The Magic Faul

Helo, everyone. And Be welcome to the Blog again.

This time the Adventure runned on a two days session, Mar 18|19, 2010. We played from 20:00 Mar 18 until 10:15 Mar 19, and 16:45 Mar 19 until 19:00 Mar 19, and this time I explained to the players I'm not 18 anymore, so from this day after we'll play until everyone sleep, and I'll sleep too. My players usually go sleep in turns, and I master full time, so it makes me get dead tired.

Being so, Sessions will get a bit shorter from now on, but not less interesting.

Enjoy your reading.

And Magic has it's own way on doing things. Some marvellous. Other, terrifying. Sometimes the choice of one makes the destiny of the many, a choice few would like.

At Torian's Castle, Torian, Hadesh, Adria and Ayasta discuss what's happening.
The Ring of Death would not kill anyone who'd want to go there, so it's probably being used by someone, there at Báech Islands.

Following Torian's magic message, Tack comes to his castle.

Now talking, they know the Rings of Ambar are a key to understand it all, and Hadesh asks which is the total power of the Rings together.

They don't know.

- It's summarily important for us to have the Five Rings of Ambar - says Tack Primus.
- Where would you hide, Ring of Life? (asked Torian to his Ring).
- On the most improbable place, but I woundn't go hide if it would not be extremely necessary (said the Ring).

This suddenly made sense to Torian.

Years before, he was responsible for correcting the Magic Faul that was affecting his Ruledom, and would affect all Royal Tachiza. Now, he remember exactly what he needed to do, that was to go to the other continent, Shadeza, and get the Dumpper only they know how to use, to restart magic field at the centre of that Faul and save his Ruledom.

That's probably the centre of the Magic Faul that's affecting Tachiza for the last two millennia and the Ring is there.

- Let's go there (asked Ayasta).
- You think the Ring of Magic is there (asked Torian).
- That's the only hint we have, Torian (said firmly Tack).
- I agree (answered Hadesh).
- Remember Octania. We can't confront an angel. We don't have the power to do that (said Tack).
- Bog.
- What, Bog? (asked Hadesh).
- Angels are another race, bog, just like your's (said the forgotten God).
- What? They another race? Ah. This won't help, now. So, let's go there and see if the Ring's in there (defined Tack).

But there's something more important to professor Primus.

- Well, people. Do you remember that mage we bring back his remains to a noble Duke, from Ayaname? He wants to welcome us at his ruledom.
- That's not important, Tack (said Hadesh).
- I'm really sorry, but it is. He sent me a message, and said we could go there, and he'd welcome us forever, into his territory.
- Right so, then. (said Torian). We'll go and visit him. It's on the way after the Faul, anyway. The Faul's near the frontier with Ayanima. I'll give the order to prepare our travel, with no teleport this time. Each teleport is costing two thousand gold to me, and I apreciate any help with these costs, anyway.

Then, Hadesh went to the artificer butler, took his Dark Grimoire and asked about the items. The artificer looks to know the book, and is afraid of him. So, the Grimoire didn't know what the ring of black magic was able to do, but explained about the black magic Torture item. He took the Torture item for himself, even with advices from the artificer that it's dangerous.
Second, Tack went to see the artificer, and he said the items would be classified in two months, and also that Hadesh has taken a very dangerous item of Torture to himself imediately before Tack come there.

- Without our opinion, then? (said Tack) That's good to know.

They gathered and get prepared to go to the Magic Faul centre, but teleport was too expensive for that.

(The Magic Faul)

They spent eleven days travelling, in horses and charriots. The beautiful lands of Royal Tachiza are rich, for the reason of the silver mines, and spice production. During the travel they saw two monansteries. One is really famous, for there is said Saint Krunk had illuminated and became a saint, the Keleppa monastery now was back then a source of resistance to the daemonic invasion of Toj.
Saint Krunk, whose famous battle axe made of vala, the planar silver, was destroied one year before, when his group was trying to confront a Gog uberdaemon. The group was settled at the village at that time, and a horde of daemons came to attack. During this, he has put himself in front of a deadly daemonic magic spell which would have killed Ayanima, and so he became a saint, put his hand into the air and a portal came, at the moment the fiends looked terrified.
His battle axe became known as Bitkaletja, or flying axe, since then. He killed the rest of the invaders, at that enlightened night.

So, they got to a Village.

There was a boy at the entrance of the village, who was grey, although being an ejik human. He explains the village is where all those infected by unknown deseases which not even the greater mages and clergy can cure are send to.

- There's a lake after this forest you can see, and that's the only water we have. It's waters have healing powers (said the boy, amongst some other things).

They decided to go to the lake, first. So, to the Faul, that according to Torian was located at the forest. Being there, Torian used the Orb.
It shown a monk, twelve years before, praying.

- Forgotten Gods, here are Forgotten People. We can't cure them. Please do for these forgotten people what only forgotten gods can do (the monk prayed).

