To Hunt the Hunter

[ragnarok1983]

[A fair amount a encoded messages apparently only understood to the writer follows with patches of regular elven text. If you are knowledgable of languages, you notice that some of the script used for the encoding is also undercommon and low drow. The journal is blackened and appears burned. It smells slightly sulferous and while the pages have aged and yellowed considerably, the pitch black ink contrasts to such an extant that you may suspect the ink is the truly the absence of color. Some pages stick together, bound by coagulated blood of battles past. There is no discernable title on the cover, and no apparent author.]

[What follows are excerpts of uncoded messages in the journal.]

[Seemingly Important Notes]

Kill... dhaerow. For all that they have done, they...
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Must keep some... blood. Priests need materials for holy symbols. Need to dip... break... bless...
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War comes... prepare they say... "Tarnok."
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"Wirg"... hunt... find... know where to...
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Council ignorant at times... respect... prioritize dhaerow.
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Map caverns... Duergar found... locked. ... Displacers see all... find way soon.
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Nashkel... spirits today. Consorting... war against undead. ... Disapprove.
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"Dolron Ralaeh"... "Noric Pateel" ... spirits. ... death. ...
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[Seemingly Unimportant Notes]

... camoflage and hide well but skills... blade needs improvement.
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... all [coded words] shall perish.
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The there are... and one named "Kichigai" who states "Some call me the person that uses purple magic." Speaks unfamiliar... casting.
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... and "Ivan _____" the drunk goat, best I can tell...

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[Various maps follow with encoded notes on each drawing. There are no seemingly complete maps, though several pages with encoded symbols that seem to indicate that one parchement attaches to the another. The titles and basic notes are written plainly on the maps of the outside entrances, but without a cipher, the casual reader would be unable to attach the maps to each other in the correct order, making them all but useless. The parchement is loosely filed in the middle of the journal with no apparent order.]

MAPPING CAVERNS

Jorn's Well - Map Complete. No Outlet.
Cloakwood Mines - Map Complete. No Outlet.
Orc Caverns - Map Complete. No Outlet.
Caverns North of Beregost. - Map Complete. No Outlet.