I need to start a journal on all of the information that we
have obtained on Micheal for Harfein just in case we are not
able to stop him ourselves
HAFEIN
The Castle City of Harfein is where is spent my entire life
training to protect the lands. We were left here by what we
consider the Dwarven King, Darwin, to protect the lands after
the Mage War. I have only done a few missions outside of the
walls of Harfein to some of the surrounding barbarian cities.
I also got the priviliage to travel to the grey elven city of
Cormyr with one of our leaders Pandora. Harfein was lucky to
get the support of Cormyr because of their help and their magical
items Harfein was able to expand and investigate the surrounding
areas.
Port Drake
Although this happened before I joined the Party I was told
that it was in Port Drake where much of the action occurred.
This is where the Party first found out about Micheal when his
people attacked the Tri-Tower (Duke's Palace) with infiltration
and a collection of magical weapons. There was this man named
Dio Elaclaire that they talked about. Even though he was helping
the party out at many occasions it seemed like there was more
to Dio then meet the eye.
Drop Site
After I joined the Party we were taken to this place aboard
the Airship that they were able to aquire in Port Drake. That
Airship will make a nice addition to Harfein because once they
get it back there it will be probed and tinkered until they
can make more on their own. Since it was still night we looked
for a place to rest finding refuge with Berlin, who is a dwarf
that everyone else has already met. Enutrof followed some strange
tracks and I followed quickly after him when I heard the rukus.
I was able to cripple a couple of the Poachers and scare off
the rest.
Dunnealgate
Dunnealgate is a small town that now has no central government
or law because when Micheal's people first came into town they
were quick to take out any of the opposition. The Peasants were
highly taxed in lived in fear from these people and were happy
that we got rid of them but were still scared about the man
behind those minions. This town would make a good staging area
since its near a water source and the farthest line that Micheal
has reached out to. Harfein should set up a pupper government
because these peasants are willing to be lead by anybody.
Elly nabbed
While we were travelling east through the Hullack Forest Elly
was snatched from our Party without a sound. Enutrof was able
to Track some footprints south into a town that was destroyed
in a battle. Myr was nearly taken down by an arrow of the kidnapper
when a man, who I later found out to be Clive, jumped in the
way taking it. In the confusion that ensued we found the Elven
Archer was Charisma a friend of Clives and by proxy Ellys. She
thought that we were Micheal's men since we were about to walk
into one of his boarder camps with Elly. Charisma was kind enough
to take us through a route that will take the Party into East
Cameron without being found by Micheal's Patrols.
Micheal's Small Boarder Camp
I just know the location of this small camp where I was told
that Micheal uses for his patrols in the forest. Charisma said
that about a hundred people are there with some gone away on
patrols. She also said that Micheal has a half dozen other camps
around the forest with similar purposes.
The Haunted Temple of Morbis
This town saw a battle back during the Mage War and its reminents
still show with stained blood on the walls and broken weapons
littering the ground. In this town there was a temple that still
had an occupant in it, though not alive. Morbis was his name
and he seemed to not understand the fact that he was dead and
incorporeal. Morbis somehow willed the temple to appear as it
once did and stood watch over 'his' Robe of Many Things.
The Swamp of Dispear
The Swamp of Dispear is called that because of what happened
in the town that it bordered back during the Mage War. Charisma
told us a story of when Darwin brought his army down from the
north and though the forest to get behind enemy lines while
routing out a few problem areas. Three armies clashed at this
city; Darwin's, The city's, and Logenous's (The Augustine Empire)
and during the ensuing battle Darwin charged straight into the
heart of the city to where he saw Logenous while the rest of
them took on the Green Dragon that the Bandits were using as
a weapon. Who, according to Charisma (hearsay from what Darwin
told her) was sitting on top of over a dozen barrels of the
newly imported Atmose Powder with a lit torch and an open barrel.
Darwin was only given a few seconds before he started to run
back past his party and out of the city as the ground rippled
and collapsed from the explosion of the Atmose.
East Cameron
Micheal tells nothing to his subbordinates or the ones that
we interrogated in Dunnealgate were too low on the food chain
to know anything. However there was one thing that we did find
out, apparently something is going to be happening in East Cameron
because they were told to stay away from that town. I don't
know specifically what is happening or where East Cameron is
but we do know where to travel and we should reach it in about
two days. If Micheal is there to promote his 'godhood' it is
my hope that we can stop him before he gets too powerful, but
the only thing that worries me is that we were warned that Micheal
feels himself to be indestructable and he doesn't even dress
up in armor.