So, Torian tells everyone.

- Bog.
- What is it, Bog? (asked Hadesh).
- It's Vulcana. Bog. She made this miracle. So, she really exists, then. I can't feel her, but she exists indeed.
- Let's go to the Faul, then (said Torian). Remember what the boy said. The frogs are venomous.

They got inside the forest.

On the centre of the forest, they find some rocks, and an old dumpper. The night falls around them.

Using the Orb, Torian sees the time comging back to five thousand years ago. This area was a Magic Forge, an imense Forge. And so, he sees the Ring of Magic being created. He senses danger, and the Orb is trying to make magic. Tack negates it.
The dumpper gives one "bump", and stops.

- What is it, that the dumpper suddenly worked? (asked Tack) You're the only one who knows how it works, Torian.
- It only works if there's energy to make it work, and if there's a magic faul in here.

They started to study the area, while Torian explained what he saw using the Orb of the Beginning.

- It's in here. I'm sure of it (said Torian, sure of it).

Investigating the area, the rocks are under the effect of Anchor, the magic spell that interrupts teleportation.

Torian then gives energy to the dumpper to make it work.
It started to work, but faster that it was safer, but the magic dispel Tack did was negated. Something's used the Orb to make magic.

Tack negates it again.

The dumpper started to bump at maximum speed. Enormous clouds were forming up them, and Torian negated the element to make them go away.

- We're surrounded by frogs, and should someone see what they're singing? (asked Ayasta).
- I do (answered Hadesh).

The clouds were forming again up there over them.

- They're singing: Krig, Krig, Krig. And it sounds like a pray. (said Hadesh).
- We'll be attacked by the frogs? (said Ayasta) So, kill them.

Hadesh asked Torian to cast ward versus Cold on everyone, and he did it still concetrated on the rocks. So, the dark spell of Freezing Death was casted by Hadesh on the area.

The frogs died.

- Krig, you said? It's Saint Krunk's brother's name - said Ayasta.
- That's it (said Torian). The same way the queen Tachiza could not kill the first Mummi King, in fact Tweet locked Krig here, into this rock.
- That's insane (said Adria). And the trees are moving.
- I know what to do (said Torian).

He then concentrates all energy coming from the clouds, and fixed them into the dumpper. It started to spark energy around them, lightning energy.
Suddenly, the clouds became dark red. An earthquake started, while Hadesh came back from Attune state and said the trees are christal trees at Hell, onto this place.

- Destroy the trees (said Torian).
- I'm sensing danger in everything we do, here (said Tack).
- Kill the trees. They're the Anchor (insisted Torian).

Hadesh invoked Freezing Death again, and that was enough to freeze all trees in a radius of 50 measures. Trees started to crack.
Then, they all listened to an enormous "Rhhhhhhrrahaaaccckhh.........".
The rocks started to crack, and fall.

- It's dangerous, Torian (said firmly, Tack).
- We can't give up, now. We need the Ring of Magic. He's in here (claimed Torian).
- And probably Krig, too. The same Krig who the Saint Group couldn't defeat, six hundred years ago. And probably stronger (said Ayasta).
- I'm with you, Torian (said Hadesh). We need the Ring.
- I think it's too dangerous (said Adria), but if there's no other way let's break the rock.
- Hey! Hold on (asked Tack).

Torian tried to take off the energy from the dumpper. It needed to be a consensus, that's what every entity said all way here.

- I don't like this idea. I have a family to protect.

But it was too late.

Then, Hadesh started to pray. The pray started to crack the rocks, as they were of a substance unknown, but probably profane.
The clouds became all red, and it infected all that they saw until the horizon.

An enormous part of the rocks then fall to the ground.

- Now it's too late (said Torian).

The earthquake extended itself til the horizon, while the rock started really to crack. Tack casted Anchor onto the ground.
So, the rock crashed and they all could see a white Orkling, five measures high.

- HhwAhhuhahahahahahhaaa.... (the Ork cried).

Bbooommm! As pearly-looking attacks were taking place on the barrier outside that land, and it was clearly someone trying to get in.
The imense Ork looked down to Bogbog.

- Thank you (said the imense Ork), very much.
- Bog.

Hadesh wished with all his hearth to have the Egg of Ambar here to help, whatever he could do.

- What's your name? (asked Hadesh).
- Oh, yes. This can be a problem (said the Ork).

So, he killed his name from history, laughing once more.

- Who're you? (have asked Tack, sensing he absolutly killed his own name, and barely remembering he's Saint Krunk's brother, trying not to forget anything).

The Ork starred the Ring on his hand.

- I am the New God of Death (said the Ork). And you're not needed into this world anymore (looking to the Ring on his right hand).

Hadesh tried to negate that, but the God of Death just move his hand to avoid negation.

- Now, the first Kill (said him).

Everyone sensed something bad had happened now. Something in their hearts told them the world's doomed.

What will they do now to make the right thing?

