Abraham's Journal

27th of Ches, 250 3E
It has been a couple of weeks since on the trail of those ghouls with the reports of all the bodies and disturbed graves it made sense, we followed the route to a lava tube near the village of kirkfaern. The commander from the school of the bull and the person who hired me, Cassius, lead us through the lava tube accompanied by other people, krea a slayer from the school of the leopard she seemed like a nice and incredibly strong and brave woman, Althalos a fighter like me I assume didn’t talk to him much….I do wonder what he was like…..there was also Tavrith a skittish black Dragonborn from the school of the raven and he showed he was truly a great magician from what I saw in our journey together. The main group though were the three new adventurers: a joyful, tricky cat person, named josephi that cast arcane spells through the use of tarot cards (must attempt to research this) a strong cleric, lava humanoid named Josiah, and a perceptive, resourceful half-elf woman named Daphne. We reached the lava tube and immediately something felt strange there were many bodies with holes in their chests they appeared mummified as if the life was sucked out of them, this immediately struck us strange as ghouls aren’t lair creatures nor do they consume their preys in such a way I was almost sure at that point that we weren’t chasing ghouls and my chest tightened and I have felt a great feeling of despair and at that moment as if in a reflex I was sent back to a distant memory. I was back in the lair being seen off by my teachers it was a beautiful memory gods how I missed them especially lady Daemoira but with that memory, I remembered her look one that took away all hope of a mutual relationship, gods she is truly beautiful and it saddens me that she might never see me the same way but I am still honored to be her student and master….oh how heavy my heart was leaving him…..I sure do hope I see him again please gods let me see him again let that hug not be our final one. After I snapped back, we faced a great monster of hollow and gaunt stature but still giant size, a sorrowsworn, we fought him and almost lost until we learned about its weakness to light which we used well, Josiah dealing the final blow on it, but we lost Athalon and the commander and we saved krea from death, but she was still in some sort of coma and is still as the day ends. In the battle something happened I was able to heal Josiah as he fell I don’t how I did it, I fear it has to do with my dreams I hope I could find some help in this field but for now, I should probably keep it a secret. We also found an altar with a symbol giving a possible reason to how the sorrowsworn came to our realm, there was also a burnt piece of paper that had some writing about a trail, I feel like it was a coverup we should probably follow this trail further I also sketched the symbol so I could show to someone later.
I was able to get the commander’s bestiary and study it before sleep and gained insight about a new fey creature, I think maybe I should make my own bestiary, we’ll see.
I was asked by Daphne about my dream I lied to her about my relationship with lady Daemoira I don’t know why but she definitely knew but chose to humor me which I truly appreciated.
We were woken up by a scared hazelnut colored horse, headed our way which Daphne skillfully stopped it, we figured it was the commander’s horse Shadowheart, weird name but not my horse, we found some loot on him and a blue lily that seemed like a memento, it seems me and the commander had something in common.


28th of Ches, 250 3E
I usually don’t write before the end of the day but today we were ambushed by some bandits and after I tried to announce my protection under the Manticore and failed, Josephi was able to convince them that he and Josiah were gods and they believed, can you believe…... wild.
Note to self, lava genasi could work for a spa with great efficiency needs more research though.
As we were heading back towards the village, we met the rest of the group and one of them was Amadeus, gods it has been a very long time since met although he seems more disconnected than before maybe our time created a rift between us although I have not been able to talk to him since meeting him. There was also a crow slayer, he seemed to be a student of the arcane and started examining the body of Athalos which seemed to weird people out, but I was intrigued I tried to see what he saw but I was not able, maybe he could teach us something. It seemed we have taken ownership of the commander’s horse and we met the owner of the tavern, a female orc I believe ex-adventures named Grakh she seems like a cool and strong person kind of like professor Taurok, we took our leave and went to Moira Bhodsha and another group to Krea to the herbalist to see if we can help her and Josephi took Athalos to the friary. We met with the contractor her daughter seemed to have a strange reaction to seeing the Sorrowsworn our encounter was tense, to say the least, the contractor seemed to have an aversion to other races we did not get the money as we cannot prove that we killed the shade, Josiah was angered by the whole encounter, I got a book for economics.
