MM1-5L: What Else Haven’t You Told Us
by zaqxsw
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“Azelore has my clothes, daggers and tools. He said I’d be less likely to try to escape without them… but the collar prevented me from going more than a few dozen yards from him… so I’m sure he just wanted me naked. It was probable the first time in his miserable life he didn’t have to pay a woman for it,” Ysabel sneered.
“I searched his body thoroughly,” Roryn reported, still eyeing the tiefling’s delightful naked form with open admiration, “and the whole area… there’s nothing but a few magic trinkets and supplies. Her clothes must have burned up in the fireball… I’m afraid she’ll just have to stay like that.”
“Magic trinkets!?!” Zharilee exclaimed in exasperation. “A staff, a wand, a pair of rings and some spell components,” she elaborated, “but no spell books… no wizard travels without his spell books!”
“In his pouch is a piece of black cloth,” Ysabel advised, ignoring the dwarf’s lustful glare, men of all races had always looked at her like that, assuming her demonic blood meant that her morals where just as tainted; until she was enslaved by the Zhent wizard, most of them learned otherwise painfully. Then she rose to her feet and started toward his remains, adding; “I’ll show you.”
Stooping over the wizard’s body, she looked down at his face with disgust, then fished out a fine, silken cloth that the dwarf had likely dismissed as nothing more than a handkerchief from his pouch and moved to an open area. Snapping it open in the air, to reveal a six-foot diameter utterly black circle, she let it fall to the ground. On contact the cloth became a hole ten feet deep, with a ladder leaning again its side and several chests of various sizes scattered around it.
“A portable hole,” Coran confirmed, he’d seen one before, also in the possession of an arcane spellcaster. Despite its appearance, it wasn’t actually a hole, but an extra-dimensional space.
Ysabel quickly descended the ladder, moving immediately to a specific trunk where she retrieved her cloths and possessions. Zharilee joined her, opening the other chests to quickly survey their contents, finding the Zhent wizard’s spell books and a supply of spell components, but nothing to shed any light on how he knew where to find the entrance to the Morningstar estate catacombs.
Roryn took a moment to examine the edge of the “hole”, then moved toward the ladder only to be halted by Coran; “It’s crowded enough down there… why don’t you take a look at the excavation site and see if it’s safe?”
Grumbling to himself, the dwarf moved off, motioning to the temple’s warriors to follow him, as Coran turned his attention back to the two women in the “hole” and asked; “What can you tell us about this skull of Deamous?”
“Azelore didn’t tell me anything about it… he only used the name in the geas spell,” Ysabel replied as she finished dressing, noticing that his voice lacked the degrading tone she was used to hearing.
“I actually wasn’t asking you,” Coran stated in a harder tone, his eyes boring down at Zharilee, who looked up to meet them with a mixture of surprise and embarrassment. “With all that research you said you did before coming here, I doubt that something so significant wouldn’t have been mentioned. You knew the skull was here all along… but you didn’t warn us about it.”
“I knew it was here,” the elf confessed, “but as long as we don’t disturb it, it’s no threat to us. The elves have shielded the world from many such things for longer than men have walked Faerun. The skull has been in the charge of my house since the early days of Myth Drannor… its evil is contained by powerful magic, and it must remain so!”
“What else haven’t you told us?” Coran demanded sternly, looming over her at the head on the ladder.
Comments (39)
Kordouane
This is stunning
zaqxsw
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Palaemon
Nice horned portrait!
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OkrimSlava
well done.
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miwi
Again,klasse image,super story!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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RedPhantom Online Now!
great job, story and image
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eekdog
Greatly done my friend.
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PhthaloBlue
Excellent work!
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rajib
That's pretty creative writing.... . On contact the cloth became a hole ten feet deep... Like the way your imagination and creativity works ! Splendid !
zaqxsw
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I can't take credit for the "portable hole". It's a fairly common magic item in D&D.
mtdana
Great continuation of story - very well written!!!
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anitalee
Excellent
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starship64
Great work.
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Crudelitas
Wonderful Story and Character. She is really cute. Very well done, my dear friend.
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PsychoNaut
Gorgeous! I do wonder what secrets... Magical indeed! Coran seems mean... I need to read the whole story
zaqxsw
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I was trying to convey frustration not meanness... I do encourage you to read the story form the beginning... at least from the start if this "book".
RodS
Well, what's an adventure without the occasional surprise! LOL
Great addition to the story, and Ysabel is very lovely.
zaqxsw
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Nothing is ever as straight forward as it seems.
Richardphotos
intriguing and imaginative story telling
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NobbyC
Cool image!!!
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my3DDesignWorld
That's really nice.
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Axeye
Very interesting development and the dimensional hole is awesome! I sense some distrust brewing! Great job!
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A_Sunbeam Online Now!
Great development and story!
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IceDragonArt
Ah one should never lie by omission when on a quest. Everything is important or one might not survive.
zaqxsw
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I wanted to ratchet up the tension a little.
Artienne
Awesome story! Nice portrait!
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DustRider
Great image and super story!
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Echidnaean
Another captivating piece of the story!
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velleman
Very elegant portrait.
zaqxsw
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jmattatall
Great story Dave
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bucyjoe
very imaginative
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Stringy
Great expression with a gentle smile. Nice job!
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styletx
Wonderful POV.
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vidarr
I like the way the hair works around the fingertips. Given how I know Daz lacks the physics interaction, I suspect poser does as well...anyways, it worked out well for this shot.
zaqxsw
Thanks for you kind comment... Yes Poser doesn't allow for fine posing of hair, so I spent quite a bit of time working with her fingers to make it look as real as I could.
ArtistKimberly
Outstanding
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