home again

Home sweet home.... This time with some water!

So, after spending a little vacation in the woods, I came back to find that the lizardmen and the rest of the party had a scuffle and we had again turned some of the stone support around the spring into mud, allowing water to start flowing again. It was still very low, but when we got back to Seawell, at least they had some water.

The lizardmen have been very active recently. They did a big attack on Abel and have started raids on the human towns. It seems that they have become more hostile recently... almost as if there has been a big change in leadership.... I wonder what could have happened. Really though, that was the least of our worries. We need to have an island to come home to before we worry about the lizardmen. So, we went to go see Mervyl Jr. I stopped by an old friend's house before we skipped town. He's a little bit paranoid.... he wouldn't let us open the door, and then Edmund didn't help the situation by being his normal, shiney, happy self. We finally slipped the note from Miranda underneath the door, to come back the next day. After that, we decided to go check out a cave that I had spotted. Edmund absolutely completely refused to come with us, which was fine with me, sometimes he can get a bit grating.

The caves were bone dry and there was no sign of the centipedes which they encountered the last time they entered the caves. It was a pretty long tunnel, and it finally sloped down to the river gorge. At the end of the tunnel, we encountered some creatures called creepers, things with long nasty tentacle hands which almost killed me. Next time, I'm not going first. Since we wouldn't have much of a chance in the future, we decided to go explore another cave which was right across the other side of the river. Very interesting, I wonder if the cave existed before the river, since there is no other way it could be so conveniently split in two. We encountered some sort of elemental, which then splashed the party with acid. I stayed behind and managed to stay alive and unscathed. After pulling back the corpses we decided it would be more prudent to come back more prepared next time and at full strength. We returned to camp, Edmund rolled his eyes at our adventures, and went to bed. The next morning we prepared and entered the cave. We weren't aware, but Mervyl Jr was scrying us and saw us prepare for the big battle. Battles work a lot better if there is something there to battle. Having grown up here, I really wonder how his family could afford to send him to a fancy wizarding school on the main islands, Roara isn't exactly rich. When we returned to the lighthouse, he let us in.

Mervyl was finally willing to talk to us about the planes, and we found out that where the bessie had crashed, there was a sort of planar exchange point, with water flowing around them. He also thinks that Roara's spring is supplied with a conveniently placed portal, a long time ago -- might be the same type of people who built the ruins on bellatoon. We decided to go visit Red, and Mervyl has teleportation abilities, hopefully which will place us on the island, not in the middle of the ocean. Hopefully Red knows about these things.

A huge mystery is still why the boundaries of the planes are disintegrating. Is it time, is it on purpose? Was our plane created by someone or something? How big is it?