UPDATE: East Cameron no longer exists, Micheal used some sort
of magical bomb to wipe this poor town of the face of Rul (planet's
name, pronounced 'Rule')
Micheal's Keep
The first time we were taken to Micheal's Keep was when Moray
captured the Party except for me. I tried a few of my tricks
but Moray had the upper hand since he had everyone else in my
Party in his possesion. For what I heard of Micheal this place
wasn't all that large and didn't seem it could hold the power
that Micheal was claiming to possess. It did, however, have
one of those Gates standing in the eastern side. That led me
to believe that was the reason behind Micheals precesnce here.
Before he was able to do much harm to us that Dio character
broke into the Keep and activated the Gate. Since there was
really no other escape from Micheal we choose to go through
that Gate and ended up over six hundred miles to the west. Right
at the feet of Sebastian/Longinus we were almost killed until
Kevrin recognized us.
After the city of Miragon was attacked by Micheal's forces of
the hired goons Orin and Rose along with the dozen or so Bullettes
Sebatian said that he would help us get rid of the 'god' Micheal.
We were part of the priliminary forces along with Alminster
when we attacked Micheal's Keep again. It was disertered except
for Moray a dozen guards and two slightly broken clay golems.
I went directly for the source, Moray, but needed to head back
to help everyone else since the clay golems were beating the
crap out of them. I was able to hold my own as all of the spell
casters launched fireballs at Moray killing him. Too bad though,
because we needed him alive to find out where Micheal went to.
Charisma said that she knew some people who knew many things
in the forest and might be able to help them find where Micheal's
bast is located. We were soon joined by Sebastian and almost
two legions of soldiers who took over my new keep. It was unfortuniate
but we had to leave to travel to the Hullack elves city but
we were soon being tracked by Graven, Sebastian's greastest
tracker.
The Hullack Elves' Village
The Hullack Elves weren't too friend towards us to begin with
since they knocked all the none elves out with some sort of
spell the first time we met. It was understandable since we
found out that Micheal used some of his 'daisy cutters' on the
Elves village. The person Charisma came here to meet was an
elvish monk by the name of Shorin and they seemed to have some
sort of romantic history together. When those flying worm demons
attacked Shroin knew that they were called Skriglings which
made me believe that he knew a lot about demonology. If we were
to survive this invastion of several hundred of these creatures
then I will remember to ask him about it.
Shorin felt confident to tell another monk his basic knowledge
about the demons of this world and sat down in Shorin's home
to discuss it, "I may not know everything like those creatures
origins but I do know how to hurt them. Basically there are
two major factions of demons: The Baatezu and the Tan'ar'ri.
Even though the lesser and smaller demons are able to escape
into our plain the bigger and most dangerous ones are only able
to come here with some help on this side. As I have been told
each one of these factions has a master wizard who makes it
his goal to bring about their master's body into this realm.
Along with their master's blessing they recieve other dark abilities
from those demons like eternal life and a purpose. The Tan'ar'ri
have a mage known as Gail who attempted to Gate his demon master
to this realm well over a thousand years ago. However as I have
heard the one to fear is the lap-dog for the Baatezu a evil
and crazy wizard by the name of Garabaldi. He was responsible
to a very large war that overtake half of this continent (the
known world) in a battle about five hundred years ago. As I've
heard he was successful in gating the demon to this world after
he shifted the earth and converted the sky to darkness. Garabaldi
had a large number of undead creatures protecting his tower
preventing the army that encircled it from entering. But the
only reason that this land isn't in darkness is because, according
to stories, there was one person who attacked the creature by
himself by flying up the side of the tower where it was being
summoned. Every five hundred years or so Garabaldi or Gail are
able to amass enough power to try this again. For this reason,"
Shorin starts as he grips his arm, "I was trained to be
able to handle them or anything they might throw at us."
Shorin rolls up his sleaves to show Kai the tatoos that were
imprinted along every facit of his arm, "Because of an
unfortunate encounter with a Fire Hyrda I was given these,"
he says as he rolls up his other sleeve revealing his rippling
muscles. "I was told that they have more magic in them
then most swords and were created to best demons such at those.
