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WARNING
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Some of these tales are of well known adventures, for instance "The Sword of Roele". Read these diaries at your own risk.
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| 7/9/551 |
City of Anuire: Start investigating murders. Meet Brokk.
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| 12/9/551 |
Attack and defeat the vampire lord Yavien Similack in the basement of his mansion. The city awards the party with possession of the mansion and all within. However, Similack escaped.
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| 25/9/551 |
Raithenn has returned to the party after journeying through the Shadow World.
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| 9/12/551 |
Travelled by boat to Newtoner, the Siren's capital. Raithenn was arrested due to his resemblance to a previous ruler. The Siren released him personally and gave Devlin permission to access her library.
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| New Year's Eve |
An armoured spirit appears at the feast, asking for redemption and tells Devlin his fate is in Valkheim, Hogunmark.
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| 21/2/552 |
Avalanche hits the party and they have to rescue a buried Raithenn. A village is saved from invasion by Blood Skull orogs and goblins. A goblin is questioned and said the Baron sought a sword in a burial mound.
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| 22/2/552 |
Major fight with army of goblins, orogs and formorians at the mound. Kriel returns to the party. Spectre appears, gets the Kinslayer sword and kills the lead orog.
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| 7/4/552 |
Julik, Hogunmark: Kriel needs to find a goblin sorceror in order to cast a Realm Spell to save Cwmb Bheinn. Raithennn finds directions.
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| 8/4/552 |
Find the goblin Cedar on the border of the White Witches Realm with his master Ohlaak. They only co-operated after the party used a love potion and false rumours to distract the White Witch and the Blood Skull Baron, so they stopped searching for Ohlaak. Brokk leaves.
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| 14/6/552 |
Coast of Black Ice Bay: Party reunites with Brokk onroute to Cwmb Bheinn with Cedar. They are acting as guards on a boat with a supply of cockatrices. Move upstream into Muden.
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| 15/6/552 |
Village of Velvet: Quelled an "uprising" caused by Malvent in order to steal the cockatrices.
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| 19/6/552 |
Underground river tunnels: Ambushed by goblins and unknown associates at an intersection with arrows and ballista-mounted grappling hooks.
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| 20/6/552 |
Undergound tavern: Boat boarded by orogs and Malvent. The orogs are killed but then rise as zombies. Malvent escapes.
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| 22/6/552 |
Leave tunnel into Lake Ladan. Avoid giants skimming boulders on the water. Stop at Zvern and head on land for Cwmb Bheinn.
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| 26/6/552 |
Reach the border of Cwmb Bheinn, between the armies of the Lamia and the Raven. Cedar casts the spell and Cwmb Bheinn vanishes once more. The spell removed a magical leyline from a river.
The party flees approaching troops into the swamp where strange dark patches have appeared. In a storm, the party accidentally walks into one of the patches and ends up in the Shadow World.
Meet a Khinasi man Abbed with old fashioned clothing. Soldiers approach and entrance appears to the Faerie Court. The party is well recieved and given gifts, including a cream that gives them Seeming power so they can locate Faerie.
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| 27/6/552 |
Tarabulun, Kfeira, Ariya: Awake in Cerilia. Most of the party has no memories of the Court, save dreams.
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| 3/8/552 |
Join caravan to Zikala as guards to escort the Rose of Talabon to a mosque.
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| 5/8/552 |
Debbi attack the caravan and cast 'fear'. The merchant Essafah escapes with the Rose, a fist-sized jewel. Kriel tracks in cat form.
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| 6/8/552 |
Party ambushes an ambush at a campsite. Raithennn and Brokk chases a fleeing man on camelback. The party learn this was a distraction organised by the Achbar, and find the caravan has been attacked. At monastery of Avani, they learn of a genie being in the stone.
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| 8/8/552 |
Enter Achbar's headquarters via the underground river entrance. Find the "old" woman from the caravan who is the true Rose of Talaban in disguise. Battle Achbar and his golem. Free kidnapped caravaners.
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| 13/8/552 |
Zikala: deliver the Rose.
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| 3/10/552 |
Leave with 3 desert tribesman to find a missing princess bride.
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| 9/10/552 |
While searching, the party finds the ruins of an old city in the middle of the desert. Skeletons identified as bearing symbols of Basaia and Azrai. Idris fireballs an invisible Raithenn and the woman attacking the party with doglike creatures. Find 2 members of the bride's party.
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| 11/10/552 |
Break into a secret chamber with black walls at an Azrai temple. Taerena sits on a throne and the entrance becomes black. Taerena asks 3 questions. 1) Don't know where the princess is 2) Azrai or part of him still exists 3) Azrai is and isn't part of Shadow World and existing in it.
