figure, which they do.  The large being chastises the old man, calling him uncle, but the old man responds that he’s given him many chances as he intensifies his power.  The human man declares that this is all his fault, having made a deal with the being but in response his wife and child were killed.  He charges the demon, pressing the book against him and carves the demon’s skin to use as binding.  Vothya realizes that the demon’s name is Kelrek.  As Kelrek takes more damage, the book begins to glow and the old man forces him into the book.  As he slips inside, he grabs the human and drags him into the book with him.

Snips and Kloch pursue the Sahlite, cutting her repeatedly as she falls from the sky.  Kloch descends on top of her and attempts to crush her into the ground.  He crushes her ribs and she dies.  Her light, and all the light of the green gems, goes out.  There is darkness except for the light of the old man’s flaming hands.  Snips turns to the party and offers to let them leave, but they refuse.  Minifis changes into a new creature and charges Kloch.  The old man introduces himself as Orethil, also known as Hortiel, calls down a pillar of flame, and vanishes.

Kloch, nearly dead, crawls to the two gnomes who are still gathering gems, and bites them in half.  The party keeps attacking and Minifis starts a binding spell.  Orethil briefly returns and grants them the ability to light their weapons with his flames.  Snips vanishes.  Kloch crawls to the Sahlite and devours it.  The party keeps attacking and is able to destroy his corporeal body.

## Fun Moments

Deva's accent in the game vacillates between Russian, German, and Italian.

Andrew's accent though the game is variously Sean Connery, Al Pacino, and Admiral Ackbar.

When Danny days that a wagon has a green lantern, chat drops a Green Lantern, forcing Danny to improvise his slogan: “In brightest day, in Sahlen’s night, no evil shall escape my sight, let those who worship Kloht’s might, beware the power of Flintborne’s might."

The Green Lantern brings out an irrational hatred out in Art and a fight is triggered. Art ends up brutally murdering the gnome much to Danny's bewilderment.

Throughout the show, Art feigns confusion regarding several homonyms. When called out, he explains that English is his second language, to which Danny replies that Art is fluent in douchbag.