Correspondence Log

This page serves as an archive of various correspondences conducted during the Pog Champions' travels. These correspondences include letters as well as communications via the Sending spell.

The collaborative Google Document of these messages can be found here.

Session 13
Glasny's Letter to Kilwin: Dearest Kilwin, How goes the adventuring? It nears the halfway mark of your journey as I write this, but I hope it reaches you safely and soon. Ideally you&rsquo;ve been able to take time to reflect during your prayer, but in case you&rsquo;ve been unable, allow this time for it. Alethus resides within us all; some small part of us, that is – that is why we have the power to create. Of course, the opposite is also true. K&rsquo;thalios stole some part of his immortal essence into us when Alethus wasn't looking. Thus the terrible mortal power of destruction. Surely you&rsquo;ve seen the result of both on your time away. You might be thinking, &ldquo;Why are you telling me this, Father Glasny? It&rsquo;s been quite a few years since I learned this.&rdquo; I know more than most how aptly you paid attention to lessons. You most definitely took them to heart. However, I&rsquo;m not sure you ever considered why. I think that is the most purely good part of you. Without wavering on why, you followed the path of your heart, and here you are, questing for the common good throughout the world. If you feel yourself wavering now for any reason, think on that. Just something to keep in mind. Glasny PS. Remember you always have a home here. I know we agreed six months from now, but if you have time, stop in for a visit! I&rsquo;m sure the rest of the clergy misses you, not to mention a fair few folks in Cowersby.

Session 14
Kilwin's Letter to Glasny: Dear Father Glasny, I just received the letter you sent. Hopefully I can find a courier to send this out before leaving Quadroad. I apologize for not writing home sooner! Hopefully, this letter reaches you well. The world outside of Cowersby is certainly exciting and wondrous, even if it is a bit overwhelming at times. I feel as if I&rsquo;ve learned much in just these first six months. Seeing so much of Alethus&rsquo;s creation with my own eyes has been enlightening. You were certainly right when you said my world had been a bit small! As you guessed though, I&rsquo;ve also seen a fair amount of K&rsquo;thalios&rsquo;s work, which has been disquieting to say the least. Right now, I&rsquo;m traveling from Port Valor to Falas to deliver a letter from Count Corvus to the Emperor. It&rsquo;s certainly something I never expected to be doing! I&rsquo;m in the company of a group of adventurers- some of them are certainly characters, but mostly they&rsquo;re just good people. I think you&rsquo;d really like them! I do have some bad news though. Part of the reason the count entrusted us with this letter was because we informed him that one of his advisors was planning to kill him. It was a whole mess how we got into that position, and I&rsquo;ll admit I didn&rsquo;t think everything would work out as well as it did, but Alethus was watching over us. The bad news is, when we confronted this man as the count asked us to do, we wound up killing him. I&rsquo;m not sure if we could have avoided it. We tried to leave him alive, but he was trying very hard to kill my new friend Erak and it was quickly becoming a matter of ending it before he could succeed in that. The man was also responsible for a lot of troubles in the city and my touch seemed to burn him without my trying, so I&rsquo;m not sure what kind of case could really be made for him at this point. Still, evidently this man, Tyrian Vordt, bears a grudge because his revenant is tracking my friend Reides, who certainly does not deserve to be pursued by a revenant, and I doubt he plans to leave the rest of us unharmed. I&rsquo;d love to return home early for a visit, but I&rsquo;m reluctant to potentially bring a revenant into Cowersby and just as reluctant to leave Reides and the others behind. I hope I don&rsquo;t sound too prideful, but I&rsquo;m concerned about how they&rsquo;d do without me. Hopefully, the situation will be under control in six months, but any advice you have would be deeply appreciated. I hope that everything in Cowersby is peaceful as usual. The farmers must be sowing their seeds by now. Hopefully, they have a bountiful harvest this year. I may not have written before now, but I do think of all of you often, especially everyone at the temple. Please tell everyone I said hello! May Alethus be with you, Kilwin

