Lundar's Library

Day 177, Year 545 of the Ascendancy

The ‘Brion brothers seem to have created a portal of sorts, which
connects several of their Keeps together. Since today was ELF’s monthly
meeting, we decided to head into the portal, and see where it lead. We
soon found that the portal lead to four of the ‘Brion’s Keeps:
Tenebrion’s, Umbrion’s, Cimmbrion’s, and Melabrion’s. After poking
around a bit, we decided to look around Umbrion’s Keep, which turned
out to be a mistake because several of us got toasted beyond healing by
Lava Walkers. Since I was the only one alive with a chain, I proceeded
to drag my clanmates’ fallen bodies out of the Tower.

However, due to the steep nature of Umbrion’s
Tower, chains slip when going between each of the levels. Needless to
say this resulted in us having to push the corpses for much of the way,
and my chains became quite worn from having to reattach to the corpses
at each level. Finally, we managed to get the fallens up to the top of
the tower, and were able to push them into the Ethereal Plane. As I
prepared to drag the corpses back to town through Tenebrion’s Keep,
however, my chain snapped, which was understandable after being used
more than 300 times, but when I tried to chain the bodies again, I
managed to snap another chain, which hadn’t been used at all! Not
wanting to risk another chain, we pushed the bodies out of the Ethereal
Plane, and I was able to chain the bodies back to town from Tenebrion’s
Keep successfully.

Meanwhile, my clanmate Vequalir was finding
himself in a lot of trouble. While helping to push the corpses up
Umbrion’s Tower, Vequalir managed to take a wrong turn, and found
himself in the private quarters of the Pyromaniac Umbrion himself!
Inside he found a private storage room, where he could purchase various
items from Umbrion’s slaves for a single coin, and a ladder leading up
to the very top of the tower. The only problem was that Vequalir
couldn’t found his way back out again. After worrying about his
predicament for a bit, Vequalir began to purchase items from the
cellar, and selling them to my clanmates outside. However, after a few
minutes an angry Umbrion arrived, and took back the items from Vequalir
and kicked him out of his private chambers.

All in all, it was a very exciting adventure. Nothing is as unpredictable (or deadly) as ELF’s monthly hunts!