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5th of Nightal, 1492

Aronin's Downfall

by Wizard of the Blue Thunderbolts Aronin Hazenscar

Back in Skalnaedyr, Aronin made his report on the transport of the dragon and took the time to have a nice dinner. At dinner The Outsiders agreed that their best course of action was to venture back to Evermeet. Once with Bargala, Eldred explained a terrible and threatening dream he had the night before and Aronin suggested that what was forgotten was his holy symbol, that the symbol of Selûne was holding back some sort of evil. Bargala transported The Outsiders with a teleport circle and Aronin took a great interest in it. The Outsiders arrived at Eldred's commune in Mirabar on the 7th of Nightal and spent time with the monk, Master Habb, that gave Eldred his holy symbol. The next morning as The Outsiders walked back to Mirabar and found a door floating along the path. With a stride of confidence, Aronin approached it and declared, "Fortune favors the bold."
 
Nigh on sucked into the door, Aronin falls into area through it, a passage way lined with stone. Stood up by Eldred, who claims it was where he was from, Aronin encouraged, "let's go in and find out who owns the place."
 
Inside The Outsiders meet Barney, an attendant, who guided the group to a room full of others. He did tell the group that Eldred was not born of the maze of tunnels. On a stage a man appeared in white robes with gold trim, he addressed the crowd as adventurers. He explained that fate choose each person to be a representative of the tower. He explained that the tower represents life and choice but it has adversarial agents. The man offered a choice to leave but allowed questions. He explained that the tower is the central point of all life and creation, that Eldred was sent by a man whom claimed to be his father, he claimed that the tower is a place of magic, and that Eldred's clock is from his home and that it is from his father. Once in a room with the man, Eldred looked out a window there and saw an impossible length of tower going down with massive beams of light shooting out from the tower above. After each member looked through window Aronin asked and was informed that the lights were in fact the many worlds connected to the tower.
 
Down a series of stone stairs The Outsiders are taken to a room with a powerful being whom chose Aronin and then Eldred but not Osa. Stepped forward, he two were offed a choice ultimate power and an inevitability or to serve the tower. In his head Aronin thought to himself, "we're not aware of darkness when we sleep, so if we go into sleep, into unconsciousness, for always and always it wouldn't be like going into the dark, it wouldn't be at all like being buried alive. It would be as if, as for a matter of a fact, as if we never existed at all and not only for us but for everything, for us all. It would be as if we had never been. Everything comes to an end, eventually it all stops. I embrace the inevitable." Aronin then stepped off and felt worlds of knowledge and power flow into him.

Continue reading...

  1. The Story of His First Adventure
    22nd of Marpenoth, 1492
  2. Aronin's Adventure in Evermeet
    28th of Marpenoth, 1492
  3. Aronin's Adventure With a Dragon
    5 Uktar, 1492
  4. Aronin's Return Home
    4th of Nightal, 1492
  5. Aronin's Downfall
    5th of Nightal, 1492