In the Eye of the storm

In this months article of ''In the eye of the storm'' we put our focus on someone special who we lost recently. His name was Aj. Aj was a jester. Quick with the jokes and always doing what he could to make you laugh. Aj a fellow bard to many Nightfallers suicided recently. In everyone's grief I searched to find out more about this whimsical bard. I first started by talking to hartvard as my faithful readers already know my most favorite and reliable source Hartvard told me that no one is sure where Aj came from only that he suddenly appeared one day in Nightfall city. Hartvard said that where ever it was he came from that one thing was for sure he new how to be a clown. One fellow nightfall mourner, our beloved Wering said," at times he was a little bit of a nuisance but I'll miss him."Aj will especially be missed by that notorious wizard Sonic who stated,"ah.. hmm.. it was always fun to hunt him down together with Theli.. my favorite method was to grow a tree in his way. Then Theli could catch him and suck his blood out... sonic winks"Hartvard did tell me that Aj may have had something to do with "projects" work onby our favorite bard Goliath So searching for how our Aj came to be I went to Lorinia where I asked Belegost. Belegost told me that at one time he was a paladin but was recruited by Goliath to the bard. He told me Aj was originally "a running gag" that lived in the city of fandream. He told me I might find what I'm searching for there. So I went and found a mother panda that told me that the running gag was actually in sonicland. To this I started to see connections and Innuendoes. So I was off to Sonicland. First, I talked to the mad hatter who comfirmed that Aj came from a running gag there. He told me that on April fools day Sonic change the gag into Aj a funny little elf or was it a oglon no one knows for sure. So what originally was a wizard's April fool's joke ended up being the Aj that '' everyone loved cause everybody loves Aj" and Sonic's new play toy. So now the question was what happened to make our Aj suicided? For the answers I went to Elvis at the bard guild who told me an amazing tale. He told me of an Alien ship that came from another Dimension, called the real world. He continued to tell me that this ship would occasionally abduct nightfallers and had even abducted him once. Elvis said in the real world he was force to sing infront of people and called a king. Well what does this have to with our silly but sweet Aj you ask? Well, apparently Elvis wasn't the only one abducted our Aj was too. Several times which was the real meaning to Smoke Dawg. Smoke dawg was a code word for help. Elvis shivered as he said to me,"uh um, they would suck him through this hunk a hunk a burning metal box that they um uh chain him to." This nasty aliens from the real world would experiment on our poor Aj making him do something called 'WORK'. However our Aj would manage to escape and come back to us. But this awful place and these awful Aliens manage to brain-wash our Aj. They confused him and as a result he suicide. We will all mourn for our Aj death and pray that the Evil Sonic on this April fools day will make him again. This is Novrain loves Aj cause everybody loves Aj with this months "In the Eye of the of the storm". So who will be in the eye of the storm next month? Who Knows maybe it will be you....

Celaeno

In this month’s In Eye in the Storm we put our focus on Celaeno the Dark. A wizard here who is just that dark and mysterious, but I suppose he would have to be since he is a member of the Assassin’s guild. This harpyie then would surely have some secrets. So my search for gossip and truth on this wizard my fans could be my last. I heard around the Wizard’s water… er party platter that he has some plans for the Assassin’s guild and that it might involve the Paladins. So I decided to go in search of this Assassin’s Guild. I believed with my wizard status it shouldn’t be too hard but found out other wise. So I asked for some wizard friends help. Freak-of-Nature Zane told me, "umm.. /this/(wizard edit and censored) is where it should be…" Fuchur said, "looks very unfinished…" I asked unfinished as in it’s not opened and available yet? Fuchur reply, "I guess no…there is not even a guildroom ... so… it can't work." So how could Celaeno be in a guild that doesn’t exist? It was a good and mysterious question. So I went to Celaeno’s best friend Krise and asked, "any comments about Celaeno? I am back to writing the gossip column? *Wink and grin* I hear he has plans.... Any idea what they are?" Krise told, "no idea… I haven’t seen him in ages." But some floating penguins told me both Krise and Celaeno were excited about past guild wars and was hoping one would happen soon. They also suggested I go see the old hermit at Crescent Lake falls. They said the Hermit knew all about hidden guilds and that was all they could say. Perhaps it would be enough. So I went to see the hermit. At first he just smiled. Then he spoke in riddles mostly about magic. The hermit said to me, "Magic makes the world go round. Where would we be without magic? If you want to get familiar with powerful magic, go north and join our guild. We are the 'Searchers of Magic' and we will give magic a place in your life. We don't need weapons! A sharp thought is the best weapon you can get." He lead me to a hidden guild one that was under my nose but it wasn’t the one I wanted to know about. When I asked about the Assassin’s guild he said I should study the way of the Ninja, a creature of both magic –with it’s way of illusions- and a fighter. Suddenly he used magic to open a portal that sucked me through to place called ancient Japan. I spoke with an old Dragon, Which I wondered was any relationship to Cadra. He told me to seek out the dragons in Nightfall and ask them they could tell me a lot since the assassin’s worshiped them. He gave me a scroll, which I could not read and with in seconds I was back at Nightfall, Nightfall City that is. Hartward’s store to be exact. And I couldn’t leave with out speaking to my always-reliable source. I found it funny that he knew that I was going to go see the dragons. He told me to hurry but to return afterwards because he had some information for me. So I went and spoke to Scyk'Maloeyl, a huge black dragon who asked for the scroll. He then recited what he said was the legend of the Assassin guild – a guild of secret Ninja’s. They practice an art known as Ninjutsu that can be as deadly as the sword of Kas or at least as dangerous as a newbie going after it. Apparently the best weapon of the assassins is Darkness and Illusion. They made house known of course as ninja houses that was full of illusions. Ninjas and Assassin’s could not let people know who they were so there were secret tunnels, rooms, weapons room, hidden traps and it looked nothing but an old shack when in fact it was so much more. Creating illusions that hid entire rooms and made the house look shabbier and so much less than it really was. And in his (Shinobi Shozoku) uniform he could blend in easily with the night, shadows, and dark. Celaeno the dark in deed. That was all he would tell me so I returned to Hartward. Hartward told me that Celaeno was also known by another name. The shredder and that he had been thrown in Nightfall by some teen turtles. Celaeno plans to take over R/L dimension -- hey wasn’t Reghar planning to do that too? So he has been recruiting assassins and rumor has it they might attack the paladins one-day to practice they’re skills. I even hear they have a few spies in the Paladin’s ranks. Possibly even Belegost who of course denies it all. So watch out Paladin’s the Assassin’s are coming maybe not today or tomorrow but be assured when they do you won’t know it until it is too late. Sorry to spill the beans Celaeno but we all know who you are now. And that is who is In the Eye of the Storm this month. And who will be In the Eye next month? Who knows maybe it will be you???

