[pnpgm] Game Update #17b - File #52 - Z'leyra's IBT part 2

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   HT Aliaver/Player          Character Name    Type    Status/Notes  Sex
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   R1.John Haight...........Arawn.............Druid  .Normal/Alfar  Ma
   --.Tobie Bonahoom........Fremea............Sidh....Normal/Faerry Fe
   R3.Mark Murtha...........Kell..............Trader..Normal/Human..Ma
   R1.David Sanders.........Kiet.Sunan........Acrobat Normal/Human  Ma
   R4.J H Hooten............Raban.Usherwood...Bard....Normal/Human..Ma
   W4.Wout Broere...........Unali.............Ninja...Normal/Human  Fe
   R1 John.Stowman..........Will..............Hunter..Normal/Human..Ma
   R4.Alex Koponen..........Z'leyra...........Healer..Normal/Human  Fe
      Animals: Corona [Eagle] Z'leyra, Squirt (Ferret) Kell

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      Admin Notes: IBT2  Part 2
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      [New Stuff]

          [Augado 11th - Sepes 24th, 1634TH]
          [Location: Marentia (Maren)]

          [Augado 11]

            The Shaman begins her trek westward toward the high hills.
          Her intent is to make at least 30 miles from the manor.

            After a long day of walking she makes camp and casts
          watchful sleep.

          [Augado 12]

            For most of the morning Z'leyra walks toward the hills.  She
          stops and finally finds a good one that is tall and has decent
          cover with bushes and trees.

            The Wizard casts Mana Sensing to look around the area and
          finds nothing except her own body full of magic.

            With a camp site selected the wizard then sets to work
          on setting up a camp ward.  She casts Orient Self, divination,
          Purification, Ensorcellment and then places a Sensing ward
          onto the camp site.  Centered where her campfire will go.  This
          should warn her of cat sized or bigger animals approaching.
          Then casts Perception to test the quality of the ward.

            Once camp is made including a simple bedroll and campfire,
          she eats some of her Sidh biscuits.  She ensures the fire will
          be going for a long time.  Then she casts ten invulnerability
          spells for practice.  Before bedtime she casts Watchful sleep.

          [Augado 13]

            Z'leyra decides to rest this day.  She has a long two
          months of work planned and will just relax.

            In eagle form she does a bit of hunting to find some nice
          fat rabbit.

            Back at camp she uses her special shamanic eagle summoning
          power and calls for nearby eagles.  As she waits she hopes
          Corona doesn't come.  In fact he and her other self are
          flying in the skies at this moment a day's ride to the east.

            Soon a dozen eagles land on the hill.  Some are reluctant
          while others are bold and approach.  They watch the nude
          Z'leyra with the dead rabbit in front of her.  Z'leyra
          shifts into a eagle herself to show she is one of them
          though a strange one indeed.  She tries to convey her
          wishes and respect for their area and explains she will
          be here for awhile at least one full moon cycle.  She
          then offers up the meat of the dead rabbit for them
          to share.

            After almost 3 hours with the eagles they soon part
          ways and fly to their respective nests.  She is
          especially fond of one male who seems a bit loopy or
          maybe just stupid.  The young eagle is memorized by
          the campfire and loves to chase insects which don't
          feed him well.  She can only guess he fell off the
          nest too many times as a youngling.

            Z'leyra then casts speed and purification to practice.
          Then casts 10 more invulnerability spells.  Of those ten
          2 fail, one badly.  The one that fails badly causes 13
          nearby plants to up and whither.  She rushes to her satchel
          to look for the one plant item she has - bindwind.  She
          finds only though brown dust where the bindweed was at one
          point as it is now destroyed.

            Sad by the failure she casts watchful sleep and heads to
          bed for the night.

          [Augado 14]

            Z'leyra spends another day resting.  She tans the rabbit
          hide and treats it.  She also stores the food she has from
          predators safe high in a nearby tree.

            That evening she casts ten more invulnerability spells with
          three of those failing.  She then casts watchful sleep before
          bedtime.

          [Augado 15]

            Z'leyra spends most of the day flying and talking to the
          region's eagles.  She ask them if she could cast Sending
          to them.  The stupid young male doesn't understand this
          magic stuff but wouldn't mind sending her something else.
          At least his instinct to breeding is intact.  Z'leyra finds
          a few other who allow it and practices it.  She then casts
          Purification and Sending 5 times each.  Two of those attempts
          fail and she has to repeat them.

            Z'leyra then casts her normal ten invulnerability spells with
          three failures.  Then casts watchful sleep at night.

          [Augado 16]

            Today Z'leyra scans the scrolls and books she got for
          her attempt to improve her dexterity and agility.  It is
          a very hot day so she constructs a lean too.

            That night she casts her 10 invulnerability spells with
          only 1 failure.  Then casts her usual watchful sleep spell.

