[1] We're escorted to our territories by Sgt. Chanel 1 and 5 more soldiers.

[2] Some Rockmen blocks the way asking 500 Bright to let us go on. We aren't scared at all and try to crush them. We manage to do that easily, despite the death of one of our soldiers.

[7] We're finally in our territories.

[9] A new patrol gives relief to our escort. We meet again Sgt, Liabel. 2

[13] Our escort is changed again in Larkpoint Castle. Tamil, a Watcher of the Second Shadow, will take us to the City of the Stars.

[19] We're right under the City of the Stars, It's an astonishing view for us, that lived for about two years far from our territories.

[20] Finally home !

[..] We make a brief (actually not so brief) synopsis of what happened to us, describing places and people. For about a month we leave our witness to the Second Shadow, hoping to increase the knowledge of our people in the surface world.

[20] I'm drafted in the Celebryl Air Force and I have to train hard. My flight companion is named Silver and is a wonderful Skinwing about 4 years old. During my first flight I overcome successfully all tests, but on the way home an unpleasant accident overthrows me from the saddle. I manage to survive casting fly.

Temple

[20] My former companions are assigned to a watch at Nymiel's Geyser. Goridiel is now member of the Second Shadow, while Ciclosporel is again a Shadow Elf shaman.

[22] We receive a call for help from the area where my friends were sent. Me and my wingman, an elf nicknamed Iceman, rush there.
We arrive in the middle of a fight against some Red Worms and a Fyrsnaca. We soon defeat those monsters and in the evening I go back to the City of the Stars.

[23] I continue making training flights over the City of the Stars in order to improve my flying skills and to establish a stronger feeling with my Skinwing.

[24] From a geyser in the area where my friends are working exits a Fire Elemental. I'm nearby, but the readiness and skill of my friends makes my interventio useless.

Food

[2] I'm called again because a monstruos huge worm is causing troubles to my friends. While nearing the area I notice that it's a Purple Worm and, with distress, that Goridiel is absent because he has been swallowed by the creature. We manage to defeat it and recover the body of my unlucky friend (still alive, of course).

[4] A new treath requires my intervention in the area of the geyser. This time there're 7 Fire Salamanders. During the harsh fight we suffer some casualties, but we win.

[5] My friend are transferred to Dendromel village. I'm allowed to patrol the same area.

[16] Nefasti day that reminds the return of the 2nd group of explorers from the surface world. My friend are sent back to the City of the Stars.

[17] I'm allowed a leave until the 1st of Days.

[18-24] I stroll around the city looking for info on how to get a magical leather armor. The Thaumaturgist 3 asks us to bring him a certain amulet of Balthys in exchange for such an armor. He gives us an incomplete map with the possible whereabouts of that object.
Probably it is located somewhere near Red Rock Bellows. It looks a hopeless quest, but Quanafel tells us he can even wait 50 years.

Days

[1] The Temple of Rafiel calls us for help, because a boat loaded with Soul Crystals disappeared in the Dragon Lake area. The boat misteriously sunk into the Sojourner River just west of Alfmyr. We'll sail there immediately.

[6] We reach the town of Renathys, we should reach the sinking area tomorrow.

[7] We arrive in the area. We 4 drink a water breathing potion 5. I cast some protective spells and we dive. On teh river-bed we find the ship, it has a big tear on one side, about 2 meters wide.
A big Cat Fish tries to spoil us the day, but he doesn't bother us too much.
Suddenly a big seven-headed Hydra springs out of the opening on the ship. To make things even worser a shoal of Piranha joins the fray. Soon a furious fight breaks out and Ciclosporel joins the battle too. The blood triggers the killing frenzy of Piranhas, we flee on our boat. We wait until things calm down, then we plunge again to recover the crates of Soul Crystals and the equipment of dead sailors and soldiers. We also a find a finely crafted sword.

[8] We go upstream until we reach the town of Renathys.

