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Yarthmont 2nd 1001 (?) – Ashira’s Book

  I have been following the Hags for the last 3 weeks. I have prevented them from hurting anyone in the town of Carsus. While there I was allowed to do some research on the name of the demon, I overheard weeks ago. Krampus.
  Krampus was once a fairy, who member of the Unseelie court. He seems to feed on the souls of mischievious children. Children that do bad things. This feeding has shaped him into a demon, and he was banished from the feywild by the court of Claus.
  The hags have made some sort of deal with him, for power. My guess is they get to eat the good children if they give up the bad ones to him.
  The thought of them eating children is stomach turning. I have gathered a small team from the town here to help me attack and drive the Hags out of this area. Tonight, we will strike.
  I will keep you updated sister, pray for my success.
  Ashira.

Yarthmont 5th 1001 (?) De’Ath’s Book.

  Well, I have new food in the larder. Poor Fred is still eating that Ham that regenerates. He has divided up the kitchen so that his food is nowhere near mine. Such sensitive stomachs these humans.
  Anyways. This morning, we had an incursion from the gate again. Kobolds this time. A small tribe of the little dogmen bypassed all the traps we had set up and got into the wine cellar. I found them all passed out except for 1 guard who was heavily drunk. Little guys can hold their alcohol. Especially from a literal bottomless keg.
  Fred and I went down and tossed them out. We took payment from their pouches first. I killed the drunk guard and added him to the larder, the rest we threw out the front door.
  I was then informed that there is another enchantment that we failed to know about. Apparently, anyone added to the “Blacklist” will not be able to enter the door of the Inn. This blacklist is a black notebook Fred keeps in his bedroom. He copied the names of the Kobolds down from the bill, and now they won’t be able to enter.
  Why hasn’t he told us about this list before? I would have put a few things on there. He claims that it doesn’t affect those who enter by the gate, which is a shame, can you imagine? Your team enters through the gate, but you get stuck and pushed back through…. Hilarious! I will have to research was for that to work.

Yarthmont 22nd 1001 (?) – De’Ath

  The Team returned. Their Hijinx will be added below based upon my understanding of this chaos.
  Fang has a sister / stepsister / cousin. She seems nice, but Orc families are confusing, and I am not a genealogist.
  Ko’Ar got to confront his brother in Tuma, and learned that he is a royalty, of a Kingdom on the 2nd moon, Myoshima. Elizabeth “Stabbycat”, was sent to dispose of one of them, but for some reason has found the dynamic amusing and is waiting for the right time.
  There is a device that was in the university of Tuma, again a place I want to visit, and get ahold of their historical documents… Sorry. The device is supposed to cancel out magic.
  For some reason they had disguised the elves as orcs, and when they cleaned themselves up, Ivory, Fang’s “sister” (For simplicity’s sake we’ll go with sister) vomited up after seeing the old elf-man.
  I have had the pleasure of showing Ivory my research, she is a scholar as well. And she understands these infernal oard windows-machines. She informed me that system is “Live” and that the Oard were listening though it, so she shut it down. However, she learned of two possible medallion pieces through the system, one in a castle shaped like a skull, and the other in a land where crystals are important, and a Major Demon of Time controls the world.
  The team read the note from Julius, it had one word written on it: “Greyskull”

Yarthmont 24th 1001 (?) De’Ath

  Yesterday Zipaz found my description of the library in Serraine tempting and asked me to send him there. I look forward to watching his misadventures. Zeph followed to keep him out of trouble, but still, they have no idea what they are in for.
  I never told them about Gnomish Bureaucracy, and so I look forward to Zip’s torment.
  They entered the Gnomish Flying city through the library basement. I watched as Zipaz spent 8 hours filling out forms to receive a library card, and then realized he didn’t have any money to pay for it. Ahh joy. All this time, Zeph sat quietly, reading at a table nearby.
  While Zip was busy doing paperwork, This Ivory and I began discussing history. She is also a scholar of the ancient. She claims to be more of an Archeologist, which means she prefers field work, but has not been given much opportunity for it. I guess that’s why she was happy to come here. I am much more of a book person.
  Since the mirror in the common room has no sound, I can only guess what he said, but Zip was forcibly thrown out of the library. One of the locals, who tour guide for a price took him to one of the local science museums, where one of the curators reluctantly bought a spyglass from him, paying him with a cheque. Zipaz was led to the bank by his guide and converted the check into gold coins, and gems. He then gave the Tour guide 1 coin, which insulted the guide and he left. Zipaz then wandered around to find a Minerologist to appraise the gemstones for him. I guess he doesn’t trust a bank. Don’t they have banks where he comes from?
  It was night before Zeph and Zip finally managed to return to the library, and since he had done the paperwork before it only took him 6 hours to do it this time, to get his library card. I must admit, I fell asleep through parts of this, like the paperwork, I think Zeph did too.