          [Augado 17]

            Today Z'leyra begins her training to improve her agility.
          From her books, scrolls and other information she knows this
          will take a full month to do it.

            Over the next month she does various activities to improve
          her agility including circus style gymnastics and exercises,
          loosing up stretching, walking on logs, tight rope walking
          low to the ground, simple gymnastics, rolls, somersaults,
          walking no hands, handsprints and cartwheels.  She also
          creates obstacle course around the camp to try to help
          coordinate her body and muscles.  There are many more things
          to do but this is only a sample of what she does for the
          next month.

            That night she casts her 10 invulnerable spells and watchful
          sleep.  With only 3 of the invulnerable spells failing.

          [Augado 18]

            Z'leyra had planned to hunt and share with the eagles but
          practice for agility takes all day.  But in the evening she
          casts 5 more purification's and sending to practice to talk
          to the eagles in the area.  One sending fails so she has to
          repeat it.

            That night she practices her invulnerability spells with
          three more failures and then watchful sleep.

          [Augado 19]

            Z'leyra continues her training to improve her agility.  Today
          she spends hours doing exercises and trying to walk on logs
          and in some cases limbs high up in a tree.

            That night she casts ten more invulnerability spells with
          3 failing and then casts watchful sleep.

          [Augado 20]

            Z'leyra continues her agility practice routines. That night
          she casts 10 invulnerability spells with 1 failure and then watchful
          sleep at night.

          [Augado 21]

            More practice is done today to help Agility.  Around 3 or 4pm
          Z'leyra notices a group of 4 riders in the distance.  They are
          to the south west and moving eastward.  The riders look to be
          dressed in traveler clothing.  They are a mile away and have
          to see her.  There is little need to hide as if she can see
          them they can see her.  They notice there are also 3-4
          eagles on the hill milling about.  Z'leyra watches for some
          time and they stop to study her.  It is strange to see others
          this far outside the city and at least half a day's ride from
          the nearest farm.  It may not be rare but is unlikely.  Based
          on the way they are acting and rather not coming over to say
          hello Z'leyra can only assume they are roving bandits or the ilk.
          Especially since all four are armed with long swords and most
          peasants are not.  She drinks some water and watches as they
          finally move on moving eastward.

            Hours later if they were bandits they are not seen again.
          That night she casts her 10 invulnerability spells with no
          failures and watchful sleep.

          [Augado 22]

            Agility training continues today.  Then she casts 10 of
          her invulnerability spells with only 1 failure.  Then casts
          watchful sleep at night.

          [Augado 23]

            A week into her agility training she tries to change the
          routine to prevent boredom.  Z'leyra uses two trees with large
          trunks and about 15 feet apart.  She ties regular rope to
          each tree high about 4 feet off the ground.  Later she can try
          fine rope to make it tougher.  She uses her magic war staff to
          use as balance.  She goes back and forth many times.  Many
          times as expected she falls and only gets a few bruises and
          cuts but nothing serious.

            It is mid morning and likely the 89th fall from the rope
          so far.  Z'leyra is walking across the rope when she is
          startled and falls to the ground.  Unlike the voice in her
          head from the failure previously this is different.  This
          time is a warning - her ward activating.  Z'leyra stands and
          dusts herself off.  There is no real rush as the ward should
          warn her of anyone within 2 miles of the camp coming.  At
          least if they are normal beings.  She looks around circling
          about 270 degrees then she sees it.  A Hill giant is running
          toward the hill.  The hill giant is dressed and is brown
          and is almost hidden by the terrain.  She knows he has maybe
          8 minutes or less to get ready.  Rushing to get her armor on
          and grab her sword.  Z'leyra already wore her helmet due to
          the rope walking.

            Z'leyra considers some magic or even flying away.  But
          if she knows that giants will fight until one is dead.  This
          means he could stay around camp for her return.  In fact
          she is amazed after a week she didn't discover his lair if
          he is nearby all this time.  Unless this one is prowling or
          hunting in the area.  Now prepared she draws her sword and
          knows it is time to test her newly made sword.

            The 16 foot giant is as big as Raban in size but not as squat
          so less muscles in most places.  More spread out body weight
          than Raban.  The giant is carrying a spear with a stone spear
          head.  Z'leyra waits and the giant rushes up the face of the
          hill.  The snarling beast as expected does a first initial
          thrust with his spear.  But Z'leyra was prepared and slips
          past and to the left of the giant.  The giant misses but she
          swings her sword at him.  The giant at 16 feet his was it is taller
          than Z'leyra's head.  So mostly Z'leyra will be hitting legs or
          feet.  Maybe a upper body or arm if he is leaning down.  In this
          first strike she slices just above his right knee doing 8 points
          of damage to him.  The sword draws first blood for the first time.

