Somber Michael Report

General Summary

From the Journal of Islanis        Zanoti encounters a horse outside of the cave. She doesn't know how she got there because she has been asleep for a while and was dreaming. There is lightning flashing everywhere but no rain. The horse is scared so she tries to calm it down, but the animal is not happy. She brings the horse into the cave with her for shelter. After looking around, she finds the room with weird creepy stuff and encounters Michael reading a book. When she says hello, he gets very startled and starts shaking violently.      He tells her who he is and points in the direction of his "friends." She goes to introduce herself, but nobody answers when she knocks at the tent. So she enters and finds herself in a very large space. She sees some dirty dishes, but not many. Hungry, she searches for food, and is surprised to find a decent amount of food items, including a small cold cupboard. She grabs some food and goes to the table to eat. Islanis smells something bland and it causes her to wake up. She gets up to investigate and ends up wandering around her bedroom for 35 minutes before running into the door.      Zanoti hears a thump from one of the doors. The thump causes Sapphire to wake up. She jumps up and runs quickly to Islanis, but accidentally slams into Islanis's closed door. Zanoti sees this and just watches while snacking. Islanis hears a noise on the others side of the door after she bangs into it. She opens the door to see what's going on. She discovers Sapphire on the otherside with a bloody nose. Islanis asks her if she's okay and what happened, like what she is doing. Sapphire apologizes for almost trying to tackle her. Islanis doesn't know that Sapphire was going to tackle her, but no one but Sapphire knew this. Sapphire apologizes for breaking Islanis's doorknob, but the magical tent repairs itself. Islanis looks past Sapphire and sees Zanoti. She has black hair, greenish-grayish skin, 6'4, very simple clothing, and is covered in flour. She gets Sapphire's attention and points to Zanoti. Sapphire sees her and asks her why she is eating their flour. Z- I knocked S-But why are you eating our flour? Z- Found your horse S- Okay. But why are you eating our flour? Where's the horse? Z- Right out there S- Okay. But why are you earing out flour? Z- I was hungry S - We could've made cookies. You owe me cookies. Zanoti stops eating the flour. S and Z proceed to argue about how Zanoti is going to go into town and but S cookies. Z-How tall are you? S - Tall enough to beat you.        Michael walks into the room reading a book and looking very tired. He drops to the floor, passed out, and starts snoring. Sapphire goes over to check on him and finds that he is passed out from 2 pts of exhaustion. She picks him up and puts him in his bed.       She sees that Zanoti left the door opened so she goes out to the room. Books and papers are strewn about the room and finds a spot where she can only assume Michael was sitting. She finds one door on the other side of the room slightly ajar. She goes over and closes it. She examines the books on the desk and finds what appears to be a journal that Michael found. it is written I the same language as the previous one, but there are a few pages that are written in a different language. After a few minutes of looking at it, it seems to be some kind of spell someone had been making, one that's purpose was to protect entire cities.       She goes back into the tent and tells the others about all the books that Michael has been reading and especially about the spell book. Zanoti has another handful of flour in her mouth and Sapphire grabs it from her hand, smacking her in the head with it. A flume of flour puffs onto Sapphire's face as she does so. Everyone lets Michael rest. Islanis goes to look at the books. The first book she finds is a book of runes with connected letters that go into a circle pattern ,as if the letters are the walls of that circle which form other circles inside the big circle. the big circle has intricate lines that extend all the ay up into the middle which form lots of symbols which she cannot make out. Based of of what it looked like he had been reading, it seemed to be important to him because h had delved 2/3 of the way into the very thick book. I and Sapphire head to the entrance of the cave while Zanoti stays inside and looks for more food. Islanis and Sapphire find that there is still a lightning storm going on. In the distance they see a figure that looks very strong.       they are wearing metal armor that arcs. It seems to be looking for something and looks in their direction. it strides forward a few feet closer to the cave. He comes closer a little more and then stops. Islanis and Sapphire hide. The figure stops and seems to notice something in the other direction. He follows in the other direction and the lightning seems to follow him. The lightning seems to lessen as he gets further away. The cabin that they had seen before has been burnt to the ground, only ashes and embers remaining.       Everyone ventures out of the cave. they go to investigate the cabin. Islanis finds a box among the ashes. Zanoti and Sapphire each find a platinum in the debris. Zanoti had no idea what's going on; she thinks she's dreaming. Islanis tries to unlock the box, but it doesn't work. Her bobby pins are very bent now. They go to find a floating bulb for Gretta, but they don't know where to go. So they go to Dunkel Stadt to talk to the townspeople and get more information.   