Gulik Shortbeard 2 Share Posted October 6, 2011 Some startling changes have occurred in Aegis. I was furnishing my tower at Kal'Domhain the other day when I accidentally set off my Soulstone, transporting myself to Kal'Urguan. As I began my weary journey home, I noticed some strange differences in the land I have traveled so often. The first was in Koronoe, where I happened on a multitude of messages, announcing that the town had been overtaken by the Undead, and would be destroyed in less than a week. The town itself was already in ruin, and I didn't encounter so much as zombie as I passed through the opposite gate. As I neared Al'Khazar, I was baffled to see a blanket of snow covering the surroundings. The city itself had been drastically altered. A new, imposing wall blocked the way that I usually took around the city. Inside, mysterious figures lurked in the shadows, and I did not stop to engage them. At last I entered a sector of the city that seemed familiar, but the snow remained. The trail leading past Crimson Vale towards the ruins of Alstion had become a road, with signs declaring it to be the way to some place named Cistina and a rebuilt Fort Alstion. As I approached the new Fort Alstion, I decided to enter, with the hopes of finding an East gate, and perhaps acquiring some supplies to support me on the last leg of the journey. Outside the east gate, there were two rows of a strange, fleshy red rock that I had never seen before. There was no East gate, so I threaded between the monotonous houses back to the West gate, when I heard a strange noise. I paused to listen. It seemed to me like strange echoes one might hear in a damp dungeon, that had not been visited by civilized beings in millenia. Yet it was loud enough that I could hear it through the very earth beneath my feet. I was visited by a strange, inexplicable sense of dread. No one appeared to be manning the fort, so I let myself into the nearest door, hoping to find the source of the strange noise. The door led to a small room, with no other doors, but a ladder leading downwards. Excited, I descended into a similar room, this one furnished with two locked chests and some workbenches. A hallway led off to the South, so I explored it. The hallway had iron doors on either side, leading into cells with walls of pure obsidian. At the end of the short hallway, there were double locked door. Looking through the small windows of these doors, I saw flames licking against the glass, burning the same red rock I had seen outside the gate. The room beyond the doors seemed no larger than a closet, and the sounds were not issuing from it, so I turned around to explore further. I reentered the room with the chests, and noticed another locked door off to the side. The sounds were coming from behind this door. I peered through the window. Most of the room beyond was blocked from view by an extension of the wall, but I did see a strange, purple mist. I was in fear as if for my life, but I could not understand why. I hastily exited the fort and set off for Kal'Domhain with a wild story to tell. Upon leaving the fort behind me, the strange sense of fear immediately left me, and I decided to pay a visit to whatever new community had sprung up so suddenly, calling itself Cistina. The road lead North from Fort Alstion, for quite a ways. The city itself was marvelously grand, though it was very compact. Much of the city was located underground, and included the largest underground farm I had ever seen. Enough golden grain was there to fill the Valley of Kal'Domhain, and then some. No one appeared to be in the city, so I went straight to Kal'Domhain. I noticed that I had encountered no one, besides the strange beings in Al'Khazar. Make of my story what you will, but there are strange goings-on in Aegis, very close to our beloved castle in the mountains. The undead are stirring, and I fear it bodes ill for the people of the North. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
susitsu 871 Share Posted October 6, 2011 ((Gotta say, this was enjoyable to read.)) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gulik Shortbeard 2 Author Share Posted October 6, 2011 ((I think I must have written this too well. Everyone's going to be too awed to realize that there is a portal under Fort Alstion)) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
no longer active 734 Share Posted October 6, 2011 I realized it! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broski 54 Share Posted October 6, 2011 Where be fort alstion, ive heard many times about it, but i have never seen it or a road to it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
susitsu 871 Share Posted October 6, 2011 ((I think I must have written this too well. Everyone's going to be too awed to realize that there is a portal under Fort Alstion)) ((Portal is a fake, I know where the current real one is. But they make great torture devices.)) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
no longer active 734 Share Posted October 6, 2011 It is east of Crimson Vale. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gulik Shortbeard 2 Author Share Posted October 6, 2011 ((Fort Alstion is exactly where Alstion used to be, just about 100 meters east of Crimson Vale. And is it even possible to make a fake portal? The one I saw was definitely real. Or are you saying it's been moved since then??)) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boomack21 124 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Moved to the Great Library. It shall be sorted into appropriate category shortly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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