K'Varak Keepling's Background
I originally come from a little village called Hotnia two hours north of Zetta in the Iridian Empire. My father was, and probably still is, the citys greatest alchemist. My family owns a shop and has quite a few merchants working for us. My mother doesn't have an occupation, she is quite happy to tend the home, though my father says that we can afford one or two housekeepers. I was the first to be born in the house of Keepling. After me followed Singare, Fredrick and Frincal. Fredrick, my only brother and the youngest of us siblings, is six years younger then me. When I was born, a seer declared that a family curse had fallen upon me, all my children will be crippled in a way or other. My father has got an unusual helm, it is a helm that the King of the Iridian Empire gave to my forfather when he helped him in the war against the evil orcs. The helm has been given to son after son, and it was to be given to me at my birthday of manhood. But I declined the helm, because of the curse I won't have any children. So the helm will be given to Fredrick. My mother is a revered person in the village. Once, before I was born, she cured a messenger of the king from a deadly disease by herself, because father was in Zetta. If she hadn't done this the king would probably be very angry but mother saved the village from the kings wrath. I the process of saving the messenger, he tore of a bit of mothers left ear, and that wound is a reminder to all villager what she had done. Mother was an authority figure in the village and every once in a while people come to her with problems to be solved, and she always could find a solution or compromise that would please them.

At age of eight I became restless and wanted to seek out the world, but my father said no. I wasn't to leave the family home until I had reached the age of manhood. He then started to teach me the secrets of alchemy, I had it in my blood and it took it all in easily. One day that I was out walking in the forest outside Hotnia, I came across a oil-lamp that just laid there on the ground. I started rubbing it, remembering the old tales of the genie in the lamp. I didn't really think anything would happen, so you can imagine the surprise when a little fairy flied out of the lamp. She told me that she had been trapped there by an evil sorcerer a thousend years ago, but she couldn't say how she got here. Because I released the fairy she blessed me. She said that any women I met would be like wax in my hands. I didn't understand the bless, but after a few years I understood the power in that bless.

At my fourteenth birthday I finally reached my manhood. I decided that I would leave the Iridian Empire and seek out the real adventure. My parents said that I would always be welcome back, but I said that I wouldn't come back. I ended up in Krakatus, where I met Loki. He was only seven years old, but beeing a Rjurik he had a strenght that would scare of most of the kids on the street. We became very good friends and we were unseparable. Before we met I was weak and kids treated me cruely, Loki wasn't so bright and kids could fool with him because of that. Together we were both strong and had wits and brains, so the others were scared of us. We became bloodbrothers, we shared eachothers blood and the bond we shared is a strong one. After two years he came in trouble beyond our comprehension. He had made enemies that was stronger than we can imagine and he was forced to flee on a merchantsboat and I thought that I would never see him again.

I went away from the city to get away from the other kids that saw an opportunity to get even. I didn't get so far when I met a merchant that treated me like a king. He told me that I was a reincarted hero. The merchant was a loyal follower of Sera, the goddess of merchants and luck. He took me to a temple of Sera, and I followed gladly because I wanted to get away anyway. In the temple they took me as a normal person, but to make the merchant, that thought I was a hero, happy, they teached me in the ways of a true warriorpriest. Or they tried. I didn't like the prayingstuff and I wasn't so fond of the blunt weapons. So they teached me how to "talk somebodys shoes off".

I felt more confident of myself, so I went back to the city. On my way back I came across an old man beeing robbed on the road. I scared them off with my wit and my skill in the sword. He was very thankful and he blessed me with some gifts. He made me resistant to magic, gave me an direction sense and made my mind consealed against others. I started to spend my days in Dominguez school. There I mastered the technique of using a sword and dagger. In my freetime I was in the Harlequins Inn. There I got to know the lovely lady Gresdin Faer. She was the most beutiful woman alive, and I started to court her. She told me that no man would possibly want her because she cannot have anymore children, the first and only birth had gone wrong, so she were damaged. I told her that it doesn't matter and I told her about my curse. Now we are lovers. We live together in her home, with her daughters son. Hamlin, the boy, was five years old and we get along very great. He thinks of me as a father and I treat him as a son. Gresdins daughter had this child with a man she didn't know. She died in a disease, and Gresdin took care of Hamlin. I should mention that Gresdin is fifteen years older than me, but that is invisible to the eye, she is like a rose, just sprung out.

