I cried all the way home to Deepwater, but I realised later, things could have been worse. In Deepwater I met Umbro, he had dragged loads of rocks from Ilshenar to decorate the outside of his home. It looked very pretty. Much more important than that though, he had a present for me! A real live llama! I have called it Berry. I love llamas.

After all that excitement I headed down to Spiritwood. There I met some nice people again. Some of them, namely one elf, were a bit stuffy, but most were very pleasant. Kelly helped me with Berry when she had a tantrum. Later on some women got the elf to take his clothes off. This reminded me of Gui's book. They were obviously impressed by something he had since later on they grabbed him and my elf friend Elv'eng to form some alliance or something. I also saw that evil Orc Shaman that cut me with a knife, he warned me he still had my blood. *grumbles*

After this I went home where I met Dianora. It was very exciting to see someone else apart from me, Nagelfar and Umbro in Deepwater. *giggles* I told Dianora all about my adventures, and Elv'eng the elf popped in too. After that I took Dianora to Dreamstone. That prooved to be very dangerous! There were some Orcs who were making a mess in the Tavern. Some of the local residents decided to turf the Orcs out. The battle was pretty short, and the residents did chase the Orcs out of town. One of the Orcs shouted that they would be back. After that, Dianora met the towns Mayoress, and I chatted to Sir Guy and showed him how to be sneeky, but he already knew. *pouts* He gave me some nice Cider though. *hic*.

I hope my pony tails grow back soon. Maybe I'll go see the pixies and see if they have some magic pixie pony tail dust.

We had to find it first though, Hal and I looked everywhere for it and we also asked some of the town workers if they had seen it, but they had not, however Hal eventually found it in a workshop. He has given me some instructions and tools to make it work. I will spend all night seeing if I can get it to make muffins!

After visiting Hal I took a short nap before heading down to Spiritwood. There I met some stuffy people all sitting on the top of a tower. They were not doing much, so I told them about myself. One of them was an elf like Elv'eng, he pretended not to like me *giggles*. A rather sinister fellow called Spoon also joined us for a bit. Apparently he likes to kidnap Eloise, which is not very nice! I tried to look under his skull, but he was having none of it *shrugs*.

After visiting Spiritwood, I headed back up North and ran into some Orcs near the Orc Fort, however they were not alone. Spoon and some other people dressed like him were there too talking with the Orcs. They did not talk about much though. Once Skull and his friends left, unfortunately the Orcs discovered me, and they caught me *grumbles*. They forced me to give them a tribute which was not very nice, but luckilly my muffin machine was ok.

Before escaping the Shaman that was there cut me with a knife and took some of my blood which he put in a vial. That was not very nice! I then ran home to Deepwater, but on the way home I heard some nice music in a hut, so I had to investigate! I went inside and met Salix the Pixie! I've never met a Pixie before, so this was exiciting. I think Pixies are like me a little. They like llamas and muffins too! Salix was very nice and gave me a Pixie Statue. I warned her that I over heard the Orcs talking about trapping Pixies using shiny things. Salix is a tree pixie, so I told her about my tree hugging friend Elv'eng. I think they would get on swell.

As I thought, they were up to no good. They travelled to the fair town of Dreamstone where they proceeded to extract Tributes from the citizens that were there. I crept closer to see what was going on. As I did so, one of the citizens decided to fight the Orcs rather than hand over some Tribute. The Orcs were swift in responding and cut down three citizens! I responded as best I could, but the Orcs were well prepared and cut the citizens down quickly! I had to flee into the town, where I hid. I tried to creep back to the front of the tavern now and then, there was one other citizen still alive who was attacking the Orcs too. Between us we managed to take down two of their number. We kept the Orcs busy enough to stop them burning down any of the towns buildings. The Orcs then left the town, but I could tell by the scowl on Saktoth's face that Dreamstone has not seen the last of these foul beasts.

Initially this confused the grunt I had been toying with, but one of their shamans came out, and he saw through my disguise, I think. He told me to come inside, he needed me to help him with something..... I thought this might be a good way to get some information on what the evil creatures were up to. Sadly I was to be disappointed...... The Shaman told me to stand on a pentagram, and then he tried to get me to drink Mongbat blood, but I refused..... He then asked me to eat some fish he had made earlier. This had a sweet taste to it, so I obliged (It was sort of tasty in a funny way). The the Shaman told me to put a carrot in my mouth, but that I should not eat it......I thought this weird....I did as he intructed. Whilst I held the carrot carefully in my mouth, the Shaman farted around for some time looking for a book. Eventually he found it! Then he started chanting (This scared one of the other Orcs who moved away). When he finished chanting I found myself enveloped in flames! But somehow I was stuck to the ground so I could not move. This was very scary.... I could feel myself being cooked alive. Luckilly after a little while the shaman waved his paw and the fire died down. He then plucked the carrot out of my mouth, grinned and told the other two orcs that, that was how an Orc cooked a carrot! 

As you may imagine I was horrified at this! And they burnt my new robe too. Well anyway, the moral of the story is, never help an Orc, you will not get any useful information and they may try to cook you! They let me go after........

