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					GONZIR-GALAD
GONZIR-GALAD IS A SPRAWLING CITY OF DOMES, MINNERETS AND TOWERS. A CITY BIGGER THAN TARRANTIS,WITH PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD THERE TO TRADE AND DO BUISNESS. AN EXAMPLE OF THIS CITY WOULD BE CONSTANTINOPLE OF ABOUT THE 12TH-13TH CENTURY.ONE COULD EASILY BUY JUST ABOUT ANYTHING WITH ENOUGH MONEY IN THE RIGHT HANDS, AND NO QUESTIONS WOULD BE ASKED. THUS IT WAS THAT LORD GOLEM AND THE 'COMPANY SOUGHT INFORMATION AND CLUES AS TO THE WHEREABOUTS OF THIS "BLUE EFFRIT" PERSON.FOR WHERE HE HAD GONE, SO TOO HAD GALAIN.AFTER NEARLY A MONTH, WE WERE NOT TOO SURE WE HAD ARRIVED SOON ENOUGH. SOME OF THE CLUES AND INFORMATION ATTAINED INDICATED SHE WAS STILL ALIVE, BEING HELD SOMEWHERE IN THE BLUE EFFRIT'S PALACE ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE CITY.THERE WAS ALSO INFORMATION WHICH INDICATED THE VILLIAN WAS PLANNING SOMETHING SPECIAL FOR GALAIN, TO COINCIDE WITH THE NEXT FULL MOON, ONLY THREE DAYS HENCE! THERE WERE ALSO SEVERAL MERCHANTS WHO TOLD OF BEING SUMMONED INTO THE PALACE AT VARIOUS TIMES TO SHOW THEIR WARES TO A MYSTERIOUS "EMIR",A MAN WITH BLUE SKIN! AND BEHIND A SILKEN SCREEN, WAS A MYSTERIOUS,VEILED WOMAN, WHICH ONE OF THE MERCHANTS CLAIMED TO HAVE CAUGHT A GLIMPSE OF-A HALF ELF OF EXCEEDING BEAUTY,CLAD IN FINE EASTERN SILKS AND MUCH JEWELLRY,MOST NOTABLE WERE A SET OF GOLDEN MANACLES,BELLED-COLLAR AND CHAIN!THE MERCHANT'S DESCRIPTION MATCHED THAT OF LADY GALAIN EXACTLY.SHE WAS,ACCORDING TO THE MERCHANT SURROUNDED BY A MAGICAL HAZE, CLEARLY TRAPPED BY THE EVIL ONE'S FELL MAGICS.IT APPEARED TO THE MERCHANT THAT THE BLUE EFFRIT HAD SOME PLAN FOR GALAIN,TO COINCIDE WITH THE NEXT FULL MOON.HE WAS OVERHEARD THREATENING HER WITH A "FATE WORSE THAN DEATH"IF SHE DID NOT AGREE TO MARRY HIM, THUS ENSURING HIM ANOTHER PRIZE FOR HIS HAREM! TIME WAS RUNNING OUT!WE QUICKLY MADE READY TO ENTER THE PALACE.BY BRIBING SEVERAL MERCHANTS WE WERE ABLE TO DISGUISE OURSELVES AS PEDDLERS AND THUS GAIN ENTRY FREELY THRU THE PALACE GATES. ONCE INSIDE, WE PAID A VISIT TO THE BLUE EFFRIT. THE EFFRIT SUSPECTED NOTHING AMISS, AS WE GAVE HIM THE USUAL MERCHANT'S FAST TALK. WHILE HE WAS PREOCCUPIED ( OUR PRIESTS MADE SUCH EXCELLENT PITCH-MEN!) GOLEM MANAGED TO GET A SIDE-WAYS GLANCE AROUND THE SCREENED PANEL WHICH WAS TO ONE SIDE OF THE THRONE. THE SIGHT OF HER ALMOST MADE HIM LOOSE HIS COMPOSURE!THOUGH HE DID NOT, KNOWING THAT TO DO SO WOULD BLOW THEIR COVER AND RISK ENDANGERING THE PARTY.SHE LOOKED INTO GOLEM'S EYES,PLEADING SILENTLY FOR RESCUE AND ESCAPE FROM THE ENERGY BARRIER. GOLEM NODDED AND SILENTLY REJOINED THE PARTY. THE TIME OF RECKONING WAS NEAR AT HAND, BUT NOT