Some Early Timeline and Events from the Diary of Adaon

The excerpt is taken from Adaon of Datova's diary, and therefore is from his perspective. Adaon is a sorcerer and mage [player character]. Adaon mentions several people, such as Lord X, who also some kind of wizard, specific type he keeps hidden, possibly a diviner or other type of witch. Some of these are players, other are NPC's. As time progresses (in the real world) these will all be added to the world and campaign with their own links and articles.
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Very Early Spring, Day 1: Adaon and Lord X both respond to a posting for adventurers by the captain of the guard. An unrevealed document of some importance was stolen from the Lord of the City's library. Three suspects left town that day in different directions, one by ship and two by land. The one by ship is already being pursued by others. We both separate to investigate our own sources- Lord X via underground and Adaon reading people.
Day 2 They reconvene at Datova's arena to watch a big tournament as they both have money riding on it. While we are discussing what we've found out, we are overheard by a female human bard and a Jarai adventurer sitting behind us. She leans forward and says “I'm coming!” Adaon: Congratulations! Her: No! I mean- Adaon: Was it the rhythmic stomping when the champion entered? It can set up quite the resonance through the benches- Her: No, I want to come with y- er, Adaon (looking back appreciatively, she's very pretty): Oh absolutely, what I'm doing can wait. Lord X(covering face): The thief is gaining ground on us, we don't have a day for that. Her: I want to help catch the thief! Adaon: Oh, well, we could use some help with that, I guess. .... Her: ... a day? Adaon: Well, we're in a hurry.
They reconvene in the evening at the inn Gravnar the Jarai is staying at, the bard is introduced as Myrrien. Discussing plans further, Lord X notices an Ælf eavesdropping. He attempts to be mysterious and intimidating, though Adaon undermines it by being jovial and inviting her over. Scanning her surface thoughts while exchanging pleasantries, he gleans that she is a friend of one of the suspects Althea) and that suspect was told she was a decoy. Adaon: So who are you and what brings such a lovely Ælf to our fair city? Ælf: I'm Lilliana, I was passing through to visit a friend. And you? Adaon: I'm Adaon, the world's second-greatest lover. Oh, and healer, mage, and sorcerer. Lilliana: Oh. .. second greatest? What about the greatest? Adaon: I'm hoping I just met her. Lilliana (flustered, turns to Lord X): I didn't catch your name. Lord X: Exactly. Gravnar: That's an unusual name. Adaon: You could call him X for short. Lord X (glares) Adaon (shrug): It's better than 'Zactly. Myrrnien: I have a southern friend named Zack-Lee, that would get confusing. Adaon: Perhaps Lord X, that sounds more dignified. Lord X (Still glaring but slightly mollified): ...fine.
Through conversation Adaon pulls out the same information out of Lilliana that he read in her mind, covering up the mind-reading while still directing the party's attention to the northbound suspect.
Day 3 Depart mid morning northbound, after Adaon goes to the captain and gets a letter of passage and some toll money for crossing Jarai territory.
Day 5 Enter Jarai territory, begins raining heavily. Adaon still flirting with Myrrnien but more so with Lilliana. The banter with Myrrnien was quite good, we played off each other quite comically. There was serious chemistry with Lilliana though, I was disappointed when they couldn't play anymore. [These were player characters that only lasted a few sessions.]
Day 7 Road washed out by mudslide; Lord X uses the Equilibrium spell to bring him and his horse across and rides off leaving the rest behind. Adaon hardens the clay to make a path for everyone, but doing so exhausts him. That night, the weather worsens, so the party finds a hollow in a cliff face big enough to camp in. Late that night, some brownies come to the Adaon and ask him to heal someone. He goes off with them and sets and heals a broken leg on an elderly brownie. For the next few days, bowls of fresh berries show up at meal times.
Day 9 Resume travel, encounter Jarai engineers and border patrol headed to repair the road. Warned of an ogre in the area.
Day 10 Encounter and kill an ogre. Late that day we camp at a side road that leads to the Jarai underground. The very juvenile player of Gravnar has his character go berserk over something trivial and chase Myrrnien. He trips on a root and Adaon sedates him. At that point the session ended and three of the players didn't come back, so they went into the Jarai underground- Lord X and Adaon continue on alone.
Day 14 Come upon an assassin standing over the body of the messenger we've been chasing. A fight ensues, Osley the Ælfen 'rogue' joining during the fight. A thorough search reveals nothing of importance on the messenger or the assassin -- the messenger was just a messenger. Immediately turn and begin riding back to pick up the trail of the remaining suspect.
