Phulleigh Dotfive's Journal
Game date:  6 Mavis-1 Octav, 1008
(Real world date:  September 3, 2022)
Day 44 of the Xterminators
6 Mavis, 6:30 AM
Turns out the insects (Ankhegs) weren't as tough as I thought they'd be.  Sir Brannard killed one all by himself.  The rest of us killed the other three and one stayed buried.  We didn't stay long enough to find out as we were all tired and ready to get back to the ranch.
When we got back to town, the Constable Gotfried got up from his chair and welcomed us back.  While he talked and talked and talked, Sir Brannard walked down the road to speak to three (Deputies?) men.  They shook hands and start talking, but I couldn't hear them over Gotfried's southern drawl.  On our way out of town, Sir Brannard invited his friends to visit him at the ranch.
When we arrived at the ranch, a farm hand with three dogs rode up.  He ran up to Sherlyn and gave her a hug.  She said, "Stay here while I go and speak to mother.  I'll send out Betty with refreshments."  Half an hour later, Sherlyn and her mother Karolyn came out, both red eyed.  We did our best to tell her about our trek, but she cut us off and asked, "What of my son?"  Garreck simply held out a signet ring.  Gourney the half-orc took Xaltor off the horse and put him "on ice" in something he called the cold room.  Dispite the bitter sweet reception, Karolyn invited us to stay the night in their guest quarters so she could hear more about our journey.  We told her that we would consider it, but by Garreck's expression, I knew we'd be teleporting soon after he exhausted the meade barrel.  We took the liberty of swimming in the lake behind the main house.  Everyone except WizRWe who said she would wait for a proper bath (I didn't take her for the shy type).
That evening, we ate for what seemed like hours.  Spence and I ate our share of fish and bread, rice and Pheasant and grilled vegetables.  For dessert we ate pear ice cream.  Taggert's portrait sat at the end of the table, where in the chair next to it sat Xaltor's heavy shield.  Mean while, Karolyn had sent for their healer to tend to our wounds.  At the end of the feast, we were brought a huge chest.  Eight-two pounds with thirty-six hundred platinum.
At around eleven pm, we swallowed our teleportation pills and arrived at the forty foot circle in the basement of X's manor.  All of us dead tired, we simply went to our respective rooms and fell into our beds.
7 Mavis
The sweet smell of bacon woke us up.  After breakfast we went to the Beacon in order to have one of the priests cast speak with dead.  That way we could speak to Xaltor to make sure he wanted to be raised back to life.  But when we spoke to him, he said he didn't care what we did with his stuff And he chose to be burned instead of buried.  That was unexpected.  I almost started to argue with him, but I remembered that Vern said this wasn't actually him, but just a spirit.
8 Mavis
Dinner with Kosha sending her off back to her husband and kittens.
9 Mavis
It took us almost three days to sell off all of the treasure.  We each earned seven thousand, eight hundred and forty-one gold after training costs.  I am able to purchase a magical sling staff of resizing.
That evening we meet our newest member, a human female Paladin.  Garreck says she is some kind of holy warrior that can detect evil.  Her name is Evil Lynn.  She has long auburn hair to her waist and was dressed in a chain shirt with a broad sword on her left and a long sword on her right.  She was also carrying a long bow and quiver.  Vern noticed a sunburst holy symbol and welcomed her with smile and a pat on her shoulder.  We took her in the back to spar to see if she could hold her own.  In the process she cut my hand (on purpose?).  I was about to protest, but she immediately healed it good as new.  That could be handy (pun intended).  We all agreed to hire her and she signed the accordium thing.
During breakfast, Garreck reveals some information about his hammer.  He asked us to help him find a priest of Abathor in order to awaken it.  And that a secret shrine might be found in the cemetary.  So around eleven am we trecked into town and searched the cemetary.  Amazingly enough we found a secret entrance that went underground.  The shrine was completely destroyed, all except a stone altar.  Evil Lynn said it radiated evil, so Garreck threw the hammer at it.  Not a good idea because as soon as it hit, it exploded in a wave of energy that damaged everyone within fifteen feet.  When we got back to the manor, Lingus brought us back behind the barn to show us a carriage he said he made for us.  He asked us to name it.  Spencer said it should be called the Xodus and everyone agreed.
11 Mavis
Training begins.
20 Mavis
Lingus cristens the Xodus in some strange ceremony.
23 Mavis
We pick up four pair of Dastana from the armor shop.
6 Junta
X got back to the manor and asked us to join him.  He introduced a human named Carlin Harikon who went on to explain our next adventure.  He said he has a brother, Scott Harikin whom is a commander that protects caravans.  There is a man named Randal Mourne that is battling against an evil group called the Zentarim.  During the conversation, X spread out a big map.  Carlin says that Zenthil Keep is next to the Moon Sea and full of priests and mages of Cyric (Vern said that is bad).  Mourne and Harikon are from Dagger Dale and Randal has been missing for about three months (since Febulus).  They learned about a crypt that had a special item and X wants us to go to Daggerdale/Shadowdale where we are to meet with Leho who is the great mage Elminster's scribe.  We're to go to the Old Skull Inn and wait.  We don't want the Zentarim to know we are working for Elminster tower though.  The reward is only known by Elinster and his scribe.  As soon as we are done with training, we will head out.
20 Junta
X tells Garreck that Malagar was awoken by the conflict with Abathor.  Barrenor Truesilver who is a medium Lawful Good diety that hates Abathor.  He also mentioned something about Moradin's bride.  Not sure if this Barrenor is fighting with Abathor or if he is in the hammer now or what.  I didn't want to interrupt X, but I'm sure I heard the hammer is awake now, whatever that means.
2 Jularva
We went to the market and purchased three potions of paralysis (or cures for it?).  On the way back to the manor we stopped at building 301 to see if Garreck could sell some of the weapons he'd been making.  We also stopped off at the lawyer's office and found out that the owner of a home had accepted the offer of two hundred and ten gold.  Now Kosha has a home of her own.  We were all late back from training.
10 Jularva
Training ends.
4 Augat
I buy two masterwork throwing knives from Garreck.  We stop at building 349 and purchast a riding dog for Trust and Garreck.  The dogs are called Bristle Cone, a female St. Bernard, that looks like she could be Spencer's sister.  Trust's new dog is called High Flyer and he's a little bigger than Bristle Cone, but much smaller than Spencer.
1 Octav
We loaded up the Xodus and finally after months and months head out towards this new land called Daggerdale around eleven am.  Sammy and I were driver's seat controlling the six light war horses that were pulling the fifteen hundred pound carriage (or maybe that's how much Lingus said it could carry).  Around six pm, we see a fire up ahead of us.  Garreck and Trust moved ahead to scout.  When they came back, they told us there were two caravans of traders that seemed friendly.  We asked to join them and they said that if we shared our meade, they would share their dinner.  About an hour after we ate, Vern said he heard something coming through the stream, which is about sixty feet North of us.  We send the dogs to gaurd the horses and fan out.  Will this be our first fight of the new adventure?  Mielikki, keep our animals safe.