]-[Entry 1: Rata Sum] by Xeck Jovan-[

Upon my return with Xeilas, I couldn't help but think about my lab. There were probably stacks of files, documenting incomplete projects and half-supported research. But organization wasn't my objective at the time. There was still an idea set into my head since going out into the field. 'What if my Krewe expanded outward into Tyria and observed, scientifically, the raw grasp of mother nature? There would be an inexplicable amount of data that would require more tests before our findings could be turned into innovative theories. But, I must admit, I was engulfed with a magic-like zeal for exploring Tyria. Seeing what the world has to offer interests me more than sitting in the lab for long hours every day. I don't know where this lust for discovery has taken route. Maybe it was because of my past years in the college of Dynamics, or maybe because of my upbringing as a progeny. All I know is that now the only option for success would be to apply what my Krewe discovers to the land.

But that would have to wait. My Krewe has looked forward to finishing a project. If we can get enough respect and admiration for our soon to be discovery, we can grow more than just the three of us. Walking around the accounting plaza in Rata Sum, I was able to spot one of my Krewe mates, Zazag.

I had met him during my college years because of my other Krewe mate, and we have held together our research for a good few months. Now as I headed towards his direction, calling out, Xeilas had a quiet demeanor. He had already articulated his feelings for not joining a Krewe, but I wanted to see if I could give him a good impression of it. I called out to Zazag jokingly, "Hey, Krewe mate", which made several people in the crowd turn their heads thinking it was one of their own calling to them. This made me chuckle nervously. Zazag had gotten the message, and smiled smugly as he walked in my direction, "Xeck, have you found any interesting findings in Divinity's Reach?"

I shook my head at this, "Negative. Well almost. I was able to obtain some answers from a human's perspective about their weather, as there weren't any extraordinary meteorological discoveries with the equipment I had. The weather was, to simply put it, fair."

"Make sure to put your findings on file. Even the simplest measurements on humidity and temperature can be variables for the device."

That was Zazag, always one to take the safe path with doing research. Many times have occurred when I didn't properly put my work into a report for later reviewing, and I'd often have trouble with my experiments' final touches.

But I digress. I spoke up, "Hey, before I forget, Zazag, this is Xeilas. He's helped me significantly with my research", and at which Xeilas took off his glove and extended his right hand.

"Pleasure to meet you", He said smoothly. Zazag shook Xeilas hand as well,

"Hello."

I could felt a slight tension from the too of them, and decided to put in another point,

"Don't worry Zazag, Xeilas doesn't bite. I believe he's been to Divinity's Reach for business, and has lived in Lion's Arch for some time." Xeilas poised up and interjected,

"I've been around.... basically... everywhere." Zazag responded to this,

"And so have I."

For a brief moment there was silence. "Hey, Xeilas, I don't intend to keep you from your business, but would you care to see the lab I work at, even for just a short amount of time?" Xeilas nodded,

"Sure, I don't mind at all."

Zazag looked around for a moment, "Hold on, you haven't met Crim yet, Crim would want to be introduced as well. I'll go fetch him", and he left promptly into the crowd.

Me and Xeilas stood about for a few minutes. The population was out in force. There were Asura going to and from the market and bank, some apprentices transporting goods and lab supplies, and loud lab managers who were trying to recruit youthful Asura to join their Krewe. While some Krewes are especially competitive with each other, others can go to great lengths of slander and treachery. I could see it in their eyes as they spoke to groups of newly graduated Asura, "We're testing in Post-phase testing of Chaos material, join our Krewe and build the strongest golems known to Rata Sum!", "Like studying the Eternal? Finding out how our world works? Joining our Krewe will set you off on the right start", "Want to take matters into your own hands? Tired of being restricted from working on a personal project? JOIN THE INQUEST TODAY". There was a sense of superiority and great intellect, but a lack of interest for krewe recruits. Aside from the Inquest, who really will go so far as to use recruits as test experiments, Krewes usually have new recruits set for menial research tasks. These assistants typically go up in rank for the work they do and the discoveries they find. I turned to look at Xeilas after 5 minutes of waiting. He was quiet, with his arms crossed, starring into the crowd. Has he ever been in a lab environment before?

"Hey.... Xeilas, you have to meet Crim, he's witty and funny. I was wondering too, have you been in a lab before?" Xeilas shook his head, and aimed his view at the ground,

"Not at all... I've never been in lab before."

"WHAT? You haven't been in a lab before? You haven't seen wonderful inventions, the magic of science at work-" and before I could go on, Zazag arrived with Crimsonarian, my other Krewe mate.