  In an attempt to get to know his new sister, Fang has invited Ivory out on a hunting trip to get some different meets in the Inn for Everyone. Maxfield and Pan Thanar jumped on this opportunity to go outside as well, much to Fang’s dismay.
  Once outside they saw the 6 different Camps of humanoids encircling the Inn. The only open area was a small forest in the east that appeared shortly after Fulric left.
  Everyone headed for the forest while Fred and I hold the fort, again.

Yarthmont 24th 1001 (?) De’Ath from a later Account

  Chaos, lovely chaos. This team seems to be drenched in primordial chaos. It’s so amusing, I could write a comedy about these guys, but I guess only Nagpa would find it funny….
  They lost Ivory, found Galladyn, the original elf from the team, and had visions from the immortals!
  So, my notes on how this happened I am making from the rambling and yelling:

  Galladyn was in the Feywild for a while, and some other fey bear has been following everyone spying on them. And nobody noticed that he had not turned back to elf in a very long time. Ahh such good friends are these who don’t pay attention to each other…
  Fey bear seems to have taken something from Ivory, the device Ko’ar was looking for. Oh yes, Ko’ar’s back with yummy sandwiches. I will see about sneaking one from him later.
  Anyways, Fang’s Crystal ball showed them the bear and a blond woman at Dentiata’s tower, which is nowhere near here.
  Then they were attacked by a giant plant monster, when Ivory disappeared. Oh, and Fang’s Crystal ball seems to be out of juice now, as it is showing nothing. I could use it as a paper weight, though….
  Once they got back to the porch of the Inn, our cleric and Paladin started receiving messages from the Immortal Khoronus asking them to gather the armies of the remaining races to battle the Oard.
  Oh yes, Zeph and Zip are back, he had borrowed copies of “The Book of Gygax the GreyHawk”, “Leomund’s Hedgemage Tome”, “Ancient Blackmoorian Writings Deciphered”, “The Beastman Language in Plain Thyatian”, & “Myoshian for the Common Man”, they also had sausages on a bun.
  I have a lot of things to “borrow” from the team, sandwiches, sausages, and books…. I am sitting here writing this while they argue about what to do next. If they take too long, I will cast Scribe and copy as many of these books Zip brought back for my own personal library.

Yarthmont 26th 1001 (?) De’Ath

  Did I mention Chaos follows these people like a pet dog? No? well… The diabolus, Aklair, returned today. He has been missing for a long time, but apparently was just plucked out of time from 2 months ago and dropped back in our laps today. He thinks it has to do with his nightmare dimension magic interacting with the local magic creating what he calls “Wild Magic”. I don’t know, this is the first I have ever heard of “Wild Magic” and will have to investigate it more.
  I need more books on the history of Diabolus in our world. I remember notes I made as a younger nagpa in school, but not much.
  Diabolus, are humans from a place called the nightmare dimension, where their people have goat horns, goat feet, and barbed tails. There passing into our dimension was extremely rare if I remember correctly, and I do remember something about Nightmare magic… bah I cannot remember… it’s been over a hundred years since I read that book.

