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Wed 13th May 2020 08:57

Journal #40 - Talking Too Much

by Amity Pell

I had a dream. I haven’t had a dream at all since Prim and… and I forgot. I forgot what it was like. I don’t know if they were not as bad before, or if not having them made this one seem worse but…. It was bad. And the thing… the thing that came for me in Blackbough, was in my dream. It almost…..
 
I woke up. And I called Prim back. He was almost as scared as me. I told him I was sorry.
 
I think the thing got out of the dream.
 
I couldn’t eat at breakfast. And I didn’t want to talk. But right before we were going to leave, to go to the armor store… I told them. About Master Imorn. And about… the dream.
 
You know how no one ever thinks your dreams are as interesting or scary as you do? It’s really… it’s really hard to explain them. I don’t think anyone was worried as much as me. Not worried enough at all.
 
Did I say that Master Imorn gave me a sending stone….? Well he did. I told them about it and Swindle said we should ask him about the thing from the dream. That I should ask him.This is my life now, everyone else telling me what to do.
 
Well I did, and he said it sounded… interesting. And that he was upstairs at the library, so… we went to see him. Twice in two days is - it’s too many. But we went. By the way, Max said he’s pretty proud of me for being an “apprentice.” Yeah.
 
Swindle stayed downstairs to drink tea and laugh at bad books. I think maybe he talked to the librarian, he was an old firbolg. You really don’t see very many of them, do you?
 
So upstairs… he was there… and. He seemed happy to meet Max and Variel. Surprisingly good company I keep, he said. Max is a Paladin of the Sovereign Host, and Variel is the First… Thorn Bard of the Summer Court or ah… well it’s close to that. He knew what I meant, I think. And then I had to tell him about the dreams too. Variel tried to use minor illusion to show him the thing from the dream, since I got Prim to show them back in Blackbough but it came out… fuzzy. She said “it resists being seen, or known.” Which wasn’t reassuring.
 
We told him about how it was at Blackbough too, doing things to people and making them not sleep, and hurt each other. But he looked at me like I was missing something, and said, if it had been in Blackbough, if it had been actually-there, and not just in the dream place, none of us would probably be here now. It’s a Herald. Of… something even worse.
 
There was so much, but he told us about a country, a long time ago, to the east, that used to visit other planes a lot. They had a lot of magic. But something happened, and now they’re gone. Now everything is gone. It’s the part of the map that has nothing but big spikes covering it. Master Imorn said it’s just miles and miles of… crystal. I guess it was a long time ago, but I never knew about that.
 
He said he was sorry that my education had been neglected. And about that room being left unattended, back then. He said the thing I touched, the spell I messed with, was a beacon. And Variel asked for what, so I told them about… about the dragon. It’s in that place too, the between-the-stars place. Somewhere.
 
 
And he told me the thing from the dream last night should leave me alone… for a little while. I asked him about if it would go after anyone else and he just… asked me why I would care.
 
And then he let Variel and Max ask him questions. And he answered most of them. Probably more than I’ve seen him talk at all, all the times before put together, ever. He asked Variel about her Lady, and if she’d spoken to her in awhile, and Variel said no, like he’d gotten one over on her. Cause Variel got kicked out, remember? But he said… that’s not what he meant. Because sometimes he talks to the Summer Court too. He’s very interested in communication to other places. Other planes. But for awhile now he hasn’t been able to get through...
 
Variel went really still and kinda cold. She said we need to go there. Now.
 
But there’s a problem with that too. Something is… broken. About the planes. And that’s how we got to why he asked us to get that plate for him. The glowing one, with all the gods on it, that Swindle can’t stop looking at. And Variel was right, it isn’t finished. He needs two other things to use it - something from deep under Ivorfall, some kind of mineral or crystal, and something from…. So far away I can’t even understand it.
 
Variel made Swindle come upstairs and give him the plate. He wasn’t happy. But he did. Master Imorn seemed to know something about Swindle, too. About where he’s from, and why he might not be there anymore. Swindle didn’t like that either, I think.
 
