Lundar's Library

Day 8, Year 544 of the Ascendancy

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Happy New Year all! Winter has returned once again
to Puddleby, and the days grow shorter and shorter. As a result, the
Lok’groton Islands Foundation for Exploration(LIFE) decided to take a
break from exploring Kizmia’s Isle(which can be very deadly at night)
and return once more to the Foothills. LIFE’s decision was also
influenced by the rumor that the clan Pogue Mahone had discovered a way
past the Foothills, and into the Orga Stronghold. Thus, a large party
was assembled in the Lily Pond, composed of both LIFE members and a
non-LIFE party led by Gurgi. We truly had a powerful party with us, and
it took us little more than hour to get from the Lily Pond, through the
Orga Outback and Dread Passage, to the Northeastern Foothills.

Once inside the Foothills, we split up into two
different parties. The LIFE party headed south towards the blocked
cavern, in hopes that the recent Chaos Storm might have cleared up some
of the rocks, while the party led by Gurgi headed north towards the Ash
Valley. However, after both parties encountered near-death situations,
the group rejoined once more, and headed to the blocked cavern
together. To our disapointment though, there was nothing changed with
the blocked cavern, or the mysterious shimmering pool. So, after taking
a quick break near the shimmering pool, we once more split up into two
parties, and explored the caverns. However, some of the people in
Gurgi’s party accidentally fell into the Ash Valley, and a massive
rescue attempt ensued. The whole rescue took more than four hours, but
we were successful in raising everybody, and returning to Katpus’ safe
cave.

Now we are all camped out in the safe cave, and
resting up from today’s adventures, and preparing for the further
exploration to come. We’ve thus far been unsuccessful in finding a way
past the Foothills, but I am confident that with the many powerful
minds that we have in our party, we will be able to solve this great
mystery.

Day 343, Year 543 of the Ascendancy

Recently, a trio of troublemakers have been causing mischief and
harassing mystics. The brothers, who go by the names Rot, Wilt, and
Itch seem to hold some grudge against mystics, and try to make
nuicanses of themselves by planting kudzu in locales that mystics
frequent. Just today, I was lured into the hut in SE Field where the
brothers Rot and Wilt had planted a batch of kudzu near the entrance. I
managed to push myself past the kudzu only to find an assortment of
deadly creatures waiting for me, and I could not retreat because my
exit was blocked. Later, I was able to track the two down with my clan
mate Drue’Dreemi, and confront the two troublemakers. The two claimed
that mystics were “lightworms,” and that he and his brothers would try
to rid Puddleby of the Mystic Guild. That sounds a little grand to me,
coming from a trio of kudzu planters, but mystics should still be wary
of the brothers, and any who call themselves memebers of the so called
“Crafters of Oblivion.”

In other news, the mystics of Puddleby have been
able to meet with Tenebrion and Umbrion, and discuss the current
research being conducted on ether. More details can be found on Koric and Babajaga’s Scrolls,
but the gist of it is that the two ‘Brions want information concerning
the ether levels of every snell on Puddleby. Now, this is certainly a
daunting task, but the mystics of Puddleby are pouring over research
concerning the use of ethereal amulets, and are carefully mapping the
ether levels of our island. Neige and Callia
have both created scrolls tracking the progress of their studies, and I
am sure more mystics will soon follow suit. This research shall no
doubt prove invaluable to finding the leaks in the Ethereal Plane, that
have been plaguing Puddleby in recent months.

Day 324, Year 543 of the Ascendancy

It’s that time of the year again. The Feast of Tsr’rin has come ’round
once more to Puddleby, and it’s time once more to throw on colorful
costumes to spite the Darshak, and collect tasty candies from firendly
townspeople. I haven’t been able to collect too much candy yet, because
my pack is nearly bursting, but I’ve been having a lot of fun with the
costumes. Corstun seems to have aquired some new costumes for this
year’s festival, and some of them have been quite popular, especially
the old sylvan and mummy costumes.

Today was my clan’s monthly meeting, and although
we had a small turnout, we went hunting in the Snaggle Wood and Lily
Pond. Most of us chose to wear the old sylvan costumes except for our
Clan Lord, who chose to wear a spriggan costume, and Afton, who dressed
up as a rat. This led to quite a lot of confusion during the hunt as we
kept trying to attack Afton, and kept stepping on poor Fleming… All
in all though, it was quite a lot of fun. I also got to speak with the
phantasm expert Mr Pudding today, and gained some insight into the
workings of the Phantasmonomicon. Hopefully I will be able to join the
next expedition to Kizmia’s Isle, and obtain myself some catsbane.

