Author: Lucas Tollefson

Lucian gathers all of the kids together and Angela hands out fresh cookies to each of them.
“Alright everyone it’s time. I promised your friend that I would teach you all math and I am a man of my word. Lets start with something basic, does everyone know how old they are? There is no better way to show off how well you know math then calculating your own age! Let’s use Peter here as an example. The first step is to subtract the current year by the year you were born. It is currently 610 and Peter was born in 602. 10-2 is 8 and 600-600 is 0 which in total equals 8, but Peter was born in the late Summer so he hasn’t had his birthday yet this year. The next step is if your birthday hasn’t come yet this year you must subtract another 1 from the total. Which means Peter is…. 7 years old! So remember if anyone asks if you know math just explain to them how old you are! Now who wants to learn so more grown up math? If you have 4 gears in sequence the first with 120 teeth, the second with 60 teeth, the third with 70 and the final with 200. If you spin the first gear at 10 RPM how fast does the last one spin? You see when…”

Lucian is preparing for his speech for the members of House Valerian’s expedition.
“Angela, thanks for gathering everyone can you make sure Peter pays attention”

“Thank you for coming everyone I glad you all are safe after such a raucous forum.
First of all, as you know, we have successfully purified Fort Hrafnakastali. The curse dates back to the forts original construction. Some of the workers were buried alive in the walls and in their dying breaths cast a curse over the fort leading to the influx of spirits that were pulling people into solid walls. With the curse purged those and the stone monsters referred to as gargoyles should disappear entirely.

Secondly there was a powerful vampire controlling a Cyanahim monastery. She was performing a ritual on ‘Threads of Fate’ which was stopped. Many members of forum succumbed to her powerful mind control including a number of mages and the Night Warden. Due to this we sustained heavy losses but, everyone was recovered and due to the kindness of the Charismata Euthymius none of our injuries were permanent. Unfortunately the vampire escaped.

Next, the man Alu, who was responsible for the brainwashing of some of the town’s Branded during the previous forum, was captured and executed. Of course knowing this place he immediately rose as some sort of spirit and began brainwashing even more people. No one was seriously injured but, this entity also escaped.

Also members of House Drake have been seen in the area and were trying to purchase the service of a mercenary band so be on guard.

And lastly there have been groups of bandits roving the nearby woods, some of which were accompanied by rogue mages. The group I encountered were attempting to kidnap children, including my son Peter, for god knows what reason possibly to sell as slaves or to train as new bandits. Maybe even just to feed their dogs. Fortunately Silvester, Alfred and I were present to drive them off. I would recommend anyone who cannot defend themselves to only travel with armed guards.

Thank you all for coming sorry it was a long one. Hopefully with the Fort under our control things will get a little calmer.”

Afterwards he meets up with Angela and Peter. “Hopefully that wasn’t too boring or scary so much happens around here. And Peter I’m trying my hardest to keep you both safe while we are out here. You saw what happened when you came into forum to surprise me. How do you think your mom and I would feel if you disappeared. I love you son and I couldn’t live with myself if some monster took you away from me”

Lucian gathers up Peter and his new friends.

“Welcome everyone I wanted to tell you all about some of the new things I learned about our new home. First off i want to say thank you for trusting me and not going with that stranger. From asking around I found out that they were either a fae of some variety or a member of a group of rogue wizards. Either way they would have been very bad to go with. I also met some scary new monsters. There were these big rock monsters that were super strong. According to the locals they were servants of the local spirit of the hunters. They were glowing a spooky green so if you see anyone or anything glowing green you should stay away and tell an adult. I also met some ghosts from under our new fortress. They could pass through walls and gave me and some of my friends a nasty disease. But don’t worry I am planning an expedition into the catacombs to see if I can put them to rest.

Also I heard that Silvester and some of the knights are working on taming a bear! If they manage I’ll see if they will let you all get to meet it. Now is anyone still interested in learning some math!