Current Training: Fell Blade

Donations: Cassia Allin (30-40%).

Exploration: Gerag's cave.

Soldi, day 71 of Summer, 558.

I saw reports recently that an Orga Ire of the newly-revealed Orga tribe had made a stand in Gerag's cave near the South Pass (the Slime cave). It seemed an odd spot for Orga, becuse I cannot recall ever having seen one there before.

After a fierce battle, the Ire was finally defeated after making it's last stand at the base of the waterfall.

It was reported by Mystics in that battle that they felt that the Orga Ire was protecting some sort of path or passage in the waterfall itself, and that this lead to the new Orga. Because of heavy Warlock presence, no one got a close look to see if any path or illusion existed there.

I got a chance to look over the remains of the battlefield after things had cooled down, and I took a close look at this waterfall.

I've always been intrigued by this spot because it has a curious property: standing in the torrent pushing upstream is damaging, as one might expect, but one also appears to swing against the cascade.

I've never actually hit anything there, but it is curious.

In any case, I was unable to see any actual path there, nor did the waterfall seem different in any way from previous visits.

I also noticed nothing new in the rest of the cave.

Still, this place bears watching ...

I also got a chance to return to the deep Tok'Han lair with PTF.

My ability to hit Lime and Emerald Tok'Han's seemed just a bit better, but I have a long way to go to hit these consistently and really contribute to killing them.

With both SnowLion and Aldernon bloodblading and Jo Ma'ril using his well-trained Fell blade, even these beasts did not stand long against us, however.

This time we were successful in taking the final egg room.

Unsurprisingly, I saw no hints of further paths leading deeper into the earth, so this does appear to be the end of the Tok'Hans' domain.

Once again I grabbed a gold ore, and once again wasn't lucky in winning it. Being the openning pathfinder has its priviledges (being the first exile targeted and often falling first), but keeping the ore isn't one of them.

I was out hunting one day recently when I felt that J'jh had fallen to an Abyssal Hunter.

At first I assumed that she had joined Yor on one of his forays into the Abyss to hunt. Then I heard a flurry of frantic sunstone messages crying that Abyssal Hunters were assaulting Puddleby!

By the time I got there, town was over-run with bands of Abyssal Hunters chasing the few remaining exiles about.

We regrouped in the Libraries and Temples, and attacked in numbers, vanquishing a number of these before being chased back into buildings.

By the time we had rescued the large number of fallens on chains and healed everyone to fight again, fresh waves of Abyssal Hunters had reinforced their beleagured brethren.

And so the fighting went on, sometimes with exiles nearly eliminating the invaders, and sometimes being driven from the field of battle to recover.

Eventually we defeated the last of these ad reclaimed the town. When I took time to count, I found I had helped vanquish nearly 200!

An impressive invasion indeed.

With Melabrion's armor deal finally completed, our metalworkers have learned copper and tin smelting in addition to the iron and gold refining they already knew, and how to fashion bronze and iron armor from these various pure metals.

Now available are helmets, breastplates and shields made of each alloy. Each takes quite a few ingots of various metals, so they are something only the richest and luckiest exiles may obtain.

I am not so lucky, having accumulated several copper ores over the years, but only a single gold ore and no tin ore at all. My passion for searching for iron ore to help Champion questors has kept me in iron metal, but most of mine is stored in the form of chains. Unfortunately.

In any case, I was able to help Elenis Reyav with obtaining an iron breastplate, by providing him some extra iron metal.

As more fighters acquire these items, I look forward to hearing of definitive tests of just how useful they are in shielding one from damage, and of how costly they are to maintain.

Curiously, we also now learned how to refine lead metal from lead ore, but not what we might use lead metal for, nor where to find lead ore.

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