Day 256, Year 543 of the Ascendancy

The last two days have been really eventful for me. It all started with
an expedition led by Kiriel D’Sol to the Drake Den on Devil’s Isle. A
group of 3 fighters, 4 mystics, and 6 healers was assembled, and we
made our way through the maze-like McBolie Caverns, and deadly Crater,
to reach the Drake Den. We did encounter a few setbacks, in the form of
lava walker re-spawns, and people falling outside of the wall, but for
the most part, the expedition went extremely smooth. However, when we
reached our objective of the Drake Den, we found that there were no
Fire Drakes in it at all! I’ve seen vision stones of the Den filled
with Drakes, young and old, and the few visits to the Den that I’ve had
have included at least one Drake. This leads me to the question: Where
have all the Drakes gone? The Drakes of the Den are much more poewrful
than the Drakes which we encounter on Puddleby, so I doubt they’ve been
killed. Perhaps they’ve gone into hiding…

Anyway, after the successful expedition to the
Drake Den, I joined a party formed by the Rising Claw clan, to rescue
their clan mate Aldernon from the clutches of Umbrion. Aldernon had
requested that he be taken prisonner of Umbrion in a fit of madness
several moons ago, and he had spent his time in Umbrion’s Keep ever
since. A truly massive party of more than 30 exiles gathered on
Kizmia’s Isle today, to rescue the deranged sylvan. The party gathered
just off the shore on the southern coast of Kizmia’s Isle, and waited
for the sun to rise, and weaken the Lyfelidae inhabitants of the isle.
We then stormed the southern beach en masse, and were met by
such as foes as the Darshak, and their warhounds, deadly serpents, and
ferocious cats, in addition to the dreaded Lyfelidae. We were able to
overcome these with a little difficulty, and we proceeded to assault on
Umbrion’s Keep. Inside the Keep we were beseiged by fiery bubbles, lava
walkers, and lava beetles, as well as Umbrion’s elite guard, but we
were able to persevere, and continue on our rescue for Aldernon.

Once we cleared out most of the beasts from the
Keep, we were able to make several important discoveries. One, is the
slave that Tenebrion hinted at during his meeting with the Mystic
Council of Puddleby. The slave, who goes by the name Leladar, offers
training to any mystic on how to better use the ethereal amulets, that
Tenebrion has been doling out lately. However, Leladar offers her
training only to mystics, and will not train those who do not belong to
the Mystic Guild. Many of the mystics present in our party signed up to
receive training, which is very good, since it is very important that
we have exiles who are skilled in the use of these amulets. By
measuring the flow of ether into the different parts of our isle, we
may be able to determine the cause of the ethereal storms that have
been plaguing our plane as of late, and maybe even a solution to the
problem. Tenebion has also hinted that we may be able to travel to the
ethreal plane where the ether is thickest, which may certainly come in
handy in the future.

Another discovery that we made in Umbrion’s Tower,
is the slave Asteshesha, who offered to teach exiles in the use of
phantasms. Phantasms are basically just harmless illusions that are
created in the minds of sentinent begins, but they are very difficult
to learn and master. In order to cast phantasms, intensive training is
necessary, as well as a tome called the Phantasmonomicon. In addition,
the pages of the Phantasmonomicon need to be found, in order to cast
different phantasms. One of Umbrion’s slaves was trading a
Phantasmonomicon for catsbane, which is a very rare component found
only on Kizmia’s Isle, so I don’t think I will be getting one myself
anytime soon, but learning to cast phantasms definately sounds like
fun. Asteshesha offers his training to fighters, healers, and mystics
alike.