Day 18 Come upon a mountain bear eating the corpse of the ogre. Adaon mentally contacts him and reassures him that we have no interest in fighting over the body. We pass peacefully.
Day 23 Return to Datova without incident (that I recall). Osley and Lord X are both taciturn and mysterious, so there isn't much interaction. Decide between mountain path (slower but safer) or the swamp (shorter but more dangerous)- choose the swamp. Meet Cyren and Melinda, who join the party.
Day 24 Depart Datova eastbound. Travel for a week without incident through settled areas, stopping in towns and villages each night. Adaon is up late every night, as each town he comes to he makes it known that a mage-physician is there offering free healing.
Day 30 Ambushed by bandits disguised as travellers in need of help. Everyone gets injured, bandits are driven off when Adaon lights the forest on fire with an exploding fire bomb. They then spend two hours putting the fire out, and the rest of the day getting healed.
Day 32 Fight with some type of swamp creature at the edge of the great swamp. Try to skirt the edge of the swamp.
Day 35 First navigation failure sends us into the swamp, don’t gain our bearings again until nightfall, when we find ourselves surrounded by giant snakes. Adaon makes an illusion that the swamp is on fire and enough snakes flee for us to get out.
Day 36 Lord X and Adaon go out looking for a better camp site for the next night. They come upon a hidden shrine to Hudda. Adaon is just forming the intent to release his fire elemental and burn the temple to ashes when he is magically frozen in place. Lord X prays at the temple and then moves Adaon away so he isn't seeing it. Adaon is confused but intends to try and find it again someday to finish it off.
Day 56 After getting lost no less than 6 times and fighting swamp creatures mercifully few times, the party finally exits the swamp.
Day 58 Encounter a rock troll under a bridge. He jumps out and demands one of our horses as payment for crossing. Adaon makes an illusionary horse, gets off his horse and mimes getting the tack and gear off the illusionary horse. The party crosses the bridge and is a good distance away when the illusion expires, but we still hear the angry roar. Lord X: You cheated on a deal? Adaon(shocked): I did no such thing. Lord X: You gave him an illusionary horse! Adaon: He demanded a horse. He said nothing about the horse needing to be real. A faerie creature should know better.
Day 59 Reach Sydroan lands. At this point, Adaon has reached the (completely wrong) conclusion that they are pursuing a demonologist in possession of a powerful summoning scroll, so that's what he tells the border guards. The border guards escort them with great speed through Sydroan lands. Everyone enters the Halven immersion program. Adaon turns out to really like dark skin.
Day 69 The border patrol transfers them to Kalran guards who also escort them with great speed.
Day 82 Exit Kalgran lands.
Day 86 Osley and Adaon get dominated by a Dryad. Adaon tries to get her to himself by dominating Osley into going back to the group. He rolls double 1's for the second time on his Willpower test and luckily breaks through his own domination. He then tries and succeeds in breaking Osley's domination- they make their escape from a now angry section of forest. Adaon gets Osley to beat him up with a stick for trying to violate free will.
Day 88 Attacked by bandits. Killed 8/10. Adaon casts Thief of Time for the first two times.
Day 98 Encounter a group of Gnar at sundown who are probably bandits but are currently in a jovial mood. Also with them is a giant ugly Mizar referred to as "Godzilla" or "The Monster". He joins the party as we leave the next day.
Day 100 Reach Ellenar , begin hunting for the red-haired girl. Finding Althea, we begin investigating her and the nobleman she has delivered the document to. As the picture begins to form, Adaon is quoted disgustedly saying, “Oh goody, we've stepped in politics.”
Day 102 Find the ship carrying Valkran Nobles; Lord X begins trailing them. Osley is casing the House of the Nobleman, and Adaon is keeping track of Althea -- mind reading her and anyone she interacts with. Realizing quite soon that she is more or less an innocent and the nobles are the Bad Guys, he becomes more of a protector. Melinda and Cyren are training and hunting. At some point a mother bear is killed and Cyren gets baby Grizz [I was away for that session]. They also meet Orianna's Ælf, but she doesn't stay with us long.
Day 103 Lord X uses Equilibrium to get access to Althea's room while she is drinking. She starts heading up to her room and Adaon has to introduce himself to head her off and give Lord X time to escape.
Day 104 The group (except Melinda) robs the house of the Ellenar nobleman, Adaon having dominated the master of the house. They get some documents, and a bunch of shiny things, then get caught leaving. Adaon uses a cloud of fog, a fight with guards ensues, a couple of them are killed and a few more injured. The main document is in the hands of the Valkran nobles.
