Lundar's Library

Day 83, Year 549

The Mystic Raldin attempted a Full Moon Orga Camp Raid(FMOCR) today,
which unfortunately ended in a disaster. When I was called on to help
with the rescue, there were fallens in all four Orga Camps, and plenty
of ‘locks and ‘zerks in OC1 making the rescue difficult.

We were eventually able to gather sufficient forces to clear
out OC1, and a few helpful Orga Zealots teleported some of the fallens
from the deeper camps to OC1. However, when we made a premature attempt
at OC2, we were completely overwhelmed.

ZOT!

A long rescue ensued, which was made difficult by the dozens of
‘locks in both OC1 and 2. After several hours, I was finally rescued,
but by the time I had been roasted and rat-chewed past the point of
healing. I was dragged to town by the helpful Gally, and restored to
health with the help of many kind healers.

Going up!

At this point I had to retire to the library, but even as I left,
Raldin was organizing a rescue party to save the few fallens that were
still stuck in OC4. I pray that he and his party are successful.

Day 78, Year 549

Today, the exiles of Puddleby worked to revive the Puddleby Zoo, an
exile tradition that dates all the way back to the Great Forgetting,
when powerful monsters that wandered into town had to be led behind the
fence of Mai’s Lawn.

Today’s menagerie contained nearly 30 different creatures at
it’s height, with such beasts as Great Rockodiles, Noble Myrms, and
Maha Ruknees. It was quite a spectacle for those sitting in town
center, though a few objected to the imprisonment of the creatures.

I know this a zoo, but who’s watching who?

Usually these zoos come to and end when some exile’s hunting
instincts take over, but when I headed for the library around noon, the
zoo was still going strong. It will be interesting to see if the
critters are still there tomorrow.

In other news, it seems that Slyph was *not* kidnapped by T’rools or
eaten by an Orga, as rumor would have it. Indeed, I saw her just
earlier today, in one of the more lively exhibits of the Puddleby zoo…

With her hips, apparently

Day 73, Year 549

Rot and Wilt, two of the so-called “Crafters of Oblivion” were stirring
up trouble again yesterday, this time by leading several dangerous
creatures into the Mystic Academy courtyard. I fell trying to lead the
critters away, but soon more mystics arrived, along with a couple
healers, and we were able to rid the Academy of the dangerous beasts.

Foiling Wilt and Rot’s plans

Unfortunately, the Journeyman Wangah Rah fell while fighting the
monsters, and Rot managed to get him on a chain before we could get him
up. A wild chase ensued, with Rot and Wilt threatening to perform
dreadful experiments on Wangah. Luckily, we were able to catch Rot
before he could do anything to him.

The Crafters of Oblivion claim that they are working towards
bringing oblivion to our lands, but so far they have done little but
pull childish little pranks. Rot and Wilt, along with their brother
Itch, are minor nuissances, and little else.

Day 68, Year 549

The wooden ransom note

A mysterious sign has popped up on the Docks of Puddleby, which has
some exiles scrambling and others skeptical. The sign, apparently
written by one Kiril Drakesblood, demands a tribute of 500,000 coppers
by the 10th Day of Spring, “or else”.

The most commonly held belief is that the sign was posted by
some new Darshak Warlord, but I wouldn’t be too certain– this could be
something else entirely. One thing I *can* be sure of is that no exile
is going to scrounge up 500,000 coins for anyone, be they Darshak
pirate or the Mad Emperor himself.

Looks like something big is going to happen this upcomming Merdi(OOC: Sunday the 16th).

Day 44, Year 549

Today I went hunting in the hidden valley of the Eastern Mountains with my clanmates, which was quite fun.

Hunting in the hidden valley

Just reaching the valley proved to be a difficult task, however. The
valley entrance is located smack dab in the middle of the Greymyr
Village, and several times we had to return to town with fallen party
members. We also had difficulty just entering the valley, the entrance
to which is a very difficult pf path.

Luckily we were all able to enter the valley with the aid of
the talented pathfinder Rael the Squonk, and we were soon on our way to
some hunting and adventure!

Exploring the valley

Our clanmate Kor’gah led us through the valley, and we stuck near
the river for the most part. We encountered a large numbers of wendies
inside the valley, who had some really nice furs.

The wendies of the valley proved to be a difficulty, however.
When fighting against a particularly nasty batch of wendies, our
comrade Rael was felled by rocks thrown by the wendies, and was
pronounced too fallen to be healed by the healers we had with us.

This actually proved to our advantage, however, when we
encountered a large fishing pond in the center of the valley. We were
able to use bits of Rael as fishing bait, which was quite successful.

Using bits of Rael as bait

After a tour of the valley, we exited via the back entrance, and
returned to town. It had been several years since I last visited the
valley, so this hunt was quite a treat.

Tan’ki to Rael for helping us enter the valley and for being
such good bait. I’ll be sure to take him with me the next time I go
fishing!

Day 44, Year 549

Rincewind celebrates in town

Today, Rincewind, one of Puddleby’s best locators, advanced to the
station of Full and Honourable Mystic! F’nom grudos Ma’ta Rincewind!
May you continue your exeplary service to both the Guild and the
community!

Day 15, Year 549

We had a pretty small turnout at today’s meeting because many of my
clanmates were seeking the rare Superb Owl that visits the isles just
once every four years. A few of us managed to make it to the meeting
though, and we even had a few visitors who were interested in the clan.

Small turnout

Afterwards, we decided do a quick hunt in the passes, but we
couldn’t find any healers to join us. We decided to take a chance and
go hunting without any healers, which proved to be challenging. At one
point I had to be chained all the way back to town after being hit by a
greymyr rock. On the whole though, it was a short but exciting hunt.