            The Giant turns and stabs Z'leyra in the left shoulder doing 2
          of damage past her armor.  She wishes she had not sold her shield
          or that would've been a easy block.  Then she tries to figure out
          she will sell it in the future but her past so is it sold already?
          She stops thinking of time stuff like that and gets back to the
          fight.  Z'leyra returns the attack by thrusting upwards and hitting
          the giant in the lower abdomen just above his left was it doing
          16 points of damage.

            The Giant growls in pain and frustration.  The giant spears down
          and hits Z'leyra's lower right abdomen just above her hip but the
          chainmail holds and she takes no damage.  Z'leyra returns the blow
          by stabbing the giant in the exact location she was just hit in his
          lower right abdomen doing 8 points of damage.

            Z'leyra is targeted again in the same right abdomen just above
          her hit or rather that's where the giant spear lands and impales
          through her magical chainmail doing 2 more points of damage to her.
          Z'leyra knows she is only lightly wounded but the beast is at least
          half dead she hopes.  As if both fighters like the same spot, the
          shaman hits the giant in the right lower abdomen again doing 9 more
          points to the previous area.

            This time the giant stabs Z'leyra in the right upper chest doing
          2 more points.  Z'leyra tries to swing upwards to the area between
          his legs but he steps back jus time and she misses.

            The giant tries to stab Z'leyra but she ducks and the spear
          goes wild to the left.  Z'leyra jumps up and thrusts at the
          giant's right middle ribs, though was aiming for his heart.
          She digs deep in through his ribs and does 20 points of damage.
          The giant begins to swing and shows sign of falling.  Z'leyra
          jumps down and tries to run away but the giant falls upon her
          back.

            Z'leyra tries to move but she can only feel her left leg and
          right fingers moving.  The giant is really on her back.  She
          hopes it is dead or she is.  Her magical chainmail and helmet
          was able to the brunt of the blow with no damage.  She can
          feel her breathe blowing out but she quickly inhales before
          she dies.  She can only guess that she has one exhale and
          then she is unable to breathe.  She would hate to die here
          on a hill without Corona and under a hill giant.  That would
          just ruin her reputation.  Of course her other self back at
          the manor would still go on.  At least until she came here
          again and this all happened again causing a loop of time to
          go ever in a circle.

            After she goes over her options she quickly speaks the few
          words to cast a spell.  She loses mass and the giant falls
          to the ground.  Z'leyra looks up into the chest of the giant
          and closes her eyes in disgust.  Then with her ghostly voice
          she casts Levitate and rises up out of the giant.

            Z'leyra levitates up a few feet so she can fall to the
          ground when the spell ends.  She checks the body and finds
          he is indeed dead.  She then casts preserve the dead and
          then casts Oblivion to hide the body.  The first oblivion
          fails so she has to repeat it again.  Later when she is
          flying around she will release the body elsewhere.

            After treating her wounds and the camp is clear of dead giants
          she casts 10 more invulnerability spells with no failures.  She
          then casts watchful sleep at bedtime.

          [Augado 24]

            Z'leyra continues her agility training.  The practice really
          needs a full day of work so she can't go hunting again.  She
          does summon a few eagles and communes while she rests and works
          on her obstacle course.

            Z'leyra casts purification and then does 5 more sending spells
          to nearby eagles to practice.  Then she casts her 10 invulnerable
          spells.  One fails and another fails badly.  For the very bad failure
          it causes all animals within 110 feet radius of her to rouse and
          run away.  This causes birds, insects, moths, butterflies and
          even her new eagle friends to freak out.  She is sad to see the
          effect happen to the animals as it is not a very Shamanic thing
          to do.  Then at bedtime she casts watchful sleep.

          [Augado 25]

            Z'leyra continues her agility training.

          [Augado 26]

            Z'leyra gets a bit braver and raises the tight rope today
          walking between two tree limbs that are 12 feet away and about
          14 feet off the ground.  Of course she wears her armor and
          helmet.  But she only does it about 30 crossings and only
          falls down twice.  She is starting to get better but it also
          may be her luck ring that could be affecting things.

            Z'leyra casts 10 more invulnerable spells with no failures
          this time and another watchful sleep at night.

          [Augado 27]

            Z'leyra continues her agility with at least a third of
          the way through.

          [Augado 28]

            Z'leyra spends the entire day on her obstacle course and
          doing somersaults across obstacles at times so she can try
          to double up her routine and change it.

            Z'leyra then casts her 10 invulnerable spells and watchful
          sleep at night.

          [Augado 29]

            Today she continues to change her routine and works on
          martial art flips and moves.  She tries some that Arawn
          tried a few times but she has no obvious skill.  But even
          a beggar can mimic a guy faking to know martial arts.  It
          is how the technique is done not the skill at times.

