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Month 9, Year 5:
Minor Growth
Havendrop’s defenses only need 9 more weeks.
The only major event in the realm is a flood from the Bay that hits Bergholm Island and does some damage. It takes two days of work by Alzar and his nation to free it, and they spend 4000 gp to restore things and to replace some broken items.
Alzar’s class continues, and near the end of the month, one of the wizards from the College brings back the rock. Alzar will use the rock to Worldwalk to that plane after the class is done. In the meantime he begins to do some scrying and investigation.
Meanwhile Alzar has been working on a summoning room for summoning aid of a lower plane nature. He had been teleporting animated dead to the underground Beholder city he uses as a base of operations. No living or intelligent creatures guard it – just undead, summoned, and constructed.
By the end of month 9, there are 8 Necrophidus Golems that have been made by the local Magist (minor snake-like ones with small hit points) and bunches of Spellcashe Rings that were made giving spells to various officials of various sorts, usually related to their job. For example, a Sheriff might get a spell with a divinatory nature, in order to figure something out, while town guard on a frontier might get something like Stoneskin to stay alive or Fireball to slay a bunch of bad guys that may attack out of nowhere. But the major use has been to give every officer in the army a one-shot spell of considerable power that can be used in battle if another war occurs. So, as an example, imagine if every one of 100 officers used a variety of combat spells like Magic Missile or Burning Hands to kill a ton of enemies all at once. Now the spells have been used more intelligently than that. There are some spells that help everyone with buffs or damage over time spells, and so forth, but the idea should prove pretty powerful.
Meanwhile Alzar is casting some spells like Wizard Seal and such to protect many things in and around him.
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