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=The Man In White, A Tale of Darkness=
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In The Jungle...
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 * "Your plan failed?" asked Seth, leader of the fortress of Naldalia in the Magumma Jungle.
 * "We are sorry to say so," replied the captain, "a man and woman came out of no where and thwarted our plans on Beetletun."
 * "How hard is it to reclaim one small village? Do you really need that much better of men to attack the weakest defenses in all of Kryta?!?
 * "I am sorry my liege, how can I try to repair the damage?"
 * Seth tapped his thumbs against his desk in anger, "Repair the damage? My niave friend, you and your troup just angered Lazurus, and when you anger Lazurus... we all die."

Meanwhile
Olias was in Lions Arch paying respects to his queen with his new friend Koss.
 * "Koss do you think that the White Mantel are really gone from this land?"
 * "I don't know Olias, but knowing you and your lust for honor your going to want to find out."
 * Olias turns to Koss and says, "You are actually very right, as usual I tend to think that the Mantel are attempting some plan on a bloodstone."
 * "Which bloodstone do you think?"
 * "Koss, by now from what I have told of this land you should know that the only bloodstone those fools feel safe using anymore since the death of the Inscribed Ettins is the one in Bloodstone Fen."
 * "Oh, that one!" Koss does a little bit of a realization dance excitedly, "so we are of to the jungle Olias?"
 * "Yes we are Koss, and remember, no running after the wind riders, the last time you tried that we all has sticky goo in our hair for weeks."
 * "Ok, ok, ok... but they are soooo cool!"
 * Olias sighs heavily.

Later That Day
Olias and Koss were about to leave Lions Arch when Firstwatch Sergio came up to them.
 * "My suggestion to you people, stay in the walls, there is something afoot tonight, my men have spotted things moving around in the shadows."
 * "We do not fear a few grasping ghouls and bog skale Sergio," said Olias, "surely you must know that."
 * "Still the same I don't trust it," replied Sergio, "if you wish to go to the jungle do not choose the North Kryta Province paths, see Jalji Tai about passage through D'Allesio instead."
 * "You worry to much Sergio, me and Koss can handle anything that comes and North Kryta is a shorter route."
 * "Still the same you need someone to help you, I will go ask the Queen, you stay here."
 * Twenty minutes pass, Olias has begun pondering escape and Koss is eating some Lokum in a corner.
 * "I have found someone who the Queen says can be trusted and has no current duty," said Sergio, "Dinas here has heard of your adventures and wishes to join your team."
 * "Indeed I do," said Dinas, "exactly where are we going and what are we doing though?"
 * "Nice to have you aboard," states Olias a little unhappily, "we are going into the Magumma Jungle to scout out any remaining Mantle resistance forces."
 * "An excelent idea, so I take it we head off in the morning?"
 * "It may be getting late thanks to Sergio here, however I am not about to waste any more hours in Lions Arch, come, we leave at once."

Lazuras The Dire
Seth is meeting with Lazarus The Dire in the fortress of Anchorlock to the north of Bloodstone Fen.
 * Lazuras in the form of a tall man with dark black hair crosses his fingers and gives off an angry look. "Seth, why did I hire you?"
 * "To protect and serve sir, also to break the resistance of the pretender Salma."
 * "Correct except for one thing, Salma is not the 'pretender' as you put it. She has a highly powerful object in her posession called a Aegis Stone, there are only three in exsistance."
 * "What is so special about a stone?"
 * "Seth, you are angering me, do not think I have forgoten the Bettletun incedent. The stone however is called the Daylight Shard, if we can bring the three shards together we will be able to do unthinkably powerful magics above even spectral agony."
 * "Does Salma know this?"
 * "Not at all, not at all, however we must take the stone from her and crush her in order to do more "important" things."
 * "How are we supposed to do this when most of the Mantle are dead?"
 * "Seth, I am not forgiving however I give you one more chance, there is an Island to the north called Gosata, find the people there, they will be expecting you and will fight for you. If you fail me again however, I will not let you off so easy next time."
 * "I understand my lord, but who shall lead my fortress in my absence?"
 * "I have arranged a new master already for you, go at once, and let me handle your priorities."
 * "Very well my lord," Seth bows deeply.

