Sombdi, day 5 of Summer, 568
Thoomish has long been the language of traders and scholars, and I’ve always wanted to learn it, so I was pleased to hear from my teacher Par Troon today that I’d mastered his lessons. I can now speak the language of the Thoom fairly fluently, though I do still stumble on hitting some of the deeper notes. It’s definitely quite a departure from Illsardinish, although there are a few similarities. I can’t wait to crack open some Thoomish mystic texts that I’ve been wanting to read. Thoom!
Thoom!
Day 9 of Autumn, 567
Some Chaos Storms are more chaotic than others, and the latest Storm (v505) seems to have been rougher than usual. As soon as the Storm passed, a few of us started poking around to see if it had brought anything new, only to find that the Storm had blown all the locks off the Guild Halls! For a brief period of time, I had access to the fighter and healer halls. While the doormen were frantically running around to fix things, I was able to sneak in and take a look around the other Guild Halls for the first time, as well as the fighter and healer pubs.
Confused doorman
No training for us, unfortunately
Visiting the Menagerie
Fortunately, the Mystic Guild Hall uses tougher locks than the other Guilds, so outsiders were only able to gain access to the Apprentice wing, but none of the other rooms. The locks were fixed fairly quickly, and order was restored, but it was fun to poke around the other Guilds while it lasted.
Vequalir: “shoot.. need to afk for about 2 min”
Fleming: “Should be safe here.”
1 minute later…
Fleming was right in a way. Vequalir never fell the entire time. (Also note our newest hopeful, Llwenyen).
Last moon, instead of having a meeting, we visited the portal leading to the Boardwalk that appears in Puddleby roughly every four years. In addition to the usual games and facepaints, there was a stable for snail races and a new game called Spider Splat, which was amazingly addicting. With the help of Kani and Usagi, I was able to set a new record with a score of 24,514. Unfortunately, I barely had time to brag about it, before I was beaten out by another spider slayer. Oh well, at least it was fun while it lasted.
Apparently the rumors of Ayella’s death have been greatly exaggerated. She popped up the other day while I was sitting in town, and played us a few tunes on her harp, before quickly disappearing back into the library.
Neko no Kessha sponsored the “Very Important Agatis” Dun’ilsar challenge today, and ELF put on a good showing. For the contest, each clan had to choose an Agratis to keep them alive in the Badlands, while trying to take down the other clans’ Agratis. The last Agratis standing would be the winner.
Four clanmembers showed up for the contest: Fleming, Kor’gah, Yazza, and myself. It was decided that I would play the role of the Agratis, with Kor’gah and Yazza serving as envoys, and Fleming working to kill the opposing teams’ Agratis. For our strategy, we decided to just hide out behind a large pile of rocks that Fleming had discovered earlier, and this strategy ended up working surprisingly well.
By lying silent, I was able to hide behind the rocks undiscovered for most of the contest, even when other exiles passed through the snell. However, hiding became much more difficult as more and more of the other Agratis were eliminated, and I was finally found by the pesky pirate Relkin, who used his ranger powers to outrun me and take me down.
At the close of the contest, we ended up coming in 4th out of nine clans, behind WoD(who won the contest with a single Agratis!), NnK, and the House of Swech. It was a very exciting contest, and I hope that the others who participated will share their accounts as well.
(I made a visionstone of the contest, but it’s rather dull as I just spend the whole time hiding, but if you want to watch it, you can download it here)
Yesterday I participated in the tail end of MaryJane’s Mystic Cloud Event, along with Vequalir, Yazza, and Kor’gah. When I arrived, people were trying to get the Dark Cloud back over Sfoft’s Peak, where a number of exiles were fallen.
Moving the Cloud turned out to be harder than I expected though, and even with the guidance of Apprender(who is familiar with the runic script of the Cloud control room), it took many frustrating hours before we could get the Cloud back over the Peak.
We did eventually manage to get the Cloud in place, however, and rescue those fallen at Sfoft’s. I even managed to get a mark on Sfoft’s Peak, thanks to a teleportation stone given to me by Ansset, so next time I should be able to reach the Peak without having to go through that whole ordeal.
Afterwards, we walked the green portal back to the Mirror, so a few more exiles could get access to the cloud, before moving it back to Falinea’s temple. All in all it was quite an event, and I think I’m starting to get the hang of Cloud driving.
Smooshed on the Cloud
Peering over the edge
Surviving the fall!
Today, the Journeyman Ansset advanced to the station of Full Mystic, and I was fortunate enough to take part in his promotion ceremony. Beer was provided for by Zorton and the generous Attila, and Ansset proceeded to have his first fall as a Full Mystic.
Some Darshak tried to disrupt the ceremony and run off with the beer, but luckily Michael was on hand to quickly dispatch the intruders. Congratulations to Ansset, on his much deserved promotion!
With the exchange of a chain and the playing of a song, the Armor Deal was completed today. More than 40 exiles showed up to Melabrion’s conference room to witness the historic event, and the brothers Melabrion and Sombrion were present to accept the final items of the trade. Beer was provided for by a friendly Sarir.
The highlight of the event was of course the drinking song that Phineas has spent many moons working on. Phineas performed three songs that he wrote for the occaision(lyrics can be found here), with the help of the two mystic bards Sutai and Ansset. The reception from Melabrion was very positive(he consumed about 20 beers during the performance), and he handed out the promised armor at the conclusion of the song.
Following the trade, the items were taken back to smithy for analysis. Exiles now have the ability to forge breastplates, shields, and helms of iron and bronze. It is not known exactly what these items do, but it is believed that they add a small detha bonus. It takes a good number of ingots to forge some of the larger pieces of armor though, and I expect prices for these metals to skyrocket in the near future.