[9] Ciclosporel gets up telling us about some obscure dreams, but he doesn't want to give us too much info about that. We manage to learn that they're about the mission offered us by the Thaumaturgist in City of the Stars.

[10] During the night something hits one of the sailors bringing him underwater. It's a sort of water creature. Ciclosporel and Goridiel plunge in the river and manage to rescue the elf. We defeat that creature and save the sailor's life.

[11] A group of Water Termites try to feed on our boat. We plunge and successfully fight those creatures.

[12] We reach the entrance to Ebon Lake.

[13] We reach City of the Stars, where we're greeted by a female Shaman and Captain Vinavil. A Colorless Shaman praises us and rewards Ciclosporel with a magical chain mail.
The Royal archivist 6 examines the finely crafted sword. It's an elvish blade from clan Red Arrow in Alfheim (surface elves).

[16] Goridiel goes to the Army's Archives to look for info on our surface sword.
While I'm strolling around in the city I'm approached by a young elf. He has been sent by the owner of a bazaar 7 to congratulate with us for our recent success (this elf is probably looking for customers).

[20] We decide to leave for a long journey to seek the amulet the Thaumaturgist asked for. We'll sail the Sojourner river upstream till we reach Rastignac, then we'll continue overland.

[22] In the evening we leave the Ebon Lake. Till now the trips has been rather calm.

[24] We reach Renathys, where we'll stop for a couple of days.

Army

[1] Mustering Day. We stop in Renathys for the census of all available soldiers. Ciclosporel receives new dreams, but he's unwilling to tell us their meaning.

[2] We leave again for Alfmyr. It sounds as if the trouble with Geonids has worsened; I'm afraid for my realtives.

[3] We're in Alfmyr. The situation is really terrible here, there're guards and shamans everywhere and the every business is heavily escorted and guarded. We ask to be brought to General Siristel to offer our help. We'll try to enter in the occupied tunnels to free a few elves kidnapped by Geonids (my father is probably among them, I'll never forgive myself should something happen to him). We'll go there with a Tunnel Shaper and a few miners.

[4] My anger cries for vengeance while we near the area haunted by Geonids. May Rafiel guide my sword.
We leave the city of Alfmyr to the north and start crossing the strip of land patrolled by the army.

[5] We make our way more and more into the caves, we're still in a relatively safe area, but we're naering the unprotected tunnels.

[6] As soon as we enter the Geonids' lair we're ambushed by 3 of these creatures. After a harsh battle (they're as hard as rock) we manage to defeat them. We discover a secret room obstructed by a huge rock. The Tunnel Shaper passes trough the rock and finds out where the prisoners are kept. While freiing the prisoners I notice a strange movement in one of the tunnels we used to enter here. I warn my friends and we get ready for a new fight. The Tunnel Shaper brings the prisoners to safety; I cast a lightning bolt then we assault the remaining Geonids exterminating them. The Tunnel Shaper seals the caves' mouth then we move away heading back to Alfmyr.

[7] We reach the city and we're cheered by its dwellers.

[9] General Siristel congratulates us for our excellent work.

[10] We look for a boat that can carry us up to Rastignac along the Sojourner River.

[13] In Rastignac we buy rations (30 gp) that should last till we reach Noran. We'll have to use several longstride during our journey because we'll cross rough terrain and we have rations till 5 King.

[14] Today we leave and I celebrate my 123th birthday. Goridiel, unusually generous, presents me with an extinguishing dagger.
We cross "The Shards". During the night Ciclosporel has a new dream, but he doesn't want to tell us more.

[16] During the night a Tuatara breaks into our camp, but we quickly kill it thanks to a lighting bolt and a single slash of my sword.

[18] We advance into the Alfden Desert. During the night 4 elves with dark cloaks approach our camp. They all have weapons and wear dark clothes. One of them keeps aloof, his face concealed by a hood. They try to persuade Ciclosporel to follow them, but there's something wrong with them (it sounds as if they have never heard about Rafiel, they seem to worship Atzanteotl).