He ignored the group, and started to sculpt a Fortress out of the ground.
Soon, he looked to himself. He started to laugh and to get transformed into a dead creature of what he was before. He's now the form of an imense orkling Skeleton.

The New God of Death so created a Throne for himself.

This time, everyone sensed the power that emanates from this new God of Death, not knowing his name.

- You released me (said him, looking to the group), so I'll let you go. You have one wish.

Said that, he sat onto the Throne, and stand there waiting for their decisions or worst killing more to make sure he'll be the New God of Death.

- We want all Rings of Ambar (asked Hadesh).
- Say it for yourself (cried Tack). I don't want anything.
- Me too (said Adria). I have no wish.
- We want to go away from this place, safely (said Torian).
- We want all five Rings of Ambar with us (claimed Hadesh with all his certainty).

The God moved, finally. He looked to the horizon, and waved his hand. Rings appeared in front of Tack and Hadesh.

- We want all five Rings (insisted Hadesh).

The God didn't looked like talking, so he opened a portal for them to go.

Tack took the Ring, and Hadesh did the same.

Knowing this was not a time to discuss, they all went through the portal, taking the horses and charriot with them (Adria levitated them).

(The Crash)

They passed the portal, and it closed back them just after their passage. Looking around, they see that everything is stoped, paralyzed.
Birds are paralized in the air. They don't listen to any noise in the distance, and the horses are paralized too.

Somehow, they were moving, while anything else was.

- Adria (called Tack).

She's paralized, too, as time seems not to exist.

(End of Chapter One)

Some important questions about Chapter One

First of all, I want to thank everyone, and I hope you're enjoying you reading.

Chapter One's title: Stolen Dreams.

Players:

Tack Primus (Sheep), Hadesh (Lord), Daytel | Torian Naraleiva Priatel'sa Draci (Demo), Flausin (Leko), Alena Báech | Christalla (Renata), and Djine Báech (Giuppa).

Special Participation:

Spike (L1nk), and Adria (Veronica).

These two characters are turned into NPCs, because players could not play anymore.

Original Fictional Universe:

Sol Cajueiro

About the Play:

The Chapter One: Stolen Dreams takes the first adventure to a moment of Halt, when dealing with secrets they could not predict that would afect the entire Triplet Worlds, and moved to this moment the group set free the New God of Death (Saint Krunk's brother).

Is the group being manipulated? Or they're the Ones who really changed everything?

We are already playing the Chapter Two. I'll have it posted as soon as I can, and Be Welcome reading. If you have any coment, I'll thank you.

I hope you're enjoying your stay, and...

Stay Plugged.

Original Character Design

Unfortunately, I'm here to say something not good.

One of my players has created Characters, called NPCs, or Non Player Characters, that are not his original creation, and copyrighted.

I use many Player's ideas into the Story, and Players are allowed to create NPCs, too.

I didn't know about that, until this week.

I don't want to offend the original creator's rights with these Characters, and I am really sorry about that, so I need to ask you reader to be pacient with the changes I'll need to make to grant an original Story, with Original Characters Design.

The Characters will suffer a remake, their names will be changed, and their existance into the Plot will all be redone as soon as I can.

I always ask my Players for original Character design, but this time it has failed.

If you want to create an Adventure Blog too, it's something you'll need to think about, and make sure your Players create original Names, and Characters.

I'm really sorry. 

Thanks for your Pacience.

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New Characters Adaptation

It's all done by now, on May 30, but I'll need time to rewrite all that's coming, because those characters, although not much present into what's written until now, were really important to Chapter Two, that's being runned until it's most advanced timeline, now.
I've completely redesigned the NPC Characters in question.

Now, I ask you to read the ongoing Story.

Back to Oktania and After

Helo, and again Be welcome to my Adventure Blog.

This time the adventure happened on March 13, 2010, at our friend Lord's lair. I lost track of the time. The Story's arch is settled at a moment of talking. Some of the roleplay discussion are too long, so I decided to put in here a version of resume. This happens because of the many meetings the group is exposed to during the sessions of play, but the resume don't diminish the play.

A resume is much more interesting that reading about things not important mixed with others important, and I had to cut off unimportant facts to make the play more interesting, and focused.

Hope you're enjoying your reading.

(What leads to War)

The two groups teleported back from the Desert Temple.

Back to Rudyn's Mansion they gather with Ayasta. She questions what they want to do now that they have this Orb, and Torian try to use the Orb with a question, as it were a simple device to uncover a wonder. It may answer, or not. How to know without trying?

- What started the war amongst the Dragons? - was the question.

So, the orb started to show images backward, and a time passed til it show the Saint Group more than 600 years before, camping on the area where Rudyn's Mansion is constructed now, and Torian was attentive. Tweet tried to make a spell, and it was an area of Savage Magic, so a portal opened.

Trees were more involved in a silver appearance, at that time.

A man, from a race known to be servants to Angels, the airlings, comes from the portal and looked through the land around.