After living with Gresdin for eight years, I was 27 years, I found myself in a fight with some followers to Aryak with the Thousand Eyes. I helped another person and we won. Afterwards I buyed him a beer, and it turns out to be Loki, back from the world. We greeted each other as we did when we were children. Both of us had changed much but that didn't seem to be a problem. I took him to my wife Gresdin and they got along great. Even our twelve year old son Hamlin (I call him son) liked him very much. This was all very pleasing to me, and I was glad to have found a long lost friend. I helped him, as when we were kids, and I helped him out from his life as a lawbreaker.

TOP        Arentia
(15th of Serenem)
Loki had found out that there was some Aryak activities in a land in the north. We decided to go there to put an end to them. Loki couldn't find rest until they were gone.
(29th of Serenem)
We have arrived to this land after two weeks of riding. Why couldn't they be somewhere nearer? We talked to the royal mage, (well he wasn't so good, I've seen students better then him) and he said that he was investigating in the followers of Aryak. He, or more likely some happy adventurers, had found a red stone orb, in a shape of an eye. And in the middle there was some kind of red gem. He said that it was powerful, and so on. While looking at it, there was some kind of glittering in the corner and suddenly three men appeared. They were followers of Aryak , I jumped to that conclusion because one of them had a eye on the robe and the fact that he said that we would die if we interfered with Aryak... The other two were big musclegorillas with swords. They were slow and soon dead. But the priest, I think of him as a priest, disappeared with the gem that were in the eye. The mage thanked us and told us that there was a group of adventurers in the town. He said that we should wait until he had investigated about this matter and we did that. We didn't even get out of the room until we stumbled upon the group. There were four of them, A little dwarf with bad breath and three other men, fairly neutral in their looks. We greeted eachother and they said, after we told our story about Aryak, that they would go to two places, one of them might be a place where the followers of Aryak would dweld. We agreed to go with them and help them

