We have finally found respite in this strange land. I had known the moors to be a dangerous place; but I had not known this first-hand. My last entry was interrupted by Reika shouting at me, and as I emerged from the caern we had made camp in, I saw why.
We were beset on all sides by every manner of walking dead. Twisted, vile creatures writhed and moaned as they lurched towards us. Some had been stitched together to form unholy abominations, while others were just pitiful folk who had not been permitted the blessed sleep.
I had learned how to fight these creatures when I trained at Elgaud, but I had never met them in battle. Their sad gurgling noises frayed at my nerves, but I summoned my energies and hefted my sword. I could not tell how many there were, but my training taught me to fight the enemy in front of me before fighting unseen ones. With a shout, I entered the fray.
I would like to report that I had laid waste to the unbreathing horde, but this was not to be. I cut many of them down, but their numbers seemed to be ceaseless, for each body I returned to the ground there were three to take its place.
I lost track of Reika, but she had evidently ran back into the caern. When I finally found her again, she was wielding the bloodletter. My anger welled up inside of me, but was soon surpassed by awe: the sword was especially effective against the undead. Whenever its cursed blade touched a zombie, the thing fell to the ground instantly, shriveling up as if the sun had baked it. Reika cut a gory swath through our enemies, and I have to admit to being struck by her beauty as she waded through the sea of claws and teeth. Perhaps this is why the vampires would not attack me in Stensia.
My rhapsodic episode would be short lived; for no sooner had I witnessed the gruesome effectiveness of the weapon, than a huge rotting fensnake darted towards her, took the sword in its panoply of teeth and slithered away like lightning. I felt the ground beneath me shift as the object of my quest disappeared in to the night.
No doubt we would have been overwhelmed, but for the kindness of Geralf, a young man of these parts. He ran to us waiving a torch, and the undead seemed to be dazzled by his sudden appearance. He has taken us back to his manor house and given us shelter for the night.
Father, I fear all of this has been in vain. I pray that Reika’s knowledge of the blasphemy under Thraben Cathedral will not reach your ears too late.
Raben
95th of Hunter’s Moon, Ava. 719
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Oh, I thought he was talking about playing a spell that is countering a spell with counters on it as it comes into play, but I see you guys were just discussing whether he was flashing a creature with flash in order to flash a flashback or just flashing a creature with flash but not needing flash in order to flashback a spell without flash.
Idea dam
Dead aim
A diadem
Idea mad
And others. Dead aim is a possibility.
Could also be: I Am Dead
But Dead Aim is also nice.
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I recived a post card on my mail this friday
The pictures are made with a built in camera, so sorry about the cuality but right now I don´t have any other camera or an scaner.
The letter makes no sense for me and, anyway, I don´t understand some of the words beacause of the fonts
I think it's a cool idea using this kind of marketing but no one of my friends have get anything like this so.. can you tell me something about it?
So far these have turned out to be reprints of the letters from pax. I believe this one is too,but can't tell.
Also I think this one is a new email, they got the sword back
96th of Hunter’s Moon, Ava. 719
I almost lost Raben’s sword. It was pure luck that we got it back. As
always, everything I do is a failure. Have my mistakes marred me
forever? Do good men like Raben look at me and know what I am? My
shame feels heavy and endless, like a yoke I will never be free from.
Despite the uncertainty, I am more hopeful than I have been in ages.
If I help Raben, perhaps the church will forgive me. Perhaps I could
be reinstated as a cathar. I see the way Raben looks at me sometimes.
But then he quickly looks away.
Perhaps once we have completed this task, I will be worthy to hold his gaze.
Reika
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I almost lost Raben’s sword. It was pure luck that we got it back. As
always, everything I do is a failure. Have my mistakes marred me
forever? Do good men like Raben look at me and know what I am? My
shame feels heavy and endless, like a yoke I will never be free from.
Despite the uncertainty, I am more hopeful than I have been in ages.
If I help Raben, perhaps the church will forgive me. Perhaps I could
be reinstated as a cathar. I see the way Raben looks at me sometimes.
But then he quickly looks away.
Perhaps once we have completed this task, I will be worthy to hold his gaze.
Reika
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Awww! That's so sweet and sad. I like Reika, she's so interesting!
That's probably the end of the story. Being taken in by a known mad scientist tends to end badly.
It can't be. There has to be one more section. They have to return to meet Jofridus and run into some werewolves (which may be the same thing). We've seen the sword react differently to humans and vampires, and although not explicitly stated, I'm assuming is affected zombies differently. Still need to round out the story and use the Bloodletter on the the wolves.
And I can't really see Dead aim being the anagram, although it does fit in a way. "I am dead" so clearly fits better, especially because of the zombie fight.
While I mourn the loss of the manor, you cannot say I did not warn you. Geralf is a simpering, insane idiot. If it had not been a fire, it would have been an explosion. You should have forbade his alchemical experiments years ago and locked him in the attic.