Session 22
Kilwin's Letter to Glasny: Dear Father Glasny, I was planning on writing home more frequently after I sent my last letter, but I didn&rsquo;t think it would be so soon! I just wanted to let you know that the situation I wrote to you about roughly a week ago is mostly under control now. The revenant definitely still exists, but we&rsquo;ve managed to trap him. Reides has ideas for some further precautions, and I suppose something could always go wrong, but we&rsquo;re safe for the time being! I hope I didn&rsquo;t worry you too much. As relieved as I am that all of us survived that experience, I&rsquo;m still a bit troubled by the whole ordeal. You know I&rsquo;m not prone to anger, but the circumstances were pretty extreme, and I&rsquo;m afraid I lost my temper and said some pretty harsh things to Tyrian before we trapped him, some of which were a bit unfair. It&rsquo;s a bit late to apologize to him now, though. Now that I&rsquo;m out of the situation, I can maybe understand how he could think we wronged him by breaking up his gang and stopping him from assassinating the Count. Sometimes, when I&rsquo;m in prayer, I even find myself feeling sorry for him. Even when he was alive, most of the people working for him seemed to be doing that because they were afraid of him or their situations didn&rsquo;t leave them with many other options. I can&rsquo;t really say for sure that he had no one he cared about, and we did actually meet someone who cared about him, but two of the three people closest to him were willing to sell him out, and he certainly didn&rsquo;t seem to care about the third. I guess I just can&rsquo;t understand it. What drives people to seek power for its own sake? Especially at the cost of other people&rsquo;s lives? On one hand, I&rsquo;m glad I don&rsquo;t get it, but on the other, maybe we could&rsquo;ve reached out to Tyrian earlier and stopped some of this from happening in the first place. I write this letter from Vilais Watch. It&rsquo;s a nice town with good people, even though there&rsquo;s been some troubles here recently, and I&rsquo;m really glad I can stay here another night. This is actually where Tyrian caught up to us, so we had to leave it in a hurry at first. The people here may not be especially pious, but it&rsquo;s clear that the light of Alethus shines within them. They certainly don&rsquo;t deserve having their lives interrupted by the undead attacking their town. Tyrian killed a woman here, and a man was injured by his ghouls. (I&rsquo;m not being mean, he had literal ghouls with him.) I feared it would be worse, and I&rsquo;m glad I did what I could to stop it, but between this experience and the fact that I&rsquo;m still not convinced Tyrian rose naturally and some disturbing things I&rsquo;ve heard out of Port Valor... I&rsquo;m reasonably sure someone (something?) is out there, and I don&rsquo;t think I can just ignore it. I know I only have so much time, but I want to do what I can to stop more of this from happening while I&rsquo;m still out in the world. Anyway, this &ldquo;brief&rdquo; update on my situation ran a bit longer than I really intended. I apologize if I rambled a bit too much. I hope we can discuss some of this in person once I&rsquo;m home. I&rsquo;ve been seeking guidance from Alethus, of course, and trying to work the rest out myself, but I&rsquo;ve always appreciated your willingness to listen and your advice. I&rsquo;ll definitely write to you again before I&rsquo;m back in Cowersby, but probably not quite so soon as this time. Hope you&rsquo;ve been well! Alethus watch over you, Kilwin

Session 23
Kilwin's Letter to Rilineth: Dear Rilineth, I hope you&rsquo;re feeling at least a little better by the time you&rsquo;re reading this. Sorry to have to leave this note for you! We waited until this morning, and I was hoping you&rsquo;d have come back to the tavern by now, but it makes sense that you&rsquo;d need more time to yourself. We really needed to get back on the road to Falas, so we headed out. We&rsquo;re all really hoping you&rsquo;ll catch up with us though! Actually, Erak, Reides, and Jorah came looking for you to talk and offer you some alcohol a while after you left. So they definitely want you to come back when you&rsquo;re ready! We hopefully shouldn&rsquo;t be too hard to find- We&rsquo;ll probably stay on the main road, and we&rsquo;re sticking to normal walking, so it shouldn&rsquo;t be too difficult to catch up to us traveling alone. In the meantime, safe travels. I know you&rsquo;re very self-sufficient, and like Reides said after you left yesterday, you always seem to show up when we need you the most, but to be honest, I&rsquo;m going to keep worrying about you while you&rsquo;re out on your own anyway. We&rsquo;re all hoping to see you again soon, and we&rsquo;d really prefer it if you were in one piece! May Alethus watch over you, Kilwin Firstlight 15