TOP        The Castle
(30th of Serenem)
We had gone to an old castle, with holes in the walls. The reason we had gone here was one of them, Reilon Geir I think, had a map since he was a little boy. We saw that there were bug-bears there that had taken the castle as their home. We went in through one of the holes that led us into a large room. An empty room... The door that led out of there was locked so, suddenly, the dwarf kicked down the door. Behind the door two bugbears attacked us, we killed them quite fast. Or it was the dwarf that killed them, he blocked the door, so nobody could enter and fight with him. We went in and decided that we sould split up so that it wouldn't take so long, and it was rather crowded in here. Before any decicion was made, a doubledoor suddenly opened and two bugbears ran for us. Behind them stood an bugbearmagician. Reilon (the weak, but kind) got really hurt, but the rest of us took care of the two. I started to run after the magician and in a lucky hit with my sword I cut his ankles off, luckily he died. We took the stairs up that we found in the room. Up there I opened one of the doors. I saw a man dressed in robes and when he saw me, he said "intruder, you shall die", or something like that and pointed a wand against me. I closed he door to open it again for a surprise attack. But down the hall another door opened and there he stood. We stood rather close together, our mistake because he sent forward a tiny red spot that exploded in a fireball. Loki got really hurt and we others were sent away by the blast. Nimsaf had thrown himself down on the ground and started to shoot at him with his crossbow, he was the fastest shooter I've ever seen. I had flown through the door in he blast. Tok, tok, tok, the bolts from Nimsafs crossbow hit the wizard in the chest. But he managed to send a sleep spell on Nimsaf. Jargail, the firemage, send a web spell on the wizard and he was entagled in the web. Then Pherchel the dwarf throwed a knife at him so he became still. Loki was still down so Nimsaf, apparently a cleric, stopped the bleeding. In the wizards room we found some potions, two of them I recognized as healing potions. I gave some to Loki and he waked up. But as a side effect he began to shrink. When he was half the size he stopped shrinking. It would have been funny if he wouldn't been so hurt. Suddenly we heard someone yell "Thief, Thief, he is stealing me!" We ran towards the sound and then we found Jargail, and in his hands there was a spellbook with a mouth that yelled, gross. When he closed the book the mouth dissapeared. Jargail didn't seem to be pleased, he said that there must be more treasure. We decided that we should search trough the whole castle. Downstairs we found a door that was apparently magically locked. Well, what could we do? Then Jargail remembered that he had found a magical wand, with a little star on the top, in the belt of the bugbearmagician. He used it against the wall next to the door that was magically locked. To our surprise a rhino appeared and started to run, smashing the wall and then through the next wall and then dissapearing in the woods. We stood all for a while and just stared at the hole that the rhino had made. Inside there was stairs down and some old furniture that had been rotten for ages. Because Reilon, Loki and Pherchel was at the rink of death, hanging by a thread, they waited for us up here while Jargail, Nimsaf and myself went down. Down there we encountered four undead. I think it was ghouls. They started to run against us. But I knew that Nimsaf was a cleric, and clerics have the ability to turn undead so I didn't worry, not until he failed and in panic I throwed up my hand and "flashed" them, they went blind and backed away. Nimsaf jumped on one of them and started hitting. Jargail created a ball of fire on the midst of them so they got burned. I drank a potion of speed that I found in the wizards lab. I became very fast, so I couldn't manage the speed so I got down on my knees and became five years younger, pain spread trough my body. Then I jumped up, ran towards the first, and in blur of swords and daggers killed one. Nimsaf got hit by the last one, and became paralysed. I ran towards him and killed the ghoul. The speed vanished but I still felt like five years younger. The dwarf had joined us and we continued through one of the doors. We found four or five room that seemed to be very nice and pleasent rooms, a millenia ago. When we searched the last room a shadow floated up from under the bed. He