Mages make you believe

Yesterday we went on a fast Wendiehunt to try to find the last skulls for Tarras cap. We had already brought down a few, when we decided to try to kill the Silverback-Nightwendecka who had haunted the place for some time now. At first i was a bit sceptical as i couldn´t recall a single event from before the great storm where we had manged to kill one of these impressive beasts. But Abe joined our group and with his mental enhancement we fighters were able to mostly evade its giant fists.
Crash didn´t seem to be fully into it, he feared the Silverback might be his father. Although both have quite broad shoulders, i can´t really imagine his father being a Wendecka. I think one would notice differences in his appearance then, such as full hair.
But soon after the first attempts Leda came along and boosted us even more and with this belief in our own strength we quickly killed the Silverback. Crash didn´t really look happy, but it was done! I was really impressed by what a skilled group can achieve. Soon after we found another Silverback and brought him down aswell. It made me wonder wether the two had been rivals and their fights had weakened them, but it might also have been my lasting astonishment about us coming out on top of these fights.


It didn´t take that long until we had found Tarra's skulls and decided it was time once more to search for fox meat. Therefore we ran to Foxden and with Leda and Abe convincing us that we were able to kill all the foxes we indeed managed to slay them. Sadly we found not the slightest hint on how to peel a fox joint out of one of their bodies, but at least we were able to recover a lot of their nice furs.

Excellent healers save the day

The day started with some more festivities in the Hall'o'ween-tower. Several fighters were around and doing quests or killing various monsters. When i ahd to visit Reizende i discovered that she, too, had prepared for the celebrations and wore a costume. She was in a full plate armour that seemed shaped for a Kyttyn rather than for a Hamini, but she walked sure-footed and handled her mooncrystal with the same skill as always.

Back in the tower i discovered a fine piece of sculptors art: a dragon! Although the surrounding was not exactly inviting this statue made me linger there for a while.


Later in the evening i was once again asked if i was interested in a hunt to Ardvell. Although there were just Ursus and me as fighters, which made me a little doubtful, Jade and 4 healers we managed quite well. In the beginning Ursus lured the spiders towards us again, but then we became more bold and hunted through some few snells. Open borders then caused half the group to fall, but a nice chainrun from Ursus back to the landing place saved us. We had just gone west again when a huge spawn of Mammut arachnes forced us to flee again. In the following confusion nearly everyone fell and as a Sekat and some Nathair were waiting in the water the healers couldn´t go there either. What followed was a great example for Lepori zigzagging and Azcatl selfheal in the course of which Tarra and Lafaborn managed to lure spiders away, rise the other healers and bring us towards a rather safe place. I was so impressed i forgot to run when i was raised first, but the pain reminded me of my visinity again. We then ran to the portal cave(maybe on one of the next hunts a mage willing to learn that portal will accompany us, it would save us the boattrip!), where Ursus had been chained to and soon after manged to rescue Jade as well.

We decided we had killed enough spiders by then, as we had even found several red spidereggs! Our next target was the Ardvell Swamp. Jago joined our group for this hunt, while Terra Bul and Jade left. Her skills in recovering scales paid off well as the swamp is not only housed by Meshra but also by Kajmanos. We didn´t find any Kajmanoskin, but won the knowledge that we are actually able to hunt there. We even defeated an Anaconda, one of the biggest snakes i ever saw!
A narrow ravine in the northeastern mountains is fortified with a huge stone wall, behind which several flea-slings...umh..dogs kept watch. The guard at the gate was very rude though and barred the entrance.

Before we returned we quickly landed on the Thieves plateau in the west to see wether we could kill the boars lurking near the landing place. As it turned out we could, but we did not have the skill to cut their tusks from the cadavers. A man in Burh Fierlen, the rainy city in Ardvell, is asking for them in order to open his weapon shop again.

Exhausted, but not really sleepy yet, i went into the Hall'o'ween tower again. With the help of the others i managed to do the Onaquest, which was a very hard and tiring chase. After helping Jago try it as well and helping to get to fallen Warrax i was so weary i could only go meditating.

Booohooooo

Yesterday was the first day of the feast of Hall'o'ween, which we celebrate every four years. A magic (and scary) tower appeared next to the arena and a Clown in TC is selling tickets for it. The tower itself houses even more towers! You can see Ghosts, Skeletons and Pumpkins everywhere.

Shortly after we entered the tower, Leda awoke and brought me my cap, on which she had mounted propably the finest crystal i ever found. It has four attributes, all of them positive! Wounds close faster now, i feel more healthy, can keep my balance better and hit more accurate!

Soon we found out that there were people looking for certain items who gave a reward for bringing them this item. More and more people came to celebrate the feast and so we entered the southwestern tower. It´s floors are littered with monoliths, which required some tactics, but the 3rd floor proved too hard for us. But there were also some Golems we could fight. Gravier, who is back in the lands seems to have recovered from long sitting around and already sounds like a true Nor again:I hope the festivities will continue some more days, i am eager to try to kill some eerie eyes in the spider-like tower with a nice group.