Session 32
Kilwin's Letter to Our Fellow Adventurers: Bloomshower 4 598 Dear Fellow Adventurers, Hi! I hope your recent travels have gone smoothly. If you&rsquo;ve come here looking for Blighthorn the dragon, though, I also hope you haven&rsquo;t spent too much time searching. You did find Blighthorn&rsquo;s lair! It was in this tower. Our group already came here though and managed to defeat him, but apparently dragons fade away when they die? So there&rsquo;s no sign that he&rsquo;s dead and not just somewhere else at this point, and we might not be able to get back to the guild to get the bounty taken off the list for a while. Anyway, we thought we&rsquo;d leave this note so you don&rsquo;t waste too much time searching for the dragon. We&rsquo;re sorry for any inconvenience! Sincerely, [there&rsquo;s a few drops of ink here where Kilwin hesitated on how to sign it] The Dark Oak Companions

Session 44
Kilwin: "Sorry to pester you, but Port Valor was destroyed. Terrible things happened. They're still happening! We're on it, but I wanted to know you're safe. Be careful." Erak: &ldquo;Caugus&rsquo;s balls! Kilwin, keep safe. My visions are rough to follow, but I&rsquo;m doing the best I can. It sounds like we both are. Good-&rdquo; Reides : &ldquo;Viglis. It&rsquo;s Reides. On surface. Things aren&rsquo;t good. Demons, cities dying. Is everyone okay? Be alert. I know you&rsquo;re angry with me but please remember –&rdquo; Viglis : &ldquo;What in the- Is that you, Reides? Please listen, you must come back home. It's safer here than there with those attacks. We can talk -&rdquo; Reides : &ldquo;Hi. I&rsquo;m the blue person you helped. In the net. Name is Reides. Sorry for telling you like this. Are you okay? World is scary.&rdquo; ??? : &ldquo;Eadro's bloody beard, I wasn't expecting to hear from you. All's fine in Atemcester. We just sailed here from Davenport. By the way, my name -&rdquo;

Session 45
Kilwin's Letter to Grinlief: Sunpeak 7 598 Dear Grinlief, It&rsquo;s been a while since our paths crossed, so I hope you still remember me and my friends! I&rsquo;m also not sure if I actually introduced myself to you when we were in Vila&rsquo;s Watch. If I didn&rsquo;t, I&rsquo;m sorry! That was awfully rude of me! My name is Kilwin and I&rsquo;m the cleric from the party of adventurers who helped find out who killed Bertram Rhastur. I hope you&rsquo;ve been well! We&rsquo;ve had better weeks, but that&rsquo;s neither here nor there. I&rsquo;m writing to apologize because Reides (my blue friend) and I offered to go get drinks with you, and then we left town while the tavern was closed. We&rsquo;ve gotten involved in a variety of problems since then, and honestly, they just seem to be getting worse. Unfortunately, they&rsquo;re also taking us even farther from Vila&rsquo;s Watch. I&rsquo;m giving this letter to someone teleporting to Falas, but I&rsquo;m actually in what&rsquo;s left of Port Valor right now, and I think we&rsquo;re traveling to the Exeter next. It&rsquo;s still going to be a while before we can visit again, but I wanted to make sure you knew that we haven&rsquo;t forgotten about you. We&rsquo;re looking forward to seeing you again when that&rsquo;s possible! Also, I don&rsquo;t want to burden you with our troubles, but there&rsquo;s a lot of dangerous things happening around Alethustria. Like I mentioned, Port Valor has more or less been destroyed. Demons were involved. We&rsquo;re still hoping there&rsquo;s a way to reverse some of the damage, but I can&rsquo;t help but worry about a lot of people we&rsquo;ve met in our travels. Vila&rsquo;s Watch should be safe as far as we know, but we&rsquo;re not sure about Falas. It might be a good idea to steer clear of there for now, if you have the choice. We&rsquo;re trying to do something about it, and we&rsquo;ve given the information to the right channels, so it&rsquo;s hopefully not anything you&rsquo;ll have to worry about, but please be careful. The people who care about you would much rather see you again than hear that you made a heroic last stand against some awful demon. I would be very upset if we didn&rsquo;t get to meet again! Hopefully it will end up being sooner than I expect. My friends and I miss you very much. Please stay safe, Kilwin Kilwin: "I haven't given up. We're going to meet again and we're going to bring you back. That's a promise as your friend." Slumberjack: &hellip;

