Geelef

Wow, nice work. So now it's official, right? Laena and me Man, I need to get out some more >.< But, for real, I really like the story. Can't wait till you post more. And, BTW, your location is getting weirder each day

I bet on it being the ping... Low FPS hasn't been a problem to me on my old comp (and that is REALLY low fps, about 1-2). I'd say get cable (or ADSL; but that sucks, dload limits o.0), maybe there is some budget cable connection where you live. And if you're running KazaA (or any other p2p program), or are using bandwith in another way, shut that program down. A modem is the minimum for EL; so getting below it (by using up your precious kb/s's) is not recommended...

Nah, default is still double click. It is adjustable though.

That's brining up some memories... Great work. I'm thinking about a few names, here I go: The Story of the Ruby (getting Aira in as a main char, his ruby being the spill in the story.) Aira's Ruby (same) The story of a lonely elf (reffering to Aira as the last male elf of Ihr'Ehre) Quest for a long forgotten secret The secret of the Ruby I know, they suck. I'm gonna get a night's sleep to think about it.

*Cough...* Nice writing You DO realise that there's someone out there who's gonna roleplay for Laena, right? Ah heck, I'll let you handle my romance Laena's face went from romantical to frightened in less than a second. 'Aira's gone? Were could he be?' 'I think I saw him over there for the last time' Thalos said, nodding towards the stone with the runes. 'I think he was kinda upset. Don't know why though.' After a few minutes of intense searching Tumaros' voice cracked through the clear sky. 'Look at this...' By the time Nardo spun around Tumaros was gone. He walked to the point where he heard Tumaros' voice coming from, and discovered the stone. He began to read, when he was halfway he looked up and saw the forest slightly spin around him. He shouted: 'Come on you guys! Read these runes!' When he saw a few shades come near he read along. When Geelef heard Nardo shout he looked up, only to see a purple blur near a stone. The others were walking to it, so he did too. When he was near the blur, it started to fade, only to dissappear into nothing. He ran to the place where Nardo was, then saw the stone. 'OK; I know this one...' Geelef said. 'Read it and we'll go through time. Aira probably did it, the same goes for Tumaros and Nardo.

Thanks! It's not the end Internet f*cked up at my place, so I couldn't post. But here's some more: Paradise of Wisdom, Day 13 The red is changing, there are little spots of white-ish blue in it now. We must be falling at great speed now, although I don't feel the wind anymore. Paradise of Wisdom, Day 14 I now see what those colors are. The red is lava, coming out of the ground like a fountain. The blue is water, most of it ice, but around the lava fountains it's smelted. It seems magic, ice and lava together... Maybe it is magic. But a pretty powerful one, I'm wondering who'd cast such a spell anyway? Evening edit: Around noon Tiwo said we should slow down by Flying. It was weird, pushing myself up, but still falling down. We made it to the iceplane, but we got no place to sleep. Everywhere lava is flowing just under the ice, we don't know where the next erruption will be. Paradise of Wisdom, Day 15 We can see the hills in the north coming closer with every step. But we gotta walk a long time before we will get there. And all that time we wont be able to get any sleep... Paradise of Wisdom, Day 21 We are about halfway to the hills now. We finally found a place to sleep in this Godforgotten place. Its a small island of dirt in this sea of ice and fire. But as ugly as it is, that dirt is worth more to us than the most beautiful island back home... Paradise of Wisdom, Day 27 We made it to the beginning of the hills. Ten miles away is a strange looking rock, it's shaped like a hand conjuring an energyball. I think we're going there tomorrow. Paradise of Wisdom, Day 28 Those ten miles looked way easier yesterday. Loads of turns and impassible obstacles made us walk about three times those ten miles. On this soggy soil, thirty miles is much. This evening we arrived at the Hand. In it's palm was door. I think we're entering it tomorrow. Paradise of Wisdom, Day 29 We entered the Hand. In it was a wide plain, much like the one were I got my Talents - only it's not lovely, every plant has died due to lack of water, every flower has been chewed on and spit out again by the hungry creatures that roam these lands. On a hill was a Temple, it looked like the one I saw 28 days ago. Only a red light shone from within. Tiwo said I had to make a decision there, a hard one. I wonder what that decision is?` Paradise of Wisdom, Day 30 - The Loss of Innocence I entered the temple today. In it was a chair, it that chair a horned red man, with a tail. I think that was a dragon, in its humanoid form. I'm not sure though. That creature asked me, in a low thundering voice, if I was prepared to sacrifice my soul for the sake of the world. I said I needed some time to think about it. I don't know what to do. Did I come this far, just to lose my soul? Somewhere within, I have known I was going to try to save the world, but at what cost? I wish I never started this journey... I wish Tiwo never met me, and the other way around. And that is something I never wished before...