attacked us and in a last attempt Jargail pointed the "star wand" on him and a little red dot floated to his nose, or where his nose would be if he was human. We all remembered the little incident upstairs so in panic we all ran out the door, the shadow apparently knew what it was because he fled through a crack in the wall. We waited outside and then... BOOOM, fire blasted out from the room and everything inside it was blasted to bits and pieces. We peered in and saw that where the shadow had fled there was, or rather used to be, a secret door. Inside we saw a large room, with a giant statue. We went in and the statue stood up and started to through his huge warhammer against us. Nimsaf and Jargail said that it was alright that he was only an illusion. Pherchel and I didn't think so, so we waited outside the opening. They found another stair down, farther down... Loki had grown back to his normal size when we came back. Because almost everybody was deadly hurt we decided that we should go out in the woods and rest until tomorrow, so that we can come back and cleanse this place once and for all.
(31th of Serenem)
The next morning we decided that Pherchel and Loki should stay in the forest while the others went down to cleanse the place. We (Nimsaf, Jargail, Reilon and I) went back down to the underground. We came to a roughly outcarved dungeon. We went on with cautious steps and in one of the rooms that was really huge there was a door and a passage leading out. The passage was only about three feet high and in there we could see a staff leaning against one of the walls. I went in there first, beeing the only warrior. I crawled in and just indide I saw this huge "blob" coming from the ceiling at me. I tried to jump from it but it caught me. The Blob was made of some kind of acid and it started to melt my armor away. I tried to grab it and take it of me, but it was almost alive so I couldn't grab it. Then I laid down trying to crush it against the floor. Reilon and Nimsaf used their weapons, trying to take the thing of me while Jargail rushed to the staff and cast Detect Magic on it, glad to have found a new treasure. When I screamed of pain and agony, he came to help. The others had got some of the thing away from me, but there was lot left. Jargail hit me with his staff, trying to hit the Blob, but in that hit a passed out.
I awoke when Nimsaf gave me some of his magic berries that could heal. The Blob was "dead" and I was deadly hurt. I thougt that if I drank the potion of invisibility that I found at the wizards lab I could go with them and maybe help anyway. I said that to the others and nobody disagreed. I drank the potion and to my surprise I became, not only invisible, but in a gas form to. So I couldn't say anything to the others. Well I went along with them. They opened the door we had found in the other room. Behind that door there was a long corridor and at the end of the corridor there was a room and in the room stood a man made of stone. He charged my companions, and I couldn't say or do anything. I floated in the room trying to find out if there were more monsters, but I couldn't find any. Nimsaf and Jargail fighted the stoneman but it looked like they needed some help. I knew that if you hit someone while beeing just invisible the invisibility would disappear so I hoped it would be the case with smoke. It was a longshot but I did have to do something. I floated against the creature with intention to hit it. What I didn't know was that the invisibility had already worn of and that Jargail and the others already could see me, but in a green mistlike shape. Jargail held his hands up in a final attempt to kill the stoneman, Fire raced from his hands towards the stoneman, but I got caught in the fire as well. I remember when I fell down I could hear Nimsafs shout and the heavy body of the stoneman when he fell. I couldn't open my eyes, my eyelids had melted together. I could feel every part of my skin and body, I tried to cry out in pain but I couldn't move or say anything. Then I heard some voices. One said: "I know he had some potions.", another one said: "Give him some potions." And I felt hands fumbling around my belt, or what was left of it. Then the hands found something and I could feel something beeing poured in my mouth and down to my stomach. I could feel myself die. Just then I could sense a mind far away and all I could think of was that I have to flee death, I have to get away.
