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Kyaren: “Let’s speed things up, shall we?”
Faraine: “So that spell, converts Azralens into combustible agents?”
Kyaren: “Or it enhances the combustable properties, like I used back at the bandit camp.”
Kyaren: “I guess, you would have learned about that at the academy.”
Faraine: “Mostly tutored, exams in the classrooms do not mean much when I can peer into the past.”
Tyto: “So you are a cheater then?”
Faraine: “They could never prove it.”
Greyside: “I figure they would encourage you to use your gift all the time.”
Faraine: “Apparently I use my gift too much.”
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Greyside: “Soooo, you killed a necromancer!?”
Tyto: “No, I mean maybe….... Kyaren?”
Kyaren: “We will get to the bottom of it, Tyto is no way responsible for that strange man’s actions.”
Faraine: “Any more questions greyside? Or you are all caught up.”
Greyside: “Quite the list, follow glowing spore clue, then look into strange necromancer for Tyto.”
Greyside: “Also, a non-execution for me.”
Faraine: “Yes, I remember, what is in this crack?”
Tyto: “Big centipede!”
Faraine: “Burn it.”
Kyaren: “Hmm is that venomous species?”
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Kyaren: “Can we take a break; we have been going nonstop.”
Tyto: “Used too much magic?”
Kyaren: nods with a sad look on her face.
Tyto: “Anyone else hungry? What have we got?”
Kyaren: “I have several skins of water, dried berries.”
Faraine: “Stale bread, some probably edible meat.”
Greyside: “Carrots and onions.”
Tyto: “I got some salt, starch powder and parsley, hmm maybe a stew then dip the bread.”
Greyside: “I am going check some of these passages, don’t worry I won’t be gone long.”
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Tyto: “I would have preferred, to let it sit longer.”
Kyaren: “I am starving, I am sure it will be fine.”
Faraine: “Hehehe rich and chunky!”
Tyto: “Thank you Faraine, I know it must not compare to the dishes of the royal kitchens.”
Faraine: “The portions from the kitchens are always so small. I can never just dig in.”
Greyside: “We are in a cave. How did you do this?”
Tyto: “We have full water skins, cleaned the stone slabs for cutting board.”
Tyto: “Then heated some small rocks, all the cooking stuff was from the bandits.”
Kyaren: SLLURRPPP!
Tyto: “Find anything with the passages?”
Greyside: “A large cavern with, a small stream and a path that is blocked by a cave in.”
Faraine: “I will take a look at the cave in, after the stew of course.”
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StoryTeller: As for the Royal Guard.
Clayton: “Sir, looks like where the bandits were hiding out.”
Gerald: “They haven’t been here long, only way they could go undetected.”
Sir Quillan: “Any signs of the princess?”
Royal Guardsman: “Sir, we found no bodies, only tracks leading to the caves.”
Clayton: “Sir, I do not consider this a coincidence.”
Sir Quillan: “Agreed, no reason to stay here. To the caves.”
Gerald: “If we encounter bandits Sir Quillan?”
Sir Quillan: “The princess is our top concern, if they get in your way, no quarter.”
Sir Quillan: “Also what is that smell?”
Clayton: “Burnt cow pats sir!”
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Kyaren: “I do not think it was natural collapse, this area is quite stable.”
Faraine: “The cave in happened years ago, I did not have to see far to go past it.”
Kyaren: “The timing is suspicious, happened around the time of your grandmother’s death.”
Faraine: “Indeed, also what are the wolves around here like?”
Tyto: “Kinda dangerous, they never come near human areas though.”
Faraine: “Good news and bad news.”
Greyside: “That saying, rarely inspires confidence.”
Faraine: “The glowing moss or spores we are looking for is on the other side of the cave in.”
Kyaren: “Bad news.”
Faraine: “The path leads down, all we have to do is find another path going down.”
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Tyto: “Good news then?”
Greyside: “The far path, it definitely slopes downwards.”
Faraine: “Whatever impaled that wolf …. might still be around, so good thing this path is caved in.”
Greyside: “Impaled…. Alright more bad news.”
Tyto: “So we are not going, to go back?”
Faraine: “We are so close Tyto, so close!”
Kyaren: “What are we close to?”
Faraine: “A clue or a hint to who that, person is. I can feel it!”
Greyside: “Shh I hear something.”
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Greyside: “Someone is here.”
Faraine: “Did they follow us?”
Tyto: “Douse the touch.”
Smouldering Bandit: “Like a pig, from neck to belly button.”
Charred Bandit: “Nah, string him up and let him choke!”
Smouldering Bandit: “Once we set up here, we can go hunt Greyside, that bastard!”
Charred Bandit: “Lonzo’s gonna be leading the pack for sure.”
Smouldering Bandit: “Bah, nothing but cave and fungus.”
Greyside: “Patrols, damn, they are using the caves as a new camp.”
Faraine: “We need to hurry.”
Greyside: nervously nods.
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Greyside: “Alright, they are gone.”
Tyto: “What is that?”
Kyaren: “What are you talking about? I can’t see a thing.”
Tyto: “Down there, in the corner.”
Faraine: “That glow!”
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