I will make every effort to remember as much as I can!

Friday was a very relaxed beginning to the GEF in fact the only things of note to mention is I went to find out when the High Incantation trials for the GEF would begin. I believe we were attacked by daemon fae this evening though at that time I was dealing with Chancellor paperwork in Dark Haven.

Saturday was the start of the games we played Juggar which I watched the score was 23 to 3 in our favour so we did very well. I helped in the Warband game too though unsure how that game was judged or scored as was pretty chaotic. I collected my next High Incantation trial which was to perform a Speak with Ancestor rite and explain to my ancestor what I have done for her and why I deserve the gift of High Incantation.

I had to visit Dark Haven again for more paperwork at this time it would seem the faction were off to rescue the artificer from the rock slide he found himself under, I am unsure of the specifics of how this went maybe someone who went along to this can share more information. I played some poker got into the final my QQ was knocked out by an AJo that paired the flop and hit the A on the river :’( we both went all in pre-flop. While playing some weird things in grey decided to harm me in the face which wasn’t all that pleasant by the time I was brought to they had moved on.

I believe at this time Malakis betrothed Lich turned up looks like she lost one of her dolls which had been split up into pieces, we have to find all of these as once done the Lich will give the final key for getting rid of the death knight that is occupying 2 of our forces. We lost another city to the daemon fae the name escapes me at the moment though it is in the far east of the underdark. I found out which ancestors are standing with Kiaransalee. I believe there was a lot of drinking involved towards the end of this day some sort of party there were many from other nations present.

Sunday there were more games I took part in the Bat & Trap game and scored a few points for us and also Battle Chess though this did not go so well, I was unable to attend the Linear game though I heard it went well as at this time I had to perform my High Incantation trial Speak with Ancestor which seemed to go very well I think, the masters of the incantation guild are keeping all cards close to their chest this year there is no scoreboard or ranking being shared until the announcement of who has won at the gathering; this is because historically when this has been done if someone is not doing well they give up and don’t complete the trial and they want all candidates to complete the trial this year.

Later that evening I was approached by one of the masters of the guild who informed me that 1 of the candidates is using foul play and asked who I thought it was. I actually don’t know most of the candidates this is how much impact they have, the ones I do know are relatively pleasant and have been supportive and even shared with me what tithes they gave for the first challenge, I said there is only 1 candidate that I know that would have no problem resorting to foul play, and that is the Wolves candidate who is a member of the Council of Law aka The Church of Virtue. This was later confirmed by a source that they had definitely been involved in foul play; to what extent I am unsure my belief is that they attacked the Jackal candidate to prevent him receiving the task on the Saturday morning, and then occupied the Bears candidate who had not been seen for most of Sunday though was in the bears camp later that evening when we visited.

We tried to locate the remaining two dolly parts, we tried the corruptors guild where I performed a rite to Kiaransalee to assist in locating them, there was no immediate response to this, so we decided to go and drink at the bears and then the jackals where the jackals offered up one of the parts of the dolly to the valsharess as a gift.

It would be great if you could add your additional areas here for what you got stuck into at the GEF I know it tends to be the tamest of all the surface gatherings which means it’s great for making friends and and diplomancing with other nations. We are starting to become strong again; remember all that matters is how we are perceived, if they think we are strong then we have already beat them! If they think we are weak then we best be strong enough to defeat them.

Morgulion
Lord Seneschal of the Tarantula Faction