Starting with an ominous crash and the frustrated cries of Atrian
Lerit'r, trouble was brewing at the Arthar'rt Observatory. The scientist
had been frantically trying to assemble his teleportation device before
his brother, Eduyik Lerit'r, and his brother's wife, Metharme Lerit'r,
came to visit him and see his work. Eduyik and his wife had taken a
detour through Hallifax to see the city since its refounding, where they
met a few Hallifaxians, most notably Force Commander Morshoth. The
Commander escorted the couple to see Atrian in the Observatory, taking
along a curious group of Hallifaxians including Daera Letara, Tulemrah
Shevat, Kanara, and Xaldrin Somnius. Unable to finish in time, Atrian
begged the Hallifaxians assembled to help him put his teleporter
together, while a snide Eduyik looked on.

After Morshoth and, interestingly enough, the Magnagoran Sahmiam m'Viraz
worked together to put the teleporter in place, Metharme Lerit'r tested
it only to form a gateway out of which ice skulls, precursors to the
dread ice devils, escaped into the Basin. One ice skull was apparently
momentarily possessed by an unknown malevolent force which sent some of
the floating ice skulls to split off to seek some unknown goal. Others
were directed to attack the bystanders in the laboratory.

However, despite the efforts of those present to destroy the ice skulls,
Metharme died and a furious Eduyik blamed his brother for her passing.
Atrian, for lack of better options, tried to think back to something
that would alleviate his brother's grieving - and remembered Eduyik's
fondness of statues. Dionellah Windwhisper, an unorthodox sculptor
residing in Avechna's Teeth with a penchant for moose antlers, had long
been patroned by Eduyik and Metharme in the past for her sculptures. At
Atrian's urging, Eduyik not only agreed to ask Dionellah for a
commission, but seemed rather enamoured with the idea for undetermined
reasons. Daedalion, Orventa, Dramon, Maellio, and Tulemrah all set off
following Morshoth as they delivered the request to Dionellah and worked
on getting her the materials needed for the statue.

The events following the statue's creation are haunting and disturbing,
and shared by the small band of Hallifaxians that unknowingly began the
first step of Eduyik's experiment. Whether it will ultimately prove
successful, however, remains to be seen...

More disturbing, however, was the fact that an unknown number of
floating ice skulls had escaped into the Basin of Life, intent upon
their clandestine plans.


Penned by My hand on the 7th of Juliary, in the year 293 CE.