There is a part of me that doesn’t want to write this as if I put it on paper that makes it real – but I must have it down, she was part of our adventure all along and I need whoever reads this to know that my sister, though stoic and sarcastic, pragmatic and blunt, was the heart of me.  She kept me from straying, kept me from the shadows where sometimes I liked to lurk.  I worry without her as my compass and my new “wolf” side if I will find the shadows a safer place to lurk.  Though with Pinroy and this new goodie two shoes Wave, I am not sure they will let me slink in the shadows for long.  Look at Oberon, a Shadar-kai, no less, and while he still has one foot firmly in the shadows he is tilting his face to the sun. 

We were able to sell much of our treasure at Boartore, except for the gold throne.  It is a replica and not worth anything but melting down for its gold.  We decided the Durgar might like it and we would bring it to them the next time we go down to the Hells.   Our destruction of Bill gave us access to Souless a biologist that works in the bowels of the basement of the Inn.  He has a face of rat, one arm a tiger, another an otter flipper.  His legs were, we think, a bear and a cat and he could barely stand.  All that we may be able to handle but he was also insane…not a little insane…A LOT insane!  But he said he could enhance our abilities with fusing animal abilities to us – but advised against the extend he did.  We do not have to have animal body limbs replacing our regular limbs – thank goodness – but there were some side effects.  For instance, if we wanted to move double our speed we would take the cheetah elixir (1,400 gp)…but we may break out in black spots all over our body.  If we took the owl elixir (1,000 gp) that would double our dark vision to 120 feet our eyes may change to look like owl eyes.   Pinroy got scared and he left rather quickly when he realized Souless didn’t have rats.  Due to the insanity of his rantings we all left as well deciding to “think things over.” 

Nice Wave wouldn’t shut up about the mayor’s daughter and how we have to help the mayor get the ring back so he had something to remember his daughter by and insisted we dive down in the well.  We informed nice Wave we will do it if he shuts up, but first we need some water breathing potions.  We went to see Mildred and got 5 doses each of Water Breathing (they last 1 hour).  We took a rope with us as we dove into the well.  It was murky and in the outcropping about 80 feet down we say a bunch of white fabric all bunched up.  On closer examination it was the body of a perfectly preserved young girl with a ring on her finger. Wave was looking down further into the well, his eyes wide.  I wrapped the rope around the dead girl’s waist and then Wave cast “Waterwalk” on his and we all shot to the surface trailing the girl in our wake.  As we climbed out of the fountain Wave said.  “There’s a Kraken down there.”

“What’s a Kraken,” Pinroy asked. “Is it good to eat.”

“Like one of those tentacle monsters in the prison,” Wave said. “But really big.”

“Yummm, those were good eats,” Pinroy said.

We carried the dead girl up the hill to the mayor’s keep and was greeted by a man servant who brought us to a sleeping chamber of an ancient man.  Even though it was hot as Hells he was buried up to his nose in blankets.  He grinned a toothless smile when he saw his daughter and we laid her on the bed next to him.  He barely looked at her face but took the ring off her lifeless finger and slipped it on his.  As he began to transform into a middle-aged man his daughter shriveled before us, the flesh falling off her bones in dust until a skeleton in a white dress laid on the bed.  The mayor’s name is Kastar Serpoligon, another transplant from Furyundy. His daughter was Matilda.  She stole her father’s ring and ran away to elope with a Sea Prince.  He told us that Boartore was once a great Fortress and the well is the only entrance to what was once a lake, so he was not surprised that Wave saw a Kraken. He said the ring is a Ring of Restoration that slows the aging process and reverses ailments.  He thanked us for returning his daughter and the ring to him and gave us 500 gp for a reward.

With our pockets bulging we headed to Grimgold’s to tell him about our adventures and show him the second shard.  He was scurrying around his house and said he was heading for a Furyundy stronghold in the Hell’s Furnaces.  He was taking his piece of the shard with him.  We said we would keep our piece so that they weren’t together.  He said we needed to go to Ran Mould to get the staff and then we were to let him know when we had acquired it.  He was about to tell us why he was going to the Furyundy stronghold when a scream ripped through my soul…it was Ronyn.  We ran out and there were three of Chaos demons battling town guards and one had my sister in his claws.  The wolve exploded out of me when the creature cloaked himself in darkness.  I fought blinded hearing Ronyn’s screams and called for the others, but they were set upon but the other demons and couldn’t get to us.  We fought for what seemed like centuries all the time Ronyn screaming in pain.  We brought them down one by one, and the fear enveloped me as Ronyn had fallen silent.  Finally, the one holding Ronyn dropped her still body and disappeared back to the hell it came.  I ran to her cradling her still form, calling for Pinroy while the others stood around not knowing what to say.  Pinroy tried and tried calling for Blibdoolpoolp  to heal his red crested beauty friend, but she was beyond the help of Pinroy’s clawed goddess. We took her out of Boartore and buried her beneath the sands of the Sea of Dust.