After that, Josephi did not like that we did not get the money, he seems to really like money and intimated the contractor, it seemed that something was off one of the guards was reaching for something maybe traps or secret mechanisms and we were kicked out.
At night I decided to leave the inn to the friary on some tip we got from the contractor I think they might be in on the disappearing of the bodies I tricked them into taking me so I could check them out, but they seemed actually kind and sympathetic maybe I made the wrong move. I should apologize to them and confess.
I am seeing a light I should probably investigate.
So it the light was apparently a mob of Dwarves after Josephi, I was able to get the senior prior and confessed to him about the truth, surprisingly he was very accepting and forgiving plus I was unable to find any signs of nefarious actions on friary might need to suspend that theory, for now, he also helped when I asked him he agreed and ran with me towards the tavern we came a bit late and gods can this old man run I spotted a shadow, but I was too late I aimed too high and two people are dead now because of me. I had an issue after the incident, I didn’t understand people’s shock because of the incident, is something wrong with me? I understand why they are shocked, but I can’t relate, is this a “socially awkward” thing or is it because of my training. I helped some people get back home, but just barely; I do have to improve my social skills.
I also walked the senior prior back to the friary, I explained my dream situation and he seemed to not get exactly how strange the situation is, but he did mention a solution that I believe could help me meditation, I will definitely try and make this a habit I should try it tomorrow.
As I entered the tavern, I met with Izorr and we spent a lovely time together he took interest in my magical bond with my weapons and I took interest in his familiar, well it took interest in me, Izorr shared with me a bit about Dwarven culture and I told him about my mentors, the professor, and Lady Daemoira but after some time we both headed to our rest. It was truly a wonderful conversation maybe we could have more of them.

29th of Ches, 250 3E
I started the day by going to the friary and seeing the body of Athalos, I inquired about how the priors meditate and if they offer tutelage and I was told that they have a meditation session each day, I really need to do this.
After I head back to the tavern and were summoned to the Bhodsha estate where we cleared up the situation and showed the mistress the new monster, we met a day before the Fleder, a vampire that is more monstrous than humane, and we signed a contract for the Fleder and we took the mistress to the body and she was finally convinced that we fought something in the cave. We had a funeral for Athalos and I gave him a picture of his beloved so they might meet in the realms of the gods,
Oh, did I mention that Krea, the leopard slayer, is back up Daphne made a deal with the witch exchanging Krea’s well-being for “The blood of a beast most pure” which I theorized was a celestial’s blood.
After our separate information gathering, we headed back into the tavern and Amadeus wanted to make vampire oil for our hunt and forgive my language but HOLY SHIT I was actually able to do it and came out with and extra ducal water, but I can’t believe that actually created an oil without the help of a teacher.
After that exciting event we bought a cow to use as bait and headed to the place that Amadeus was able to gather information about a possible hunting ground for the vampire, but as we were heading there a group of bandits appeared and attacked us, we decimated and I killed one guy although it was fast, painless and efficient I felt guilty, it was as if his death was necessary I don’t know where this feeling came from but I have to explore this later because now we have a contract.
After some time we reached a clearing in the forest of a hunting ground and started to argue about how we should use the cow as bait and after some time we dealt with and are now currently waiting, hidden, to see if the bait works, fingers crossed.
We have reached a location we believed would be great for an ambush after some nice conversation we faced the creature which was a Fleder as we guessed we did amazing work on that hunt able to eradicate the vampire without any losses or serious injuries after that I was finally able to harvest a monster I felt a sense of happiness as if I was in my element each organ harvested flashed images of the books and lectures where I learned of them.
During my watch I followed Daphne’s familiar to a pack of wolves that I proceeded to fight, I almost went down but my allies came and helped, I should have called out, I also scavenge the wolves’ corpses now looking back at it, it was unnecessary I have to find a way to limit my lusts to not bring problems to the party, oh and no dreams (hopefully a good thing?).


30th of Ches, 250 3E
As we headed out of the forest Daphne lead us to the nest of Fleder, within a cave, as we entered, we found a few items left behind by the dead (10 gold coins, sickle, shattered longsword, Tiefling teeth necklace, a sack of peat, wood carving tools missing a chisel, rucksack bundle of twigs a needle some silk and a half-made basket, collector set of tine letter openers three of them, old love letter made out to Moira, a confession love letter from fleacea to smira and a small key that might lead to a chest or lockbox.) and as we continued to search the cave I got it again the curiosity impulse hit and almost walked into a dangerous path alone until Amadeus brought my attention back to the situation this curiosity of mine is becoming stronger than I remember maybe someone back home could help.
