The Adventures of Decker the Gnome

Discoveries

Verse 9

    The creature seemed gone for the moment, it had gotten probably what it truely wanted in the first place.  So as I began to open the backpack we found, I noticed my friend Gregol had retaken his half-elven shape once again, and had nothing to wear in the freezing cold.  So I offered him my cloak, which he gladly took. We then began to go through the backpack as Cahir and Cerrannor stood watch over the cave that we were in.  Inside one of the first things of benefit we found was a huge blanket, which quickly Gregol took advantage of. Inside we also found a shield covered in a soot like black substance, 2 long swords, one of which shone a brillant blue in my hands, with a beautiful basket guard and a gold gilded hilt, the second was a blade curved about 10 degrees or so, with a thin vein of a silver white metal running down its length, its hilt wrapped in cloth. We also found a crudly made bastard sword, some candles, a handful of coins and 2 frozen oranges, as well as some flint and steel. As we made our leave out of the cave, Gregol spotted what looked to be a cottage, how he saw it in all the snow falling I didn't see it, but any cottage would be a welcome change from all this snow. So off we went with the thing's stuff, towards what would be Dulgos's aunt's home. 

    As we entered, a surprised party overcame us quickly with a swarm of questions. So I shared the story of what occured in the cave. We then went to figuring out what the creature would want with the bag, when Binkley found a small bronze ring at the bottom of the bag with no design at all.

    Everybody then went to sleep with the exception of me. I wanted to learn more about the glowing sword and that strange sheild.  So when I was sure everyone was asleep I cast detect magic on the stuff, discovering that indeed the sword was magicial and the bronze ring was as well, but as my gaze came over the strange stone shield that weighs as little as a wooden one, my spell strangely ended.  Most curious. Leaving the shield to its own devices I settled down to a nice rest.

    The morning greeted us with the smell of onions, which I'd like to know where they had come from in the first place, but Binkley was more interested in getting a new recipe out of the deal, which I don't blame him at all, too bad he doesn't speak elven, or I think he'd have been successful. After I took a seat, Ne`Stahsia began to tell a story about the glowing sword I found.  She called it "Excaliber" a great king's sword. She told of how it was grown from a great rock, and how a child had pulled it from a rock when all of the land's champions couldn't.  This seemed all a bit far fetched to be even remotely true since we all know Roots grow out of rock, or at least that's what I've seen underground grow out of rocks. She told us that her dwarven uncle Arnis was the one who told her the story and when I asked her how a elf can have a dwarven uncle she told me that she was adopted. Now this sounded a bit silly and Binkley agreed with me, and I think I was sure that she was making this all up when she said that she also had a Centaur uncle named Boregard. Now all this Gypsy stuff is a bit weird, even for me, but some how it was an interesting tale that Binkley was uninterested in listening to. Unfortunately she didn't finish it as we got to heading to Evest again.

The Fabled City of Evest

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