Brigan 29

Dearest Diary,
 
Its been another slew of activity these past few days (don't these people ever take a day off?). I had just barely settled in for the night following our mine excursion when Ergan decided to send an elemental to kidnap Erwood (Ergan could have at least kept him, instead of sending him back). Then the following day, I'm barred from seeing Thula, and so my hopes at tweaking Ergan's nose were thwarted. I can only hope that the letter I left at her window finds its way to her. Surely if she can make contact with the other Thula's, they can make her see reason.
There was also some business with soul marks that my companions were struggling with (apparently Ergan provided a ritual to aid them). It wasn't any of my business, but I have started taking a liking to Olma (her bashfulness can be so adorable), so I decided to stick around and help. And what a mistake that was. Of course Ergan's ritual would summon a demon that nearly kills me for my efforts. Thank Chandra I was able to flee and find a healer. I really am starting to think it prudent to looking into enabling teleportation with my shadow magic.
Afterwards, we're rushing off to Intai (via teleportation!) at the behest of a disgraced ambassador. Normally I wouldn't have agreed, but he did pay a large sum upfront and on of the Eyes is apparently in Intai. There's certainly a charm to the crystal architure, but it all looks too uniform; a cityscape should have some irregularities, so that you can appreciate each individual buildings. Intai's cityscape looks like one big mass. Never mind the glowering statues of Intai's founder (certainly didn't make me feel welcome!). The guardians that we encountered at the government building we arrived at were easy enough to fool and they couldn't sense our invisible companions (I bet Intai is full of foreign spies). Things did eventually take a turn for the worse when we got a bit too impatient (a clerk or two may have been assaulted), and, feeling a bit impulsive, I decided to separate from the group to look for the Eye. Had a run in with the man we were sent to investigate (Tak, or "the navigator", as San keeps referring to him as). Thankfully, he was very polite, and offered to reunite me with my companions, which gratefully agreed to. Once gathered, he offered us the Eye in exchange for a truly heinous act (that I'd rather not even repeat), but luckly, I was able to convince him to give us another task: killing Torbin. He did feel that we had to be tested first before he was certain that we could handle Torbin. A bit arrogant of him to think that he could test us himself; he barely lasted a minute against us, before falling over.
Oh, and then all of the Abyss broke loose, literally.
Honestly, Diary, it seems each horror I encounter keeps getting replaced by an even worse one. I can't describe the terror I felt when demons started invading the city. That ominous red lightening; the draconic fiend that crushed Tak and gave chase to my poor Brujo; and the unseen screams echoing from all over the city. And I was so worried for Olma when she fell down a fissure (and apparently say some strange thing down there).
We were able to save the city in the end. We had to activate some powerful device was capable of purging all chaotic influence within the city, which I only realize as I write this, that such defense measures were obviously needed to protect the city from all the planar rifts in the nearby Bedlam Isles. However, our reward for saving Intai, was imprisonment!
"No good deed goes unpunished in the Silent Lands", as they say.
We were eventually released, although San was nearly executed. The only silver lining was that we were able to charter a ship with a most handsome dragon man. Don't worry diary, I'll be sure to keep you updated on all the juicy details with that one, in the coming days.