To help us get accustomed to this strange environment, I'll follow the surface world calendar in keeping this diary. The current year is 1002 AC and today is 13 Thaumont. 1

Thaumont

[14] We're told some infos about our victim to-be. He is Greenleaf Vickers of the darokinian Umbarth House. He will travel from Akesoli to Akorros, then Darokin, Favaro and at last Alfheim. We look at the map and decide to attack him near Favaro.
Should we have troubles, we may get in touch with Allandros, an elf who works in the West Bank in Darokin. We fix a meeting with the Second shadow guy for 25 Flaurmont in Crowlerd.
We have forged identities, we pretend to be elves from Wendar, a far away place, and our names will be: Ishmael, Dosshell and Calambour respectively for Ciclosporel, Goridiel and me.

[15] Today starts the first period of light adaptation, for the first 3 days we shall travel only from sunset to dawn. Unfortunately the first day we get lost and go back to the starting spot, at least this is what we think.

[16] We got lost again and now we haven't the faintest idea of our position, probably we're walking round and round again. This mission seems harder than what we believed. 2

[17] Finally Ishmael is light adapted. Now we can start orienting ourselves in this foreign and weird world.

[18] Dosshell too is light adapted, not me. This day is ne fasti because it matches 2 Shaman.

[20] During the night, while resting in a cave, we're attacked by a group of gnashingly gray-furred quadruped creatures waiting for our flesh. 3 In vain.

[24] We reach Favaro and I'm light adapted too, at last. We look for informations about the Umbarth House. Until now all went right.

[25] We start "hunting" heading south on the road to Darokin.

[26] We encounter a caravan bearing the emblem of Umbarth House. Dosshell through charme and invisibility succeed in entering in main cart and in killing Greenleaf. We flee unnoticed.

[27] Probably something went wrong, maybe an elf or half-elf replaced our victim, maybe we made a mistake, maybe there is something bigger underneath.

[28] We start doubting what is the real purpose of our mission. At Umbarth House they don't give much weight to our ambush.

Flaurmont

[1] We decide to get in touch with Allandros in Darokin.

[3] We're in Darokin, something is wrong: Allandros knows nothing of our mission and suggest us to reach the Broken Lands or clan Taijits in Ethengar. Suddenly the guards burst in and we must flee. We can't do anything for Allandros.

[4] By now we're wanted. We try to reach Crowlerd, where we've a meeting on 25 Flaurmont.

[25] Avoiding the main roads and getting lost several times, we finally reach Crowlerd. The guy who hired us, tells us that our attack was only a diversion for their main attack. We decide to spend some time in the surface world, we'll head toward the area east of Lake Amsorak.

Yarthmont

[1] We pass by Akorros. Now try to avoid the towns, because we're outlaws.

[17] We're in Akesoli, preparing for entering Sind.

[18] We're looking for the right equipment to face this new adventure. We choose the Pennydown stores to find some magical equipment, but it's too expensive so we don't buy anything. We meet a Sindian magic user, who speaks in a funny way.

[19] We're at the Darokinian border and we exit Darokin without problems.

Footnotes:

1: Date according to the Thyatian calendar, which has 12 months of 28 days each.

2: This first trouble, although transitory, made us feel nervous and demoralized.

3: These creatures are named Dire Wolves.

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Diary written by Igor Betti and translated by 'Brizio.