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20. august - AFLYST (DHL mm)
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46th session: The Extraordinary Gnome

2nd moon, 5th day, year 5218

After receiving the quest, the brothers quickly decided to port to New Hope to learn more about this gnome. Posing as disciples of the Sunlord, a cult of Pelor-worshipers who embalm themselves because beauty has no meaning, they entered New Hope and began asking around for Araxmus.

They quickly learned that he was easily found on 3rd Street, usually in the most expensive establishments. The T'orghs stopped at the most expensive restaurant/tavern, and bought some wine while waiting. And they were luckily. Less than an hour later, Araxmus arrived with an entourage of 7, composed of 3 human males, 3 human females and an elf. 

For a couple of hours, they ate. Araxmus ate and drank for 10, but none of the others, nor the staff seemed troubled or surprised by the fact. After dinner, the gnome and the men started to bet heavily and play a game of Dragon Ante, a fairly complex game of strategi and chance. The stakes quickly went up, and it soon became apparent that the ladies were part of the stakes as well.

2nd moon, 6th day, year 5218
Late in the night, the game finished and the gnome went home with two women, while the T'orghs followed the elf to his town-house. They broke in, and tortured him to tell about the gnome. But he knew nothing of value, except that he (the gnome) sometimes claimed he was cursed by the gods.

Belos stole the elf's visage using foul necromantic magic, and the brothers went to wake up Araxmus for more drinking. They succeeded in luring him out in an alley, and jumped him. And while Araxmus could certainly hit like a truck (or rather, like a cloud giant) and had whirlwinds and such at his disposal, he was still no match for the dark elf brothers.

After taking his money, they went back to the temple, and activated the next rune, the Silver Symbol. A horned devil appeared in a puff of smoke. 

The next symbol is the silver rune. Find the dragon named Argatha and steal the biggest of it’s eggs.

When you have the egg, soak it in the blood of the gnome and place it in the Eternal Brazier for a month.

Before heading out to find the dragon, the brothers returned to their palace to see how things were going with their nation. The nation was running well so far, and they learned that Argatha was a more than 900 years old dragon, known to deal with humans, lover of magical items and said to live in the highest peaks, or maybe in the clouds. Fairly accomplished spellcaster, rumored to take the corpses of enemies to her lair and bury them, after stripping them of items, of course.

 2nd moon, 13th day, year 5218
After some time back in the capital, where they started rumors that elves from the Ghostwood were sacking nearby farms, the brothers headed to New Laketown, where they hired 10 hard mercenaries to cause havoc around Ghostwood, posing as elves. The band was called the Black Unicorns and their leader was called Ghiram.

2nd moon, 18th day, year 5218
With their plans set in motion, they headed to Tuskam, the city nearest Webwood, which again lies at the feet of the mountains that most suspect to be the home of Argatha. She is supposedly also a sort of talisman for the city of Tuskam.

45th session: The Eternal Brazier

2nd moon, 3rd day, year 5218
After spending a month getting acquainted with their new country and setting up a puppet ruler (simulacrum of human Nalfein and a loyal priest and wizard of Asmodeus to help the magical construct), the T'orghs were finally ready to get back in business and get the Eternal Brazier from the fire giants of Dragonhome, and not of Ashbringer as they originally thought.

2nd moon, 4th day, year 5218
Using the magical steads summoned by Nalfein, the brothers quickly made their way to Dragonhome, where they found a very large fire giant clan living in a volcano which seemed ready to erupt.

They killed a few giants but otherwise made it to the throneroom unseen, where they confronted King Inferno and tried to strike a deal with him. He asked for the head of a red dragon living nearby, and off the brothers went again. They soon found what would later be revealed to not be the dragon's lair, and then the dragon. The fight was short and brutal, and even though Belos succumbed to the dragon's mighty breath, the brothers managed to kill the 700 year old dragon.

Quickly returning to the fire giant king with the head, they soon found themselves once again a throne-room packed with giants. As they were leaving with the mighty brazier, the giants decided to strike and take them out, but the T'orghs managed to flee to the border of the Underworld, shadowwalking back to Menzo.

