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<blockquote data-quote="SnowleopardVK" data-source="post: 5825874" data-attributes="member: 6677945"><p>What a day this has been, I only just arrived at the monastery and already lots of things are happening. You don’t expect much excitement in a place like Zi Ha, surrounded by all the quiet samsaran monks, but I suppose nowhere in the world is really completely quiet anyways is it?</p><p></p><p>Well, me and the other few who’d split from Sandru’s caravan on its way to Minkai managed to cross Hongal safely, and follow a path along the safer, enlightened peaks of Zi Ha all the way here. I was just coming to visit Chimi of course since I haven’t seen her since I was a little girl, but I had expected the rest of my stay in Zi Ha to be as dull as watching grass grow. I was wrong.</p><p></p><p>I had just found her, and to my surprise, Suzume too. Turns out she’d come visiting from the Forest of Spirits at the same time that I’d arrived, what luck! The two of them had been having tea with this travelling wizard scholar fellow from Kwanlai, Roban I think his name was, and almost as soon as I got there the earthquake hit! The monastery itself was only hit by a small aftershock or two, a couple stairs got shattered and I hear one or two of the monks took minor injuries, but in this day and age and with healing magic, it’s not too big an issue. They had Chimi going around with a magic wand for a bit, healing people up, and some of the boys from the caravan helped with repairs where wooden stairs had splintered, or building walls had split.</p><p></p><p>By the next day, you wouldn’t be able to tell that anything had happened, at least not to the monastery, but there was still more to come for me. At around dinner a flare went up from the next mountain over. Apparently that was one of the wild peaks, and though I’d heard nothing of it the day before, there was a tower over that way that Chimi said had been sealed off for hundreds of years. Nobody knew what the thing was once for, but the quake yesterday had split open one of the walls. An adventuring fellow from Amanandar, Balenar they said his name was had gone over to investigate. The flare was a signal that he was in trouble. Something was in that place, and it seemed likely that he’d fallen victim to it.</p><p></p><p>Well apparently Chimi’s pretty respected around here for her valor, and some of the monks were practically begging her to go rescue the man. She agreed in a heartbeat, and of course I offered to go too. If one guy ended up in trouble, then sending another person on their own wasn’t going to do much good after all. Suzume offered to come along too, though knowing her she has an angle. Most surprising of all though, Roban asked to come too. He seemed like a quiet, bookworm type, not one for facing danger at all. Maybe my first impression was wrong though.</p><p></p><p>With our group getting bigger, a bunch of guys from the caravan, and one or two of the younger monks started all offering their services too. But then a late-arriving aftershock hit us, and they were forced to stay behind and deal with repairs. The four of us set out right as they got to work, time might be a factor for us, I can’t say for certain yet, and it’ll take until mid-morning tomorrow to get over to the next mountain.</p><p></p><p>We’re heading to a dangerous place, so I’m leaving this page of my journal with the monks. Maybe it’s a little morbid to be thinking about this, but we could die out there, and I don’t want to just disappear from history if that’s what happens.</p><p></p><p>--Holly Hay, 6 Desnus, 4712 ar.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SnowleopardVK, post: 5825874, member: 6677945"] What a day this has been, I only just arrived at the monastery and already lots of things are happening. You don’t expect much excitement in a place like Zi Ha, surrounded by all the quiet samsaran monks, but I suppose nowhere in the world is really completely quiet anyways is it? Well, me and the other few who’d split from Sandru’s caravan on its way to Minkai managed to cross Hongal safely, and follow a path along the safer, enlightened peaks of Zi Ha all the way here. I was just coming to visit Chimi of course since I haven’t seen her since I was a little girl, but I had expected the rest of my stay in Zi Ha to be as dull as watching grass grow. I was wrong. I had just found her, and to my surprise, Suzume too. Turns out she’d come visiting from the Forest of Spirits at the same time that I’d arrived, what luck! The two of them had been having tea with this travelling wizard scholar fellow from Kwanlai, Roban I think his name was, and almost as soon as I got there the earthquake hit! The monastery itself was only hit by a small aftershock or two, a couple stairs got shattered and I hear one or two of the monks took minor injuries, but in this day and age and with healing magic, it’s not too big an issue. They had Chimi going around with a magic wand for a bit, healing people up, and some of the boys from the caravan helped with repairs where wooden stairs had splintered, or building walls had split. By the next day, you wouldn’t be able to tell that anything had happened, at least not to the monastery, but there was still more to come for me. At around dinner a flare went up from the next mountain over. Apparently that was one of the wild peaks, and though I’d heard nothing of it the day before, there was a tower over that way that Chimi said had been sealed off for hundreds of years. Nobody knew what the thing was once for, but the quake yesterday had split open one of the walls. An adventuring fellow from Amanandar, Balenar they said his name was had gone over to investigate. The flare was a signal that he was in trouble. Something was in that place, and it seemed likely that he’d fallen victim to it. Well apparently Chimi’s pretty respected around here for her valor, and some of the monks were practically begging her to go rescue the man. She agreed in a heartbeat, and of course I offered to go too. If one guy ended up in trouble, then sending another person on their own wasn’t going to do much good after all. Suzume offered to come along too, though knowing her she has an angle. Most surprising of all though, Roban asked to come too. He seemed like a quiet, bookworm type, not one for facing danger at all. Maybe my first impression was wrong though. With our group getting bigger, a bunch of guys from the caravan, and one or two of the younger monks started all offering their services too. But then a late-arriving aftershock hit us, and they were forced to stay behind and deal with repairs. The four of us set out right as they got to work, time might be a factor for us, I can’t say for certain yet, and it’ll take until mid-morning tomorrow to get over to the next mountain. We’re heading to a dangerous place, so I’m leaving this page of my journal with the monks. Maybe it’s a little morbid to be thinking about this, but we could die out there, and I don’t want to just disappear from history if that’s what happens. --Holly Hay, 6 Desnus, 4712 ar. [/QUOTE]
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