September 5th, 2016, 09:41 AM
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Join Date: November 22, 2006
Location: KY - Louisville
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Re: Map Building Contest: Ruins of Valhalla
An expedition record, of sorts:
Spoiler Alert!
Vydar's Log
Found 9 years After Battle of All Time (ABAT)
Log date 6 ABAT
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Scouts returning unharmed is enough cause for celebration on its own. There were so few of us to begin with, even this long after the war each loss is one we cannot afford. However, the news they bring this day is the best we've had in a very long time.
Previous flights over the great tundra to the north had shown every kilometer, even previously inhabited, to be as covered in dunes of snow as Volcarren is naught but fire and ash, and still further south the swamps and jungles have reclaimed everything as well. Today's returning patrol tells me there is a spot of thaw among the ice. It seems as though something is beginning to melt away that which has frozen over the third fort we had rediscovered in Thalenk.
More than just the battlements atop its uppermost towers are visible from there air, now. Hopeful speculation is that there is a wellspring located there. I do not recall this to be the case during the war, but then those wellsprings are no more, their power gone. Perhaps power returns to the land anew. If there is a chance that it is true, the time may have come to finally leave our safe haven. We must claim it for the Alliance...
The Alliance. Part of me wants to say I was right, that standing against the forces of Utgar would end in destruction. Thankfully, that seems to have been mutual: the armies of both sides, like the lands of Valhalla, have all been devastated. On the other hand, had we - no, I alone made that decision - had I not left, perhaps... But it will not do to dwell on this, not now. Not with power once again in the land. We must act.
I know the war ended, both won and lost, for better or worse. Now may be our chance to begin a new Valhalla. Yet I cannot shake the feeling, since hearing this news, that we are not the only ones interested in Thalenk III. Whom or what else could be, I cannot say...
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Was Vydar successful? Do we follow in his footsteps toward freedom or folly?
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