Underneath the barracks building the party opens the door to a room with a black pool, snakeheaded humanoids in a pit and a massive djinni. The party flees out of the building and fights the snake people. Brokk casts "snake charm" to hold some, including what was the princess. Brokk "cures" the princess and others.
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| 14/10/552 |
Return the princess, but some of the ex-snake guards vanish. Brokk finds the princess is not totally cured.
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| 15/10/552 |
Snake people attack and the princess is killed.
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| 15/11/552 |
Zikala: Sayyid el-Riaz iben Masud, Idris's father, invites us to join him on his boat trip to Auire.
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| 19/11/552 |
Luandar, Chimeron: Boat stops to deliver horses. Idris told by Sayyid that Michael Riole's sword has been stolen from the Gorgon, but the thief has died. The 3 brother mages, who are challenging the Chimera for sources, know where the sword is.
The party goes with Sayyid to the Chimera. The Chimera threatens the party to destroy the mages in return for giving them the sword's location.
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| 20/11/552 |
Mhowe: Arrive to investigate the oldest brother and his Ivory Tower.
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| 21/11/552 |
Brother Mage says the sword is in the Knight's Temple of Avani and gives the full location. Tells the party to visit his brother in the third tower
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| 22/11/552 |
Teleport to the Cyprus Tower and Rasan the Hasty. Rasan says the sword is to the south. The Brother Mages want the party to find a magical gate in the same place.
Going south, the party finds a ghost knight of Avani, Ecid el Sams. Idris lets himself be possessed so Ecid can travel to the temple. The party battle troglodytes to enter the temple. Inside the party finds a burial temple. Idris conducts a ceremony for Ecid. Ecid leaves.
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| 23/11/552 |
Idris discovers the Mace of Eternal Rest, which is given to Taerena who later finds that she can now turn or control undead. The party encounters the original architect of the ancient temple, who flees through giants and wemics. The wemics render Idris unconscious.
Discover the entrance to a collection of shadowgates. Raithenn alone enters a hidden room and finds the sword. Brokk tries to destroy the sword but the rest of the party stops him and are unsettled.
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| 23/11/552 |
Teleport back to the City of Anuire. Hand the sword to the Chancellor. Brokk is made to swear to discuss all actions that would affect those in the vicinity.
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| 26/12/552 |
Idris joins the Order of the Sun and made a knight of Avani. Aser is given into his care for training.
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| 11/1/553 |
Proudglaive, Roesone: The baroness is attacked in her court. The baroness is worried about a monster cult that has destroyed her lands and communities.
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| 13/1/553 |
Ghoried: The party returns to the stone circle. Down in the tunnels underneath, dinosaurs roam and the water starts to rise. The party escapes up to the circle. 3 orogs, a chimera and a wyvern await above, pinning the party down. The monsters regenerate themselves. Discover the cursed tableau above a stone arch. 'Stone shape' hides the tableau which stops the water rising and monsters reviving.
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| 14/1/553 |
Proudglaive: take the tableau stone far out to sea and drop it overboard.
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| 17/3/553 |
Devlin arrives and tells that the Book of Days, important diaries and other texts have been stolen. Names the rotound Tharus ibn Werit as a suspect.
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| 18/3/553 |
Ilien: investigate a report of a wagon of big books headed this way. No luck, but find signs that Ilien will be in the Shadow World tommorrow. Find a protected ring of silver around the city as people and animals flee. Just before dusk, notice action in the graveyard. The party stops the spell right on sundown by burning the covered wagon holding the casters, the ingredients and an invisible Raithenn. Ilien is saved. The diaries and other texts are in a second wagon.
Raithenn scries and finds that Ceredwyn is tied up in a warehouse somewhere.
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| 27/3/553 |
Anduria: The dead name Aelwyn of Endier as the other mage
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| 28/3/553 |
Village on route to Endier: Giant crayfish enters the square through the town well. Discover old orog chambers below village. A captured goblin says the Spiderking is dead. Battle a lich mage in the throneroom. Discover the orogs seemed to have worshipped Elole.
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| 30/3/553 |
Port near Endier: Hear the skull of the Spiderking is in Endier proper. Raithenn overhears Wencke asking for Tharus ibn Werit and that Tharus has a warehouse in the area. All fight skeletal horses at the tavern.
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| 31/3/553 |
Some of the party see the Spiderking skull being perserved. The party meet Wencke again at the harbourmaster's office. The harbourmaster mentions Yavien Similack as Tharus's agent. In the warehouse, Taerena identifies parts for ballistas.