Editor's note: here a page is missing. I asked Balinor about this, here follows his later account.
"If I recall correctly we defeated those evil Shadow Elves, but their leader managed to flee away using fly and invisibility. A few days later we encountered some Giant Scorpions. Me and Cicloporel died, but Goridiel somehow managed to save our life."

King

[3] Alive again...
8 Me and Ivan are patient in the rooms of the local garrison. The captain admonishes us for our recklessness. We consult each other and decide to reach the Citadel of Saulia to aquaint the military with the news of our encounter with evil Shadow Elves. We leave by river.
Late in the evening we reach the Fortress (one of the four big fortresses of our kingdom). We, or better Goridiel, look for a member of the Second Shadow.
We tell to a Snake and a Shaman what happened to us.
We resupply again. In a few days we'll start again our journey, just after having some R&R.

[6] We sail upriver to Narfrendal's Krak getting there late on King 7.

[8] We buy 3 canoes and go upstream. During the night the attack of a Giant Slug suddenly awakes us.

... pages missing because of slugs' drivel ...

[15] A Water Weird attacks us. Despite my boldness, the creatures seizes me and pulls me underwater. My friends manage to kill the creature and pull me out of the water, but I think I'll have to correct my behaviour.

[16] We reach the mouth of the tunnel 9 that should lead us to the cavern with the volcano and leave her our canoes. While we're getting ready to go, 2 Crab Spiders attacks us. Unfortunately before dying one of them bites Goridiel poisoning him. Luckily there's a military patrol in the nearby; they help us and save our friend's life.
The patrol is here because of the recent tremors and they advise us to move with care in the tunnel, that is not completely safe.

[17] We notice the lifeless bodies of two soldiers laying in the middle of the cavern, near a stalagmite. We get closer: my companions try to move away the corpses, while I take up my weapons and get ready for everything. Despite our caution we're surprised by the stalagmite that becomes lively trapping us in 3 tentacles suddenly peeped out of its body.
I manage to free myself and to cast a lighting bolt on the creatures, before it manages to bite Goridiel, who is in serious conditions. The same Sergeant that we met yesterday jumps in again and helps us against the creature. We manage to free ourselves, than I stuff myself of protection spells and cast a web on the creature blocking it for a while. Not much time, but enough to get out of te area. The Sergeant escorts us until we meet his patrol.

[21] We exit the tunnel and enter the main cave where we're attacked by 2 basilisks. Goridiel manages to paralyze them and we go on without problems.

[22] We're nearing the volcano: temperature rises and the air gets sour. Several bats 10 and strange flaming creatures fly in the area, We decide to ignore them and keep going on heading for the southern slopes of the volcano 11.
While walking near a pool of lava I'm hit by a squirt of molten rock that seriously injures my leg. Ciclosporel heals me, then we look for a safe camping site.

[23] Early in the morning I ask the shaman to heal me again.
Some Fundamentals (sort of flaming wings) try to annoy us. Yesterday's wounds don't look so serious, since I'm able to kill 4 of this creatures with just 4 strikes.
We keep marching toward the volcano, but suddenly the earth shakes again and a Caecilia pops up near us. I cast mirror image and get ready for battle, but the Caecilia gets back underground.
We set up camp again near the volcano's southern slopes.

Others

[1] In the morning we find a cave big enough to allow us to get inside. We decide to explore it. After walking down a tight passage we enter a circular room. Goridiel finds a secret recess that allow us to enter a secret room where we find lot of money, an amulet, a belt, a spear and a long pole. We hastily get out of the cave, but at the exit we find a big pillar of crackling flames. We desperately try to avoid it, my friends use invisibility while I cast protection from evil after dropping all my equipment on my floating disk.
Later we meet again at our camp.

[2] In the morning we try to evaluate the quality of our treasure. The talisman is somehow linked to earth and movement, while the spear has a returning power (maybe it's cursed?).

[3] I kill a Rock Python.

