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Be forewarned, good friends! The
creature you believe must surely be
dead may instead simply be waiting foi
you to let down your guard before it
resumes its attack, fully refreshed and
functioning perfectly!
February the Fourth-
write from the confines of a tiny
shelter, which my five remaining
hirelings were able to carue out of
the ice and snow. Outside, the
storm that swept down on ourpoor
group this afternoon rages still.
[grieve for the braue men of
Uselk who lost their lives today.
And all for nothing! Even as the first
gusts of wind and snow reached our
group, the creature was upon us. I
now know why the thing was so
difficult to track. The monster was
lying in wait for us, but not behind
some rocks or trees. No, it was
waiting beneath a layer ofsnow and
ice precisely at the narrowest point
in the mountain pass.
Our first man went down before
we realized the creature’s trap. From
that point onuiard my memory is
but a blur, a patchwork made up of
dying men and that looming,
rending, killing monstrosity. Worse
yet, our weapons did not euen seem
to scratch the thing’s hide. , , .
-From the journal of
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Reassembly
Terrence Crannock
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Even if you are fortunate enough to
sufficiently damage a golem to the
point where it can no longer
regenerate, it would not be wise to
leave any part of the creature intact. If
the golem’s creator is still among the
living (or, the gods forbid, some other
person attempts this!), he may well be
able to repair his creation.
This process of repair involves two
stages: First, the creator reattaches the
Any disassembled golem-be it
flesh, metal, or otherwise-can be
put back together and reanimated
as long as at ieast 50% of its
original parts remain available and
intact (and in excellent condition).
Assuming the body is repaired. the
only requirement for reanimation is
a simple bolt of energy; the life
force of the golem is already within
its body. The energy-typically a
bolt of lightning-merely provides
the tho necessary nnraccnr~i charge ,-h=mo to +- the +hn golem’s nnlnm’~
“batteries.”
golern’s body parts. Then, he
recharges the golem through a burst of
energy, which is normally a lightning
bolt. Once reanimated, the golem is as
powerful as it was before, showing no
signs of the damage you and your
comrades fought so hard to inflict!
A-
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February the Fifth-/ have done it!
Sadly, however, I am the only re-
maining member of this expedition,
and I owe my success to poor
Tomas. It was, after all, his idea to
place our weapons in the campfire.
As he stated in his simple,
plainspoken manner: “It works
with the wolues. Wheneuer there’s
a whole pack of them and only a
few of us herders, we heat our
weapons right up till they start to
glow. You only do it with old
weapons, on account of the blades
sometimes break, but all you have
to do is poke a wolf once and the
whole lot of them takes off right
quick.”
I shall be sure to tell Tomask
family of his sharp thinking when I
present my condolences to them.
The lad’s plan actually worked!
When the horrid creature finally
came upon us once more, we
pulled our weapons from the fire
and, our hands wrapped in wool,
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