French was easy anyway... Paradise of Wisdom, Day 2 Tiwo told me to get into the Temple, that's all I needed to know. So I did. When I entered the Temple, I could see an old man, who had white clothes, a snowwhite beard which was almost as long as the man himself, and an oak staff. We had a nice conversation. I'll quote it: Old man: 'So, you made it. You're a bit early, but that doesn't matter.' Me: 'Early?' Old man: 'Yeah, it's good to see you're catching on so quickly. Your skills are improving at a higher rate then we ever expected.' Me: 'What do you mean by that?' Old man: 'Ah yes. You don't know yet. I'll tell you why you are here. You know how our civilisation got destroyed. I was one of the few who didn't get affected by that 'cure'. In those times I was a great wizard, although my name is now long forgotten. I killed myself, making sure my spirit would stay intact in this place. I lost all my nearly powers in the process, only one remained. The power to awake a person's sleeping talents.' Me: 'I don't see how I fit in...' Old man: 'I was just coming to that. I did all this so that one day I could help our world getting normal again. I am here to give our Hero's their skills. You are our Salvation. A special Hero you might say, which all other Hero's tried to be, but were not. You are going purge this land of the Evil.' Me: 'Wha-' Old man: 'I know you figured out Time. So you must know that there are two things you lack right now: Skills and Time. Knowledge you have already. After I've given you your Talent, you need to go to the counterpart of this place, a vast desolate plane of ice and fire, where you can get Time. I wont tell you how to get there, Tiwo will lead you. Once you have Time, you should be able to figure out how to get rid of the Fog, and make all creatures normal again.' Me: 'Aha. So basicly you're telling me I gotta save us all. Right. I'll do my best then.' The old man didn't seem to be pleased with my sarcasm. I think he kinda meant it. After our conversation the man gave me potion, sending me to sleep. Paradise of Wisdom, Day 5 I woke up today, the man said he finally awoke my slumbering Talents. I'm gonna get some more sleep now. Tomorrow Tiwo and I are heading for that counterpart of this place. Paradise of Wisdom, Day 6 I can feel everything being much easier to learn, the old man did his work properly. The old man sent us back to the dark forest we came from, but the teleporter was gone. We're heading North now, Flying over this forest. Paradise of Wisdom, Day 7 My hand's tired of writing so much. So I enchanted a feather, it'll write the things that happened every day. Why didn't I think of this before? I think I can see a sea at the horizon, we're heading for it. Paradise of Wisdom, Day 10 The last three days it was just plain flying. We finally reached the sea I saw. We set up a barrier and went to sleep, after we'd slain some orcs. Paradise of Wisdom, Day 11 We Flew away from this Continent, away from the fog. When we were a few kilometres offshore, Tiwo grabbed my hand and Teleported us away. We're on a cliff now, over the edge is nothing but an empty dark, sometimes that dark is shattered by a red glow, coming from deep down. Paradise of Wisdom, Day 12 This morning Tiwo jumped off the edge, I followed him. We are still falling. The darkness has changed, the red glow we saw from above now constantly burns from beneath. I wonder how we're getting out of this?

