Turn 8 My Lords & Stat sheets completed by February 20th, 2003
Turn 9 due date Wednesday, March 10th, 2003
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Nu'jree disposition
Several groups of Nu'jree philosophers and colonists decide to join with the stronger governments in the region. They hope it will give them some protection from the slave labors of many regions in the area. Access to cities and the luxuries that come with it is welcome site as well.
Speaking with the Dead
A blind soothsayer is seen along several Towns and Villages on the Hie Coast. He is recalled my many as he yells out names of the Dead he is speaking with. Anyone willing to listen seems to confirm he knows about some lost relative or another. Of course he is probably a charlatan having practiced for many years. Regardless it is somewhat strange that he gets around to such a wide area.
Central Geographic Region:
Death fog
For a time those who inhabited the eastern banks of Crescent Lake took to locking their doors on the mornings where thick fog rolled in. Apparently earlier in the year some odd dense fog would appear without a sound and leave whole villages with nothing but empty huts and doorways. Even the stout hearted Dwarves avoided the waters until afternoon when the sun usually seemed to clear it up.
Blood Wine
The origins of the drink are forgotten but its safe to say potent home brewed liquor as well as blood from places best unknown is used. Some Orc tribes drink nothing but the stuff and often it is used on occasions of importance. Often a helm, or improvised drinking vessel is used and those that drink from it add a few drops of their own blood by cutting their palms over the wine.
Elf captives return home
Many mothers relate the tale of how a far off Elven folk were fleeing, lost in the wilderness for some time. Their journey was difficult and what may have taken but two weeks normally took months and many hardships. The people carried many things that were of little use except for the memories that each item had. Eventually when they gave up those things and moved onwards their wilderness journey ended and they were able to settle down building a new life, in a new forest.
Eastern Geographic Region:
News of War and Battle spreads quickly
A united front of Elves, Men, Dwarves and even Wee Folk stand strong against the imminent onslaught of Orcish ambition. Many thousands perish from every side and no ground is given by anyone. It is impossible to not hear news of heroic and fell deeds done depending on the race and location visited.
Tales begin to spin of all kinds. Orcs tell of great battles fought with slaughter and great chieftens. Elves speak of being on the "Hunt" for their most hated foe. Dwarves speak of a long march and a great siege. Wee Folk soon tell of sling stones felling large Orcs from afar. Musicians play the "Charge of the Light Bridage" and of how many fell never to return to the field of battle. Goblins even tell of Riding down retreating invaders, although no one seems to recall hearing or seeing goblins on the field of battle.
What the . .
After paying the wretch of a goblin a local merchant in the middle kingdoms finds that days later the fabrics brought sell unbelievable fast. Not only that but he figures out quickly he didnt charge nearly enough for the stuff. His wife even seems to have bought some garment made with the stuff off the black market right under the mans nose. It cost him three days wages where at first he could have given her bundles of the strange cloth. He had learned his lesson, and he kept a close watch out for the return of the nice ugly fellow or so he thought him now.
Forest Guardians
Tales reach the ears of loggers that Orcish timber cutters near what used to be the Great Wood were found totally mangled by some great strength. Of course they say, after all Elves live there and kill Orcs on site. Those stories go around a time or two and die off. Later in the year in a seemingly connected incident but on a much larger scale. Entire encampments of Orcs merely vanish and the fine goods produced from wood harvested in the region have since stopped being seen. Where clearings used to be now think patches of forest seem to go on without end.
Western Geographic Region:
You've got my . . whoa!
Ships sailing for the treasures of great dark pearls find they are not the first to have arrived. In fact what seemed at first to be a simple thing of conquer or a lucrative trade offer turns into something of a diplomatic retreat. Ships never seen before in the region appear in numbers to daunt any fleet.
Fireworks
Halflings are mightily pleased when their Nu'jree neighbors show them some celebration. In the eyes of the Wee Folk the beauty of it is the beginning and the end where some kind of sticks are lit with a torch and send up plumes of smoke along with making a heck of a racket. They inquire if the sticks can be purchased even at ridiculous prices but no Nu'jree merchant dealing in such things is quite that desperate.
Fishing, a dangerous occupation
Luckily for the men of Surinam they do not harvest the fish from the Mouth of Bebidon with any great frequency. It becomes even less frequent when tales come in of birds picking men out of their own boats as an eagle plucks a fish out of water. Apparently great laughs were had until several slashed up goblin corpses fell clear out of the sky one day. They smashed into a fair sized fishing boat near the shores of Sucre sinking it and killing several crew members.
Land of Milk & Honey
Many throughout Huahn know of the prosperity of the Badger lands. Seemingly they are blessed for word is spread of the fine fields of Dehkel growing such as abundance as some small kingdoms itself.
Southern Geographic Region:
Do I hear 5 Silver Creps?
With the significant opportunities making themselves felt throughout the Southlands many, many more people are setting up shop. Goods stream in from nations so far away it may take a man a year to travel there on foot.
Dragon Cult
Amongst the many realms of man along the river one appears to worship the Dragon. Not only do their cities bear some sort of similar name, but statues abound with depictions of the creatures sitting, in flight, or lying on some horde of treasure.
Enzlavement of allz
Huge armies of strong lizardmen raid, enslave and take whatever is necessary to maintain their steady growth. Some sort of bizarre ritual seems to have taken place along the Alompol Sea creating something of a fervor talking about an Age of Chaoz