JUST YET.HE WOULD PICK THE TIME TO CONFRONT THIS BLUE EFFRIT.AT THE CONCLUSION OF THEIR "BUISNESS", THE PARTY STARTED BACK OUT THE WAY WE HAD ENTERED. AS WE PASSED A GUARD BARRACKS, WE TURNED AND WENT IN. TWO QUICK SLEEP SPELLS, A SILENCE 15' RADIUS AND SEVERAL HOLD SPELLS SUBDUED THE GUARDS. THESE GUARDS WOULD NOT BE RAISING ANY ALARM! THAT NIGHT, DISGUISED AS GUARDS,WE MADE OUR WAY TO THE ENTRANCE LEADING INTO THE DUNGEON UNDER THE PALACE OF THE BLUE EFFRIT.THO THE DUNGEON WAS NOT A VERY LARGE MAZE, THERE WERE TRAPS AND PUZZLES. AND IT WAS NOT UNGUARDED. IT TOOK US TWO DAYS TO NAVIGATE THROUGH THE ROOMS AND CORIDOORS OF THE PLACE, FIGHTING OVER A DOZEN MAJOR BATTLES. SEVERAL OF OUR COMRADES FELL IN HONORABLE BATTLE WITH THE ENEMY. AT LAST, WE REACHED THE DOORS TO THE INNER SANCTUM OF THE BLUE EFFRIT. WE CHARGED IN, WEAPONS FLASHING, SPELLS BLAZING.WE UTTERLY ANNILATED THE OPPOSING FORCES, AND HACKED THEM TO GOBBETS. THEY'D NOT SOON BE FORGETTING THE HOUSE OF THE HAWK! THE BLUE EFFRIT FOUGHT TILL HE DROPPED, AND WHEN HE FELL, HE TURNED INTO A CLOUD WHICH SLOWLY FADED, AS THOUGH GOING ELSEWHERE. AS HE FADED, A SINISTER VOICE BOOMED "FOOLS! I AM A BEING OF AIR AND FIRE! I CAN NOT BE DESTROYED SO SIMPLY! MY EVIL WORK IS DONE HERE, SO YOU CAN HAVE HER! I SHALL RETURN TO THIS MORTAL WORLD SOON ENOUGH, AND WREAK HAVOCK UPON YOUR CHILDREN AND YOUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN!" WITH THAT, A SECTION OF THE WALL DISSOLVED INTO MIST, AND BEYOND WAS REVEALED A TREASURE ROOM. BUT, THERE WAS STILL NO SIGN OF GALAIN. GOLEM WAS BEGINNING TO HAVE A BAD FEELING ABOUT ALL OF THIS. THE TREASURE ROOM WAS RANSACKED, FOR MUCH TRASURE. AN ODD SHAPED BOTTLE WAS FOUND IN THE MIDST OF SEVERAL MONEY BAGS. A  CLOSER EXAMINATION OF THE BOTTLE BY OUR RESIDENT SAGE, NIKADEMIUS, FOLLOWED.A STARTLED HUSH SPREAD THROUGH OUT THE PARTY, FOLLOWED BY AN URGENT CALL FOR GOLEM TO COME FOREWAR, TO AID THE ELDERLY SAGE. FOR WHAT OUR SAGE SAW INSIDE THE BOTTLE GAVE HIM GREAT PAUSE- IT APPEARED THAT THERE WAS A VERY TINY PERSON IN THE BOTTLE, AND THAT PERSON LOOKED JUST LIKE OUR LADY GALAIN. GOLEM IMMEDIATELY OPENED THE BOTTLE, AND OUT OF THE BOTTLE AROSE A COLUMN OF SMOKE, WHICH MATERIALISED INTO GALAIN.APPARENTLY AFTER MUCH DISCUSSION AND EXPERIMENTATION, IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT THE LADY GALAIN HAD BEEN SOMEHOW TRANSFORMED INTO A DJINN OR GENIE OF SOMESORT. AS FOR MAGICAL ABILITIES, GALAIN COULD NO LONGER FUNCTION OR ADVANCE AS A MAGIC USER, OR ADVANCE AS ANY TYPE OF ADVENTURER CLASS.SHE COULD GAIN ALL OF THE EXPERIENCE POINTS IN THE WORLD, BUT SHE WOULD REMAIN FOREVER AN 8 HIT DICE CREATURE. OH, SURE, SHE HAD SOME RATHER NEAT INATE MAGICAL