Dino Virtus Journal
A journal of personal value to Dino Virtus which contains many entries and letters, found in the Virtus Office on the desk.
Dino Virtus Journal
3rd Quad of Raqalam, 818 AF I am starting this journal on the same day I have received word that I have been accepted into the research group that will be studying a Daxon ruin and hopeful others as well. I am off to Velizma to meet my other members of the group, I will be traveling by carriage.
3rd Kisla of Raqalam, 818 AF I have arrived at Velizma and the ruins are a little ways away so we will leave in the morning. I have meet a few of my colleges and by far Liga is my favorite, and I think that Ionza will be my rival here. Although she seem to make rivals with any of the male members and friends with the female members. Jacob is kind of the silent type but perhaps it is just nerves. Not much to say about the other yet and one member has yet to arrive.
4th Imparus of Raqalam, 818 AF Its been nothing but work for a bit now, but we have managed to open every door to the 13 rooms found. Its a good thing that Jacob knows absorb elements or he would have been toasted by that fire elemental. The smell of rotten wood is already getting to me, I am defiantly requesting that the boards be replaced. We have agreed to put filing cabinets in the first room past the hallway with three doors (better name should be proposed).
4th Kisla of Raqalam, 818 AF We had a nice round table night we all went around talking about our different spells we like and how we cast differently. This lead to some good and some heated debates about magic but ultimately share of some notes was had. Curiously none of us are a member of Awaken Tower and I wonder if it has something to do with keeping this under wraps.
4th Po of Raqalam, 818 AF We can read the words on the keys easy enough with comprehend language but full sentences does pose a challenge. The spell told us the individual words but not how to order them or if meaning has been lost. We are going to have to use some process of elimination.
2nd Gava of Brita, 818 AF We finally did it, solved it on Sunstik no less. We can't keep solving things by trial and error relying on our comprehend languages. We have asked our benefactors if we could go to some of the other Daxon ruins in search of more language. If we can crack how it works we might be able to do things much faster. We also during this long gap in entries discussed brining some of apprentices into the fold to help give an extra hand.
3rd Po of Brita, 818 AF We have approval to go to the city of Mineshny and explore the Bedrock Mines. We have decided that as a group we should call ourselves Ninth Energy and we each have a signature. We decided it be best not to send everyone to the mines so that we can maybe make some progress on restoration efforts. I was one of the member that was chosen to go, unfortunately my friend Liga is going to stay behind and my arch nemesis Ionza is coming with me.
2nd Kisla of Zista, 818 AF Arrived in Mineshny and staying at some cheep inn. One of the few saving graces is that my daughter accepted being one of my apprentices and has arrived here as well. I have heard from Liga that the restorations are going well and requested we ask for chefs and cleaners, the less time we can spend maintaining that place the better.
3rd Jeta of Zista, 818 AF We made great progress here in Bedrock Mines but I believe we have now hit some kind of wall literally and figuratively speaking. We can't go deeper into the mine until we mine it out. So that means using magic to help recruit new miners and help them to work faster. This is what my many years of magic knowledge have helped me to do? I have requested the other apprentices travel to us for a few weeks to dig the mines out faster.
5th Po of Zista - 2nd Ofil of Faffit, 818 AF Going to condense the mining of this place into one entry and just update it regularly. Now that the fellow apprentices are here as well as Cersho and Leo we can really get stuff done. It will be good to catch up with my son again after so long. We found a structure but can't access it yet until we have fully excavate it. We finally have gotten far enough to go back to our study of this place. I have been in discussion with the other members of Ninth Energy and we have some ideas about what is in here.
2nd Cas of Faffit, 818 AF I think I am starting to understand this language more, it just sort of clicked one day. We found some sort of vehicle under the mines and I feel like I can hear it speaking to me. Another possibility is I am going completely insane. I am going to wait to tell the others. Leo and Dethrik have been getting closer as friends and I am not sure what to make of it as of right now.
