"Dat's a good ideas.  Den he won't sells it again ..." Jurz says as he hands over 1000gp towards the purchase of a 'Shopping Bag' as well.  Then he looks around the others  "He's might be able to gets a bigger shopping bag is wes all put some of de money in..."

Raven thinks for a moment then bobs her head up and down.

"I want to get my crossbow magicked up some more but I have money left over from before, so I can afford to chip in for the shopping bag too," she squawks.

She also hands over 1000gp worth of treasure to add to the shopping bag fund.

"I was thinking of making my crossbow flaming or frosty or shocking. My scimitar is shocking, so maybe flaming or frost for my crossbow. What do you think is best?" she asks.

Setting fires to fings is fun ... Jurz opines with a broad grin, "But dat ain't much good wiv sally manders."  then he grins and  continues "But de cold stuff would sends a shivers down dere spines!"

OOC: Bags of Holding costs are as follows:

• Type I, weighs 15 lb, holds 250 lb or 30 cu ft, costs 2,500gp
• Type II, weighs 25 lb, holds 500 lb or 70 cu ft, costs 5,000gp
• Type III, weighs 35 lb, holds 1,000 lb or 150 cu ft, costs 7,400gp
• Type IV, weighs 60 lb, holds 1,500 lb or 250 cu ft, costs 10,000gp

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OOC:  So far we have enough for one type two -  OR two type one bags of holding.  I wonder if two Type one bags might be a better option?

Jurz, however, is saving up for a Portable Hole.  He quite fancies having a home away from home!

Minmorc will waggle his fingers at Dregz "Dun worry Dregzie, I now got der power ter drain der life outta sumefing. Corse, I gots more power when punchin der life outta sumfing but is good ter has options. Birdie Girl, der was dis elven adventurer once wot was really cleva, he had a bow dat was all crackly wid electrickery an he had some arrows wot was burny an sum arrows wot was freezy. So sum of der boys got zapped an froze an sum of der boys got zapped an burned. But den e ran out of arrows an we ate him. But der bow an arrow trick was pretty cleva. Well, I gots nuffin I wanna buy so ere's my gold." Minmorc will offer his share and some of the money he still had (2,500 gps) but will keep a few hundred for snacks.

Minmorc's optimism soothes Dregz's concerns but a little ... but he's more agitated by the dreams that the Magic Stick keeps sending his way.

"Der's a glass dragin statue an' whitely pale giants," the priest shares, "sometimes der giants are in front ov mese an' sometimes dey are behinds mese.  Dey are scary wandrin' ghostly giants !  And der dragin statue talks. Dey are all terry-fye'in' !"

OOC: The Bag of Holding fund is going well !  I've got a couple of hundred more gold coins if we're getting close to a matching set of luggage ! ;>

Jurz shivers at the thought of pale giants and see-through dragons, they remnids him of the snow-giants the older goblins used to make to try and scare the littler ones ...  "Was it colds, in youse dream?"

OOC:  lets just get a Type II and make Bully carry it.  With a promise of something unpleasant happening to his family jewels if he ever sells it again!  Unless, of course, we want to really go for a portable hole?  I'll chuck in the rest of my loot from here  (which is all I have)  if we want to try for a Portable hole.

When Dregz thinks about it he realises it was indeed cold in his dream.

"Wuz hard ta tell, I wuz shiv'rin' so much cos der dragin and der white giants were so scary !" the priest admits to Jurz.  "But ... yez, it wuz freezin' cold too."

"Ise glad Ise got dis cloak den !  Iz prolly gonna be ver' cold when der Magic Stick takeses uz to der place I dreamded ov !"

"Well then, that makes my choice a lot easier. If we's going somewhere colds then I want to shoot them with red hot bolts. I will get my crossbow magicked to be flaming," Raven decides out loud.

Bulldust grins shamefacedly as his friends all chip in towards a new bag (after he sold their old one!).  His fingers have now grown nice strong dragon claws, just perfect for counting shinies with.  "A fousand each from Dregzie, Jurzie and da Birdie Girl is free fousand.  A fousand from Moffa, one-an-a-half fousand from me ... dat means one fousand nine hundred from Min an we can buy da Type Free Bag!  But we's well short of a pop-up-hole, dat's twenty fousand.  Shall we settle fer a bag or save fer a hole?"

Minmorc, Jurz and Raven spent the required 8 hours decomposing resting in the Decay Node while the rest of the team got a head start on spending the loot taken from the drow cleric and her salamanders.