Finally, we were able to reach the top level of
the tower, and convice Aldernon to return to Puddleby. Luckily, Umbrion
did not show up, and we were able to make it out of his Keep alive. We
traveled north from Umbrion’s Keep, to the tar cave, where we filled
our barrels with tar, and split up into two groups so we could reach
our respective trees. However, we soon suffered a variety of mishaps,
and that coupled with the coming of night doomed our party to
destruction. A few resolute exiles waited for the coming of the new day
to weaken the Lyfelidae of the isle, but the majority of us departed.
Still, our expedition was successful, and Aldernon returned safely to
Puddleby(or as safely as anyone can return via Purgatory). I am now
very interested in phantasms and the Phantasmonomicon, and would
appreciate any information relating to those two subjects.

Day 246, Year 543 of the Ascendancy

There was quite an exciting incident today, that involved the strange
stones, the Nox Sorora, the Darshak, and explosive potions. The exact
details of the event were rather confusing to me, but essentially what
happened was that Jo Ma’ril and a few other were tricked into dealing
with the Darshak, by a strange woman by the name of Agrath. This Agrath
led the exiles into a never before seen Darshak camp, which lies to the
east of the campfire on Ash Island. What happened next is rather
confusing, but the way I understand it, is that the exiles traded the
Darshak several colorful stones for two explosive potions. Somehow one
of these potions was dropped near the developing Nox Sorora
Chapterhouse in Puddleby, and reduced it to cinders.

It is still unclear what the Darshak wanted with
these stones, or how Agrath ties into all this, but it is theorized
that the stones as used to operate the powerful canons aboard the
Darshak Warships. Currently, Rel’lim is in possetion of the second
potion, and the current plan is to have Stainfinger analyze the potion,
in hopes of learning how to create similar such potions in the future.
Perhaps we can use the powerful explosive potions as weapons in combat,
or use them to completely level the Darshak settlements on Ash Island.
The potions might also be useful in blasting a passage to the east side
of the island, in the North Eastern Foothills. Who knows?

In other news, Tenebrion has instructed a Sorer in
his keep to begin distributing Ethereal Amulets to those that seek
them, as was agreed upon in the meeting
with Tenebrion. The Sorer can be found alongside the other traders, who
trade in Ethereal items for Portal Stones. The price for the Ethereal
Amulets is very cheap– a single piece of metal for a fully crafted
amulet. Now we can begin an indepth examination of the ether that has
been seeping into our plane. Of particular importance would be the
monitoring of the ether flow into Purgatory. Perhaps our fourth circle
healers could purchace amulets, and use them to check up on the ether
levels of Purgatory every so often. Now, what we need to do is find
Umbrion’s slave that Tenebrion hinted at, that will allow us to better
control the Ethereal Amulets, which are currently very fragile.

Day 196, Year 543 of the Ascendancy

I’ve been very busy with my studies for the past few months, and I
hardly get to spend any time outside of the library. As a result
though, my training is coming along very nicely, and I’ve still managed
to make it to a few exploratory trips on Kizmia’s Isle and Devil’s
Isle. I also visited the carnival that popped up in East Farms for a
few weeks, which was quite amusing, even if the fortune teller spouted
utter nonesense.

Anyway, I’d like to relate to yi some rather
important events that transpired a few weeks ago. It was the 16th day
of Summer, and most exiles were engaged in a dangerous rescue on
Kizmia’s Isle, for the enigmatic witch Fat Alice, who had managed to
fall in the far eastern mountains of the Isle of Lyfelidae. However,
while exiles attempted the rescue afar, important events were
transpiring in Puddleby as well. The Mystic Council of Puddleby had
scheduled some kind of conference with Tenebrion, and Tenebrion’s Sarir
appeared in town. Soon after his appearance, several representatives of
the Mystic Council arrived, and hastily escorted to the conference room
for a secret meeting. While I have been forbidden to reveal everything
that was discussed in the meeting, the Mystic Council has given me
permission to reveal several of the details, as they concern Puddleby.

The information that might be of interest to
exiles concerns the ethreal amulets that Tenebrion has been handing out
as of late. Tenebrion claims that he is as concerned as we are with the
dangerous flow of ether into our plane from Purgatory, and he wishes us
exiles to aid him in the research of the flow of ether, by using the
amulets, because we have access to certain places that he does not.
Tenebrion says that he has a huge stockpile of these amulets, and will
soon be handing them out freely. Tenebrion says that he and his
brothers are very knowledgeable about the ethereal plane, and that they
might be willing to share some of their knowledge, if we demonstrate
that we are ready for it, by learning how to use the ethreal amulets.
He also hinted that Umbrion has hidden somewhere in his isle a slave,
that may be able to aid us in using these amulets. Read the edited transcript for more details.