'Are we going after her - or it?' Laena asked. 'I mean, we are heading for Bahamut, but that girl might attack us from behind, or have some important clues.' 'I say we get to Bahamut and then kill that girl. She probably is some sort of servant, if not slave, of Bahamut, if we kill him she'll calm down too.' Geelef said. 'What do you think?' 'I'm for killing Bahamut first' Aira replied. The others nodded. 'You're right about that girl, Laena, but she probably wont know anything we cant figure out ourselves, and if we can't kill her, we certainly wont stand a chance against Bahamut.' Tumaros said. 'But first, we're gonna get some sleep.' The next morning Geelef woke up, shivering. He dreamt about that girl - it was aweful. But it was only a dream. He looked up, and saw Tumaros enchanting his arrows, Nardo preparing some more potions and Aira making breakfast. Geelef stretched himself. 'Man, I feel like I haven't slept at all.' Fifteen minutes later the group was heading for the tower. After an hour they reached it. When they stood beneath it, they fully realised how huge it was, they couldn't see the top of it. 'I guess Bahamut is all the way up' Aira said sadly.'That's gonna be a hell of a hike...'

another tip is to drink a potion of body restoration just before you attack a bunny. This will increase you health to over your normal max. Like Leeloo said, a weapon isn't really needed, but if you can afford one, you could try it ofcourse

*Hey! That's meaning you're gonna play my girlfriend If Tumaros posts the entire story you'll see that Laena is Aira's sister, but we haven't anyone to roleplay for her. Aira thought she and I should get 'friendly'... I like your writing, and you seem very interested, so as far as I'm concerned your in! * As they moved closer to the tower the rain started to pour down heavier again. After they walked for about half an hour Geelef could hear Laena shouting: 'Hey Gee! There's a cave over here! Tell the others will you?' Finally... Geelef thought. We could use some rest. 'Nardo! Laena found a cave! Pass it on!' Once they all were sitting around the fire Nardo started, Geelef said: 'Tomorrow we'll reach that tower. I bet anything that Bahamut is in it. Does anyone think he isn't ready for it? If so, were gonna train a bit.' He looked around, but nobody nodded. Then Aira said: 'I think we all are ready to kick that little wimps ass.' A fierce red glow surrounded Aira when he thought of Bahamut again. 'I know we can handle him. He might be strong, but we are with many. We know eachother thoroughly. He doesn't stand a chance.'

Hehe... Real N00bs dont even WANT to learn... Here's some more on the story: Blackened Light, Day 32 After we hiked a lot in the forest and set up a camp once more, Tiwo asked me why I'm writing this Diary. Maybe I should write down why. A long time ago, my sister gave me this Diary for my birthday. I knew how to write, but all days were the same. Once in a while something happened worth writing about. Those were my first entries. Once I first met Tiwo, I wrote almost daily, so much things happened. I ripped out the first few pages because that's not interesting compared to the rest. Tiwo asked me something else, how I came up with the dates; Blackened Light isn't an official seison. Fall was about the only real seison. After that, it seemed like someone whispered those names into my ear. I must say most of the names pretty much cover up the feeling of that time. When I told Tiwo his eyes grew big, and he mumbled something about me being the real one. Heh. I wonder what he meant by that? Blackened Light, Day 33 - Gaining of Knowledge Today I woke up, knowing I controlled the Sigil of Knowledge. I told Tiwo, he just smiled and said I was destined to. We're still heading east, I can see a hill in this huge forest. Maybe that's where we are going. There's only one problem, the closer we get to that hill, the denser the vegetation is, and the more monsters we encounter. We now constantly walk with a Barrier of Power around us, so we don't have to fight every little monster. Paradise of Wisdom, Day 1 We made it. We are walking up that hill right now. On top of it is the strangest thing. A platform, starshaped. Out of the middle blue bubbles rise to the sky. Tiwo pushed me in. I could feel every particle of my body being shattered, only to be repaired hundreds of miles away. It hit me, it was a teleporting device. We ended up in a beautiful place, the vast plain of perfectly green grass was only interupted by red and yellow flowers. Everything was covered by a bright, white light. There was a hill, much like the one the teleporter was on, only that the teleporter was replaced by some sort of tempel. It had no walls, only pillars that supported the wonderfully painted roof. There seemed to be no specific entrance. An even brighter light than the light which covered these fields, shone from the inside of the Tempel. Tiwo told me to stay at the foot of the hill, while he's going to ask for an audience. I'm wondering who I'm going to meet? *Not too much this time. I've got loads of the story planned already though, but I gotta see Star Trek Oh yeah, I gotta study French too o.0 Darn it.