Softbyte#

Hello Readers!!! Where was the *EYE* last month???? Why haven’t you seen me, except for quick moments last month??? Well fans, the answer lies in this month’s In The Eye Of the Storm…….. And this month I went all daring…… And put all focus of the Eye on my Boss Cute Softbyte. My dearest fans I really had to go deep undercover for this one and to be sneakier than usual. To find out about our Softbyte –"commander in chief" so to speak - is not easy. First, I went to my staff for comments and things about our beloved President of our Fan club. Cute Softbyte is titled as being a social wizard, but do we know all there is to know about this Wizard? As the Chief editor of The Lizard I check in with "Softy" . Softy is a hard working wizard. He works quickly as possible to get our new ideas for the Club and Lizard out and available to the players. He is generous and kind, so the nickname fits *smile*. But yet he still is a mystery to me. And the rest of The Lizards staff had this to say. Our Sr. Advisor and Sr. CEO for The Lizard’s public relations: Frood Fun- evil Harun says, "he is very nice and understanding and appreciative of other peoples work, and not self centered like other archs, he never even gets pissed, he’s a great

guy :)> and he lets his officials do stuff well only us anyway the other officials don't do jack I mean the chief editor really is the only official that does anything at all." Our Head Reporter : Bugsbunny says, "a comment about SB....Definitely hard-working, and accepts and considers new ides That would be the most obvious thing I can think of right now See ya! ;)." Other gathered comments was just the same… Sweet angel Fel says, "he’s doing fast work, especially in fixing bugs but there are often bugs in his stuff because he sometimes releases stuff to early but if someone mails him a bug he fixes that immediately, all in all he’s doing good work." Of course Karm gave ol’ Softy a good old fashion roasting, "Softbyte… Only bad things *har har* Nothing of player interest *g*." Wizard were quick to reply to inquires…Sherpa Celephais says, "one hell of a coder!!" Krise says, "well comments on Softbyte, he is the best coder I know here….and he is a really, really nice person"

But you know as well as I do there is something more there always is… Of course, knowing that most answers would lie in Lisardia went to work. Stepping out from the Lizard’s Lobby I bumped into Delinda our lotto lady. When I first asked her about Softy she seemed reluctant to talk to me. Delinda says, " I handle the fan club lottery of the Lizard newspaper. I can check your lucky numbers for the last lottery." My quick response was I new who she was I wanted to know about Softbyte. She whispered to me, "your nose is running…" and quickly said, "I will say no more." And she didn’t. So while I was searching for our paperboy I ran into mom panda, Gasha. She was with a cute tiny panda so after petting it and letting my panda Winnie-the-pooh play with the baby I spoke with her. "Hmmm… I heard Softbyte was born here before it was Lisardia. He has made it our home. We come from a terrible place.. real life Dimension.." Umm.. How did I know R/L Dimension was coming up. I urged her to go on. "Well the race there claim to be human but they are not like NF humans… They put us in cages, abuse and hunt us…" Sounds like the Barbarians from R/L Dim. Are related to Alucard. "Softbyte save me one of the few who are left… Soon in R/L there will be no more of us." After a sad sigh fans, I left Gasha with her little one. My heart heavy it’s always been hard to believe such a place existed, but sadly the evidence is clear. And leave it to out cute softy to be a hero. Gasha also open the door to a puzzle… Softy has been to R/L Dim. And this reporter really hopes she won’t have to go to R/L Dim. to get you the story. So I went back in search for our paperboy. Stopping by to see if the shopkeeper had seen him. As well as to ask her for any leads. The shopkeeper told me in her husky voice, "Well, He went that a way and as for Softbyte you might want to stop and ask Shirley, the floral delivery girl— I hear she has a crush on him." Shirley of course was no help she just kept giggling, "He is so cute!!!!!!! Awwwww!!!!! Wish he would ask me out… Maybe when I grow up…" And then would star in to fan space. So I was off again when suddenly right there before my eyes… was a… a…A giant pudding!!! I had never seen anything like this before. I remember that I was dreaming but strange.... I suddenly felt the urgent need to eat something. The aroma of the pudding also made me really thirsty. Somehow I want to enter or jump into the pudding and eat it all. Getting my senses back I realized it was lunch so I went to the PUB of FUN, where SOMEONE bought me a Beer. I could not see this someone just hear their voice. "Aren’t you that reporter… You know the Gossip one?" I began wondering if this was an invisible wizzie or player. "I have A lead about Softbyte." I urge this someone to become Visible assuring him I would leave his or her name anonymous but this someone would not agree. Now readers I don’t like getting info from someone whom won’t reveal themselves to me. A good reporter should always know her or his resources . "The someone" said, "Go to the Assembly Hall of the Fan club. Play the jukebox play Song #SB…. then you will be able to catch your running nose." And I asked what it all meant but got no answer "the someone" had gone. I then remembered the Lotto Lady. My nose was running she said. What did it mean? I decided to find out. So I was off to find this jukebox. And there it was just as "the someone" had said. A huge bright red jukebox. I checked the song list…

