(Where did you go?)

Training Grounds & Arena

(Who did you meet)
The party - Zapin, Hacker, Goldheart, Koolra-Kura

(What did you do?)

One was free today, so One found himself poring the available quests at the Adventurer's Hall. One found another training module, this time about hazardous terrains. The objective is to move from one end of the map to another. One actually learnt alot.

The first one was a windy desert terrain. Although one might think that a windy terrain was nothing more than a hindrance to movement, things can actually get quite dangerous once things start flying around, flown by the wind. That also includes yours truly and his teammates. At one point, there was also a worm monster trying to prevent our progress. It was rough, but with some teamwork, we were able to breeze through the map. Hacker in particular, made good use of the Expeditious Retreat spell.

The second one was a lava map. Koolra was feeling generous, and transformed into a horse to let One and Goldheart rode atop him. There were many small platforms on the lava to hop onto. However, there were also lava bubbles that might hurt one, if the jump timing was off. There were several mistrials, but luckily for One and One's teammates, the lava wasn't actually fatal. If one drops into the lava, we were simply revived back at where we started, and have to make the trek again. The monsters in this map appears to be some fire hydra.

One and One's party made it through, although we were worse for wear than when we started. Overall, it was a good teambuilding exercise!

=Where did you go=

Ah yes! The trials! This was a heart pumping set of challenges designed to test people new to the area to see if we are capable of making our own way through the dangerous environmental hazards one might find here.

Initially the group was thrust forth by the arena into a vicious wind that tried to push the party backwards! Of course, being so fast and such a good runner i was able to complete this part of the course not only first, but then i had time to go back and help the others as they had all gone the wrong way or something and needed a bit of assistance. I almost lost my 2 best ropes too. And a sack.. but it wasn't a real sack i suppose so maybe that doesn't matter.

Then we went on do to this kind of underground lava pit thing almost like we were plumbers in a sewer, but we bound our fates together like a group of plumber brothers and leapt over the lava from stone to stone all while avoiding bouncing balls of flame and fire hydras that normally would have burned us all alive but this time we were able to restart the arena when we failed so that was nice.

=Who did you meet=

The group of us was Zapin, another artificer like me, a human, but not from Earth, and 2 warforged, Kool-Kura, a Druid, and Goldheart, a Paladin.

=What happened=

Ah yes, i've done it again, these journals i keep i must remember to write them in the right order.

-- Hacker