Day 105 The party lays low and meets with Althea to present the information they have. Althea ends up joining the party for the trip back to Datova. In the meantime, the Monster wanders off and is spotted by guards. He is chased into the water and fights a pair of Enar guardsmen. One is presumably killed, the other is wounded and withdraws (thus the wanted posters when we get back).
Day 106 The Valkran Noble's ship departs so we hire a ship to pursue, headed to Porte-Entre-Porte.
Day 112 Attacked by pirates. Adaon protects the ship with a wall of force and the pirates are driven off with heavy losses.
Day 130 Reach Porte-Entre-Porte. The first night, we use swimming magic to cross to the Noble's ship under cover of fog. The skeleton crew and guards are killed, then we loot the ship, finding expensive things in hidden compartments, as well as The Document.
Day 131 The Valkran Nobles depart on their ship. The party does some shopping and exploring of the town. Lord X buys a magic light and a (cursed) magic book, Cyren meets Peco the sword master and does some training. Adaon explores and investigates rumours with Monster, Osley does some scouting.
Day 132 Party goes hunting, Cyren and Lord X getting a pair of deer/gazelle things.
Day 133 Party comes upon ancient ruins and starts exploring. A zombie bites through Cyren's helmet but the wound is properly cleaned and healed. It passes into night time, but we keep exploring. Finding a long passage downward, we encounter a ball of darkness. Out of the darkness comes a Bhulgar. It proceeds to kick our collective asses. Lord X knocks it off balance back through a doorway, then Adaon uses a Wall of Force to seal it in so we can make our escape.
Day 134 Return to the Bhulgar's room in the daytime loaded up for battle, only to find the Bhulgar dormant. Cyren decapitates it and Adaon takes the head. We make out like bandits looting the room. Cyren gets the Bhulgar's armour (his fancy armour that heals/repairs itself ), Adaon takes the sword and shield. Also found are expensive tapestries and a galam warhammer. Return to Porte-Entre-Porte.
Day 135 Get passage back to Ellenar.
Day 142 Lord X gets a feeling that there is something urgent he must do at the floor of the ocean, immediately. Adaon has the ship stop and casts Water Breathing and Swim as Enar on Lord X, who dives to the bottom to find a sunken ship. In a richly appointed cabin he finds a very thin Orlane and his familiar. He takes Orlane back up to the surface and hides him in his cabin. Lord X allows Orlane to feed off him, and gets Adaon to use a reverse version of his Delouse spell to attract rats. Adaon is otherwise kept in the dark.
Day 147 Two sailors go missing.
Day 149 Crew begins to turn on the party in anger. Adaon pays the captain extra to keep the crew in line.
Day 150 Return to Ellenar. That night Adaon buries the Bhulgar's head outside the city. The party leaves without risking staying overnight. Orlane thanks Lord X privately and grants him Jeeves (a bonded spirit servant), then disappears.
Day 153 Attacked by sizable bandit force, about 30. Adaon, fed up with bandits and other raiding leeches, really unleashes the destruction for the first time. Between that and having the full party present, the bandits are killed, maybe 2 or 3 escape.
Day 165 Reach Kalgran territory.
Day 166 (Khalasi 19th) Crossing Kalgran and Bakussan lands, plenty happened, and most of the party makes friends with Althea, but I'm drawing a blank on details. At some point we were attacked by centaurs.
Kalasi 20th Village, resupply.
Kalasi 25th Reach dead area of woods, that pulls Willpower out of people. Going around, we encounter a Rusalka (ghost of a murdered person) named Matilda. Adaon vows to find her murderer (Dmitri) to lay her to rest. Later that day, find the village she was from, and investigate Dmitri's departure from it. All signs point to him living in Datova.
Kalasa 32nd Captured by Ælfs, belligerently ambushing us for crossing their borders, having failed to notice their deliberately vague border markers. One of the Ælfs is killed in the attack, they decide to hunt one of the party in 'revenge', releasing the rest. Monster is chosen.
Kalasa 34th Enter the edge of the great swamp. Monster enters it ahead of the rest of the party. Pursuing Ælfs are killed by alligators. Alligators pursue Monster until they both encounter a wight. The wight is eventually eaten by the alligator, but not before biting Monster.
Kalasa 35th Monster returns to the party, but dies that day from fever from the wight bite. Adaon cremates him and dissolves his teeth in acid.
Kalasa 37th lost in the swamp, again.
Kalasa 38th Find North, continue travelling.