3rd Po of Faffit, 818 AF I did a lot of heavy lifting on the cracking of the T.R.A.I.N, luckily even with the knowledge I had it was still difficult. This sold the idea I still don't know what I am talking about. I think that once I can teach someone else the language it would make more sense to tell them and right now it just comes to me. We are going to take the vehicle to the Daxon Ruins and continue exploring this language.
2nd Cas of Eda, 818 AF Haven't seen these pages in a while, been really busy with the ruins. We found some strange items in the ruins that are bring brought back for study to the vault. Unfortunately I will have to leave the red crystal in the mines once we get back there and the purple crystal will remain in the T.R.A.I.N for now so that we don't strand the research team there.
3rd Gava of Eda, 818 AF Arrived back at the mines and with the new information about the Puzzlex being found at the ruins we are going to be splitting up. Raven, Leo, Dethrik and Ionza are going into the Underdark to search for more information, we need a people all over says Ionza. I don't trust that vial woman, especially with my children, but I can't baby them forever.
1st Imparus of Yolisis, 819 AF Back at the vault and I have missed a few updates. Liga is studying some rock samples which she desperately needed my help with. Also our benefactors have asked us to setup locations outside the vault to have fall back points some time this year.
2nd Quad of Yolisis, 819 AF Lots of reports, messages later we have found the Puzzlex supposed location. Liga was chosen to go collect a sample and I am going to miss her. In other news I was chosen to have the vault as my base.
1st Kisla of Norfis, 819 AF I have requested some more furniture and my wife will be joining me here off and on. Raven and Liga are both traveling and until they get the devices I found that help with communicating its going to be a while before I hear from them. Leo has taken a liking to Ionza in a way I don't approve and that's all I will say about that. Back to filing these reports.
1st Po of Tard, 819 AF My wife read my journal and was jealous of the relationship I formed with Liga. So the gap in time here was to let things cool off, as it was already making my job harder. I proposed a new experiment that involved my wife getting pregnant to smooth things over a bit more. There has been whispers in the wind about this location, our cover isn't helping any more. This has the benefactors thinking hard about potential solutions.
3rd Jeta of Sanif, 819 AF She's dead, dead, She's dead, DEAD, there both dead, dead, dead, dead, dead how why the gods FUCK THEM (dried tears dot this page)
1st Ofil of Brita, 819 AF I took some time to grieve and it sound like Raven did too, Leo didn't even react to the news. He is so like her, I don't know if I can even look at him any more without thinking of her. (A sketch of Daisy Virtus sits bellow this entry coved in dried tears, and on the next page starts the next sentence.) My benefactors are egger to see this experiment I proposed started back up. Bunch of gold hoarding dragons. I am going to wait for Liga's return before purposing a new experiment.
3rd Po of Zista, 819 AF I have asked Leo to go check on Raven, she hasn't been responding to letters recently. I managed to convince the benefactors to hold of the experiment until we have dug more into these strange pod devices and other thing in the vault. We just don't know enough about these symbols the Daxon use.
1st Kisla of Yolisis, 820 AF Leo has finally convinced Raven to get out of the new mansion that is under the Virtus name the Monarch Moth just gave to the family. We have made great progress on all the projects we want to study but there have been talk of war from the benefactors.
1st Lis of Sanif, 820 AF This war is starting to get to me, Liga has to go to her base in Serena Alliance. All members are going to be locked to their location except the apprentice who can be our runners. Raven is talking to the Monarch about starting a group to be able to potentially defeat this creature at the First Door. Leo has put in a application to be on the Council of Peace which has the benefactor's very happy, not so much for me. The benefactors want me to make weapons so I am going to put all other projects on hold ... again.
2nd Kisla of Zista, 820 AF I finally have gotten approval for a project I want to work on, fixing and restoring the Clockwork Forged Daxon. With the benefactors satisfied with the weapons I convinced them we might be able to control this creature and send it into battle. I suspect this was a lie but honestly until I activate the creature I have no way of knowing.
