From the diary of Silvan the Dryad
Session date: 7.12.2003

We met with a group of people, led by Wolfgar. We told him
 trolls were attacking Dorandor, and he'd die if he and his
 fellows would go there. He wondered if we were not going there
 without weapons, and we said we might know of a place where
 weapons could be found.

Wolfgar knew a bit about the city defenses. He said that if the
 city was under attack, nobody could get in. We mentioned to
 him that Quaylans house was full of demons, so we wouldn't
 count much on the defenses.

Wolfgar told us he'd been chosen to lead Cenoby. Long ago,
 Tamaol had helped the elven queen, and the trees surrounding
 the city had magic. They'd been designed against orcs and
 probably could stop the trolls. He didn't know about the
 flying demons, but the castle in the city was prepared to
 defend against dragons.

The air defense was mostly designed to defend against big
  targets, like dragons, so Wolfgar wasn't sure how well it
  might dare against flying demons.

We suggested we go to the chapel and rescue the crown prince 
 and Quaylan and a bunch of others. We went there and saw a 
 firmly locked door.

We went inside the cell using the tunnel we'd dug before and
 began freeing the people. Quaylan's chains posed for trouble,
 so we began to search the building for better tools. When we
 began beating against the cell door (not a cellar door,
 regardless of how beautiful that word sounds), we noticed that
 there were people on the other side trying to prevent us from
 getting through.

Armed soldiers eventually came to our aid, and we explained the
 situation to them. They broke the door, and found that the
 demons on the other side had chosen to run. I observed Buran
 barking out orders (funny, I would've thought barking out
 things would be something I'd do, and not a dwarf).

The soldiers moved out to secure the building, and the
 metallurgist, who was one of the prisoners we freed, began
 studying the chains Quaylan was in. They soldiers found many
 icky things, and we went back upstairs.

Quaylan was eventually freed. One of his hands got free, after
 which he managed to free himself. We managed to get everybody
 free after that.

There was some disagreement between the heroes over the next
 course of action. John Gwynneth thought the most important
 thing would be to go to the city and fight the demons, but
 Quaylan wanted to go fetch his staff. demons, while Quaylan
 wanted to fetch his staff. Quaylan then decided to give a try
 to summoning a temporary dragon for our aid.

Quaylan almost exploded, but it wasn't that bad after all. He
 tried again, and this time managed to get a one-hour dragon,
 ready to go. We got on its back and into the air, towards the
 site where Quaylan's previous dragon had died.

We flew over the orcish mine, and saw movement down there.
 Quaylan said they were spiders who'd come out of the mine,
 perhpas summoned by Dorgan earlier. Apparently their mission
 was to stop anybody who tried to flee.

We turned a bit towards Dorandor to see what the situation was.
 There were flying demons flocking about the city, working 
 in small teams. Some of the trees were doing something in the
 Castle Dorandor, and it looked like trolls had created a
 circle around the city. Then we turned towards the north.

The orcish lands were all dark. We saw something moving about
 the road towards the Orcish Bridge, but couldn't say what it
 was. Only in Fortress Belligerence were there lights. We heard
 explosions coming from Fortress Gaol.

We reached the skeleton of Quaylan's dragon. There were plenty
 of footprints in the ground. We found no signs of the Staff of
 Summoning.

Daylo tried using his l33t Knowledge Magic skillz. According to
 him, the staff wasn't anywhere on this side of the river.

We set flight towards Dorandor. Northeast of the city, we saw
 people who were trying to run away, but were being picked off
 by the flying demons. We landed, and the dragon was sent to
 fight the demons. When the dragon died, Quaylan said, he could
 summon something more, like manticores.

A huge amount of flying demons was flocking around the Sentinel
 Tower. It looked like it'd been broken from the middle, and
 something was holding the upper part of it in the air.
 Somebody was shooting at the demons from below, and we could
 see flashes of light inside the tower.

We could see that the trees had gotten entwined around the
 buildings in the city, but they didn't seem to be moving. The
 trees looked like they'd have crushed some buildings, possibly
 by accident.

The Sentinel Tower looked like it was calming down, with only a
 few demons flocking about. We saw an innkeep beating a tree
 with his axe. Tough innkeeper.

The main part of the battle was moving towards the castle.
 There were lots of bodies on the center square, though most of
 them seemed to be demons. Some of them were also Master's
 Merry Men. Longfoot stopped for a moment to do some looting,
 while the rest of us kept marching on.

After a while, we saw two battles - the lieutenant fighting
 demons, and a woman doing the same. We went to their aid, and
 managed to beat the demons they were fighting. The lieutenant
 died, but the woman - who we recognized as Tonica - survived,
 albeit badly wounded. A couple of moments, a few battle mages
 showed up and took her. They told us that all the defense had
 been concentrated to the castle.

We ran around the city, and found a group of battle mages
 preparing to cast a mass spell. We went between them and the
 enemy.

We saw that each time the mages managed to complete their
 spell, some of the demons fell down. The trolls seemed to be
 fighting each other, and were in retreat. None of them were
 fighting near the castle anymore.

Quaylan's mansion was on fire. A troll was resting on the fire,
 preventing it from spreading.

We saw the Master and some of his Merry Men. The MMM had huge
 amounts of arrows, and were shooting at the demons. The Master
 seemed to be casting some spells. By the time we got there,
 the battle began to be over. The demon armies were in a
 retreat.