Thanks, I'll need it.. Totally screwed up chemistry today o.0 And, iff you want to, ofcourse you can quote the Time Although I don't think n00bs (note: NOT newbies) will understand it anyway... Blackened Light, Day 24 We didn't notice it before, but we are in a huge underground room. The ceiling is too high to see, although it's supported by many pillars. The floor is covered with bones and belongings of previous warriors, who tried to get past the wolf. On the other end of this room is a gate, above it old Ruins, of a language long forgotten. Once we reached it, Tiwo stretched out his arms and mumbled something. The gate didn't open. Then, with a loud scream Tiwo sent some weird force at it. The gate shattered, sending pieces flying through the entire cave. Behind the gate was a passageway, leading to a small door. I opened the door. It lead to nothing more than a small closet, but in it was a piece of rock, glowing blue. 'That's the other half of the Sigil' Tiwo said. Blackened Light, Day 25 Tiwo put the two pieces together this morning. Then he implanted the sigil into my body. The power of it is incredible. I can solve the hardest of problems with the greatest ease if I use that power. Amazing. It makes my blood rush through my veins every time I think of it, every time I think of the things I could do. Tiwo said I need to adapt to this new Knowledge, so we're staying in the cottage for a while. Not in that huge cave, but in a small, cozy room, which Tiwo found. Blackened Light, Day 26 We are resting for the time being. The surge of power hasn't faded a bit, but I'm getting used to it. I don't get that adrenaline rush I got before. But the power still makes my hart pound, I can't help to focus my thoughts only on my new Knowledge. It seems endless. Blackened Light, Day 31 I'm almost used to the new power now. We are moving on, to our Second Destination. It seems I'm going to meet a person, who can give me loads of Time. We are heading East now, we've passed a few creeks, and alot of Forest. We set up a basecamp in this hidious forest. At first I didn't notice, but the trees are all dead, only weed seems to florish. I hope we get out of here very fast.

Here's some: Blackened Light, Day 22 This morning I asked Tiwo if he could give me some more Time, so I could Train more for my upcoming task. He just smiled and said: 'You finally figured it out, didn't you? I guess you're ready to see Him then.' He wouldn't tell who this 'Him' was, or what he could do, nor did he say anything about Time. We're gonna Fly over the mountains, it's pretty dangerous, but if we went around them, it would take forever. Well, a shorter forever than the forever in the Time room, but still. Evening edit: We fought off loads of birds. Although they are not strong or fast, they are with many, so it's hard to kill all of them. But we managed. When Flew over a valley, with a small, probably empty cottage. That would be our Destination. We landed a few hundred meters away from it. We're still where we landed. Trying to get some sleep. It surprises me that there are so little monsters here. Blackened Light, Day 23 This morning, when I woke up, Tiwo told me what he had been searching for in Tyr'Namur. It was a part of the Sigil of Knowledge. Legends say this Sigil once was created by a great Alchemist, but he split it into two pieces when he found out this Sigil would mean a step closer to endless power. The second part is in the cottage we're near. We are going to get the other part. When we entered the cottage I knew why there were so little monsters around it. The cottage's hall was just long stairs down, leading into the dark. Out of that dark came an enourmous growl, scratching of sharp claws against the floor, the sniffing of a huge, wet nose. Tiwo Lighted the Stairs with his firemagic, I took lead and went down. After what seemed hundreds of steps, we made it a platform, on the other end the stairs just went on. The sniffing and scratching was getting louder and louder. I took out my staff, Tiwo readied his magic. We took the stairs once more, Tiwo's fireball floating around us, illuminating the path. Beneath us awaited a huge wolf, steam coming out of his nostrils, red eyes piercing through the dark, his feet scratching. Tiwo shouted something, and sent a huge energyball at the wolf. The wolf cried as one of his feet got burned, and threw himself at Tiwo. I poked the wolf with my staff, sending lightning through the its body. The struggle went on, the occasional cry of the wolf was the only thing that cut through our magical chants. Finally, after what seemed ages, the wolf fell down, dead. His body was scorched, his eyes blind, his paws sensless. We made it.