  The team is still debating what to do, their concerns are:
  1) Ivory, Fangs’ sister, was missing and she has never been out of Tuma before this trip, so may be in danger.
  2) The wand is needed to save Tuma, and possibly Ko’ar. But also, it could wreak havoc by cancelling out the power of the gate under the Comeback Inn.
  3) The Immortals had asked the team to assemble the remaining armies of the worlds, and they would need to prepare this for a war against the Oard in the future.
  4) Julius and Adriana had been missing at “GreySkull” for an awfully long time.
  5) they still needed to collect the remaining 4 amulet pieces to activate the gate to return in time to set things right.
  As a temporary solution, Ko’ar suggested they returned to the Ark and recruit Kiera & Gnubnaver. He trusts them and figures they can take his brother Ro’ar to rescue the Wand from the Keep of Night. If Ivory is there, then they would logically save her too.
  Ahh I am keeping my beak shut on this, Asking the brother that betrayed you in your childhood, to go and save your best friend’s sister, even with the other two, is a pile of mistakes waiting to collapse on you….
  Somehow Ko’ar convinced Fang to trust them to the task as the rest of the team travel through the Myoshiman mirror.
  My Prediction: Kat-burglar (hah I love it!) gets caught and sacrificed like his brother was supposed to, Gnub and Kiera leave him after getting the wand and rescuing Ivory. And the blond woman gains more demon power from the sacrifice, just like Dentiata tried to do with Ko’ar. But I’m not saying it out loud, I am waiting to see….

Vatermont, 1001 (?) – Ashira & The Book

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Vatermont 3rd 1001 (?)

Adriana has been spending a lot of time with the books again. She has been testing out ways to use her magics with the machine things we have been finding. I don’t know how well this will work.
It’s been about 2 weeks Since the Badgerman Attack and we have not had an attack since. This does not feel well, and I have been inspecting our defenses. As mentioned any defenses I set up at the entrance to the Inn or the Stables stay. Any defenses I set up inside, near the gate, are disabled around midnight by the Inn enchantments. So one of us has to be on guard there at night.

Vatermont 10th 1001 (?)

The gate downstairs opened as I was inspecting the traps and defenses. The visitor was a surprise to us all, as the familiar blond haired lady came tumbling through. Ashira, the ex-slave of Dentiata, upon seeing me, ran behind me for protection, as mechanical monsters emerged from the gate.
My blade could not harm them. Every time I slashed at them, the blade bounced harmlessly off. Luckily the elven armor I wore from my adventures for the Tabi, kept me safe from harm, as I tried desperately to defend myself and Ashira. The commotion drew the attention of my wife who came running down the stairs. Luckily her magic was effective in keeping these creatures at bay.
Between my magic shield and armor, and her blasts of fire, we pushed the creatures back through the gateway and they did not return. It was at this point that Ashira passed out from exhaustion or hunger, it is hard to say which in her condition.

Vatermont 12th 1001 (?)

Ashira has finally woken up, and we have gotten food into her. Decent Food. The sight of De’ath was a bit too much for her and we had to coax her out from a closet after first sight.
How can you explain that this vulture-man we work with, is a relatively good person? Poor Ashira has been through so much.

Vatermont 12th 1001 (?) Adriana

It takes a woman’s touch again. I say next to the closet door, talking with the poor girl for 3 hours. I told her what has happened with our team, what has happened with the world, and how we are working to fix it.
She began to open up to me after a good cry.
After we had seen her last, in Radlebb Keep. She had returned to Sisak. She stayed at the bountiful Tappe with the ladies for a while, but her memories haunted her. She waited for us to return, and her nightmares kept returning. She waited for Ko’ar and I to return to help her.  She kept repeating this over and over. But we never returned.
After Months of this, Kyl, the Tabi returned to her. He could sense her distress. She and Kyl braved entering Dentiata’s tower one last time.
At this she broke out crying again. Something had happened to the Tabi, and she couldn’t bear to say what.
The only way I could coax her out of the closet was by promising that De’ath would remain in his room while she ate.
After a lot of complaints, and an offering of some manuals from my cloud-clipper, I convinced De’ath to stay in his room. He was pleased to be the first non-gnome to know the secrets of the clippers. (He will be surprised when he realizes it’s a historical document, not an engineering one.)

Vatermont 15th 1001 (?) De’ath

If I keep my hood up, I am ALLOWED to wander the Inn. My visage reminds the Human girl of something horrible that happened.
I am left to wonder if Other Nagpa were involved, but Of course conversation is not a possibility.
Today is the Feast of Petra for her, and the 2 girls have decided to spend the day together outside in the sun. It looks like they are trying to fix the Sign of the Inn, and some of the outside shutters that have begun to fall off. Something about this day being of repairs.
The silly Gnome girl thinks she tricked me with her historical books on Clippers, but I am finding the subject quite interesting, especially the battles with the Top Balista Academy. I will never admit out loud, but Once upon a time I would have like to been in that academy.
Bah What am I thinking, Nagpa flying those death-traps?!?

