Lucia's Diary 26

We waited in Malrick for a couple days while the rest of the party caught up to us. In the meantime, I went to the outskirts of town and trained with Totoro... I can feel him getting stronger! During some of our training days, Manny comes and joins us to watch Totoro as he trains!

When we got together, we noticed that the moons were still stuck! 3 Moons are stuck in Full, and the other 2 are stuck at New. But at least it seems we all succeeded at our tasks! YAY!

The next morning we head to the temple. We are greeted by the priestess who takes us to a small room where she unlocks a chest containing the Chalice. She then hands the Chalice to Mara and we are on our way back to Skryfe with the last of the artifacts, stopping at the Capital on the way.

Per Mara, Knox seems to be at a Primal stage. We decide to wait till the morning to return the last artifact. That night, I was awakened by some creepy creatures on the window!! I immediately ran to Manny's room and woke him up, then woke up Maggy. We decided to use Maggy's escape hatch to leave the house, and as I was trying to get through there, I got stuck! I tried a couple of times but couldn't do it on my own and Maggy, Totoro and Manny all had to help me for me to be able to get through... Maggy has one heck of a tricky setup on that tunnel!!

We finally get to Astera's house, and as her entire family bursts out of their house to kill those things, they vanish... I was able to tell that it was a summoning spell that either went short or got dispelled when we got there... very odd... (either way, that summoner must have been pretty impressive to summon THAT many at a time... or they had multiple summoners). We decide to then to go the temple and deliver the last artifacts, and most of Astera's family comes with us to make sure we don't run into anything crazy.

The high priest finally comes down to see us (we wasted a bunch of time on some lowly priests who had no idea what we'd been doing this whole time). Apparently, the state of the moons is not unusual given the circumstances. Also, the ritual will take a few days to complete. We decide to rest for the rest of the night.