The Broken Caravan
Olias, Koss and Dinas are following the road north through North Kryta Province when they notice a ransacked caraven on the road.
 * "Shall we investigate?" asks Dinas curiously.
 * "May as well," states Olias, "apparently no one is anywhere nearby."
 * Olias and Dinas search the cart and find some canned food and some weapons, Koss lays around saying he is bored.
 * "This is very interesting," says Olias, "the cart is covered in blood yet there is no sign of a struggle and no corpses anywhere."
 * "It is rather unusual," states Dinas, "maybe when we settle down at the Ascalonian Settlement for the night we will find out more."
 * They wandered up the road for another hour while Koss made strange abnormal faces.
 * "So Olias," asked Dinas, "do you think we are going to find just a few straglers when we get there or something more?"
 * "I don't really know," states Olias, "however these people deserve freedom and I wish to insure that the incedent we heard abotu Bettletun does not repeat itself."
 * "That is diffenelty sound logic, just please don't make me wear one of those Mantle togas again."
 * "Uh, what? Never mind I don't want to know.

The Lazy Mergoyle
At last the party reaches the gates of the ascalonian settlement, they find that the town is going under major renovation changes, seems Captain Greywind thinks they are ready for stone houses and walls. As they arrive at the gate Olias notices a gate guard.
 * "Hello sir, do you know where we can stay for the night?"
 * "Why of course!" says the guard, "everyone knows that The Lazy Mergoyle Inn is the finest Inn and Pub in our small town, actually its also the only Inn and Pub in our town."
 * "How do we get there?"
 * "Captain Greywind has been having everything renovated so you will need to take this road tell it splits of tot he right, follow that trail until it passes three more roads, go up the hill to the left, the Inn is straight ahead, you cant miss it."
 * "Thank you good sir."
 * When they get to the Inn Olias goes up to the front desk.
 * "Room for three please."
 * "Very well sir, that will be 9 gold to stay the night, anything else?"
 * "Yes, do you know who we can talk to about caravan schedules in the general vicinity?"
 * "That would be old Nanth in the corner over there, he would know about that."
 * Olias walks up to Nanth, he appears to be semi-drunk and a little tired.
 * "Sir, we found a caravan down the road, it was covered in blood and no one was anywhere to be found."
 * "What!" the man said, "we have been expecting that caravan for weeks, it cost us a pretty penny to get a new one out here, do you have anything from it?"
 * "A few cans of food and some weapons but they are coated in blood."
 * "A shame, no one here would take the food then, however if you understand our need please give me those weapons."
 * Olias hands over the weapons.
 * "Thank you sir," Nanth says, "have a good night."
 * "And to you sir."
 * Olias is about to go to bed when someone runs up to him and says, "I overheard you, the caravan I have not seen however I am a hunter and I have seen very unusual things in the woods, creatures with glowing red eyes and people fading away completely that were there seconds ago, my warning to you, don't stay the night, stay a lot longer."
 * "Uh, thanks for the advice." says Olias as he heads of to bed.

The Lake of the Spirits of The Lost
Seth was wandering through the jungle on his way north, he was nearing a lake acording to his map, either that or a small sea, he could not be for sure so he would jsut have to keep going until he got there.
 * Seth decided to stop and rest for the night, it was getting late and he was not sure of the exact direction in which to turn.
 * He had a rather sleepless night to say the least, he had a dream, a most horrendous dream.
 * He dreampt he made it to the edges of the lake and small black lizard creatures with red glowing eyes appeared behind him and chased him into the water, and that was when he saw it.
 * A creature, of mighty proportion, the size of his whole fortress, it had scales of of ebony black and wings that coursed through the night, there was only one thing it could be, a dragon.
 * The dragon was surrounded by black souls dancing around him in a wild frenzy, they danced for a long time and then started to chant. "Iktar Leyoon Crsemar."
 * All of a sudden they stopped all at once and looked straight at him, and he felt himself being pulled from himself, until a loud voice yelled out, "Seth, pull yourself together and complete my task, go out of your way to get around this lake, it is not part of our plan..."
 * As Seth woke from the dream he knew what he must do, however, he could swear Lazarus added the word "yet."

