Journal Entry 2

Ever since our encounter with the vampire lord and the Ex-Hero Vivian, I have been trying to get my wits together about the situation and what this means for us in my adventure ahead. After the princesses and the king recovered, Me, Alistair and Muse have been given freedom to explore the kingdom. Muse and Alistair travelled around the kingdom to see what they can find. I went ahead to check in on the princesses. I forgot to mention this in my previous journal but I met with Ariana's sister Azurath the 2nd princess of Goldwind. Also, before the attack, the king had given Ariana a cure to remove the curse I've been looking for in my adventure. Furthermore, when I came to check up on Ariana, she was fully cured from her curse as well as being human again. I was relived to see her fine as she recognize me, Alistair and Bromar from our adventures. Although I had to break it to her that Bromar sadly fell in battle during the attack on the kingdom. She was sadden to hear the news but Azurath tried to cheer us up with antics. After awhile I met with the king about the situation and he told me that we would have a meeting with the 5 kingdom representatives. But he told me I had plenty of time to use before the meeting start. He also had a gift for me as Ariana gave it to me. It was a box containing my mother's old scarf. She apparently gave her scarf as a gift to the king's wife as a sign of their friendship at the time. Sadly his wife passed away at the time Ariana and Azurath were still young and before the curse affected the kingdom. He thought it would appropriate that the scarf would be passed down back to me, the daughter of Mika, his old companion from his old adventure. I gratefully accept the scarf from them as I recognize the smell from the scarf and it brought back some good memories from back then was I little. I asked the king if he had any more spare of the antidotes for the cure. However, I was met with unfortunate news as he used the remaining antidotes on us as he feared we also caught the curse from Ariana when she was still mushroom girl. Oh right I must've left out that detail too... Princesses Azurath gave us the cure the night after the attack on the kingdom. Me, Alistair and the new member Muse. I was sadden but after that I explored the kingdom for a bit and came across Kiko's shop. She introduced herself as the shop keep of the store. I introduced myself to Kiko after exploring her shop for a bit and apologized for the silent treatment I gave her at first. After that I continued to look for a bit and saw a Katana that was on the shelf. I requested to see how much the katana was worth. She said she would give it to me for free if I do a favor for her. I accepted and asked what the quest was about. She said I'll find the details on the note as she was organizing the stock. Before I left, I stocked up on a few supplies and left to go meet with the others. I also went to the tavern to buy some food and gave some fresh fish to the local's cat.
 
After awhile the king requested our presence at the Royal Palace. We were briefed about the situation and saw the king and queens of the other kingdoms. Queen Nessie herself showed up but in hologram like as she couldn't make it, A elf representative showed up in place for the kingdom, Bromar wife's appeared but queen Neverwinter showed up sadly. They were concerned that a vampire lord is still out there despite John's brother best efforts to slay it back in the day. Especially since the Ex-hero's were now running amok across the land of Tellus and judging by the actions of Ulysses saving Vivian, we can tell they were teaming up. However the representatives weren't keen on teaming up in these trying times as they had their own problems to deal with as well. Me and others were receiving slack after the king presented us as the new heroes of Goldwind. Also, I noticed a strange presence around the roundtable during discussion but I didn't catch it on time as everyone was beginning to leave. The King requested us that we reunited the kingdoms as he fears that if they stay divided, the entire land of Tellus would fall into chaos. We accepted the Quest and the king advises us that we should start with Goldenscales as it's the closest kingdom. Bromar's wife would love to team up but as she said, they need to quell the coup that is currently happening at Goldenscale. I feel bad for her since her husband perished during the raid not too long ago. It feels like things are happening so fast. After leaving the Palace, me and the gang decided what will do next. Apparently we all had the same quest Kiko gave to us earlier and decided to do that first, thinking it might be quick as we just had to slay some monsters...
 
Oh, we were in for a big surprise during this quest...