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→Eltibule: Finished transcribing Wake's journal.
... I found one item that was relatively modern, suggesting that dwarves were using the system as recently as a few years ago. In fact, they may still be using the system even now...
... an imperfect understanding of the system, but it seems to have an inherent limitation: each type of item can only be sacrificed once per phase of the moon. This restriction is most vexing. There are eight moon phases each month, so the order of the statues changes every few days.
... discovered that the statue which accepts mushrooms can also accept cat eyeballs and (perhaps) other bits of animal corpse. We were able to get two maps from that statue: one from a mushroom and one from the eyeball. Then, the next day the moon was in a new phase. We went clockwise one statue, and sacrificed another mushroom and cat eyeball there. Success! Starting to feel like we understand the mechanism now...
... I've contacted my young colleague [[Dalvos]] in [[Statehelm]]; he will want to see these statues. There seems to be a vast power structure underneath them! Perhaps together we can harness this energy that the ancients so carelessly left behind.
Sometimes Sinda makes errors when mapping the coordinates, which is entirely understandable. But the vexing thing is that the ground here is so full of buried items that we often dig up something even at the incorrect coordinates! Typically, these items are not very impressive... and some are not containers at all. In fact, today we unearthed a dormant slime, which we barely managed to escape from. Terrifying.
... after several more successes, we hit tragedy. We must have calculated the coordinates incorrectly, because we dug up a mottled floating skull. It screamed "COME TOUCH YOUR FATE, SINDA" and she died instantly. In my terror, I fled straight into a pack of wolves.
Am now bleeding badly...
I have made it back to our campsite, but I"m stuck. I can't ride a horse in this condition... I've lost the use of my legs. Going to let the horses go free, and hope they somehow survive. I used my last sending stone to contact [[Dalvos]]... he said he was coming soon. If I can survive a few days, this nightmare will be over.
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:- Another book titled "Personal Diary, Sir Villas Wake" can be found in a box of millet in the front tower of [[Eltibule Keep]]. The text contains "boring personal details about some sage's life."
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