{"id":812,"date":"2000-05-26T15:58:48","date_gmt":"2000-05-26T22:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puddleby.com\/lundar\/?p=812"},"modified":"2000-05-26T15:58:48","modified_gmt":"2000-05-26T22:58:48","slug":"swindlos-and-the-darshak-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/2000\/05\/swindlos-and-the-darshak-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"Swindlos and the Darshak Invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nDay 347, Year 537 of the Ascendancy<\/font><\/p>\n

\nWhen I first stepped out of the library, early in
\nthe morning of the 77th day of Autumn, I thought that is would just
\nanother ordinary day. How wrong I was. After a brief chat with Ankrus,
\nI found myself sitting in the town square, trying to fight back the
\nyawns that kept on climbing up my throat. Suddenly, a sunstone message
\nrang through my head, that woke me up like a splash of cold water. It
\nwas a desparate cry from the dwarf Raldin; the Darshak had landed on
\nour western shores! I rushed to the pier, and found the poor dwarf
\ntrapped by a band of Darshak pirates.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\"Trapped<\/font><\/p>\n

\nWhat really took hold of my attention, though, was
\nthe gold and brown Darshak Warship that floated confidently in the
\nwaters above me. I could not gaze long at it, however, for multitudes
\nof Darshak began to pour out from within the ship. I quickly fled, but
\nwas felled by the cruel blades of the Darshak. Among the invaders, I
\nspotted many Darshak flaunting colors other than the greens, blues, and
\nblacks I was used to. Some wore forest green suits, while others
\nsported red, or even yellow. These I later learned were Darshak
\nInvaders, Marauders, and Defenders. As I lay and observed this, the
\nforces of Puddleby finally reached the pier, and clashed with the
\nDarshak. At first, it looked as if we were winning, but more and more
\nDarshak poured forth from the ship, and the Darshak Marauders and
\nDefenders felled even the most powerful of exiles. Our army was forced
\nto retreat, and fight the Darshak by the western gates. Finally, the
\ninvasion force was repulsed, and we all came to the pier to admire the
\nDarshak Warship.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\"Darshak<\/font><\/p>\n

\nAt first the exiles wanted the ship burnt to the
\nground(or water), but popular opinion slowly geared towards capturing
\nthe ship, and keeping it as our own. Some even began naming the ship.
\nHowever, the Darshak Warship was far from empty. Led by the evil
\nNecromancers and their apprentices, another wave of Darshak landed upon
\nthe pier, and the battle was upon us once more.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\"Darshak<\/font><\/p>\n

\nAgain, the exiles were forced back to the west
\ngate, and again the Darshak were repulsed. The Necromancers were
\nenraged, and with a few summoning rites, they summoned forth multitudes
\nof undine. They then fled back into their ship, and left the isle,
\nleaving us to deal with hordes of skeletals, hooded corpses, and
\ndetached spirits. We gradually erradicated the undine, and the
\nremaining Darshak pirates, and we sat about the west gate, healing our
\nwounds. Then suddenly, a shrill voice cried out “Kill me and pay 50
\ncoins, and you’ll never have to pay the balance penalty again!”
\nEverybody searched around them for the source of this voice, and found
\nthat it came from the mouth a fat halfling, dressed in a red suit. The
\nhalfling repeated his shrill message, and the chase was on.<\/font><\/p>\n

\nFor a short and fat halfling, the guy sure could
\nrun. He lead us all around Puddleby, never letting himself get caught,
\nnever letting himself get cornered. The chase was confusing, and many
\ntimes we lost sight of the halfling. Pure chaos reigned Puddleby, and
\nit seemed as if there were two halflings running around Puddleby.
\nFinally, the halfling was felled just north of town center, and it
\nseemed as if there were two halflings after all; for as the halfling
\nfell north of town, so did another within the rat tower. Now we had two
\ndead halflings on our hands. The halfling, who’s name turned out to be
\nSwindlos, demanded that we raise him, and put the two halves of him
\ntogether. Then he would do our bidding. So, after much fuss, the two
\nhalflings were assembled together in north Puddleby.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\"The<\/font><\/p>\n

\nThe two Swindlos’ met, and then merged into one
\nbeing. However, he did not seem to want to do our bidding, so he was
\nfelled again. The exiles poked and prodded him, but it was to no avail.
\nSome even paid him 50 coins in hopes of restoring their balance, but no
\nluck. Suddenly, without warning, Swindlos exploded in a ball of fire,
\ntaking with him any hopes of eliminating the balance tax, or gaining
\nback the 50 coins that were paid him, for the matter. It just goes to
\nshow, you can’t trust halflings with names like “Swindlos”.(Check out
\nthe Vision Stones of the chase<\/a> and capture<\/a> of Swindlows.)
\n<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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