          [Augado 30]

            Z'leyra tries to summon the eagles again.  But sadly none
          of them shows up.  It could be the last time they were scared
          off by the spell failure.  She still tries to cast purification
          and then tries to talk to the eagles at a distance.  Even
          though she can feel them it takes 5 tries before one actually
          responds.  She can tell the eagles are scared.  She tries to
          convince them it is safe.  They will come but they are busy
          which is a almost human like thing to do.  Z'leyra decides to
          let them come on their own.

            By mid afternoon Z'leyra is alerted to 2 wolves approaching.
          She decides to take her food and change to eagle form.  She
          lands on a tall tree and lets them enter the camp.  She
          could easily kill the 2 wolves but it would be senseless.
          After awhile they give up looking for food and run off for
          new prey.

            That night around 8:35pm though she is alerted again to
          approach.  This time it is dark so she has to use some of
          her magic gear to see in the darkness.  She soon discovers
          a man stumbling in the dark past the hill. She sees he is
          falling down as if wounded.  So the healer grabs her satchel
          and goes to help him.  When she gets there the man is almost
          dead.  She stops the neck wound but then realizes he is
          hurt in more cases.  She patches a hand and rib bite.  But
          the man dies.  Seems he has taken too much blood loss on the
          way here and he simply become sleepy and died while she was
          working on him.  She curses at the most serious wound a
          wound on the ankle which was a main artery that leads right
          to the heart.  That alone he must've lost a great deal of
          blood.  She is actually surprised the man even made it
          this far.  Then that is when she realized there may be
          others.  She begins to search the hills and sure enough
          some 10 minutes later she finds 3 other dead bodies.  They
          seem to be farmers or peasants.  Based on their wounds
          she sees they were bitten many times.  The wounds actually
          look like canine teeth.  She is sad to think that maybe
          the wolves she let free may have attacked these men.

            With little to do she searches the bodies for any marks
          or papers.  There is nothing and she knows tracking their
          family could be very difficult.  She decides to bury them
          for now and will alert Sivas patrols to post the news of
          the dead once she can go back to town.  She can't risk
          going back now or she might run into herself.

          [Augado 31]

            Today Z'leyra plays the gymnast and does all kinds of
          gymnastics.  Then she casts her 10 invulnerable spells
          and watchful sleep at night.

          [Sepes 1]

            Z'leyra continues her agility training.  At noon she
          rests and eats some biscuits.  Suddenly she sees a snake
          move past her.  The snake seems to stare at the shaman and
          doesn't make much of a move at her.  Regardless Z'leyra
          grabs her staff just in case for some bashing.  But there
          is something odd about it which Z'leyra can't seem to figure
          out.  Z'leyra turns to place the bag of biscuits on the
          ground to turn around to find the snake gone.  But now a
          falcon is on a nearby rock.  The falcon seems to stare as
          well and for a minute or two it just sits there.  Then it
          flies off.  Z'leyra starts to strip to chase it but as she
          removes her pants and shirt she loses sight of it.  Weeks
          later she has a chat with Kaylle and the Scholar mentions
          sounds like that may have been a Hill Vily.

            Z'leyra is alerted to men coming this way from the camp
          ward.  She spots 6 people moving toward the hill.  Soon
          6 peasants enter camp.  Z'leyra in full gear can tell the
          men are barely wearing clothes much less weapons.  Some
          may have a shovel or a pitchfork but generally not carrying
          any weapons.   Once Z'leyra is seen the leader apologizes
          for disturbing her.  They are trying to locate a man who
          feels justice was not done at their village and is seeking
          revenge.  They are looking for him to explain that there
          is no need for it.  The men do not go into great detail
          but it is clear they are eager to move on.  Z'leyra feels
          bad that she can't afford much food aside from a few
          biscuits.  Soon the men move northward out in the darkness.

          [Sepes 2]

            Z'leyra continues her agility training.  Then casts
          ten more invulnerable spells with only 1 failing.  She
          then casts watchful sleep at bedtime.

          [Sepes 3]

            Z'leyra continues more gymnastics today in her
          agility training.

          [Sepes 4]

            Z'leyra continues her training as usual with some
          physical somersaults and handsprints as the main portion
          of exercises.

            Z'leyra has been so cooped up on this patch of earth -
          the hill she calls camp - for over 3 weeks.  Aside from
          flying and a couple of hunts she decides a run is in order.
          To improve her agility to dodge rocks and the like.  She
          decides a few miles would do well.   She has now run for
          a bit over 3 miles and about turn back.

            Z'leyra leaps over a knee height boulder when she sees a form
          above her.  She glances up just in time to see a hippogriff
          diving at her.  She dives to the ground rolling to the left
          just as it tries to hoove at her.

            Z'leyra is wearing her armor to enhance the weight and
          overall leverage of her body.  But she is not carrying her
          staff just her sword but no helmet.  She draws her magical
          sword and prepares for battle.  She knows she can't outrun
          the flying beast so backs up against a large boulder.