Song list:

1: Crazy Aerosmith

2: Aeroplane Red Hot Chili Peppers

3: Always Bon Jovi

4: Brothers In Arms Dire Straights

5: Calling All Stations Genesis

6: Civil War Guns n'Roses

7: Doubledecker Liquido

8: Eyes Without A Face Billy Idol

9: Guildo hat Euch lieb ! Guildo Horn

10: Ironic Alanis Morisette

11: Loosing my Religion R.E.M.

12: Let's Have A Party Backstreet Boys

13: What Do You Do For Money Honey AC / DC

14: Männer sind Schweine Die Ärzte

15: Stand By Me 4 The Cause

16: Big Big World Emilia

17: Boom boom boom boom Vengaboys

18: I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing Aerosmith

19: Baby One More Time Britney Spears

20: Pretty Fly Offspring

21: Strong Enough Cher

22: My Heart Will Go On (Titanic) Celine Dion

23: Verdamp lang her B.A.P.

24: The Winner Takes It All Abba

I checked again but there was no song numbered SB. Then as if by THAT OLD BLACK MAGIC wasn’t that a song by HORACE HEIDT right under song # 24 it appeared. Fans it was different not in black righting but gold writing that glowed. Shivers ran down my back as I pressed ---

song # SB : Twilight Zone Golden Earring

The music started playing but nothing happened. I Listened to this song eagerly waiting but nothing happen, except the song seemed to be on continuous play. Playing over and over I thought I better stop it but the jukebox was strange with strange 0 ‘s and 1’s popping up on the song list display. . I decided to leave and as I did heading back toward the pub I notice it was dark. That was strange since it was just after noontime, or was it still. I looked up to see if it was an Eclipse but no there were stars out. I checked my watch and fans you will never believe it. My watch was running these series of 0’s and 1’s. Just like the jukebox. Very strange. I decide to go to the pub and see if "the someone" had returned. While there the bartender and waitress kept saying, "Your nose is running you better go catch it." I began wondering if I stumble on to a quest. I decided to go back to my office to get my head clear since the music was still playing in my head. While heading to my office I saw our paperboy Josh shouting, "Lizard...Buy the Lizard...News... !!" He then turned to me before I could ask him about Softy and started shouting, "Your Nose is Running….. Catch Your Nose…It’s running…!!" He kept shouting the same thing over and over was this Fandream or Fannightmare. I quickly picked up my step heading toward The Lizard when I saw Gasha with her cub. I decided to talk to her when suddenly the tiny panda started to say, "Nanana a booo.. You nose is running…. Hahahahha better go catch it." Gasha then started joining in. I turn to run and ran right into our lottery lady who joined Gasha and her cub. Fans I knew the Lizard was close at hand as was my office… ahhhhh my office safe and soothing… In side I spied Harun pacing the floors speaking with Bugsbunny. Then as he looked right passed me as if not to see me he said, "Where could she be??? We have a paper to print? What could have happened to her?" I called out to Harun but he did not hear me. Just then Bugsbunny walked right through me. Was I a ghost? I didn’t recall dying or seeing Death or Lars. And this was different than when you are a ghost. I didn’t wail in fact everytime I tried to speak I would say, "My nose is running, better catch it." But it wasn’t what I meant to say. Did I have a cold? The flu? I have heard about the things but they exist in the R/L Dim. Oh Fans I began wondering if I had found someplace in between NF and R/L was this how Softy traveled there? Just the readers, as Harun and Bugsbunny were talking to each other, their ghostly spirits turn from their physical form to face me and spoke, "YOUR NOSE IS RUNNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Catch You nose." This place was truly fannightmare. I found my self-running out but where was I going to go????? I tried to wakeup but was told I was not dreaming…The pudding, the shopkeeper and Shirley, the floral delivery girl kept saying it laughing over and over. I stop to lean against a huge marble monument. On top of it was a sculpture of a giant panda bear, the mascot of Softbyte's Fan club. On one side is a golden plaque where some names are written in. The Statue started saying, "Your nose is running. Better catch it…" And the names started changing in to series of 0’s and 1’s. Just then I heard laughter. Looking I saw it a running nose. I tried to grab and sneezed. The running Nose started to sing, "Run, Run ask fast as you can… you can’t catch me….not with your hand" I could be wrong but doesn’t this song go another way. Then it ran away from me. I chased it and suddenly… I had entered the Fun House ! It looked like a fun place, although the room is padded, reminding me of the sanitarium near Troll Point Mountain ! If I didn't know better I would say that this room was made for cushion fighting ! There was the running nose cornered but everytime I reached for it I sneezed. In frustration I grabbed a pillow and hit it. The fight was a hard one but I won and the running nose surrendered with an evil grin. Then he sucked me up through his nostrils. I was swimming in a warm shocking something with 0’s and 1’s waving hello type waves and smiling when suddenly…*POOF* I awoke from my dream I felt different I was no longer an Oglon I was… I was… a … a… Human and I was sitting at a desk in front of a computer. But how did I get here and fans this starts my bizarre search for the tidbits on our cute loveable Softy.

