Salmon Dreams
Written by: Anonymous
Date: Saturday, December 5th, 2015
Addressed to: Everyone
It was late in the evening, on the 22nd of Roarkian, when Magee
Gladheart, granddaughter of Rocky, the tree climbing furrikin shouted
out to the basin of life that she had found 'it', and needed help.
Kiradawea from Hallifax was the first to find Magee Gladheart and to ask
what it was that Magee had found and needed help with. Magee was slow
with the information, but as people gathered around, she revealed that
she had found Rocky's old scroll. With the ritual mentioned in the
scroll she could bring forth the golden salmon into the Toronada river
and make her friend Todarro the tae'dae happy again!
As it turned out, Todarro had recently been plagued by some dreams which
caused him to believe that the ancient golden salmon would return to the
rivers. With the golden salmon available again, he could have some of
their delicious honey-like meat. Eager to help, the group bombarded
Magee with various questions until Magee asked the group to choose a
leader for the project. With the support of Barrin from Serenwilde, Eodh
from Gaudiguch, and Kiradawea's faithful servant Jeanne, Kiradawea was
unanimously chosen as the one to be point for the ritual. All was
running smoothly, until Arimisia from Magnagora showed up giving the
last required corpses to Magee, and stealing the elemental suit of
seeing from right under Kiradawea.
With elemental suit of seeing in hand, Arimisia went on a hunt for
Militi ma'Salmon, yet Urdnot of Serenwilde had only before collected all
of the lure needed, and without it, Arimisia could not gain the trust of
Little Spirit Salmon. Despite making it clear that Arimisia was not a
friend of any of the communes, she refused to give the elemental suit of
seeing to another, and with Urdnot's refusal to help a member of
Magnagora for any reason, the people gathered to help Magee had to wait
patiently until somebody budged. With some coordinated efforts, Arimisia
eventually had enough of the desired lures to coax the golden salmon roe
from Militi ma'Salmon. However, at the last minute as the roe fell to
the river's floor, Eodh deftly swept in and picked up the salmon eggs
needed to complete the ritual to summon the golden salmon back into the
rivers!
In another twist of events, rather than hand the eggs over to Kiradawea,
Eodh gave the eggs to Magee himself, getting the honour to be the first
person in the modern era to assist in returning the golden salmon back
to the rivers. With the salmon spawned in the rivers, Todarro's mood
heightened, and various people were quick to gather the golden salmon
and give Todarro his much desired treat.
Soon after all the salmon were killed and cleared from the rivers,
Todarro once again became sad. How long will his melancholy last? Will
these dreams plague him forever? And what is the meaning behind the
return of the golden salmon to the rivers of the Basin? Only time will
tell!
Penned by My hand on the 25th of Roarkian, in the year 428 CE.