And no, he did not get the body parts from me. As you know, I would never share any choice bits with that priggish little snot. Maybe he stole them—I thought I recognized Meyer’s severed arm. But he should not have been in the basement anyway. I have warned him many times to listen or I would cut off his ears.
It was around 3:30 when one of his second-rate skaabs came lurching into Mother’s parlor. Father, it was laughably pathetic. It stumbled into the fireplace and lit the room ablaze. Poor little Geralf scampered about the room like a squirrel without even the brains to stamp out the sparks.
I wanted a baby sister! With a red ribbon in her hair. Why did you ruin our lives with HIM?
Your firstborn by an hour,
Gisa
45th of New Moon, Ava. 715
Do not know if this is old, think it is, but quick search did not show it.
Also why know ludevic? He is a zombie creator.
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I have taken to wandering the cathedral grounds at night. The other students gather in the Buttery, but they do not like me. I wish Raben was here, but in the end he did not seem to like me either.
Tonight I will investigate the ash garden.
Reika
38th of Harvest Moon, Ava. 716
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I have taken to wandering the cathedral grounds at night. The other students gather in the Buttery, but they do not like me. I wish Raben was here, but in the end he did not seem to like me either.
Tonight I will investigate the ash garden.
Reika
38th of Harvest Moon, Ava. 716
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Where did this come from? Not any of the emails...
That I doubt. She's not really a youth. She was a cathar.
Actually, she's just training to be a cathar in the letter that was released the same time as the video, and is feeling very isolated, aka cloistered. Youth doesn't have to mean child. (And she's an ex cathar in the Ava. 719 present day, hoping to be reinstated, but that's besides the point.)
The timing of the video release usually correlates strongly with the story snippet released at about the same time.
Travel preparations - Any number of things, like Pietre's preparations to hunt down a vampire being the most likely.
Falkenrath Mauraders - Raben encounters the Mauraders that were ordered to let him pass
Evil twin - (Not sure what this refers to. Nothing obvious like the others.)
Grimoire of the Dead - Release with Gisa's (a ghoulcaller) rebuttal to the NecroWarfare rules.
She's definitely a Cloistered Youth, the only question is if she's going to transform into an Unholy Fiend. If she does and is killed by her friend/crush Raben, that'd certainly be a horror story ending for her.
A new Josh Brauer blog post. Titled "Agenda aid". Anagram = "Dead again"
Deposition of Reika Eberhardt
Taken this 98th of Hunter’s Moon
In the year of Avacyn 719
By Cathar Adept Raben Amsel
It was near the 40th of Harvest moon back in 716. I had been sent to Thraben Cathedral after completing my training at Elgaud at the beginning of the year. I had grown tired of the sterile routine of the place, and I began wandering the grounds at night.
It was on such a night that I noticed a man walking behind one of the ruined statues in the ash garden and not emerge as expected moments later. I went to the statue and could not find anything suspicious. I then noticed that the stones at the statue’s base had been moved recently, and it was underneath them that I found the passageway.
The small tunnel went down for a ways, then leveled off and went in a direction that I believed to be straight towards the cathedral. I crept along cautiously, since the whole place felt cold and unnatural. When I came to the tunnel’s end, I saw a huge chamber that looked like a natural cave. I could hear water but I did not see any.
In the center of the chamber, I saw nine men wearing robes. They were surrounding an altar and chanting in a language I did not understand. One of them raised a dagger, and brought it down quickly. I then heard a scream. I became very frightened and ran out of the cave.
Two nights later I returned. The men were gone, but I saw the fruits of their labor: several weapons, carved out of a type of silver I have never seen.
I swear an oath that these are my words, and that they bear the truth.
I hope we get an actual reika card. I really like her character. There are a number of flavor characters that I wish would get printed in this set, Geralf being number 2, but reika is at the top of that list.
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It IS silver! It's a 60 foot tall sliver of silver!
Go here: http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=351954
Scroll down to the section labeled "HELVAULT" and read the those letters. It should help.
Helvault Sliver.
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We have finally found respite in this strange land. I had known the moors to be a dangerous place; but I had not known this first-hand. My last entry was interrupted by Reika shouting at me, and as I emerged from the caern we had made camp in, I saw why.
We were beset on all sides by every manner of walking dead. Twisted, vile creatures writhed and moaned as they lurched towards us. Some had been stitched together to form unholy abominations, while others were just pitiful folk who had not been permitted the blessed sleep.
I had learned how to fight these creatures when I trained at Elgaud, but I had never met them in battle. Their sad gurgling noises frayed at my nerves, but I summoned my energies and hefted my sword. I could not tell how many there were, but my training taught me to fight the enemy in front of me before fighting unseen ones. With a shout, I entered the fray.
I would like to report that I had laid waste to the unbreathing horde, but this was not to be. I cut many of them down, but their numbers seemed to be ceaseless, for each body I returned to the ground there were three to take its place.
