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Kvill Father

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This is a miracle! We can actually breathe under water.

After being quite in the thrall of the beautiful underwater “landscape”, an attack by some eerie mermen has thoroughly sobered us up. There are strange things going on down here. It may be that it won’t be all that easy to salvage the wand after all.

It’s one surprise after the other. A second group of merbeings led us to an undersea palace where we met their king and his sailor counsel. The nixes, as these people call themselves, have split into two rival camps, and we’ve been charged with reuniting them. And it’s more than a simple request, because otherwise we won’t be able to enter the smuggler’s hideouts aboard the ‘Even Star’. & has expressed the belief that the strange behavior of the unfaithful nixes has to do with moonlight or alcohol because these two things have bad influence to the nixes.

We’ve managed to overcome the leader of the rebellious nixes. But does that solve the question why they acted like they did?

The wine stores have been thoroughly destroyed. That must have been what drove those nixes insane.

Zorka, the son of the nix king, fell in love with [Heroine] and - how could it be otherwise! - & returns his feelings. Now we are lumbering along with these two turtle-doves. - Here’s hoping all goes well!

Zorka, the daughter of the nix king, fell in love with [Hero] and - how could it be otherwise! - & returns her feeling. Now we are lumbering along with these two turtle-doves. - Here’s hoping all goes well!

The nix king, too, appears satisfied his “charges” will return to his rule now, and he’s given us a glowing stick we can use to open the doors aboard the sunken ‘Even Star’.

We had hardly entered the cabin with the chest, the hiding place of the wand, when some water elementals attacked us. Defeated elementals immediately manifested again somewhere else within the cabin. Apparently they were bound to the place and thrown against any intruders by the aura surrounding the chest. Because the second we reached the chest, they all vanished.

He had the wand all this time, and he knew we’d only come to the bottom of the sea to get it!

That blasted nix king had us jump through hoops and perform heroics for no reason. But at least we’ve got the wand now.

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Eleana of Arivor