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Twisting Fate
Progression:
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Quests: Bad Tide Rising; Special Delivery; Big News, Small Package; Following
the Trail
* Mission: Blacktide Den
Wyrm
- 29 Jun 2007
I cannot help but wonder what is going on. First, the walking dead attack and
then Dehvad told us that there are strange demons attacking Kamadan through demonic
rifts. It seems as though our fight in Fahranur caused more chaos than we realized,
but I am at a loss as to why. There are Zaishen here now, fighters that guard
the battle isles. When we fought back the demons so many others were there to
aid our battle that there was little for me to do, other than to motivate the
fighters and keep people organized. After
the demons were destroyed, Kormir decided that the demons were more than we sunspears
could handle alone, so she left Elona to go enlist the aid of other countries.
In the meantime a new spearmarshal needed to be appointed, even if it was only
a temporary position. Kormir chose a man named Jerek, whom she had been appointed
spearmarshal in place of. In any case, we relay the message to him and then report
for our orders once he reaches the Sunspear Hall. A
young monk named Talhkora was talking to Jerek when we arrived. She needed babysitting,
we were elected. I dislike babysitting. She seems a bit eager to rush ahead, much
like Ginger. The girl leads us out to Mehtani Keys and runs us around the waters.
We run into a few Corsair so we kill them. They have some sort of map on them,
along with Kournan coins. This girl is starting to be credible; still not very
useful, though. While we are out here, I find a man willing to trade me a new
spear for some battle trophies I've kept. When
we return to Jerek, he is dismissive of the girl still and tells us to deal with
her. She leads us to Dohjok where we find more Corsairs guarding pieces of paper.
We kill them and take these pieces and they slowly form into a map. There is only
one piece left and as we are about to kill the final Corsair captain to take from
him, he offers to give it to us and have his aide help us decipher it. It will
reduce the headache I have from all this back and forth so we agree to his request. We
wind up in a swamp. This unwelcoming place looks... unwelcoming... Here, we run
into others that have chosen to live off the land, as we have, and so we decide
to team up with them in order to be a more formidable force. It is easy to recognize
those like us as we all wear armor that looks almost haphazard; we do not bother
making our armor shine or have it match our hair. In any case, Ginger and I now
have our forces strengthened by Kali, Uca, Lafeu, Wirr, and Zed. And Tahlkora,
who insisted on coming along. Our
goal was to impersonate corsairs and sneak our way through with the Kournans to
figure out what it was they were really after. Since we were already there, however,
we decided to kill two birds with one stone by taking care of a rinkhail population
issue, i.e. killing off a bunch of their healers. Things progressed smoothly and
our population control measures were easy. The Kournans didn't like when we would
take detours to smackdown rinkhail though. Kournans, at least the military, are
starting to annoy me. The
Kournan we're escorting to his secret meeting with General Kahyet talks a lot,
and is a coward. I wonder how many of the Kournan military are like this? Ginger
and Wirr seem to enjoy making fun of him at every opportunity. Those two are strange,
but this Kournan had it coming. We reach the location where Kahyet is supposed
to be, despite the failings of our "guide," and wait for her to show
up. After a few minutes, she does. She
is suspicious of us and upset that Ironfist, her corsair contact, didn't come
personally. Things seem like they might start taking a turn for the worse until
Tahlkora reveals her identity and speeds the process up. A lot. We only have one
thing left to do, which is to beat these two up. Peculiarly, Kahyet has some demons
with her that are exactly like ones that attacked Kamadan earlier. The fact that
this old hag is associated with those vile creatures is enough to make us go the
extra distance and kill her. In retrospect that might not have been the wisest
course of action, but it felt good. After
we kill Kahyet, we leave the swamp and head to the Sunspear Hall where we prepare
to tell Jerek everything that's happened. I'm not exactly sure how we're going
to explain all of this, but I'm pretty sure we can blame Tahlkora for most of
it.
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