March 603
3-14-603 (Friday)
It was good to adventuring again after such a long break away while Kiril
got his Barony in order. I like staying at the fortress and everything, but
sometimes I just want to get away from it all and go play. I can do that, Kiril
wouldn't stop me, but after exploring the forests nearby for the last year, I
was glad to get to do something new. We arrived late in Nunverhill to find the
city virtually empty. There were a few people we knew and a few newcomers, but
otherwise the place looked a ghost town. Maybe it has something to do with that
entropy dragon that was loosed over Vaukir. Maybe the citizens were finally sick
of the way they were being treated. Maybe it was the smell of the place? Who
knows. Needless to say, there wasn't much to do. We fought a few small things (I
don't even remember what they were now, and some big black troll came in looking
for Yr'lie (it said it's boss thought she was special), but other then that we
just sat around and caught up on things that had been happening while we were
apart.
3-15-603 (Saturday)
The afternoon started out pretty interesting with us us trying to chase down
a kobold who had assaulted Crimson and stole his shoes and sword. I always
thought he was a good fighter, so how the kobold got his sword...much less his
shoes...is beyond me, but there ya go. I know we caught it a few times, but
seeing as how we were pretty bored, we'd just let it go so it could hassle
Crimson. Poor guy.
Later that night we went to retrieve an item for Yr'lie out of the lair of
Avertive's lair. It was supposed to be a stealth mission but with Yr'lie glowing
like the noonday sun and undead calling out APPLE wherever we turned, it was
anything but. In fact, I thought it was a bit too easy for having to fight so
much and it being this HUGE undead guy's house. Oh and by the way, APPLE, CORE,
and PIE, are not the return words for APPLE if you go there. I don't know what
it is, but I'm sure it's tasty.
Anyway we finally got to this room with a big alter in it and sealed doors on
the far side. Kiril and Max took turns jumping on the alter trying to answer a
riddle while I looked around. The jumping was obviously getting us nowhere, so finally
Max suggested I trap the sealed doors just n case. Thinking that a good idea, I
got bits of string out and some cheese to bait the undead. No sooner had I
stooped to find a crevice in which to set my trap, then the doors flew
open... I looked up just in time to see a banshee and a wight...then it
was dark, and light, and dark, and light...blessed light! As soon as I opened my
eyes, I jumped up and ran. Kiril was there and I could hear the banshee
screaming at the top of it's lungs. Some of the others were running away and
Yr'lie was piecing together the broken bodies of a few of my comrades. I tried
to help, but the undead didn't even seem to notice I hacking at them. Stupid
sword. I saw Kiril trying to take out the banshee, and I ran to help (how I
don't know, but the intent was good, yes?). It saw me and I fell to one of it's
shrieks. When I woke in a shadow and Max standing over me, I saw that Kiril had
also fallen, only he did so behind enemy lines. I ran around not really doing
anything but being a distraction as I tried to find help, since that was really
all I could do. I watched now from behind this tree where I was hiding as Max
tried to save Kiril and Meissen, Max...both of them suffering the same fate. I
was yelling for someone to help them and eventually Yr'lie came to help me. I
like those courage spells, they really make you less afraid. In fact, I was
brave enough to try a rescue myself. I threw my sword (useless) and shield (also
useless) to the side and pushed Cerebus (who was imprisoned) toward the banshee
and my freids who lay dying. I knew if I could just get Kiril up that he could
save Max and Meissen. He always saves us...right?
Eventually I got as close as I could without actually asking the banshee to kill
me. I hoped that Kiril had a life item that he hadn't used. I could jump and
possibly twist out of the way of any harm, but once I landed I only had a few
seconds to help and then I would die as well. It was worth it. So I took a deep
breath and the last thing I heard was the banshees shriek...
Guess I didn't make it because when I saw the light again, Kiril was fighting and Max and Meissen
were standing. Apparently I had missed something. Oh well, they were alive! It's
a good thing too, I would have really missed them. Anyway, the undead finally
crumbled around us and Max went to work looking for the item. We found more then
we bargained for and though tempted to take it, Yr'lie cautioned us to leave all
but what we came for. We did and bid a hasty retreat.
There was more to do, but nothing that required our help, so we went back to the
cabin to lick our wounds and regroup. All seemed well until Yr'lie returned. She
seemed somber and upset, so of course we knew immediately that something was
wrong. Before she could get any words out, she began to cry. Apparently all we
had done was for nothing. Avertive had a laid a trap for her and we had all
fallen for it. It was nothing more then a setup...we all almost died for
nothing. No wonder she was so upset. We calmed her down and seeing that no one
had died, everything would be ok. She nodded and we set off to find something to
take our minds off this catastrophe.
No sooner had we walked but a few yards from our cabin did a Death Knight
approach and hand us a letter. We killed it and saw that the letter was from
another undead that worked for Avertive. In it he spoke of how he could help us
change what had happened, how he knew what to do. Yr'lie was not to be tricked
again. Instead, she burned the letter so that no one else would fall for it.
The night was quiet after that, just the sounds of crickets and the occasional
thump in the night. Maybe I have just become to accustomed to the luxuries of
the fortress not to notice anything else...
3-19-603 (Wednesday)
Bramus and I discussed Garn and Edwin. Basically how Garn had worked with Diakaryu in Uradi doing some of the more horrible things your mind could possibly conjur up. How he had also threatened me and my brother, Booger, in ways I refuse to mention here.
As for Edwin... Well, if you know the name, I have nothing to explain.
3-24-603 (Monday)
I met Sir Bramus' brother, Lord Kallis, today. We only talked a moment, but he seems a decent man. Anyone related to Sir Bramus must be.