            The hippogriff lands and charges.  The beast tries to trample
          but Z'leyra is able to side step just in time.  Z'leyra does a
          wild swing to his right wing but misses as the wing goes above
          the sword.

            The Hippogriff uses his shoulder to buff the healer to the
          boulder and tries to use two hooves to trample her.  The horse
          does hit her but her magical armor protects her.  Z'leyra tries
          to swing the sword at the beast but it backs away just in time.

            The creature charges again and tries to use his beak to attack
          the shaman's shoulder but she weaves just in time.  Z'leyra
          tries a full thrust at the creature's chest but fails to make
          contact with the beast.

            The hippogriff does a side rear kick toward the wizard and
          misses an inch from Z'leyra's left leg.  Z'leyra uses this
          chance and stabs the horse in the side ribs doing 10 points
          of damage.

              The half eagle horse rears up in the pain and runs away.
          It is hurt but it is also angry.  It turns, snorts and charges
          the healer.  But Z'leyra saw him charge and dodges just in
          the nick of time.  Z'leyra swings wildly at the beast but also
          fails to make contact.

            The creature tries to bite Z'leyra's arm but only grabs her
          tunic sleeve missing her flesh.  Z'leyra tries to thrust at one
          of his legs but also fails to hit.

            The hippogriff rears up on his rear legs and tries to trample
          Z'leyra but the hooves miss her by mere half inches.  Z'leyra
          does a wild in step swing to the creature underside but the
          sword misses by a good inch.

            The hippogriff flies up onto a large boulder then turns and
          jumps down toward Z'leyra in hope to crush her but she rolls
          away bouncing against the rock well.  With the creature's underside
          to her flank she thrusts upwards at the creature and pierces deep
          inside the beast.  The creature falls to the ground and dies.

            Z'leyra stands on shaky legs and cleans her sword.  She kicks
          the beast one last time.  This one was tough unlike the various
          others she has encountered.  Tough to kill but at least she wasn't
          hurt by it.  She sheathes her sword and runs back to camp making
          a mental note not to leave camp again.

            Then she casts her 10 invulnerable spells
          with 2 failures.

            Around 11pm Z'leyra is awaken by the camp ward.  She looks
          for the intruder and sees a man with a donkey.  The cool night
          is quiet and she can hear the donkey braying and the man
          talking to himself.  Z'leyra must figure he sees her campfire
          but tries to avoid the camp.  Z'leyra figures the man is one
          of those wild miners or wilderness men she hears about.  Those
          who are hermits who wish to mine for their future or are on
          the run for some reason.  But the wild man avoids Z'leyra.

            Ending the night with watchful sleep.

          [Sepes 5]

            Z'leyra continues her agility training today and stays
          in camp this time so to avoid attacks.

            In the afternoon Z'leyra casts purification and tries to use
          sending on summoned eagles.  One sending spells fails but she
          repeats it for five successful attempts.

          [Sepes 6]

            The third week of agility training begins and now only a week
          left of the exhausting work.

            That evening she casts her 10 invulnerable spells with only
          1 failure.  Then casts watchful sleep at bedtime.

          [Sepes 7]

            Another day of gymnastics and martial arts.  The boredom is
          lightened when a eagle reports of a ancient battlefield with
          bones and human stuff about a dozen miles away.  But sounds like
          a typical battlefield so nothing major to go look at.

          [Sepes 8]

            Z'leyra works on the obstacle course by the camp while blind
          folded.  Later that day she casts her 10 invulnerable spells
          and at bed time watchful sleep.

          [Sepes 9]

            Z'leyra works on walking on logs, tight rope walking with fine
          rope this time and walking on her hands.

            Almost right at midnight Z'leyra is awaken by the camp ward.
          Something is approaching.  She gets her satchel to get her
          amber to look around.  The campfire is low but still active.
          She looks around once and sees nothing.  Circles around again
          and still nothing.  Maybe it is a false warning.  She looks to
          the sky but the darkness is vast and its a lot of territory.
          Almost two minutes later she finally sees it.  A group of
          flying things moving her way.  There are 4 of them.  They are
          all moving this way.  Z'leyra runs to get her armor and grab
          hew new sword and don her helmet.

            That is when they get close enough to see as being 4 Terrestial
          demons like she fought in the barn.  This time though Gus and
          others are not here to be possessed.  She has no fear as long as
          she wears her necklace.  So she braces for combat.

            Seconds after placing her helmet on two dive right for her to
          try to possess her.  Both are bounced back by her necklace.  They
          are slammed to the ground.  The other two dive for attacks.  One
          swipes his claws at her but her armor protects her.  The other
          fails to hit.

            Z'leyra stabs one of the demons in the chest knocking him to
          the ground and maybe dead for 15 points.  Two of the demons
          are able to claw at her as they fly past but her armor protects
          both times.  The third demon fails to get close to her.

