April 23th
1932. INTO THE ZONE OF DEATH !
We resumed that five of the seven parts of the Moonwand we had found.
Yet there was no clue about the left two parts. We had found the Dreamstone
to the northwest, the Crincross to the north, the Lightpearl to the south,
the Spiralgem to the middlesouth and the Marbeye to the northeast. Only three
directions were left for the still missing parts. The southeastern seas were
unlikely to contain one of the parts, since there was Katloch, the city where
the Moonwand was needed for in order to get entrance to the Agyssium. We
combined, that one part had to be in the middlewest and the other one had
to be somewhere in Thardan's zone of death. That sounded logical since Thardan
wanted to be sure that the Moonwand could never ever be reassembled. We decided
first to ask some people that lived in the middlewest. But nobody knew anything.
Spectre Wood was much too big to search it rightaway.
To the south we found a memorial place with a strange statue of a lion. We
couldn't read the inscription. So we returned to Fainvil, where we hoped to
find a translator for ancient languages. In Megalon Tavern we picked up an
alchemist who had great wisdom of many languages. We returned to the stone
lion and read the inscription which was written in the language of the Ancient
Mages. It said that this lion could relieve cursed people. The inscription
included a warning which unfortunately had been made unreadable. We remembered
Lhorgon, the old beggar of Cassida. If we could bring him to the lion he
possibly could be relieved from his evil curse that once took his magic abilities
and made him a poor beggar. We returned to him but he couldn't go away from
the town's gate. Thardan's curse had bound him at the place. We felt very
sorry. And we were quite desperated. Nobody could tell us about the other
parts of the Moonwand. At least nobody in the western world. Only the Forbidden
Zone was likely to bring us new informations, so we thought. We remembered
the strange town that had been shown by the Gemstaff when we sailed the northern
seas. We decided to go there, hopefully that Mandrag's spell of neutralization
would work.
It did, otherwise we all had died. The eastern world was a ghastly place.
Only lost souls, ghosts, ghouls and evil mages lived there. In the mountains
we found a strange place made of water and stone. Artificial, there was no
doubt. Southeast to the place we found the small town which we had seen on
the map. "Mernoc" spelled a rusty old sign over the town's gate. We entered
and were immediately attacked by evil monsters.
They hurt us plenty. And we had to accept that our magical items were
almost useless against them. It was devastating. Toronar got killed and our
weapons respective our physical strength was insufficient to kill them. Only
by duping them in combination with some tactics spells we survived. We had
to flee the town at once. Simply spoken, we were too weak for this mess of
evil. So we decided to look around in the Forbidden Zone's wilderness and
then visit the Cassidian guilds in order to have increased our abilities.
To the east of Mernoc we found the town's graveyard. A large slab which was
the top of a mysterious crypt was in the middle of the graveyard. Unfortunately
the slab could not be moved manually.
Besides that nothing remarkable could be found in the wilderness, except
from Thardan's castle, which we of course only saw as a dark shadow from far.
Without the Moonwand it was of high danger to get too near the inner zone
of death. We returned to Cassida. Since the guilds opened in the evening,
we decided to have some sleep in order to be prepared for a hot night. In
the evening our friends Tadgia and Adiwiet welcomed us. They had followed
us to Cassida to take over the needless magical items from us. They also had
brought our ship to Cassida and prepared some suites in one of the Inns which
from now on became our home base. We went to a pub and had a nice meal together.
Adiwiet suggested to look for a mechanism that opened the slab of the graveyard
crypt. Tadgia mentioned that the mechanism possibly could be triggered from
somewhere inside the town. We promised to keep an eye on it once being in
Mernoc. The ladies went sleeping and we visited some guilds of the town.
Then we boarded the ship and set sails for Mernoc, which we called Doomstown
internally.
April 24th
1932. MERNOC DOOMSTOWN !
April 25th
1932. THE DAWN OF THE MOONWAND !
April 26th
1932. TRAINING AT KATLOCH BATTLEGROUNDS !
April 27th
1932. INTO THE LIVING CHAMBERS !
April 28th
1932. THE HEART OF STONE !
April 29th
1932. THE BIG TRIUMPH !
April 30th
1932. TRAPPED IN THE CASTLE CRYPT !
Mai 1th 1932.
FREEING THE MASTER OF ALL MAGES !
Mai 2th 1932.
A TRIP TO HELL !
Mai 3th 1932.
THE WITCH FROM HEAVEN !
Mai 4th 1932.
THE LAST STAND !
December 17th
1998. THE PRESENT DAY !