To be continued…..

Editorial Disclaimer: the conclusion is frightening, shocking, and completely unbelievable due to strong R/L Dimension content. If you scare easy you may not wish to read it…

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Softbyte#

Direct Quote from Softbyte, "I guess your reporters are quite effective ;-)"

Disclaimer: the following conclusion is frightening, shocking, and completely unbelievable due to strong R/L Dimension content. If you scare easy you may not wish to read this…

Hi, Nightfall fans!!! This is the conclusion of In the Eye Of The Storm featuring Cute Softbyte our Fan club President--- A social Wizard and from what I have learned--- a very complex one too. So readers in the first part I explain to you what happen when I attempted to discover more behind the Wizard Softbyte and in this part you will understand why I was gone for so long…Here I was in R/L Dim. not sure how to get back to Nightfall, worried about The Lizard and all its fans and searching for information on Softbyte. So why was I here? Why was this my lead for his deepest darkest secret? But as your faithful Gossip Columnist I had a job to do. How hard and different could it be to gather info here from what I do in NF? I have braved Hells Angles, Frog-happy wizards, Dr. Dim, witches, vampires, and other horrible creatures from Dark city. So what could R/L Dim. throw at me that I could not handle. HA!!! You would be surprised my beloved fans. But I was determined to find out what softy has been hiding from us for 9 years…Where did he come from? Who is he? Once I realized find out the answers to this and many more questions not to mention getting back to NF was not going to be easy and would take longer than I thought I tried to contact NF for help, using an emailing system. Here my undercover powers didn’t work and people looked at me strange when I spoke of NF or Softbyte. But one day after a long frustrating couple of weeks and I began wondering if I may let my always supporting fans down as well as if I would ever see NF again. I turned on the TV seems to be a view screen "snooping" several different dimensions --- hundreds if it’s the deluxe –cable- model…/must have been invented by a wizard/>. There I saw this thing called a commercial--- You got questions----we have got the solutions----- the new Intel, your inside source for information. Just what I was looking for information, but with all my other approaches having no success I decided I would try this ‘internet’. I over heard someone say in R/L Dim. You can find anything there. So I went to Intel through the internet ask about Softbyte. I was referred to 2different computer companies and received these books each very big and thick. I read them, my mind feeling like it would explode as I searched for the connection to Softy. With all kinds of bytes I found nothing on Softbyte. Staring one night in to the computer, sitting centered in the middle of a mountain of Books, each book seeming almost as large as me and surrounding me, I started to see those 0’s and 1’s again. In the screen and yes in the books…Could I be asking the wrong things??? So to Intel I asked about 0’s and 1’s. I got one answer and then was referred to "the Search Engine". This thing was strange. So I typed the answer I was given--- perhaps the key…..B----I---- N----A----R----Y . Then I looked at my 2 choices ---search---and---go to. I hmmm thoughtfully. Until now I had been choosing search and getting a headache full of information. So maybe I should…. Gooooooooooooo….. And go to I did suddenly the screen reached out and grabbed me . Where I was I do not know but there were so many 0’s and 1’s. Suddenly the 0’s and 1’s started coming together forming groups and changing shape. Before I realized it there were 4 girls standing in front of me all of different ages. These girls introduce themselves as Terabyte, Gigabyte, Megabyte and Kilobyte --- Softbyte’s older sisters. When I ask about Softbyte the oldest Tera said, "You should ask our Mother, come will take you to her." So my Fans I follow with butterflies to meet our Softy one and only MOM. And there she was reader a vast source of information…. Intelligent and wise and Pregnant!!! Yes readers pregnant and with one baby already in her arms she sat smiling, her name Binary. She spoke to me in an amazing language, which had to be translated--- converted, "This is byte and this will be bit. They are Softbyte’s baby sisters." Or should we say his half-sisters just like his older ones. She told me that the place they lived was a vast universe that NF was apart of. She went on to tell me that one-day there was a nasty bug called Virus threatening NF as she went to help a very brave wizard to fight this bug. Virus had causes an alternate universe to NF. She and this Wizard fought very hard and long and killed Virus but not before it caused a door to open in what was nothing but empty space in NF. Even though Virus was dead he had many bug that worshiped him. These bugs could use this door to enter this fabric of space and to run freely terrorizing NF players. they build a heavy door with special magical locks. But knowing he would soon be gone the wizard would need someone brave to fight these bugs. Binary gave him a son—Softbyte. Born in the space where the door was build and soon was changed into Fandream. Binary said he was her only boy and comes to visit her from time to time. And with a wave of her hand I was back at The Lizard in my office. So, there you have it. If you ever wondered why the answer is clear---- being a damn good coder comes natural to him ---but with his Mom being Binary a great woman that is known through out all dimensions as well as respected by all he would have to be wouldn’t he? Softbyte once told me, "I guess your reporters are quite effective ;-)" I wonder if he still feels that a way *grin* sorry Softy but it had to come out sooner or later. But it was quite an adventure you put me through… *smile* I am Novrain and that is who is In The Eye of The Storm this month. And who will be In The Eye next month? Who knows maybe it will be you???

