{"id":788,"date":"2000-06-09T03:35:17","date_gmt":"2000-06-09T10:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puddleby.com\/lundar\/?p=788"},"modified":"2000-06-09T03:35:17","modified_gmt":"2000-06-09T10:35:17","slug":"dalnoth-hunt-darshak-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/2000\/06\/dalnoth-hunt-darshak-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"Dal&#039;Noth Hunt &amp; Darshak Invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font><br \/>\nDay 44, Year 538 of the Ascandancy<\/font><\/p>\n<p>\n<font>Today I found myself in yet another Dal&#8217;Noth hunt,<br \/>\nwith a good sized group of exiles. However, the hunt seemed to me to<br \/>\nend as soon as it was begun, and I was dissatisfied with the brevity of<br \/>\nthe hunt(though I did make some 60+ coins from bounties). I quickly<br \/>\ninvited more exiles to join the hunt, via the sunstone, thinking to<br \/>\nform a Dal&#8217;Noth party by combining the remnants of the first hunters,<br \/>\nand the new arrivals. However, as soon as the new exiles arrived on<br \/>\nDal&#8217;Noth, the old party left. I was now stuck on Dal&#8217;Noth Island with a<br \/>\nbunch of exiles hungry for excitement. Luckily, it was just then that<br \/>\nTarf decided to walk into the Darshak Horde out of pure boredom, and my<br \/>\nparty and I quickly rushed to Ash Island to rescue the mangled dwarf.<br \/>\nHowever, the Darshak Horde has this strange habit of making people<br \/>\ndead. That was exactly what happened to us.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><font><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puddleby.com\/lundar-files\/img\/dhorde.gif\" alt=\"Hmmm, that didn't go as planned...\" width=\"438\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p>\n<font>We quickly fell to the the marauding Darshak<br \/>\npirates, and the few rescuers that came to save us only ended adding to<br \/>\nthe body count. We were blessed only in the fact that there were no<br \/>\n&#8220;elite&#8221; Darshak present. After lying around the horde with the group of<br \/>\nobscene and slightly insane men(and I don&#8217;t mean the Darshak), a good<br \/>\nsized group of exiles actually managed to rescue us. We prodded the<br \/>\npoor Avaric for a while, then left the ashen isle for Puddleby. I even<br \/>\ngot to take a cigar home as a souvenir. Of course, the Darshak pirates<br \/>\nwere not about to let a bunch of exiles traipse around their Horde with<br \/>\nimpunity, then return to their homes unscathed. After the Darshak<br \/>\nhigh-ups had sorted out what had happened in the Horde, they decided to<br \/>\nsend a Darshak Warship to Puddleby, containing the dread &#8220;elite&#8221;<br \/>\nDarshak.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><font><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puddleby.com\/lundar-files\/img\/ghotiwarns.gif\" alt=\"Ghoti's Warning\" width=\"182\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p>\n<font>What followed was chaos and mayhem, as the pirates<br \/>\npoured forth from their Warship, and with the aid of their &#8220;elite&#8221; were<br \/>\nable to invaded into the very heart of Puddleby itself. Luckily for us,<br \/>\nthere were nearly a hundred and fifty exiles present in the lands that<br \/>\nday, and the Darshak were no match for the exiles, who swarmed upon the<br \/>\npirates as ants swarm an elephant. An interesting thing to note, is the<br \/>\nstrange flowers that happened to pop up near the western gates during<br \/>\nthe invasion. They were a sickly black in color, and were probably<br \/>\nplanted there by some Darshak pirate with a sense of humor. Any exile<br \/>\nwho happened to come too close to the flowers fell asleep, grew<br \/>\nsluggish, or just plain died of the poisonous blossoms. The only way to<br \/>\nbe safe of these &#8220;Deadly Poppies&#8221; is to have some training of the mind,<br \/>\nso of course, I was unaffected.(Check out a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.puddleby.com\/lundar-files\/files\/poppies.sit\"> Vision Stone<\/a> of the Deadly Poppies)<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><font><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puddleby.com\/lundar-files\/img\/poppies.gif\" alt=\"Deadly Poppies\" width=\"304\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p>\n<font>After the Darshak were repulsed from the isle, a<br \/>\nfew valiant exiles pursued the Darshak to Ash Island. There were elite<br \/>\nDarshak abound everywhere, but somehow we managed to erradicate the<br \/>\nDarshak menace. Next time maybe Tarf will think twice before stepping<br \/>\ninto the Darshak Horde. On the other hand, this may just encourage him.<br \/>\n*Shrug*<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 44, Year 538 of the Ascandancy Today I found myself in yet another Dal&#8217;Noth hunt, with a good sized group of exiles. However, the hunt seemed to me to end as soon as it was begun, and I was dissatisfied with the brevity of the hunt(though I did make some 60+ coins from bounties). 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