Might: Raise physique and coordination for it (check out Gorlic and The Wraith); the higher your might is, the more stuff you can carry. There isn't really a way to get your attack up faster than your defense (or combat, for that matter). If you attack something, you gain exp for hitting (attack), evading (defense) and something else (combat) Its hard to seperate those. If you want to train attack only, you could try to kill lowlvl animals, which you kill in one hit. No fun though. <Skill> 3/5 means: 3 current skill, 5 normal. Most of the time it will be like 5/5, sometimes 10/5 (after drinking a potion for example).

Just type ignore <chars name> in the console - for more console commands type help in the console. If you're aiming at ignoring someone on the Forums; you cant...

Blackened Light, Day 15 We went inside a cave. In it was a huge, forgotten city. It was called Tyr'Namur. Tiwo lead me to a strange looking building, it was like a huge ball, with dozens of needles coming out of it. We went in, it seemed that the inside had been magically enlarged somehow. The outside was much smaller. The room itself was round, grey walls, a grey ceiling, and a grey floor. On the floor was a circle of blue light. On the outside of the 2 inch wide line were old runes, moving, changing shape. Tiwo said that this was the most powerful force. If I could control, or even understand it, I would be really powerful. He made me walk in the circle. When I crossed the line, it felt as if I left my body behind. All troubles of age, memories were gone. Tiwo also stepped in. He looked different, not like an old warrior, but more like a vital young man. His scars were gone, his hair was a bit longer. That was the moment I understood. This was Time. Right that second all sorts of weird thoughts flowed in my mind. I saw kingdoms rise and fall, wars being decided by a single man, civilisations grow. It went on for ever. Finally I was able to step out of the circle. The heavy burden of Age came back to me again. On my question how long we were in the circle, Tiwo answered 'Forever and never. You were in there for the entire span of the Life of this Universe. But to the outside it was nothing more than a split second, the time you needed to move your feet in and out of the circle.' Blackened Light, Day 16 I'm trying to figure out what had happened in that circle. According to Tiwo it should help me out alot. But I don't feel different. I can't do special things. Maybe Time didn't do what it had to do. We're still in the Tyr'Namur, Tiwo seems to be looking for something. He wont tell me what it is. That's a surprise. Blackened Light, Day 17 It seems Tiwo has found what he was looking for, we're moving South once more. I still don't have any luck with Time. Blackened Light, Day 18 I'm wondering if Time is magic? Maybe it has nothing to do with magic. The Evil creatures are getting more Evil by the step, it seems. We are almost constantly under attack. The only way we can get some sleep is to summon a magical barrier, while one sleeps, the other supports the barrier. Blackened Light, Day 19 Tiwo said we're getting close to our First Destination. Time is still a mystery to me; I can't get any power of it, I don't improve because of it. Blackened Light, Day 20 I read my previous entry, and something struck me. Time DID learn me something, it learned me everything I know. Time equals to knowledge and power. The more Time you've seen, the stronger you are. I need to figure some stuff out, but that seems the main point. Tomorow we'll reach that Destination Tiwo was talking about. Blackened Light, Day 21 A pack of wolves kept us busy this afternoon, so we didn't make it to wherever we should make it to. But it is behind the mountains we are resting under. I figured out Time. The more Time I spend on something, the stronger I will be. So, before I can do great things, I need to spend Time on it; Time for Preparation, Time for Planning, Time for Training and, ofcourse, Time for doing it. Time on itself is useless, but Time combined with Knowledge and Skills mean endless power. The only problem is, these tree parts are limited. So everyone has a certain boundary of power. Except for the Gods; They have more than enough Time, Knowledge and Skills.

