Pallith's Log Entry #4 (Session 5)

    We found ourselves in the sewers being lead forward by Coalform towards the magical presence he felt.  Both Geddon and Elexis could feel it as well, but Coalform could more pinpoint it better than them, I guess being a top mage isn't something you stumble into.  We went through the sewers and came across a split, in the end we found out both lead to the same area but we went with the one Coalform suggested and we discovered it.  A large, bubble of sorts, being made by small metallic creatures.  This was the portal, the invasion portal, hidden below the city, and we found it before it could be completed.  The creatures went on, creating the sphere, without acknowledging us.  We apparently didn't pose a threat to them... at the time.
    A larger one appeared and it took interest in us, more scouting and watching us seeing what we were doing.  It moved at an amazing speed, but it decided to settle on the ceiling, in a dark part of the room above the portal sphere.  I kept my eye on that thing, making sure it wasn't going alert, something.  I also heard Coalform talking about the bubble, he figured out a way to destroy it, but he needed Elexis' dagger for some reason.  Why her dagger I wondered.  After a few more moments I heard him say he unlocked the dagger, or part of it, then stabbed it into the sphere, which collapsed in on itself and dissipated.  We managed to destroy the portal before any of the Dal'Hi could come through it.  But things started rusting, all the metal in the area must have been linked to that thing because everything rusted, became weak, and started to collapse upon us.  We had to book it back through the tunnel we came avoiding falling rocks on the uneven terrain.  We all got through, none of us got stopped by the collapse, so all was well.
    After we explored the second tunnel, this is when we discovered it lead to the same place, Coalform opened back up his magical portal and we all stepped into it.  Now, we all stepped into it yes, but only six of the seven of us came out the other side, Elexis didn't show up and the portal closed.  Coalform assured us that if the portal closed that means she stepped into it, but she obviously didn't end up with us in Coalform's tower room.  After talking over the possibilities with Coalform, and him being a twat about it, he came up with his portal being intercepted and Elexis was the target of this.  Who the hell is this woman, and why does she carry a dagger that stops Dal'Hi portals?  After talking a bit more I got out that the dagger she has is the Dagger of Ill Light, which has the ability to close Dal'Hi portals and that there is a second sister dagger, Dagger of Ill Omen, which can open the portals.  These dagger's were intrusted to two different organizations for safe keeping.  The light one went to Freeport's Undercity to Slade.  While the omen one went to an assassin group called the Sisterhood.
    Being somewhat familiar with the Undercity in Freeport, I have heard of Slade, he is high up, don't quite know how high but if he was given this dagger I would assume either he is the leader or just below it.  Elexis had this dagger, that was given to Slade for safe keeping, who the hell is this woman?  We left Coalform in his tower, he said he would trace the portal, see who did it, where it went to, and that it will take time, time I had no idea if we had or not.  I noticed Coalform had Elexis' dagger on him still from when he popped the portal, but he refused to hand it over, saying it should only be in Elexis' hands since she was intrusted with it, fucking prick, but we needed him, he was the only chance we had to get Elexis back, so I played... somewhat nice.
    We left the tower at different times, I was hoping I'd avoid the rest of the group so I could get to what I wanted to do at that point.  But no, Malik was outside bashing a tree with his mace, because he was angry, and that is it.  Shen was following me at this point when the guards came up and told Malik to stop and to pay for damages, I decided to cover the bill, I knew I had more than anyone else and could spare it at the time, but god damn Malik, had to pick a fucking expensive tree to hit.  Then Shen perked up, we all heard the whistle, but Shen decided we needed to go investigate, and drug Malik and I to an alleyway where the whistle came from, oh and he grabbed Halim, who was walking on the street along the way.  So all three of us got to the alleyway because Shen wanted to know who whistled.  I hate the people I travel with sometimes.
    In the alleyway we saw, nothing.  At first at least, we found a black rose petal on the ground and that was it, but then Amberlynn showed up.  Amberlynn and Teanna, these women annoyed me.  They started by demanding to know where Elexis was, I decided no that didn't need to know and said she was still in the tower.  They knew I was lying somehow and pressed further into it, but I pressed back asking who the hell they were.  These two are the Sisterhood of Trend, the two who have the dagger that can open portals, and they had been following us.  Following us for quite sometime in fact, this annoyed me further, I hate being followed.  They said they were there to follow us and were sent on this mission by Slade.  So they decided to help us in their own little way.
    The Sisterhood left us and I left the group.  I finally got to do what I wanted to do, although the talk with the Sisterhood did solidify something, Elexis and Slade are connected somehow, to what degree, I don't know.  I got to Elexis' room on the ship, and tried to block the door the best I could, and I started searching, I found her pack under her bed and started to rifle through it finding mainly two books to be the most interesting things.  One was her diary, a collection of what has happened on our mission, which means I'm not the only one doing this, the other, oddly enough, a blank book.  In her diary, the first and last entries of it she mentions someone by DS, everyone else is by name, but this man is only initials.  This DS appears to be the one who sent Elexis out on the mission, or suggested her to go at least.  He also seems to be the one who suggested me to come along, and Halim as well, this DS connected all of us.  In her late entry she wrote that DS fears a man named Cormat, and he is the one messing with Tanifier.  This DS, could he be Slade?  She also wants to get me laid for some reason.