"Xeilas, this is Crim", Zazag said, "Crim, this is Xeilas". Crim walked up and introduced himself,

"Crimonarian at your service. Crim for short. And this is Poley Mcgee", and pointed to his polar bear pet.

I was still awe struck at the fact that Xeilas has never been to a lab, "My Krewe, we should show Xeilas our lab, he's never been to one."

Zazag nodded, "Here, follow me", and we made our way to the Transport gates, one of which led to our destination...

(To be continued)
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]-[Entry 2: The Lab] By Xeck Jovan-[

We arrived at the Lab shortly. All it took was to step through the gateway, and we were there. By getting to locations in a blink of an eye, gates have saved the time it takes for people of all races to commune to major cities and to Lion's Arch. Without these, many of the races would've been a lot more isolated, and any traders seeking to travel to the nearest major city would've had to face bandits and rogues of the road.

Nevertheless, when we stepped through the portal, the scenery changed. A wide open expanse appeared before us with a building in the distance. The lab consisted of an indoor workspace, and a outdoor testing area under the roof of beautifully built Asuran architecture. While my Krewe mainly consisted of the three of us, Crimsonarian, Zazag, and myself, there were many researchers present in the lab. As we gave Xeilas a tour of the testing facilities, he made note of the number of people in our Krewe. I took the part in explaining that our Krewe had a few researchers who were moving on from an old Krewe, and thus we could inherit the lab and the people who worked there.

Zazag led the way past several researches who seemed ready to report in, "I'll be just a moment, I need to show a guest our lab". We followed Zazag to the golem construction and testing area. Zazag would every now and then stop and point out several distinct landmarks of the lab, "Here's were we do our tests outside of the lab... Here's a 6 sided cuboidal holo-projector... Here's where we assemble our golems." I would look back at Crimsonarian and Xeilas, who both seemed to exhibit different feelings about the tour. Crim was looking around, and in knowing the lab already, he seemed slightly bored at the tour, but was patient and kind enough to accompany us. Xeilas on the other hand was quiet, and speculative. I could not tell what his feelings were about the tour, but he did seem interested at some aspects of the tour. I was really excited that Xeilas was seeing my lab, since it would justify my actions from Divinity's Reach, where we had first met. I went ahead from the tour, and went to the central hub of the lab. I almost forgotten to compile my report. Earlier Zazag had entered my findings into the central 3D display unit, and we could see what my research in the field has brought back.

But in order to accurately explain my findings, I need to write down my experiences on here, in the computer system. I had an entire file on my trip for Experiment 27 research... but something happened with my report.

I was there in the lab, compiling my report into a readable, easy access file, and I stepped away from the screen for a few moments to notice that the tour group arrived. Zazag walked around the room, explaining its purpose, while Crim spoke with several of the researchers. Xeilas was quiet still, but something was different. It seemed like he had the interest in the sciences. Whenever he spoke, it was as a response to some observation, and in the main lab at that moment, when two Asuran openly spoke about math problem they were having, he provided a solution quicker than it could be written down. This stuck my interests about him even more. Xeilas had paced around a little and had arrived to the computer terminal where my report was being compiled. He stood there and looked at the screen, and a few seconds later he backed away. There was a bolded word on the screen, "ERROR: COMPILING FAILURE". That was when my work was corrupted.

It would take me days to fix the data, and more still to get back on track with the project.

I was able to stop the error from spreading through the system, but now doubts pierced my mind, and I was left wondering whether Xeilas was the one who caused the compiling error or not. Oddly enough, during the scene with me attempting to save the files during the error, Xeilas walked outside. Zazag and Crim went to look for him, and eventually found him sometime later sitting on some steps looking into the sky. If he was trying to sabotage my Krewe, he would have taken an opportunity to get a quick get away. So why was he just sitting around, looking into space? I have decided to confront him about this later. Xeilas, after the door, went his own way to do whatever his profession required of him. And for now I'm left here writing up this makeshift entry to keep an accurate log of the events that have gone on. Let's hope I can get those journal files soon!

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]-[Entry 3: The Parade] by Xeck Jovan-[

It's been a few days since the last time I was able to enter my thoughts into my journal. The process to recovering the scrambled data hasn't been completed. Still, in between work sessions with the holo-interface, me and my Krewe have gotten together several times to discuss recruitment. It would be bold to continue on with just the three of us and some other Krewe's researches helping out. But the possibility of completing any future project would be scarce. On the second day since my last entry, me and my two friends met up to discuss ways to attract more members. It was an simple morning in the Lab, which isn't a good thing considering that our project was at a standstill. Zazag posed a question while me and Crim gathered around his desk, "Well Krewemates, we know we have a problem with numbers in our Krewe. As for a solution to this problem, do either of you have ideas for making our Krewe seems attractable?"