- Are you here to help? (asked firmly Ayanima).
- Wow. There are too much demons, in here. - he said - I need to go back and tell them.

So, the airling has gone back through the portal.

Torian said what he's seen, and everyone started to question what the Saint Group had made to create a war so long after their time. They talk about their stories to Ayasta, and about their first mission, in the lost city of Oktania. It's the city where the old Mummi King ruled, and the spirit of Tachiza had attacked it with some kind of Weird Magic.
Oktania is maybe the last place someone will take a look during all that's happening now.
Specially because no one know where it's located. This was clear by Ayasta's comments, that no noble at Realms of Ayanima knows where it's located.

They decide to go to Octania.

So, Torian send a magic message to Tack, to come.

The needs to investigate are various, and they had to give the city of the Old Mummi King, the first, a close look, but the actually important thing is to know why it's hidden from the rest of the world. Ayasta is convinced that they need to go there to uncover this matter.

Tack asked for the first student to organize the preparation for the end of the year exams, for he would in fact to have to be off for another week.

When Tack came to Rudyn's mansion, he imediatelly agreed with Ayasta.

(At Oktania)

They took components from Torian's apothekary, for a teleport home. Going to Oktania, as it's obviously a cursed place, all their senses tell them that. It's called Echo. Things may be sensed beforehand because of this thing that causes events to mirror forth and back in time, the same way a person of power can understand which powers were used at a location, for a limited time.
Torian used the memory of the place to teleport there, even if it's a very dangerous way to teleport. They could have gone other place, or worse, they could have gone a place in the Planes that was similar, and get lost.

Well, Torian and Hadesh confirmed it's Oktania.

They all start to fly, but Ayasta, and she went walking on the ground. Soon there were a lot of blurred moves on the ground, they see from above, and Hadesh decides to go save Ayasta, as she's teleporting to flee from the attacks.
She's being attacked by a growing number of catlike shadows, and Hadesh sees them with his monster senses, so he attacks with his acid breath, and use a licanthrope power to make them attack each other.

Torian levitates Ayasta.

The catlike shadows start to attack everything on the ground. They see the square which was probably the center of the old city, and decide to go there. Getting there, Torian looks through the Orb of the Beginning to ask a question.

- What I need to know about this place?

It shows an enormous number, maybe more than 2,000 parallel planes and constructs in there, at the present.

He speaks about it with the group.

- Some of the original Rings of Power is here? - suggested Hadesh, and Torian asked.

It shows the present, and the group.
Ayasta ask to her Ring, the Ring of Time, and it explains there is in fact a Ring of Power there, but not a Ring made by Ambar.

It's the Ring of Darkness, explains the Ring of Time to Ayasta.

Ayasta says it to the group.

They get disturbed now, because no one said anything about this Ring in the Triplet Worlds history. Ayasta's Ring says it's too dangerous to stay there.

So, they see a huge number of creatures coming to attack them.

More than eight hundred creatures.

They start to attack, but Torian used his recent Sand mastery to manipulate the land. It turned he transformed some of the creatures into undeads. Obviously an effect of necromancy, but now's not the time to worry about it. He'll probably face corruption of his abilities on the next to the combat.

Hadesh started to attack the creatures, with acid breath.

It looks like Hadesh attack with his licanthrope powers to make them attack each other awakened every creatures at a round of kilomeasures.
More are seen to come, saw Hadesh from the air.

Some creatures passed the barrier of spikes created with sand and land. Time after time, more creatures come. Some time later they started to see a huge bell jar made of energy, holding something.
Ayasta sees a sacerdot on the top of a stair, in front of them. All creatures looks to ignore him, and he's holding the bell jar with a hand.

She say it to the other, and they look too.

They can't see the sacerdot's face, and Ayasta sees a hole on the black clouds in which an "angel" is seen after the clouds.

Time after time, they stress a number of creatures hand to hand, and with powers.

Tack was being protected from all attacks, in the middle of a circle. He was imensely concentrated, doing a Ritual for them to get off of there. He sensed the very land is cursed, with a power of corruptive darkness that is in fact the unknown Ring of Power that's hidden there.

Would the Gods know? Would this be the reason for this damned land be hidden from everyone? Holding a secret no historian, no religion master knows? He was imensely angry with the Gods, now. He knows there is a terrible meaning for this all. A thing he tried to pass on to students all his life, was in fact that the study of religion is a serious matter of investigation, not adoration.
Now, his recent deeds are being confirmed, through experiencing that the superbeings called Gods can't solve things definitely. They put the dirt on a corner, but this should be cleaned. Not now. And maybe not by them, but it's a prove that Gods are not all potent. They fail, like this. Fail to end something that should have beging ended more than two millenia ago.

Hadesh is hurted, and Adria's hands are raw flesh.

Adria's using her bow as a hand weapon, for it's points are blades.