It takes about an hour to walk back to Dunkel Stadt. Islanis might as well be invisible, but S and Z trip over a log and end up in a patch of shriekers. The shriekers start screaming very loudly. Boom boom boom boom! A giant bear like beast wheilding a maul with spikes on it. roars out loud. It sees the two S and Z and goes in to strike for an attack. The bear attempts to take a swipe at S. She stands up and tries to hit it with her shortsword. It just hits. Z goes in for the hit with her quarterstaff and makes an impact. The bear attacks Sapphire with a natural 20. It swipes her with its Morningstar for 14 pts of damage. It tries to hit her again but misses. I tries to lunge at the bear with her javelin but misses horribly. It barely misses Z and I feels bad. After attempting to hit the bear, she moves to stand right behind it. Sapphire tries to hit the bear with her shortsword again. She roolls 18 with 10 damage. Z uses her quarterstaff to attack the bear. She gets 19 hits with 5 pts of damage. The bear makes an ugly noise and blood starts to come out of its nose. The bear is infuriated by its bloody nose. it tries to attack z with a natural 1 but misses. It swings back to strike Z in the head with a natural 3 which does not hit and ends up hitting a tree instead. Two trees have been mortally wounded in the assault. I goes in for the plunge with 13 hit points. She misses. It just barely grazes the bear's fur. 5 shrooms are still shrieking and the bear is enraged. S hits the bear with her shortsword (17 hitpoints, 5 damage). Z uses her quarterstaff to attack the bear (18 hitpoints, 10 damage). She then strikes unarmed. The bear is very very bloodied and does not look good at all. Thre of the shrieking shroom blow up and transform into three different sized shrooms with tentacles that swing out from their tops. The tentacles are pointed kinda like a pine tree but are purple and look like flames. They are violet fungus. They are each about 6 ft tall by 3 or 4 ft wide. One of the fungus tries to attack S, but misses. I tries to attack the bug bear but misses. AGAIN. Fail. One of the fungi attacks Zanoti 3 times. It hits the first time. It pierces Zanoti with 4 points of necrotic damage. It tries to attack her two more times, but misses. S attempts to hurt the bug bear but it doesn't work. Z's turn. She hits with 18 hit points and 9 pts damage. SHe hits it in the back of the head with her quarterstaff and it tumbles face first onto the ground. As it falls, it barely glances onto a fungi, doing no damage. Z goes for one of the fungi and does damage. One of the fungi tries to attack S, but misses. It tries to attack Z 3 times. 1st attack - 8 pts of necrotic damage. 2nd and 3rd attack missed. I hits a fungi with her javelin and it barely hits.The fungues next to sapphire attacks S. The first and second attack miss Sapphire. S hits the fungus to her left with her shortsword (13 hitpoints, 6 damage). S's sword goes in for a strike and carves out half of the fungus, but it is still standing. Z uses her quarterstaff again to attack the fungus. She finishes cleaving it down to the ground after that significant attack (23 hitpoints, 11 damage). It dies. Z attacks the fungus to Sapphire's right. She does two unarmed strikes. 1st attack - 12, 7 damage. 2nd attack - 14, 6 damage. As Z goes in for the second attack, she punches through the fungus ,leaving it hollow but still standing. The violet fungus closest to I attacks I 4 times. All four attacks miss. The piercing tentacles reach out but miss all sides of her. I attacks it with her javelin after retrieving it (15 hitpoints, 8 damage). One of the fungi lashes out against Z and S. First attack-2 pts of necrotic damage. 2nd attack misses. Both attacks on Z miss her. S tries to hit the one that is dying and it hits (9 hits, 6 damage). She slices it in half from top to bottom. It dies. Now there is only one violet fungus left. Z uses her quarterstaff to attack it and hits it with 8 pts of damage. Unarmored attack - 11 hitpoints. SHe hits it and it slowly deflates like a balloon, dead.    Suddenly everyone is in the middle of Dunkelstadt. The children are both sleeping in the cart, dead-tired, so they didn't see or hear any of the bloody carnage. They all decide to go to the Cafe & Gasthaus. Z sees a man with gold fashionable glasses and silver hair. He is in a chair, reading. There are empty glasses and bottles everywhere. Sapphire and I, it is good to see you again. How fare ou and your travels? And I see we have a new lady to this part. Would you like to tell me your name, I pray you. "Zanoti" Welcome to dunkelstadt, z. Can I get you something to drink? Yes please. What would you like? I think rum sounds good. SOmething to wash down all that flour. What kind of rum would you like? Peach or strawberry? Just plain old rum. He retrieves a rather large bottle and pours the rum into it. S asks for water. He puts a weird looking fruit out onto the counter for her. She tells him she doesn't want it and he tells her he can have it from free anyway. It's on the house. I asks for water, too, and happily accepts the lemon looking fruit. He kindly lets it be on the house. I smells how nasty the water smells so she squeezes some of the fruit into the water to combat the taste. S drinks the water as is. the taste of the fruit is similar to that of a strawberry starburst, without all the sugar. She likes it. It makes the water quite tolerable. The fruit came from some trees out in the forest. Xenaxsis doesn't know how it grows. We ask for a bed. There are two rooms left. One of them has three beds. And two beds in the other room. Each have 100 gold. Z kindly pays the 5 silver for the rooms. Sapphire sleeps with the kids and Z and I sleep in the other room together. Take the effects of a full night's rest.