    The other book, the blank one, I know I have seen Elexis writing in it before, but there is no ink on any of the pages.  I flipped through it with no avail and decided to write sentences in the book.  The ink disappeared from the page, I didn't know what it means, not just yet, but I held onto that book, seeing where it would go.  I then laid down for the night, in my own room, and got up to a loud scream and a thud up on deck.  A man had been murdered, and by the looks of him through torture, he had a black rose petal pinned on him, which means the Sisterhood decided to leave us a note, not a very useful one, but a note.  So I threw his corpse overboard and went off to the tower to see what Coalform had came up with.  He had learned that it was Marina Mae that intercepted his portal, but doesn't know the location yet, and it would be another day before we could get that information.  So another day we had to wait.
    Leaving the tower this time we heard another whistle, which I figured the Sisterhood was trying to signal again, so I went to the alleyway where we first met, which everyone else decided to show up there too, and there they appeared again.  This time I got to see Teanna closer up.  They wanted sneaky people, Halim and I, so we could all go to the Undercity and investigate, because they found out, by the victim earlier, that the Undercity had a deal in it.  Geddon showed up late to the talk, surprised by our new... friends I suppose, and took the rest of the group away so Halim and I could do our thing.
    Well really I did my thing, Halim was a bit clumsy that day, odd that this assassin stumbled about.  But we entered the Undercity, found that they were packing everything, I mean everything, up to be moved to Trend or Thundercrest.  We had split up at this point and I was with Amberlynn, she was interested in the fact the Undercity was moving, sure it is highly odd, but that wasn't why we were down there, but it lead us to what we needed.  We stole order forms from people working there and found that they were moving, and that they had "the woman" prepped and ready to be moved.  We assumed that this was Elexis, and we only had a day and half to get her out of the Undercity.  All this sneaky around was great though, Amberlynn and Teanna as some great asses on them, all crouched over in front of me, swaying with their steps... maybe I do need to get laid.
    We got back to Coalform and he had more information, he found an area where Elexis was taken too, but couldn't access it.  He knew the area, just wasn't able to get us there or her here.  So we had to wait more time, but this time we wait so Coalform can teleport Elexis back to us.  So we waited, again, but it payed off this time, he got her and managed to teleport her in, from the ceiling, which he told no one of.  Elexis hit the ground and hit it hard, I don't know what happened to her, how she got to the state she was in, but she was utterly fucked up.  I ran to get the ship doctor, Redfield, and got him to the tower to take care of Elexis, and I was hoping that the Undercity wouldn't be looking for us.  They weren't looking for us, they were hauling ass, they left the city, because they knew, they managed to know the Dal'Hi were coming and that portal we closed earlier, meant nothing.
    All the while I kept checking on the mysterious book often and writing in it often too.  I had found that it is a communication device, you write something and some one else gets it and can write back.  I don't know who I was writing to, but I suspect it was Slade, or DS, from her diary.  He seemed to be greatly concerned for Elexis and started heading to Tanifier once he heard she was captured.  That was the last I got anything from him, but I tried to keep him up to date, but I don't think he gives a shit about me.
    From the ocean they rose, monstrous beasts, able to blast apart the walls of the city easily, I believed I heard Geddon call them Behemoths and that we should run, fast.  We got Elexis back to the ship, in her condition she wasn't moving on her own, and we took off.  We got some distance, but we were hit again by a beam of light, this time a direct hit, and we went down and crashed.  We got Elexis out as fast as we could from the burning ship and I went back in for my stuff and Malik's and there we were, stranded, in front of an invasion force, and no real way to escape.  We headed for a close by keep to see if we couldn't find some shelter, help, horses, something.  We found Dal'Hi.
    There were corpses laying about and others running away and into shelters.  The first thing we found were shades, ghostly figures that apparently Elexis as fought already before, from her first diary entry.  These things wanted to grab onto people and choke them with their bodies.  It was hard to kill these things, but we got them down.  Then the corpses, they stood up, they were overtaken by the Dal'Hi, they have the ability to turn our dead against us.  We fought them off as well, but when we seemed to kill them they stood back up, we had to specifically destroy them to stop them from standing again, just hitting them wasn't enough, we had to destroy them entirely.  Then what I could only assume are normal Dal'Hi appeared, dog like creatures that spit acid, flying creatures that destroyed land and seemed to spread decay.  With a few more of the risen corpses we fought these creatures off, actually, not really.  We got hit, and hit hard, by the end barely any of us were standing, and those that were, weren't doing it easily.  Our saving grace, the Sisterhood came and killed what was left, we just barely survived that, I am truly surprised no one died, especially for how long Shen was on the ground, lying unconscious.
    As we headed away from this, this area of death, we saw Coalform, floating above Tanifier.  He was single handily holding off majority of the Dal'Hi, but he looked to us knowing it was a losing battle.  He shielded us, put a dome around us, and... exploded, in a bright flash of white light, everything, everything was gone.  If it wasn't for that dome, we would have been too.  The ground was leveled, glowing radiantly, the Dal'Hi gone, the city gone, the keep we were ten feet away from, gone.  What the hell have I gotten myself into?