Variel stayed behind to ask him a few more things, but he said we could leave now, and if I don’t get out of this room I’m going to have a heart attack, so I’m going back downstairs to wait.

Continue reading...

  1. Journal #1
    Amity!
  2. Journal #2
    Amity!
  3. Journal #3
    Amity!
  4. Amity & Prim
    Amity!
  5. Journal #4
    Amity!
  6. Journal #5
    Amity!
  7. Journal #6
    Amity!
  8. Journal #6 AKA I Got Stabbed!!
    Amity!
  9. Journal #7 Flowers
    Amity!
  10. RP w/ Prim and Variel- Royalty, Family, and Luck
    Amity!
  11. RP w/ Rhogkun - Familiars and Spellbooks
    Amity!
  12. RP w/ Rhogkun and Delebean - Secrets
    Amity!
  13. RP - The first one. Amity and her Fortune.
    Amity!
  14. RP - the second one. At the Siren's Sigh w/ Rhogkun.
    Amity!
  15. Journal #9 - Arriving in Blackbough
    Amity!
  16. zoop
    Amity!
  17. Journal #9 - Arriving in Blackbough
    Amity!
  18. RP w/ Swindle - AKA You Cant Bullshit a Bullshitter
    Amity!
  19. Journal #10
    Amity!
  20. Journal #11 - Into Darkness
    Amity!
  21. Journal #11 - Into Darkness
    Amity!
  22. Journal #12 - Inside the Nightmare
    Amity!
  23. RP - With Azalea. Very Short.
    Amity!
  24. Journal #13 - The Trial
    Amity!
  25. RP - w/ the group - Night Before the Trial, Actually
    Amity!
  26. RP w/ Swindle (secrets?)
    Amity!
  27. RP w/ Rhogkun and Prim - Pockets
    Amity!
  28. Journal #14 - Back on the Road
    Amity!
  29. RP w/ Variel - In Between
    Amity!
  30. Journal #14 - Back on the Road
    Amity!
  31. RP w/ the group - We're Going to Riverpuddle!
    Amity!
  32. Journal #15 Back in Town
    Amity!
  33. Journal #16 - River Night and Golden Day
    Amity!
  34. Journal #17 - The New Old House
    Amity!
  35. Journal #18 - The Terrible Room
    Amity!
  36. Journal #19 - Ghosts
    Amity!
  37. Journal #20 - More Ghosts
    Amity!
  38. Journal #21 - Everything Falls Down
    Amity!
  39. RP w/ Rhogkun, Swindle - Two Conversations That Go Just Fine
    Amity!
  40. Journal #22 - Dogged
    Amity!
  41. Journal #23 - Treya....
    Amity!
  42. RP w/ Everyone - Tale Telling
    Amity!
  43. RP w/ Rhogkun - Dad Talk
    Amity!
  44. Journal #24 - The Next Day
  45. Journal #25 - Heading North
  46. Journal #26 - On the Road
  47. Journal #27 - Vimgalier
  48. Journal #28 - Instructions...
  49. Journal #29 - Rigani's Tower pt 1
  50. Journal #30 - Rigani's Tower pt 2
  51. Journal #31 - Rigani's Tower pt 3
  52. RP w/ Variel and Swindle - the god plate
  53. Journal #32 - Ambush
  54. Journal #33 - Music
  55. Incident Reports
  56. Journal #34 - Ivorfall
  57. Journal #35 - Shire!
  58. Journal #36 - Escalation
  59. Journal #37 - Giving Up
  60. Journal #38 - It's Fine. Let's Go to Another Wizard Tower.
  61. Journal #39 - Memories, All Bad
  62. (out of order) RP w/ Variel at the Bergwin Inn
  63. (out of order) RP w/ Max - Caravan Guards
  64. (out of order) RP w/ Katya - Taking a Break
  65. That Dream Again
  66. Journal #40 - Talking Too Much
  67. RP w/ Swindle - Asking for Help is Hard
  68. Journal #41 - The Wizard's Friend part 1
  69. Journal #42 - The Wizard's Friend part 2
  70. Journal #43 - The Wizard's Friend part 3
  71. RP - Checking In

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