HEY THERE PEOPLE! I DIED!

3 Kythorn, 1502 DR

Well, the Syndicate remains much the same as usual, though there have been some concerning developments.

Orlak is still around and clearly planning something. He has managed to gather a vast amount of power in a very short time and now has several powerful devils on his side.

The region around Parnast seems to be getting more chaotic as well. I don't particularly like the town, but at the same time, I fear they might be in danger.

Other than that, the Syndicate seems "normal." The area around it is perhaps a bit less dangerous, or at least I haven't heard anything that would make me think otherwise.

There has also been a steady stream of new arrivals. I may not have met them all, but the ones I have seem capable enough.

The New Ones I've Met

Theoden Brightshield — Human
I don't really know how to describe him. I guess... Yashir 2.0? For now.

Zaerius Morggoth — Shadar-kai
I assume he's a Raven Queen zealot.

Tova Sundara — Human
????????????????????????

Other than that, the rest of the Syndicate gang seems to be the same as always.

I'll update this as the month goes by.

— Surx

Chain Devil and Friends

Maybe I should start writing these right after the missions.

This one was simple: follow Zimbo, our beloved imp friend.

And so we did. Bri, Solia, Yashir, and I followed Zimbo. There wasn't much that happened during the trip, aside from some strange behavior from the group—and myself. I won't deny that I was acting a bit unusual, but I guess that's what happens when you die and get brought back to life.

As I was saying, the trip itself was normal; the people, not so much. We did run into a cyclops one night, but it was fairly easy work, so I'm not going to go into much detail about it.

When we arrived at the place where Zimbo was supposed to report back, we found a cave. Guarding it was a strange troll with faces all over its body. The fight wasn't too complicated. Aside from Yashir taking some heavy hits, we managed to kill it. After checking for loot, we threw its body down the mountain so that, if anyone came out of the cave, everything would look normal.

While we were discussing our next move, I decided to go inside and see what was there.

I know—not a great idea. But I'm still here, so...

Inside, I found three hobgoblins who looked far more organized than any goblinoids I'd seen before, some goblins, a few invisible imps, and a chain devil guy (a devil made of chains).

After gathering that information, I got back out. Before going in, we decided to take a short rest and patch ourselves up a bit before charging the cave.

Well, that didn't matter.

About eight minutes into our rest, a goblin and an imp came out. For some reason, Yashir decided to sneak up on them by climbing the mountain. They spotted him, and I only had enough time to kill the goblin before the imp managed to run back inside.

With all of that happening, we were forced to charge into the cave.

The fight was difficult. Honestly, I'd say the worst part was dealing with the hobgoblins.

In the end, we killed everyone except the chain guy. We knocked him unconscious and tried to interrogate him afterward.

It did not go well. Haha.

Death. Death comes for us all. BUT not when you have a very big and gorgeous orc dancing lady. Ha, suck it, Death.

Well, simple mission. The Seer gave me, Ivor, and Vincel the task of going to Sevenstones to find information about an axe and some ruins.

We traveled to the Spine of the World. There, we found a stone giant carving in the rocks. He was called the Whispering Stone, and he had six obelisks around him — stone giants meditating. We talked for a while, and he told us where the ruins were.

When we got to where the ruins were supposed to be, there was only a very dark and deep hole. The ruins had somehow sunk into the ground, but we had climber’s kits with us, so getting down wasn’t much trouble.

At the bottom, there was this massive room with a statue, and it had diamonds for eyes, so naturally I stole them. I stole most of the gems from all the statues. Well… the ones before I died, at least.

While exploring, there were a lot of giant carvings on the walls. I only remember one showing a wedding, and another very weird one about stone giant births.

Eventually, we found the ghost of a stone giant. He was friendly — actually the founder of the place, the one who built it all. We even agreed to help him finish it someday, though it’ll take a long time.

After that, we carried this pole all the way to the doors. Took us sooo much time. Oh right, the pole. There was this 15-foot-long, incredibly heavy pole that somehow made us stronger whenever we used it as a lever.

So we spent ages carrying it around to open the doors, because they were meant for giants and were ridiculously heavy.

We reached another statue. There was a magical trap, but sadly Ivor couldn’t dispel it, so I went ahead and triggered it manually. It reversed gravity, but I was fast enough to anchor myself and avoid falling upward.

After that, we carried the pole again to the other side of the ruin — which was massive, by the way. We opened another door, and inside was a room full of gems. We looked around just long enough for some of the gems to crack open and summon two elementals right next to us: an air elemental and a fire elemental.

We managed to kill the air one quickly, with only Ivor and Agrate taking any real damage from it. The fire one was trickier. Just being near it burned me. It landed some nasty punches, and then the bastard simply walked up to me and engulfed me in flames.

And that’s how I died.

The rest is foggy, and I didn’t really ask the others about it, but I assume they found the information about the axe we were looking for. Then, while heading to the exit, this massive statue thing attacked them. I don’t know exactly what happened there, but I think my ghost was around, and Vincel got killed too.

In the end, both me and Vincel were dead.

— Surx, The Undead

Weird fish people cult!

Fun mission on the open seas. Me, Yashir, Solia, Bri, and Shev went to the Cutlass because Captain Aurora needed us to investigate a dangerous storm island.

As we approached the island, the ship started rocking violently because of the storm, and Shev, a bunch of pirates, and the goat all got launched off the boat. Nobody died, so it wasn’t that bad.

After all that, we were sent in a small rowboat, but before reaching the island, there was this siren making a very poor attempt to lure us into a trap. Didn’t work. I saw through her bullshit instantly. She attacked anyway and called some of those fish freaks we always see in the Delimbiyr River.

Other than me getting charmed, paralyzed, and almost drowning, the fight was easy and we killed her.

Looking through the shipwreck nearby, we found a dead Dark Tide guy. He had a letter on him — basically him realizing the captain had doomed them and that following him had been the wrong choice.

We reached the island and started exploring. We found some weird berries and a strange flower trap where another Dark Tide guy had died. I volunteered to grab his bag and threw myself in there. The flowers were naturally a trap, of course. (I really need to stop throwing myself into places where I know I might die.)

He also had another letter, similar to the first one.

Then the forest itself started closing in on us. Yes, literally closing. So we had to run while dealing with a bunch of obstacles. We managed to escape and found a temple.

Inside, we fought a tree and three vine creatures. I killed two of the vine guys while the others dealt with the rest of the plants.

In the temple, there was a statue with gems for eyes. Shev got scared and left the temple while I was examining it. While doing that, I activated a trap, but managed to dodge out of the way. Yashir, on the other hand, got struck in the face by lightning.

Nothing too serious happened after that. We went deeper into the temple, Bri solved a puzzle, and beneath the temple we found a guy invoking a whirlpool using some crystals.

We killed him and his fish friends without much trouble. Well… the fish people kept throwing stuff at Solia, so I guess it was troublesome for her.

Weird whirlpool guy dead, fish People cult dealt with, and we returned home after saving the day.

22 Tarsakh, 1502 DR

its been a month im here, fun place this is, the people certainly are different everyone has their on little quirk and history.
The region seems chaotic, so many things try to kill you.
The missions are something else too, heard the other day some of the new guys stoped a ritual that would destroy the world, and me myself discovered a plot to revive a angry serpent god and stuff. well aint much to say for now, the plot is still on going and only time will say if they will do it

well since we talking about missions, Parnast, hate the place, the mayor or what ever Raggnar is, DONT GO THERE!

-surx