Kalasa 40th Come upon a manor house in the swamp at sunset. We are met by a taciturn host who guides us to rooms. We are overcome by weariness and fall asleep (seems legit). Adaon awakens in an underground chamber, chained hand and foot with his torso over a hole. Lord X wakes in the same situation. Adaon uses Weld to cut the chains just as a mouth on a white tentacle comes up through the hole. Lord X dodges his and manages to wriggle free. Adaon goes searching for the rest of the party and frees them. Lord X goes looking for our stuff. The party is illusionarily disguised as monsters to Lord X, who attacks when we meet and needs to be subdued. Having retrieved gear, we make our way out through tentacle-infested tunnels and make our escape. A giant tentacle monster emerges from the ground but does not pursue.
Sukasi 1st Attacked by shambling plant mound thing. It appears immune to everything until Adaon uses Hydroshock to generate hydraulic impact with his sword. The monster disengages.
Sukasi 14th Leave swamp
Sukasi 16th Meet a Jarai smith being pursued by bandits. Kill the bandits, Jarai joins up.
Sukasi 29th Return to Datova. Adaon, Lord X and Althea meet with Captain Carl Johannson to update him on the situation.
Sukasi 30th Gain Audience with the Lord of Datova, who reveals that Althea is the princess in the document, which everyone except her has already deduced. He assigns knights to accompany Althea north to Nalkon. Adaon leaves emergency funds with his parents.
Sukasi 33rd Depart Datova for Nalkon. A carriage and fancy clothes are sent with for Althea.
Sukasi 41st Meet mountain bear, Adaon sorcerously contacts it and gets it to leave peacefully.
Domisi 3rd Attacked by a band of gnar, all killed.
Domisi 25th surprised by rock troll, who eats carriage and some of the baggage. We allow it to leave without fighting. That evening, attacked by a bearcat. The party gets scattered by failed ride rolls, Cyren's warhorse gets eaten.
Domisi 26th Encounter an impoverished couple while making camp. Lord X and Adaon both give them some survival gear. The man is suspicious, the woman is grateful.
Domisi 28th Reach Fort Hill. Party is Althea, Lord X, Osley, Cyren, Melinda, and Adaon. Also present are 4 knights sent to escort Althea to Nalkon and a Jarai smith (not Ivan). Party arrives to find the Baron missing, and the town living in fear. Accommodations are offered for the winter as we will not reach Nalkon before the snow comes. Despite emphatic warnings not to leave our quarters at night, Lord X, Adaon, and Osley go out. Finding the town deserted and every door and window of every building locked and barred, Adaon and Lord X go back inside. Osley continues exploring anyway, eventually getting to the outer wall. He fails a Willpower challenge and everything goes dark.
Domisi 29th We find Osley in the morning drained of blood. Adaon sees to his body and possessions. That night Adaon and Lord X go exploring inside the castle proper, finding nothing in particular.
Domisi 30th Adaon and Lord X go exploring again, using the Equilibrium spell to gain access to an off-limits tower. Exploring the tower and disabling a couple of guards, they get to the top to find the bedroom of one of the Baron's daughters. Finding a secret door in a book case, they are led down a secret passageway all the way under the tower and under the castle. Eventually they find a hidden chamber, where they find the Baron trapped in a magic circle by his daughter, who is bent on making him into a spell component or some nefarious end. We take out the daughter, her assistant wizard, and a guard. Lord X is disabled in the fight. Seeking some way to free the Baron, Adaon makes eye contact with him, whereupon the Baron sucks all the Mana out of him, some of his Willpower, and turns his hair white. Adaon takes a few minutes to recover, then risks breaking the circle to free the Baron. Succeeding, he then carries them one at a time out of the secret chambers. Going back, he gets some loot, a magic staff, a magic wand, a magic silver knife, and comes across a book of Demonology that is alive and hostile. After a long process of weighing his value of knowledge against the benefit of removing the book from the world, he stabs the book with the magic silver dagger 'killing' it.
Domisi 31st Baron Forthill is grateful for his rescue and leaves his Barony at the character's disposal for the winter, and requests assistance dealing with the vampire problem. Ivan joins the game. The characters disperse to various areas to engage in training. Adaon goes to the local Necros temple and gets convinced to take his orders, going through a month of training in the priesthood.
Year 6592
Aratansi 38th Training complete for now, the party begins looking for the vampire in earnest. Ivan is hired as a guide.
Aratansi 40th Find dead woodsman.
Aratansi 41st Find the lair of the Vampire. Pwnd! Attacked by shadow wolves on the way back to Fort Hill.