Vatermont 20th 1001 (?) Julius

Our guest has decided that she needs to move on. There is apparently things that she needs to do, but she won’t elaborate. Our Inn has begun to be used as a stopping point for others in their quests to fix the world. Adriana and I have prepared some food for her.
De’ath has discovered an Ancient Spell tucked away in one of his books. He cast it on Four books, including this one. The spell linked the four books, and now our Journal is connected somehow has a communications method. According to the old bird, when we write in our book, the writing will now appear in each of the other books, and the reverse is the same.
If Ashira writes in her book, we will see it in our books back here. This way we will be able to assist each other if needed.
Ashira was so thankful for this she gave the old bird a hug, which completely threw him off. De’Ath didn’t know what to do. Now, whatever Ashira has to face, she knows, she is not alone. I wish we could have arranged for one of these to be sent with Fang & Ko’ar. Maybe when they return.
At this we gave her big hugs, and she opened the gate with a spell.
According to her, the spell will only connect the gate to where she came from. Which means those mechanical demons. I nearly coughed when she told me she would be ok. But she had to return to help her friends, and promised to keep us updated with her new book.

Morse’ Book Binding

6th level Evocation (Ritual)
Casting Time: 1 hour per book.
Range: Touch
Components: VSM (The Books to be enchanted, + Golden Ink (200Gp per book)
Duration: Permanent

This spell connects 2 or more books. When something is written, edited, or drawn in one book, it appears in all others books. Often this is used for writing collaboration between authors., or communication between cargo companies and a ship’s captain.
The Reverse of this Spell. Morse’ Book Unbinding. can be cast to remove the connection of one book from the union. Only the book being disconnected needs to be present for this. Often this is cast after author’s have finished their book, or a Cargo Company decommissions a ship.

Thadigren’s Gate Control

5th level Transmutation
Casting Time: 2 Actions
Range: 10 feet
Components: VS
Duration: Concentration (Up to 10 minutes)

This is a very specialized spell. It only works on the time-gate located in the Comeback Inn, or it’s gate networked portals. It allows the caster to open the gate to a place or time that they know has a gate, and that they know the locations of and time of. Some locations or times may be locked due to complications and require a magic attack to open. (DC 20~35 depending on the lock)

Numont 1001 (?) – New Year?

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Numont 1st New Year’s day (?)
I have no way to tell if today really is New Year’s day. But Adriana, Fulric and I decided that we would try our best to keep a semblance of normalcy. If for no other reason than to keep our sanity. Fredigar was surprised to find his box of decorations still stored in the basement. I am sure it was not there before, but I am guessing that the enchantments on the Inn have arranged for these boxes to be there.

We decorated the Inn up in festive decorations, and shared tales of our different cultures. Apparently, the beginning of the New Year in DeepSwamp is a day called “Kissing Day”

On this day, people dress in colorful clothes and extravagant masks and head outside for citywide street parties all over the North. At the stroke of midnight, but more often much earlier, complete strangers take off their masks and kiss each other. Fredigar says that kings and queens also go out in disguise and mingle with the common folk so they too can partake in this festival.

This is a lovely idea, except we have no streets. So Instead we all agreed to dress up for this New Year’s Festival. De’ath seemed horrified at the idea and locked the door to the room he had claimed.

Nuwmont 2nd

We all slept late today after the drinking and festivities we set into motion last night.

When Adriana and I finally did get up for breakfast we were shocked to see someone sitting in the Common room waiting for us. It was a short, dark haired lady. She had piercing green eyes and a familiar face, though I could not place it. She wore a strange outfit with clashing colors and patterns. The style I had only ever seen on Denethix, the Flying City that started all our troubles.

She quietly watched us enter the room, and a slight smile crept on her face as she waited to see. “My, my, my” She said, in her own language, which was instantly translated by the Inn’s enchantments. “I was not expecting to see you all here.

It was then that I remembered, but before I could say anything Adriana called out her name, “Mercy!”

Mercy was a Quickling. She was in fact the very same Quickling who had helped us 4,000 years ago in the past. She was there at the battle against Dentiata’s pirates. She was thrown in jail with us for saving the city from the Warlock.

It is great to see her.

Mercy had been tinkering with the oard systems 3,000 years ago. When they stashed Bella in the Pod. She thought Bella would be the last survivor, but she was wrong. The magic of the Inn and its protective enchantments prevented the Oard laser fire. The oard that had broken through the back had lost their advantage and were forced to fight hand to hand.