            Z'leyra swings at the back of one demon slicing his left wing
          and most of his back up.  The demon slams to the ground with 16
          points of damage dead.  The last 2 dive again at her one hits but
          her armor protects and the other fails to hit.

            Z'leyra stabs one demon as he flies past ding 8 points of damage
          to his ribs but he continues flying.  The wounded demon turns around
          to attack but does not hit.  The last demon does hit Z'leyra with
          claws but her armor protects her.

            Z'leyra swipes again at the unwounded one and does 7 points of
          damage to him by slicing off a foot.

            Z'leyra tries to stab one as it swings past her but she misses.
          Both demons also fail to make contact in their weakened states.

            The wizard-fighter impales her magic sword into one of the
          wounded demons and kills him.  The last demon decides it is time
          and flees into the night.

            Z'leyra checks the bodies and finds one still alive but just
          knocked out so kills him.  She waits a hour and finally decides
          to return to bed figuring the last demon will not be back.

          [Sepes 10]

            Z'leyra gets rid of the demon bodies by asking for eagle help
          to carry them away for the vultures.  Then Z'leyra continues
          her agility training.

            Then she casts 10 more invulnerable spells with 3 failures. At
          the end of the night she casts watchful sleep.

          [Sepes 11]

            Since the training is almost done, Z'leyra decides to go
          flying with her eagle friends and hunt.  She shares any of
          her meat with the others.  Then she casts purification which
          fails and then 6 more sending spells to practice.  One of
          the sending fails so she repeats it.

          [Sepes 12]

            More tedious training is done for Z'leyra's agility
          improvement.

          [Sepes 13]

            Z'leyra spends another day in her agility training.

            After dinner she is relaxing watching the stars as the sun
          has well gone down.  It is almost 8pm and she is relaxing by
          the camp fire when she hears a rumble.  Suddenly the ground
          below her begins to break and shake.  She is thrown to the ground
          as she sees a creature emerge from the ground nearby.  She
          doesn't know why the ward didn't warn her but then it might
          not if it was IN the ground.  Z'leyra tries to move toward her
          gear but she sees shoulders and then arms.  She realizes based
          on that one eye in his head that it is a earth giant.

            She realizes she has no time to wear her armor but she rushes
          to get her magical sword ready for a battle.  She could fly
          away but the creature is next to her satchel and all her nice
          things she collected over the years.  The giant would destroy
          them all.  She can't out run it as he can move through the earth.

            She backs up against two trees as a block of sorts and braces
          in a combat stance.  She realizes the giant is still leaving the
          ground and charges hoping to cut him before he gets fully out.  She
          swipes at the giant's chest twice cutting doing 11 and 8 points
          of damage before backing away.

            The giant looks around the camp and finds only the juicy lone
          human.  This one has only his hands and thank goodness from past
          events other giants had magical gauntlets but this one does not.
          But this one is in a battle fury and sees blood and dinner.    Now
          the ward goes off and warns her.  She grumbles that the ward is
          not fool proof.

            The giant tries to bash with his hand toward Z'leyra but she dodges
          just in time.  Z'leyra stares at the almost 17 foot tall giant
          and only can really fight against his legs and lower hips at the
          best.  But she took a hill giant down so why not a earth one.
          Z'leyra slashes one of his legs while trying to run around the
          giant to confuse him.

            The giant turns around and fist slaps Z'leyra across her chest
          doing 15 points of damage throwing her up into the ground and
          slamming her down onto the ground 5 feet away.  Z'leyra tries to
          struggle to her feet but her wind is blown out and where did
          her sword go?

            The giant lumbers forward growling in victory.  He decides to
          cast earthquake causing the ground under Z'leyra to shake
          violently to show his might.   Suddenly as she is trying to
          catch her breath the earth opens below her  A chasm a 50 feet
          wide and 30 odd feet deep opens.  Z'leyra tumbles deeper into
          the chasm with no armor and weapon.  The giant only needs to
          close the chasm and she is dead and in his stomach.  She sees
          her life flash before her.  If she dies here the other one will
          still be in Sivas.  It is ironic that this is the day she made
          the magic sword and she would die without it.

            She feels her arm twist and intense pain as if possibly
          broken.  She could change into a eagle and fly off but with
          her arm possibly broken she would not fly away far.  She
          looks up to see the giant looming up some 40 feet above
          her.  Despair spreads over her body and the giant grins.

            The earth begins to shake again and suddenly she can se
          a red flash from somewhere.  Then darkness overcomes Z'leyra.

            Z'leyra finds darkness all around her and figures she is dead.
          She then feels pain how can pain be felt while dead?  Is this
          some humor for a god?  Then she figures she must be in the
          giant's lair about to be eaten.  She hopes she tastes very bad
          and he chokes.  Then darkness sweeps over her again.