'We'll want to check that out,' Geelef said, still a bit dizzy. 'But I'm pretty sure that forest has loads of weird and dangerous creatures inside. And I'm too tired to fight anything right now. I say we stay here for the night, then try to reach that tower.' The others nodded in agreement. The next morning Geelef seemed perfectly alright again. When Nardo woke up he was sitting next to the fire, cooking some meat. Nardo noticed black blood was dripping out of the wood of which Geelef made the fire. 'Good morning!' Geelef said vitaly. 'I can't wait to get to Bahamut. Little bastard, sending that tree to us.' Nardo nodded, not knowing what to think of Geelef's mood. When the others had woken up, and ate their meat, they packed their belongings and headed for the forest. *Sylvanna, maybe we should write you in. I've got an idea how to do it. I was gonna let the party get stuck in the forest somehow (a path leading to a magical road, which they have to follow endlessly?) then you rescue them, tell your story and come along. How about it?*

Thank you. I'm gonna get some sleep now; I haven't slept in 38 hours o.0 Maybe some posting tomorrow. Not sure though, got exams on monday. <.<.|.>.> O.O <.<.|.>.> *me giving exams tha finger* *Stolen from someone (dunno who anymore) who made a finger to sleep. Just trying 2 B c00l 2... *

Here's some more: Blackened Light, Day 6 This morning we Teleported to the other Continent. It's an awful place here. The grounds are unfit to grow crops, they emit a strange, green radiating fog. It seems this fog produces all sorts of weird creatures. Although they are not strong, the creatures are very fast and agile, most of them poisonous. Maybe that's why Tiwo is so experienced in everything; we're almost constantly casting spells or fighting monsters. Blackened Light, Day 7 We slept in a tree tonight. Pretty uncomfortable, especially if you know that the tree can come to live any second and struggle you to death... But it was the safest place we could find, far above the dense fog. When we went down there were puma-like creatures waiting for us, they only had huge fangs, enourmous claws and red eyes. Killing them wasn't easy, but once we killed the first the rest seemed scared and ran off. We've been walking along some sort of huge Lake, using a fireball as a lantern. Blackened Light, Day 8 When I asked Tiwo where we were going, he still didn't answer. He said we went to a place where we could purge this land of the Evil. On my question why we didn't Teleport there, he said the Fog made it impossible. I think that Fog is pretty strong, if we can't Teleport through it. Blackened Light, Day 9 Today we set up a camp along the banks of the Lake. Tiwo said we're swimming over it tomorrow. I wonder why we don't Fly? Blackened Light, Day 10 Now I can see why we didn't Fly over the Lake, all sorts of weird birds are vulturing above it, looking for fresh prey. Each time a horde - that's the best word for it - flew over us, we took a deep breath and a long dive. The water isn't that safe either though, loads of mad fishes in there... Just found a little rock, so I could write this down. We'll be off in a second. Blackened Light, Day 11 We swam all night long. This evening we finally made it to shore. I'm exhausted... Blackened Light, Day 12 We rested today. Tiwo said he will tell me the Story of Al'Darkla tomorrow. What is Al'Drakla? Blackened Light, Day 13 I'll quote Tiwo on this one: 'A long time ago Al'Drakla was a quiet place. People lived here in harmony, only a few knew violence. We spent our time trading, learning and making music and paintings. The land was green, so were the trees. Wolfs and rabbits lived together, all creatures ate plants. These were the good days. Your home was the same. It was in a clear summer day when our scientists found a cure for violent thoughts. This would mean the perfect society. But it went wrong. At first the substance would reduce, even eliminate violence when patients breathed it in. But when the patient got an overdosis his mind got twisted. We don't know why, or how, but all the surpressed violence found a way out. We contained the patients in a cave and the substance was thrown in the sea. Everything seemed normal again. Until a bad, cold winters day. A ship crashed into the container which held the cure, releasing the substance in the sea and air. Almost every creature got an overdosis, turning them evil. The violence they breathed out got a semi liquid form. It's the Fog you see all around us. The fog alone is harmless, but when you're enraged it will add to your anger. As I said, all the animals went evil. The Elves which hadn't been affected by the cure formed a group. They decided to split this Continent into multiple smaller ones, hoping one of those new Continents would be fog free, so we could leave in peace once more. The group somehow combined all their magic and splitted the Continent. But almost every Continent got affected by the fog anyway. Your Continent got the smallest amount of Fog, but loads of fierce animals. A few affected Elves managed to get onto that Continent. When the Fog slowly faded away, most of the animals turned back normal. Some didn't, Goblins and Orcs for example. The Elves didn't fully recover. They managed to build up a thriving civilisation, but violence still was a part of it, wars and fights were common. After a few centuries, men and dwarves started to show up in the your Continent. It seems they invented boats and made it to the the place you call Lakeside Village. We think the Continent known as Isla Prima was hardly affected by the Fog, and only friendly creatures got on it. It's pretty small though.' That's Tiwo's story. He wont tell me anything more about it, maybe later... I just don't see what it has to do with me. Yet.