The party climbs down below the warehouse, followed by Wencke in the shadows. Raithenn finds a secret entrance to a waterfilled cavern. While the party investigates elsewhere, Wencke enters the water. The party enters and catches Wencke. The party swims into another chamber and momentarily sees Ceredwyn, before being magically transported to Shadow World.
The party lands amongst a goblin refugee encampment. After healing the chieftan, the party promise to help rid the goblins of the ghoul threat that destroyed their city. In return, the party gets magical items, goblin soldiers and may find the way out.
The party questions Wencke. Learns Aeron D'Lor is Tharus's true name. Wencke's boss knows Ceredwyn. Raithenn scries that Aser has got help and Ceredwyn has been rescued.
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| + 3 weeks |
The party trains themselves and the goblins.
The party, the goblin king and his force head for the goblin city. Climb over the river that was dammed and rerouted into the city.
At the end of the main tunnel the party comes upon cloakers and a massive underground cavern. As a bat, Brokk scouts and finds a massive stalactite full of cloakers, a black lake, a cloaker city and a ghoul city.
Down a smaller tunnel, the party kills 2 ghoul sentries and locates a ghoul army of over 200 soldiers. In another tunnel, meet troglodytes who agree to help in the fight and provide vital information.
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| + 27 days |
The dam is destroyed and further goblins are found in the city and the tunnels. Allies from the unseelie court are found, including two 'elven' librarians who are really dragons. The history and power of the magi who were the first true ghouls is learnt.
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| + 29 days |
The ghoul army divides up and approaches from various flanks. The party destroys the battalion encountered at the goblin city. More ghoul are defeated by the party and its allies at the Jade Mine. One of the magi is killed after being questioned. The party and the dragons rush down the White Mine and defeat more ghouls just near the goblin village. The ghoul army is now shaken but not totally destroyed.
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| + 53 days |
Whilst on a reconnaisance patrol, the party enters the Ghost Forest and frees an unseelie banshee who had been killed and cursed by the ghouls. The banshee causes and destruction havoc among the ghouls, freeing a group of enslaved dwarves with Idris mopping up afterwards. The dwarves tell of new routes to the ghoul city.
The allied army is called for and sent down one path with Kriel and Raithenn to destroy a small outpost and then invade the city as a diversion. The party take another path to the city and enter the black gate palace through a rear wall. After surprising one of the magi with a silence spell and a fireball, the party combats him, his attendants and monsters until the magi flees. Below the throne room is the ghoul's orb of power surrounded by another magi and her assistants. During the battle, Brokk enlarges two shiny scarab beetles and uses them to help destroy the black orb. Kriel and Raithenn return and 4 seelie appear through a dimensional gate which transports the party to the seelie court. Brokk gains a follower, the goblin Grofa.
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| 6-11/6/553 |
Proudglaive: Arrive at the start of the major tournament of arms. Keridwen had been rescued. The Temple of Ruornil had been raided by unknown forces and priests were taken.The party investigates and ends up conducting extensive searches through the sewers. Idris sets fire to the methane and consequently the party more than once. A lot of wererats were encountered. Further research led back to the building near where the sewers were exited. Find and combat Aeron d'Lor and Similack, killing d'Lor. Similack escaped.
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| 12/6/553 |
A knight dies during the games. The poison is traced to an ex-girlfriend disguised as a food seller. Rumours start about possible conflicts starting between Avanil and Boeruine. Stories also tell of Avan and Rhuobh Manslayer battling, but this has not been verified. However, there is bad blood between the two as Avan's daughter tried to make a deal with Rhoubhe against her father, and Rhoubhe betrayed her. She was sent to Boeruine in punishment.
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| 20/7/553 |
The party decides to follow a treasure map found in d'Lor's belongings, hoping to find the Book of Laws at the marked tower.
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| 23/7/553 |
On route, the party stops at a ruined tower that was once the lab of a powerful mage and where an elven banshee haunts. Wencke turns up from his master's boat and helps defeat the banshee, right after the party battled a difficult demon. Raithenn picks up a cursed music box. The party leaves before the lab explodes.
The party had found two potions of longevity in the lab. After heated arguments between Brokk and Wencke, the party sold the potions to Wencke for his master, Damon Monjere.
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| 24/7/553 |
Arrive at what was thought to be the tower on the map. Battle with wyverns that had recently defeated an elven border post with griffon mounts. Suspicions that the map in fact may contain holes that are reference points for another map, and that this tower was not connected in any way. Raithenn later matches the pricks to points on a map of Mur-Kilad.