I lost track of Reika, but she had evidently ran back into the caern. When I finally found her again, she was wielding the bloodletter. My anger welled up inside of me, but was soon surpassed by awe: the sword was especially effective against the undead. Whenever its cursed blade touched a zombie, the thing fell to the ground instantly, shriveling up as if the sun had baked it. Reika cut a gory swath through our enemies, and I have to admit to being struck by her beauty as she waded through the sea of claws and teeth. Perhaps this is why the vampires would not attack me in Stensia.
My rhapsodic episode would be short lived; for no sooner had I witnessed the gruesome effectiveness of the weapon, than a huge rotting fensnake darted towards her, took the sword in its panoply of teeth and slithered away like lightning. I felt the ground beneath me shift as the object of my quest disappeared in to the night.
No doubt we would have been overwhelmed, but for the kindness of Geralf, a young man of these parts. He ran to us waiving a torch, and the undead seemed to be dazzled by his sudden appearance. He has taken us back to his manor house and given us shelter for the night.
Father, I fear all of this has been in vain. I pray that Reika’s knowledge of the blasphemy under Thraben Cathedral will not reach your ears too late.
Raben
95th of Hunter’s Moon, Ava. 719
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And others. Dead aim is a possibility.
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-regarding Snapcaster Mage.
Could also be: I Am Dead
But Dead Aim is also nice.
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So far these have turned out to be reprints of the letters from pax. I believe this one is too,but can't tell.
Also I think this one is a new email, they got the sword back
96th of Hunter’s Moon, Ava. 719
I almost lost Raben’s sword. It was pure luck that we got it back. As
always, everything I do is a failure. Have my mistakes marred me
forever? Do good men like Raben look at me and know what I am? My
shame feels heavy and endless, like a yoke I will never be free from.
Despite the uncertainty, I am more hopeful than I have been in ages.
If I help Raben, perhaps the church will forgive me. Perhaps I could
be reinstated as a cathar. I see the way Raben looks at me sometimes.
But then he quickly looks away.
Perhaps once we have completed this task, I will be worthy to hold his gaze.
Reika
--
twitter.com/brauerjosh
"I feel like I haven't done my job unless somebody says, 'How the hell is that supposed to work?'" - Mark Rosewater
Collecting Islands need:
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Arena: Donato Giancola, Tony Szczudlo, Anson Maddocks, John Avon (ravnica)
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Location: Bangkok
Awww! That's so sweet and sad. I like Reika, she's so interesting!
It can't be. There has to be one more section. They have to return to meet Jofridus and run into some werewolves (which may be the same thing). We've seen the sword react differently to humans and vampires, and although not explicitly stated, I'm assuming is affected zombies differently. Still need to round out the story and use the Bloodletter on the the wolves.
And I can't really see Dead aim being the anagram, although it does fit in a way. "I am dead" so clearly fits better, especially because of the zombie fight.
While I mourn the loss of the manor, you cannot say I did not warn you. Geralf is a simpering, insane idiot. If it had not been a fire, it would have been an explosion. You should have forbade his alchemical experiments years ago and locked him in the attic.
And no, he did not get the body parts from me. As you know, I would never share any choice bits with that priggish little snot. Maybe he stole them—I thought I recognized Meyer’s severed arm. But he should not have been in the basement anyway. I have warned him many times to listen or I would cut off his ears.
It was around 3:30 when one of his second-rate skaabs came lurching into Mother’s parlor. Father, it was laughably pathetic. It stumbled into the fireplace and lit the room ablaze. Poor little Geralf scampered about the room like a squirrel without even the brains to stamp out the sparks.
I wanted a baby sister! With a red ribbon in her hair. Why did you ruin our lives with HIM?
Your firstborn by an hour,
Gisa
45th of New Moon, Ava. 715
Do not know if this is old, think it is, but quick search did not show it.
Also why know ludevic? He is a zombie creator.
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Location: Bangkok
not a big deal but this one is a few pages back
http://www.youtube.com/user/thejoshbrauer
Tonight I will investigate the ash garden.
Reika
38th of Harvest Moon, Ava. 716
Twitter.com/brauerjosh
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Location: Bangkok
Where did this come from? Not any of the emails...
bottom of the visual spoiler there was a link to a "spoiled" section that said "Reika" Clicking on it revealed that at the bottom.
That I doubt. She's not really a youth. She was a cathar.
Actually, she's just training to be a cathar in the letter that was released the same time as the video, and is feeling very isolated, aka cloistered. Youth doesn't have to mean child. (And she's an ex cathar in the Ava. 719 present day, hoping to be reinstated, but that's besides the point.)
The timing of the video release usually correlates strongly with the story snippet released at about the same time.
Travel preparations - Any number of things, like Pietre's preparations to hunt down a vampire being the most likely.
Falkenrath Mauraders - Raben encounters the Mauraders that were ordered to let him pass
Evil twin - (Not sure what this refers to. Nothing obvious like the others.)
Grimoire of the Dead - Release with Gisa's (a ghoulcaller) rebuttal to the NecroWarfare rules.
She's definitely a Cloistered Youth, the only question is if she's going to transform into an Unholy Fiend. If she does and is killed by her friend/crush Raben, that'd certainly be a horror story ending for her.