So, when our heroes learned about the druid's apprentice who stole the magical amulet "Stone Heart," they didn't immediately decide to set out in search of the artifact. After all, in addition to the archdruid, a shaman from a barbarian tribe approached them, asking them to go with him. After an hour of deliberation, the adventurers decided to first help the druid, and then they could leave the village with the shaman. Having stocked up on supplies at the store, the group set off for the mountains, where a temple was located, and rumors had it that some kind of cult had settled there...
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We approached the temple, and a giant ran out to meet us, telling us that they had lived with the priests in the temple, guarding it, but recently some villains came and started killing everyone. This giant pretended to be dead, and when the enemies left, he got up and ran away... We could have let him go, but Loki wanted to gain experience for his death, so we had to kill him.
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Here we are already in the temple. As it turned out, not all the defenders are dead; there are survivors, and they were the ones who put up resistance to us (they thought we were bad and allies of those scoundrels who were here before us). But it doesn't make much difference to us, because this cult itself is not very good, so we can kill its members.
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All in the same place. My cleric summoned undead; in the screenshot, you can see a skeleton and a zombie.
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There were many acolytes there, yes. Although there were even more giants.
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This is us in the center. I used the ranger's skill "track" and thus we learned who was among the enemies. We will be looking for trolls and yuan-ti (or maybe they were just lizards, who knows).
P.S. It wasn't for nothing that I chose trolls as the ranger's sworn enemy.
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Finally, we reached the main room, but there were only corpses in it. In the center lay a guy from the enemy team, and in his pocket, we found a strong poison (we later gave it to the druid). In the screenshot, I cast a spell-trap with my mage and tested it with the ranger... it's weak, he only took 8 damage.
P.S. By the way, I found a good one-handed axe for the ranger (you can see it on the weapon panel), now I use it, and rarely use the sword.
After examining the temple, we returned to the druid and told him everything. He looked at the poison we found on the dead guy and said that the poison had not yet lost its potency, which means that the guy received it recently, i.e., somewhere near the place where the temple is located. ... he said something else, I don't remember, and in the end, he said that in these places there is one place where there may be all sorts of lizards or trolls, or maybe where you can get poison, and where it is warm in general, compared to the rest of the valley, and he marked it on the map. Now our path leads there.