Ernie Gimblelock’s Adventuring Journal

Property of Ernie Gimblelock

I embarked on an adventure searching for the Shard of Fear.

Getting to the Fear Gate itself was dangerous! I was very fortunate to have met some other adventurers sent by Rankle Clanghammer outside the cave in the Feerrott. If it hadn’t been for them, I don’t think I would have survived to have seen this shard.

I recall tales of ancient adventurers battling within the Plane of Fear, and now I am seeing what is left of it. This shard of the ancient plane has hints of the old one, but one can see the scar the Rending has left here, too. I wonder if any of the planes have survived intact?

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It has been a long trek and we have seen many gruesome sights already. But I will not let those setbacks deter me from exploring this Shard of the Fear plane. Yes, one of my inventions broke since coming in, and others have been of little help, but the goggles have been very useful! With them I have seen other beasts that my naked gnomish eyes could not. I see the tortured souls of adventurers that are trapped in the shard!

I want to investigate the Amygadalan sculpture wells, as lizardmen appear to congregate there, but nowhere else. I find this odd and could well be a sign that it is important. I think I will set out for one of them next and hide nearby to observe.

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After the sights at sacrificial wells, I decided to investigate the bone towers with the few surviving members of my adventuring party. One of the souls I saw with the Incorporeal-Visual Activators was lingering around the tower mumbling, but I did not get close enough to find out what. I was soon chased off by a huge skeleton! I am even more certain that there is something meaningful about the undead that appear there.

I just realized that I must have dropped the goggles as I ran from the bone tower. I am going to go and try and find them, and although I am the only one left, I have not given up hope.