From the diary of Silvan the Dryad
Session date: 13.6.2004

11.4.

We were given a villager to guide us to the lieutenant. Dangund thought 
 we didn't need a guide, as he could follow the tracks, but the village 
 chief thought it'd be for the best if somebody from the village came  
 with us so he could come back and report in the case of us dying.

Our guide took us east. Distant lights were spotted in the south, with
 Dangund guessing them to be up to ten miles away. Our guide didn't 
 think they'd be from the village.

Our guide said we were at some hills where the undead usually liked to 
 spend its time. He refused to come further.

We spotted some corpses. We cut off their heads. We climbed the hill
 they were on, and spotted the undead. It was completely unmoving until
 it began to shout. "Have the villagers come to avenge the fate of
 their sheep?", it asked.

Weahltheow persuaded the undead to join us. We stared at her in shock
 while she turned around to leave. Our guide was somewhat against the
 idea of us not killing the undead (he wasn't the only one).

I went to talk with our newest undead. He seemed to consider all of 
 his responses for a while before replying, but seemed to actually be
 pretty smart.

A large amount of villagers had gathered to meet us. They looked pretty 
 angry. Wealhtheow said the undead was coming with us and they
 shouldn't worry about it. The villagers said that what was more
 worrying was that their scouts had detected troops coming from
 different directions. At least one of the troops were orcs. Troops
 that looked like humans but could fly were coming from the north. We
 decided to leave at once, heading to east to avoid the troops coming
 from the north.

12.4.

After traveling a lot, we stopped to rest. Longfoot tried to persuade 
 me not to hang out with our latest undead, so I went to ask it why 
 Longfoot why was so prejudiced towards him. He said that humans
 usually were. Wealhtheow went to meditate.

Apparently the lieutenant didn't need to eat. When I asked him why he'd 
 been killing sheep anyway, he said he'd wanted to give the villagers a 
 lesson. When I tried to suggest it might've been somewhat unnecessary, 
 he rebuffed my arguments and left on his patrol.

When we began to wake up in the morning, the lieutenant returned to say 
 that he'd seen Aleandorian battle mages approaching. We began quickly 
 hurrying away from their direction. About four hours later, the 
 lieutenant said he was absolutely certain he'd seen a mage that
 quickly appeared on the top of a nearby hill and then vanished. The
 lieutenant said he'd lead us somewhere that was easier to defend but
 would be hard to flee from.

The lieutenant took us between two hills that were hard to climb. I
 remembered that the lieutenant's name was Walter Denance. We set up a
 defense there.

We waited for about an hour. Wealhtheow said she knew that the next 
 chapter was about spirits that'd been bound to the book. She'd been 
 considering releasing one of them to assist us in the battle. We 
 decided she'd summon a spirit in advance to assist us. She read a bit 
 of the book, and after a moment she'd summoned a skeleton that still 
 had some skin around it.

The skeleton and Wealhtheow seemed to know each other. The skeleton, 
 while being grateful, thought Wealhtheow should've known better 
 than to do what she'd done. The skeleton seemed to have difficulties
 with spatial perspection. Wealhtheow summoned a few others, including
 a few battle mages and an elf that looked a little demon-like in his
 undead-ness, five people in total.

We waited. After a while the one's we'd posted on top of the land wall
 around us reported having seen them. It looked like the mages were
 using flight spells to get above our defenses. Wealhtheow said 
 she could handle them. When they got to a suitable distance,
 Wealhtheow sent lightning bolts and whirlwinds against them, and it
 rained battlemages. Wealhtheow created a ceiling above us.

One of the 'spirits' from the book raised some of the fallen
 battlemages, which made battle with their living comrades before being
 slain. Another cast a spell and said the orc army was also getting
 near.

The battlemage undead flew some of the undead to attack, while another 
 collapsed the land barrier blocking the way towards the enemy 
 battlemages. Wealhtheow and the undead headed towards the enemy. A
 wave of earth headed towards the battlemages, leaving very rough
 terrain after it. It was followed by a sound so loud that seemed
 unbearable even when we did all we could to block it. A few
 battlemages managed to teleport away, with the wave killing the 
 rest. We were teleported away.

After a while, all the orcs had headed west, even the ones who'd been
 following us. Wealhtheow couldn't say why this was.

13. - 15.4.

I talked with our newest undead and tried to get to know to them as we
 traveled. One of them, Marietta Nowa, seemed pretty nice.

16.4.

We woke up to Deilo, one of the undead, saying trouble was near. A 
 large crowd of demons was approaching underground. The most 
 northernmost cave exit was within a 20 minutes travel from us. 
 A few battlemages suggested losing some of our group to make 
 teleporting easier, but apparently there were so many flying demons 
 among the foe that it'd be useless. 

Deilo said he could stay behind to slow down the first wave, especially 
 now that he had the spear we'd bought. Wealhtheow said that since he
 was so sure he could do something to them, it might be good to set up
 another defense here.

Wealhtheow made a lot of stone spears pointing in every direction. 
 Deilo did something to the spears with his magic. The skeleton left 
 somewhere, and returned with an evil-looking moose and a few wolves 
 with it. They looked like they'd been raised from the dead.

Deilo barely had the time to warn us when the first offensive came. 
 Fiends and flying succubi and incubi sprang forth, and Deilo raced to 
 face them. He used with great success the spear we'd given him to slay 
 the demons. The flying stone spears slew a bunch of demons, but they
 kept coming.

We made battle with the demons, but their numbers were overwhelming.
 After a while, we heard the sound of orcs joining the battle. Them
 joining convinced Wealhtheow to finish reading the book of Necreegh.
 Eventually she finished reading it, and the book disintegrated. There
 was a violet glow around Wealhtheow, and her eyes were glowing. She
 raised her other hand, and made the orcs run around us and attack the
 orcs. Wealhtheow/Necreegh giggled.

Wealhtheow told us to move on. She began walking away, and the closer 
 she got to the orcs, the more orcs joined the battle against the 
 demons. 

Session close: 21:11 13.6.2004