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You stand in a meeting room in the Golden Oak Inn in the Gem of the North; Silverymoon. The room is large enough to easily accommodate twice the number that now stand in it, with flagstone walls and an oak door, now closed. There are no tables or chairs in the room, and so everyone in the room is standing. On a raised area there is a large wooden board, and on it are a group of maps and charts, with one large blank piece of paper in the center.
On the far side from the door stand three men and an old woman, one a lightly tanned human in shining full plate armor, with short dark wavy hair and a short gristly beard; another human in half plate with a tower shield on his back and with a full beard and balding light brown hair; and the third an elf with long blond hair in a ponytail and two swords on his belt. The woman wears the robes of a wizard and has darkly tanned weathered skin, and long graying hair.
The man in full plate steps forward, and looks over the members of the party, scowling slightly at the sight of the apparently demonic, and one that seems to be made of jelly. He glances back at his companions quickly before speaking in a loud, deep voice; "This is a gathering of all those who would participate in the mission, sponsored by the church of Lathander. All those willing to brave great peril in order to end a great evil in our land, I thank thee. Know that you will be well rewarded. We go to face a great enemy, one whom has already done harm to the peoples of our land, and came seemingly from nowhere. We will present to you all the information we have on our quest." He pauses briefly and looks around once again, before stepping to a map of the region, and continuing; "We hunt a group of four, all of whom are apparently quite formidable. However, this is not all, for one of them holds an artifact which grants them power to raise the dead as their slaves. They were tracked going through the Coldwood, to what we believe was once a wizards tower, in the mountains." he points to a spot on the map, on the face of a mountain to the North of Silverymoon. "This is our quest: to find these monsters and purge them from our lands, and destroy this evil artifact which allows them to violate the dead. Before we continue, are there any questions?"
On the far side from the door stand three men and an old woman, one a lightly tanned human in shining full plate armor, with short dark wavy hair and a short gristly beard; another human in half plate with a tower shield on his back and with a full beard and balding light brown hair; and the third an elf with long blond hair in a ponytail and two swords on his belt. The woman wears the robes of a wizard and has darkly tanned weathered skin, and long graying hair.
The man in full plate steps forward, and looks over the members of the party, scowling slightly at the sight of the apparently demonic, and one that seems to be made of jelly. He glances back at his companions quickly before speaking in a loud, deep voice; "This is a gathering of all those who would participate in the mission, sponsored by the church of Lathander. All those willing to brave great peril in order to end a great evil in our land, I thank thee. Know that you will be well rewarded. We go to face a great enemy, one whom has already done harm to the peoples of our land, and came seemingly from nowhere. We will present to you all the information we have on our quest." He pauses briefly and looks around once again, before stepping to a map of the region, and continuing; "We hunt a group of four, all of whom are apparently quite formidable. However, this is not all, for one of them holds an artifact which grants them power to raise the dead as their slaves. They were tracked going through the Coldwood, to what we believe was once a wizards tower, in the mountains." he points to a spot on the map, on the face of a mountain to the North of Silverymoon. "This is our quest: to find these monsters and purge them from our lands, and destroy this evil artifact which allows them to violate the dead. Before we continue, are there any questions?"