Oktania was watching. Everyone sensed. The dark power that was in there, holding a curse over the land, and the thick air. The creatures were only an effect of that presence. A presence of evil. A presence of corruption. That could transform life into the echo of a corrupted pulse. No fungus would ever live there, not while a power of so deep wrong hollow, so evil presence is present into every piece of this land.

Wave after wave, they're attacked by the corrupted inhabitants of that place, sepulcral and necrotic, shadows of what should never exist.

During all this, Tack's making the ritual to go home, while the others endure the attacks to protect him.

It worked, and the ritual's ready.

Torian remembers the huge cry they listened the other time, and deduce the bell jar's holding the imense abyssal who's the guardian of these Ruins.

Now, the sacerdot looks to the "angel", and makes a gesture showing they could deal with the teleport ritual, and another gesture to send the "angel" away. It was a bit rude. The "angel" closed the hole on the clouds, and was gone.

The group all got together, still protecting Tack and the Ritual.

The sacerdot bowed, and Tack activated the ritual of teleport back to Torian's territory.

They did it.

(Back at Torian's Castle)

Everyone looked at each other. They teleported using a magic name for a wanderer teleport, at Priatel territory, in a side road.
In silence, they walked to Torian's Castle.

- So, there's a Ring of Power more powerful than the Rings of Ambar. - concluded Ayasta, walking to a corner.
- Hadesh, help me with my hands - asked Adria - They're bleeding.

It was a two hours combat, and everyone's on their limit.

They all rested.

On the next day, Torian tried to go and talk to wanderers, but the negative energy that's near him make all people he went to see didn't like his presence. It's a consequence of having done black magic.

Adria explains to some wanderers that's because he challenged ancient elementals, because she's a wanderer too. Every wanderer noticed the negative energy around Torian, and Hadesh explained it was not a good time to deal with people.

He knows it, because people usually get goosebumps when he's around.

(Hadesh and Adria on the Mountains)

The following morning, Hadesh looked for Adria and invited her to go beyond the icy mountains, where the angry Ice elemental lives.

He needs to make some study of his powers and magic.

They go.

Two days later, they passed west of the mountains and came to a valley. They stoped at a higher posing, and camped. Now, Adria entered meditation, while Hadesh started to make his study of what he needed to do.

He looked inside his Bag of Things, and took the Dark Grimoire.

Posed the Grimoire in front of himself.

- Open. - he hissed, using snake language to do the order.

It started to change, from it's form of an innocent book to a Black Magic Grimoire.

- Who do you serve?
- You. - hissed the Book.
- What do you exist for? - continued Hadesh.
- I exist to serve my Archanist.
- Show me.

Suddenly, it opened in a page and that magic was activated by Hadesh without his intent to do it. He negated the effect, not to kill Adria. He changed the page. Looked to the book, and started again.

The local temperature went to -20ºC, in a matter of instants. A vicious and charged negative change.

- Why it activated without my consentment?
- Because you're a wizard, and not a mage, but I'm not sure of it.
- Can you teach me Magic?
- That's my reason of existence.
- Why am I your Master, now?
- Because you killed the last user. Now, you gained the right to be my Master.

Question after question, Hadesh was inquiring the Book. It showed some intentions in the direction of transforming Hadesh into a great black wizard.

- How you're created?
- From the flesh, bones and skin of a Basilisk.
- Can you tell me how to kill a Basilisk?
- Who would do that, if you can transform it into a new Dark Grimoire? It would be an enormous waste of a so cursed life.

The inquiry longed for hours, and it explained Hadesh he's just a beginner at Magic.

The Book stated there are 5.213.526 taboos at the 17 Magic Languages in existence, but most of them are not applied to the Triplet Worlds, the Trigemei, being most of it local taboos in every other worlds in the Near Universe.
Satisfied with this talk with the Dark Grimoire, Hadesh ordered it to get to his normal form.

- I am on my normal form. The other's a disguise.
- Right. Close. - hissed Hadesh.

It continued for a day, while Adria was in meditation state. Hadesh asked various important things to the Dark Grimoire. While using it, he understood that the aura of that place were becoming darker, supernatural, that allied to his own presence.

- I've finished for this time, Grimoire. Close.

The Book closed, and he looked Adria, who was awakening from her meditation.

- Let's go back, then? It's too dangerous in these mountains. And I'm still recovering from that day's combat. My hands hurt.

Hadesh starred Adria.

- We should go back, now, can we? (said Adria).
- Ok. Let's go back. (Hadesh agreed, and they prepared to go back).

(Torian's talk with his family Elder)

Torian went to talk with his elder family member, but only after talk to his guard. The soldiers explain there's being thievering on the neighbor territories. Wanderers say things are being stolen during travel.

Then, Torian explains to Antonidias the elder all what's happening.

He says basically everything.

- There's a message from one of our founders about the Ring of Darkness, Torian. - said Antonidias - It says we must not get involved into this, because it's too dangerous. I advise you to be very careful with your actions.

