[Abe Sargent]

Year 17, Month 8

Alzar’s Kingdom of the Mighty and the Heldannic Knights have come to an alliance, Alzar will send aid to assist them as they deal with the surrounding threats and Alzar supports them. He’ll personally help out their raid, and will loan his skycastle as well as a military unit for their raids. Their treaty is also mutually defensive, if war is declared on one, the other joins. They also had a meeting of the minds for the future carving of Norwold.

After the alliance is announced, the floor falls out of the world….


THE WEEK WITHOUT MAGIC


Rad, Rafiel, and Rathanos finish the construc*tion of the Doomsday Weapon in Glantri. Immediately after hearing that Thyatis has conducted a peace treaty with Alphatia (or that the Alphatian forces besiege and blockade Thyatis), Rad activates the device. Minutes later, a storm forms over the city of Sundsvall.

The storm is like nothing the Alphatians have ever seen. Lightning falls on the city as thick as rain, utterly destroying the Imperial Palace and most of the center of the city. Hail the size of war-horses crashes down upon the entire city, destroying 50% of the dwellings in Sundsvall. Rain floods whole areas of the city.

Worst of all, starting the moment the storm appears over Sundsvall, spellcasters all over the world of Mystara, both outside and inside, discover that magic no longer works.

All across the world, sky-ships falter and sink to the ground; the more savvy captains are able to make safe landings, while inexperienced crews crash and perish.

Members of magical races, such as elves, grow ill and lose their strength. People whose lives had been magically extended age and die, including the Empress Eriadna (some of these characters, like Master Terari, could be wished back to life later on).

Magical wards and barriers which long kept powerful fiends and other monsters imprisoned fail, and the captives run free. Demons wreak havoc and will have to be bottled back up, although they cannot use magic either.

Clerics cannot commune with their Immortals

The Sun of the Hollow World grows dark and millions of Hollow World residents are convinced that the end of the world has come.

Immortals who are on the world of Mystara in Mortal Identi*ties find that they are trapped; they are unable to return to their true forms without using the desperate method of killing their mortal bodies.
Then, after hours of this meteorological abuse, the storm van*ishes. However, magic does not return to the world for a full week.


In Alzar world, the following happens:

Alzar’s true age shows for a week, but it’s in the survivable stage, so he does not die, although he is crippled

Their sky castle lands and cannot rise.

Many of Alzar’s magical effects end for a week, from food to his Decanters of Endless Water system of piped water into homes and more. All magic items cease. Many criminal elements that feared Alzar’s reprisal while he ruled, with his magic responses and scrying now see this as the perfect time, and many of them will steal, rob, kill, and more, and more crimes will be committed in this week than in the last two years combined.

Lycanthropes are stuck in their current form. Golems and constructs stop working. Technology does not, however, and that means the flying city of Serraine, on a giant engine from a space ship won’t fall. Neither does Alzar’s Android Bodyguard, which watches over him heavily until he recovers.

It’s nasty, and the number of things that happens of deaths and more, will devastate the world.

Magic is shut down for immortals as well.


Rad realizes that the Nucleus is out of control. He immedi*ately sends messages to Ixion and Eriadna asking for a meeting to negotiate an end to the war. Unfortunately, Eriadna is missing and Ixion misinterprets the offer as a threat, coming as it does just after a demonstration of the artifact's power. He rejects the offer and uses the incident to turn Immortal opinion strongly against the Ring of Fire. Across the Known World, clerics asking their Immortals the cause of the disaster receive the answer "Rad, the Immortal patron of Glantri" or "Glantri's Doomsday Weapon.''

Alzar hears of what happened himself as a cleric from Morena and she fills him on what was happening here. Once magic is restored, Alzar spends some time taking out demons, following up on crimes, and a lot more.