Session 46
Slumberjack's Letter to Kilwin: Kilwin, I had a dream where my Guide appeared and told me that I do not fit in with you all. Although you have all shown me such kindness and relative acceptance that says otherwise, I cannot help but feel their words do ring true. They said that someone will come for me in the near future and I should accept their invitation, and I fear that this upcoming excursion may be the exact opportunity they warned told me of. I am sorry, Kilwin. I truly am. I think I will be going with them if not to free yourselves of travelling with a wanted criminal and a bad personan abominationa mistake someone who prefers a sword over diplomacy, to find out more about my Guide and what my purpose is here. My mother told me my birthright was special and I had something to do in my time here. They say what I am is a gift, but I fear it is more a curse than a blessing. Please do not mourn for me or look for me. My Guide telling me of this invitation tells me it is tainted and written in blood. Only a horrible thing would accept someone as twisted as myself. Thank you for everything you have done for me, your attempts to help were more than anyone has ever done for me, and I will remember this until my death. Pass along my well wishes to the others and please take care of yourself, you are so selfless I fear that without me to corrupt your path you will give so much of yourself to others that you will lose yourself. Fondly and forever your friend, Slumberjack (Rilineth) P.S. I hope that one day I can return and teach you Celestial.

Session 56
Ashara : &ldquo;Kain. [long mental pause] Goodnight." Kain : "Ashara? ...Goodnight. I hope you have dreams of a bright tomorrow." Ashara : "I miss you. Sweet dreams." Kain : "I miss you too, Ashara." Ashara : "The Library Date... you know it isn't a friend thing, right? Please Send to me to sometime. Goodnight for real." Kain : "Oh... A work thing? Wait a second... You mean... I didn't realize... Ten preserve me. That makes so much sense... The beads. I'm the dumbest-" Ashara : "Also, look into extending your lifespan. I am over 2000 years old, and I will be pissed if you die at 90. Love you." (24) Kain : "Ashara... Let's go on another date next time you're here. No promises about the lifespan thing, but... Okay, we'll see." Ashara : "/Love you too/ was the proper response. Or at least an acknowledgement. I also still might die this may be your only chance to say it." Kain : "Oh my god... I didn't even realize. I was too busy thinking about how dumb I was being that I did it again. I love-" Kilwin: "It&rsquo;s Kilwin! Would you like if I said hi like this sometimes? Not super often. You can talk back in your mind if you want!" Grinlief: "Oh my! Hello, Kilwin! Feel free! A little late, but no matter. Did you see they made me mayor? Oh, still on for drinks sometime?" Kilwin: "You're really mayor? That's exciting! We're defintitely still on. Also sorry but it might be hard to reply sometimes. I&rsquo;ll try. Great to hear you-" Grinlief: "Indeed I am! And I can't wait! I suppose my stellar deductive reasoning made me a great candidate! Great to hear you too!"

Session 57
Ashara : Hi honey bunny, we're out of prison. See you soon, hopefully. We're ok for now. Update you soon. Love you bunches and forever!! Kain : I'm glad to hear it. Perhaps we can meet up again in Atemcester? Oh, did you manage to secure the Crest? Ashara : Crest secured. I will Send to you when in the next village, we've got a lot of lost time to make up for. Love you. Kain : Wonderful! You're brilliant, Ashara, in every sense of the word. I'll be in touch. And I hope to make up for that and more. Ashara : "Does this mean you will send to me? We're in danger until we leave this place, so we may lose contact if not. Love you Kain." Kain : &ldquo;If I can. Things have been tough searching out the mole and securing the crest. It's basically been consuming all our time. Please stay safe." Kilwin : "Please be careful. Something really big and scary might be mad at me and it might know where I'm from. Maybe not! Could be nothing!" Crys : "Kilwin... I have to say this is quite an alarming message to receive randomly at 5 o'clock. The Order of Cowersby will be on alert." Reides : Hi! It&rsquo;s Reides again! The blue person. I want to see you. Want to meet? Going to Atemcester. Still quite far away. Please say yes!  ???: Hey, Reides! Sure, I'd love to see ya. One small notch in the rope, though. We're leaving in about a month in half, can ya-   Reides : You know, this spell has a limit of 25 words. You keep getting cut off! I hope I&rsquo;ll get there in time. What&rsquo;d you like?   ???: Oh, really? That kinda sucks. Anyway, I was saying we had to leave in a month or so. Can ya make it in time?   Reides : Again: I hope so! Try not to rush off though, okay? We&rsquo;ve just left the Exeter.   ???: Well, I sure wish it were up to me! The Kraken isn't quite one to let us rest too long. Miss me that much, huh?

