MikeH

After about an hour of walking against the wall of the cave on a very small ledge he reaches a spot at the ceiling of the tavern that comes down and has a small ledge on it where you can walk. Salathe slowly moves across it until he reaches the grove he saw from the ground. The grove isnt that big, but big enough for Salathe to stand and lay in. Salathe lays his pack down and takes out some bread and eats it. He looks over the edge to see the rock dome from above. Looking down he sees several open spots on the top of it where he could in from, but he only sees that one path that leads to it. While looking down he thinks of a way to get in but he doesnt see any way besides going across that one path. Salathe sighs and looks up at the stalagmites that hang from the wall right infront of him. As he is looking at the deformed rocks hanging the ceiling he realizes another way to get into the dome. Salathe picks up his halberd and pulls out, what used to be a dagger, a shortsword. He puts his halberd down, and his pack, because they will be to encumberful. Salathe sheaths the shortsword into a spot in his shruiken strap and climbs back down. When Salathe reaches the bottom he looks for the spot where he earlier saw the pyromancer smithing. Once he gets his eye on it, he looks around the wall for an entrance that could lead to it. At the bottom of the wall there is a spot where two torches hang on each side of an entrance. Salathe makes his way over to it. Once there, he looks around to see if there are any pyromancers, seeing none he runs in. Salathe finds himself in a series of passageways. He sneaks around peering quickly into rooms, he sees rooms with weapons, and armor them, but he is looking for a room with tools. He reached a room where swords that have blades not of metal, but of fire. Salathe walks into the room to examine them. He picks some of the weapon off the wall and see how they feel. Salathe finds them quite interesting, and wonders how they are made. But while thinking about that, two pyromancers walk into the room. They look at Salathe and yell "Intruder!" The pyromancers dont wait to talk. One of them quickly takes a firesword off the wall, and holds his left hand out and mumbles some words and a shield made of fire forms in his hand. The other pyromancer holds one hand infront of his chest and a fireball forms on his hand, he takes his other hand and puts it behind the fireball and he looks at Salathe. Salathe realizes what hes going to do and he drops the firesword hes holding and grabs a shell like figured shield and puts it in front of him. As Salathe was doing this the pyromancer pushes his hand forward and the fireball flies at Salathe. Salathe kneels down to one knee and slides back a little in recoil once the fireball hits the shield, with the impact the fireball is absorbed by the shield. The shield starts to glow red, then the fireball forms again in front of the shield and firesback at the pyromancer. When Salathe takes his head out from behind the shield and looks at the pyromancer he sees one standing there dazed and a charcoal black body laying against the wall. Salathe lets go of the shield with his right and unsheaths his sword. The pyromancers looks at Salathe angrily and charges at him and brings his sword down, Salathe brings his up deflecting the blow. Salathe pushes with his sword knocking the pyromancer back a little bit, and Salathe runs at him and slashes. The pyromancers blocks the attack with his shield brings his sword under his shield trying to stab Salathes stomach. Salathe jumps back just out its reach. The pyromancer charges again and throws another blow at Salathe. Salathe blocks it again, and he kicks the pyromancer back and the pyromancer falls to the ground. Salathe drops his sword and quickly takes three shruikens and throws them all at the pyromancer. With each hit the pyromancer jerks, and with the last one the pyromancer coughs some blood up then his fireshield dissapears. Salathe picks his sword back up and sheaths is. And Salathe takes the shield with him, figuring he coud use a shield like this in the future. Salathe grins as he walks by the burnt pyromancer. Salathe finally comes to a room full of tools and supplies. He searches the room until he finds a long line of rope. He takes the rope and wraps it around his shoulder and he heads back to the grove in the ceiling

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heh..... to bad no ones ever gonna read this Salathe reaches the shores of an island. Not too big, but big enough to hold a large city, and a volcano. The volcano isnt much of a volcano anymore. Its more of broken mountain filled with lava. Salathe makes his way to the volcano. After an hour or two he reaches the location of it. He takes out of his bag, a strap with shruikens (throwing stars for those of you that dont know) being held onto it, and he straps it across his chest. Salathe slings his backpack over one shoulder and he begins to enter the volcano. His plan is the same as the drow cave, he will sneak in and out, atleast he will try to. When he comes to the giant opening, he walks in a few feet, but instead of going forward, he starts climbing the wall that leads to a ledge up top and he begins to walk across it. He looks down into the room, with streams and ponds of lava, and rocks sticking out, some flat, some pointy, some form a dome, some form half a dome. Salathe keeps looking, trying to spot a pyromancer. He follows the path for a bit until he comes to a dead end. He looks down from the ledge and sees rock not too far down. So Salathe jumps onto the rock and continues his walk, while still trying to stay by the walls and in cover incase any one comes by. After a while Salathe figures all the pyromancers are somewher in the center of the volcano, since he hasnt seen any yet. So he puts his gaurd down for a little bit until he starts seeing carvings on the wall of people shooting flames, and holding firey weapons, such as whips and swords. Now Salathe puts his gaurd back up. He continues walking through the cave and then he comes to a large large area with a gigantic lava pond. And in the center of the pond there is a large rock formation. But when Salathe looked closer he sees a entrance to it, and two statues at the entrance. Salathe figures this must be where they live. Salathe looks around some more and he sees flashes of light coming from a ledge up above and sees two pyromancers practicing there magic. Still looking he sees a large grove in the cave wall and sees a man smithing items. Salathe looks back to the pond of lava and sees a small narrow path that leads to the rock dome. Salathe looks at it, knowing that the artifact he needs must be inside there. The artifact that he needs is the firesword. Not just any firesword, THE firesword. Although the pyromancers have plenty of swords that arent made with metal, but fire, this one is different. Salathe doesnt yet know how, but he just knows it is, and he needs it. Suddenly Salathe hears voices and he looks around and sees two pyromancers walking on the path to the rock dome. Salathe decides to get into a spot where he wont be seen, but before he can do anything he heres a loud "snap" next to his face, and warm air fills around him. And Salathe turns around and sees a pyromancer standing on a rock with a whipe made of fire. "Halt!" Yells the pyromancer "What business have you here saurian!? Salathe looks at the man and thinks for a second. He cant tell him his real reason. For the pyromancer must know of the firesword, since the pyromancers are the ones that made it. So Salathe looks at him thinking of what to do. Salathe knows its probably best not to say anything so he slowly moves his hand to his belt, the backside, and takes out a shruiken and brings his hand down, but still behidn his back. The pyromancer knows Salathe is up to something so he raises his whip for another slash, but Salathe quickly throws the shruiken and the pyromancer quickly drops to the ground trying to dodge it. The shruiken flies far over the pyromancers head, it wouldve missed him anyway. The pyromancer gets back to his feet and when he looks back down off the ledge Salathe was gone. Salathe quickly ran againt the wall of the lefge the pyromancer was on, hoping the pyromancer wouldnt look directly down, and luckily... he didnt. Salathe sighs with relief and then quickly looks around looking for a safespot he can always go too. While looking up he sees the ceiling of the cave is quite deformed, and he sees a grove in the ceiling at a point where it comes down. So Salathe starts a trek, up to the grove in the ceiling of the cave.