As we continued exploring another Fleder attacked us downing josephi, but we defeated it too although less efficiently than before and I began the dissection, I need to get a notebook to write all the reports down.
We found an interesting wall that seemed out of place it lead to an old ruin according to master Izorr we went through it at first almost get crushed by a moved rock that we barely escaped to be honest we, after removing the large boulder from the door with a bit of teamwork, proceeded to search the ruins almost giving all hope of interesting things within found a room in it a large statue of a soldier made of gold and after warning the party not to do anything as this was obviously a test of character, Josephi took some of the gold and initiated the awakening of the fallen warrior skeletons and after a fairly arduous we felled them in this unnecessary battle Josiah took the shield and seemed to seek it as a harmful item but more importantly removal of this gold shield seemed to return the statue to its original marble as well as changing its frown to a smile possibly alluding to the relief from the weight that the person who this statue depicts must have felt while wielding such an item…….to be honest the statue’s smile did put a smile on my face as well, is that weird?
After that, we found a map leading to some treasure with a riddle.
I must talk to Josephi about the incident although I feel like a hypocrite since I also almost fell to my lusts if I weren’t brought back…..maybe we could to an agreement that is beneficial to both of us…I hope so…….
Also, the cat is there again I am starting to feel like it’s not a normal cat I will start noting any sightings on the journal.
1st of Tarshak, 250 3E I started my daily routine today like I was back in the lair, it’s nice, I also visited the herbalist today nothing of interest guess it makes sense he is a herbalist not a alchemist so it’s unfair of me to think he might have something useful. I started research about paradise stand (Josiah knows the highest people in that place that’s crazy!!!), researched dreams nothing came of its same myths about heroes chosen by gods pfft as that would ever be me, maybe I should stop wasting my time with this could just be happening because I give a stupid dream such importance. Asked the bhodista estate if I could use their books, they allowed it gleamed some more information about paradise stand also continued my research from back home hopefully I could come up with something. No incident 2nd of Tarshak, 250 3E I had Josiah make schematics for the school today they were…. unique but he also made me this beautiful, silvered longsword maybe I should redraw the schematic to match the beauty of the sword. I finished the letters today and attached the schematics and some money in the envelope. Got to talk with josephi learned a lot of useful information also I think I was able to make a deal with him hopefully he abides by it. No incident 3rd of Tarshak, 250 3E Today daphne passed by the friary and asked to train her with her weapons I was very nervous but I think I did an ok job, nothing like my teachers but she at least advanced from the basics, but other than that I finished my research and attached to the envelope now just to find a way to send it. No incident 4th of Tarshak, 250 3E Nothing notable today. No incident. 5th of Tarshak, 250 3E Helped daphne train today also, I think I’ll switch my gryn flame blade with beuming blade. No incident 6th of Tarshak, 250 3E Nothing notable today. No incident. 7th of Tarshak, 250 3E Nothing notable today. No incident. 8th of Tarshak, 250 3E Amadeus and I saw a figure at night today we could catch them but I saw a dark cloak seems like a person and not a monster, necromancer? 9th of Tarshak, 250 3E Nothing notable today. No incident. 10th of Tarshak, 250 3E Nothing notable today. No incident. 11th of Tarshak, 250 3E I had a dream…. I had a dream…. again…. I had a dream…. dream…. dream…again…light…. blinding… woman…dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream…. dream

12th of Tarshak, 250 3E We met a fan named mei she seems nice although what could we have accomplished to get a fan, josephi tries to scam her but no money after that master izorr felt something and lead us to the edge of the village and a horde of undead was approaching we gathered all the troops we can by troops I mean barely able-bodied farmers and peasants and some monks from the friary we fought for what seemed like forever I was able to fend off as many as I can there were so many but thankfully we didn’t lose too many, it turned out that mei was the necromancer she seems to have created the illusory form of mei her true form looked almost identical to daphne I wonder what was that about but she needs to go down no matter, I’m sorry daphne. I heard the dwarves talking about me they kept saying shield master when mentioning me, wonder what’s that about. I feel like I’m forgetting about something. Cat spotted after battle over. 13th of Tarshak, 250 3E I did some training today with Amadeus I need to strengthen up make some more use of this new sword Josiah gave me, it’s nice to train with my friend again.










