Moonglow, Trammel, Chesapeake (PaxLair Times) – June 2, 2011 – by Aramathia – Confusion is defined as a lack of understanding, or uncertainty. The word chaos can be defined as a condition or place of great disorder. As such, it would have appeared that the evil called up from the magical powers of Kendrick Morrow blatantly used such tactics as confusion and chaos in addition to the usual, daemon, fire, and brimstone.
Morrow, he of the dark Phylactery obelisks that appeared in townships across Sosarian lands, was the evil being hunted by Balandar and crew, recently, in an attempt to locate his central location and source of the phylacteries – the Nemesis Stone! A large (by large, maybe it is meant uncontrollably massive) group gathered recently to join the mage Balandar in his search. From the very beginning, it was obvious to all that not only would the evils of Britannia be fought, but also the dreaded and as-yet-unbeatable, lag monster, itself.
Once all gathared in Balandar’s not-quite-large-enough house, the mass was updated and informed by Balandar on recent findings. He was able to locate the central location by extrapolating the energy vectors from the attacked cities and their phylacteries. On this night, however, the group was to lay seige to that location and to destroy the Nemesis Stone once and for all (server connections permitting, naturally).
Balandar then requested that anyone in posession of a glowing crystallized liquid recovered from the township nemesis monsters, to please hand them in for use in destroying the stone. It appeared that at least 5 were handed in. Next, he informed the group that in order to destroy the nemesis stone, each of the trapped nightmare clusters must be destroyed, in turn.
Once gated to the central location, all lag broke loose. The aforementioned confusion was cast about on all attendees and total chaos ensued as Morrow’s secret lair was using all its dark secrets to repel its attackers. Indeed, some left over the course of the battle as the constant deployment of disorder was too much for many to handle.
Eventually, the center tiles were cleared, and Balandar (who knew he was still there?), was able to place the slave and destroy the Nemesis Stone. It would appear that this author has missed steps such as the nightmare clusters or those glowing crystals, however it would appear the event forgot them as well.
Upon destroying the Nemesis Stone, Balandar spasmed greatly and disappeared! At that time, none other than Kendrick Morrow appeared and threatened the group upon which he summoned his Archnemesis Daemon! Again, extreme confusion and chaos (not to mention the lag monster), were the main points of attack. Eventually, miraculously, the Archnemesis Daemon was defeated allowing Balandar to return to the realm.
After returning to Balandar’s house (still quite too small for this occasion), more confusion ensued as Balandar could not decide if he should address the mass from inside or out, eventually deciding on the latter. Victory was announced, but a warning was issued stating that this was only yet the beginning of the end. Morrow, himself, it seemed, still needed to be ultimately defeated!
Then, all were invited to the bar for drinks. Chaotic Ales and Confusing Wines were undoubtedly the drinks of choice.
