Puzzle Pieces
Posted on June 3, 2000 in UncategorizedDay 19, Year 538 of the Ascendancy
Look around you. All is not right. There are dark
powers at work all about the isle, if you are observant enough to
notice them. T’rool and Darshak invasions that occur in succession, as
if coordinated, greymyr marching into town for no apparent reason,
detached spirits appearing regularly, in the very town center itself,
and finally the dreaded fungus of Dal’Noth Isle, suddenly growing quite
common in Puddleby… all these are pieces to a sinister puzzle. Add to
this today, another piece…
I was not present to witness many of the events
that transpired today, but I must record them down here, for all to
see, for the implications of these events could well be
world-shattering. It all started when the army of several Sar’noths and
quasi-intelligent Palidews trapped a poweful group of exiles on
Dal’Noth Isle. Almost as if on cue, a band of T’rool and T’rool Kin
invaded Puddleby. Thus the battle was begun. The exiles caught on
Dal’Noth fought desparately for their lives, while those on Puddleby
struggled to keep the T’rools at bay.
After long fighting, the exiles on Puddleby pushed
the T’rools back, and began to erradicate the T’rool forces scattered
throughout the South Forest, while the Dal’Noth party managed to
maneuver themselves off of Dal’Noth Isle, and rushed to the aid of the
exiles in South Forest. The exiles slowly but surely pushed the T’rool
forces back, until they had reached the very T’rool Town itself. This
is where the apprentice mystic Phiros stumbled onto an important
discovery.
Phiros had slipped into one of the T’rool huts
seeking solace, but had instead found a secret conference between a
Sar’Noth and a Vol’Kin. With the untimely intruder, the conference
quickly come to a close, but Phiros managed to hear the Sar’noth say:
“Deal! We will open the caves for you… we warned though you’d better
not cross Qual!” The nature of the caves that the Sar’Noth spoke of are
unknown, but perhaps they a system of caverns hidden on Dal’Noth Isle,
or maybe even in the deep mines of the T’rools…
Another interesting thing about this invasion, was
that a Darshak invasion force quickly followed the T’rools, as if the
Darshak knew that the town would be vaccant. A similar invasion occured
on Day 274, of year 537…
somehow this seems not to be a coincidence. Even the greymyr decided to
pay us a visit, and ten or so greymyr made a pilgrimage from the
Northern Passes to Puddleby. There is definately something brewing in
the lands. Are the foes of Puddleby suddenly uniting to fight against
us? Somehow, I have a strange feeling that we shall all find out in the
132nd Chaos Storm…(see Yor’s Scrolls and Norm’s Diary for more information on the invasions).