The Shadows
Olias, Koss, and Dians were once again traveling, this time south to their next destination, Bergen Hot Springs.
 * "I am begging to wonder if you were right about coming out this way Olias," states Dinas, "perhaps not about the Mantle, but more likely about that caraven."
 * "I am thinking the same thing Dinas," replied Olias.
 * "In fact I think we are about to see for ourselves," states Olias, for sure enough just up the road is another caraven and red glints in pairs of two are hovering around the vehicle madly.
 * "Lets save the day! KOSS," says koss.
 * "No Koss! Just watch fir, oh to late."
 * As they are all pulled into the fray they realize that the pairs of eyes are attached to things that look remotely similiar to a shock phantom and a wraith mixed together.
 * "DIE!!!," says Koss as he drives his sword through one, only to find it go through the other side with the creature unharmed.
 * "Stand back!" yells Dinas loudly, "The only way we can kill it is by using a trick I learned in cantha," Dinas then shoots a blinding light at each creature in turn and just as if they had been made of gellatin they dissolve and vanish into the ground.
 * "Effective," states Olias, "I am begging to see why Sergio thought we needed you."
 * "Not to break anything up," states the caravan driver, "but we are on our way to Bergen and if you people wouldn't mind, we would certaintly like an escort."
 * "Not a problem," states Olias, "we were on our way there anyway."
 * "Excelent, we must leave at once."

Blood, fresh blood
As the caravan was moving south they felt something just wasn't right in the air, well at least Olias, Dinas and the Caravan did.
 * As they arrived at the village the caravan driver said, "you all stop there, I need to go talk with the gate guard, since the Beetletun incident they don't take well to caravans."
 * The driver walks up to the village and yells in a sort of terriefied voice, "please come see this now, this is not good at all!"
 * Olias saw it and was taken aback, he had expected anything but this, the village was completely covered in blood stains and anything that was breakable in any way was broken, it was a glorious disaster. However one thing that was strange mjust like with the caravan, there were no corpses.
 * "We cannot stay here for the night," states Olias, "I don't care if it is getting late, what village did this caraven come from?"
 * "Bettletun," states the driver.
 * "Very well then, we must get to Bettletun before nightfall, lets just be sure to pick up the pace.

Glass Waves

 * "Thats it, slowly move the rock closer, closer, YES! Exclent, we are through."
 * Argo and a group of Luxons were trying to break through a huge wave in Silent Surf to see what lay behind it.
 * "Very good guys, now lets bring our luggage through, this is going to be a rather large escapade so lets get started."
 * Argo noticed though first thing that there was something else on the ground other then the wave chinks, it seemed to be an old tattered peice of paper incased ina piece of glass.
 * "It must have come from the wave," mummled Argo.
 * Argo proceeded to smash the glass and sure enough inside was a riddle.
 * One must find what they seek by becaming small and then becoming big, this is followed by diverging into two and breaking to the great star, fianlly one must know wether it is dark or light for the one that is incorrect will be correct.
 * Argo almost threw the peice of paper away, but thought better of it and tucked it in his pocket, "heh, maybe this will come in handy."

Bettletun
As eventful as the road to Bergen was, was as a uneventful as the road to Bettletun, they saw nothing out of the ordinary, a few skale and tengu wanting to rip their hearts out sure, but thats to be expected right?
 * As they neared the gate the guard came up and said, "you are back early, did you come back with the wood, metal and weapons we asked for?"
 * "Afraid not," said the caravan driver, "we are returning the last shipment as the village does not really 'exsist anymore'."
 * "Exsist anymore? What do you mean by that?"
 * The driver proceeded to tell him their story.
 * "Sigh, I knew we sent this caravan out to late but the elder wouldnt hear it, you may as well stay for the night," as the guard walked away he mummbled, "looks like we are going to have to bother Loamhurst again..."
 * They went to a little inn for the night and woke up the next day refreshed, the only thing was, they were far off course.
 * "So what are we going to do now?" asked Olias with an annoyed tone in his voice, "the only way was through cursed lands to the south, and now we just lost a lot of time comign up here."
 * "Not so," stated Dinas, "there is another way, I has to use it several times during the war, go across watchtower coast into divinty coast, on the far end is a secret passage in a back ally of a village, it will take you to talmark wilderness."
 * "Really?" asks Olias, "thats, well great! Thank you for the info Dinas, apparently you will have to lead the way for a while."
 * And with that they marched out onto the Watchetower Coast.

A Meeting of the Utmost Importance
A tall man with dark black hair arrived at Lions Arch that evening.
 * "Welcome to Lion's Arch traveler!" stated Sergio warmly, "enjoy your stay!"
 * "I need to see Queen Salma, it is a matter of the utmost importance."
 * "May I see some sort of proof of why you should see Queen Salma?"
 * "Yes, I have this," Lazuras said pointing to a Seraph badge, "I have information on a plot against the Queen, you must let me see her!"
 * "I will have to go and see if her highness wishes to speak with you, please do not take offense for waiting."
 * "No offense taken sir, none at all, do you mind if I just wait here in the guard house?"
 * "Not at all."
 * Twenty minutes later Sergio comes back.
 * "I have scheduled a meeting with her highness for 7AM tommorrow morning in the Hall of Viewing, please go to a nearby Inn to spend the night, I personally suggest the Black Winged Beaver, it has excelent accomidations."
 * "Thank you sir, I will be sure to check it out."
 * Later that night Sergio was sorting through his files, he could have sworn some of the papers were on different desks, ah well, probably just his imagination.