            Z'leyra now feels something sticky and wet on her face.  Must
          be the inside of the giant's stomach.  Maybe she can cast some
          spell to explode herself inside and take the beast with her?
          Then she feels a soft gentle hand on her forehead.  A hand in
          the stomach?  For the first time she opens her eyes half way
          and sees a angel.  No.  She sees..Kaylle?

            'Rest.  We'll talk later."  Kaylle speaks softly but how
          did he get here?  Then darkness overcomes him again.

          [Sepes 14]

            Around 3am, Z'leyra rouses up in the camp on the hill.
          She notices Kaylle and Corona sitting there watching.  How
          did he get her and the eagle.

            "Your friend here was talking to his own friends the eagles.
          Seems they saw you here and there back at the manor.  He
          did not understand magic of time travel well.  He didn't
          understand how you could be in two places at once.  He
          found me and I had to use scrolls to even communicate with
          him.  Then it all made sense.  My own amulet," He holds up
          a amulet from his tunic, "glowed and showed that there was
          some time magic going on.  It was a gift from Xian a long
          time ago.  Not sure how he found it but since King Maros
          was kidnapped by his own brother using time magic he felt
          it important to be wary.  When you came to town once
          a few days ago or was it in your past or my future?
          Any ways, my amulet begin to glow mainly near you. I
          came once to the manor and saw you there working in the
          shop but you were safe.  But now it makes sense."

            Z'leyra looks to Corona and realizes the red flame must
          have been him.  Z'leyra explains she had to get here to
          practice her agility.  In fact she has to do it today or
          she will lose all the past weeks.  Kaylle then explains
          that Corona and him along with 2 dozen of his eagle friends
          were able to chase the giant away.  Once away, Kaylle said
          that he used a hand held grenade made by Thig given to him.
          It teleported the giant away and up.  After Thig had heard
          of Vampire Exam and Chion's final battle it was a nice trick.
          Kaylle explains he giant is probably somewhere in a shallow
          crater in pieces.

            Z'leyra is given her satchel and she checks her own wounds.
          In fact she is half dead but overall in good shape.  Her
          arm was bandaged by Kaylle but seems to be only sprained.
          Kaylle shows her sword nearby and she is happy she didn't
          lose it.  After she treats her own wound, Z'leyra casts
          a full healing on herself.  With the brooch that healed her
          automatically last night and her healing she is now fully
          healed and 100% again.

            Z'leyra asks that Corona return and not mention it to her
          other self and any others.  She appreciates the help but
          tells Kaylle that she is almost done here.  She would prefer
          not to tell the others so not to mess up the time line and
          affect other issues.

            It takes time but Corona and Kaylle leave after some
          influence.  Z'leyra then looks around her camp.  The
          earthquake destroyed most of the hill and the chasm is
          still there.  She has to move the campfire and make
          a tighter work area.  The obstacle course is destroyed.
          But it looks like most of her stuff is still here.

            Z'leyra practices some basic exercises and martial
          arts shadow boxing for the rest of the day.

          [Sepes 15]

            Today is the last day of practice for improving agility.
          Z'leyra wakes up early and does all of the various techniques
          she has used in the past month.

            As she is doing gymnastics Z'leyra notices 3 mustangs riding
          past at a light walk.  The black horses see her but seem to
          not be scared.  Ben'dar would love to find these wild horses
          but decides to let them be.

          [Sepes 16 - 23]

            Over the next few days, Z'leyra rests and relaxes.  No
          more need to practice.  She has improved her agility.  For
          these days she summons eagles and practice sending.  She
          hunts and shares the meat.  Then tans a bit of the small
          hides that are left.

          [Sepes 18]

            Z'leyra casts her 10 invulnerable spells and watchful
          sleep this day.

            Around midnight Z'leyra is awaken by her camp ward.  She
          spots 5 men to the west walking.  They seem to be standing
          and watching the hill. They must see her and the campfire.
          Based on the amber she can tell they look like hunters.  They
          are all carrying pelts, hides, bows and quivers like normal
          hunters.  Soon she notices they divert south and then east
          avoiding the insane person on the hill in the middle of nowhere.

          [Sepes 20]

            The wizard recasts as practice 10 invulnerable spells but
          fails in 2 of them.  Then casts watchful sleep at bedtime.

          [Sepes 21]

            Around 11pm Z'leyra is awaken by the camp ward again.
          This time she sees a rider and horse approaching from
          the west.  This place seems to be too active lately
          with people.  The rider slowly approaches and declares
          he is friendly.  But Z'leyra is never too careless.  She
          watches the horse climb the hill and the rider dismounts.
          The man explains Donaran that he is a traveler going
          from Donara to the Cerulean Empire in the east.  He has
          been on the road for a few months.  He does not explain
          why he is on the road but he seems friendly.  Z'leyra
          shares some of her rabbit stew she made earlier.  Z'leyra
          and the man talk about Donara for a few hours and try to
          hear news and gossip.  The man asks to sleep by the campfire
          as it is safe. Z'leyra knows the man seems harmless but
          decides to let him stay as his only weapon is a simple
          looking sword.  The next morning the man leaves at sunrise
          and heads eastward after thanking Z'leyra.

