Going Home.

Sophie introduced me to Robert today, he funds Sophie and her friends in their work. He told me they had been working on a large Age and was wonder if I would be interested in joining them. I said I’d think about it, need to speak to Jools about it really, sounds like they spend a lot of time on the Age, Sophie said her friend Steven lives there now.

Robert gave me a Linking book for when I make up my mind, I shall take it with me and figure out what to do.

Sophie said a team is going up to the surface through the tunnels if I was still interested in returning home.

I leave in 2 hours, not sure if I’ll get to return to D’ni again, we shall see.

Departure

Walking around the Cavern today, started hearing whispers of the DRC not returning and of the Cavern closing.

Ran into a guy called Butch in the Uru Obsession Neighbourhood, he said that the cavern is set to close in about 60 days. Sophie said this has happened before, she snuck back in with her friends so I asked if that is possible. Butch said that explorers kept their books last time, not sure if that will happen and suggested I hide it.

Sophie hadn’t heard the news, seems to have caused a bit of a panic. I told her I was heading to the surface to hide my book away for a while, she had asked me to hold off a few days. She wants to arrange a trip to an Age she has been working on with her friends.

Further Exploring

Explored more of D’ni today looking for more books to collect, wandered through some of the hoods, found a book for Eder Delin. Small garden place, pinkish sky and snow.

Was a really nice place.

Found a couple of the pages there, and more cloths and a door like Tsogahl. Spent a while wandering around, enjoying the scenery before I started getting cold.

Decided to check out the Watcher Sanctuary next, found a lot of books there, a couple of Age books downstairs and a DRC book, which I need to go back and read over. Upstairs was a case with 5 books on it, in side were lines of text, D’ni version of haiku’s maybe?

Picked up an Er’cana book.

After I had been wandering for a while, I visited another hood, had a few people in, Kl’aamas, Dakro and Jeff Lewis. Chatted to Dakro for a while, he told me there were more books in Ae’gura, in the museum and library. I asked him about the Linking Stones, he said they were made by the Bahro and sent me this picture.

I was shocked to Yeesha still seemingly alive after all this time, but that was nothing compared to the creature in the image, it was one of the demons in my dreams. How can I dream about something that I have yet to see?

Maybe I did see it, maybe I glimpsed an image whilst I was researching, maybe its a side effect from hopping to other Ages, guess it could be a common thing, will need to ask around about that.

Eder Gira & Eder Kemo

New set of paintings were sent off so I decided to return to Relto and start this journey.

Sophie has granted me access to her hood, she said to drop by if I ever need help.

The first book I decided to use had a red cover and depicted an orange landscape, according to my KI it is called Eder Gira. The place looks pretty barren, cracked mud beneath my feet, some plant life but not a lot, pretty warm here too.
The area is studded with geothermic vents which have what looks like a lid system on them. One of the journey cloths was up on the cliff wall and a vent below, so I figured the vents will need to be used to get up there.
Spent about 20 minutes fooling around with them, realized when I closed all the ones bar the one I want to use I can get to the area I want. One of the vents lead to a back area to the Age lots of giant bones and waterfalls.

Behind the waterfalls were a series of caves, seems a couple of the geothermic vents were converted into lighting units, decided to turn them on despite being able to see alright. Tunnel led off into what seems to be another cave, couldn’t see a thing in there though, stumbled around until I walked into another lighting unit. Turning it on revealed a door which lead to an area at the top of the waterfalls.

Looking over the edge I noticed another one of those strange stones, decided I would check out the new book I found before heading to see if Sophie could tell me anything about the stones.

Eder Kemo it is called, it reminds me a lot of Tsogahl, hadn’t been there long before the skies opened up and thunder followed. Finished up the sketch I was working on quickly and left to go and see Sophie.

Demon

Been having trouble sleeping a lot lately, keep having nightmares of these demon creatures, crawling in the darkness, sometimes their eyes are blood red, sometimes blue but they’re always trying to claw at me, pull me into the shadows.