2nd Gava of Eda, 820 AF Raven has found some friends and formed some group called the Knighted Moths. Leo is busy being the new council of peace member and hasn't spoken to me in a few months. All the other members of the Ninth Energy are busy with personal side projects or still trying to get their base of operations up and running. I have decided to stop sleeping in a tent on the surface and go back to the room I have inside. All of Daisy's stuff is still in that room, and I think I will keep it that way.
3rd Ofil of Tard, 821 AF The Tabaxi and Githet still remain in their pods and our benefactors want us to study the long lasting effects of remaining in the blue liquid. I pointed out how we would have to let them out and compare to the other creature in these pods. That would involve waking them up which was to much of a risk, so the benefactors asked we device a way of monitoring their condition while still in the pod.
4th Cas of Raqalam, 821 AF The recent failed experiment almost killed quite a few of the members here. The benefactors will treat this place like a crime scene when they find out. Jacob was visiting for some updates and helped to contain the creatures and move some stasis liquid into the room to prevent them from escaping. Now he is going to go back to his base in the Bedrock Mines.
1st Imparus of Eda, 821 AF All the political theater is finally over and we can resume normal work soon. This will definitely push the patrons to focus more on the profit of war time weaponry then to continue any studies. So any projects from here on are going to have to be juggled into that.
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2nd Jeta of Tard, 851 AF Those dame blubbering idiot soldiers took so much of my life's work, our teams work. They just came in here and started redacting and burning documents and when I put up a fight, they burned some of the documents that where already redacted! 30 years of work, 30! (the second 30 in this entry takes up the remainder of the page. On the next page is more to this entry) This entire area is being evacuated but seeing as no one knows about this location I am going to see how long I can get away with squatting on the premises.
4th Hensa of Zista, 851 AF I have been successfully squatting here only leaving at close to dark and waiting for night fall to leave the area. Chef Ramsey and a maid Yoko have been hired by me directly to stay on the premises to help around the vault. I am going to put in an order for an Airship and get myself over to the Puzzlex. At least there I can continue some of this work. I am going to sending the red crystal and chunk of Bewitching Rock to Liga at least then it wont end up in hands of a government.
(There are more torn out pages before the next entry towards the end of the journal.)
3rd Lis of Norfis, 853 AF - ????? That fucker Ionza came to the vault and started taking things. We had a bit of an unprompted wizards duel and she sort of won when I surrendered by putting all my things into a secret chest spell which she toke. At one point one of my delayed blast fireballs had went off near the archived files and part of the reason she won is because I didn't want to lose all that work. She lorded that win over me and then took my personal journal off my office table and ripped out pages. She knew how much that hurt the first time and I suspect that's why she did it this time. I am going to rest from my wounds. That bitch locked us in, I have no components so my spell casting is limited to things that don't require a material component. The only teleporting spell I had prepped was plane shift so I am stuck here. I can't even cast dream to communicate with someone. Ionza is just being petty and probably camped out on the surface, she will dream or sending me and ask me to apologize before letting me out. Alright its been three days and I haven't heard anything from that bitch, she left us here to die. The liquid levels in the ritual room are concerning but I have gathered some of the liquid for an idea I had. I have moved one of the pods into the bunker with the liquid. Its been another week, all the food was starting to go bad so we made a large feast with what remained and started eating and drinking all the wine. Unfortunately the pig and some of the grain already has maggots in them. I remember we ate as much as we could I woke up in the pod rooms and looks like I set the pods to auto release the creatures inside to a random interval then locked myself out of the controls. I don't recall why I did this. Chef Ramsey insisted on continuing to eat the food when his stomach started to rumble despite it having gone terrible bad. He died today, got hit in the head by a rock when part of the ceiling started to collapse crawled under the table and just died. Yoko and I retreated to the other side of the vault, Yoko then wanted me to eat her body if she died. I told her I couldn't do that and then I woke up next to her dead corpse this morning. I tried to follow her wish I really did, I had all her ... meat ready to be salted and her bones stored in a pod. I got enough down to quell my stomach but I put the unpreserved meat into the pantry, I just can't do it. I am enacting the plan I started putting in place and I am going to put myself into stasis. I have disabled the timer so the only way out is for someone to open it manually. I really hope Liga comes looking for me.
