Session 28 Journal Entry

Thus begins a new chapter, however briefly we're allowed to bask in this moment of victory and peace. There are several aspects I take from this fight, and most of them are personal, if I'm honest with myself. I'm grateful the people of Waterdeep are pr...

And so it comes to this. We have the answers we need to appease the Lord of Blades, and all we can do now is hope that will appease him enough so that he doesn't unleash his entire army upon Waterdeep. Given what I know of him, even if he agrees to come...

A certain conversation I had with Gweihera comes to mind as I contemplate the actions of the last day and what lies ahead. Long ago she and I spoke atop Mount Celestia after a particularly brutal skirmish with the forces of Hell. It seems what I did to ...

A certain conversation I had with Gweihera comes to mind as I contemplate the actions of the last day and what lies ahead. Long ago she and I spoke atop Mount Celestia after a particularly brutal skirmish with the forces of Hell. It seems what I did to ...

When I swore my oath of vengeance against the dark realms, perhaps I was naïve in thinking that my quest was only against the fiends that plague all of existence. It was easy to focus my ire there. After all, they were responsible for any number of unc...

A heavy blow has been dealt to evil this day, and it's a day I'll not soon forget. If I ever doubted it before, I have no excuse or reason to cling to such disbelief. What I once was is still alive within me. However small, however distant, the being I...

More and more I start to see Torm's hand at work in my life. Whether it be the people he brings into it, or their influence on it, I start to realize that there is a plan in everything. Not everyone ascribes that particular belief. Still working on Ori...

Well...if Zora wasn't going to kill me before, she definitely is now. I don't expect her to understand. Truth be told, she probably doesn't understand a lot of what I do or why. Granted, in the past, my indifference to her opinion was misguided under t...

I wish I could explain better what happened down in that infernal pit. The Cassalantors were about to bring Vecna back, and with it, the destruction of everything we know. My friends and I saw the threat, moved to neutralize it, and succeeded. That's t...

...Maybe I should be writing this in the assumption someone else will eventually read it. Between Honorine and Zora... Who am I kidding? I'm glad they did, especially given what the end result was. And I'm truly sorry, Zora. I couldn't let a friend...

Didn't think I'd find this. I'm only writing in it now because I don't know what else to do. Reading these pages, seeing dad's thoughts and words... I'm so fucking mad at him! I'm so fucking mad at all of this! And I can't believe... He's gone. ...

In two hours, I undid two years. I want to justify it. I want to say I did it for Honorine. For Kal. Like I did when we were in the sewers. Even for Ushen and freeing his soul. But now, with the frequency with which I apply that logic, the only just...

Destiny is a fickle thing. Is it ours to control or are we mere puppets of its whim? I've never been sure. Through different lives, different places, different times, I've wondered what mine would be and if I can do anything to change it. I've seen mo...

The moment she said it, I knew in my heart there were far more powerful forces at play. Forces I'd hoped wouldn't be Zora's problem. But I'm starting to wake up to the truth, like Lady Silverhand said, that much like Dagult's hoard, there's far more hap...

The lights go out, the furniture comes to life, undead are everywhere, and the battle is on. Don't know whether to punch Lirelle or kiss her next time I see her. I know she had a hand in training Zora because I see a lot of how she fights in my daughter...

Just keeps getting better and better. Lots of confusion surrounding this stone, and before we can even get to ask it anything, we have our friend the inspector breathing down our necks. Can't fault him for doing his job. I know he needs to maintain ord...

Always when I draw my sword, I only wish to do so when there's a necessary reason for it. When I wield it, I only wish to do so with valor. Having an enemy in front of me, someone or something that seeks to do me or mine harm, something that makes it cl...

That dwarf had just been in the wrong place at the wrong time. He'd made the wrong moves too. It wasn't the time to try and pick a fight, but he'd tried it nonetheless, with a grieving opponent who only needed a reason. The dwarf had given him a reason...

Sometimes I wonder if things are changing too fast. I've often noticed there's not much I can do to alter the course of history, fate, divine will, whatever you want to call it. I just try to get by in this world and do the best I can, but here I am get...

"How many has it killed?" the chain devil managed between gasps. Each breath was ragged after miles of fleeing in an attempt to regroup, the monster in pursuit and showing no signs of tiring. Fueled by its rage, armed with a weapon of hate, and driven b...

I would have thought fate was intervening the moment I saw that demonic circle. But there was the dream before that, the familiar faces after, and everything else that's happened since. I wonder what this means for me, but more importantly, for Zora. I...

"That Nomad is asking for you," his server informed him. Durnan lifted his eyes from the contract the mason had provided for him to fix the hole in the eastern side of the Yawning Portal. Upon doing so he remembered he also needed to contact the mag...

These Xanathar mercs know how to secure the place, I'll give them that. After the boulder comes down, magical glyphs, oil traps, and giant, swinging logs all bar our way. If Regulus cares at all, he doesn't show it. Barges right through the worst of it...

Day starts off well enough. Rainar is meeting us at the Portal. I keep making contacts with the Zhentarim agents here. Hoping I can do what I came here to do and stay out of the worst of this. Doesn't seem like a place for any would-be heroes. Regulu...

He'd tracked it to the private wharfs of Lord Valenier. Old senses from Heaven and Hell had their uses, especially when it came to tracking fiends. This creature was a bit too infernal to keep it from registering on his divine senses. It might have eve...

Right away we all know this is going to be a rough fight. Sturges all over, flying up to both floors and going after everyone, and that troll is covered in puss and rot, poisoning everything around it. We all get to it, Honorine striking first and getti...

We gathered at the Yawning Portal. Not my first choice, but it's not for me to decide. Turns out that's where everyone else was anyway, which already puts me on edge. When that newcomer, Jain, I believe, talked about his dream, then we realized we all ...