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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pacdidj" data-source="post: 5221189" data-attributes="member: 86793">"I'm afraid there is no way to recover Sir Exsixten's memories. You see, sir knight has the unfortunate habit of shutting himself down at the first sign of imminent defeat in battle, so as not to endure its attendant humiliation. This also has the side effect of both wiping his memory completely, and leaving him stranded on wild frontiers far from civilization for long periods of time. I tried to advise him when last I found and reactivated him that he might do better to simply learn from his mistakes, but alas I don't think my advice was well received." "So, we likely won't learn anything about the fate of the Dauntonians that way. But, you didn't happen to bring that diary with you by chance, did you?," Fizzenden asks Alnar. "Patterns, you say? Well, I'm not sure I'd call it a pattern, just a gradual increase in random acts of mischief and violence over the past two months. As I said homes have been broken into, valuables stolen, gnomes have been hit by rocks thrown from the cover of the trees and have fallen into rope snares placed around our village by unknown parties. This latest act last night was by far the most heinous though. Poor Farvyn's turkeys have been taking fright regularly during these mischief-makers' nightly visitations. But the one we found this morning was gruesomely mutilated, barely-recognizable, but not eaten, though the tooth marks of some large beast were evident throughout its ruined flesh and bone. And then some vile soul threw its corpse down our well to poison our drinking water."The gnome leader takes a deep breath and continues, "We had thought perhaps that the shifters of Moonshadow Lake might be responsible for this mischief against us, conducting it in retribution for my interruption of their Green Man ritual last year. But I didn't mean to cause a disruption! I was led astray during a mushroom hunting expedition by a trick of the eyes, or maybe a hallucination... I don't know, it was shortly after the death of my father, and I was stricken with grief, but I thought I saw him beckoning to me amid the trees of the forest. He led me deeper and deeper through the mangroves, until I burst out through the trees, and right into the shifters' ritual circle. Then my father's shade was no where to be seen, only a bunch of angry shifters." "What's more, ill will has been building between all the  peoples of this Isle for the past two years, ever since there was a  transfer of power among the human clans, and one of their number eloped  with the shifter princess. Before we used to live in harmony with one another, but the shifters are a strong, and aggressive people. They have to be as they live close as they do to the Shadowrift, and the fell creatures that occasionally step out of it and into this world. They certainly have reason to bear grudges against both my people and the human clans, but I never would have thought that they'd resort to such heinous acts of vandalism, theft, and desecration." "Perhaps they have not resorted to such acts," says Hyrellon responding to Fizzenden. "If the same thieves that stole the humans' totem are also responsible for the harassment of our village, and if brother Ferris' suspicions regarding a warlock's involvement are true, then I find it highly unlikely that the shifters are responsible. You know how they revile the practice of arcane magic. Any warlock among them would of necessity operate alone, for he would be cast out by his people. Yet we've seen multiple cloaked figures disappearing into the forest on the nights we are visited with hostile mischief," declares the cleric, his eyebrows arched."Yes, perhaps you're right..." the gnome leader trails off in puzzlement."You are welcome to pursue whatever course of action you see fit adventurers. Though, if you are sincere in your suspicions about warlocks, I believe that Father Hyrellon is correct, and a visit to Moonshadow Lake might only slow your investigation. If a warlock is behind all of this, the only possibilities I see are that either these malevolent forces have come to the Living Isle from somewhere else, or the humans are hiding something and you don't have the full story."</blockquote>

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