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Revision as of 19:55, 12 January 2009
At the bottom of this resource page from Democritus, there's a great calendar of the months.
Jagged Throne Events
Saturnday, 6 Descending Wood
Day of the threat. Given 1 week to respond and an ambassador to host until a decision is made.
- Demands
- A 4-story high temple to the Immaculate Order
- 300 men to be sent away to be trained and work with the Immaculate Order
- Sand-Covers-Jade will have a new ruler
- Sand-Covers-Jade will submit to the Wyld Hunt
- 100 healthy men sent every year to Chiaroscuro as slaves
- Boy arrives from the desert, blind and nearly dead.
Two days of travel. Day of meeting the mask monster in the Valley of the Oracle.
- The monster has devastated this valley and tortured the voice of the oracle. In exchange for his mask, he will leave these people be and wait in Sand-Covers-Jade as protection from Jarryk Winterheart's army.
Day of travel with ambush from the Blue Silk Raiders. Day of travel. Day within the Border Marches where the fight for the mask is won by Kestrel. Day of fleeing with a storm closing in. First day of the storm sheltered by Eris' skills.
Moonday, 15 Descending Wood
Second day of the unnatural storm.
- Fight with the ensuing beastmen
- Exalt of Bright Ocean on the full moon
- First appearance of Veiled Daughter Descending
- Continued travel to Sand-Covers-Jade
Day of travel.
Mercuryday, 17 Descending Wood
Day of returning to Sand-Covers-Jade.
- Kestrel returned the mask to the monster who then left the city
- Meet up with Vashtari and Tall Stone
- Deal struck with the encamped army
- Our ambassador, who was trying to poison people and almost poisoned himself while we were away, is the new ruler of Sand-Covers-Jade
- Voss and the new ruler do not see eye-to-eye on anything.
- Decision made to take a portion of the refugees to the Valley of the Oracle as the majority of people there were slain
- Bright Ocean reveals some troubling details to her siblings regarding her exaltation
First day of the caravan to the Valley of the Oracle.
- Refugees praise and worship the exalted ones, songs are sung about them, and offerings are left for them
Two days of travel.
Sunday, 21 Descending Wood
Day of the arrival at twilight at the Valley of the Oracle.
- Meet by warrior women, as all the men were slain
- The guards recognize Bright Ocean and we obtain passage into the city
- Clean up of all the destruction has begun and a heroic statue (memorial) is in the initial stages of construction
- Keeper requests to see all those who were there on the first trip and those we trust and gives us the prophecies the Oracle has made
- Oracle has not spoken of the mask monster
- Strife in Sand-Covers-Jade, a political figure with a thorn in his ankle, must see peaceful resolution
- Sent the blind boy, Wing, by escort to assist with the situation in Sand-Covers-Jade
- Water would be Kestrel's doom (liquid)
- Tall Stone will test all that Kestrel might drink before he does so
- Bright Ocean would write her name in silver southeast where the sand turns to grass
- There three stand on a journey, the leader has a feather in his hair
- Great fire with a dreadful intelligence stands in our way
- Someone who hates all bright life under the sun and the sky is our enemy and knows our names
- Claw of the Grave, Death Knight, is sent to recruit to his banner
- Feast is prepared in our honour
- Lunar exalteds go hunting while the rest talk of Death Knights
Day two in the Valley of the Oracle.
- Third Jaguar trains the Oracle's troops all morning
- More information from the Keeper
- Third Jaguar is crucial to the new honourable satrap's redemption and the satrap should not be involved with violence
- Sacrifice is to be made to the storm god for rain
- Tall Stone challenges the old woman leader of the Valley's troops
- Start travel in late afternoon so that we are traveling by night
Marsday, 23 Descending Wood
Day of sleep, then travel.
- Notice shadows traveling behind us so Bright Ocean, Kestrel, and Eris investigate
- Three war wraiths who work for Claw of the Grave follow and advise that they are just watching and will take no action unless we interfere with anyone which includes just talking
Three days of night travel.
- Begin to see perfectly good items discarded along the roadside as well as some poorly dug graves
- A settlement ahead will take an extra day of travel to go around
- After discovering that the people in the town aren't taking care of themselves and the living conditions are horrible, Vashtari cannot stand by and let it happen, but the rest see the need to keep moving to get Bright Ocean her tattoos
- Some in-fighting ensues, Veiled Daughter Descending reveals herself from beneath the destiny of Charity Grows, and Kestrel takes matters into his own hands and goes into the town, invisible, to get a truer picture of the situation - these people are killing themselves to dig a pit to the Underworld
- Decision is made to interfere in the affairs of the town, but to travel around the town first so that we can run in the right direction
Day of interference at the settlement
- Collapsing the pit by Bright Ocean and Eris happens before we rest for the day and have a few more hours of travel left
- After the collapse, an emissary of Claw of the Grave attacks
Kestrel, his father once lamented, was never overly burdened with brains. He lacked the cunning and insight of his youngest sister. He lacked the judgment and prudence of his eldest. Kestrel, his father complained, was impulsive and reckless. Those qualities served him well today.
The dead kite climbed its thermal, circling into the desert sky. Kestrel knew he could never warn the others: not in time; not on foot. Still, he ran--toward the wall so far past the carrion-glutted vultures. His feet whispered on the rooftops like the winds that caress the dunes, and the scavengers paid it no more heed. The sudden slap of leather on stone was no accident. The noise echoed like a thunderclap in that quiet city, and spun the birds into flight.
The buzzards scattered like sand in the storm, lofted by wide black wings, and Kestrel fell upon them like the jackal. At this close distance, he could see their stony gaze was fearless--though indignant at having been roused from their meals, they knew another was near. The man tried to hate them for their dispassion, and failed. His footsteps scarcely ruffled a feather as he climbed the avian staircase up--over the wall and high above the city--and pushing off with all his might, leapt higher still.