3rd Kisla of Raqalam, 818 AF I have arrived at Velizma and the ruins are a little ways away so we will leave in the morning. I have meet a few of my colleges and by far Liga is my favorite, and I think that Ionza will be my rival here. Although she seem to make rivals with any of the male members and friends with the female members. Jacob is kind of the silent type but perhaps it is just nerves. Not much to say about the other yet and one member has yet to arrive.
4th Imparus of Raqalam, 818 AF Its been nothing but work for a bit now, but we have managed to open every door to the 13 rooms found. Its a good thing that Jacob knows absorb elements or he would have been toasted by that fire elemental. The smell of rotten wood is already getting to me, I am defiantly requesting that the boards be replaced. We have agreed to put filing cabinets in the first room past the hallway with three doors (better name should be proposed).
4th Kisla of Raqalam, 818 AF We had a nice round table night we all went around talking about our different spells we like and how we cast differently. This lead to some good and some heated debates about magic but ultimately share of some notes was had. Curiously none of us are a member of Awaken Tower and I wonder if it has something to do with keeping this under wraps.
4th Po of Raqalam, 818 AF We can read the words on the keys easy enough with comprehend language but full sentences does pose a challenge. The spell told us the individual words but not how to order them or if meaning has been lost. We are going to have to use some process of elimination.
2nd Gava of Brita, 818 AF We finally did it, solved it on Sunstik no less. We can't keep solving things by trial and error relying on our comprehend languages. We have asked our benefactors if we could go to some of the other Daxon ruins in search of more language. If we can crack how it works we might be able to do things much faster. We also during this long gap in entries discussed brining some of apprentices into the fold to help give an extra hand.
3rd Po of Brita, 818 AF We have approval to go to the city of Mineshny and explore the Bedrock Mines. We have decided that as a group we should call ourselves Ninth Energy and we each have a signature. We decided it be best not to send everyone to the mines so that we can maybe make some progress on restoration efforts. I was one of the member that was chosen to go, unfortunately my friend Liga is going to stay behind and my arch nemesis Ionza is coming with me.
2nd Kisla of Zista, 818 AF Arrived in Mineshny and staying at some cheep inn. One of the few saving graces is that my daughter accepted being one of my apprentices and has arrived here as well. I have heard from Liga that the restorations are going well and requested we ask for chefs and cleaners, the less time we can spend maintaining that place the better.
3rd Jeta of Zista, 818 AF We made great progress here in Bedrock Mines but I believe we have now hit some kind of wall literally and figuratively speaking. We can't go deeper into the mine until we mine it out. So that means using magic to help recruit new miners and help them to work faster. This is what my many years of magic knowledge have helped me to do? I have requested the other apprentices travel to us for a few weeks to dig the mines out faster.
5th Po of Zista - 2nd Ofil of Faffit, 818 AF Going to condense the mining of this place into one entry and just update it regularly. Now that the fellow apprentices are here as well as Cersho and Leo we can really get stuff done. It will be good to catch up with my son again after so long. We found a structure but can't access it yet until we have fully excavate it. We finally have gotten far enough to go back to our study of this place. I have been in discussion with the other members of Ninth Energy and we have some ideas about what is in here.
2nd Cas of Faffit, 818 AF I think I am starting to understand this language more, it just sort of clicked one day. We found some sort of vehicle under the mines and I feel like I can hear it speaking to me. Another possibility is I am going completely insane. I am going to wait to tell the others. Leo and Dethrik have been getting closer as friends and I am not sure what to make of it as of right now.
3rd Po of Faffit, 818 AF I did a lot of heavy lifting on the cracking of the T.R.A.I.N, luckily even with the knowledge I had it was still difficult. This sold the idea I still don't know what I am talking about. I think that once I can teach someone else the language it would make more sense to tell them and right now it just comes to me. We are going to take the vehicle to the Daxon Ruins and continue exploring this language.