Oh gods…oh gods…gods…why me? Why? Why? I can’t breathe….I forgot…I forgot the dreams I forgot I can’t I can’t I’m just a slayer just a slayer not a hero not a hero I can’t I am choking breath won’t enter not a hero not a hero not a hero not a hero not a hero not a hero gods why choose someone else not me not me not me not me not enoiehnier notme nrt me not me not please hero not slayer please help me mom dad anybody I can’t breathe please I can’t stop. Please help ME
14th of Tarshak, 250 3E I was there today when everyone was buried I saw them sing laments and the screams of loved ones I don’t know what to say it’s not a pleasant site….I don’t want to sleep I tried to distract myself I tinkered with the formulas of fire bolt I changed the indisharin of it left had took the axis changed the uthudren rune I increased its range more like a blanket but I had to lose some control over the spell.

What if it is because of it? Maybe it’s punishment? Is this why parents left? Who is it? I am just a normal mortal, not someone important, not important, not important who? Who? Which one? Forgotten? Maybe why does nobody answer me? Why? I can’t speak, breath, feel trapped please where are you mother father Eadwin Amadeus anybody get me tell me why? What am I? Is this why you left mother, father? Is this why I can’t breathe? my lungs will not listen why? Why? Dreamhunter infinite mystery forgotten by time or by choice? Am I a monster being controlled? They come to you as angels of light so how do you know the real angels? 15th of Tarshak, 250 3E Trained. Why? I don’t remember I think my body is getting ready for something, this happened before I remember it’s like an equation just simple solvable just do the right pattern. 16th of Tarshak, 250 3E Trained…. eat to survive…. sleep to not get exhausted…mask…. stronger…. breaking 17th of Tarshak, 250 3E You know 18th of Tarshak, 250 3E Asked the friar today if he can see in total darkness, he looked at me weird chuckled then grew worried, I ran into the forest I remember the dream it keeps playing in my head I don’t know what to think I am trapped in my mind I feel like I want to throw up, gods what am I? Am I human? The stars they stare at me I feel something else not me Maybe it’s a knowledge god. No no not chosen you are just normal not chosen you can’t handle that the gods’ eyes on you you can’t you can’t I created something I took shield targeted its runes on every type of creature I could think of good or evil I slept below the stars protected. 19th of Tarshak, 250 3E Woke up in the forest I went back to friary trained. I feel disoriented my hands are shaking I need sleep. I slept. I don’t know what to think. The sands maybe need master izorr I need to tell them, but the sun is gone. Later. Never. no tomorrow. 20th of Tarshak, 250 3E (Must know celestial to read)
21st of Tarshak, 250 3E
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22nd of Tarshak, 250 3E
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23rd of Tarshak 250 3E
I seem to have awoken from my hysteria I have caused a lot of fear in the party it seems that being cured or at least helped me keep the madness at bay, but I still feel it scratching at the back of mind banging at the prison it was locked in.
I had these episodes before during the time I accepted my parent’s disappearance, I have to find a way to cure this problem from its roots thankfully I gave Josiah and Izorr their letter and hopefully they agree to help with this plan.
No cat sighting
24th of Tarshak 250 3E
We travelled this day and met a nice lady who had some strange magic of producing an image unto a stone very strange, but it did produce quite a nice image although I think I look weird in the image I was too focused on the magic it looked as if I was going to murder that woman, is that how I always look? No…...maybe, actually it would explain a lot.
No cat sighting
25th of Tarshak 250 3E
We reached the anchor point we each meditated on it and I seem to have gained the attention of a nymph her songs calm my troubled mind so that was a nice boon, also we found the treasure the map was leading to it and found a necklace and the two other pieces of the map one talking about a location near an oasis and another surrounding a family the izorr recognized as the ruling family of the Daragon Republic might have to look further into that.
No cat sighting.
