Cenday, 30th of Shadow 212 EoL
Dear Diary,
during the night,
I thought a lot about how to change my identity. Since Azrael does not know that I changed my surname a year ago from Hurricane to Tempest I will keep the name Tempest. I already have a list of new given names, right now my favorite is Creative-Céleste, but it might also be cool to find a name with the same initials, so that I could remain BB, since I really love that abbreviation and it is not a rare nickname for a genasi. This time I want to make more of an effort. I also need to change my face. I could do it using magic, but Azrael will see through that, so this is not the best idea. I could also have it remodeled by a surgeon, but that would be expensive and what if I don't like it or die due to complications? I'm not so fond of that option either. The third option I thought about is my favorite one. In Sedem I could go and look up a make-up artist from one of the big theaters and ask him to make me a mask that I can put on whenever I go in public. It's probably expensive as well if want a high-quality one and no questions asked, but I know
Drake would pay for it to have me safe.
When I told Drake about my ideas, before we joined the others at breakfast, he thought I would be rushing. Funny to hear that from him, who was even worse at taking quick decisions yesterday. Once we got together I gave the bracelets I made overnight to the others. They were not as thrilled as I had thought, actually they barely even looked at them. Maybe we are hopeless as a group...
Then
Trip shocked us all, when he told us that during the night he had contacted Votluh who had told him that the compass was cursed and so was he now and that he would die if we would not find the treasure asap. This means that Drake and I won't go back to Sedem any time soon and that we first need to again leave the Empire. I'm not fond of this, but what can I do? He's my brother and I need to protect him. I love him, even if I kind of hate him right now for putting my life in danger. It's like Drake said: one day his hubris will get him killed and probably everybody around him and we should hope that at that point in time we won't be next to him. Afterward Trip contacted our father to tell him about Azrael's attack.
While we were waiting for an answer, we went to the harbor to check on Fae, her crew, and her ship. Drake went there to talk to her and came back telling us, that Fae wanted to get paid more, too much in his opinion, after yesterday's events and that we would not sail with her again. I was angry that he did not want to give Fae what she was asking for knowing the risk she was taking. So I went to her and that little bitch refused to talk to me and to give us another chance! Who does she think she is?
Drake went searching for another boat, while
Shirel and I were forging a treasure map since we did not want to tell a random pirate crew about our magic treasure hunting compass. They might agree to take us onboard only to mug us midway. I went onto a ship and flirted my way into the captain's lounge to be shown a map of the surrounding islands. Once I told them that would not sleep with any of the crew members and that I had a boyfriend they kicked me off their ship. It didn't matter because with the information I had Shirel was able to forge a beautiful treasure map that lead in a similar direction as we went yesterday. Meanwhile, Drake was able to find another pirate ship that would take us on our treasure hunt.
Father had told Trip to remain in the harbor for another hour or so. So we did. I had told Trip about my plans on changing my identity and that I thought that he would need to do the same thing. Of course, he was not convinced and thought I was exaggerating. Right on time an elderly human walked up to Trip, we later found out that it was indeed our father in disguise, who offered Trip a new amulet and a remove curse spell. He talked to Trip like he had always talked to us. His words were cold and full of disappointment and reproach aiming to make us feel small. Even though I agreed with lots of what he said (e.g. that it was stupid of Trip to make a deal with Votluh without consulting anybody) and was still very angry at Trip all I could see was my brother standing there like when we were children and father would talk to us like that. I felt sorry for him. I knew exactly what he was feeling. I tried to help him but was, like always, helpless against father. He told us to go and find the treasure and that he would take care of Azrael. Then he disappeared.
Since we did not really have another option by then, we set sails with Cpt Sparkov and his crew. They asked us to put our weapons into a chest the minute we got on board, and that is what we did, since we were quite desperate to get to that treasure. A good four hours into our trip, the crew attacked us. They wanted to rob and probably kill us. Little did they know whom they were up against. We used our magic to quickly kill the captain which resulted in the stop of the attack. Now we are real pirates, with a ship and a crew and everything. This is so cool, Arrrr!
We kept sailing for another few hours before the compass directed us into a fog bank. Once we entered one could not see their own hand. This was just too dangerous to navigate through. Which is why Trip, Shirel and
Yelena decided to take the small rowing boat and continue following the compass onto an island. They never made it to the island though, because a group of fish people stopped them. One of them, named Dihan, was able to talk to us. He told the trio to get back to the ship and that they would navigate the ship to the island. And so they did. The crew remained on the ship, while we went onto the island, where we were supposed to meet the sultan the next day. Once we arrived in a hamlet full of those fish people we were served quite the meal. Lots of fresh fish, crustacean,s and other things the sea and the island had to offer. To our surprise we met a halfing in between of all of these fish people. His name was Aldo. Aldo Goodbarrel and he is a cousin of
Kaylee Goodbarrel aka "Mini", former member of Drake's wolves group. Drake and Shirel didn't want to tell Aldo that his cousin was dead, which I could not accept. Luckily Trip told him, not on purpose, about Mini. He was sad, but happy to hear that she was promoting their beer until her last hour.
Somehow Trip really desires to sleep with one of those fish woman. The whole evening he tried really hard to get one of them into his bed. He even made an ice sculpture out of thin air to impress them. It was so very weird. I guess he's not over the meeting with father and tries to cope with his bad feelings by being rebellious? I do understand that reaction, especially considering how many man I have slept with after not pleasing father, but this is under our standards and he really should not do it. And by it, I mean one of them.
We offered Aldo to come with us once we leave this island, but he told us that there was no escaping the sultan. I'm wondering if he's right. We'll find out tomorrow, when we meet the sultan. We spent the night at Aldo's tavern and I should really to get some rest now, after not sleeping at all last night, to make a good impression tomorrow.
Love, BB <3
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