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9/28/02    After arriving at the Inn of the Red Turtle we order drinks and get a room. Dimak quickly puts the innkeeper's worry to rest by paying for the food and room plus a little more. As we sit around the table and discuss previous events we start to notice things like the 'hate phrases' that the people use when talking about their neighboring nation tend to be similar except for the nationality of the people. We also discuss the various rumors that Lylia brought back with her from her rendezvous with Lodi. There are rumors of Drow in the area as well as unusual amounts of wolves and worgs. We also discuss the mountains in south eastern Parkos where Syn had told us about a cave she found years ago, and the fact that the Drow are being found in that area. Finally, we talked about the thieves' guild under the Inn of the Weary Traveler and a certain Deindrill Mankis who runs the town, and the envoy of Zephyr heading to Quall from Voltros.

As we sit enjoying our rest and talking Dimak and Lylia notice a group of 4 guys looking our way and talking. Dimak makes Flick invisible and he is sent over to investigate while Lylia reads their lips. We quickly discover that the men are planning to 'hit' us that night. Dimak turns to the innkeeper to tell him of their plans, and send the men packing. The inn keeper also tells us about the secret passage behind the fireplace that leads between the Lords' suite and the main common room downstairs. We drop off our belongings in the room and leave Flick behind to watch our stuff. Shortly after we leave the room, Flick sees a huge rat in the room, and as we rush to the room the rat escapes through the window. Again, Dimak tells the innkeeper of the rat and Illian sets up some snares by the windows to capture anymore rats entering or exiting through them. As that is taken care of everyone else goes out on the town shopping. Mylina and Lylia stay behind.

Dimak finds an 18th level mage to recharge some of his staff and tells him what the staff is capable of. He is also shown a magic bow. Mek'era finds a composite bow as well. Dimak leaves the staff with the mage for recharging and Mek'era buys both of the bows.

That night we set up watches and go to sleep. During Illian's watch he wakes up Mek'era so that she can do some recon from the air and stretch her wings before her watch. As she steps outside she interrupts several large rats and is attacked from behind. Illian wakes everyone up and then leaps from the window on top of her attacker. Mek'era seeing what's happening with her attacker hits another attacker with her ring of ram sending him flying. Rask heads downstairs, Dimak powerbolts the attacker that Mek'era hit, Illian stabs his target, Mek'era takes to the air to try to take out any stragglers. We check out the bodies and discover them to be ragged and dressed as Parkosites, but obviously not.

Mylina uses her powers to id the clothes of the thieves and discover they were ruled by fear. We ask around and find out that robberies started about a week ago. The constable says he will take care of the bodies. We sleep through the rest of the night and wake up the next morning and begin investigating for wererats. Mylina had discovered they were wererats the night before after tracking the rat who had ran from our room. She was able to track him running west so that was the way we setout. Mylina's enhanced senses lead us south west out of town to a hilly area and Mek'era begins flying around in the area and finds a dark large hole on the side of a hill. Dimak comes up with a plan. He turns Mylina invisible and reduces her weight so that Mek'era can lift her, and Mek'era flys her to the mountain. Mylina drops through the mountain and looks around finding the gang and their hideout, as well as an ankheg near one of the entrances. After she returns Dimak directs them to do it again, but to take them out. The plan involves doing the same as before, but Mylina uses her fire wand to blast the hideout with two fireballs and then dense choking smoke. While she does that, Rask travels around to the far tunnel and drops a huge boulder on the exit so that everyone has to flee out one tunnel. 20 are killed inside and the remainder die later exiting the cave as rats. Before that however, the ankheg charges the party, and thanks to Mylina's early warning we are able to avoid the surprise attack. Dimak uses his remaining spells to powerbolt the ankheg, and Mek'era uses her new bow. Between the two the ankheg gets driven away. The party then moves to the exit to take out the rats as they exit including the two leaders. We find on a leaders body a gold ankheg medallion, and figure the gang was trying to blend in because of their dress.