26th of Tarshak 250 3E
We reached the village pretty late into the evening I took the hour to bond with my weapon cleaned myself and went to sleep although it seems like the shadow again looms over originating from where we fought the sorrowsworn, I believe it is that necromancer’s doing, we must go there tomorrow.
The village is on fire the flames are blazing to the sky, who did this?
Damn it, it was josephi it seems he chose to give into his revenge maybe we became too dangerous for him.
I did it again I played hero again, I don’t understand why I keep doing this my brain knows that I don’t want to do it but it’s as if every other part of my being is against the idea of not being the hero, I have to think about this after we fix the cloud over this village.
27th of Tarshak 250 3E
Moriah came early today it seems she took a hit in the fire, she offered 50 gold up front to kill josephi or preferably bring him alive, I vowed to bring her his head.
We headed towards the sorrowsworn cave; we ended the day almost there when a stranger dwarf came up to us claiming to be angus bodhista sent by his mother to help us hunt down josephi unfortunately for him it seems he’s going to join us with solving the problem arising again in that cave.
He offered moonshine, which I believe is a homemade whiskey that isn’t matured correctly but I thought why not and took a shot, wait did he just say blood.
I seem to have gotten drunk I remember only snippets of my action during my drunken stupor, but I was awaken by a horde of undead we were able to take them down, but we burned a good patch of the forest.
Angus seems to have the same abilities as those of the friary but with astral limbs, very interesting.
No cat sighting.
28th of Tarshak 250 3E
We reached the cave but it was completely barren and it seems we were mistaken and the true source of the dark energies is above us at the top of the mountain, so we hurried up there and as we reached the top we could see a hill sitting atop it and a horde of undead scattered all around it with the necromancer that disguised herself as a fan of ours.
The battle was tough, it was a race against time, and the trek to the top was as tough especially for master izorr we almost lost angus but I was able to reach him but it was weird as I touched him and tried to do the healing the same way one I did to Josiah back in our battle with the sorrowsworn, I heard the chorus of angelic voices sing of my legend and I saw a sea of stars and ether as a voice pierced the music “YOU ARE MY CHOSEN LET THAT BE KNOWN YOU HAVE ALREADY BEGAN YOU PATH DOWN MY WEAVE BY SAVING HE WHO I HAVE NOT PLANNED FOR DEATH.
NOW I SHALL AWAKEN DIVINITY WITHIN YOU AGAIN AS IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN FROM THE BEGINNING.”
As the chorus of the heavenly invaded my mind it was not like before it was calming and beautiful as I was floating in this sea of stars I blinked, and I was back to the realm of mortals as I saw master izorr in anger dissolve the necromancer with his breath of acid and with her fell all
of her necromantic minions.
I had wings on my back one depicted a sunny clear sky and the other a starry night sky while my vision was strange it was as if I could see everything happen a second before it happened as if I it was planned it took a while to get used to it but my vision soon returned to normal and after I helped master izorr decode the runes upon the place power and gathered the loot we started our trek back to the village.
I am writing this as we are returning to the village master izorr and daphne seem to be arguing about something very intensely and angus seemed to grow a liking to master izorr and Josiah is…lifting heavy rock, is it just me or is he getting weirder each day maybe that a sign he’s getting more comfortable around us, that’s nice.
It seems that today was uneventful, it seems the others have either kept to themselves or did not care about my incident, I would lie to say this did not bother me, but I understand I must remember that I would have done the same back in the day and maybe I should return to that mindset. I might be overthinking this, I’m going to bed in this nice shelter Angus made us. We were attacked by wolves, not really something that would hurt us if we're at our full strength, but we weren’t it seems like Josiah was hit worst by it, maybe he’s distracted by something. No cat sighting 29th of Tarshak 250 3E We reached the village and informed Moira of the situation after that we kind of sat around discussing how we can get to paradise stand, until the strange crazy man came into the store and Angus found some strange object protruding from his skull to which we performed surgical removal of this splint of wood and cured the man of his madness…. how did we do that, I don’t have a single idea. The man was named deter and he was a merchant that came here 2 years ago but had a branch fall on him and lodged in his cranium in which after he became like this, we gave him some gold and sent him back to probably a family happy to see him again. I asked Josiah if he could sense something from me a seed or a shard of divinity which only makes what I must do even more urgent. Also, apparently, Josiah doesn’t know celestial, neither do the monks, that’s stupid in my opinion, especially for Josiah why don’t you know the language the gods, you are so in love with and worship day and night, converse in. No cat sighting.