Heh... maybe I should wait for a week or so till my next post j/k I'm glad you guys are so enthousiastic (<--prolly a MAJOR typo) about the story. In a few hours I'll probably have some nice things... I'll be offline now, clearing my mind O.0

Thanks! Glad you like it. Highlights, Day 29 Tiwo said I'm improving very fast, which is a good sign. I can heal myself anytime I want, so those healing potions of Tiwo aren't needed anymore. Maybe Tiwo lets me heal a rabbit tomorrow. But the real pain is making those essences, Tiwo brings the ingredients, but I got to make them myself. 'Better for your Alchemy skills' he said. I think he's just trying to keep me busy... Highlights, Day 30 Man, the days are speeding away... It seems only two days since I first met Tiwo. All those things I've learned, all the things I've accomplished. Now even Magic, something that I never believed in. Tiwo shot a rabbit in the leg today. He told me to heal it. It wasn't that hard, it's just a bit weird to transfer that energy onto the rabbit. Tiwo said he's going to get sigils for me, so I can cast more difficult spells. I can't wait! Highlights, Day 31 Tiwo got some more sigils, as he promised, along with some essences. He showed me some new spells, like poison and how to drain health, but he didn't let me study them. He wanted to teach me how to use Alchemy to create essences. Highlights, Day 32 Essences are almost the same as potions, put this and that together, stir it a bit, heat it up and voilá: essence. The ingredients are pretty easy to chose from, I've already learned the effects of most of the important stuff. Highlights, Day 33 Today Tiwo and I trained magic. Tiwo let me send a fireball at a rabbit. Man, it's hard to aim! Maybe you can change the path of the ball somehow... Highlights, Day 34 I've noticed that you can steer the ball, by sending most of the energy to the left or right, the ball slightly changes direction. Makes it easier to hit those running rabbits. Highlights, Day 35 Electrical balls are almost the same as fireballs, so we only spent an hour on those. Same goes for Air, Earth, Water, Dark, Light and Sound balls. The only hard part was the poisonball. If you miss the target and hit something else, for example a tree, that tree gets poisoned. I don't know how to cure poison yet, so Tiwo is constantly curing trees, grass and himself... Highlights, Day 36 Aiming with poison is easier if you concentrate the energy in front of the ball, less little drops of green magic that hit something else. Highlights, Day 37 Never missed that rabbit today. I'm learning how to Levitate - as Tiwo calls it. I call it Flying. Highlights, Day 45 Haven't written in a while, because all the days were almost the same; Training Levitation. But today I mastered it. It's cool to surprise rabbits from above, sending a silent fireball at them. Highlights, Day 46 - Rising of the Moon Last day of the Highlights. It seems Tiwo wants to leave this place, I know about all the magic he knows, except the thing called Teleporting. He used it when he disappeared and reappeared those times. Maybe I can figure it out myself. Loss of the Sun Today we walked along the banks of a great river. I asked Tiwo what I was going to learn next, but he said I was ready. Ready for what? Blackened Light, Day 1 I'm practising on Teleporting at night, when Tiwo is asleep. We're still heading north. Those Orcs are getting quite irritating; but they're easy to kill. The Ogres are a bit harder, but they are too slow to hit me. Blackened Light, Day 2 I think I Teleported this evening. I'm not sure, because it was only a few centimeters, but at least I'm making progress. This little hike of ours seems endless, and Tiwo wont tell me where were going. Blackened Light, Day 3 I've never seen such Darkness, It's like the sun has stopped shining. I improved on Teleporting alot. I can move across the room with ease. I'm going to try to Teleport through a wall. Blackened Light, Day 4 Teleporting is getting easier with the minute. Walls and trees are no problem anymore. I even got back to our last camp. Blackened Light, Day 5 Teleported back to my hometown this night. My sister was already asleep, so I just put those leather gloves beside her bed, accompanied by a note. When I got back Tiwo was waiting for me. He said: 'I knew you would be trying to Teleport. I'm not sure if you've mastered it, so I'm gonna test you. Follow me!' He Teleported away, only two seconds later I was standing beside him again. The way he looked and the vibrations in the air told me where he had gone to. He seemed impressed. After a few more jumps in space, we got back to our basecamp. Tomorrow we're Teleporting to our Destination.