Day 193, Year 543 of the Ascendancy

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My webscrolls are finally back up, after a
downtime of almost half a year! Sorry to all yi folks who’ve been
trying to reach my scrolls, to no avail. My old scrolls were hosted on
my Clan’s scrolls, which were hosted by my Clan Lord Fleming, and
recently, Fleming has been having trouble hosting the scrolls. I tried
wating for a few months in the vain hope that Fleming might get the
scrolls fixed, but I’ve finally decided to seek out a new host. So this
is now the location of my scrolls, at least until Fleming gets
everything settled down with the Clan scrolls. I’ve been spending more
time in the library than I used to, but I’ve still had countless
adventures since last I updated my scrolls, so I decided that a mural
would be the best medium through which to convey these adventures. Hope
yi enjoy it.

Also, during my long absence, a whole slew of
diaries and news related scrolls have popped up. Yi can find all the
new webscrolls on my Links page. If yi’re interested in following
the news of Puddleby at all,
yi’ll definately want to check them all out. One more thing; my old
Journal is currently inaccessable, because my new host doesn’t allow me
to use as much space my as Clan scrolls did. I’ll be spending the next
few weeks re-organizing the Library to accomodate that, so please have
patience.

Sombdi, day 9 of Spring, 543

Today the Beautify Puddleby Project, started by clan E’las Loth’mon Ferindril, was finally completed, thanks to the help of Johnny Treeseed. Johnny appeared in town shortly before midnight, and quickly attracted an audience with his bag of magic seeds, which made trees grow wherever he planted them.

Johnny asked us where we would like him to plant his trees, and Yazza and Dierdre helped direct him in planting plants all around Puddleby. Johnny even asked for our help at one point, and we helped Johnny out by planting some grass around town.

Below are some more sketches from the seed planting:

Day 343, Year 542 of the Ascendancy

Well, the 193rd Chaos Storm has swept across the lands, and it’s
brought many changes with it. Perhaps the most obvious change is that
there is now an additional extention to the library. It seems that the
Dwarves digging under town found a hidden cache of valuable tomes, and
an extention to the library was hastily made to accomadate them. The
only catch, is that Sebric, the caretaker of these books, is charging
875 coins per Zodiac to study with the books! 875 coins! That comes out
to more than 30 coins A DAY just to study with the newfound tomes.
Charging so much for knowledge should be a crime…

Anyway, the tunnels under town have been greatly
expanded again, thanks to the work of the miners, and there are many
new tunnels and passages to be explored. I’ve never been much of a fan
for going underground, beyond the reach of the Sun, but the tunnels
under Puddleby are begining to interest me. If we found a hidden stash
of books under Puddleby, who knows what the miners will dig up next? A
horde of hidden treasures? Ruins of an ancient civillization? Strange
and magical creatures? The possibilities are endless. And while the
Dwarves are hard at work at their building project, Usnar seems to be
slacking with his. The T’rool Outpost has still yet to see daylight,
even after over a year of developement. There does seem to be some
progress being made, though. The other day, while I was resting by the
Outpost construction site, I could hear some muffled voices coming from
within the Outpost. Maybe the Outpost will be finished any day now.

Day 340, Year 542 of the Ascendancy

Today the Journeyman Nevyn advanced to the rank of 1rst circle Mystic!
F’nom grudos, Ma’ta Nevyn! The number of Mystics in Puddleby certainly
seems to increasing lately, and a good thing too. Our town needs
Mystics now more than ever, to face the many challenges that are
springing up before us, like Tenebrion, and the imminent threat of the
Ethereal Plane. I’ve heard rumors that a group of exiles have spoken
with Tenebrion, and agreed to a deal to trade 6 Teleportation Stones
for a permanent, two-way portal between our plane, and the Ethreal.
Puddleby definately needs our guidance to see that we are not
short-changed in this deal, and that we are not introducing something
potentially deadly to our town.

In other news, I’ve renovated the Links
section of this scroll, and removed some of the out-dated and broken
links, while adding links to some new informational scrolls. Some of
these include links to Forey’s Journal, Solas’ Diary, and Yorg’s Smial.
So go down to the Links page, and check out all the new scrolls.