Zinn and Blimm
Olias, Dinas and Koss spent the next several days traveling to the hidden river enterance, they had almost made it when they came across the Zinn and Blimms lab, the rustling inside was enough to disturb anyone and neighborhood children had even put a sign up in front that said, 'beware of the angry talking rabbits.'
 * "NOT THE RED CRYSTAL!!! NO THE BLUE ONE!!! ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME BONEHEAD???" Came from the lab loudly.
 * "Should we consider buying some helpful artifact off of them?" stated Olias weaily.
 * "I would love to say yes but going in there is like going into a toxic waste dump," stated Dinas.
 * "KOSS!!!" yelled Koss thinking that more action and less talking was required as he rushed into the lab.
 * "GET THIS DIMWIT OF OFF ME BLIMM!!! HE IS RUINING THE MACHINE!!!"
 * "KOSS!!!"
 * "ARG, ZINN HIS FOOT IS IN MY EAR!!!"
 * "SHUT UP!!!"
 * "KOSS QUIT HITTING THE ASURANS," yelled Dinas.
 * "Owuff," grunted Koss as he got off of Zinn.
 * "So what brings you stupid ignorant bookah's to my lab?" asked Zinn angerly.
 * "OUR lab," corrected Blimm.
 * "YOU have caused enough trouble for one day, it is MY lab at the moment. Anyway, back to the matter at hand, what do you foolish bookahs want?
 * "We wanted to see what you could sell us for a long grueling adventure into a dark jungle," said Olias.
 * "Well you have come to the right place then if you pay better then the last guy! We have all sorts of contraptions for that, my personal favorite being what I call Bugbegone!"
 * "Bug spray," put in Blimm rudely."
 * "BUGBEGONE!!!"
 * "BUG SPRAY!!!"
 * "IDIOT!"
 * "FOOL"
 * 15 MINUTES LATER
 * "INCOMPETENT LONG EARED FLESHRENDER!"
 * "ENOUGH!" yelled Dinas angrily, "let us just ask what things are and browse the shop."
 * "Fine by me," stated Zinn.
 * "It is not fine by me!" said Blimm.
 * "You don't count, Moron."
 * 20 MINUTES LATER
 * Olias and his friends are ready to set off with several new things, BUGBEGONE for sure. A sword for Koss that can summon golems, a shield that Dinas can call that wards against spectral agony, and a flashy thing that makes bone minions twenty five percent bigger for Olias, all this plus food and water cost them a paltry 5167 gold plus asuratax.

Ersethin
So east was the only option for Seth, it took him through the most damndest parts of the jungle yet, but just as he was about to turn north he saw something, it was the Greater Giant's Basin, and bellow it a village!
 * "Time to restock," said Seth, "just keep your guard, they may have heard of the White Mantle here."
 * As they got closer Seth could make out that the city was set into the cliff and had a high wall all the way around it, there was a fort at the highest point, and a lorge docking area on the coast.
 * "Welcome to Ersethin travler!" said the guard excitedly, "we don't get many people from the direction you came from, just wild animals."
 * "Well, I am just wondering, is there a place in your city where me and my men can stay?"
 * "For sure, plenty of inns but the grand duke of the city wishes to see all who have come from the west, so therefore you are required to see him first."
 * "Sigh, very well," stated Seth irratibly, "how do I get to the Grand Duke?"
 * "He lives on the high hill in the fort, you must go to the center of the city and take the road west, you cannot miss it."
 * "Thank you sir."
 * Eresthin was, lets put it this way, renissance style in architecture. The lamps looked like something out of 19th century england (not that Seth would know this) it had a cobblestone road and tudor style houses. As Seth passed vendor after vendor of people selling their wares he could smell a strong salt smell from the Giant's Basin.
 * As he climbed the road to the fort he noticed that you could see all the way to The Divinty Coast from here, it was a very windy road.
 * "Halt!" said the guard to the fort, "Who goes there?"
 * "I have been informed by the guard at the west gate to see the grand duke."
 * "Very well right this way."
 * The fortress was huge and took up at least a third of the city, it was tiered in several layers and battlements and was unlike anything Seth had ever seen in Kryta before.
 * The guard led him into a passage that if you looked straight up you could see at least twenty bridges in midair crossing over and over again. Then he led him onto a platform and yelled out "UP".
 * The platform started to rise! And before long they were on the twentieth floor of the fortress and he could see how got there, there was a norn employed to pull the paltform up by a pulley!
 * "Thank you Bronson," said the guard as he led Seth into another building.
 * This time they really were indoors, there were at least a hundred suits of armor, shields and weapons along a long long hall.
 * At last they went through another door, and they were in the royal chamber.

