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<blockquote data-quote="Zora" data-source="post: 2954463" data-attributes="member: 30156"><p><strong>Journal entry 7/14/06</strong></p><p></p><p>Dear Pepa, </p><p></p><p>Many things have happened in the last week.</p><p></p><p>I spent the 2 days following the battle in Brimstone Keep working on the hammer you made for me. It had become slightly damaged, so I took what skills I have and managed to put it back in working order. I discovered something truly amazing about it in the meantime. I wish to thank you for putting your heart into this fine weapon, as I can almost feel your presence radiating from it.</p><p></p><p>I just don't have the words…</p><p></p><p>So instead I'll relate to you the profound discussion I had with my closest of friends Telemnar. During the 2 days in which I expressed my desire for solitude, I asked Telemnar to hear me out. I wanted him to know the decision I had come to in regards to parting company with my friends. I felt he should know first, that I owed him that much. </p><p></p><p>We talked for hours.</p><p></p><p>As it turns out, we had a good laugh at each other's expense, as we were both suffering from some of the same feelings. I then told him of my near-death experience. He was -I think- slightly shocked to hear that Pakkin had indeed saved my life. I told him of the irony that whilst I had come to accept Pakkin as a companion and wished to use the gatehouse as a chance to work closely together with him, I ended up instead not being able to come to his aid. And this after he had just saved my life. I told him that that was when my mind turned towards the idea of going back to Camber and retiring.</p><p></p><p>You know what he asked me? "Do you remember what Covenant told you when he asked you to join us?" He said "If we run from life, we do not honor the dead; we disappoint them." I still remember being shocked that a human holy warrior of Lathander would quote to me one of the tenets of Dumathoin.</p><p></p><p>It was a refreshing discussion that I'm glad we had. I knew I had not really desired to part ways with my companions. Turns out I just needed to talk to someone to work it out for myself. I knew I could count on Telemnar.</p><p></p><p>During this time, I showed him what I discovered about my warhammer. He was truly impressed. I can't wait to see it in action.</p><p></p><p>After the 2 days, I came out to discover that Erim was studying some new spells that would take a few more days. We all decided to throw ourselves into helping the town rebuild. Nekaya has some very handy spell that repairs things in but a moment's time. Quite useful, although I prefer the feeling of hard work and sweat to accomplish the same thing. I focused my time on the town's temples and shrines, as no one else really desired to. I know how I feel about priests, but I feel that a person's worship is important. I had 5 days of nearly nonstop work that gave me such profound joy to be creating something. It was a bittersweet joy, as I wish I could be in Camber doing the same thing, but I'll take what I can get.</p><p></p><p>During this time, the rest of my companions and the Dragonfire Guild decided to split the spoils of battle. The Guild took most of the money and many items that most likely originally belonged to them. Kal wishes to return the money to the town in a new beginning of making amends. He left the commissioned sword with us, as well as a few other things recovered from the Bane worshipers. Included amongst this were three suits of armor, some full-plate, that had Bane iconography on them. We destroyed the unholy mace of the priestess and the sword of the warlord. I convinced my friends it would be better to keep and sell the armors rather than simply destroy them. I told Liadan I would help her to possibly get one re-fitted to accommodate her.</p><p></p><p>After all was said and done, Jayda and Blaze told us they would escort us to Havin's tower. Hopefully we can find some answers there, or some clues. Barring that, possibly something useful that would aid us in our mission.</p><p></p><p>We arrived less than a day later, and it is not so much a tower as a short, squat structure that looks like we would be more comfortable in it than humans. We entered through the heavy front door, and after some scouting, I could hear what sounded like forced wind or a very hot fire coming from downstairs. Upon descending, we could see from the bottom of the stairs that inside a small round room was what looked like a miniature sun. As we entered through the doorway, a message came from the wall from Havin saying that our destiny lay ahead or our fate was sealed.</p><p></p><p>I felt the fool that as I was pondering his words, I did not fully realize what Nekaya was doing, as she was saying something in that ancient language she knows and moving towards the miniature sun. As my mind was making the connection between Nekaya and her worship of two sun gods, she disappeared into the blazing inferno in the center of the room! I hastily ran after her, diving at her in the hopes of pushing her out the other side and preventing horrible bodily harm to her from the miniature sun.</p><p></p><p>Instead, I ended up in a room inhabited by skeletons working away on various things, and an armored and armed skeleton dressed in the fashion of a Mulhorandi guarding a passageway ahead. A gong sounded far off, and I quickly became afraid as it had a very evil feel to it. I shook that off as the skeleton guardian came forward. I pulled my hammer and Brimstone as Liadan appeared and her, Nekaya and I battled the guardian. We dispatched it quickly as I realized</p><p>the rest of my friends had arrived along with our mounts, which had been tethered outside of Havin's tower. Liadan had dispatched the rest of the skeletons with the power of Lathander.</p><p></p><p>As the rest began to check the mounts and Nekaya was busy reading the symbols on the wall, I went ahead up the stairs that had been guarded only to find out they were trapped with two big blades springing from the wall. Using the immovable rod and my hand axe, I destroyed the blades and continued up the stairs. There is fresh blood on the stairs and I wish to know where or whom it came from.</p><p></p><p>At the top of the stairs is a big ceremonial room where two mummies are wrapping a body in cloth for burial.