{"id":462,"date":"2003-06-29T21:32:48","date_gmt":"2003-06-30T04:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puddleby.com\/lundar\/?p=462"},"modified":"2003-06-29T21:32:48","modified_gmt":"2003-06-30T04:32:48","slug":"dark-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/2003\/06\/dark-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 285, Year 550<\/p>\n<p>\nThere seem to be a lot of new things cropping up in the lands lately,<br \/>\nand you can hardly keep your back turned before something new pops up.<br \/>\nCase in point: I was recently holed up in the library for a couple<br \/>\ndays, and when I came out, the mirror in south forest had opened!&#8230;<br \/>\nwell, sort of. It seems the mirror now leads to some mysterious dark<br \/>\ncloud up in the skies of Puddleby.<\/p>\n<p>Today I got to take a look at this new cloud, along with my<br \/>\nclanmates from, ELF. First, however, we made a stop by the clan house<br \/>\nand inducted Nip the Warrior as a full-fledged member of our clan!<br \/>\nWelcome to the clan Nip!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puddleby.com\/lundar-files\/img\/nipjoins.png\" alt=\"Nip Joins ELF\" border=\"1\" height=\"157\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"255\"><br \/><font size=\"-1\"><b>Nip joins ELF!<\/b><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, we headed into a twinkling portal in Falinea&#8217;s Garden<br \/>\nand into the enchanted cloud. The inside of the cloud is mostly forest,<br \/>\nwith a group of mountains to the east. The forests are quite dangerous,<br \/>\nwith maha ruknees and summer artaks in great abundance. The mountain<br \/>\npasses are inhabited by wendeckas, with snow ferals and polar bears at<br \/>\nhigher elevations.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puddleby.com\/lundar-files\/img\/mahasincloud.png\" alt=\"Mahas\" border=\"1\" height=\"195\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"279\"><br \/><font size=\"-1\"><b>Hunting mahas<\/b><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puddleby.com\/lundar-files\/img\/polarbears.png\" alt=\"Polar Bears\" border=\"1\" height=\"202\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"305\"><br \/><font size=\"-1\"><b>Polar bear chow<\/b><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p>The suface of the cloud is quite big, and spans rougly 20 snells.<br \/>\nRescues on the cloud can be quite tricky, as there is something strange<br \/>\nabout the geography of the cloud which plays havok with the skristal.<br \/>\nLuckily, the explorer Sagramor has created a map of the cloud, which<br \/>\ncan be found here <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thoomcare.com\/archives\/images\/up_where_air_is_thin.html\" target=\"_new\">here<\/a> for exiles who may find themselves lost.<\/p>\n<p>\nOne word of warning to anyone thinking about visiting the cloud.<br \/>\nWalking off the edge of the cloud can be extremely dangerous, and is<br \/>\nnot recommended by the Thoomcare Surgeon General. Careless exiles may<br \/>\nsuddenly find themselves lying in a smoking crater in the landmass<br \/>\nbelow.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puddleby.com\/lundar-files\/img\/cloudedge.png\" alt=\"Edge of the World\" border=\"1\" height=\"214\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"305\"><br \/><font size=\"-1\"><b>The Edge of the World<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 285, Year 550 There seem to be a lot of new things cropping up in the lands lately, and you can hardly keep your back turned before something new pops up. Case in point: I was recently holed up in the library for a couple days, and when I came out, the mirror in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}