Crim and I took a few minutes to think on the situation,

"We definitely should communicate what our Krewe is all about. And with more of a reputation we'll be able to accept assistances by the boatload", Crim said first, "But there are a lot of Krewes to compete with." I was still silently listening when an answer struck inside my head. Zazag nodded at Crim's response and looked at me to see if I had any say in the matter,

"Well, Xeck, do you have any ideas?"

"Yes", I murmured faintly, "The research I did in Divinity's Reach involved a survey, and in order to get the attention of the human bookahs, I used technicolor fireworks to attract attention.... what if we do so for today. What if we can hold a public parade and hold a parade every few weeks. I bet if we can engrave a recruitment parade event into the minds of every living Asuran in Rata Sum, we could make it a tradition! Think of the assistants who would line up after getting a glimpse of what we can do? We can have a few of our inventions working live during the parade and such-", and with that I had to stop myself. I could see Zazag and Crim staring at me in a sort of disbelieving, yet in-awe look. Zazag waited for a moment then put forth a pretty good point,

"Well then, how should we pull off this parade? There's only the three of us, and we don't have.... working inventions as of late to show off." This was a good point. I thought about what would happen if we just tried it,

"We should test it out anyway, like testing out a hypothesis." Crim seemed to support my idea,

"I think Xeck has a point, it would be interesting to see how this plays out." 

So this crazy idea was actually put to the test. Zazag agreed  to the idea as well, and I had shown him and Crim where we could get fireworks in Rata Sum. Out of all the innovators out there, some Asuran had more or less entertainment-oriented discoveries in mind. The man who made the fireworks is a genius of material combustion and thermo-alchemical properties. Soon me and my two Krewe mates were standing at a corner platform in Rata Sum, fireworks in hand.

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The plan was, as it turned out, a success! We were able to attract attention from many different Asura in Rata Sum. As we walked towards the main accounting plaza fireworks shot off in a bright, multi-colored spectacle! I excitedly shouted along the way, "Looking for a Krewe? Join the exciting Applied Alchemagery Krewe today!" Many more lines were shouted from my mouth, and by the end of the parade, when we made a stop in front of the Black Lion Trade Post, we had been accompanied by an Asuran named Toar-O and a mute Charr. We showed the simple group the lab and included them into the Krewe. At the time the Charr seemed out of place, but we decided he could help out the Krewe if we needed the muscle.

Soon more recruits were coming in, including a young girl named Skisir, who had traveled from the Norn Lands to see Rata Sum for the first time.

The process of getting recruits in and transferring them to assistant positions took a lot of work. We introduced Skisir to several tasks that were apart of the Krewe's agenda. She completed the tasks set before here easily, except for an operation that called for replacing weather nodes that were located on nearly impossible to reach floating platforms.

With the recruitment training we were able to deduce a way to properly process recruits who had little to no experience in a Krewe.

But I digress, I really must finish up this decoding, which has been an ailment to my motivation for a long time.

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]-[Entry 1: Krewe Plans] by Zazag-[

Xeck has convinced me to write down my ideas and findings, so here goes.

We have been working on Project 27, a mobile weather controlling device that is about the size of a chicken. The only problem is that we have come to a bit of a standstill; Xeck's data got scrambled and the prototypes have not been working to our satisfaction. I have high hopes though. We have a good Krewe, we only need more members. Three people trying to do all the research and maintain the lab is just too much. Luckily Xeck has an idea for recruiting... the problem is it involves fireworks and Crimsonarian. Last time explosives and Crim were put together there was quite a lot of havoc.

I am getting quite anxious on the matter of the Elder Dragons though. While Xeck and Crimsonarian are all wrapped up in Project 27, out in the field and collecting data, I have been in the lab with lots of time to think.
I must put some ideas to Xeck.
I needed to hack into the Arcane Council's archives, but their security was much better than anything I could handle, so I got Crim in to help. He is very good at hacking things. It took a while but he got there and I was able to access their data, research and information on the Dragons. In the mass of files I found a journal writen by Snaff himself, detailing the events and adventures of Destiny's Edge.
Note to self - Visit Eir Stegalkin.

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]-[Entry 2: Exploration, Investigation, and Innovation!] by Zazag-[

Crimsonarian showed me how to get to the bottom of Rata Sum the other day. It was fun, dangerous but overall completely pointless. Poley Mc Gee, Crim's Polar Bear, kept getting in the way and almost knocking me off the precarious edges.