After the battle, Mercy and the survivors had begun to change the codes on the Oard Pods. Any Oard recharging in the pods would now regain their individuality. Mercy was quite proud of this. Unfortunately, she had not realized that the original programming also meant that Bella would be Oarded when she entered the pod.

So here we were with Mercy telling us we had a Good Oard out with our team. I wonder how they will react when they find out, I hope nobody gets too hurt.

Mercy’s team then made it their mission to find and destroy any Oard Bubbles they could and study that technology. She went silent at this point.

Eventually my charismatic little tinker convinced her to talk again, and we heard a story about how Mercy was the last. She had come to collect Bella. Mercy showed us some armor she had placed together from Oard parts that allowed her to use the Oard Tech, and stay alive. She could not replicate the armor yet, but had used it to travel through the Mirrors of her era to ours.

Numont 5th
Today De’Ath re-emerged from his room. Fredigar was on Mirror Duty today, and around noon, we heard him scream. The team had arrived in a city. We all rushed to the common room to watch. The city was a city of metal, slightly similar to the Buzzard. But different, almost organic. There were no living things around, but there was a lot of smoke. At this point We could see Bella’s Illusion Medallion short out, and she appeared as shocked as everyone else that she was an Oard. We all watched in horror as the entire team turned on her and extremely quickly cut her in half before she could defend herself.

Fang, Ko’Ar and the rest then rushed back to what looked like a mirror. And dashed through. The same type of Mirror that we have in the hidden rooms.

Mercy was mortified at what she had just witnessed. I didn’t know what to say, but I knew that De’Ath should not be the one to talk to her next, so I ushered the vulture man out of the room. I hoped Adriana would know what to say.

That night we learned that Mercy had left. She left a note for us. Unfortunately, I cannot read it. Adriana could with a little of her magic. Mercy had hoped to collect Bella before this tragedy happened. She was certain that Bella didn’t even realize that she was an Oard. Mercy was determined to “fix this”

Numont 9th
I thought today was going to be a relaxing day. It has been a few days since Mercy left to “Fix” everything. I don’t know what that means for us. However, as I was training today, the gate opened in the basement. The mists that emanated from it were a dark forest green. Fulric called for us all to join him, and as we watched the gate, a group of creatures ran out of the gate yelling like they were ready for battle.

These creatures were hideous Green skinned men about a head taller than me, with large horns coming from their heads. I don’t believe they knew our gate opened into a small cave, and this worked to our advantage, as they thrashed their large swords around, they hit more rock than anything else and we were able to defend the Inn’s basement. Fredigar took up sword as well, and fought beside me. De’Ath, Fulric and Adriana all used their magics to defend the caves.

Tonight, Fulric and I are setting protections near the gate.

Numont 13th
Apparently, the War has begun. Tharks & Kali burst through the gate today. They KNEW somehow that their lighting guns would not work and came in with crossbows and swords. These people fought bravely against us, and our precautions, but the lack of space for them to move around in great numbers combined with the blade traps we set, meant that the fight was hard, but short lived.

Numont 17th
We had just finished repairing the damaged traps and were working on new ones when the gate opened again today. The mist was a purplish grey. Three, only three creatures came out. One looked like a human-barbarian with a strange green helmet on his head. The helmet had a rotating Visor, the visor had 3 distinct eyes, that allowed him to see in all directions.

Another one had orange fur covering his whole body. The third was a lady in a dark cape & black headpiece.

Fulric fought the orange, beastly man, while I battled the 3 eyed man. The lady nearly pulverized De’ath & Adriana. It wasn’t until we had forced the men back through the gate that the lady backed off herself, seeing that we had the numbers now.

I don’t know how else we can fortify the gate. Every day the traps need to be rebuilt, as the Inn’s enchantments are there to welcome guests, not bar them from entering, and so every night the traps disappear at midnight.

Numont 21st
Today we had an attack enter the Inn from the main entrance. A group of 10 humanoid badgers burst in through the main door and attacked us. These ferocious creatures wielded large clubs. The battle was intense and lasted most of the afternoon. I am so happy that we have been able to fight in the light this time. But I am even more happy that somehow, De’Ath was able to “find” a stash of healing potions for us after the battle.

I am not looking forward to badger meat but am sure De’Ath is.