Gormonkane. The Avatar of the Elements. The Champion of Tyrra. Held in a prison for 1,000 long years.
Yes, by now must everyone in Avendale has heard of Gormonkane. This is the story
of how he was finally freed from his long imprisonment by two humans, a half-fae,
a stone elf, two Sarr, a dwarf, a biata, and an Amani elf.
It was Sunday morning of the most recent Avendale gathering. I guess that would
make it about the 21st of July, but I would have to double check that to be
sure. I had just gotten out of a long morning conversation with Squire Kheldon
and Sir Celdric, and I was milling about on the field with Sir Kaylin and Noble.
Suddenly I heard a voice in my head, asking me if I had been involved in the
previous dealings with Gormonkane. I told the voice that I had, and it told
me to follow it. So I did.
I began walking off, and Sir Kaylin looked at me and said, "Seronia, where
are you going?"
"I am going to help Gormonkane," I told him.
"Are you being compelled to go?" he asked me.
"No, I am going of my own free will," I replied.
"Can I come?" he inquired.
The voice agreed that he could come too, and so Sir Kaylin followed me to where
the voice was leading us.
When I got there, I found that the rest of the group had already been assembled.
It was heavy in members of House Bashere, and also included Olspi of the merchant's
guild. Altogether, our group was composed of Sir Kaylin, Bling, Morris, Dale
Conners, Titania, Jimmy Redgrave, Lathaya, Olspi, and myself.
I looked around, and thought that we had a pretty good composition. We were
heavy in healing and life spells with Olspi, Morris, and myself. We had Bling
and Lathaya for celestial support and Jimmy for the do everything role that
rogues often play. With Dale, Titania, and Sir Kaylin, we also had a good contingent
of fighters, so overall it was a very solid group.
Unfortunately, many of our spell casters were low on spells, especially Morris,
so we would have been in a lot of trouble had not Gormonkane decided to reset
all of our abilties. We were very thankful for that gesture on his part.
Well, in order to get to where Gormonkane was being held, we all stood in a
circle, and then a portal opened up behind each of us and we were pulled back
through the portal. We re-appeared in another place by being shot back through
those same portals. We all kind of ended up in a heap on the ground, knocked
down by crashing together.
Morrris and Bling informed us that this was the same place where they had talked
to Gormonkane the last time, and warned us that Gormonkane was potentially guarded
by chaos elementals. Gormonkane explained that we would have to fight our way
through many rooms full of chaos elementals if we hoped to make it to what we
needed, which was the Staff of Balance.
We realized that this undertaking would be very dangerous, but that we would
have to do it, anyway. The first few rooms of chaos elementals weren't too bad,
but the fighting was grueling, especially since it was very hot, and we were
beginning to wear down. To make matters even worse, we were running out of spells.
Of course, Gormonkane fixed this by resetting our abilities, especially those
of Morris and Olspi, at a pretty regular pace.
The next few rooms got even tougher. Several times the majority of the group
was dropped, and it looked like we might fail in our mission. The chaos elementals
would continually circle us, and I would try to defend the back. Unfortunately,
it was not easy to do, and so the back line would constantly fall, leaving the
front line vulnerable. We survived several times of this occurring only because
Gormonkane kept helping us bring our people back up.
One particular battle that I engaged in was rather foolish. I found myself separated
from the rest of the group, alone with a chaos elemental. The chaos elemental
attacked, and I fought back, but I discovered that I could not affect it with
my weapon. I activated an enchanted blade, and went after the creature, despite
the fact that I was swinging for half as many dagger blows and it could take
twice as many blows as I could. Somehow, though, I managed to take it down and
rejoin the group, proud in my accomplishment but angry at myself for getting
so badly separated like that.
At any rate, we continued to move on, and finally we came to a room filled with
one standing chaos elemental, who looked very large, and many sitting chaos
elementals. The large chaos elemental began taunting us, telling us that even
if we got the Staff of Balance, we wouldn't know how to use it, and it would
overcome us. The elemental even managed to vampire charm Morris, but Olspi and
I practically tripped over ourselves diving to awaken him.
After that, Sir Kaylin and I, the only two people in the group who could resist
charms, stepped to the front. We continued to talk to the elemental, and he
challenged us to a combat for the Staff. We would choose three of our best to
fight against only him. Sir Kaylin, Titania, and Dale, our three fighters stepped
forward. We later realized that we should have put Morris in there as a healer,
but by then it was too late.
The combat began, and we were actually doing very well. Sir Kaylin was blocking
almost all of the elementals blows with his shield, and Titania and Dale were
hitting the elemental from the sides. Unfortunately, the elemental then used
a slay to drop Sir Kaylin, and I figured we were finished. I didn't realize,
though, that Titania and Dale both carried magic items with healing capabilities.
They were able to heal Sir Kaylin, and we were still in business. Sir Kaylin
kept going after the elemental, while Titania and Dale kept hitting it from
the sides and doing healing when necessary.
Finally, after much effort, the chaos elemental went down. We grabbed the staff
and ran, and the little chaos elementals came after us. Several of our number
were taken down, but we managed to get them back and heal them up. Finally,
we made it back to the room we came in through, reformed into the circle, and
went back through the portals.
We came out somewhere near Grienkala, but just on the outskirts of it. Apparently
Gormonkane was able to use the Staff to cure himself and then to free himself,
and we just watched in awe as this unbelievable being stood before us.
He thanked us for our help, and asked us to tell him of Avendale. We figured,
why tell him when we can show him, and so he came with us to Avendale. Actually,
he allowed us to go to Avendale in grand style, flying there under our own power.
It was an amazing experience, let me tell you.
Once in Avendale, we introduced Gormonkane to everybody, and people were amazed
to meet the famous Son of Tyrra. He also aided us in our battle against the
fire elementals later that day, swinging for fifty dagger blows of ice against
them and using his almost unlimited supply of healing for the benefit of the
town, as well as reseting abilities.
In the end, the story of Gormonkane still has much to be written in it, and
I think that we have not seen the last of him by a long shot. And for Avendale,
that's a good thing.
Scribed by Seronia on the 6th day of August in the year 602.