Aratansi 42nd Adaon casts Greater Darkvision on himself and makes it permanent. Spends the rest of the day finding goggles.
Aratansi 44th Depart for Nalkon.
Arensi 2nd Encounter a Rock Giant. Adaon trips it using a wall of force and it falls into a canyon.
Arensi 6th Encounter Lightning bats.
Arensi 15th Resupply at village.
Arensi 27th Arrive Nalkon.
Arensi 28th Audience with Nalkon King, offers Althea lodging and sends the rest of us north to have the document verified. Party resupplies again and gears up for cold.
Arensi 29th Lord X obtains Catalina's services.
Arensi 30th Depart North for Cold Desert.
Arensi 45th Dark Fey try to eat Ivan. Rescue two Chujarai jarai, Brugra and Chakular.
Kalasi 2nd Reach the grass plains.
Kalasi 8th Refused entry into town because of Lord X and Catalina (reputed to be demonists).
Kalasi 13th Fight giant snake.
Kalasi 34th Meet the Hallü.
Kalasi 35th Go hunting with the Hallü.
Kalasi 37th Cross the river into the desert.
Sukasi 3rd Adaon sings himself hoarse with some sand giants.
Sukasi 9th Edge of cold desert, attacked by a yeti upon entering.
Sukasi 11th Adaon makes an ice shelter for the weaker members of the party and the animals, remainder of the party continues on. This was very difficult due to the lack of moisture in the air.
Sukasi 13th Reach crystal manor of Donavan Shonuff
Sukasi 14th Ivan wakes up in a pie, document verified. Depart crystal manor.
Sukasi 18th Polar bear attack, leave Cold Desert.
Sukasi 30th Reach river, realize we have been followed.
Sukasi 33rd Encounter spiders, Ivan gets bonded to one.
Sukasi 35th Ambushed by Gnar, Ivan rages and beats one to death.
Sukasi 36th Meet the Hallü again, start chasing spies.
Sukasi 40th Ambush Knight and retinue. Pick up Misbenoan, the Ælf slave wizard.
Sukasi 44th Cyren gets lost in storm.
Sukasi 45th Prisoners awake, collect Cyren, continue back to the Hallü.
Domici 2nd Return to Hallü for a few days, Lord X and Adaon kill Misbenoan trying to free her from her control collar. Cyren semi-betrothed.
Domici 08th Adaon heals a cyclops named Chagkhra, who teaches us to find potato melons.
Domici 13th Encounter giant wasp.
Domici 20th Meet Stump the ogre.
Domici 23rd Prairie fire, Talia and Dathania show up.
Domici 31-33rd Assassins attack. 5 killed, 1 escapes. Lord X nearly dies.
Domici 35 Meet up with travelling musicians and travel with them for a couple days.
Domici 36 Assassin kills Bubba, Brugra, Chakula, and the spider.
Domici 38 Meet demon hunters, get shot a lot.
Kursi 5th Return to Nalkon
Kursi 6th Playing cat and mouse with assassins
Kursi 8th Duel between Adaon and Kalgran assassin
Winter and training in Nalkon. Ivan studies politics, Adaon runs himself ragged training, meditating, and casting new spells. Evelyn joins the party.
Year 6593
Aratansi 20th leave Nalkon via boat sneakily. Make decoys of us to continue on board and get off 2 day's travel down river.
Aratansi 22nd Spring storm, magic tents damaged.
Aratansi 32nd Large beetles called frazzlebugs attack in the night, Lord X nearly dies.
Aratansi 42nd Huge wood troll attacks from under bridge. Taken out handily enough, then get attacked by its mate. Drive it off, but Cyren gets a broken leg.
Arensi 7-10th Fort Hill, rest and resupply, visit with Baron Forthill.
Arensi 12th Enter Jarai territory.
Arensi 14th Wyvern attack, driven away.
Arensi 15th Join Jarai wyvern ambush, Adaon dominates wyvern, and then collectively kill it. Adaon tries and fails to treat a severe head injury.
Arensi 16-17th Wyvern butchered.
Arensi 26-27th Dire wolves, skinned.
Arensi 42nd Come across human man fighting ogre on a bridge. Ogre kills human, we continue.
Kalasi 5th Althea kidnapped, give chase for 3 days, find Chujarai town/village. Leave Althea there.
Kalasi 14th Find highway again.
Kalasi 19th Reach Datova. Get tents repaired, resupply and shop. Adaon hunts down a murderer named Dmitri and dominates him into coming with the party.
Kalasi 24th Leave Datova.
Kalasi 25th Attacked by wizard with mercenaries.