POWERS, IMBUED UPON HER NEW MATERIAL FORM.BUT SHE REALLY HATED LOSING HER MAGIC USER SPELLS.AND NOT BEING ABLE TO USE ANY ACCRUED EXPERIENCE. WE TRAVELED HOME, MUCH WEALTHIER AND WISER THAN WE HAD ARRIVED. SOON AFTER WE ALL ARRIVED HOME, GOLEM SET ABOUT WORKING ON SEVERAL MYSTERIOUS PROJECTS. AFTER SEVERAL MONTHS, HE ANNOUNCED THAT HE WOULD BE FORMING YET ANOTHER EXPEDITION, TO GAIN KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE. LORD GOLEM STILL LAKED EXPERIENCE TO CAST CERTAIN TERRIBLE SPELLS OF ARCANE MIGHT. ONLY WITH SUCH SPELLS COULD GOLEM HOPE TO SUCCEED AT THE TASKS BEFORE HIM. LORD GOLEM TOOK WITH HIM SIX MEMBERS OF THE 'COMPANY OF THE HAWK, LEAVING WORD THAT HAD THEY NOT RETURNED WITHIN 1 YEAR'S TIME, THAT THE REMAINING MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF THE HAWK DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES, WHAT EACH WOULD DO. THAT WAS THE LAST DAY THAT ANY OF THOSE SEVEN PEOPLE WERE SEEN AGAIN. DURING THE LONG YEAR'S WAIT, SEVERAL THINGS OCCURED AS MOST OF THE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE HOLD FOUND THAT THEY HAD COMMITTMENTS TO TEND TO OUTSIDE OF THE 'COMPANY. ON ONE SAD DAY,IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT GALAIN HAD VANISHED (!) FROM HER PRIVATE QUARTERS WITHIN THE HAREM.THERE WAS NOW NO LEADERSHIP WITHIN THE 'COMPANY OF THE HAWK.THUS IT WAS THAT ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF LORD GOLEM'S PARTY LEAVING, THE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF THE HAWK WENT THEIR OWN WAY. THE NEAREST SURVIVING MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF THE HAWK AT THE PRESENT TIME IS A FELLOW NAMED "GRONK THE UNSPEAKABLE" WHO IS THE CURRENT MAYOR OF THE ELVAN TREE VILLAGE OF URILLOS ELOS.IN THE YEARS THAT HAVE PASSED SINCE THAT FATEFUL DAY, NUMEROUS EVIL MONSTERS HAVE MADE THEIR LAIRS WITHIN THE CONFINES OF ELKWOOD MANOR.
STATS FOR THE BLUE JINN: AS FOR A DJINNI PRINCE.PLAY HIM AS LAWFUL EVIL OR CHAOTIC GREEDY.THE GUY'S REALLY GREEDY AT TIMES, AND IF HE CAN'T GET WHAT HE WANTS, REVENGE IS CERTAIN TO FOLLOW.WITH A BATTERY OF ARCANE AND LITTLE KNOWN SPELLS, REVENGE CAN BE OF A VARIETY OF INTRESTING FORMS. 
ONE ALLY OF THE BLUE JINN: MORDRAMMO, 11TH LEVEL CLERIC FROM MODULE A-3, OF THE SLAVE LORDS SERIES. VERY USEFUL TO HAVE AROUND AS A SCHENESCHAL TO WATCH OVER HIS HOLDINGS ON THE PRIME MATERIAL PLANE, AND AS A MECHANISM TO EXACT HIS REVENGE UPON THE HOUSE MEMBERS RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS DOWNFALL MANY YEARS BEFORE.MORDRAMMO IS AT WORK IN TARRANTIS, REESTABLISHING THE EVIL SLAVE TRADES THROUGH THE SPONSORSHIP OF AN UNDERGROUND MOVEMENT, THE HELLFIRE CLUB. EACH MAY CONTACT THE OTHER IN TIME OF NEED.