Hunting with no healer

Day 12, Year 549

Squirel is squired to Raldin

Today I had the chance to bear witness to the apprentice Squirrel being
squired to the Mystic Knight Raldin, in the Temple of Falinea. After a
brief ceremony, Raldin tapped Squirrel on the shoulder with his sword,
and dubbed her a Squire of the Order of the Sun! Grudos Squirrel on
your accomplishment, and min’fait on the long road ahead!

Day 7, Year 549

Happy New Year everyone, or as we say in Ilsardinish, Noi’fenbril
Myrthian! I’ve been pretty busy with my studies lately, so I haven’t
been keeping up with my journal as much as I would like. My tutors have
finally given me break from my studies today though, so I’ll take this
time to recount my adventures from my last clan meeting.

The Sylvan Circle

Last moon my clanmates gathered around the campfire near the Myrm
Highlands, as we do every moon, and discussed a number of things of
interest to our clan, including the plans for an upcomming joint-clan
hunt with clan Hunter.

At the conclusion of the meeting, we headed to the clan house
and joined the brave fighter Myiasis as a new clan Hopeful! Welcome to
the clan Myiasis!

Myiasis becomes a hopeful!

Afterwards we decided to go hunting, but many of my clanmates had to
leave. This left us with only one healer, and only handful of fighters.
This didn’t deter us, however, and we started off the hunt with a quick
trip to the Rocky Cavern, where we encountered a number of Grey Wyrms.

Hunting in RC

After dispatching some Wyrms, we decided to move our hunt to the
Arachnoid Cavern. This proved to be deadly. At first we were able to
hunt the ‘Noids successfully by utilizing the narrow passage of the
cavern, but none of us were able to brick the Arachnoids, and our lone
healer Vequalir could not keep up with the damage.

First Fleming fell, then Vequalir, and then we were all in
trouble. At this point a few more clanmates showed up for the hunt, but
they ended up falling as well. Soon there was a growing pile of sylvans
fallen in the Arachnoid Cavern.

Trouble in ‘Noids

Luckily, we were soon rescued by Anfyr’s buff twin sister Shalyn,
who was able to slay the ‘Noids easily. Soon we were all back on our
feet, taking our revenge on the overgrown spiders.

After we cleared out the ‘Noids cavern, we began making our way
back towards town, but not before making a stop at the Tree Giant
Breeding Grounds for some TGs, Foxweirs, and Spriggins, bringing the
hunt to a close.

The Hunt’s Finale

Day 318, Year 548

The Dun’ilsar
is a traditional sylvan inter-clan competition, in which the clans
compete against each other for honor and glory. That sylvan tradition
was brought to Puddlbey by E’las Loth’mon Ferindril, and has since
become one of the most exciting and longest running contests in the
lands.

Today, my clan challenged the Order of the White Elephant to a
contest of skill, hoping to improve our ranking within the Dun’ilsar
ladder. For the contest we chose the Hunter
challenge, in which one member from each of the clans is designated the
“Hunter”, and is given 3 puddle hours to slay the greatest variety of
monsters possible. The rest of the clan members can either aid their
Hunter, or hinder the opposing team’s Hunter.

For the challenge we chose our Clan Lord Fleming to be our
Hunter, and the dwarf Charlos was chosen as the Hunter for OWE. Before
the start of the challenge, both of our clans gathered in the Puddleby
park and lined up to begin. Then, on the word of the dwarf Torin, the
contest was begun!

The contest begins!

The first destination for ELF was the Lily Pond, where we hoped to
find a large variety of critters. However, a number of members from OWE
followed us to LP in an effort to distract us.

Once we reached the Lily Pond, OWE set up a formidable wall of
pretzels and kudzu in the narrow entrance to the Pond. Thus, while our
Hunter Fleming was off hunting, the rest of us were furiously cutting
down kudzu, and eating our way through boxes of pretzels.

OWE sets up a Pretzel Wall

Lucikily, we were able to clear most of the fortifications by the
time Fleming was done in LP, foiling OWE’s plans. Having been
unsuccessful in their efforts to distract us, OWE ceased following us,
and returned to aid their own Hunter. Meanwhile, our clan made its way
to the Myrm Hive.

Hunting in the Hive soon proved to be disasterous. We soon
became split up in the twisted passages of the Hive, and several of my
clanmates became lost. Then, in the Queen’s Chamber, we lost all three
of our Fighters while fighting the the Queen Myrm, leaving only our
healers up.

Trouble in the Hive

It took us quite a while to extricate ourselves from the mess, and
afterwards we struggled to make up for the lost time. We headed from
the Hive to the Bear Cave, then hit the River Tunnel and Wurm Cave.
From there we worked our way south through the beaches, and made a
quick stop at the Meshra Cave and Marsh.

Then, with 40 puddle minutes of the contest remaining, we made
our way to the West T’rool Mines. Most of us did not make it that far,
but Fleming managed to reach the T’rool mines by himself, and added a
number of T’rools, ‘Dews, and cave critters to our already long list of
slain monsters. Then the time ran out for the contest, and we returned
to park to tally up our counts.

Tallying up the kills for both of the Hunters proved to be a long and suspensful task, even with the aid of the helpful Scribia. Finally, after a series of very long minutes, Fleming announced the results: OWE 74, ELF 64. We had lost the Dun’ilsar.

OWE wins the Dun’ilsar contest

Still, it was a very exciting and close contest. The beauty of
Dun’ilsar is that there are no losers, as long as everyone has fun. OWE
is now considering challenging the Clan of the Rising Claw for the top
spot in the Dun’ilsar ladder, and ELF is working on a challenge against
the Dwarven Millitia. Tav’riel Dun’ilsar! For the Glory of all Clans!