Highlights, Day 13 The gloves are still boring... But Tiwo said I'm improving. Maybe he'll show me some more interesting stuff later on. I've noticed an orc wandering around our camp. I'll tell Tiwo tommorow. Highlights, Day 14 After I told Tiwo about the Orc, he disappeared once again. It didn't surprise me anymore, but I still wonder how he does it. It seems he disappears here, reappears somewhere else, does something and gets back again. He wont tell me anything about it though. Tiwo also showed me something else: leather gloves. They're pretty good for getting cactusses unburied. I might ask Tiwo to bring some to my sister. Highlights, Day 15 After the leather gloves came other types of gloves; Tiwo said I oculd be doing steel gloves at the end of the week if I work hard enough. Highlights, Day 19 Finally made those steel gloves. I've been working harder as ever to get it right, so I didn't write anything, didn't have the time. I'm gonna get some sleep now. Highlights, Day 20 After those steel gloves swords seem easy to make. They don't require moving parts... Tiwo said so too, so were skipping that - now magic is up! I can't wait! Highlights, Day 21 Tiwo said magic starts with the understanding of the elements. So we're starting with potions, their ingredients, and their effects. That way I might be able to think of new potions, or even spells. But now, we're gonna do those potions... Highlights, Day 22 Potions are easy to create! I can already make some healing potions, without a problem. The only hard thing is to remember the right ingredients. I gonna study those. Highlights, Day 23 Learned Potions of Attack, Defense, Combat, Body Restoration and Harvest. Tomorrow the spells are up. Highlights, Day 24 - Feast of the Three Moons Tiwo didn't seem to pay any attention to the Feast of the Three Moons, we're lucky if we'll stay alive this way. I did learn about magic today. This is what Tiwo told me: 'You got to know magic before you can use it. Magic consist of three parts: essences - the magical power you need for a spell, sigils - the power needed to combine the magical essences, and some power of your own, used to activate the powers in the sigils and essences. This is a sigil' Tiwo pulled something out of his bag. It was a bright, pulsating ball of pure energy. After that, he pulled out an essence, which looked most like a glowing rock. He told me to lay down. After I did, he put the sigil on my chest, and gave a punch on it. I could feel the energy flowing through my body. Then he gave me the essence. I could feel the power that it emitted. Without any warning Tiwo pulled out his dagger and stabbed me in my leg. He said: 'Use magic to heal it' Highlights, Day 25 Still haven't figured how to heal myself. Tiwo wont help me, he sais magic has to be explorered by oneself to fully grasp its vastness. Right. I'll just keep trying... Highlights, Day 26 Today i felt something when I tried to heal myself. It was as if I could use some power that belonged to the universe itself. Maybe that's what Tiwo was talking about. Highlights, Day 27 I managed to use magic to ease the pain from my wound. A bright glow surrounded me when I felt power flow into me. Only for a second though. But my wound seems to be a little smaller. Highlights, Day 28 Today I succesfully healed myself. I was exhausted after I cast the spell, but it was worth it. Tiwo said that I should train some more with magic, because it will boost my ethereal condition - whatever that may mean. *more tomorrow.*

Check if port 2000 is allowed. If so: Install the game! If not: try to get it open... Else you're screwed for the time being (excuse my rude language, but that's the best word for my 'feelings'

I think Freebird means a list of all known bugs. I don't think there is any. Major bugs are mostly dealt with within a day or 3 (or at least after the next update) and minor bugs will be fixed in the 2weekly updates. If you really want to know about all the bugs, you gotta go through the bugsforum.

*feels way more mature than jjk* That sentence alone makes me less mature then jjk is...