Harun

In this months article of ''In the eye of the storm'' I put the focus on our very own chief editor, Sneezing fun Harun the threatening shadow or as he is called around The Lizard 'Big Cheese head". (Just kidding boss). However we do wish he would stop wearing dirty diapers. I think every one knows Harun and that he is a vampire. But what else do we know? Except he can be annoying and persistent (somehow I think it should be spelled 'pest'-sistent). However we all have to admit he does a great job. But that just makes us want to know more about those skeleton's in his closet. I said to myself you know Novy he is in politics so the Big Cheese head has to have some juicy secrets. As the Vice-President of Lisardia what could he be doing? Now I know you all are saying but what about your Job but I got to think about Nixon and Clinton so I decided to see our paperboy Josh. He said Harun had been hanging around Dreamland so I left to check it out and found to gentlemen who were quite helpful. Hans Wurst, the sausage freak and The Candyman carrying a vendor's tray. The candyman shouted, " Candies, sweet candies! Taste the wonderful candies... Here try the ones Harun can't get enough of. Of course no one knows I sell these I only sell them to Harun." Well fans I bought some chocolate made in the shape of.... Of nicely round... of nicely round pokémon balls. Apparently the Big Cheese head is an addicted to chocolate pokémons.
Hans Wurst said, "Mjam! I like sausages. Especially fried." So okay old Hans wasn't much help at first but with a small bribe and after Hans Wurst suddenly fell upon his knees, praising sausages he started singing, "Like a sausage, bit' for the very first time..." Now my dearest fans you are probably thinking what I was thinking old Hans needs to visit the Sanitarium for a while. And I pretty upset to have given him a sausage and not to get some lead to uncover Harun's deepest darkest secret. But while at the fantastic beer-pub I found out that there is a brothel in Dreamland and that someone fitting Harun description was inside. Yes that is right it would seem, Vice president Harun is making way to be another Clinton and as the Editor of the Lizard can of course keep the secret from leaking out or can he? So I went there to see if it was Harun. Well one of the girls said Harun was there but only for directions. She continued to tell him, "Rumors say that f****** is good for your health, so why don't you try it? You're only dreaming, so nobody wants to take care of it." But he seemed to shy as Hans said, "Like a sausage, bit' for the very first time..."
But don't worry fans have I ever let you down? Because she had some more stuff to tell about our Harun. She told me that He had played in the band with Wayne and Garth. So I went to see Wayne and Garth. Wayne did most the speaking... "Oh, Harun.. Yeah he's cool... Party on Harun.." Apparently our Harun has been night clubbing. I hear he even has had some fans in his fan office at the club. Shame, shame on you Harun. Well, That is who is in this months "In the Eye of the of the storm". So who will be in the eye of the storm next month? Who knows maybe it will be you....