Kalasi 26th Lord X disappears with Catalina. Continue on.
Kalasi 41st Meet unicorn rider.
Kalasi 45th Nikwar. Ivan saves the day and sets some things on fire.
Sukasi 18-19th Meet some kalgran who stab Grizz. Brief fight, then go to their village. Ivan does some smithing and starts teaching Adaon.
Sukasi 31st Attacked by bear, killed. Get bear cub. Cyren falls out of a tree trying to get the cub, Adaon surrounds him with water that scatters the impact when he lands.
Sukasi 35th Reach the village of Dmitri and Matilda. Adaon takes Dmitri to the edge of a dead area and calls out to the Ghost (Rusalka) Matilda. She comes and Adaon and Cyren feed her Dmitri, she vanishes, having been laid to rest.
Sukasi 37th Encounter an Empousa (naked demon catgirl). Adaon, Ivan, and Cyren are dominated and Melinda, Talia, and Dathania have to save them.
Sukasi 39th End of day come upon Ælfen wedding celebration. Adaon meets the current frontrunner for world's greatest lover, and Cyren wakes up naked with his fiancées.
Domici 3rd Meet scary lizard creature, bites Cyren's hand off. Adaon reattaches it.
Domici 5th Attacked by family of scary lizards, Evelyn loses another horse, bear cub is killed. Begin noticing mischief from the imp.
Domici 9th Ivan wakes with his back hair braided.
Domici 12th Arrive in Ellenar . Wanted posters of Adaon and Cyren are up. Adaon disguises them by colouring his hair and not wearing his hat, and making an illusion of Cyren being 8” shorter.
Domici 13th Sneak aboard the Æthelnagh and capture it. Back to Ellenar to hire more crew. Find Thomas in the secret hold, and several body slaves. This is where Ivan rescues Kiera.
Domici 15th Depart Ellenar for Port-Entre-Portes.
Domici 19th Find tattooed survivors.
Domici 21st See a Hippocampus, good omen.
Domici 27th Arrive Port-Entre-Portes.
Domici 28th Adaon has the bright idea of going adventuring in the local ruins to look for more loot. Attacked by bandits on the way.
Domici 29th Reach the ruins. Adaon burns a zombie and burns off his hat and some of Ivan's hair. Find a secret passage in a previously explored room and find rooms with eerie shadowy mirrors on the walls, magic circles on the floors, and the chained skeletons of sacrifices between the mirrors. Eventually meet a pair of Bhulgar in heavy armour with greatswords. One defeated, the other flees. We give chase, he loses us going through a corridor of mirrors that we weren't willing to travel down. Meet a wraith that Adaon lays to rest. Eventually track down the missing room and find the escaped Bhulgar with his evil priest/wizard master. Cyren gets dominated and pulled into the magic circled area. Adaon tries to use an earthquake to break the circles and gets thrown out of the room. Ivan negotiates a nebulous 'deal' and the priest thing teleports everyone outside.
Domici 30th Depart Port-Entre-Portes.
Domici 44th Doldrum, Adaon summons a wind.
Kursi 11th Arrive in Tengrin, a Malgiri port.
Kursi 12th While shopping, Evelyn is possessed by Loreena the ghost. Adaon binds the ghost (willingly) into a dagger on the promise that he kill Matala the Merchant.
Kursi 13-15th Trade with Matala's merchant house to flush her out, eventually casting Karmic vengeance on her, which she doesn't survive. The ghost is laid to rest.
Kursi 18th Arrive in Valkra.
Kursi 20th “Diplomatic team” departs for Tulmak via river barge.
Kursi 24th Encounter another Nikwar, lose some crew, Ivan saves the day again.
Kursi 27th Logjam ambush by bandit party. Cyren cuts arrow out of the air with a sword, Adaon has to remotely possess lots of people to cast healing spells.
Kursi 30th Diplomatic team arrives in Tulmek.
Kursi 31-36th Trying to get audience with Emperor.
Kursi 37th Get audience with and then kidnap the Emperor.
Kursi 38th Get to river, hire fishing barge to carry party downstream.
Kursi 40th River blockade, Grizz gets sent overland.
Kursi 43rd Party regroups, flees Valkra.
Kursi 44th Adaon uses the Kinslayer spell to kill the Emperor and the Queen. Grizz eats the body.
Hudsi 5th Arrive in Breäg, flee, run blockade. Ivan gets shot in the head, Evelyn shoots herself through the hand twice, Adaon kills lots of people.
