Xhiao Lin, the darkness at the end of the tunnel.
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 6:57 am
Xhiao Lin, monk agent of the dark lord bane. Her service to the current chapter of bane in the area of baldur's gate have brought her to the very entrails of the earth in the drow city of Shaamath.
While on assignement during the staging of the defense of shaamath and the retaking of dark hold, Xhiao lin exotic nature's caught the eyes of a slaver. She was captured in a dark corner of the city, overpowered by group of bugbear and their master whom she never managed to see except for a glimpse of his dark skinned lips and white as bone teeth grin before falling unconscious to a spell.
Lin awoke inside a dark cell with no lights at all. For days or even weeks she stayed there with a bugbear coming every few day to serve her a meal not even worth a dog's bowl. There dark thoughts, even darker than she was used to began to grow in her mind. She could hear a faint whisper in the dark around her but could not make word of it.
One day, instead of receiving the visit of the usual bugbear, two drows came to see her. Both hidden under their hoods, in their own language they discussed for a little while. Lin noticed one of the drow mouth, similar to the one when she was captured with the same grin. The drow casted a hold spell on Lin and then opened the cell to give a closer look of her to the other drow. After a short inspection, both drow seemed to have come to an agreement and left.
A few hours later, the whisper in the dark came again.
The concept of day and night practically gone from her, after what seemed like an eternity since the drows last visit, several bugbear and the grinning drow appeared before her cell. The drow, with the same incantation as last time, casted on her his same hold spell. But this time it did not had any effect and xhiao lin quickly acted the part by faking it. Even "under" the spell's effect, the drow master asked the bugbear to chain her hands and yelled some more order that Lin could not understand. From there she was taken outside her cell to the passageway of the Underdark whom were even darker than her cell.
Xhiao lin's new drow captors, whom were carrying her and leading other slaves in chain, could be heard marching through the underdark's stone passageways. Lin bide her time, waiting for the most opportune moment. While her eyes still not used to the darkness of the underdark, she used her sense of hearing. Calculating the footsteps and trying to hear anything in between them.
She could hear the sound of drow's whip cracking and the word Qeeh repeatedly. After a more violent crack of a whip she heard something different "Qeeh, ulu Ched nasad". Having previously discussed underdark with some of Sshamath's drows. She knew Ched nasad was a drow city that was relatively close. Ched Nasad, the city of shimmering webs.
After several hours of walking, the group came to a halt at a crossroad. Agitation started to appear within the drows as a drow that went on ahead had returned. What seemed like the leader of the group made signs and the others regained their composure and readied their weapon and spells. A deadly calm took the drows and then a fight ensued. Duergar spilled from every direction.
Admist the chaos, Xhiao lin seized her moment. She surprised the nearest drow that was in charge of watching the slaves and with the very same chains that binded her hand she choked him and then she made way for the closest passage. Half blind in the dark she fumbled about. The only thing she could perceive was the sound of the battle that was diminishing the more she continued forward.
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While on assignement during the staging of the defense of shaamath and the retaking of dark hold, Xhiao lin exotic nature's caught the eyes of a slaver. She was captured in a dark corner of the city, overpowered by group of bugbear and their master whom she never managed to see except for a glimpse of his dark skinned lips and white as bone teeth grin before falling unconscious to a spell.
Lin awoke inside a dark cell with no lights at all. For days or even weeks she stayed there with a bugbear coming every few day to serve her a meal not even worth a dog's bowl. There dark thoughts, even darker than she was used to began to grow in her mind. She could hear a faint whisper in the dark around her but could not make word of it.
One day, instead of receiving the visit of the usual bugbear, two drows came to see her. Both hidden under their hoods, in their own language they discussed for a little while. Lin noticed one of the drow mouth, similar to the one when she was captured with the same grin. The drow casted a hold spell on Lin and then opened the cell to give a closer look of her to the other drow. After a short inspection, both drow seemed to have come to an agreement and left.
A few hours later, the whisper in the dark came again.
The concept of day and night practically gone from her, after what seemed like an eternity since the drows last visit, several bugbear and the grinning drow appeared before her cell. The drow, with the same incantation as last time, casted on her his same hold spell. But this time it did not had any effect and xhiao lin quickly acted the part by faking it. Even "under" the spell's effect, the drow master asked the bugbear to chain her hands and yelled some more order that Lin could not understand. From there she was taken outside her cell to the passageway of the Underdark whom were even darker than her cell.
Xhiao lin's new drow captors, whom were carrying her and leading other slaves in chain, could be heard marching through the underdark's stone passageways. Lin bide her time, waiting for the most opportune moment. While her eyes still not used to the darkness of the underdark, she used her sense of hearing. Calculating the footsteps and trying to hear anything in between them.
She could hear the sound of drow's whip cracking and the word Qeeh repeatedly. After a more violent crack of a whip she heard something different "Qeeh, ulu Ched nasad". Having previously discussed underdark with some of Sshamath's drows. She knew Ched nasad was a drow city that was relatively close. Ched Nasad, the city of shimmering webs.
After several hours of walking, the group came to a halt at a crossroad. Agitation started to appear within the drows as a drow that went on ahead had returned. What seemed like the leader of the group made signs and the others regained their composure and readied their weapon and spells. A deadly calm took the drows and then a fight ensued. Duergar spilled from every direction.
Admist the chaos, Xhiao lin seized her moment. She surprised the nearest drow that was in charge of watching the slaves and with the very same chains that binded her hand she choked him and then she made way for the closest passage. Half blind in the dark she fumbled about. The only thing she could perceive was the sound of the battle that was diminishing the more she continued forward.
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