A Meeting
As Lazuras walked up to Salma he bowed deeply before her.
 * "What is you tale wanderer?"
 * "I was out in the maggumma jungle near Bloodstone Fen hunting some game and I found a dead Seraph on the ground! He had the badge I had Sergio show your highenss on him.
 * "You said you had uncovered some sort of plot?"
 * "Yes, I pressed on to the actual bloodstone to find it bustling with the White Mantle! I snuck in and managed to aquire these plans," Lazuras handed Salma a series of old decaying scrolls that he had actually wrote himself, "They say that the Mantle intend to catch you off guard by attacking Riverside Province, I urge your highness to gather the Seraphs quickly before it is to late!"
 * "That would be the wise intention, however how do I know that you are not playing me for a fool?"
 * "Simple, the Seraph badge is worth a great deal of money, there are many countries that still do not know of the seraphs and would love to aquire the gold incassed badge from me."
 * "You have a point, but what if you have some other motive?"
 * "Why would a mere hunter have any other motive then to protect his Queen?"
 * "Very well, I am seeing your point. I will have my top men work on this, for now please stay in town and I will have my men find you at the first opportunity to ask you more about what you know."
 * "It will be to late by then!"
 * "I see your point however there is nothing I can do to speed the process up, we must make sure of the correctness of this situation. For now, thank you, um what do you call yourself?"
 * "To you, you may call me Larz."
 * "Very well Larz, until a future date thank you."
 * "My pleasure your highness."
 * As lazuras walked off he couldn't help laugh under his breath.

=Part 2= My apologies for the long wait, I have had a lot going on in real life at the time. Without further ado, lets get on with the story.

A cave of surprises.

 * Olias Koss and Dinas had been traveling for a while now, they were halfway through the cave, it was dark and errie and the continual drip, drip drip was annoying to listen to.
 * "When are we going to make it out of this wretched cave?" asked Olias angrily kicking a rock hard.
 * "When we get out of this wretched cave Olias!' came a rather angry reply from Dinas who wasn't any happier about it then Olias was.  The only one who was enjoying himself was Koss. Who seemed rather interested in staring at the rocks and craning his ears to hear the drip sound better.
 * "Uh, guys," Koss stated, "the dripping is gettin' louder."
 * "Yes, yes whatever Koss." said Olias angrily, "wait, louder?"
 * "We are almost out then!" Dinas said, "in fact there is light around the corner. Wait, there isn't just light!"
 * "Hello there!" came a voice, "I decided to take the liberty of exploring this cave! And I will tell you, there are plenty of bats down here.  Yakkington hates bats, so I thought it would be nice to show him that there isn't anything to fear from them.  If you can bring me some dead bats I will be greatly happy.  Three would suffice...  GET OFF MY YAK!!!"
 * Koss had climbed onto Yakkington and was laughing at it, "Neat, big horned animal, what is it?"
 * "Koss, get off his Yak," Olias called to him.
 * "Aw, I like big-horned animal."
 * "Big, horned animal is not yours!" said Olias.
 * "So whats the issue with your friend?" why does he act so, rude?" asked Nick.
 * "Oh, he hit his head hard on the door of cabin he was staying in on the boat we took to get here from elona. Koss was feeling seasick you know.  Ever since then he has been a little out of it."
 * "Oh, I'm sorry to hear that, as you can see though, Yakkington and I aren't medical experts. What are you doing out here anyway?"
 * "We are on a quest to rat out any remaining white mantle and find out what is going in in Kryta, we have heard very unusual tales indeed."
 * "Where do you intend to look?"
 * "The Magumma Jungle."
 * "I know that area really well, do you mind if I tag along, I was heading there anyway and I might be able to guide you."
 * "Sure thing, you are very trusthworthy Nick, so that would be useful. But don't people come looking for you each week?"
 * "Oh sure they do, but I can pull an 'arbor bay to wilderness of badhazza.' Hasn't stopped anyone yet and I have only been here one day."
 * And with that they set off.