An ancient barrow in Greystroke?

I went for a walk through greystroke and came across a barrow, I hadn't recognized seeing it before, and the ripped page i found outside raised my curiosity, so in I went!

Inside it was very much like a cave, some poor soul's skeleton was lying off to the side, along with some ancient weapons,

I felt as if I was being watched, so turned around and saw this character standing there leering at me!

I ran and jumped into the only place i could, the hole in the floor, to get away. and after sliding down a chute for a bit, found myself in a narrow hallway.
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Following this passage, i came to a round room with idols to whatever goddess the builders of this tomb worshipped, and a deep pit in the center. After reading the pages I kept finding strewn around, and looking through this room. I began to think this may have been more than a tomb.

I'm not too sure what goddess this depicts, history was not my specialty I'm afraid, but the pages said possibly Ishtar, or was it Mozz? I don't quite remember..

Hearing sounds coming from the passageway I came through, I jumped into the pit in the center of the room.......and landed on bones! piles of them! This must have been some sort of sacrificial pit, I saw the skeletons of many humans and creatures i recognized, along with creatures I didn't...


Exploring the room of bones, I came across this item, the Star of Asthar? according to the pages strewn around the room by my predecessor in these caves..

I then heard more sounds, scritching and scrabblings, echoing down the pit, so I left this room post haste, and found myself in a much older cave. The skeletons of neanderthals were laid out here, as well as some odd cave paintings depicting some many limbed creature, tentacles maybe?


The pages that had been my guide were no longer useful as the last few i had found were becomming little more than insane ramblings. So I pushed on, climbing through the holw in this floor as well... and then i could certaintly understand the writer's insanity, I was in a cave, with large cracks in the walls, what was disturbing was what I saw IN these cracks, in one crack I saw the giant figure of a creature that I can only describe as semi humanoid, with a head resembling that of an octopus. And in the other crack, I saw some bizzarre city, all glowing metal towers and winged figures flying around it. I heard the same sounds from above me, and heard another sound, when i turned to the other gap in the wall, I saw the tentacled thing coming closer. With the creature in the gap approaching, and the sounds above me, I quickly squeezed myself into the other gap, towards the strange city. In all the comotion, I even forgot to take pictures!
Somehow, I'm not sure what happened, but after squeezing through the gap, I found myself back in Greystroke, in front of the barrows again! Swearing off any more spelunking, I decided to head for home and rest.

More Wanderings

While I've been absent, it seems Caledon has linked itself with Winterfell, never haveing been there too often, I decided to look around, I visited Absynthe first. and wandered around the dark houses and ruins.

Starting off from Caledon, just waiting for my ride to Winterfell


A creepy house, there were quite a few bats flittering around


Mysterious ruins? it looked like they were in the process of being excavated, seeing noone around, I decided to snoop..


Skulls? oh dear..


a table under one of the tents was covered in diagrams and parchments, from the ruins? what is that writing?


some strange Idol, it looks as if it's to be sent to some place named 'Miskatonic'


After being chased away from the site by an odd, fish-like man, I came across a gypsy camp, where I relaxed a bit by the fire. Absynthe sure is an odd place...

experiments with the vulpine cannonball

Today I decided to test the range of the Moon gun.


Aiming it northward, so as to avoid the edges of the world. I coordinated the trajectory to hopefully land in either Tanglewood or Eyre. Then I prepped the shell and boarded..

After a breif countdown (321GO!) I slammed my paw on the button and fired the gun.


BOOM!!!! I sailed through the air over greystroke, up, over the Steamsky city, eventually losing Caledon through the clouds as the ground fell away. The readings in the capsule indicated that i was approaching Eyre, still with no descent, past Eyre, i left Caledon completely, a soared over Winterfell , and soon past that as well, soon I saw the names of lands i never heard of, Bunny Islands, Karamoon, Sexorga? as I sailed through the air, everything suddenly went dark, at this point i felt it was time to evacuate, shouldering my parachute, I bailed out of the capsule, but seemed caught in a void! it was only after careful manipulation of the chute, i was able to return to Caledon safe and sound.

Returned to Caledon after months of leave

I am finally back at Caledon after many RL things kept me away for months. and seems like we're now bigger, as well as connected with another land, I'll have to explore and find all that I've missed.

