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Date Posted: 10:02:50 12/10/01 Mon
Author: Ravin
Subject: A new, painful challenge
In reply to: Erlic Eastlore 's message, "Enlightenment" on 17:23:58 12/09/01 Sun

Ravin wasn't too crazy about these tests of enlightenment but it looked like they wouldn't be getting back to their friends until they completed them. His stomach was starting to growl, making him wonder how many more rooms they would have to enter before they proved themselves to the old man. Things like this would make him a bit leery of investigating secret passageways in Neromba from now on!

His eyes darted around the chamber, looking for anything out of the ordinary while Erlic placed the gems in the eyes of the statue. When the wall opposite them seemed to burst into flames, he jumped slightly. What fowl magic was this? He gave Erlic a look of disbelief when he suggested they leap through the fire. Before he could suggest that they think about such an action the guildmaster took off at a run disappearing through the wall of flames.

Ravin shared a shrug with Isobel then they followed after the older thief. Surprisingly, the fire didn't burn them at all. Illusion? the thief wondered. The distain he already felt for magic went up a notch. He preferred dealing with tangible things rather than those brought on with trickery.

The next room they found themselves it was similar to the others with another riddle presenting itself. After some intense concentration, Ravin suggested that the answer was an arrow. He was surprised to see the Griffon statue spit out pearls when Erlic shot an arrow into its base. At least they had gotten a small reward for their effort, but he would have preferred being set free of these testing grounds.

When a section of the opposite wall slid open, he hoped that he would be would be getting his wish. Upon entering the next room the wall closed up behind them leaving them in a forty by forty foot enclosure with a number of tapestries hanging on the walls. Naturally, no other exits could be seen but the sight of three humanoid figures that seemed to be made up entirely of cut glass mirrors approaching them was rather shocking.

Before Ravin had a chance to think about what they hell they where, one of the things raised a hand made of ragged glass and cut him slightly across his cheek. Instantly the thief pulled out his dagger, and plunged it into the reflection of his own stomach. Instead of glass shattered as he expected the knife simply bounced off the thing, but Ravin yelped with his felt pain in his abdomen. Glancing down he saw blood seeping from a knife wound.

Although he was perplexed he managed to duck out of the way of the glass like appendage that swiped at him then shoved his blade into an area that made up the thing's shoulder. Ravin cried out again, when he suddenly felt pain in his own shoulder. He back stepped quickly, putting some distance between him and the mirror creature. Hitting my reflection in the mirror actually injures ME! he reasoned.

Thinking quickly, he pulled one of the tapestries off the wall and flung it over the mirror creature as it neared him. Now that he was unable to see his reflection, he whipped out his sword and plunged it into the thing. The shattering of glass could be heard as the strange creature was destroyed. The tapestry fell to the ground covering the massive shards of glass beneath it. Ravin had been so busy fending off the oddity that attacked him that he hadn't paid any attention to how his companions were fairing. While pulling out a cloth from his sack to hold over the wound in his abdomen he called out, telling them that the mirror creatures needed to be covered before they could be eliminated if they weren't doing so already.

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