[scifibarbie]

It has been some adventure in the blackfeather mountains.

Dad and I area completely knackered to say the least. I think Bear will be in hibernation for the next couple of weeks too!

After camping out for a day or so waing out the rain and fending off stupid giants, the sky finally broke enough for us to move to teh valleys indicated on the map. We had to choose one of the 2 places marked with x's casue where we ended up was halfway between the 2. Most of us were pulled to where the fryyr fellow and teh bard had made lots of x's. It turns out it was the right choice!

After waiting several hours for the sun to set, the clouds broke and the moons appeared in the sky, and the gate appeared in front of us! We quickly entered since we figured it wouldnt last long, at least until morning at any rate. It would flicker in and out as clouds passed over the moons so we knew we had to hurry.

The place we went to was a like an old untended forest. The paths were trapped so we had t o be careful, but the weeds came up to our chests, and the vines were hanging nearly to the ground. We eventually found ourselves in a huge cavern! So many trees and plants, my nose was almost overwhelmed their were so many!

We found a wall covered in vines that had a riddle. It took us awhile but we finally figured it out. It was asking us to identify several trees, but the names were plays on words. Miss Sala was the one who figured it out. Shes pretty smart. We got a few answers wrong and when we did the vines and trees would attack us! Im glad we were more right than wrong.

One our companions named Toby was itching to chop down a yew tree standing alone on a ledge. At first he didnt do anything to it, just in case it was part of the riddle we had to solve. As soon as we figured out the riddle though, and started to pass thru the wall he decided to hack it down. It got really mad at him and they got into it, the tree and toby that is! I tried to help at first, but he was arguing with mr storold and I somehow got in the middle of it. He got really mean and nasty and told me to sod off so I left him. Fine if he was gonna be a jerk. Then later he gets mad cause no one came to help him with the tree. Well..we did at first but then he got all nasty to us. And those that passed thru before he was attacked couldnt get back thru anyways. He needs to learn to be nicer to people.

Afterwards we found a magic wall that killed you when you touched it...Miss Sala and master Grohin had their work cut out for them then, until we figured it out. We all had to hold hands and be unitd in order to pass thru. Toby was a real jerk about it, being all mad that we didnt help him when he needed it. Well, he needs to be nicer and people will help him. It was kinda nerve wracking when we all held hands and started to pass thru the gate...we all were crackling and sparking!

Once we passed thru the gate we came upon a yellow and blue portal. The yellow one seemed to be blocked and after much deliberation we entered the blue portal. It was a really strange looking area...Like it was supported by thin columns of stone that fell into forever. The portal back was blocked, adn there were eight stones surrounding it. The seemed ot require a crystal key of some sort, so we set off to see what was here. We fought 8 guardians, adn I woudl have sworn they were once spellswords...just the way they fought, and how they weave was focused around them and thru their weapons.

Each guardian had a shard we discovered, after defeating them. In the back of the whole hall, there was this strange ovally looking thing just lying on the ground. Tobi grabbed it thinking it might be important, and we made our way back. After inserting the crystals we were immediately returned to where we started..facing the yellow and blue portals. Tobi was right (i guess he noticed the keyhole thinger), i completely missed it when i looked at the door. The yellow door needed this ovally looking thing to unlock it!

Well..weve been sitting in this next room thru the yellow door for awhile now. Theres a pillar, an arch and the platform where we appeared. There really hasnt been to many markings to try nad figure this riddle out. After awhile we realized that we were supposed to turn from hte moons somehow...we kinda thought this meant the light, nad so master grohin blew out the candles. Well...we were completely surrounded in darkness and attacked by shades of some sort! We finally got the light relit and the shades disappeared. Now that we know that doesnt work we are trying to figure out something else.

The pictures were of a person walking away from the light...kind of backwards though...I wonder...
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We are out..and we set free teh 8 that came before us. I cant say much more as we made a promise. Still..the I feel like I lost more than i gained and Im not sure why.