Orhan 3 Day 70 TE 6063

Folks escort Mornan Xaon around for a while to give Anton a break. He wants to go raid an old Zorian treasury. Oathar isn't there, so we negotiate only a 7% cut for ourselves. Sigh. Mornan presents us with our patents of nobility, but only Oathar wants his. Imre and Alynna take them as regents for their relatives. Then Mornan tells us that a Duke of Zor gets a full 10% himself, so Oathar does a quiet happy dance.

Mornan talks to the Prince of Selkai. Some of us (not Oathar) promise to let the prince know when Mornan starts raising his army.

Orhan 4 Day 1 TE 6063

We teleport to Griffin College and pick up some horses. We head out into the trackless wastes towards the orc infested treasury.

Orhan 4 Day 2-4 TE 6063

The sun rises. We search. The sun sets. We camp. Repeat. Again.

Orhan 4 Day 5 TE 6063

At the edge of the desert we see a skeleton.. Imre puts it to sleep permanently. Oathar sees a vision of the death in which lugraki chase this guy. He runs off and throws a small sack into a ditch and then gets cut down by the lugraki. After some digging, they find a velvet lined box containing a key and a scroll. It's in Ancient Zorian. "This is my legacy to you my son. It is for you when you reach your majority and a symbol of the office our family has held for years." It was authored by Belgore, in the year SE 4980. That's the year the Zor fell.

The key is the key to the magical defenses of a city, usually held by the cheif defender.

Orhan 4 Day 6 TE 6063

Oathar scouts from on high. He finds an area of broken terrain, and a large mound. On the broken terrain there is an obelisk. Over by the mound, it appears to be aritificial. Haeraan "looks behind" it. 11 years ago, an army camped here. This was the Halkataine pretenders army. General Johann was here too. In 6043, a young looking Geren rides up to the south with a bunch of people reading a declaration claiming the kingdom of Zor. There's a big essense storm in 6051. In 6053 there was another giant essense storms. In 6062 a bunch of lugraki came by with stretchers, go up to teh mound, open up a entrance and go in it. Then they come out without the stretchers and seal it up again.

Haeraan gets a glimpse of Marsaial Barrial, the Marquise of Ketch, son of the duke of Kalthos. He's married to the daughter of Frellick's half brother.

Haeraan detects that the mound is in fact full of undead lugraki.

Over at the obelisk, it looks like there was once a walled city. Oathar reads the obelisk. It starts glowing. A blue light appears at the top. A wind picks up. Mornan sticks the key into an indentation in the obelisk and the glow goes away and everything stops. After sticking the key in all four sides, a panel opens up, and he reaches in an pulls out a minature obelisk. "Look! It's the power core." We take it.

There are buried structures down there.