Chronicles of Fairyland - Fallen From Grace

[The Midgard Times]

Fallen From Grace - The Moonlight Bell

At Payon Palace, Nikki and Sacerdos Signat walk into the waiting room, informing the heroes they have been granted an audience with the chief of the town. During the meeting, doubts about the moonlight bell replica were clarified.

Like the original, the bell can revive the dead when rung. But it's also as cursed as the real one, for which it was hidden in a small cave below the palace. The Chief of Payon agreed to let the visitors take the bell, not knowing the true motives of some of them.

From the library, they accessed the secret vault where the item was stored. After some searching, the group came across a suspicious-looking rock pillar. Ciar tore up the stone with various spells, revealing the bell replica hidden within. While Nikki held the bell, Ciar suggested to ring it, which was done without question. As countless spirits and undead creatures were summoned, the bell-ringer slowly fell into a cursed, sleep-like state. The heroes swiftly exterminated the creatures, as well as the spirit of the "sleeping" man's sister.

After the fight, everyone went to check on Nikki, who didn't seem to be alive at all. Ciar asked the soul linker Galoo to use her powers to see what was wrong, but unfortunately, there was not much she could do, which forced the group to resort to the Prontera Church. After gathering the necessary items, High Priest Bamph performed the ceremony to save Nikki's life. The scholar's eyes slowly opened. After some sighs of relief -- and several scolding words -- Nikki checked his bag for the bell. But it was nowhere to be found.

Questions were asked. People were threatened. Then, everyone noticed Galoo the soul linker was gone. Ciar and an assassin, Reilinn, also bailed, just after a search was mounted.

The three met up atop a group of floating stones high up in Niflheim. Just as the search party arrived at the dark town's square, they hear the ghastly sounds of the bell being rung. The "ding" echoed for miles, waking all that was once resting. But Ciar only cared for one person at the moment. He wanted to speak to Jin, the man accused of damaging Fairy Lucretia's wings. He called for him, hoping his spirit was within hearing range of the moonlight bell. Luckily, Jin replied. Throughout the conversation it is revealed that he was not the one that harmed Lucretia's wings. It was actually a jealous fae. All evidence pointed to fairy Cynbel.

To confirm Cynbel's betrayal, the group of heroes were allowed access to the fae's house. Among common items, they found a book on Fae biology, and a piece of wing webbing. Unsure of it's origins, they traveled to Aldebaran to have the wing webbing compared to a piece of wing the Paladin Summerstream had taken from Lucretia. The test confirmed the two items matched. Everything seemed to make sense. The preparing of a peach pie which Lucretia was apparently allergic to, and the hateful comments about Jin. It wasn't coincidence.

Cynbel had fallen from grace.

The next day, Pixie met up with the heroes in Fairyland. She was still shocked that the fairies' war-chief was capable of such betrayal. In an attempt to repair the damage done to Lucretia, Summerstream made a suggestion. They would travel to the Yggdrasil tree to collect sap, and heal her wings. Everyone agreed, and geared up for the trek. The heroes, with the aid of pixie, made it to Hwergelmir's trunk, where Summerstream noticed something that shocked her.

Yggdrasil was bleeding. There had been much loss of life recently, and it was making the tree suffer. Fearing taking sap would bring further harm to the tree, they decided to use an alternative: yggdrasil berries. The juice of the berries are said to contain a similar regenerative property.

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The heroes agreed to collect 100 yggdrasil berries by Thursday August 6, 2015 at 8:30PM, to use as ingredients for a healing salve. Yggdrasil seeds can also be used, but they have half the efficiency of a berry (2 Seeds = 1 Berry).

For every 5 Berries (or 10 seeds) a player gives to Pixie, they will receive 3 Old Purple Boxes. If the player brings 10 berries (or 20 seeds) at once, they will receive 2 Bloody Branches instead.