Okran’s Journal

Shadowfell – July 1854

I have no idea how I’m going to get Najoki a planar shift scroll. Maybe his son IS cursed, every time I get close to someone who may be able to make me one they disappear or the trail goes cold.

Well they are off again, now to the peaks of Mount Baratok, they heard of someone seeing a silvery veil to the material plane. I hope they find it. Najoki is putting a lot of faith in me and I’m not sure I can pull it off.

A week later…

I have a meeting tonight with a wizard that is in the fell with his adventuring party. He is looking for diamonds and supposedly can make the scroll I need. Meeting with his party at the House of the Black Lanterns. Walking in, I quickly scanned for the guards I hired for the evening, seeing them among the crowd I, as confidently as possible, strode towards their table and took a seat. “Do you have the scroll?”

The wizard calling himself Robulose, “Of course I do, do you have the diamonds?”

“Let me see the scroll.”

The person sitting next to him, idly playing with some finger cymbals, looked up, put his hand on the scroll, “When we see the diamonds.”

I hesitate and check for the guards again. Taking a breath, I pour out a few diamonds onto my plate. The bard picks one up and examines it, nodding, he asks me to pour them out. I do, watching the scroll as it is slowly rolls across the table to me.

As the last of the diamonds pour out onto the plate, time seemed to slow down. The bard reached to put the diamond back and instead grabbed the plate. The wizard casts a spell and all four of them teleport away.

I sat there with a scroll case rolling towards me on the table. Stunned, I quickly opened the case, inside I find a piece of parchment that said “Scroll of Planar Teleport” with an odd little sygil on it. No runes, no spell, nothing else. Frustrated I threw the case across the room and walked outside.

The wind was harsh today, walking down the street and letting the wind whip my cloak, I thought about what to do. Najoki and the kid won’t be back for a month, if he didn’t find the veil himself.

Gods, how am I going to tell Najoki that I was stiffed? He was excited for this one, we haven’t had a powerful wizard in this area of the fell for years and he needs this scroll.

Stopping by the job board I grab a couple of tickets for tomorrow and head home for the night.