Hudsi 13th Adaon awakens knowing they are being tracked, prepares himself to face the sorceress tracking them. Takes over her body, kills the King, 2 princes, the sorceress, her friend, and 8 knights. Evade pursuing fleet.
Hudsi 18th Return to Valkra, meet up with Althea and Orlane in an old-style ship of Chujarai construction.
Hudsi 20th Adaon uses the kinslayer spell to kill the crown princess, and two of the Queen's brothers.
Hudsi 21-25th Adaon makes magic items.
Hudsi 26th Adaon, Talia, and Kiera (Valet Girl) head off to do magic stuff.
Hudsi 28th Rest of party heads out for a hunting trip.
Hudsi 36th Evelyn falls through ice.
Hudsi 37th Evelyn damaged by Elk.
Hudsi 38th Evelyn damaged by moose.
Hudsi 40th Big private meeting in Adaon's magic circles on the lake. Althea's family familiar shows himself, reveals that Althea's mother has died.
Hudsi 43rd Talia and Dathania make snowshoes for group.
Brilsi 2nd Return to Valkra, kill a bunch of Harpies. Find a meeting request waiting for Althea at the ship.
Brilsi 3rd Althea holds court, Baron brings forward Salamander problem, merchant brings forward trade grievance.
Brilsi 5th Fight Ice Salamander.
Brilsi 6th Get gloves/gauntlets commissioned. Adaon orders a new backup hat.
Brilsi 7th Adaon and Ivan forge a gauntlet out of silver and inscribe a rune into each piece.
Brilsi 8th -25th Adaon spends 18 days turning his new gauntlet into a spell focus. There is a night of practice drinking, but otherwise uneventful.
Brilsi 26th A couple more castings, some training.
Brilsi 27th- 28th Explore the castle using Detect Force. Find secret passages all over the place. Discover they're magically forget-me'd. Find hidden rooms and some magic stuff in a tower. Adaon takes up residence.
Brilsi 29th Catalina arrives
Brilsi 30th Evelyn and Talia go off into the city to do something. Althea is abducted, and the rest of the party goes off in pursuit. Catch the kidnappers as they arrive at a count's residence. Brief fight ensues, capture the household as they try to flee, and pry some info out of the countess. After some deliberation, set off to try and take out the sorceress. Meet a magical regenerating person on the way (Earl of Tsanahold, husband of Peco's lady) who is hunting tigers.
Brilsi 31st Ambushed by a pack of Yeti. Kill 2, 2 escape. Heavy injuries that suck up more than 500 mana. Forced to rest and abort mission.
Brilsi 32nd Scout area around fortress, make some tactical notes.
Brilsi 33-36th Return to Valkra without incident.
Brilsi 37th Recovery and planning
Brilsi 38th Warrior training, magically boosted.
Brilsi 39th Psychic training with Adaon mind-linking with each of the other characters. Evelyn tries to ferret out some more Talia/Dathania information. Cyren runs into the Earl again, who has apparently just finished reattaching his arm.
Brilsi 40th Adaon casts Know Essence on Evelyn and Ivan. No longer has penalty to physiology on Ælfs or Jarai. Check on ship and crew, cast detect force while on board. Check up on Tattooed refugees.
Brilsi 41st Research Nobility, find that book is missing. Sparring using Ablative Ice, Smithing training.
Brilsi 42nd Politics Training
Brilsi 43-45th Warrior training
Year 6594
Aratansi 1st Meditation
Aratansi 2nd Bar brawl, Cyren gets beat up (this is the one where Cyren almost knocks himself out and gets dubbed "Cyren Tablebreaker" after accidentally smashing his own head into a table.)
Aratansi 3rd Kiera (valet girl) gets kidnapped. Track her to a booby-trapped room. Free her with difficulty, Evelyn gets blown out a window and robbed. Return to castle, have slumber party in the tower. Adaon Dreamwalks the weaver assassin, and learns that he may be possessed. Adaon goes into deep meditation to try and recover mana faster.
Aratansi 4th Adaon rouses to find Catalina unconscious and Orlane staked. Rune-scribed cloth is found on Adaon, the coffin, and under Catalina’s chair. Summon party, Adaon tries to do mind battle with the caster but summons some fire-based infernal creature instead. After a battle wasting 700 mana, Cyren chops its head off. It dissipates, leaving behind a medallion. Floor of the magic room has been structurally compromised, and the magic circle is damaged. Adaon makes extra support pillars of ice then melts the floor back together. Research, exploration, commission 3500m of silver wire.
Aratansi 5th More research.