When Minmorc, Jurz and Raven rejoin them, Team Arda-Nuff reports back to Es Sarch at the Dripstone Inn to report mission accomplished and enjoys a complementary meal on the house, for their efforts.

The next day everyone is able to finish off their shopping at the Grand Bazaar and after a final sleep at the Dripstone Inn everyone is ready to depart.

Dregz still seems to be having those same dreams again, although his previous description doesn't make it sound too inviting.





OOC: I will pause here to allow any further discussion, shopping, spell preparation, or any other preparations you think advisable before saying the magic word to activate the Black Mace to teleport you in search of the final segment of the Black Mace.

"I tinks we's buyin de Type 3 Bags den." Moffdust votes. With so many goblins it will be a 'bag of trouble'.

She's ready to go. Dregzie an Jurzies, I'se learned how to casts some of you'se spellses- Cure Serious Woundses an Restorations... jus letting youse knows so's you don't needs ter troubles ole Bargrivyeks or de Faeries fer dose every days, if yer doesn't wants ter."

"Dat landing does sounds scary Dregzie, dem giants can squashes us inter dere bags! I can does Clairvoyance ter looks at gems, but not if its miles aways. I tinks we's better be quiets when we's getting in dere, an all spelled up fer a fights! I'll summon sometings quiet dis times". She grins, although she did like little Sparky but he's not sneaky enough.

The little goblin nods cautiously at Moffa's revelation, pleased that there'll be another who can help keep his tribe alive, but not daring to ask which god might be lending his kinswoman the power.

He's on safer footing and nods with much more enthusiasm as she voices her thoughts on keeping it quiet and sneaky, though with Bully and Min around that might take a miracle !

The recurring dreams leave Dregz more wild eyed than usual and do naught but increase his worries.

"Duz youse fink dat wese gonna need furz n' stuff ta keeps uz warm ?" the priest suggests, worried that his cloak, magical though it is, may not be enough to keep icy cold at bay.

Jurz grins across at Moffa, impressed by her new ability, "Dat's good." Jurz avers, "I's normally leaves dose to Dregzie."

Then turns his attention to Dregz question, "I'se don't knows." Jurz frowns, "But a furry coat might bes a good idea.  It we's get der white furry coats, we's can pretends to be der polar bears ..."  Well, Jurz can pretend to be a polar bear anyway and there is always that Endure Elements spell he's learned.

While Minmorc became one with the decay node he was so bored that he actually thought ahead a bit. He will reach out to Nuffle to give him some magic to fight the cold and will store an inflict spell in the Axe wife. After sharing a meal with Es Sarch he will put the final arrangements in place for the fledgeling teams to continue training to be ready for the first ever world cup. These preparations done and wearing his new dragon leather buccaneers coat and tricorn he feels ready for anything.

"Wot if dere's tings der dat wanna eat Poley Bears ?" Dregz worries.  The thought is enough to drive a goblin to prayer !

"Den dey probly wanna eat Goblin's anyway ..." Jurz replies casually to Dregz.

"An we's need to get Rog before we's go." he adds firmly.

"Dat's true ..." Dregz agrees unhappily with Jurz's menu suggestion.

"Wese'll 'ave ter go back to der surfice ta get Rog before wese use der Magic Stick, den," the priest notes.

"Noes we don't.  Rog der big bat, is  probly hanging on de outside walls of de inn ..."

Eventually everyone is ready to face the cold environment of Dregz'z dream, which promises to be the home of glass dragons and white giants. Rog the direbat flaps down from wherever he had roosted to rejoin Jurz. Dregz holds up the nearly complete Black Mace, makes sure everyone is gathered close around him, then speaks the magic word – "Wyrd!"

Instantly the whole group is teleported away from the City of Pedestal and reappears moments later ... at the southwest corner of the Great Grotto, looking back across the Sullen Sea at the City of Pedestal glittering on the far shore of that dark, underground lake.

Team Arda-Nuff finds itself back almost exactly where they first entered this huge underdark cavern – the 30-foot diameter crater of an Earth Node that is magically linked to another Earth Node accessible from the surface world. Thinking back, the spellcasters in the team remember that someone needs to channel a second-level spell into the floor of this Earth Node to transport the whole group back to the other Earth Node linked to this one.

OOC: Game Map for Group 0 provides an overall map of the Great Grotto.
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Bulldust looks around the node and along the road.  "Where's Brufwol?"

"Ime gettin good at Noooo dz, if yer all makes a circle in ere I'll put in der Nuffle power."

"You'ze sending de Noood dz?" Jurz  asks as he joins in the circle.