After a while I came to my senses. I could see the forest and the sky and I thought they had rescued me. But it came to me that the forest looked small. I stood up and to my surprise I was almost as tall as small trees. I looked at my hands and they were huge. I was a giant! Then it came to me. The mind I could sense was the mind of a hill giant, and somehow the potion they poured in me had made us switch minds. I have to go back to my friends. I looked around and I knew where to go. After a while, amazed how fast a giant can walk, I came to the camp outside the castle. Pherchel and Loki lied there sleeping. Then it came to me, that the horses and all our stuff had been stolen. It can only be those Bug Bears."
"When Nimsaph, Jargail and Reilon came up from the dungeons I had proven to Loki that I was K'Varak, which was difficult because I was a 15-foot giant. Nimsaph and the rest came to us with some caution, and they were carrying my (former) body. We agreed that we should go back to the town to rest and try to heal my body so that, maybe, I can return to it. When Pherchel awoke he was sooo angry because the Bug Bears had taken his Girdle of Giant Strenght, he went almost berserk and ran inside the castle to kill some Bug Bears. But there wasn't any left, they had all ran away.
(34th of Serenem)
When we returned to the town, the clerics there all put me (that is, my body) on the ground and started some healing spells. My body healed back to life and I felt my mind pouring from my giantbody to my own dear body, and then I passed out. It was told to me that the giant got his mind back and boy was he pissed. Pherchel and Nimsaph took care of him before he did any real damage. We rested there for around a week, so that I could heal, and we decided that we should go back to the castle and cleanse it once and for all. Pherchel wanted to stay behind and make himself a greataxe that he would name "Bug Bear Slayer".
(3rd of Lapidem)
We came back to the castle and then started to go through the place bit by bit. Nimsaph, Jargail and Reilon had searched almost everywhere. We went to a locked door and Loki tried to picklock the lock. When he failed Jargail took out his starwand and used it on the door. We backed away, knowing the power of the wand. He uttered the magic words and then the door transformed into an huge ape. The ape started to run against us, but luckily Jargail had a ring of mammal control and controlled the ape. Inside, behind the door, we saw three huge eyeballs floating in the air. They had tentacles with eyes on the tip of each one. They looked like evil creatures. Inside we saw an table with a (spell?)book, some swords and scrolls. We went inside, ready for battle, when they said "hello, welcome". They didn't actually say it, they like, said it in our minds. They were quite nice and we chatted for a while. They even gave Nimsaph a scroll that was a scroll of Cure Serious Wounds. We parted and continued to search the dungeon. Down a level we found a closed door, we could feel cold coming from behind the door. We opened the door and inside we encountered several zombies and skeletons. We destroyed them quickly. Behind the next door we saw a room and then I blinked...
(8th of Lapidem)
I opened my eyes and found out that all of us, except Nimsaph, had fallen under a charm spell for five days. Nimsaph told us a story about an undead guy that was good but couldn't be destroyed by ordinary means. He then asked the gods how to destroy him so that he could have his final rest. After a day or so he were given a spell, a exorcise spell, from the gods that he used on the good undead guy, Nargeil Grey. When Nargeil became free and finally got his rest he granted Nimsaph a Wish. Nimsaph didn't have to think long and said that he wished that we, his friends, became us selves again. Then we awoke and were glad to see Nimsaph.
Jargail wanted the (spell?)book, that we found in the room with the eyecreatures very much. So much that he managed to talk Loki into getting it, but I knew that if we would take the book, Nimsaph would be very angry and upset because, first of all he had befriended them and second, this place had some religious meaning, he felt connected with the gods here. And fortunately I could talk Loki out of the crazed idea, not just because it would mean splitting up the group, but also because they looked kindy scary and we want to be fit for fight when we meet the evil priests of Aryak with the Thousand Eyes. We then decided that we would go back to the city, and ask the wizard there if he's got any leads to where the evil men hed stolen the eye three weeks ago.