Meet with the local rangers. One, Arwen, stays with the party.
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| 29/7/553 |
Carlie: Party arrives via Monjere's boat in order to get a boat back to the city of Anuire and investigate the dispute between Avan and Boeruine. Monjere tells that the queen is dying of early onset of old age, hence the need for the longevity potion. However, she is practically quarantined by her two elven dukes and surrounded by guards. Wencke dimension doors Brokk and Raithen in to her sleeping chamber. Brokk as an owl distracts the guards whilst an invisible Raithenn gives her a dose of potion. All escape and return to the boat to leave immediately so that the Dukes hopefully will be unable to work out who went against their plans. Arwen stays with the party.
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| 6/8/553 |
Anuire: Knights are gathering in the city. Reports that Boeruine forces have somehow entered Avanil provinces via the mountains or Rhoube's lands and their invasion has been very quick so far and have captured Vanilen and Taliern. The assasination of a major figure is rumoured to be planned.
The chancellor reveals that the Sword of Roele was stolen from within its magically protected safe. Idris finds that the room has prtection against magic but not blood abilities. The theft was 3 months ago and rumours say that dwarves in Mur-Kilad have been commissioned to make a special sword.
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| 7/8/553 |
Raithenn leads the party to the building of the assasin. Brokk and Grofa rescue the wild animals that had been released from their cages. The rest join the Vos awnsheghlien killer, Teodor Profiev, in a fight with the assasin and gnolls. Idris finds a pigeon loft and one pigeon carries a message signed by the second son of Aeric Boeruine asking for Aeric's death. The message was enspelled with a geas-like spell that Idris shook off. The pigeon tells Brokk that it came from somewhere about Daulton.
Teodor states that he was in Boeruine four weeks before the armies left. At that time, nothing was getting ready for war. Aeric's sons were bickering but Aeric was taking no interest in them.
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| 8/8/553 |
Daulton: Brokk intercepts a pigeon carrying a message to Avanil forces
undercover in Taeghas, telling them to form up at the border of Boeruine.
Nothing important was found at the assassin's house but it was determined
that the assassination message was a forgery. The party decided to go to
Baruk-Azhik looking for the dwarves who are rumoured to be repairing the
Sword of Roele.
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| 27/8/553 |
Baruk-Azhik: Dwarven Baron Rodrigo agrees to help in exchange for the
recovery of three relics. The Shard of Noon and the Shard of Midnight were
swords and are placed in a silver base with the Baron's Shard of Dawn. The
two shards and base are believed to be in an ancient subterranean city
called Dwelling.
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| 32/8/553 |
Dwelling: Brokk temporarily teleports to the City of Anuire for Grofa's
druidic inauguration and finds out that Rhoubhe Manslayer seems to have
died or vanished. Just inside the entrance tunnels, an ambush is sprung by
dwarves and spiders. One of their gnome prisoners leads the party to what
reconstructed part of the city. The gnomes indicate that orogs have one of
the Shards and fishmen have the other. After clearing the mines of gas pod
plants and more spider bandits, the party is told by the gnomes that
myconoids have the silver hemispherical base to the relic.
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| 1/9/553 |
Dwelling: The Myconoids will hand over the base in return for a sample of
a poison used against them by the "tentacled" ones. Whilst the others
battle trolls, Raithenn enters a room containing 2 tentacled creatures who
teleport out, releasing their control on the trolls. The poison powder is
found and the hemisphere is surrendered.
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| 13/9/553 |
Orog settlement: The party battles its way into the settlement, Wencke
severely injuring his right foot. The party sneak up on a temple of
Alenecht (Belinik) and battle their way in through Orog priests and umber
hulks. The shard is hidden in the midst of darkness with three priestesses,
one of whom releases a Xorn. Wencke gets the sword and all escape the
temple, eventually leaving the settlement.
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| 14/9/553 |
Underground lake: A group of fishy kuatoa approach. Being no friends of
the orogs, the kuatoa are to swap the shard for information and maps about
the orogs. They also give directions on how to return to the gnomes without
going through the orog settlement.
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| 28/9/553 |
Baruk-Azhik: Raithenn secretly joins the parts of the relic, bar the
baron's sword. Suddenly, Wencke's foot regenerates. The baron adds his own sword to the relic.
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| 1/11/553 |
Baruk-Azhik: Brokk returns from the City of Anuire with the news that the
Boeruine/Avanil war is over. Avan was arrested and executed for starting
the war and ordering the murder of Boeruine and Boeruine's eldest son.
