Mixed Adventuring Party Journal

It looks like several different people wrote inside these journals, and have assimilated a collection of notes, hints, clues and various other things of interest.

## 11/2/17

Deeper inside the ruined fort was the innards of the castle, inside was old beers, empty storages and finally, a goblin "king" named Gobblor who had claimed the ruins for his goblins. Having no quarrel with Gobblor, he was simply calmed with music before being convinced to peacefully leave.

Further investigation led to some loot, and more info regarding Songbird history, such as journal pieces that spoke of more tests of the Songbird family, like The Test of Song: an ancient bard-off with an evenolder ancestor, and the Test of Prowess: several duels with more ancestors of Songbird.

Later it was found that the owner used to be Enzo Songbird, who had the castle abandoned while fleeing from the attacks of House Raven so long ago.

Also found was two sending stones, stones able to transfer messages from one another no matter the distance.

Once moving on from the ruins, we were intercepted at the entry by Piko, the dastardly demon Nekomari who has relentlessly made our lives difficult in the past.

Instead of conflict, she had come with an offering. This offering was a green-crystal, a demonic key of sorts to turn off certain mechanisms that relate to it.

She claimed it a "peace offering" as she is defecting from the demonic army, her reason being their ways of child labor, and the way they treat them had pushed her to the edge. This we have witnessed before, as one time she had gone into a rage over such things, killing her demon allies over it.

This offer was not accepted, yet not declined as well, leaving her with the key we had decided it was best to keep the offer in consideration. Though not all of us were so kind to her peace. Tiz Arrior had attempted to ambush her unsuccessfully, all while our brute warrior L had challenged her to a duel!

It was near-chaos when she had left, Tiz and L both angered with the situation had fought until restrained and calmed, before eventually deciding and temporarily splitting paths as David, Roderick and Tiz went north in search of a way to remove the brands that ail them, while Manastorm and L go on their way to Darnassus to deal with evils that lurk in dark times.

## 10/26/17

After a rest and short journey inside the ruins, it was discovered to have housed a small water-pool area,

which had actually been a magical portal of some kind.

Unable to figure out how the portal activated, we had accidentally disabled it entirely.

Though not all lost, the ruins also contained valuable gems to be sold at a high price.

With nothing left to investigate, we had to leave the ruins to continue on the way to Fellcrest, on this path

was a quite old ruin of House Songbird, figured to be around 600-800 years of age.

After an ambush from a minotaur and some bugbears, later searching found a ledger, which told of a

possible connection between Songbird, David Sheckelstein's family, and L's owners when he was once a

slave.

10/19/2017

After a short interrogation, we learned of a Timat cultist outpost a days travel north, where Forg

Dragonlash, leader of the cultists resides currently.

We decided to go to this outpost, The Ruins of Fastormel, along our path we rested by merchants who

were on the move from Nenlast out of fear for demons coming west.

After a clash with cultists at the ruins, we spoke to a woman who had been captured in by them, Nicole

Eagle, of House Eagle.

We had told her she needed to remain safe in our crab-can as she refused for it's "filthiness" was

unbearable for her, yet she was put in anyways for her safety before we had rested and readied to delve

deeper in the Ruin of Fastormel.

10/12/2017

Leaving said camp, and travelling far to Hammerfast, upon arrival we encountered a warrior sent to us to

aid us by Ser Ander, by the name of L, a tall and strong character.

In said town, David, Roderick and L, then visited the inn. Learning of bandits, drinking fair drinks until

eventually getting into a brawl unintentionally, by a drunk bastard who tried to rob our bard of gold! Upon

settling that, we then had us a small bard-off between ours and the local tavern's, through sheer luck,

ofcourse, David Sheckelstein prevailed in this.

We left the town and continued through the roads in and on our transport, the previous barrel-object had

been revealed to be quite lobster-like, but able to take us far without issue.

Along the path towards Fellcrest, off by a side-trail we discovered "merchants" accompanied by some

few guards, yet it was an ambush by the cultists of Timat, the bandits which were mentioned previously

who had attacked caravans.

Defeating and routing the cultist goons, we still had one of their mages left with us who may have more

information.

10/5/17

After leaving the temple grounds, we returned to the Nekomari camp and revealed what had happened,

yet we thought it would be safer to keep the knowledge of the relic to ourselves, atleast for the time

being.

Along our path we came across an abandoned village, it had signs of recent activity such as fires.

People had obviously happily lived here before whatever had happened. One woman in particular had

returned as we were camping out, and (through a charm) had told us that she fled demons to come here.

Continuing to roll our mystery barrel north, we arrived at Grigori's Warforged camp. We informed him of

our latest trials. He said that their local mage could take a look into our brands, and Tiz Arrior's demonic

arm.

He said we may find a crone woman in the far northern mountains, past the Winterbole Forest, who

could possibly aid us with our brands.

Taking a look at the mysterious barrel-object as well, managing to open it through a button. Afterwards,

we took a rest in the camp, awaiting further journeys.

9/28/17

In seeking anything viable towards the upcoming siege, we are searching a large temple, dedicated to

the god Tempest, and Leoric.

Deep within its constructs lie a golem facility, which the party investigated and came across multiple trials

including a massive golem construct.

Once inside, we were guided and then betrayed by the curator, a golem life-form that had been living off

the souls of the unfortunate who entered the facility.

After few more conflicts, including defeating said curator and another attack from the invading orcish

army, we secured the three keys to the Hall of Lord's vault which unveiled multiple powerful and lost

items including a piece of an old holy relic, named "The Heaven's Gate", however it is only one of four.

Necromancer's Note

" The death's eye is a philosophers stone, being able to transmit matter and you have to feed souls in

order for it to work. there is a piece missing, almost like there is a void where a soul should be. "

Note from Ig

" The eye is almost within my grasp...it has vast necrotic powers and must be kept safe from those prying

necromancers! They will ruin everything for the council and for the region if I don’t do anything about it! "

Notes from Temple

Analysed and Recorded by Dickbutt Manastorm

SLAB INSCRIPTION

water defeats fire, fire defeats air, air defeats earth, earth defeats water

TREE INSCRIPTION

Trust in family and gods to guide your steps

DOOR INSCRIPTION

Reforge the key and unlock your past

WORD WALLS

To defeat kyojin they used a similar trick, in their final battle they turned kyojins body into stone and

buried him. they captured his soul to be forever enclosed in his helmet, and kept far far away from the

statue.

The other animals took up fear of the snake, for power over souls and the dead we’re a grim thing

indeed. Ultimately they tried to persuade their brother to put a stop to his ways.

Desperate in their fight for the very survival of the humans, dwarves and elves the snake took drastic

measures to destroy kyojin, and thus created the deaths eye, to serve as his prison

The clan of the tiger fought the great kyojin with 3 of his other brethren, the hawk, the bear, and the

snake, they fought with everything they have and they wished to destroy kyojin once and for all and put

his goddess of love to the grave

The word wall says something along the lines of a ancient tiger that fought against a giant humanoid that

threatened to conquer this world, the tiger has fought with 6 different battles that took place all over nentir

vale