Shortly after I got there, Mr Brook arrived. I told him briefly about my encounter with Nystul. I did not tell him he had the same beard style as Nystul. Mages are quite protective of their beards I have found. After some more idle chit chat we left the tavern. Outside we discussed where we should head in Ilshenar. Mr Brook suggested we head to the shrine of Honour. Asteanna the mage then joined us though she was late (as usual)...... Everyone seemed happy with the idea of travelling to Honour and so we headed on out. Just North of the Shrine in Ilshenar we found a cave entrance. Inside this was a desert area with some weird bat like creatures, which I later learnt were Gargoyles, and some pesky doggys. There was also a building that sat on a Lake in this area, and iside I found a real live SPARKLY! It was very exciting. Mr Brook and the Elf were more excited about some silly fountain. We then travelled East through a small green valley that led to a large grassland area. There were a few savages milling around in their smelly fashion. We dispatched these with haste and then came across some ruins. These seemed to be quiet at first, but suddenly a dragon roared through a ruined wall and we all scrambled outside back on to the grassland plain. The dragon flew after us! Eventually we formed ourselves into some sort of battle group and after a long battle we dispatched the beast back to the Abyss. Mr Brook had to suddenly leave then. After a short rest, we decided to venture into the ruins again. On our way back we met Max andhe joined us  inside where we slew another dragon and some drakes. The ruins seemed dangerous so rather than travel through them we decided to go around them. On the other side we found a small tower which was occupied by some mages and their diabolical creations, Golems.

After getting rid of the pesky mages and their dangerous creations, we ventured to the Southeast a bit where we found a large Savage settlement. We had a dangerous battle there, but managed to hold the hoard off long enough to retreat back to the safety of the grassland. Luckilly the elf sensed a hidden entrance in the mountain side, which took us through to a gypsy camp on the other side. One of the gypsys was a banker, which was useful. At this point we split the gold from our adventure and unfortunately Lacrima and Asteanna had to take their leave of us.

Max, the elf and I went back through the cave and around the ruins. This time we found an orchard full of those berries the savages sometimes carry. We also met some savages who we dispatched and then we found another small valley which led us to a murky place that had a overpowering smell of sulphur about it. After battling some Golems and their evil mage controllers we fought our way inside a bizarre building that appeared to be full of mechanical contraptions. In the depths of this place of evil we bumped into a huge machine that had a large choppa! It was particularly scary, and with just the three of us we could not destroy it. So we left this area and headed up North through another small valley which led us into another desert area. After travelling a short distance we came across a marvel of a city. It would appear to be a Gargoyle city. In this city there were all manner of weird contraptions and creations, but the Gargoyles seemed friendly. When we left this city, my tummy was beginning to grumble, and I remembered Uncle John was preparing his stew, so I bade my companions farewell and headed home.

Anyway, Nystul had something interesting to say though. Apparently Exodus' evil tower thingymejiggys have been destroyed, but Exodus' dungeon in Ilshenar retains some of its energy. Now if you ask me that sounds like gobbledigook, but Conrad seemed to take this message very seriously. I guess some brave adventurers should go to Ilshenar and investigate this energy stuff. Oh and someone might want to tell that randy stable boy at the palace to watch his step, he insisted on invading my personal space all the time. Hmmph!

So the pesky mage is ordering people around and they are following his orders. In go Ingots, those clockwork thingies, gems and all sorts, and as the people put thingies in the boxes out comes this huge tower. Nystul says it will be used to create some spell or something to do something to some Exodus thingy. Whilst all this is happening I bump into Mr O'Lion. He seemed pleased to see me, and was just sending Gui Zarith home since Gui had stones stuck in his sandals. (Gui also has dirty books *giggles*, but that's another story). Once Gui was safely on his way we went behind a hedge to look at the workers toiling for Nystul. Mr O'Lion seemed troubled by all this and muttered something about not trusting a man who had already split the world once.

I thought this was very exciting, I guided the man who owns Spiritwood (he keeps on telling he does not, *giggles* he's so sweet) to the man who owns Britania! And then the Regent started telling Pad to gather this and that to help Nystul in his project. Pad was not impressed by this and told the Regent that he did not trust the man who was responsiple for splitting the world in two. I wonder how Nystul did that?

Elv'eng the elf was also there and he seemed bemused by the two men talking about Nystul. Whilst this went on a Guardsman from the Militia turned up. Usually whenever I meet one of these Guardsmen something exciting happens. Did I tell you about the time they arrested me and tried to set fire to me, but a Gobo rescued me? *giggles* Anyway the Guardsman had come to lend his support to the Regent and Nystul. The Regent start reeling off a list of things he needed, Arcane Gems, Clockwork mechanisms and so on. The Guardsman told the Regent rather bluntly that while they had destroyed many Golems and other such things, they had not recovered any of the artefacts these evil creatures dropped since they were prohibited in doing so by their own laws. The Regent was not too pleased with this I think, but the Guardsmen said he would do what he could to aid Nystul.