Avan's daughter is no longer missing and has become the new regent of
Avanil. She was previously under the protection of the second Boeruine son,
a cleric, who is the new regent of Boeruine. The two realms seem to be on
much better terms than in the past. Raithenn adds that the Gorgon seems to
be withdrawing his armies from the borders.
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| 2/11/553 |
Underground: At Stone's End, Mur-kilad, the dwarves supply paperwork and a
new guide. The party disguises itself as slave traders and weapons traders
and decides to chance using the main travel route. Many troops are pass by
in the corridors, but they don't seem to be preparing for war. The
paperwork gets the party through one checkpoint but Raithenn notices that
one of the gnolls there left. The only other combat was an ambush by
dwarven bandits.
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| 16/11/553 |
Capital city of Fallen Rock: Most of the population are soldiers and the
troops still seem to be moving back from the borders. The guide discovers
that the dwarven family that the party is searching for has been taken to
the Sere's Hold in the Gorgon's Crown and have been restricted to working
only on armour, not weapons.
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| 22/11/553 |
The Gorgon's Forge: The dwarven family is found but a particular gnoll
watches the party carefully. He reminds Raithenn of the one from the
checkpoint. Tanzig, the family leader, identifies a lady as being in
possession of the repaired sword. The dwarves are sneaked to a heavily
guarded door. The door is opened, revealing a magical laboratory containing
models of cities and maps, each in separate sections of the room. Fire
traps are laid, experimental notes are hastily grabbed and Wencke leads the
way on a wild ride to Calrie.
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| 23/11/553 |
Calrie: The sword woman is identified as the same woman who was at the
Queen's bed. However, the dwarves were originally given paperwork to repair
the sword for the Gorgon. The lady just convinced them to hand it to her
when they had finished. Raithenn speaks to the dead alchemist whose body
was carried from the lab. He admitted that the research was for a Shadow
Walk realm spell that could transport soldiers from any source to another
province, so the soldiers do not need to gathered together. The research
was very well advanced so the destruction of the lab wouldn't stop the
Gorgon. It would be cast by "someone very close to the Gorgon".
Aerenweans tell of dark dreams of ruins, dark willow trees and a spire
rising from a plateau. An orog in custody throws a hidden bag containing a
crystal to Idris then dies of a multitude of wounds that suddenly reopen.
Idris has a vision of the items being taken from and being placed in an
indent. An old elf tells of a pre-elf fire mage banished 35000 years ago
and the location of the ruins of his keep. The party captures cattle
rustlers.
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| 24/11/553 |
The Erebannien: The willow acts as a Shadow World gate. Most of the party
battles against goblins approaching a magical and physical wall that
surrounds the spire. Idris rids himself of metal and labours over to and up
the spire, followed by Brokk as an ape. Idris reaches the top and is
challenged by a demon in his own form. He destroys the large stone on an
altar, banishing the demon, and replaces it with the crystal. The goblins
vanish and a man, Malroth, appears. A lava moat is made around the wall.
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| 25/11/553 |
Shadow World: Wencke leads the party to the exit point for Calrie. The
Sidhe is informed of the Gorgon's plans to move armies through the Shadow
World and they agree to inform Brokk if they learn anything of his
activities here.
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| 27/11/553 |
Calrie: The awnsheghlien hunters, Andre, Turel and Carmel are introduced.
Carmel can detect the position of awnsheghlien and leads to a shadow
creature that has trouble seeing Brokk. When killed the creature makes a
shadow gate which is destroyed by Andre's explosive crossbow bolts. Most of
the party later returns and destroys more shadow gates.
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| 29/11/553 |
Calrie: Two days ago, an elf who knew the fire mage was found dead in
Monjere's kitchen after enormous heat erupted from the oven. The murderer
was not identified but Malroth was the chief suspect.
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| 30/11/553 |
Swamp near Calrie: Idris, Wencke and Brokk and 12 of Monjere's guards
battle a bandit army who had been attacking Monjere's caravans. The guards
and Brokk's magic hold back the general infantry whilst Wencke and Idris
attack the leaders.
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| 2/12/553 |
Calrie: Raithen and Idris return from Roesone with news. The Gorgon has
started to invade northern Anuire by teleporting forces to strategic
locations. The paladin Teodor has challenged the Gorgon to a duel. The
Gorgon wants the party to be present at the event and deliver Teodor a
teleport stone which will take transport everyone to Marloer's Gap, which
the Gorgon claims will be in his hands by the time of the challenge. The
Gorgon seems to know a lot of each member of the party but not everyone
gives a definite yes or no to the Gorgon's request. The decision of the
party is to find Teodor and question him about the nature of the duel.
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