2nd Cas of Eda, 818 AF Haven't seen these pages in a while, been really busy with the ruins. We found some strange items in the ruins that are bring brought back for study to the vault. Unfortunately I will have to leave the red crystal in the mines once we get back there and the purple crystal will remain in the T.R.A.I.N for now so that we don't strand the research team there.
3rd Gava of Eda, 818 AF Arrived back at the mines and with the new information about the Puzzlex being found at the ruins we are going to be splitting up. Raven, Leo, Dethrik and Ionza are going into the Underdark to search for more information, we need a people all over says Ionza. I don't trust that vial woman, especially with my children, but I can't baby them forever.
1st Imparus of Yolisis, 819 AF Back at the vault and I have missed a few updates. Liga is studying some rock samples which she desperately needed my help with. Also our benefactors have asked us to setup locations outside the vault to have fall back points some time this year.
2nd Quad of Yolisis, 819 AF Lots of reports, messages later we have found the Puzzlex supposed location. Liga was chosen to go collect a sample and I am going to miss her. In other news I was chosen to have the vault as my base.
1st Kisla of Norfis, 819 AF I have requested some more furniture and my wife will be joining me here off and on. Raven and Liga are both traveling and until they get the devices I found that help with communicating its going to be a while before I hear from them. Leo has taken a liking to Ionza in a way I don't approve and that's all I will say about that. Back to filing these reports.
1st Po of Tard, 819 AF My wife read my journal and was jealous of the relationship I formed with Liga. So the gap in time here was to let things cool off, as it was already making my job harder. I proposed a new experiment that involved my wife getting pregnant to smooth things over a bit more. There has been whispers in the wind about this location, our cover isn't helping any more. This has the benefactors thinking hard about potential solutions.
3rd Jeta of Sanif, 819 AF She's dead, dead, She's dead, DEAD, there both dead, dead, dead, dead, dead how why the gods FUCK THEM (dried tears dot this page)
1st Ofil of Brita, 819 AF I took some time to grieve and it sound like Raven did too, Leo didn't even react to the news. He is so like her, I don't know if I can even look at him any more without thinking of her. (A sketch of Daisy Virtus sits bellow this entry coved in dried tears, and on the next page starts the next sentence.) My benefactors are egger to see this experiment I proposed started back up. Bunch of gold hoarding dragons. I am going to wait for Liga's return before purposing a new experiment.
3rd Po of Zista, 819 AF I have asked Leo to go check on Raven, she hasn't been responding to letters recently. I managed to convince the benefactors to hold of the experiment until we have dug more into these strange pod devices and other thing in the vault. We just don't know enough about these symbols the Daxon use.
1st Kisla of Yolisis, 820 AF Leo has finally convinced Raven to get out of the new mansion that is under the Virtus name the Monarch Moth just gave to the family. We have made great progress on all the projects we want to study but there have been talk of war from the benefactors.
1st Lis of Sanif, 820 AF This war is starting to get to me, Liga has to go to her base in Serena Alliance. All members are going to be locked to their location except the apprentice who can be our runners. Raven is talking to the Monarch about starting a group to be able to potentially defeat this creature at the First Door. Leo has put in a application to be on the Council of Peace which has the benefactor's very happy, not so much for me. The benefactors want me to make weapons so I am going to put all other projects on hold ... again.
2nd Kisla of Zista, 820 AF I finally have gotten approval for a project I want to work on, fixing and restoring the Clockwork Forged Daxon. With the benefactors satisfied with the weapons I convinced them we might be able to control this creature and send it into battle. I suspect this was a lie but honestly until I activate the creature I have no way of knowing.
2nd Gava of Eda, 820 AF Raven has found some friends and formed some group called the Knighted Moths. Leo is busy being the new council of peace member and hasn't spoken to me in a few months. All the other members of the Ninth Energy are busy with personal side projects or still trying to get their base of operations up and running. I have decided to stop sleeping in a tent on the surface and go back to the room I have inside. All of Daisy's stuff is still in that room, and I think I will keep it that way.
