Well, I have been far too busy just trying to stay alive for me to take time to write in this journal. I don't even know why I bother. I mean, what good is it going to do, anyway? Goblins or demons or crazy humans are going to be the death of me too soon. I might as well take this one-hundred-fifty-six gold coins and bury them now, before some goblin eats me and uses them as a spice.
Anyway, after Brom opened a door to a bunch of sparring madmen, they attacked us, and we managed to make them look rather stupid. The last survivor of these men surrendered and brought his mistress to us, who turned out to be some kind of evil, Dark Elf druid by the name of Leoth. She and her rather ugly assistants attacked us on sight and we managed to subdue them all except Leoth.
Leoth fled up a nearby lift, but I poured two flasks of acid on the chain for the lift and the whole thing came crashing down with her on it. I managed to dive out of the way of the crashing lift and when the dust settled, Leoth was unconscious. We tied her up, gagging and blindfolding her, just in case.
Next Gideon searched the back room where Leoth and her friends came from, which had been torched at the last minute by those that attacked us, so we did not find any useful documents or materials. But we did find one of the three special keys that seems to fit in the emerald key slot on the pedestal in the room of heroes.
After Gideon came back from his searching, we were set upon again by a group of attackers. We managed to destroy them, but we suffered greatly from the attack. After that, we bedded down for the night.
When I woke up, Leoth was gone. She appeared to have escaped her bonds and climbed up the lift shaft. Not long after awakening, a man that I could only describe as "pristine", came down the lift shaft, bringing Leoth with him, shackles and all, and he was apparently looking for us. This man's name is Constantine, and though Gideon believes that Constantine is a criminal (but a good-looking one), I believe that he is a Paladin (and a good looking one). He speaks in a very precise and accurate manner, one I would not normally associate with humans. He is obviously very well educated and comes from a wealthy background.
Constantine seems to have suffered trouble similar to what we had suffered in Wildsgate town. He was more than likely attacked by a group of people whom he likely had to kill in order to defend himself and was told by the guard captain to leave town for a while. He is apparently under instruction to accompany us to The Wall. So, we invited him into our group and, again, went to sleep.
Once we woke up again, we walked out to the cliffs overlooking the river that divides the Spires and discussed whether or not Constantine should take Leoth back to town with or without our company. Then Leoth got up the nerve to dive off of the cliff, into the river, while still shackled. Gideon dove off the cliff after her, which is over threescore feet of a drop. That worried me, so I jumped off of the cliff, with the assistance of a Feather Fall spell, to assist him. Once I landed in the water, I remember that I was not a very good swimmer. You know, you don't really tend to think of those things much when you spend most of your life underneath mountains. Of course, I never really lived under a mountain. Oh well. Anyway, Nel helped pull us back up over the cliff on a rope. Leoth is a lot of trouble.
After that, we decided to let Constantine take Leoth back to town while we waited in the hero room of the citadel. It's a very nice room. Once Constantine returned, he wanted to know where to find and destroy this demon (it's name is possibly "Breark") that the Orgoshi are serving (and likely Leoth is cutting deals with). So, Nel showed him the map that one of our earlier captives drew for us, and I informed him that the location was back the way he came from. He was upset that I told him where it was after he got back. I was fairly exhausted, so I wasn't thinking right.
We then proceeded on to the goblin cave that supposedly leads to the demon. Boy, what a mess that was! I'm still finding Goblin and Ogre guts in strange places on my body. It's like sand! I'm finding it
everywhere! Anyway, when we first arrived at the location, we had to climb a narrow staircase that was broken by a halfscore-foot-long pit filled with spikes. When Brom, Constantine and Gideon got across the pit, a giant, dead, flaming Ogre was hurled at them, which happened to knock both Brom and Constantine into the pit. Gideon, fortunately, was fast enough to drop to the ground and not be hit by the Ogre corpse. The corpse seemed to have an illusion around it to make it look alive and like it was covered in blue flames. After Brom and Constantine fell into the pit, three Goblins appeared at the top of the steps and started hurling javelins at everyone below.
We managed to get past the staircase without too much trouble. It was messy and awful, though. We then came upon what appeared to be a Goblin leisure room. Needless to say, we slaughtered them all in short time. In the back of that room, there was a cage with a mystical lizard that seems to be capable of shocking its enemies. It was being taunted by the goblins when we arrived. So, we fed it and set it free. It seems to like goblin meat more than anything else. Since then, it's been following us around and cooing and trilling at us. So, Brom named it Fred and it's been a regular companion since then.
After that we encountered a goblin shaman of some sort, who managed to put Gideon asleep for a few seconds with an enchantment spell, but we dispatched of him rather quickly. On him we found a nice spear and some enchanted dice that he was using. The dice seem to have divination qualities to them. In that room, we found a very nasty well at the end of the room and the marking of "F" in common tongue on the floor before the well. We also found a chest, which Gideon was able to disarm and unlock in order to get open. Within which he found some gold and a couple of other items.
We then went back out of that room and took a branching hall up to a trapdoor, which Gideon, Constantine and Brom opened just to have hot coals and ashes dumped on them from a Goblin waiting outside the door. Constantine then blasted them with a cone of fire and cleared the way for us. After that, climbed out to a series of platforms on the cliffs of the spire. It's actually a beautiful view, but I do not think that goblins appreciate the view. We walked up to the next platform to find another large group of goblins lounging about. So, again, we killed them all. Now we're all discussing what to do next. There's another platform that we could go to and a cave as well. There are also barrels of highly flamable Goblin drink, which could be handy later.
Well, everyone's asking me to stop writing and to get ready to move on. I suppose we have finally decided where to go next.