          [Sepes 22]

            Again Z'leyra for the last time casts Invulnerability
          spells 10 times.  One of these castings fail badly.  This
          causes her to wail in every sound she does.  She tries to
          speak and she sounds like a banshee.  This bad product of
          the spell causes her even to sound like a wailing creature
          as she moves.  Any slight noise from her does this.  This
          lasts for the next 10 hours.

          [Sepes 23]

            Around 3pm Z'leyra spots a group of 10 riders from the
          north riding this way.  She wishes she had a spyglass like
          Fremea or Unali.  Soon they get close enough and she
          recognizes the uniforms as Marentian.  The ten patrolmen
          approach and the leader wonders why she is alone out
          here.  Z'leyra explains she is camping out and searching
          for new herbs and plants.  She never gives her name as
          it might be hard to explain being in two places at once.

            The leader explains they are from a small fort to the
          north west about 30 miles away.  They are doing some
          routine patrols and checking on villages in the area.  The
          leader asks if she has seen a giant lately?  A dead one
          was found a few miles away but mostly decayed bone and
          rotting flesh in a low crater.  The leader can't explain
          how it seemed to have fallen down from somewhere or the
          sky.  But they are making sure none are still around to
          endanger the villages.

            The leader suggests coming with them for safety but
          she refuses saying that she is capable.  The leader almost
          planned to leave a guard but decides that if the lady
          is here and not dead she deserves what happens or she
          has good survival skills.  The patrol ride off going
          southward.

            Around 7pm after a delightful dinner of sidh biscuit
          and some berries, Z'leyra is cleaning up the pot when
          she hears a noise.  Then the ward goes off and she looks
          around.  She turns in time to see a Rock Troll leap out
          of the shadows and charge.  She wonders how he got so
          close and figures maybe the large chasm below masked
          his movements.  She only has time to grab her sword and
          helmet.

            The rock troll who stands 9 feet tall tries to stab her
          with his spear but she dives down, rolls and stands back up.
          Z'leyra tries a wild swing but it is too wild and she misses.

            Z'leyra stabs the rock troll in the middle left ribs doing 11
          points of damage.  The rock troll misses his own strike entirely.

            Rock Troll and Healer dance around the camp both thrusting
          and both missing each other.

            Troll attacks again but misses.  Z'leyra hits his left arm
          but his armor protects him from the wild slash.

            Troll thrusts his spear at Z'leyra but she ducks to the side
          just in time.  But Z'leyra slashes at the trolls left arm and
          slices it cleanly off doing 27 points of damage.  The troll
          howls in pain and anger.  The blade penetrates deep and
          Z'leyra later learns the blade was damaged.

            One handed the troll actually hits Z'leyra in the chest but
          her armor protects her completely.  Z'leyra stabs the troll
          in the chest doing the final damage to kill it.  She inspects
          her sword and finds it damaged slightly.  She kicks the
          troll a few times in anger as it was a brand new weapon!

          [Sepes 24]

            Near sunrise Z'leyra notices a flock of eagles land near
          the campfire. Normally she has to call the eagles but today
          they land.  Z'leyra gives them farewell and explains she
          is about to move on.

            Z'leyra considers explaining seeing two of her here and
          in the east at her manor.  But she is sure that the eagles
          have no concept of time travel much less magic.

            Z'leyra breaks camp and cleans up.  Her plans are now to move
          to the forest for another period of time.  Before she does this
          she works to end the camp ward.  She casts Divination,
          purification, dispel on the ward and then detection.  But the
          detection spell fails though she doesn't know this.  She only
          detects nothing thus figures the ward is gone. In fact it is
          but she only does one test so doesn't know since the spell
          to detect the absence failed.

            Z'leyra spends the rest of the day moving fast toward the
          forest in the south.  This entire region of Marentia is mostly
          hill country but there are some light forest only a few miles
          at most square.  But after days of flying in the past she finds
          a forest that may be as big as 3 square miles.  Enough of an area
          to at least hide in.

            After a long exhausting day of walking Z'leyra finally arrives
          in the forest around 9pm.  She places her bags in a tree and then
          changes to eagle to scout to find the spot she found before.  It
          takes her a few minutes and she gains her bearings.  With her
          bags back she walks to the secluded area that is open but also
          hidden by tall trees.  It is big enough ground to house a hovel
          but not a small farm.

            There Z'leyra casts another time travel.  Z'leyra reappears
          in the forest but it is now twilight near dawn and Augado 11..

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