Antonidias talked about the Priatel's foundations, during the Great War, about 608 years ago. The Priatel were founded by a master artificer, who was Raja Tweet's master, after he marry one woman from the Lost People who wandered the planes for 1,000 years, the people of Tachiza, and the Old Empire who fought the Old Mummi King. Now, there's a new Mummi King, and the family needs to be united.

This master artificer's son was the one who helped the Coper Dragon, disguised as a wanderer after a combat, and that's the reason why Naraleiva the Coper Dragon is the family's Patron.

- This way, I advise you to be careful, but I'm on your side.

Antonidias paused.

- Well, there's a lot you don't know, young Torian. The Universe is all inhabited. Every inhabited world has it's own races, and when Pan ruled, He took many races from planet to planet to create Civilization.

He paused again, to let Torian think.

- You should not tell this to anyone, because it's a Secret. Gods will know if you say this to someone indiscriminately. Everyone's looking for a new Era of Civilization, but that's being disturbed by Trisebus. There's pressure from other worlds for us to take him dead. The case is that Civilization will never be the way it was before, and other races are ready to war against this anomaly that killed the Leader God just here.
- So, this means everyone knows, and I didn't knew about this all?
- No only you. Only the most important nobles know. This can't be said to population, specially now monotheists are running against other religions.
- How people travel from planet to planet?
- Now, using the Astral plane, but you need more than ten years to travel to other worlds. We know it was different, before.
- The entire Universe is inhabited?
- Yes. Well, almost the entire Universe, and specially the Near Universe were Old Civilization was located, but some places are not apropriated to life.
- I understand, now.
- Remember you can't go speaking about this to anyone.

They talked more, and the councellor Antonidias explained more about what happened on the Great War. The semi mythic relation of one ancestor to the Saint Group. He was an artificer, Tweet's master. He once sat his Tower of Magic at Sama. That's what permited the ancestrors to get contact with Naraleiva, so the family is really thankful to the Saint Group, or they were never to exist.

Torian let the room with another understanding on the worlds and the Universe.

(Back at Torian's Castle)

Hadesh and Adria were at the castle when Flausin came, asking them to go the constructions of the Tavern. They went there, and gathered with princess Lena and the djine Báech. They all talked. Hadesh said them about his new form, when transformed into licanthrope.

Then, Adria and Hadesh went back.

When they got to the Castle, Torian was at the veranda in front of the Voivoche Lake on the back of the Castle, and they talked about everything to try and see if they find a way to find the Rings.
The recent discovery that there's a more powerful Ring worries everyone.

So, Torian ask everyone to wait in there, because he needs to talk to a Tome of Magic what it thinks, and was gone to his apothekary.
Opened the Vault, and got the Tome.

Ayasta got to the veranda, and entered the discussion on how to get the Rings of Ambar, and confront the other Rings.

- I'll have to depend on you again. What do I need to do to assure my family's survival, mine, my group's and all into my circle? - asked Torian to the Tome.
- It's unespected, and the consequences are impredictable, but now you started to go and become a Master Elemental, and you're master in more than one element already, became a Master in all elements. Just take much care, much care, because all Master Elementals suffers some kind of mutation with their victory.

Torian went back to the veranda.

During their talk, Torian remembers that on that reunion he saw at the Light, the High Priest of Shadeza said the five Rings were lost, and if they gather the Rings they would be able to deal with the War, getting an enormous advantage in the War.

It changed his mind, and he decided that he would help Tack, Hadesh and Ayasta to get the Rings of Ambar.

Tack says the Academy of Magic, Politics and Power received news from the Nine Realms, and the Báech Kingdom's surrounded by an army that don't let anyone enter that territory, but it probably is happening because of the death of the Obsidian Dragon, there.

Torian disagree.

He think the Rings are at places oposite to their Power, and the only way to confirm is trying to teleport Baech Islands.

Explaining, Torian says the area is "dead", so the Ring of Death must be there.

They chose Torian and Hadesh to go.

Hadesh is immortal, being a draconic licanthrope, and Torian will survive anything for he has the Ring of Life.

They tried, and almost died, when the teleport was "killed".

The Ring of Death is at Báech Islands.

(End of Session)

Some considerations necessary

May the power of the Five Rings of Ambar be strong enough to confront the Ring of Darkness? How will they get the Ring of Death? How will they get advantage from the items they got from their mission on the Ancient Temple of the Wastes, the Orb of the Beginning (while Rude has the Orb of the End)?

The Desert Temple

Helo, everyone.

This time the adventure runned on Feb 09, 2010. I haven't keep track of the exact time. We play at a Player's house, but it's calm during the night, and full of people during the day. So, it's better if we play at night. We have already played in advance to the Second chapter, now, then I'll have a few posts with the conclusion soon. Hope you're enjoying the reading, and all Players are happy with this different show of a gameplay. We're going to the last First Chapter's moves, so hold your breath.

