The CARDINAL has clues that put the Sword of the Dawn at the bend in the Rhine in Belgica, so that's where we're headed. ROSA leads the expedition on a path she knows which covers the 500 miles in half an hour. Because it's a shortcut.
BOWENN IVORYBOW, former Elvish ambassador, is making a red and gold tornado which snows colored snow. Why, he doesn't immediately say. We rush towards him and are assailed with a crystal tornado and barley stalks which grow actual dagger blades.
JUNIUS takes his ancient iron sword, whose hilt is the Cross, and calls IN HOC SIGNO VICTIS! The illusions vanish.
Bowenn says he is seeking the Sword of the Dawn for his patron. We don't want Crassus to have it, but he explains it isn't Crassus he is aiding. Rather, the Elves are facing their doom, and they hope the Sword will awaken the King Under the Mountain, the king of all Elves who went away a long time ago.
When Junius says we need the Sword to save our own people, and Bowenn cannot convince us that his people matter more than ours, he casts a spell to put us all in a stasis of time, while he goes ahead to find the Sword.
It takes many days for us to walk the half-mile to the hill where the Sword is hidden. There is a cave, cleared out recently, with a zombie dwarf inside. He takes some considerable hacking, but eventually falls.
Junius, Brother Aquila, and Retarius are alone, with the others lost in time. They find and defeat several living stalactites called ropers, and then Vesuvius arrives, one step behind them, which came out to several hours. They do not wait for the others, but press on, deeper into the tunnels in the hard rock under the hill ...
One experience point is awarded.
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