Hygelak

In this month’s In the Eye of the Storm we put our focus on Hygelak. Once a Psionic now the Guild-leader for the Necromancers Hygelak- the dark mind and now the Lord of Bones should be the mysterious one. This demon seems to love to be the mystery. The first time this reporter met MR. Hygelak he casted a dark orb spell before I could have a look at him. Shy? Not this demon. So what is he hiding?? So I went to where we first met-- the Metallic recycling center in Nightfall City. There I learned from the shopkeeper that he gets visits from demons quite often because of a special entrance to hell. So to Hell I went < Unfortunately, I had to use the usual entrance>. On my way I bumped into a young man fully dressed in black leather clothes. He looked strong and dangerous. The leatherguy told me to find the HELL’S ANGELS he heard a rumor that Hygelak was one at one time. So after a large dose of unblock, aloe and burn ointment I was off to hell. There, in the sleaziest looking bar that I have ever seen, they were. This tiny reporter tried her best to fit in. Up at the bar I sat and from Samuel I ordered his hardest liquor, Whiskey. In my tight leather mini skirt compliments of Lucy the shopkeeper in Dark City, I started a conversation with King one of the Hell’s Angels. At first I got a lot of pinching and comments, but you know how I aim to please my fateful fans. So acting as trashy as I could I sat and drank with Set, Johnny, and King. Needless to say fans I passed out and woke the next mourning at the eastern end of Skid Row, south of Nightfall’s crop fields north of what was once The Blue Highway. Lying in the mud with my mouth feeling like it was full of cotton I notice some papers around me. They were my notes thank god I took some. Apparently, Fans Hygelak was once a HELL’S ANGEL and left to play in the Blues Brothers’ band. So I went to see Elwood and Jake. “Yeah man he sand back up for us. Could really get the dogs howling. Boy do we miss him. He sadly left us.” My question “why” got 2 answers. Elwood claims it was a girl but Jake claims The ‘Hy man’ as he called him was assigned another mission from God. But neither of them could give me a name a girl or a clue of this mission from god. So I was on my way to see Hartward when I bumped into Harry. Harry told me he heard his mission had something to do with a Dragon. He sent me to the Nightfall Central Airport. I first spoke with Man'Yroledh, a huge red dragon and Wyl'beryleth, a huge green dragon. Then with Scyk'Maloeyl, a huge black dragon with a free trip to Drannor Myth. All three dragons knew of Hygelak and his story. It would seem fans it was both a girl and mission. One day in the middle of a horrible Hurricane with-in the dimension ‘r/l’ a plane was Hide-jacked on it was a beautiful woman and her beau. Lightening then struck the plane and her love was pulled by an unknown force, possibly a Wizard, to Nightfall. He then was cursed with a mission or better yet a job. The Hy man’s only way to ever return home to his secret love. He must Hide-jacks Nightfallers and brings them to the RL dimension. Thus his name was distorted to Hygelak so no one would know. Every night he returns in search for his love we are booted and find ourselves helplessly in this dreaded world-rl- unknowingly that it was this handsome demon that secretly sends us there. And that is who is In The Eye of The Storm this month. And who will be In The Eye next month? Who knows maybe it will be you...

Reghar

In this month’s In the Eye of the Storm we put our focus on Reghar. First the facts everyone knows, his titles are constantly changing once Lord Reghar of Reghar and now Lord Reghar is on the long long winding trail to his coffin. Lord Reghar is a male vampire and a wizard who is a domain lord. His personal project is to expand Drannor. Just recently he left the Druids Guild and returned to the damned. And when this puzzled reporter asked, ‘wasn’t Reghar already a vampire?’ His reply was, "I am all and everything… Everything and all." I also need to add that when I asked if I could quote him his answer was no, but no one stops the truth from coming out. So what does it mean? And what about his current title? Does it mean our Reghar is getting old and tired? Well according to Kenny the mind reader from Nightfall City Reghar is older than dirt. "He is a good person," Says Naula but after I began my investigation I began wondering if this was a Wizard or Vampire trick. And our favorite yellow M&M Marx has met him. But that stuff is boring you say? Well I would have to agree. So now what is the infamous Lord Reghar hiding? What skeletons does he have in his closet? In the words of the X-files, ‘The Truth is out there’. So I went on a hunt for the truth. But with no hints THE question is where to start. You guessed it – Hartvard. He directed me to the Vampires guild in Dark City. He asked me if I had ever looked at Reghar? "Look at him good and then ask yourself what was his race? What was his race before he became a vampire? There lies his secret one that might scare you. If you must go to Dark City I urge you to go now why Reghar is away." He then insisted I buy this fully packed and mysterious knapsack. There were so many questions he left me with like - where did Reghar go? But Hartvard would not tell me anymore. It was the first time I have ever seen him scared. I know there are a few vampires that have attacked poor Hartvard that he had to kill. But I have never known him to be afraid of anyone. As I left Hartvard’s store I bumped into Nightfall City’s biggest nuisance – that’s right -Harry. Even though he is so annoying he can be a good source of info sometimes since like a parrot he repeats everything he hears and sees, which is probably why almost everyone wants to kill Harry. According to Harry Reghar has also attacked Hartvard in fact he has killed Hartvard. He had to be resurrected a couple of times. So why do the vampires seem to hate Hartvard? Maybe it’s because of what was in my bag? Examining the bag I found stakes, crosses holly water, garlic and silver. Perhaps this reporter was sniffing around the wrong vampire? Readers could this be my last column? Even though it was a possibility this reporter will do any thing for her faithful readers so I pressed on to Dark City. When I left my carpet I started to hear the theme music for X-files as chills ran down my back. Slowly I went undercover to the guild of the vampires. Lilith the mother of the vampires was there and I could tell she sensed my presence. So I broke my silence to ask her about Lord Reghar. The silent mistress of the dark would only smile showing fangs and purr at the sound of his name. While there a fellow Vampire awoke so I asked Nightdemon about Reghar. He told me, "Reghar …Hmm…I’m not sure about him.. he doesn’t talk much like he is hiding something.." And of killing Hartvard Nightdemon says, "he and someone else killed em". Nightdemon then told me he thought it was Retsel and Etoleb who were both at one time Demons and now are vampires. I tried to have a look below the Vamp guild but just then Lilith suddenly looked deep into my eyes and Suddenly I could no longer remember why I wanted to go down there. It took me a while to regain my memory. Nightdemon told me that Lilith was sort of a gatekeeper to the coffins and weapons of the Vampires, which was down below the guild. So with a protector how would I learn about Reghar’s secrets? What I needed was a disguise. After ND made a sarcastic remark concerning the guild’s leader Alucard about plastic fangs this reporter had an idea. So I talked to Slaver the always-hungry troll about getting passed Lilith. And with a turkey leg bribe was instructed to see a dark elf by the name of Lucy. Lucy is a shopkeeper that makes cloths. Lucy was very helpful with giving me a Vampire makeover. Even with the makeover it was hard to slip past Lilith but I did it. Searching for clues about Reghar I discovered he had gone to the real life dimension. But the question was why? So I searched Dark City for more clues. Slork the Gambler from Dark City told me that for the answers I should wait till sunset if I was brave enough. Well readers I don’t know about brave but for you I will almost do anything to get the story. So I hide behind the statue of Gwarka. And waited. At mid-night I over heard Lilith talking about her Lord paving the way for World domination. Could this be Reghar? So I returned to Nightfall City to find Kenny the mind reader. Amazingly before I could talk to him he told me to go to hell. At first I was shocked till I realized he meant for me to really go to Hell. So after putting on a bikini and covering my self in some sunscreen, a gift from the beach boys in Surf City, I was off to Hell. While wondering on Vampire Street where I thought be a good place to start I read that it is said that Boing, the vampire lord, holds much power among the rulers of hell. Could this is why most demons become vampires? So I went to talk to Hel, the man-eating goddess of the hell. Thinking I was a vampire (seeing how I was still in disguise) she told me that the vampires were trying to take over the real life dimension, something no one but Vamps and demons are a where of. This is really Reghar project Drannon is just a cover. It is also the true meaning of hi title. Coffin is a code word to all Vamps involved that this project has began. The reason Reghar is only a vampire is he was born a vampire all records and claims to other races is false. Originally he pretended to be another race but he has always been a Vampire not one who has become a vampire. Apparently, he has won the heart of both Hel and Lilith, rumor has it they are Reghar's secret lovers. Etoleb and Retsel apparently are his slaves. Hel and the other rulers of Hell give demons as sacrifices to the vampire lords. One bite and they become the damned and slaves to their masters. Reghar was born from the blood of Boing. Reghar are one of the true Vampires. Where as Etoleb, Retsel, and even Alucard became Vampires. Alucard seems to worship Reghar and admits, "Reghar… I love him.." As for Etoleb, he preferred to make no comment except that he denies helping with the killing of Hartvard. Reghar is posing as a mortal in the R/L dimension. A businessman who’s diabolical plans will probably never be truly revealed. Or will it? *grin*. According to my resources Reghar and the vampires are using the TV show ‘The X-files’ (the writer as you have guessed is really a vampire) to brainwash the people of the R/L dimension. And if they do take over this dimension what’s in store for NF? I have learned that Hartvard was on a secret crusade to stop the vampires but now is afraid of the Lord Reghar. So who will stop this Vampire –wizard? Only time will tell. And that is who is In The Eye of The Storm this month. And who will be In The Eye next month? Who knows maybe it will be you...

