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Through the Roots of Yggdrasil
Decapus defeated, the vine blights seem to have disappeared. Svenya noticed that the plants around it in the greenhouse had revived and regained a bit of their color, while the roots leading to the decapus's nest had withered... Perhaps it was siphoning their energy to feed its minions?
Carmilla uses a tentacle of the decapus, a buyllywug tongue, and a dead blight to make a very strange, yet quite effective splint for Jormund, and we take the last of the people hiding from the monsters over to the tavern, where Mimyr thanks us by giving us a variety of interesting items. I took a potion that might come in handy if I ever need to cross some difficult ice or snow, but by far the best of them was a green crystal, much like the ones in the center of the tree, which can be used to travel through the roots of Yggdrasil to any tree born of it's seed, so long as we know the proper rune to connect to it. As of now, it lets us travel between the Treehouses and Braudavik in an instant, whenever we like, and with luck we'll soon enough be able to travel many leagues further with it.
I asked Clarifa if she could decipher what the Chanters - who I now know are a group called The Eye That Sleeps - were doing with their astrological equipment, and she said that it seems they were not only making a map with the stars, but a map INTO the stars. The reason they had been focused so heavily on Vruas may have been that they intended to travel right to it! Yet, is such a thing even possible? Would the gods allow someone to simply walk into their realm? And what could their purpose in it be?
While Svenya and Gorm stay at the Treehouses for the time being, the rest of us return through the portal to sleep in our own beds tonight. But before we take our rest we go to the longhouse and tell our tale the remnants of those feasting, though my storytelling really can't compare with Svenya's. We weren't the only ones back though; Magnus and co. had returned with a new guy called Ærinmund Skurfasson and a half-lizardfolk prisoner called Ikersess. They seem to be in quite a heated discussion, and for good reason: it turns out that the reason the lizardfolk were encroaching on our hunting grounds is that three massive dragons had settled themselves near the lizardfolk's home, and were extorting from them more food than they could possibly hunt on their own territory. This puts all of us in quite a pickle, as the lizardfolk can't simply refuse a triad of dragons, and we can't simply drive off the lizardfolk, as the dragons would only come after us next.
We saved a village and slew a monster, and thus concludes our first real excursion. With the looming threat of dragons on the horizon, and the mystery of The Eye That Sleeps, whatever may come, I feel that our future is full of promise and adventure.
Continue reading...
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Ulfhild Killed a Troll!
Khalday, 6th of Lori, 512 EC
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Planning a Monster Hunt
Khalday, 6th of Lori, 522 EC
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The Mushroom Men
Devday, 7th of Lori, 522 E.C.
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Defending the Grung
Devday, 7th of Lori, 522 E.C.
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Into the Treehouses
Devday, 7th of Lori, 522 E.C.
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Twigblight Trimming
Devday, 7th of Lori, 522 E.C.
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Decapus Decimation
Devday, 7th of Lori, 522 E.C.
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Through the Roots of Yggdrasil
Devday, 7th of Lori, 522 E.C.
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Ever Further We Must Venture
Devday, 17th of Junal, 522 E.C.
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The Infected Graveyard
Gucsday, 19th of Junal, 522 E.C.
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Carmilla's Pets Just Keep Dying
Kronday, 22nd of Junal, 522 E.C.
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The Valkyrie
Draday, 24th of Junal, 522 E.C.
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A Friend and a Fiend of Fire
Kaiday, 25th of Junal, 522 E.C.
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Finding Fugitives
Wilsday, 30th of Junal, 522 E.C.
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The Majesty of Nature
Cothsday, 31st of Junal, 522 E.C.
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Freyja's Throne
Kronday, 32nd of Junal, 522 E.C.
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A Scrape With Death
Draday, 2nd of Toby, 522 E.C.
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A Dally with Dragons
Loriday, 6th of Tobi, 522 E.C.
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Ready for Anything
Wilsday, 14th of Indra, 522 E.C.
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Kobold Forest
Cothsday, 15th of Indra, 522 E.C.
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Cowardly Giant
Cothsday, 15th of Indra, 522 E.C.
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Bigger Giant, Harder Fall
Cothsday, 15th of Indra, 522 E.C.
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Gates of the Gods
Kronday, 16th of Indra, 522 E.C.
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Al Hazir
Kronday, 16th of Indra, 522 E.C.
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Tentacles
Kronday, 16th of Indra, 522 E.C.
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The Journal Entry’s title
Khalday, 6th of Lori, 512 EC
Khalday, 6th of Lori, 522 EC
Devday, 7th of Lori, 522 E.C.
Devday, 7th of Lori, 522 E.C.
Devday, 7th of Lori, 522 E.C.
Devday, 7th of Lori, 522 E.C.
Devday, 7th of Lori, 522 E.C.
Devday, 7th of Lori, 522 E.C.
Devday, 17th of Junal, 522 E.C.
Gucsday, 19th of Junal, 522 E.C.
Kronday, 22nd of Junal, 522 E.C.
Draday, 24th of Junal, 522 E.C.
Kaiday, 25th of Junal, 522 E.C.
Wilsday, 30th of Junal, 522 E.C.
Cothsday, 31st of Junal, 522 E.C.
Kronday, 32nd of Junal, 522 E.C.
Draday, 2nd of Toby, 522 E.C.
Loriday, 6th of Tobi, 522 E.C.
Wilsday, 14th of Indra, 522 E.C.
Cothsday, 15th of Indra, 522 E.C.
Cothsday, 15th of Indra, 522 E.C.
Cothsday, 15th of Indra, 522 E.C.
Kronday, 16th of Indra, 522 E.C.
Kronday, 16th of Indra, 522 E.C.
Kronday, 16th of Indra, 522 E.C.
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