QUESTERS PLAY WITH FIRE IN A SERIES OF CRAZY ADVENTURES - August 2012
100 Year Anniversary of Great Solaris Fire
100 years ago, a strange band of assassins attempted to murder King Pelinor in the heart of his own city. They were apprehended, and put into jail until they could be tried. But they were unwilling to face the king’s justice, and escaped. In the process, they burnt a large portion of the city to the ground. They appeared to believe that they were acting for the Light, however. The little that our records show indicates that they wanted to stop a necromancer named Glitterbones from taking over the world and destroying humanity. There are indications that such a creature did exist, though its origins are unknown. It simply appeared one day, as if from nowhere. But a few clues in the archives point to another shadowy villain around the same time, with the same sort of murky background. If this monster was also planning something nefarious, it covered its tracks well. Only brief mentions of it remain. The assassins were never caught, though it is likely that they did defeat Glitterbones, and possibly this other being, for neither were heard from again. Not even the most talented seers of the time could find the group of adventurers. They are part of the Kingdom of Dawn’s oldest unsolved mystery.
Questers Visit the Future
Time travel is never a safe thing to deal with, especially when no one knows how to manipulate time. Thankfully, the group that traveled 200 years into the future last week managed to return to the present day with their lives, bringing back strange stories of a possible future Orania. They were frozen in a glacier for two centuries, and awoke to find themselves in a completely different place. The Orania that we know had been visited by two races of extraplanar beings: red creatures with four arms and two legs, and blue ones with two arms and four legs. These two races were struggling for dominance over the planet, and the adventurers were forced to choose a side. Although initially tricked into believing the red aliens, they eventually sided with the more light-filled blue aliens. In the course of their travels in the future, they reportedly fired a gigantic laser, based in an orbiting space station, at Orania, creating a massive tidal wave. Though we have heard of triangle ships before, such a space station is new to us here at the paper. Possibly it is a new version of the triangle ship discovered five years ago by a band of questers, the one which supposedly ran on blood. Regardless, after destroying all the invading shadowy aliens, the adventurers finally found their way back to the present day.
Daraku Defeated
Daraku may have been one of the most powerful Shadow Dragons in Orania. He was the creature who nearly defeated King Pelinor several weeks ago, and possesses a shard from the shadow wells of Shadonia embedded in his neck. His full powers remain unknown, but he is a flesh-crafter of terrifying ability. Apparently, he was trying to build an army of horrors when a group of adventurers stopped him. They discovered strange, mutated monsters roaming the White Wolf Nations, and followed them up into the frozen north. The farther they traveled, the stranger and more disgusting the creatures became. Ordinary people had been crafted into beasts with multiple arms and eyes, poisonous fangs or saliva, claws and spiked tails. They retained little vestige of their former selves, and were entirely under Daraku’s control. He had been making them as shock troops for an assault on the White Wolf Nations, and probably the rest of the world. Eventually, the adventurers found Daraku and, after a lengthy battle, defeated him. Whether he is dead or simply sorely wounded is unknown, but he will not be a problem any longer.
New Planar Realms Saved
The most powerful adventurers can be very destructive. This paper has published reports in the past of entire realms being blasted to rubble or exterminated altogether; events which cannot be healthy for the stability of reality. But rarely have the perpetrators of such acts been called to answer for their crimes. Last week, however, one group was tasked to restore balance to the multiverse and fix some of the problems caused by previous groups of adventurers. They were contacted by a being named Huss, who later revealed himself to be the Arbiter of the Planes, a functionary of the multiverse who wanted to ensure the stability of reality. He advised the group to play an ancient, magical board game, which deposited them into a gigantic chessboard, a plane in and of itself. After exploring the world, they met Huss again. He asked them to nurture and guard new planes while they formed. They protected planes such as the Plane of Wolves and Spirits, the Plane of Pink and Blue, and the Plane of Steam and Clockwork, and gave these planes their aspects. All the while, they were opposed by the Cheater, a mysterious being who could travel between planes at will and bend the rules of reality. Finally, they had to defeat the Black King of the chessboard where they started. Once the White Queen, another piece on the board and one of their allies, stepped aside, they were able to return to Orania in peace. We all should be grateful to them, for incursions like that of the Drek several years ago are because of planar instabilities. These adventurers helped prevent another such terror from being unleashed upon our world.
Invasion Averted
The Kingdom of Dawn has been very unlucky recently, being the target of numerous attacks. This time, however, an imminent attack was averted when King Pelinor hired a band of brave adventurers to act as a strike force and prevent an invasion before it began. The leaders of the invasion appeared to be butterfly people wearing tiaras, living in the clouds. However, when their tiaras were removed, they transformed into hideous slug monsters. The questers, after many trials and tribulations, discovered the truth about the butterfly folk, and put an end to their plot to destroy the Kingdom of Dawn. This is undoubtedly the first story reported in this paper in which there was an invasion threatened, but no cities, villages, or even farms were destroyed. Good work, questers!
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