Wering

In this month’s In Eye in the Storm we put our focus on Wering. Wering is an Orc who is a member of the Druid’s Guild and married to Rosette. Rosette is a wizard that was recently reveal in an earlier article as formally being a Rose. During this article we mention how Wering fell deeply in love with her when she nursed him to health after he had been turned in to a fox. But this reporter never actually dug deep to find out any more about Wering. So I began to search for the dirt on this Druid who exposes himself every time he waves. Wering has many titles like a man with many faces he has one for every mood. He is always forgetting where he left his cloths. I first spoke with a companion of his. The Eagle travels quite often with Wering and was very loyal. He would only tell me how Wering was a kind Orc and excellent fighter. After the countless times he has slain Freyja and Heimdall that is obvious. Myorin accuses, "he's constantly molesting Freyja and Heimdall ...well, he always tries to let his wolf and eagle kill Frayja and Heimdall.... Maybe he doesn’t want anybody to recognize him?? ;)... So if you hear an eagle or wolf kill some big baddie.. You can be sure it Wering ;)" After I went to Hartvard. Hartvard told me that the Druids adopted Wering after he was exiled from his home in the Orc caves. Hartvard continued to tell me that rumor had it that he stole a kiss from the King of Vecna’s Daughter when he was only 13 years old. So with this I went to Vecna to see the King. Sadly the king would not speak with me but when has this reporter ever let you down. While in Vecna I met with the Dark Knight who told me that Wering was exile when he gave some bread to the starving slaves in the Orc caves and was caught making friends with fairies and elves. He especially made friends with that favorite Elf of practical jokes, Goliath. He now awaits Goliath’s return from distant dangerous kingdoms. Apparently occasionally they get together to play a joke or two. Unfortunately Goliath again wasn’t available for comment so I went to some other sources. Myorin says, "I can remember having to pick up his claws and tail in the caves of doom... when he was trying to help me with it...we ran around that labyrinth with these players cripplers ;)" Raven-tressed, green-eyed Lady Godiva says, "Wering ALWAYS makes me laugh!" Naula stated, "well Wering has determination to get his levels back, and is a good friend and a nice man:)" To us all Naula but there has to be more to this Orc… So to look more into why he had to leave the caves I went disguised as an Orc to the caves. I spoke with a few slaves and they had heard of this kind hearted Orc but those who were around then had passed away. While I was in the Orc caves I discovered that Wering as a small child-orc would "dance erotically naked in the caves" according to the ferryman. Rossette has taught Wering about nature. "Which wasn’t hard…. He was already in tune with nature always comes to dance with us naked around a warm fire," Claimed the witches near Salem. "Oh he is the best dancer we have ever seen. He came around the mushroom-circle every night and would dance with us," claimed the fairies around crescent lake. And he may have already danced many of you across the floor. So why does he love dancing, especially in the nude, so much? And as you all know this reporter won’t stop until she uncovers the truth. I spoke with Faris a well-known witch that wanders around Wooden City. She too has danced with Wering at the witches gathering and told me I should speak with Rudi Flanell the well-known show master. So I did and discovered that Rudi use to perform in the orc caves and in Vecna. When Wering was an orc-child his father sold him to the King as a slave. The king had Rudi teach him how to dance and Wering would entertain the King and the king’s guest. Rudi told me the real reason he was exiled from his home in the caves was cause the Orc King was jealous. Wering was quickly becoming popular with everyone as he danced in his gods-given uniform of nature through the caves. The king was jealous of his appearance as well as his popularity. The king was also concerned Wering may later replace him as king. So he let him leave at the request of a certain Vecna King ‘s Daughter> and gave him his freedom. Rudi later helped the Druids raise him. So now you have it… And that is who is In the Eye of the Storm this month. And who will be In the Eye next month? Who knows maybe it will be you...