That was why I was taught about demons and how to destroy them.
With these arms I'll be able to stop a demon like what happened
back then. But in these times it seems that demons are becomming
more prevalent in this world. Unless you were hiding in a cave
in the Talocian Mountains for the past fifty years you could
easily see the destruction that they are causing on the lands.
It seems from tonights encounter that they use the Gates to
travel through all around the world," finishing up Shorin
contemplates, "I wonder why they are showing themselves
so much more now then before but the fact remains that you can't
trust them."
Everyone knows about the Baatezu and the Tan'ar'ri but the wizard
Garabaldi I have only heard in legends since he was supposively
killed in 500cy (cy=common year). His body might have never
been found but he was only a human and humans don't live that
long not even with magiks. But to hear that their was a rise
is demons wondering these lands was a little disturbing to tell
the truth. I had better keep my eye out so I can slay them before
they can hurt anyone.
Micheal's Castle
The Party arrived at Micheal's Castle way ahead of Sebastian's
army. It has six corners with two dozen archer towers surrounding
the outside and inside of the twenty foot high walls. The drawbridge
sat wide open giving a clear indication that Micheal had set
a trap. The two hundred soldiers that were sent after us were
taken down pretty easily with Longinus killing almost eighty
of them with some sort of aura of death he had around himself.
After the archers and spell casters had their way with them
I was able to take down almost twenty. But, that wasn't the
hardest challenge because Micheal made his appearance. When
Sebastian/Longinus jumped up to attack Micheal from above with
a slay living spell the attack was intercepted by a shield golem.
This shield golem even took critical damage from a high level
spell caster's disintigrate spell. I thought that a wizard such
as Sebastian would be able to do more damage then that given
what age I believe that he is which led me to believe that he
wasn't always a wizard and might have just been a soldier given
his fighting prowess that he had during this battle. At the
appearance of two more shield golems that came after us with
one turning invisible and the other slowing most of the people
in our group. As Sebastian dealt with one of the shield golems
and Micheal we had to deal with the other two, which was proving
to be difficult due to the high damage that they were causing.
By the time Sebastian destoryed the first shield golem Micheal
grabbled him and teleported them both a thousand feet above
the battle ground. This left us with the newely summoned Iron
Golem. The Iron Golem was immune to all weapons and all magic
save for only very enchanter weaponry. I don't know where he
got it but Clive was able to face it down along with the strange
gnome, Jonis.
When Sebastian stood up from being dropped to the ground Micheal
pulled out all of the stops. He pulled out the sword of Kusanagi,
a brass sword built of fire and forged in the efreeti City of
Brass, but I didn't know that at the time. Micheal launched
some 'rings of fire' at us making large explosions everywhere
until Sebastian slammed him through the chapel door. Micheal
had nothing left since I took out the shield golems and Clive
took out the Iron golem and finally summoned the Efreeti Kolos
from within the sword to attack us. I tumbled past that beast
and attacked Micheal directly. Although I was able to do enough
damage to break some of his bones I had been too hurt from my
battles earlier that I was taken down soon after. I was told
later that Myr was able to freeze Kolos to death and Sebastian
stopped Micheal from killing everyone just long enough for us
to escape. I don't know how many 'daisy cutters' were there
when they all finally detonated but it left a crater some three
hundred yards deep and over a thousand yards wide. I thought
that nothing had survived until I got to the rim of the crater
and saw Longinus fly out of the center and float over to the
side.
The Way Out of the Hullack Forest
After Sebastian and the Crimson Knights left the crater that
used to be Micheal's Castle we made camp for the night. While
resting we were met again by Shorin and some of his elves who
saw the explosion hours ealier. Shorin offered to lead us out
to the nearest human city and since we had no means of traveling
through the Gate or by Airship this seemed to be our only way.
Charisma said that she was going to leave our Party to help
Shorin help the Hullack elves out for awhile. Since Jonis was
able to 'Seal' the sword Kusanagi he placed it in his little
box for safe keeping and said that he had other places that
he needed to go to. The newley married couple Clive and Elly
will follow along with us until we get to Ceartree and part
ways soon after since they won't be returning with us to Harfein.
However, the one that I am still worried about is Sebastian,
also known as Longinus, who went back to the isolated Keep but
soon he will travel to more populated areas to continue his
experiments and to continue whatever plans that he had thought
of.