2nd moon, 5th day, year 5218
There they decided to hide the brazier, and then headed to the temple to activate the next rune with the next symbol.

That was the symbol of air, and a horned devil appeared as usual and said:

Well done, much better. The Lord of Light appreciates your speed. To complete the next trial, you need to kill Araxmus Tirax, a gnome in New Hope. Bring his dead corpse to the altar.

Kingdom of Panolia

An overview of Ra'kar, 350 years in the future.

44th session: The final lich-battle

12th moon, 29th day, year 5217

After some days, having bought some spells for Belos and set up a plan, the brothers returned to the mortal world, and headed towards the ruins of Menzo.

As soon as they engaged the golem, Belos felt they were being scried upon. He threw up a false vision destined to lure the lich to them. And it succeeded. Minutes after dispatching the golem, the lich arrived. 

For what seemed an eternity, the battle raged back and forth with spells being thrown left and right. Dunder was useless, Jegred was quickly dismissed, Belos was naked and almost useless, Ta'gar was out and counting more than 5 times and Nalfein was stunned more than half the time. But yet, the brothers managed to defeat the lich in the eleventh hour.

12th moon, 30th day, year 5217

After a good night's sleep, the houseless T'orghs tracked down the phylactery of the lich. Their divinations brought them to Araxis (as they presumed), where they found the lich's hiding place below the crypts of the royal palace.

It turns out that the lich was the king of Panolia, and the brothers decided to take over the control of the country. Using history to justify the odd transfer of power, they created an illusion of the king abdicating the throne and passing on the crown to the human version of Nalfein. 

1st moon, 1st day, year 5218

And now it was time to find or create a puppet to control the country when the dark elf brothers were out. And who better to do so than one of them, yet not one of them...

Cup of Nymph Tears

Cup of Nymph Tears
3 times per day: 3d8+3
2 times per day: cure poison
1 time per day: heal
1 time per week: raise dead
1 time per year: ressurection

43rd session: Return of the Lich

12th moon, 25th day, year 5217

Arriving at the temple, the brothers activate the next trial. 

A horned devil appears in a puff of smoke:

It’s been a while. Our lord was starting to wonder if you had forsaken him. What do you have to say in your defense?

The T'orghs explained that they had been stuck in a time-trap in the Faerie, and it was out of their hands.

Ah well, that is most unfortunate. Luckily, the Lord of Light sees far and beyond the mortal keen, and should you succeed in getting the scrolls, there is no doubt he will still have a use for you. 

The Eternal Brazier is the next thing to acquire. A giant-sized brazier whose fire can not be extinguished. Bring that to the altar. You can find it somewhere in the bowels of the Ashbringer

With the Ashbringer being way north of the human lands, they decided first to visit a nearby village called Trinity, before settling on a way to get up north. Trinity however, had changed quite a bit. No longer was it a small village, but instead now a busy city filled with a trade focused on wood. 

In Trinity, which they were visiting under illusionary guise, they found out that a large clan of fire giants have their home in the Ashbringer, and as they were leaving, they were attacked in the street by the Jhalavar lich. Jeggred is sent back to Hell, and soon Belos is dying and Nalfein flees. The lich disappears with Belos.

12th moon, 27th day, year 5217

After using a lot of traveling and divination spells, Nalfein tracks down Belos in the north. He is kept prisoner in the palace of the metropolis Araxis (formerly known as Laketown), the capital of the Kingdom of Panolia. Using an Aerial Servant, Nalfien manages to break out a naked Belos. Together they flee Araxis, when Nalfein uses his Word of Recall to return to the altar. 

There they find themselves facing an iron golem, surely a little surprise left by the lich. The two brothers opt to run.

Once away from the golem, the dark elves start to hatch a plan to lure the lich into a trap and once and for all be done with the pesky undead and get Belos' items back.

They flee to the Casino in order to avoid further attacks.