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Stories of Ansalon from the view of Padith.

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Astinus gently places a metal bound tome encrusted with jewels on the table in front of you.
You note the spine bears the word 'Padith' scribed in earth-colored maroon ink.

Author:    Padith         
Date:      Sat Jan 17
03:55:45 2009
Subject     potion ingredient
quest

Padith was beckoned to Rostanes study, Hello
'Padith' have a seat I will
be with you in a second Rostane said
as Padith walked in to the study, never
looking up. As soon as
Rostane finished his report. He turned and faced
Padith and said
you seem to be coming along good with your studies.

Today we
start learning how to make potions but first I need you to
go
gather the ingredients. The first two you can buy at the local
herb shop but
the third you need is troll fat. Troll fat Padith!
Exclaimed: How am I
supposed to get that? he asked. Rostane
chuckled yes troll fat. You need to
find a troll and get some
from it. Its not really hard to get just find a
troll den, sneak
in and find the smallest one you can find and lure it away
kill
the nasty little thing and save as much of the fat as you can
get.

As Rostane finished telling Padith the details, a servant
of Rostanes
entered the room and whispered something into his
ear. Rostane then turned
to Padith and said, well I'm sorry but I
have something that needs my
attention. You can go ahead and
start your journey by the time you get back
I should be ready to
start helping you with this potion. 

With this Padith stood,
bowed and left the room. It was fairly early in the
morning when
Padith left. Padith had decided to go straight to palanthas
and
get the troll fat first he figured that he could pick up the
other two
ingredients on his way back. It was about mid-day when
Padith made it to
Palanthas. he headed to the tavern we he got to
town the get some more
information on the location of the troll
den. The inn keeper told him the
exact directions on how to get
there so packing up his stuff making sure he
had everything he
needed to make his trip a successful one.

As Padith got close to
the troll den he decided to use his spell of
invisibility to
sneak in to the den. Not remembering witch troll to go
after
Padith decried lure a large male troll off figuring that
the troll would
have lots of fat that he could stock pile it up
and trade or sell some at
the local herb and ingredient shop. But
when Padith started to cast the
charm spell on the large troll he
failed and soon found himself fighting
with about four trolls.


The first went down quickly as Padith cast a lighting bolt
spell witch was
direct hit in the trolls face. The second was
just a little bit bigger and
was able to withstand about three
lighting bolts. the third hit Padith in
the middle of his chest
making it to where Padith couldn't cast any spells.
Padith
finally caught his breath and immediately cast his magic
missile
spell and it made short work of the troll. And the fourth
had slipped in
behind Padith. just as the troll raised his club
up to hit Padith he turned
and stuck the troll in the neck with
his dagger. Padith had decided to get
as much of the troll fat as
he could and sneak out before he got caught
being in the den.
Finally making it back to Palanthas Padith decided to go
and stay
at the inn. 


Padith set out at first light the next morning to
head back to the
conclave's tower. Just as Padith was getting
ready to leave solace he
remembered he needed to go to the herb
and ingredient shop to get the other
two items he needed to make
his potions. 

Finally returning to the tower he found that
Rostane was waiting for him. He
bowed as he entered Rostanes
study and began to tell him of his journey and
mistake of trying
to charm the troll. Padith handed the ingredients over
to
Rostane. 

The Storytellers of Ansalon, The DragonLance MUD

Astinus points to the massive wall of books behind him and bids you to make a selection.

Authors: All|A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M|N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z
Astinus sighs as he recants 'We saved 869 books from Ansalon from before the great Cataclysm through today.'