I went and saw the Great Eir Stegalkin today. I found her in her house in Hoelbrak where she was trying to carve a bust of Jora. Hoelbrak was a refreshing shock from the hot and humid jungels of Rata Sum. I must say I prefer the heat to the ever present sold. She was kind enough to give me more detail about her adventures with Destiny's Edge. They went up against Kralkatorik, one of the Elder Dragons and lost. Snaff the genius inventor and Glint the dragon-friend of humanity died in the fight. And they had been so close. They used the Dragon's own blood to combat it. Interesting.

Note to self - Visit Zojja.

Other note to self - Talk to Xeck about the Dragons.

While I was there I got to see a statue carved in the likness of Snaff. I am quite interested in what Eir said about his Golems. They could be contolled by a person wearing a special type of laurel. I must look into that.

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]-[Entry 1: Another Parade Story] by Crimsonarian-[

Though Xeck has already written about it, another point of view never hurts.

Recruiting new Krewe members was the topic on all of our minds in the lab. Zazag had called a meeting of sorts, so Xeck and I gathered around his desk. Zazag said what we were all thinking. He reminded us that our Krewe members were in short supply. That we needed to increase our ranks to make ourselves more effective. He asked us, “As for a solution to this problem, do either of you have ideas for making our Krewe seem attractable?” And then, from Xeck, the greatest idea I’d heard in a while.

“…in order to get noticed by the human bookahs, I used technicolor fireworks to attract attention… what if we do so for today.” His idea was to hold a public parade every few weeks in the hopes of engraving our parade into the memories of every single Asuran in Rata Sum, and making it a tradition. “Think of the assistants who would line up after getting a glimpse of what we can do,” he said. I turned my head and looked to Zazag, who had the same disbelieving stare that I did, and turned back to Xeck.

After more discussion, our decision to hold a parade was final. Frankly, I loved the idea. I mean, seriously. Walking around Rata Sum, setting off fireworks? Even though my last encounter with explosive decorations didn’t go great, it sounded like a blast! Oh, wow. Writing jokes in a journal entry… oh well.

Anyway, after obtaining the fireworks we needed from a thermo-alchemical Asuran technician, and in a short while, Zazag, Xeck and I were standing at one of the corners of Rata Sum, ready with the fireworks.

Our parade had begun.
As we strolled around the levels of Rata Sum, launching fireworks in every possible direction, people noticed us. Not many joined in on our parade, though. But we still got a fair few followers. For example, an Asura named Toar O. We also met a mute Charr, who was rather nice. Not much else happened during our parade. Hopefully this parade, along with the expeditions and adventures our Krewe undertakes, will prove to increase the ranks of our Krewe, and make us a much more formidable and effective group.

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]-[Entry 3 Off To See The Charr, The Wonderful Charr Of Black Citadel ] By Zazag-[

“Remember we are here to talk to her, not anger her”
“Got it”
Crimsoarian spotted the a CHR-P and said “Hello there, CHR-P”
I walked up to the CHR-P and asked it where Zojja was, it replied with:
“Mistress-Zojja-is-out-at-the-moment. Please-return-at-another-space-time-delineation”
I knew that this robot was lying so I threatened it.
“System override. I have business with now. Where is she?”
But the golem went defensive and said:
“Stand-down, Designate-Zazag. Destruction-of-property-imminent”
“Fine. Zojja wouldn’t what her lab busted in her absence. I’ll come back later”
Crimsonarian looked like he was about to attack the golem for being so incolent but I grabbed hime by the arm and dragged him a few feet away.
“I have a feeling that this golem is lying to us and that Zojja is still here”
Sure enough we found Zojja at her pesonal workbench.
“What do you want?” She snapped, “oh its you two”
“We have come to learn more about the dragons”
“What do you want to know?” she asked.

After a lengthy discusion which I will not bore you with, we decided to investigate the mysterious happenings north of the Black Citadel and Hoelbrak. So we headed to the Black Cidatel. I thought we might be able to drop by Tribune Rytlock Brimstone since he was on my list of people to talk to.

We stepped through the portal into the sweltering heat of the desert. The walk was long and hot but we made it to there… eventually.

I walked up the spiral stairs and across the black metal floor untill I got to the Tribunes Quarters.  Crim had gone off to the trading posts to get some supplies. I admit that Rytlock Brymstone was quite frightening but to show fear to the Tribune would not help me get the information I wanted and needed. He blamed Logan for the failed battle against Kralkatorrik. I wonder why...
Fortunatly for me he was in a good mood, though he didn’t like a small annoying Asuran asking him questions. I got little information out of him and nothing that I had already knew.

We stepped through the portal into the sweltering heat of the desert. The walk was long and hot but we made it to there… eventually.

Our journey into Ascalon was quite uneventfull. We got turned into cows and fought a Charr named Azalus Poisontongue. We failed to complete our goal or even to find out the exact nature of our goal.

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