Pike

In this month Eye in the Storm we put our focus on Pike. Pike, the evil archmage was once known as "the most disliked person in Nightfall" and then he claimed to have no title. So who is this human and what makes him so evil and once so disliked? Five accuses Pike of being racist where as Argus just claims Pike of being a bitch. Which Pike doesn’t deny in fact, he stated, "Right and proud of it." I asked many people on as to why Pike was "disliked" before. Many people did not know, "I couldn’t tell you. He seemed real nice to me and has helped me a couple of times," claimed our beloved and most beautiful lady bard, Naula. Pike has even helped this reporter out of a spot or two. In talking with my fellow Nightfallers what I found is Pike isn’t "disliked" just "not well known". As this reporter has discovered someone in Nightfall always knows something you just have to dig deep. So I started digging going first to my number one source Hartvard. He told me that there was a reason not many people knew Pike. That this human had a secret he didn’t want to get out and that I should go see the old cripple and Ned, the drug pusher. The old cripple shouts: "He is evil! Evil, I tell you. Pike killed me! Pike, you are a f**king bastard. I will curse you for ages!" It seems I found one person that certainly dislikes Pike. Apparently Pike has killed the old cripple many times . Seeing the cripple wasn’t a reliable source I left to find Ned. Ned is certainly not an easy person to find but as always I found my man. "Hey man, I was hanging out at the quays in Nightfall City, you know doing my thing, when suddenly it crawled out of the Ocean, man," Ned nervously replied. This Ned fella reminded me of a Cheech and Chong wanna be, but he seemed sincere in what he saw so I listened to the rest of his story. "It was half fish half man like a merman thing, man." Many other reporters may have just claimed Ned had been smoking some of his merchandise but I thought this story needed to be checked into. So I went to that famous explorer of the seven seas, Popeye. I found this funny looking sailor at Mead hall having a few drinks before he set sail again. Popeye looked at me with his squinted eye and said, "me has seen many beast. But well I yam what I yam and that is a sailor. And yes me has seen the merman." I urged Popeye to go on, "Me was searching for me dear Sweetpea, oh and that cheating, yellow belly, wrench, wife of mine Olive Oil, when there he blows. The merman grabbed my anchor and drugged me down to the evil depths of Davy’s locker. Would have drowned if it weren’t for my spinach." So while I was wonder if this "fishman" story was true or just the imagination of an drunken broken hearted sailor I asked my question what does all this have to do with Pike? Popeye just chuckled, "This land lover obviously don’t know what a Pike is." After his words Popeye left so I decided to go to someone who might know what a Pike was. It was off to the zoo.

There I learned that a Pike was a type of fish. So my next question was how did this fish become a human? For that answer I went to Dr. Frankenstein. The Dr. was very defensive, "I did not create this creature why not ask Dr. Dim his Laboratory is by the ocean." With a door slammed in my face I decided to ask the good Dr. Dim. The Dr. was busy and could not speak to me but his assistant was very helpful, "Yes I know of the merman and yes Dr. Dim is responsible. I was an accident really. Using a Pike, the Dr. was creating a mutant fish to protect his lab. It grew the size of a whale. It found a door at the bottom of the ocean to the real life dimension and had escaped. Someone from a place called a Germany in the real life dimension, while fishing caught the Pike. The monster fish pulled him the water and swallowed him. The fish returned to Nightfall and this man was trapped alive inside the belly of this creator that mutated. And the fish and man fused together and became the merman. After Popeye’s encounter with the mutant we were able to capture and inject it with a serum that was suppose to separate the fish and man but they had been fused together to long. So the serum instead turn the merman in a human. A human named Pike that on a full moon turns back into the merman." According to Dr. Dim’s assistant Pike has a "Dr. Jeckel and Mr. Hide" personality. So there you have it. Sorry Pike but your secrets out. And that is who is In The Eye of The Storm this month. And who will be In The Eye next month? Who knows maybe it will be you...

Aj	Reghar
Celaeno	Softbyte#1
Harun	Softbyte#2
Hygelak	Wering
Pike	Special Edition article