3rd Ofil of Tard, 821 AF The Tabaxi and Githet still remain in their pods and our benefactors want us to study the long lasting effects of remaining in the blue liquid. I pointed out how we would have to let them out and compare to the other creature in these pods. That would involve waking them up which was to much of a risk, so the benefactors asked we device a way of monitoring their condition while still in the pod.
4th Cas of Raqalam, 821 AF The recent failed experiment almost killed quite a few of the members here. The benefactors will treat this place like a crime scene when they find out. Jacob was visiting for some updates and helped to contain the creatures and move some stasis liquid into the room to prevent them from escaping. Now he is going to go back to his base in the Bedrock Mines.
1st Imparus of Eda, 821 AF All the political theater is finally over and we can resume normal work soon. This will definitely push the patrons to focus more on the profit of war time weaponry then to continue any studies. So any projects from here on are going to have to be juggled into that.
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2nd Jeta of Tard, 851 AF Those dame blubbering idiot soldiers took so much of my life's work, our teams work. They just came in here and started redacting and burning documents and when I put up a fight, they burned some of the documents that where already redacted! 30 years of work, 30! (the second 30 in this entry takes up the remainder of the page. On the next page is more to this entry) This entire area is being evacuated but seeing as no one knows about this location I am going to see how long I can get away with squatting on the premises.
4th Hensa of Zista, 851 AF I have been successfully squatting here only leaving at close to dark and waiting for night fall to leave the area. Chef Ramsey and a maid Yoko have been hired by me directly to stay on the premises to help around the vault. I am going to put in an order for an Airship and get myself over to the Puzzlex. At least there I can continue some of this work. I am going to sending the red crystal and chunk of Bewitching Rock to Liga at least then it wont end up in hands of a government.
(There are more torn out pages before the next entry towards the end of the journal.)
3rd Lis of Norfis, 853 AF - ????? That fucker Ionza came to the vault and started taking things. We had a bit of an unprompted wizards duel and she sort of won when I surrendered by putting all my things into a secret chest spell which she toke. At one point one of my delayed blast fireballs had went off near the archived files and part of the reason she won is because I didn't want to lose all that work. She lorded that win over me and then took my personal journal off my office table and ripped out pages. She knew how much that hurt the first time and I suspect that's why she did it this time. I am going to rest from my wounds. That bitch locked us in, I have no components so my spell casting is limited to things that don't require a material component. The only teleporting spell I had prepped was plane shift so I am stuck here. I can't even cast dream to communicate with someone. Ionza is just being petty and probably camped out on the surface, she will dream or sending me and ask me to apologize before letting me out. Alright its been three days and I haven't heard anything from that bitch, she left us here to die. The liquid levels in the ritual room are concerning but I have gathered some of the liquid for an idea I had. I have moved one of the pods into the bunker with the liquid. Its been another week, all the food was starting to go bad so we made a large feast with what remained and started eating and drinking all the wine. Unfortunately the pig and some of the grain already has maggots in them. I remember we ate as much as we could I woke up in the pod rooms and looks like I set the pods to auto release the creatures inside to a random interval then locked myself out of the controls. I don't recall why I did this. Chef Ramsey insisted on continuing to eat the food when his stomach started to rumble despite it having gone terrible bad. He died today, got hit in the head by a rock when part of the ceiling started to collapse crawled under the table and just died. Yoko and I retreated to the other side of the vault, Yoko then wanted me to eat her body if she died. I told her I couldn't do that and then I woke up next to her dead corpse this morning. I tried to follow her wish I really did, I had all her ... meat ready to be salted and her bones stored in a pod. I got enough down to quell my stomach but I put the unpreserved meat into the pantry, I just can't do it. I am enacting the plan I started putting in place and I am going to put myself into stasis. I have disabled the timer so the only way out is for someone to open it manually. I really hope Liga comes looking for me.
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