The Desert Temple

Torian's Castle is big, but not enormous. It has five butlers, a guard of 15 soldiers, and 12 servants. It's located at the center of the territory, and the main veranda fronts to the lake where lives the Water elemental, and Torian met Dudin and Tayala for the first time. He misses them. North of there, there's the icy mountains where the aggressive Ice elemental lives, and also a valley with giant mushrooms. It's located at east on Tachiza Empire, and 200 kilomeasures from the Sea of Nine Realms.

It's the ending of the nineth month, and soon cold will come to this home land. Now, Torian's thinking about his old friends, the dwarf Dudin and the sidha Tayala, on his veranda.

The butler came to say Hadesh and Adria are back. "Where did they went to?", he thought, and said to the butler to let them in.

Hadesh is different.

This was the first thing Torian noticed. His face's more defined and calls more attention.

So, Hadesh explains that a divine intervention happened. They went to the gardens, and the alchemist Daytel was impressed with Hadesh new supernatural form and transformation, irrecognizable.

He looks like a dragon now, but with the head of a basilisk and white dragon horns.

Everything around him becomes supernatural.

- You take care, now, because ice and lightning will probably affect you more, for you spit acid in this form. (said Torian).
- Thank you. (Hadesh said, in draconic). I only know how to speak draconic and snake, this way.

Torian went to get his Snake language Book, and came back.

Hadesh was reading without any help.

- Are you ready to read this book, Hadesh?
- I don't think so. - he answered, and gave back the book to Torian.

So, Torian listened to his cousin Rude's voice.

- Torian. We're ready to go. Let me know when your group's ready, 'cause we need two groups to go there.

Adria and Hadesh agreed to go.

- Rude. I'm going with Adria and Hadesh. I need some time to rest, to confront an elemental.

Torian went to rest, and Hadesh went with Adria to buy tobacco at the vilage.

(Dreaming)

Torian's seeing the dream in an orb, from up. He sees a teleport circle, and a person dressed in black appears, so slowly looks up and take two daggers.

The man advance, and sees a soldier, sleepy, sitting with the hands in the sword. So, this man in black teleports to back of the soldier, and kills him. He clean the dagger at the soldier's clothes. He takes an electric compass from his pocket, and it points the direction.
Two corridors later, he silently kills another soldier. And, so, Torian understand that it's a luxury prison, with the bars made of Vala, the silver from the Planes.

The man in black takes a light small ball off the solder's mouth, and gives it to the skeleton inside the prison. The skeleton started to regenerate.

So, the man in black hands off a noble message to the man, while opens the prison.

He reads the message.

They look each other, and the man dressed in black conjure a circle of teleport.

(End of Dreaming)

The noble Torian goes to eat something, and notice there are missing things at the table, so he looks to the servants and sees they fear Hadesh.

He remembers the hand that was looking through the orb, and it was made of Vala.

(The Desert Temple)

So, Hadesh, Adria and Torian, together with Rude (Rudyn Draci), Spike, the warknight, Bake, the bakemono hunter, and Latva, a woman no one know which is her class, but she makes nature invocations, prepare to go to goblins territory, where an ancient Temple is located.

First, they'll see Torian confronting the ancient Sand elemental, rest, and after that enter the Temple to confront the mission, and Rude speaks what he's looking for.

Two Orbs.

When they come back to give the orbs back, they'll be able to chose an item from the Treasure.

- Don't forget, - said Rude - that we need to investigate the other group, the group of the psionic that invaded my mind. They probably have been there on the last two days. We know that there's a thuleskling noglet, an abyssal, on the first hole, but we don't know what's on the other hole. When we get the two Orbs, and we give it back, we'll be able to get an item from the Treasure, but I don't know what we'll need to do to have this right.

They teleported.

Teleport is starting to cash out them, because it wastes 2k golden pieces each time they use this magical way of travel, and it's something they'll need to start thinking about it soon.

The area where they come to is a huge valley, in a desert. Rocks and greyish brown mountains surrounds the area. The wastes cover all this region, the barbarian's and goblin's territory.
Soon, they assume a position for Torian to challenge the Ancient elemental of Sand.

It took a time until the elemental come. Torian explained that the group were to be his witnesses, and started the challenge.

- Nothing personal, ancient elemental, but I need to challenge you to gain advantages agains Basilisks and then be able to protect my group (said Torian).

This elemental is much more of a warrior than the Sound elemental he confronted before.

The group sees the devastation in sandstorms, electricity, water and sand getting together to create even bigger storms, and Torian's getting tired.

Counting on that, the elemental makes Torian get even more stressed.

As a result, on the contrary, Torian get a bit more disposed to win, for some supernatural will guides him, and he locked the Sand elemental into a gigantic ball of Rocks.

The elemental would need weeks to get out.

It ended.

Torian soon noted his senses are being modified, by the mastery, and he can move in sand and sense motion at sand terrains, now.

He thanks the elemental for the contest, and gather with his group.

- You are stronger than usual elementalists, so take care with your magic when confronting the beast you mentioned. - said the ancient elemental.