Aratansi 6th Find a spider creature in a hidden library for kings/queens. Capture Spider creature (Catalina and Evelyn poisoned) and others research while Adaon turns the spiderweb into cable. Head to the combat training area and have a big fight with an Earth-based Devil. Adaon softens it's head and Henna stabs it in the head with her poison dagger.
Aratansi 7th Ivan and Cyen hungover from a night of drinking. Cyren prays for forgiveness from his goddess, Ivan goes off to find other hungover nobles to bond with. Adaon makes a Reaver Blade, practice trying to block incoming objects with Hardened Air. Good for stopping people, not so good stopping rocks.
Aratansi 8th Set up to fight Air-based Devil, which doesn’t happen. Contacts the weaver instead. Ask Orlane to send us to Breäg so Adaon can meet with the weaver. While Orlane prepares, Adaon makes some magic stew. Weaver seems to have some control over the manifestations of his devil, and lives in a hovel with his equally ancient wife. Warns Adaon away, gives him a small magic tapestry with himself on it. Adaon is resolved to try and get the weaver to choose to end his deal with the devil, which is the only plausible way of separating them (this takes away someone from the devil as revenge for the devil taking away Adaon’s first apprentice). Orlane and Catalina prepare circles to boost Adaon’s will.
Aratansi 9th Adaon puts on religious robes and Dreamwalks the weaver. In it he finds that the weaver is being controlled by holding his granddaughter hostage. In the morning word comes that the War Baron has been murdered. Ivan and Catalina are sent by Orlane, where the situation is revealed to be far bigger. Hundreds have been poisoned, and the rest of the party is sent as reinforcement. The Duke, Duchess, their wizard and his apprentices, and a number of naval officers have been killed, along with hundreds of guards and servants. Children rescued, oldest daughter coronated as baroness, and Catalina put in charge of guarding her and the fortress. Party returns to Valkra castle and prepares to rescue the hostage granddaughter.
Aratansi 10th Orlane gates us to the compound where the Weaver’s granddaughter is being held, at the same time assassins track the spell back and attack. Return without incident on our side, then fight assassins. Recover Orlane from being staked again, etc.
Aratansi 11th-13th Greater Meditation. (+864)
Aratansi 14 Layout and activation of the Permanent Anti-Sorcery Sphere around the council chamber. Outer shell has a strength of 72, inner shell is 76. (815 mana total) Protection circles are silver wire that has been sunk 30cm into the flagstones around the council chamber.
Aratansi 15-16 Greater Meditation. (+576)
Aratansi 17th Enhanced Training, Smithing to cross 25 skill cap.
Aratansi 18th Council, necromancer attack. Wraith fight, Adaon punches a wraith hard enough to knock it off the ethereal plane. Effective start of war. Meeting with allies, tell them about the enemy family breakdown.
Aratansi 19th War Day 1. Naval battle of mass-destruction [that I wasn’t present for].
Aratansi 20th War Day 2. Adaon casts Staccato Echo for the first time, asking the version of himself from Day 5 where he needs to be most today. The answer is Althea’s antechamber, so he stakes it out disguised by Illusion. Sees a bug planted and some poison dropped. Both culprits escape, but Adaon recognizes one and has the scent of the other. Cast Staccato Echo again, failure- gains a vision of a fog-demon sinking a ship. Depart immediately for the War Barony (Warton). Flubs an ethereal travel spell, then successfully turns himself into Air.
Aratansi 21th War Day 3. Trap demonologist during casting, Evelyn and Henna wound him enough to lose control of his summoning. Then Adaon gets trapped in a box. Evelyn return with the box, giving it to Orlane. Cyren eventually solves the puzzle, freeing Adaon and a mage from the past named Sashira. Adaon casts the 3rd Staccato Echo, finding he needs to keep the Ælfs out of sight. Evelyn and Henna get turned into Valkran men via an illusion. Nothing untoward occurs, so we decide to go on the attack.
Aratansi 22nd War Day 4. Teleported to the nearest location to the captured Ælfs. Travel by ship for the day, arriving at the target after nightfall. Infiltrate the fortress/manor by using Equilibrium to run through the ground into the basement. Lord and Lady are killed, a few guards, and the overseer after we get her to release the prisoner Ælfs. Gain 9 control collars to study/destroy (that’s a lot of silver). Travel overnight to the gate location.
Aratansi 23rd War Day 5.

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Queen Althea Sigrunsdottir var Valkra né Draconis All of the group has sworn fealty to Althea. As a reward for their role in the civil war, they were awarded Bear Keep, where Ivan was chosen from the group to become the Baron, thus taking direct responsibility for the running of the keep.