From Rezz Day Parties to Haunted Houses

Just a week or so ago I had gone to the rezz-day party for Miss Lapin Paris, in Regency. There was music, and an unusual amount of clothing worn for a Caledon party, but the main point was there were giant Jello-molds to dance in, and a party just isn't a party now without Jell-O.
Eventually though I had to say my goodbyes and leave for some RL concerns.




For the most part after that, I had been away for awhile on Rl concerns, but eventually, I returned to Caledon.
a few nights ago, after working on my Pneumatic arm, Gnarlihotep and myself had gone to a haunted orphanage. It had a creepy aire to it, with a voice constantly telling us we were insane or orphans, and upside down rooms, nice effect, but the maze was a bit much, wich to be honest, I gave up going through and left for home after a good twenty minutes going in circles with screaming undead babies following me..
(worse part was I forgot to take pictures, went back a second time just for pics)

entering the building..

waiting room of horror? think that's most waiting rooms

nice to know I shouldn't giggle..

a laboratory, now this looks promising

yes, i feel like a fly on the ceiling at this angle

In the Mouth of Madness?

and my companion during the time lost in their maze...

Afterwards, I had gone on a trip to the mainland to find halloween decorations for my cottage, ghosts and all. So a few places were visited that night, and I managed to die a few times I think..

First i had visited a halloween supply store, a lot of nice things, gooey ghosts, and I managed to pick up a reaper who needed a home ^^. their customer service left alot to be desired however, as the above picture shows.
I went to another place, hoping to find some affordable gravestones, unfortunatly they said they'd rather have my soul than money.

attempting to order some items through other means


Unfortunatly, Possession isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Now I know, never open gates to hell, their idea of customer service is a little off.

At this point I stopped taking pictures as the tentacles were becoming a little too touchy. And biting one only proved to only anger them as they tossed me out, but at least I wasn't being felt up by gribblies anymore, though the landing hurt.

spoke too soon -_-
While I recovered my bearings, i came across this puzzle box sitting on a matress soaked in tomato juice..

Wondering if it's anything like a Rubik's Cube?

Turns out it was busted, the colors never changed, it just changed shape, so I moved on, dissapointed.

Don't ask me what I was doing here, might have still been slightly possessed from earlier.
Another Haunted house had ghosts galore, but they all just wanted to kill me, repeatedly..

Last I knew, I wasn't french.

I thought this was a recliner, turns out I was wrong.


After all that, I finally managed to take my leave of the ghosts and demons,
and set up my house.
happy halloween ^^

From the Sewers to the Mountains

I had been working on my pneumatic arm design when I overheard through the aethernet chat of a sewer in Victoria City, Having been there enough times with no idea there even WAS a sewer there (I assumed the lack of restrooms in the city negated the need for one to be honest). Curiosity piqued, I traveled over to find it myself as well. After scouring the ground for a grate, hole, anything that may point to a sewer acess, I finally came across a lone manhole in an empty yard. Accompanied by Miss Laura Flintlock, we opened it up and decended. for a sewer, it was surprisingly clean and dry, and i only saw one lone rat. many of the tunnels we saw were shrouded in darkness, but despite braving the dark, we found mostly deadends. One thing of interest however was the boiler in the corner. to what purpose it served down here by it'self, one can only guess. Wether it truly was the Vic City sewers, abandoned laboratory of some past evil genius, or just a basement, once again, one can only guess.


The entrance to a mystery? or just bad aromas


Miss Flintlock and I by the ladder


tunnel into darkness


someone left a boiler here?

Afterwards, I had joined Gnarli in touring Wellsian, now that people had moved in and put their houses up. very nice area, mountains surrounded by sea, best of both worlds.
we canoed around from the telehub to the other side and strolled among the houses, running into the guv'nah as he was on his way to do something or other to the ocean floor.


canoeing in Wellsian


minecart ride to infinity, or at least to the train crossing


a nautilis, fitted for the air?!

A few days later, Gnarli showed me some of the newer additions to the zoo, including an arena, for ostrich jousting.



Somehow I woke up in a cage, last time I drink that much vodka!

and then a sail around the island in my new ship, the Seadragon, before I hit the covers for the night.