After Torian get an extended rest, they prepared to go and start the mission.

Adria got the trace of a psionic who used powers there, probably on the day before, when they started to investigate the area of ruins near the Temple. She was able to get a signature, even the effect being so old now, for signatures stand only two hours, usually.

They divided, to make the mission on the Temple.

Rude, the Void master elementalist, together with the eastern specialist in monster huntery, the woman who invokes nature, and so the warknight wizard Spike went to the first hole to probably confront the abyssal the legend says.

Torian, also known as Daytel, together with Adria the icchi, and Hadesh the draconic lycan went to the second hole to confront the unknown.

Adria heads the group.

After going down an imense stair down there, they come to an imense squared room with four doors. They entered the eastern door. Soon, the door closes behind them, and Torian sensed danger. A mass of abyssals is coming to fight them.

The sides of this somewhat a stair are full of lava, and they started to push the abyssals to the lava while hiting others.

Adria's bow was effective.

Hadesh uses his acid breath to attack the abyssals.

Together with Hadesh was Bog, that got the old spear Hadesh always used to hit the abyssals, too, while mounting Hadesh as mounting a dragon.

Torian attacks with spiral shurikens.

The combat happened during a long time, until no abyssal more come. Soon, they were advancing. It looks like one imense temple. They also see writings on the walls, but none of them could read. It was like a very fluid writing, as it was moving without any movement.

Now, they entered a room with tubes where an indigo subtance goes inside of it. Nothing to do at this room. A wall where a golden liquid moves inside tubes. The floor was covered with geometric symbols, and a black door on the end was a clear way out.

- We're here because of the Challenge. - afirmed Hadesh in a loud voice.

The black door on the end then opens.

Going to the next room, they enter an Arena. On the other side, from a hole on the ground appears an androginous man, with thin black veins on his face.
Torian recognize maybe an angel, but he had no wings.

"A fallen angel?", he thinks.

The challenge starts, and the man conjures a huge abyssal to attack them.

After the first attacks, the group note that it becomes imune to their attacks after they attack the first time. No one said they could not use the Temple to attack the creature, so they organize this attack.

The creature takes damage.

It attacks with tentacles, and it tries to swallow Hadesh.

It fails.

Basically, they destroied everything in this combat, but the holes where creatures with many eyes watch the challenge, as judges.

- Only a combined attack will destroy it - cries Hadesh to Torian.

They speak during combat, and the group attacks at the same time to create a more effective damage. As it was absorving their attacks and becoming imune to a second one, the only chance was doing a massive attack that could give no time to it's regeneration.

So, they used the room as a weapon, Hadesh took the abyssal's attention while Torian created spikes from the stone roof and finally drilled the creature.

It worked, and the creature's dead.

The man from an unknown race reconstruct the Arena with a move of his hands, and look to the "judges", that all looks like abyssals, too.

- You've being judged, - said the man - and you passed the test.

He made a pause.

- Now, - he resumed - that you proved you need the items, you can enter the Temple.

Then, the man reentered the hole, and a door appears behind the place he was all the time during the challenge.

They go.

Entering the Temple, they see an imense Treasure. The walls are made of Telluron. They wait for half an hour, and Rude enters the Temple with his group.

Torian creates water to clean them.

- We were all swallowed by the many abyssals, there. - resume Rude to his cousin Torian.

Now, they start to see the Treasure, and soon Rude find the Two Orbs.

Torian sees a Staff of Power, ready to serve him, and Hadesh sees a special Mount Armour that's his size. They analyze the powers of the group that was there before.

A spirit head appears over the treasure.

He looks like a takkar, but the eyes are different. He stares them. They ended investigating the treasure, and secretly the powers of the recent visitors.

- You have chosen the items you need. It will be measured how well you used the items, when you come back here to get an item for each one of you. When it happens, each can chose only one item. Use the two Orbs well and you'll have a treasure.

Torian gets the black Orb of the Beginning, and Grey gets the white Orbe of the End.

They got to the way out door, and got outside the Temple.

Torian detected observation of them getting out of the Temple, and show his finger before negating the Observe magic.

They did it.

So, the groups negates all their magic and powers used on the area, and teleported to Rudyn's Mansion at Priatel territory, safely. The information they got is imensely important. The other group has the exact formation of their groups.

It's a group whose members are 2 mages, 1 psionic, 1 licanthrope, 1 changeling, and 2 monks.

(End of Mission)

Some considerations necessary

Why the other group's formation is exactly the same as their's? Will they be able to use that two Orbs to confront the enemy group? What does "use well" the Orbs mean, that the Spirit said to them? Now, it looks like they're much more experienced, as group.

But still, they know they're fighting an enemy unknown. A chimera, maybe. Time is the only way to prove Rude's right, or wrong, and the Orbs will do. How to operate the Orbs? Would them show the enemy, finally, or make a different end, unpredictable solution-to-be?

Time will tell.