[4] A Darksnap bites me seriously wounding my right arm.

[6] I stone to death an Albino Cave Spider.

[9] We reach Arlirath, little village at the edge of the great cavern, and decide to rest here for a while. We look for a room in the local inn. The innkeeper directs me toward the village healer (an old female) to cure my wounded hand.
The healer puts some fungal mixture on my hand, tomorrow I should feel better.

[10] My hand is OK! We're finally ready to head for home. We hope to reach City of the Stars before the last day of the year. We enter the tunnel taht leads to the Belfry of Thirith.

[14] We reach the Belfry and decide to rest here for 2 days, because tomorrow is a ne fasti day that commemorates a plague in Alfmyr.

[19] There's a Hypnosnake on our way: we kill it. During the night a Caecilia attacks our camp.

Missing pages: events for the months of Bounty and Gathering are unfortunately missing. Anyway I remember that we managed to reach City of the Stars before the year's end.

[17] We meet the other soldiers by the Boiling Lake, where a major patrolling of the nearby caves is under way because of recent humanoid attacks. We're divided in to two squads: the first one is commanded by Sgt. Lefanafil. Despite my rank of common soldier, I've the honour of being appointed commander of the second squad, that includes Goridiel, Ciclosporel and 15 young elves.
The two squads will patrol by turns a tunnel that leads from our territories up to the humanoids ones. The other squad takes the first turn. I spend my time among the young elves of my squad in order to know them better.

[20] There's a fast and furious battle between the other squad and a group of orcs, but this doesn't cause us any problem.

[2] An entreating and wounded elf comes toward us from the orcs' tunnel. Ciclosporel helps him and brings him to the Captain. It's a member of Second Shadow, who was captured by orcs. He and his teammate were bringing back important papers, that currently are in the orcs' fangs. Me, Goridiel, Ciclosporel and this member of Second Shadow will attempt to save the prisoner and recover those documents. We'll have to enter a orcs' camp (about 100 orcs) unseen and recover both the documents and the other member of Second Shadow; all of this has to be done in the fastest and most discreet way. In the evening we get near the orcs' camp.

[3] [CENSORED]

[5] Back from the orcs' camp we tell our ranking officers what's happened and we also make a detailed report about the orcs' village we assaulted.

[6] The two Snakes leave our outpost heading back home, the one I rescued promises me that I'll get a reward when I'll be back at the CAF barracks in City of the Stars. We get back to our standard duties.

[8] During my squad's turn someone gives the alarm and we get ready for an enemy assault. It's a matter of orcs and goblins. Goridiel casts a Phantasmal Force spreading confusion among them and allowing us to easily finish the work. In the attacking group there's probably also a wicca, but we're unable to find him.

[12] We head back for Boiling Lake, our patrol time is out.

[17] At Boiling Lake we separate from the rest of the group and decide to go back to City of the Stars.

[23] Finally home! I go to the CAF barracks to receive my wage and to see what did the Snake leave me: it's a box with 8 long brown cylinders 12. Sgt. Domedron is interested in my magical dagger 13 (he's a collector) and buys it for 2,200 brights.

[24] We're summoned in the Meeting Hall of the Military Headquarters where we find ourselves in the presence og the Radiant General. It's an impressive show and we feel in awe. We're given an new important mission on the surface, moreover I'm appointed Sergeant.

Footnotes:

1: Chanel was our comrade during our first training in the army. Nice to see him again.

2: Liabel was our Sgt. in Blackstone Hollow.

3: Quanafel of Quanafel's Thaumaturgy

4: Me and Goridiel drink the potion and plunge in the river, while Ciclosporel stays on the ship.

5: The Temple kindly supplied us with 5 water breathing potions.

6: This elf is actually Falanen.

7: Maflarel's Emporium.

8: We're in Noran.

9: Shyrdael's Way.

10: Actually Steam Bats.

11: Red Rock Bellows.

12: Shireton cigars.

13: +1, +2 vs. lychantropes.