TOP        Search for an eye
(10th of Lapidem)
When we came back to the city, the wizard had indeed found out something about the eye. He knew, not exactly but near, where the eye were. He had marked it out on a map that he gave us. Pherchel where gone, we were told that he had gone away to kill some Bug Bears. We decided that we couldn't wait for Phercel because maybe the evil men that took the eye will be moving and then be gone. But we waited until we were fully rested and then went on to catch some bad guys.

TOP        Lizardmen
(16th of Lapidem)
After travelling the country for a couple of days we came to a swamp, we didn't have to cross it, just travel beside it. After a day or so by the swamp we were ambushed by a bunch of lizardmen by evening. We noticed them when they hit us with their spears they had thrown at us. Loki and I got hit and we fell off our horses. Then they charged, half a dozen from the front and the others attacked us from behind. There was a wild fight, Nimsaph shot with his crossbow, Jargail burned the ones behind us and Loki and I fighted side by side. I got knocked out cold by a hit on my head. When I woke up, we had set camp on a hillside, so that we could sleep and rest and be on our way first thing in the morning. Loki had to heal himself so he was meditating, and I knew that if we disturbed him in his meditation he could be injured. Jargail had to be sleep the whole night because he was very tired of the spellcasting he had done earlier. So Nimsaph and I watched them that night. It was very tiresome, and we jumped up when we heard a sound. Then we heard a splashing noise down in the swamp. Nimsaph looked down, but didn't see anything, I watched our backs. Then we heard it again, and he saw something move down there. He cast a Light spell on the thing. It was "only" a crocodile. We sat down again, our hearts settling down. Suddenly, from nowhere, a lizardman jumped in front of us. And anotherone was behind him. I kicked Jargail so that he would wake up. Nimsaph knew that I was badly injured so he used his Cure Serious Wounds scroll that he had on me, and I charged the lizardmen. Then two others came from a different direction. Nimsaph shoot them with his crossbow. They all died and Jargail tried to get back to sleep.
(17th of Lapidem)
The next morning, when Loki was done healing himself, we continued. Lokis horse had been slain yesterday by the lizardmen so he sat behind Nimsaph on his horse. After a couple of hours looking everywhere for traps, a large net dropped out from the sky. We got caught in the net, but managed to get out. When we did we were surrounded by lots of lizardmen, but they were not attacking. They just stood there, trying to look fearsome, and pointed their spears at us. One of them approached us, he was dressed in some feathers and his spear had feathers on it. We thought that maybe he was their leader. He said "You help us and we will kill you not, we will let you pass without harm". We talked a little and it turned out that someone had come and that he was holy and he had taken over the whole lizardmen tribe. His name was Sungol. The (lizard)man we spoke with wanted to get rid of him, and he wanted us to do it. We didn't want to argue with them so we agreed. One of them would show us their camp and we would fix it. After a couple of kilometers in the swamp we had come to the camp. It was more like four houses on a higher ground so that it was above swamplevel. I became invisible, using a ring I had found, and sneaked inside. The camp was empty, but in one of the houses, the largest one, a lizardman came out, I saw that there was a crowd inside so I sneaked in while the door was open. I saw the man we was looking for. He looked much like the lizardman that had sent us here, but he was larger and stronger. Suddenly I heard a cry from outside. It was the lizardman that had gone out, He was shoot to death by Nimsaph and Loki. All the other lizardmen ran out to kill the intruders and the leader went just outside the door, fists on his hips and smiling broadly when he looked at his lizardmen and saw my three companions, and expected a slaughter. I cut his throat. When the others ran against my friends, Nimsaph created an geyser of oil under the lizardmen, they all became soaked by it. Jargail ignited the oil and they all burned to almost instant death. Hah, that was just to easy. We searched the rest of the little houses. The first one had clothes, human clothes on a bench, neatly folded together. Buried under the remains of the campfire we found a spellbook, we don't know who it belonged to but we imagined it was of a former resident. We went on to the next cottage, and, under the campfire, buried, we found a little box. I got pinned by a little trap so I got paralyzed. Damn, I thought. Nimsaph said he would go the last cottage and look through there while we waited. When he got outside, he saw a couple of bright missiles hitting him on his chest. He fell backwards inside the cottage. I, and Jargail, saw at once that it was magic missiles. Nimsaph jumped out looking everwhere to see the where the shooter was, but he didn't see anybody. Then, the sky brightened up and Nimsaph jumped just in time to seek shelter inside the cottage, but his metal armor drew the lightning bolts that was shot at him through the ceiling and hit him in his back. He passed out cold. Then the whole roof was lifted up by a huge dragon, and thrown away. Jargail used his lightning bolt staff and shot the dragon in panic. To our surprise dragon fell and died, with a surprised look on his face. Jargail and Loki ran out and saw that the dragon was a human who had polymorphed himself to a dragon. hey carried him inside. Loki felt he had a potion on his belt, and he looked. A healing potion! Great! They ran with it to Nimsaph and poured it in him. He was stabilized. After a couple of minutes the paralyze vanished and I could move again. We made a little raft of the benches so that we could move Nimsaph away. We got to the leader we had spoken with earlier and he said that we had safe passage now. Thanks, we said, and we left. We fastened the raft on one of the horses so that we could ride on. Loki said that if we went back, we would loose two or three weeks and maybe Aryaks followers could bring him here, it was urgent to hurry. We all agreed and we left for the place where we thought the eye was.

