Every four years a magical portal appears in town, leading exiles to strange and different lands. This year is no exception. The magic portal has appeared in town again, and this time it leads to the four different worlds from previous years– ClanLord Ho!, Movie Land, Net Hack, and the Boardwalk. There’s lots of fun stuff to be discovered and revisited. Just make sure to bring a fighter, and watch out for those pesky Oompa Loompas!
The artist Polanna recently completed a painting commissioned by Ramandu to commemorate the discovery of the river crossing on Gungla Island. The painting features Ramandu, Ayella, and myself standing next to Colmert’s Crossing. You can find this, and other paintings of exiles, on Polanna’s webscroll. (Warning: This scroll contains images of scantily clad sylvans. Viewer discretion is advised.)
I’ve been hearing a lot of rumors about drakes invading Puddleby lately, and today I managed to catch sight of a number of drakes myself, running into a flock(?) of six drakes in East Field. Strangely enough, the drakes didn’t seem interested in attacking me at all, and instead flew straight past me into the marsh.
I tried following a couple of the drakes into the marsh, but quickly lost track of them. Some exiles were really curious as to where these drakes were headed, but my theory is that they’re simply migrating south for the winter. I’ve seen several flocks of geese flying south as well, and according to the POS, fire drakes are classified as a type of bird.
Still, it’s a bit curious why these drakes didn’t even bother to attack any exiles. Perhaps the drakes I encountered were simply scared off by my new paint job.
Idril Verbenna was inducted into the clan as a full member today! F’nom grudos Iddy!
Today I(along with Yella and Veq) actually had the opportunity of going on a Sarra expedition that didn’t end in a depart!… at least for the most part. The expedition began by heading through the mystic illusion on Gungla Island. Things started off well enough, and we were quickly able to secure the first snell.
However, things quickly fell apart when people began chasing after the cowardly Acid Cobras that reside in Sarra, and accidentally luring back monsters from other snells. Soon, more than half the party was fallen, with many of our healers fallen beyond healing.
I had to depart a number of times let re-enforcements in, but with the added help we were able to heal-up our fallen party members. With our party of more than 30 strong, the real exploration began.
I was sitting in town today minding my own business, when the Thoom Merlisk came prancing into town dressed up as a woman(with fake breasts and all). Now, I’ve come across many strange sights before in my travels, but this was one sight I could have done without.
Apparently Merlisk(or Merliska, as he now calls himself) was dressed like a woman in an attempt to sneak into the Woman’s Hut. His clanmate Leonin suspected him of having gender issues. In any case, I left before things grew too weird. Sometimes I have wonder about those fruity Thooms.
Bards everywhere were shocked and apalled yesterday, when the evil Hendrux announced that he had inducted the trickster Malkor into the Bard’s Guild as a full member. All the bards in the lands rallied to see whether this new bard had any musical talent in him, but to our horror and amazement, we learned that he had dumped all his instruments in Junko’s junkyard, and lost all his music! The Bard Master Coriakin almost fainted right there on the spot.
Malkor eventually got away from us, and can now be spotted in town sporting his new belt. Oh Mai…
Meeting Minutes for Day 28 of Summer, Year 553
Present: Ayella, Dathanja, Elrohir, Fleming, Idril Verbena, Lundar, Mouser, Sasha, Vequalir, Yazza, Zeitgeist
Guests: Cyan & Treebeard
The following are the events which were discussed around the campfire this moon:
I’ve really been neglecting my studies lately, traipsing off on adventures instead of studying the lessons of my tutors. Today was no exception.
Today I was fortunate enough to attend an FMOCR organzied by Yor. I was still a little groggy from wandering around Gungla Island, but I managed to stay awake for the whole trip.
Our party was quite small, numbering only about 14 exiles, but thanks to our coordination and Yor’s leadership, we were able to make it swiftly through all four orga camps, and obtain the orga stone.
Myl tan’ki to the wonderful exiles who helped with this raid, and Yor for helping to organize it. It feels great to have the teleportation stone as part of my arsenal once more.
Santino asked me to post some of the sketches I made at the wedding, so here they are! (Warning: there are a lot of large images, so this might take some time to load.)
