For a couple of gatherings now in Neridia, myself and
my companion Kabaka have been searching for an ancient
sword. Now, I do not know as much about this sword as
Kabaka does, so I cannot comment much on its exact
nature, but it seems to be very powerful.
At the last Neridia gathering, Kabaka took a group of
people to search for a map which would get us the
first part of the Sword. His group did manage to find
the map, but had to wait until the timing was right to
go in after the sword itself.
Kabaka, though, knew he was leaving town, so he gave
the map to me before he went, and asked me to bring
the same group in again to go after the sword. I told
him that I would do so, but that my only request was
that I wished to allow my friend Lili to come along.
Kabaka and I haggled over this point for a little
while, but eventually I won out, and he agreed that
Lili could come on the adventure.
It took me a long time, though, to find the dwarves
who were supposed to lead us into the cavern, as they
were the only ones who knew when it would be
unguarded, and so were necessary to the expedition.
When I finally found them, I gathered up a group
consisting of Kabaka, who was back by then, Draco,
Onida, Saphire, Zoku, MacGregor, and Lili to accompany
me in to find the sword.
I promised Lili that she could act as the primary
healer for the mission, and that I would take a
backseat, because I think such experience is valuable,
and it was a good opportunity for her to learn. I
decided that I would act as a fighter, because it is
one of my more foolish tendencies that I consistently
try to use my weapon where I should be using spells.
The undead that attacked us were unlike any I had ever
seen before, and things quickly spiraled out of
control. They shambled at us, barely able to move,
missing major parts of their bodies, but when you
knocked them down, they got right back up again.
Before long, I noticed that Lili had gone down, and I
decided to step up my attack. I got Lili back up, and
then began pumping healing into people,
unintentionally taking over as primary healer for the
mission due to the circumstances.
As we fought deeper into the cavern, finally we found
a necromancer who we believed may have been
responsible for the deformed undead. I tried to get
to him, but the shambling undead blocked my path. It
was especially problematic because you might think an
undead was down, but they would get back up and start
pelting your leg with their weapon. Finally I learned
to take nothing for granted.
At one point in the battle, Draco went down, and when
he got back up he came after me. I tried awakening
him, but it had no effect. Realizing that he was
undead, I took him down with some help from Kabaka,
and then lifed and healed him. The necromancer
appeared confused, as he had been confident that there
were no life spells floating around.
At this point, I decided the necromancer had to be
dealt with, and so I went right after him, slipping
through the line of undead to do so. Lili hit him
with a destroy undead spell, but it had no effect.
Realizing that he was in fact alive, I began pelting
him with my spear many, many times, and eventually he
succumbed to it. As he went down, most of the undead
seemed to lose their will to fight, and finally
remained down.
We did manage to find a fragment of the sword, but we
are still searching for the other pieces. We hope
that the dwarves will eventually give us more clues.
And we hope that we don't have to fight the undead
that won't die again.
Scribed by Seronia on the 28th day of August in the
year 602.