TOP        Iron Castle
(20th of Lapidem)
After a couple of days we saw a hige piece of metal, it was a iron castle. We looked at it for a few moments when we felt a very bad stench. The horses got really worried and it was hard to control them. Then suddenly a couple of troglodytes jumped out from the woods and attacked us. It was a quick fight and they all died without harming us, almost. One of the trogs had a piece of map in his belt, marking an x at a spot in the walls of the castle. We decided that we should rest this day and go there in the morning. Nimsaph was conscious and he buried himself, he does that sometimes, he says that it heals him...
(21st of Lapidem)

TOP        Rahasia

TOP        The Gnolls
(...This is where Loki, Pherchel and Redthorn died...)

TOP        Travel by Sea
(26th of Umbrem 1637 aI (after Iridos, founder of the Iridian Empire))
After Lokis, Pherchels and Redthorns death, Jargail, Nimsaph and I travelled by boat to west, in search for another ruby eye of Aryak. We would find it in Quagmire.
(2nd of Nubilem)
A month before arrival we docked in Specularum and Nimsaph told us that he would travel north to Arentia and see if they needed any more help.
(18th of Nubilem)
We docked in the harbor of Oriz, in Iridia. There a woman called Red Zora joined us, she was willing to work almost free and she were accepted in the crew. The other men didn't look at her as if she were a women, but as a warrior. Well, one did whistle after her, but now he can't whistle anymore. She is strong, hardworking and it's nice to look at her, without her noticing of course.
(18th of Ignem)
We can see a pirateship gaining on us. There is no chance of escape because the wind is almost still and the pirates have some kind of slave ship with sailes. Before we come close they start firing arrows and a magician is shooting fireballs so that our mast is struck down. When they board us they swarm the deck of our ship. Jargail had levitated up in the air and was shooting magic at their leader and magician, while Red Zora and I was trying to fight the pirates. When the pirateleader dies, the magician waves a hand and all the pirates vanishes. We search their ship and set their prisoners to rescue. They are all greatful.One of the prisoners was from Quagmire and he knew how to get there, he said that their city was beseiged by reptilemen and that he and two others were sent away for help. Our boat was so badly damaged that we were forced to take the boat to land for repairations. Red Zora, Jargail, I, the man from Quagmire and a cleric that were a prisoner left with the pirateship with a skeleton crew to search for the pirates island because we were told that there would be more prisoners there.
(22nd of Ignem)
We have found the island where the pirates have their nest. The crew and the man from Quagmire waits on the ship while we four goes in to search the island. We found a cave, and we decided to look into that. The first thing we see is two guards, but they have been slaughtered and burned. Inside the cave, we see bodies everywhere, and every body is either butchered or burned to death. We search for the rest of the prisoners, but the thing that has murdered the others, haven't spared these defenseless men and women. After a while we find a path leading to the other side of the island. It's a minor valley with a small forest and a little lake on the other side. We follow the trail to the lake. In front of the lake there is some kind of altar. And on the altar lies the pirate leader, sacrificed by the looks of him. Next to the altar lies the magician and another man, dead, just like the others.
We start making preparations to leave when suddenly Jargail sees a passage under the lake. He swims under and in. When he comes back he says that there is a cave and it's above water. We swam there and opened the door. Inside is a complicated maze, full of twists and turns and it takes us quite some time to search it all. After a while we come to a very large and cold room, it's filled with water, like a pool, deep, very deep and we can see that there are small stones that leads towards the center that you can walk on. But we can't see where it leads because the room is thick with mists. We start to walk on the stones when we suddenly are attackad by a giant crab. I lost my magical rapier in the water, but Red Zora makes the crab wish he had slept over this day. The water is so cold and deep that no human can swim down, so I guess my rapier is lost forever. We go over to the other side and there we find a passage that leads to a closed door.
Behind that door a fire devil waited for us. He charmed Jargail and knocked out the cleric cold. I became invisible and went round him. Jargail, against his will, shooted magic at Red Zora so she became unconscious. It was I against Jargail and a fire devil from hell. Then I saw Red Zora waking up. I conjured five magical daggers and I activated the firesword, I had got from Gresdin (my wife, may she rest in peace), so that it would protect me from the fire of both Jargail and the devil. Then I threw the daggers at the devil, he staggered, then he laughed but he got something in his throut, it was Red Zoras sword that she stabbed the devil through the back and lifted him up. The devil died and Jargail became him self again. We checked the cleric and he was ok. We made an interesting find, Jargail and I. We found a description to the whereabouts of a legendary lightning magicians book.
(24th of Ignem)
We went back to the repairsite and told the bad news about the dead prisoners, and there wasn't much joy. We helped to repair the boat, and then the rescued prisoners went away on the pirateship and we resumed our course to Quagmire this time. The man from Quagmire showed us the way.