Session 58
Kilwin: &ldquo;We just left the Exeter a few days ago. Heading west. We had kind of a crazy time there. Glad to leave. Hope you're doing well!&rdquo; Grinlief: &ldquo;Doing fine, thank you very much Kilwin! I deduce you might have crazy times everywhere you go, but I hope you're doing quite well yourself!&rdquo;

Session 61
Ashara : "Died (?) and came back. I think we killed the source of the memory plague. I love you so much. Please reply. May die on journey  Kain : "What? You died?! And the memory plague...? What the hell happened there? Are you okay? I love you. Don't die on me."

Session 62
Kilwin: "I sent a letter but don't know when you'll get it. I'll be late coming home, but I'm not sure how late. A few months?" Glasny: "Take your time, Kilwin. Alethus is patient, as you know, and I'm sure you're doing righteous work." Reides : Still on the way, at Raven Rock. I want to help someone, how much longer are you in Atemcester? ???: &rdquo; No worries, Reides! We're delayed out of Atemcester for a while because of a vortex over the North Eadrenan. You've got time!

Session 63
Kilwin : I just realized I don't actually know where you're from. I'm from Cowersby, by the way, near Laketon. Grinlief : Ah! My goodness, you spooked me quite good, Kilwin! I'm from Falas, of course! My parents live on the High Terrace!

Session 64
Kima : Kilwin, it's Kima. I'm not sure what happened, but a few of the afflicted just died. Kilwin : Sorry, a lot going on right now. Can you tell me if more pass soon? I'm sorry. Not sure if things are related.

Session 65
Ashara: Raven Rock's gone, friends are unconscious. Slumberjack working with demons. Please send help. We have an even bigger target on our backs. Also summoned black holes? Kain : Gone? Like Port Valor? Slumberjack... We'll try to send help but we don't have teleportation right now. And... black holes? Kilwin: How are things? Did many more pass? I know what happened. It&rsquo;s not Good news but there&rsquo;s a chance we can get them. Kima: Kilwin! I've been trying to reach you. I'm glad you're okay. And... yes... Quite a few passed. If you can save them, please... Please try. Kilwin : I understand if you're angry, but I still haven&rsquo;t given up on that first promise I made you. We know something&rsquo;s wrong. Til next time. Slumberjack : &hellip; Reides : Hi! It&rsquo;s Reides again! A lot happened, but I&rsquo;m alive! Close to Atemcester now. We need somewhere to stay. Where would you like to meet? ??? : If you need a place to stay, the Fish and Spell at Portside is as good a place as any. We can meet there too.

Session 67
Kain : Hey Ashara, it&rsquo;s me. Can you meet me at the Teleportation Nexus in the center of Atemcester? Ashara : Yes, I&rsquo;ll be there as soon as I can. Ashara : I&rsquo;m here, there&rsquo;s just a lot of wizards with books. Kain : Just head inside and wait for me. I&rsquo;ll be there soon! Kilwin : We made it to Atemcester. It&rsquo;s very busy! Did you know there&rsquo;s floating towers and bridges here? It&rsquo;s incredible! Hope you&rsquo;re well! Grinlief : Quite incredible indeed, my dear Kilwin! Have you been to Falas and seen their airships? I bet that would be quite a treat for you! Kilwin : I have! Falas was a bit overwhelming, but it was amazing! I&rsquo;d like to go back someday&hellip; Maybe, uh, we can meet up there someday? Grinlief : That would be quite lovely! We can visit good old Saint Vashreen's and see the sights! It would be nice to see you! Reides&rsquo; Letter to Aske: Good morning, Aske! Sorry to rush off! You were sleeping so soundly. I already feel bad for keeping you up so late, so I didn&rsquo;t want to interrupt. :-) I had a wonderful night. I have to say, I like the bad-mannered side of you quite a bit. I have some very important things that I must do with my companions, but I&rsquo;ll be back later on. I hope the Kraken doesn&rsquo;t work you too hard. If she throws another fish at you, be sure to dodge.  I&rsquo;d also like to talk to you about something on the more serious side, at some point. It&rsquo;s nothing bad, I promise! Now that I think about it, I probably shouldn&rsquo;t have even mentioned it here. Now it&rsquo;s going to bother both of us all day, isn&rsquo;t it? But if I scratch it off, it&rsquo;ll be a waste of ink. Not to mention, it&rsquo;ll look even more suspicious! So, it&rsquo;s fine. Again: Nothing bad!   xoxo, Reides

Session 68
Ashara : "Circle summoned us, please advise. They might expect us to represent the Empire. Love you lots, kisses." Kain : "Er... why do they think you're representing the Empire? Just be on your best behavior. Don't let Kilwin say anything just in case. Love you."