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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 1124054" data-attributes="member: 463">30/2/2739 YEWhile training in the Citadel, Cho was approached by the Gaxmoorite witch Grimhelda, who brought a strange message:"Guard the Wielder of the Spear and protect Him until such time as It can be restored to Its rightful place. Grow strong and seek the Queen held prisoner in the Mountain of Fire, for She has the Power to free the Guardians of Crane from Their long sleep."1/3/2739 YENew PCsSaphie Zerlor: Sorcerer-10Sol: elf Rogue-10Margrave Kanor asked Aos, Leo and co to escort Margravine Eloise Brax-Arkand into Makyan territory on a diplomatic mission for the Scornic League. The Makyan High King Marowa had indicated that he might be amenable to an alliance with the League. With the League threatened by Tarkane's Overkingdom to the east, Harecules the Cambion in the south, and rumours of a Mongali-Mount Fire alliance in the west, such an alliance could prove desperately important.Eloise had just arrived at Gaxmoor with her companions, and planned to depart in two days. Kanor suggested that Eloise's magist Saphie - Kanor's sister, and Sol her Sylvan-elf chief of security, assist Leo & co in investigating reports of two undying entities imprisoned within the old graveyard. One, Xerxes Diccus, was the degenerate bastard son of an ancient Imarran Emperor, now a vampiric entity. The other, Lucius Maximus Mageris, was the progenitor of the Mageris line of court wizards, rumoured to be a "proto-Lich". It was possible that Harecules sought to free either or both these fiends.Investigating the tombs, Xerxes was soon discovered, and swiftly dispatched. The Mageris tomb proved more problematic. Defeating numerous wards, traps and elemental guards, the party at last reached Lucius - only to have all but Leo fall under the power of his enchantment. Lucius talked for hours with Leo, then, his confining wards having been broken, departed to investigate the new world beyond Gaxmoor.At least the party had gained considerable loot.4/3/2739 YE The party travelled south from Gaxmoor towards Carrisqui town. Camping on the trail, they were attacked by a mixed band of 15 humanoid raiders, but killed them all in a fierce fight. Reaching Carrisqui they met the hobgoblin Gysshk, now a merchant, at the Laughing Unicorn Inn, and after some squabbling (Eloise not being happy to see him again) the party joined his caravan, heading south to the Makyan territories.7/3/2739 YEReaching the pass settlement of Kanuu, the last village before the Makyan territories, after dark the group's suspicions were aroused by the oddly lethargic, mechanical behaviour of its inhabitants, and the strange fire they lit, whose bluish fumes had an immediate effect on Sol. Eloise feared for the safety of her cousin Amari, the local lord. After investigation and discussion, the group attacked his manor, meeting fierce resistance from a large number of guards, almost a score of men backed up by three of Gysshk's men and by Sol, all apparently under some form of mind control. Xiang knocked out Sol, and the other defenders were slain, along with some dominated villagers who perished to Leo's Black Tentacles. Aos discovered and stabbed a man who turned out to be Amari. Another cowled figure in the room threw dust on the fire, and blue fumes billowed up, causing a hasty retreat. Saphie summoned a hound archon to attack the stranger, but it reported that its sword had struck nothing, the figure's robes collapsing into an empty pile.</blockquote>

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