TOP        Quagmire
(37th of Ignem)
We came to the shore closest to Quagmire, Red Zora became very sick and stayed behind to recover. The man from Quagmire (his name was Kesshoff) told us that we should be careful, because the lizardmen was in these woods.
After walking for a few days, Jargail, I and Kesshoff came close to Quagmire. We went there and saw a tower in a lake. Kesshoff told us that where the lake should be a city, the city must have sunken and the only thing visible was the tower of Quagmire. Around the tower a couple of boats with plenty of Lizardmen sat waiting for a chance to enter the tower. We waited to the night and Jargail walked with us, with his boots of levitating, up to the entrance of the tower. Once up there a couple of guards attacked us, but Kesshoff told them that we were friends and they let us past. We met with the leader of the bunch, and he we asked if he knew anything about the ruby (an eye of Aryak). He told us that he knew where the ruby was, but he asked us to help him and his people. The water was rising, and the lizardmen was only waiting for a chance to attack the tower. He wanted that we would take him to another tower south of here. We knew that we wouldn't be a match for the lizardmen so we had to come up with something else. Jargail asked his small genie, that was trapped inside a ring, if he could do anything, he couldn't but he could feel a much stronger genie a couple of days walk north. But in a couple of days this tower would be in the lake, and this people overwhelmed by lizardmen. Jargail asked if the genie could fly us there and he said yes, but he wouldn't be able to fly us back unless he rests a few days first. We took the chance that the other genie would help us, and we flew away.

TOP        Another Tower

We flew over a desert and into an oasis. We found a greater genie in the water. He said that he would do three favors if we let the smaller genie go. We agreed and the first thing we asked was that he would take us, and the people in Quagmire to the tower south of Quagmire. He did that and when we got there we saw that the tower was inhabited with Gnolls. I asked the genie to remove them and so he did. But inside was also a couple of goblins and wolfs and trolls and a slimy thing. But eventually we cleaned the place up. The people was very happy and they told us where the "eye of Aryak" should be. It was probably in a third tower that was under water, south from here. They even gave us some old letters in an old language which probably should say where the other "eyes" should be. The third thing we asked the genie was to be taken back to the ship. That we were and then we set sail.

TOP        Underwater

We travelled to the spot were we thought the "eye" would be. I and Jargail drank potions of waterbreathing while Red Zora had a ring of wateradaption. After a while we found the "eye", and swam up.

We went thereafter to the nearest city to rest and buy more food and water. It was K'Sar. When we got there we asked wanted to meet someone that could translate the letters. We found out that the only one that sould be able to translate the letters would de the royal wizard of K'Sar. When we asked him to translate the letters for us he told us that it would take some time, to much time in fact, so he sent us to another person he said could translate it for us.

TOP        Dying Forest

There was a druid in the large forest in the north that was known to have many language skills. She was an elf and have had much time to learn.
So we went there just to find out that she was very weak ,and was dying. We asked what it was and she told us that there was much evil in the forest. She said that she could help us with the translations, but she was weak and we have to help her first.

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TOP        Orks

TOP        Demon Gate

TOP        Island of Dread

TOP        Dwarven Prisoners

TOP        The Magician

TOP        Undead

TOP        The Key

TOP        King Death

TOP        The Sphere

TOP        Jargail Returns

TOP        Trouble in the Woods

TOP        What Body Do You Have?

TOP        The Unblinking Eye

TOP        Aryak High Priest

TOP        A Curse is Discovered

TOP        Floating City

TOP        Artishia

TOP        Demons

TOP        The Shade

TOP        To the Abyss

TOP        A Multiverse City

TOP        Three Missing Swords

TOP        Shade, again