We overheard the Master telling one of his men to check out the
 tower. "And don't fly," he added, as the MMM was leaving. The
 Master also told them to find all of their fallen.

We went to talk with the Master. He was a little annoyed over
 the fact that Lord Wiltshire had been resurrected. He told us
 to go to the Sentinel Tower and find out what had happened.

A MMM tried to heal the demon, but failed. He went to report
 about it to the Master, and the Master said it might be for
 the best for us to go hide.

We went to Master's Rock, finishing off dead demons on the way.
 We were taken to the Master's room, and told that we could
 camp in one of the corners. We were brought food, so we ate.

About five hours later, the Master returned. He seemed pretty
 exhausted. He told us that the demons had recovered their
 amulet and had escaped with it. The second-in-command of the
 demons had been captured and taken to the prison fortress for
 interrogation. There were going to be at least two god
 artifacts in the tower when it was repaired, and he'd given
 the Scythe back to the Sentinels, since it was irrelevant
 whether or not the godly artifact was alone or with a friend
 there.

The Master said he knew a bit about our fishing in other camps,
 but since we decided to help him in the end, he was ready to
 look the other way and start from a fresh table. We could now
 ask for a reward.

He told us that by the time Dorgan appeared, the Master had
 plenty of men by his side, who began shooting at Dorgan. But
 Dorgan had the Leaf of Tamaol with him, which he used to
 create a wooden barrier around him. But then! Fire magic was
 used against Dorgan, and Dorgan did not survive being turned
 into a flaming wreck. The Master was able to recover a map
 from it, which he had turned over to Daylo, so D could make a
 better version out of it. Should Buran want it, the Master
 could make it his reward.

I was given The Mage Axe, a weapon for a mage that worked the
 better the better mage the user was. The Master mentioned we'd
 been asked to visit the mage school, but it might be better if
 we went there tomorrow. The Master thought this region had
 calmed down for a bit, and there wouldn't be any more 
 artifacts to be found here.

According to Daylo, the Book of Necreegh had gone to the north
 and the demons had the Amulet of Azatoth. The Master wanted to
 send us on a long journey, but thought we were a bit
 ill-equipped to survive it. He thought it might be a good idea
 to put us into the mage school or give us some combat
 training.

We went to take the swords we'd found and return them to the
 royal palace. The undead and the demon were left behind, in a
 violation of the No Monster Left Behind Act.

There were lots of people at work, removing trees from 
 buildings and carrying troll corpses away. We also saw mages
 practicing Movement magic with the trolls.

We went to the sword elf barracks and returned the swords. We
 were told that it had been very honorable to return the
 valuable things, and our names would be forwarded to the The
 Courte Royale (TM).

On the way back, we saw demon and undead corpses. All of the
 undead seemed to have Wiltshire's symbol on their clothes. A
 few elves were dragging them away, and being most confused
 about the condition of Wiltshire's men. They looked like
 they'd been lying on the ground for a few weeks.

The roads were in a bad shape. Bad road builders, bad!

There was a huge amount of villagers gathered by the chapel.
 There was a soldier holding a speech, trying to convince the
 villagers that the bodies inside were mangled too much to be
 recognized.

Then the soldiers began to carry the barrels outside. Smelling
 the contents, the villagers gave up and left.

We reached the Mapmaker's Keep. Daylo had just woken up, thanks
 to our ringing of the bell. Daylo's apprentice had
 disappeared. Daylo gave us the map of Rakash Draak with Names.
 After getting it, we talked a bit and then returned to
 Dorandor.

In Dorandor, there was a list of missing and dead. Among the
 dead we found Rondo and the lieutenant. Among the missing, we
 found Arias and the leader of the circus (Who? Did I miss
 something? Apparently he's somebody Longfoot had some sort of
 a grudge with.). Daylo's apprentice was also missing.

There were also going to be trials against the Queen's orcish
 bodyguard, several demons, orcs, and even some villagers from
 Cenoby.

We went to eat. We saw many strage faces, but met our Knights
 of the Dawn instructor. His superiors had talked with Quaylan,
 and it had seemed like Quaylan's and his superiors' views
 about KoD's future were a little conflicting.

We returned to the Master. He said that the Amulet of Azmodan,
 quickly heading towards Tundan and the Great Burning Hollow,
 was missing from him. There was no sign of Lorenan, the light
 goddess. Kalarean, the Ice God, was also missing, and Anxar
 and Necreegh were somewhere. Add to that the godly artifacts
 in the Sentinel Tower. Then there were also three forgotten
 gods, but those were not our problem. Anyway, things were
 going better than he'd expected.

TM had found that the Book of Necreegh had first gone to
 Fortress Belvedere, after which it had been taken to Myrnur
 and Aleandor. Our next mission would be to go there, and he'd
 be sending his own men there as well. He would also go there.
 In the Great Burning Hollow there was a great volcano, which 
 could burn even godly artifacts and reduce them to ashes.

The Master asked the rest of us if they'd want to join him as
 well, and he'd place an Orb of Magic into them, which'd keep
 them alive. When people refused, the Master commented that we
 had already earned our freedom, and should we not wish to
 continue working for him, we were by all means free to leave.