</p><p></p><p>Not knowing if this might be the same individual that came before us, I pulled Brimstone into my offhand and start to move towards them...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zora, post: 2954463, member: 30156"] [b]Journal entry 7/14/06[/b] Dear Pepa, Many things have happened in the last week. I spent the 2 days following the battle in Brimstone Keep working on the hammer you made for me. It had become slightly damaged, so I took what skills I have and managed to put it back in working order. I discovered something truly amazing about it in the meantime. I wish to thank you for putting your heart into this fine weapon, as I can almost feel your presence radiating from it. I just don't have the words… So instead I'll relate to you the profound discussion I had with my closest of friends Telemnar. During the 2 days in which I expressed my desire for solitude, I asked Telemnar to hear me out. I wanted him to know the decision I had come to in regards to parting company with my friends. I felt he should know first, that I owed him that much. We talked for hours. As it turns out, we had a good laugh at each other's expense, as we were both suffering from some of the same feelings. I then told him of my near-death experience. He was -I think- slightly shocked to hear that Pakkin had indeed saved my life. I told him of the irony that whilst I had come to accept Pakkin as a companion and wished to use the gatehouse as a chance to work closely together with him, I ended up instead not being able to come to his aid. And this after he had just saved my life. I told him that that was when my mind turned towards the idea of going back to Camber and retiring. You know what he asked me? "Do you remember what Covenant told you when he asked you to join us?" He said "If we run from life, we do not honor the dead; we disappoint them." I still remember being shocked that a human holy warrior of Lathander would quote to me one of the tenets of Dumathoin. It was a refreshing discussion that I'm glad we had. I knew I had not really desired to part ways with my companions. Turns out I just needed to talk to someone to work it out for myself. I knew I could count on Telemnar. During this time, I showed him what I discovered about my warhammer. He was truly impressed. I can't wait to see it in action. After the 2 days, I came out to discover that Erim was studying some new spells that would take a few more days. We all decided to throw ourselves into helping the town rebuild. Nekaya has some very handy spell that repairs things in but a moment's time. Quite useful, although I prefer the feeling of hard work and sweat to accomplish the same thing. I focused my time on the town's temples and shrines, as no one else really desired to. I know how I feel about priests, but I feel that a person's worship is important. I had 5 days of nearly nonstop work that gave me such profound joy to be creating something. It was a bittersweet joy, as I wish I could be in Camber doing the same thing, but I'll take what I can get. During this time, the rest of my companions and the Dragonfire Guild decided to split the spoils of battle. The Guild took most of the money and many items that most likely originally belonged to them. Kal wishes to return the money to the town in a new beginning of making amends. He left the commissioned sword with us, as well as a few other things recovered from the Bane worshipers. Included amongst this were three suits of armor, some full-plate, that had Bane iconography on them. We destroyed the unholy mace of the priestess and the sword of the warlord. I convinced my friends it would be better to keep and sell the armors rather than simply destroy them. I told Liadan I would help her to possibly get one re-fitted to accommodate her. After all was said and done, Jayda and Blaze told us they would escort us to Havin's tower. Hopefully we can find some answers there, or some clues. Barring that, possibly something useful that would aid us in our mission. We arrived less than a day later, and it is not so much a tower as a short, squat structure that looks like we would be more comfortable in it than humans. We entered through the heavy front door, and after some scouting, I could hear what sounded like forced wind or a very hot fire coming from downstairs. Upon descending, we could see from the bottom of the stairs that inside a small round room was what looked like a miniature sun. As we entered through the doorway, a message came from the wall from Havin saying that our destiny lay ahead or our fate was sealed. I felt the fool that as I was pondering his words, I did not fully realize what Nekaya was doing, as she was saying something in that ancient language she knows and moving towards the miniature sun. As my mind was making the connection between Nekaya and her worship of two sun gods, she disappeared into the blazing inferno in the center of the room! I hastily ran after her, diving at her in the hopes of pushing her out the other side and preventing horrible bodily harm to her from the miniature sun. Instead, I ended up in a room inhabited by skeletons working away on various things, and an armored and armed skeleton dressed in the fashion of a Mulhorandi guarding a passageway ahead. A gong sounded far off, and I quickly became afraid as it had a very evil feel to it. I shook that off as the skeleton guardian came forward. I pulled my hammer and Brimstone as Liadan appeared and her, Nekaya and I battled the guardian. We dispatched it quickly as I realized the rest of my friends had arrived along with our mounts, which had been tethered outside of Havin's tower. Liadan had dispatched the rest of the skeletons with the power of Lathander. As the rest began to check the mounts and Nekaya was busy reading the symbols on the wall, I went ahead up the stairs that had been guarded only to find out they were trapped with two big blades springing from the wall. Using the immovable rod and my hand axe, I destroyed the blades and continued up the stairs. There is fresh blood on the stairs and I wish to know where or whom it came from. At the top of the stairs is a big ceremonial room where two mummies are wrapping a body in cloth for burial. Not knowing if this might be the same individual that came before us, I pulled Brimstone into my offhand and start to move towards them... [/QUOTE]
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