Diary of Barbara Zalozi

Expository details on the natures and abilities of non corporeal creatures

4/12 It is the love of life which compels my quest, and it is within these pages that i shall press the fruits of my knowledge from it 4/13 Bror finally completed his purchases in the city, and now we can actually get some travelling done, as if the weather would help 4/14 Weather better, and tonight the pinch buster himself says the conditions are correct for a cross over into the Necropolis i have been waiting for this for some time and it appears that i or we have taken every precaution, it will be hard to sleep, but Rhadmir says we should get all the rest we can fine 4/14 those two have been at it for nearly half an hour, and the goblin looks nearly done in and we haven't started really but the journey must be had we had to offer him more money when he saw the tomb and i also had to part with one of my kothian protection rings but he is sound now the villas owner and our patron will be very glad and very reward minded when we put this poor creature back to where it belongs but i wish only to know more later time of day unknown now but we are have done it and are inside the tomb not in the physical sense but in the planar sense light is very weird and now kay is trying to fiddle the lock on the inner gate here it looks difficult but he is confident the terrain is very hilly with many small houses or crypts some are larger the sky is very low i have checked my phylacteries and my mind is clear the ritual worked when we invoked the spirit yes and he did come into the circle but he was no mild spirit at all more indeed he has explained he was not a mere spirit who sought gifts of food or wine but was indeed a specter i had to use a minor blessing to keep him off of the mage he seemed to hate him even after i showed him a symbol of life Rhadmir was screaming in that queer voice of his we took him up onto one of the small pyramids and held him until he stopped screaming he has no marks on him i believe the spectre used an innate spell maybe madness or terror and from here a vast plain of houses of the dead there is stony ground and bloody footprints a temple with raised lintels far off and a black low ziggurat just now another one was here he was a holy man in life named Laetres of the hermetic order of osiris and warned us to leave quickly as we were drawing spirits like a lodestone does filings it was he who told us about Gerk and it wasnt until then we noticed him gone bad very bad we almost didn't see that one i used a circle of blessed light and Bror is weakened a great deal i have placed hands on him and he will be all right but the power is weak in me i need to pray some more we have moved kay prefers to try and break through another tomb that we may get out again i tried to find one that was familiar to my self but they are all so different here i think he is looting some here spectres look just like they did alive although they can waver some they have a great deal of skills with spells but they also seem vulnerable to them something got kay he tried to run and Rhadmir was unfit i would not leave him i saw it and i have bless walled across this crypt bror is watching and rhadmir is trying to find a gate out with his staff the bless wall is holding but it is harder now i used a banish spell and the spectre was destroyed i felt him die poor creature where do they go now we moved again the bless wall drained me much ran for a bit there were some man shapes in an upturned cart or cage they came at us and rhadmir burned and slew them 4/15 early but i felt the day pass here and i am renewed but the night was grim a thing called bror to her? and he left rhadmir went to go save him but bror had left the circle horror it would not come within site of my sigil and so we heard bror giggling and cooing while his bones crunched we waited but they would not come near they are wights they were wights i healed rhadmir after they forced out of the road and i can call fire here they are dead or banished and it was beautiful they are much like physical creatures fire & holy words but very strong bodies too much power being used we must find a way out rhadmir is so spent now he coughs blood if i heal him he is calling the portal now as i watch behind i healed him and the strength of Epimetreus is with me i serve the lord of light and do not fear them i will be strong even after i am Barbara of the holy flame

I Rhadmir, journeymaster of the kell peren flets do hereby attest the following that Barbara Zalozi of Abbey Kessel the Holy Woman did accompany myself, Gerk a worthless goblin, a city man named Kay, and Bror a tracker from Wundt. I did witness Barbara use every wit and device a person could encompass in one mind and she is all that stood between myself and desecration of my body by foul human undead creatures. She is the reason that Lord Connor will not be haunted by the shades any more, and she is the reason I live for I swear she used her last living essence to heal me and threw me through a portal of my own creation. I was too weak to stop her and I could not have even if i were whole for she is was stronger than i in many ways. Her last words in my hearing were "through me the light, through me the balefire" which i had heard only once before at three forks when the dark sindar stormed our palisade, and there it was a human who called holyfire into himself. i have seen much in my life and i will more know this that she stood before an older creature whose appearance was dread and it called her by name. i do not have the courage to sacrifice like that and she did although i smelled her dread and her will anyway but i swear this in her honor, the monies i give freely to this place where she learned from, and the honor i shall stave into a song for her that her memory shall not perish while any fair folk yet live. i will not know this god of the humans called mithras, i hope he is worthy of warriors like Barbara Zalozi of Abbey Kessel.

Another carefully lettered note attached.

This letter, a chasuble and a bag of monies left upon the steps of the altar of the Kessel Church in the 5th month 990 AE jk.