Today I Cuen (an 8th lvl mage) was wandering around the Plane of
Knowledge when I say to guys staring at a reflecting pool.

They told me that the pools hold great magic, and that another guy had
said he would reveal the secrets to them if they would complete a few
tasks.

These two guys were not the adventurous type, and so asked if I would
speak to the man and see if I might do the adventure for them.  They
told me I might be rewarded.

I agreed and went to go and see the man who coincidently was only a
few hundred feet away at another reflecting pool.

He said that he didn't want to talk unless I gave him some Sarnak
Blood.

I went down to the bad part of town and found a nice Iksar who
happened to be selling Sarnak Blood for only a few gold pieces so I
bought one and brought it to my new friend.

He said that all he new of the pools what what he had learned from
Myrist, and said that if I took this letter to his friend at the
library that he would give me the book.

Sure enough his friend the Vicar at the library new of the book, but
said he had accidently loaned that instead of a different book to a
friend, and asked if I might want to find his friend and trade him
books.

I agreed thinking his friend MUST be nearby.

I searched high and low for the man and could no find him anywhere,
finally I shouted across the town, WHERE is this guy?

An answer came to me... He's hiding in the Temple of Droga.
The name struck fear into my heart.
But a mages word is his bond, and so I asked how to get there.

Everyone said, you shouldn't go in there until you are MUCH older.

But I'm a mage, I have invis and hey if I die I don't loose anything
yet, so I got directions, asked for a sow and set off for the frontier
mountains.

As soon as I got to the frontier mountains I was confronted by a
GIANT, and he wanted to taste my elven bones in his soup, my invis
dropped, and he chased me around the zone.

I had no idea where this temple was and just as I was about to give up
I ran past a bunch of goblins into a cave and sure enough I was in The
Temple of Droga...

I immediatly castr invis on myself and remembering what someone said
"If your ever lost in a dungeon stay on the right and eventually
you'll get out."  I went ahead and followed the wall right.

I must've only walked a few steps when I fell into a deep hole, and
took ALOT of damage.  SO much so that I was very lucky I think to have
had a +5 STA ring on that a friend had given me cuz I only had 1% of
my HP left.

My invis dropped a few steps later but I was in a fairly safe looking
place so I cast it again.

I kept running around the right hand side of the wall, hoping and
praying I could find some stairs or something to no avail, I was
praying to all that is holly that nothing could see through my invis,
and that my invis never dropped I ran as fast as my broken legs could
carry me.

Just as I was considering gating the heck out of there, I passed
inside a wall, and there was the guy.  I handed him the book, he
thanked me and handed me another book, I noticed I had just grown a
little older, and about that time, I hear the goblins comming.

I recast invis and ran for my life, eventually I found an exit, but my
invis had dropped I saw them swing but I guess I was moving too fast
because they couldn't hit me.

Soon I was in the frontier mountains, that giant decided he still
wanted me and chased me ALL the way back to the Over There, where a
few Sarnaks promptly picked up the chase and I ran, with my little
heart pounding all the way to my protal wich would take me back into
safety in the Plane of Knowledge.

When I got the plane of knowledge I had about 5 hit points left, and I
walked slowly to the first 2 people I saw, and handed him the book of
which he sought.

Then he said thank you, and I was again a little older.

He gave me some money, and when I checked deep into my bags, he had
placed a beautiful fine cut diamond inlaid mask.

It was just exactly what I needed after such a long and heart stopping
journey.

I handed him the book