At the apex of his flight, Kestrel banished a nagging doubt that (perhaps) he had erred in his estimation. Gathering his focus and blazing like the noon-day sun, he gulped a breath of thin, dry air, and fell. He plummeted like a comet banished from the night sky, like an angel spat from heaven. The wind whipped the scarf from his head, and scoured his face with sand; it twisted his mouth, and tore tears from his eyes. Above, the vultures circled--flat silhouettes against a crystal blue sky. Above, the kite wheeled, and extending its talons, started its dive.
- Fight
- Travel for a few more hours before resting
Three days uneventful travel out of the Death Knight's territory.
Mercuryday, 3 Ascending Fire
Day of rest after entering the grass made of sand savanna of the Wyld.
- Change from traveling at night to travel during the day
Five days of uneventful travel through the Wyld with Eris' leadership.
Marsday, 9 Ascending Fire
Day of meeting the other Lunars
- After following a lanterned road east through the Wyld and being warned to not go west past our entry point, there is a crossroads with a tent and heavy smell of blood
- One Thousand Heartbeats in a Still Wood greets us with wariness and suspicion, Burning Scars cares for the ailing Avenger's Eye
- The elder Avenger's Eye will be the one to tattoo Bright Ocean once the spell upon his soul has been released
- Eris and Bright Ocean track the source of the spell by a squiggly bit of flesh
Two days travel with no sunset on the second day due to the bonfire to the east.
Mercuryday, 12 Ascending Fire
Day of the fight with the demons.
- As the approach is made, animals flee the woods, and battle preparations are made, the twin pillars of fire are no doubt that which was in the prophecy from the oracle
- A corrupted water dragon-blooded helps the fire to their demonic ends
- Veiled Daughter Descending is forgotten about in the beginning of the fight, Vashtari is badly hurt, Kestrel fights valiantly against the water dragon-blooded as does Tall Stone, all the Solar exalts fight the water dragon-blooded for fear of the prophecy made about Kestrel's death
- Both corrupted fires are killed and released of the bonds of Malfeas which in turn allowed to water dragon-blooded to regain her senses and escape the fight with her life
- The water dragon-blooded was still demon infested so Veiled Daughter Descending deftly removed the demon in her neck which was promptly squished by Bright Ocean with a large rock. She also had a demon at her command waiting nearby to protect her.
Day of water dragon-blooded waking up.
- After a night's sleep for all, we have the opportunity to speak with the girl.
- She is a young albino who was very proud as most dragon-blooded and conceded that she owes Veiled Daughter Descending for saving her life
- Her name is Pale Torrent of the Flowing Birthright
- Her last memory was during calibration although the particulars of the events would not be divulged as it was a matter of life and death for her family
- She did tell us that there were many present that were stronger than she and her brothers
- Travel for the rest of the day
Two days more of return travel.
Moonday, 15 Ascending Fire
Day of arrival at Avenger's Eye's tent.
- He is returned to health and takes Bright Ocean to get her tattoos
Three days more of camp while Bright Ocean receives her tattoos.
- Discussions with Pale Torrent of the Flowing Birthright provide no further information
Venusday, 19 Ascending Fire
Day of Bright Ocean's return.
- Avenger's Eye, who has feathers in his hair, returns with Bright Ocean and tells us that Seal of the Unbound had the honour of tattooing her, he presents her for the first time as Bright Eyes Over Silver
- The Wardens of Gaia now go to heal the savanna
- The damage done by the demon and they survived this time
- They feel that the dragon-blooded were on a quest for power which is how the situation arose as the gateway is not easily opened
- They depart on relatively friendly terms with the exception of Tall Stone who insulted them and have them make him an unfriendly promise upon meeting any of his family
- Before departing, Avenger's Eye and Eris speak privately
- Bright Eyes Over Silver now has cat eye's in all forms
Two days more of rest.
Moonday, 22 Ascending Fire
Day of travel out of the Wyld. Day of encounter with the demon riders.
- Twelve riders - men on saddled horses trying to out pace us
- Bright Eyes Over Silver goes to find out more
- The horses who have been ridden near to death are lying down of exhaustion
- The leader has a mask of black feathers and they all have demonic green glows from their eyes the same as Pale Torrent of the Flowing Birthright
- She witnesses the leader saying, "To the victors" ritual speech before beheading one of the horses with an obsidian blade
- The horses were sacrificed to us
- We engage them so that Vashtari may speak with them regarding their purpose
- We note the demonic infestation markings on their necks
- Vashtari learns that this demon is but one splinter of KillRex the Hive and his purpose is to be worshipped before she unwittingly calls for the destruction of one of their number
- Veiled Daughter Descending interferes and removes the demon again which Bright Eyes Over Silver smashes with a rock
- Fight ensues leaving four dead and we are able to save eight
Three days rest before the first of the tribesmen awake.
- They are the Night Chasers tribe who are very savage
- They will die if we just leave them in the hot desert
Venusday, 26 Ascending Fire
Two days rest to ensure safety of Night Chasers.
- They require the additional rest due their trauma from being possessed by a demon.
- Pale Torrent of the Flowing Birthright departs on first day of rest, but provides Veiled Daughter Descending with a coin which will allow contact to call in the debt owed.
Day of travel escort for Night Chasers.
- Eris ensures that the Night Chasers have directions enough to have them make it to familiar territory and home.
Day of travel through the very hot desert with companions getting fatigued.
Marsday, 2 Resplendent Fire
Sunday, 7 Resplendent Fire
To be continued...