30th Tarshak 250 3E Today we chose to help the merchant, I tried to test something apparently, I can write and read celestial while I don’t trust Josiah’s words maybe in paradise stand, they can actually confirm it, everyone is treating this with such frivolity and nonchalantly and it’s honestly getting on my nerves, have I angered them in some way? have I not cared enough about their problem that they chose to return the favor? I guess things don’t change I’ll just deal with this on my own, it's better this way. We accompanied the merchant through his journey and suddenly were attacked by imps and after that was like a fever dream, the cart caught on fire multiple times, daphne blasted a fireball on herself, Josiah’s Warhammer broke, and Angus became a sheep after so many other things. We are heading back to the village, and this seems to be our last night in the village so I must do it today and it seems like I’ll have to do it alone, maybe the friars could help, but I don’t know anymore.
1st Mirtul 250 3E Today was pretty uneventful we bought a cart an extra horse and went along the road.
Scratch that we were just about to be crushed by a stampede of three “elephants” huge beasts native to paradise stand we got some good loot from their…saddlebags?
Well anyway, that was pretty much it after some embarrassing situation we made camp for the day.
No cat sighting -.
2nd Mirtul 250 3E We were able to ambush the bandits through the efforts of our group minus me and Josiah and I think master izorr after which we were able to dismantle them quite quickly and took one as a prisoner, I hope the party allows me to interrogate as I wish to try and see if I could do something.
Giselle Tenley and Vapula, that are the names of the two bandits, I took Giselle while Amadeus took vapula the party seemed to trust us with the interrogation, are the manticore known for interrogation? Anyway, I took her to the top if a nice hill with a beautiful view with master izorr accompanying me for some reason.
She gave us a lot of information about the leader, bloodaxe, and that he seemed to have gone mad after finding a gem and he uses his blood as weapons, he drank the blood of a unicorn and that he worships Qivnir, a familiar I don’t know why, during the interrogation I felt bad for Giselle I wanted to give her a second chance in life so I tried to convince her to take another path as well as I gave a letter of responsibility so she may use it in the village and then we let her go.
We went to check on the others and they apparently chose a more aggressive and yielded fewer information (although I didn’t mention that) we started heading to the camp with a tied up vapula.
We encountered a turned over carriage with wolves and the dire we met previously slumbering around it after overestimating my stealth and underestimating the wolves’ perceptiveness. At the end of the fight, I fell and met a hooded figure that I mistook for my lord but then I heard his voice and thanks to Josiah healing (better late than never?) we were able to get out of there without any losses.
We took our loot.
During the night I sneaked up to the top of a hill to pray, it felt like days I just kept praying I felt at peace as if I was alone in the world but then I heard a voice, the voice of my lord, “My son you have come again, I’m glad you have returned I have been absent from you, I must show you something important.”(celestial) I was shown three scenes in the past? Future? I don’t know.
The first, I saw a beautiful, blonde haired, half elf woman that was playing a lute and singing a song, she sang about a wanderer, a master of techniques forgotten, that came from coal miners that didn’t understand the value of a diamond when they found it, polished in the liar of a chimera, then finding his long hidden divinity just to become a bringer hope, patron of the forgotten called by many names by different people to the elves they were airë-randir, to the dwarves they were the one adorned in white, to the gnomes they were the man with a face of a saint and to those who perform evil they were a demon from the stars. As the crowd cheers for that last one they quite down quickly, after which the bard continues as the scene slowly fades from my mind.
The second, was that of a father and son sitting in the wilderness taking cover from the cold of the night by a campfire, the child asks his dad to tell him a story and so the father looked up at the stars and pointed to a constellation of a man holding a strange sword pointing it to the sky and then he started to tell him the story of the redeemer, a hero who used to be pretty ruthless but never did mercy leave his heart because of the love he was shown. He was said to try and find one of even the most heinous of enemies worthy of that mercy. Then the son asks for a cooler story, to which the father laughs and continues with another story as that scene fades as well.
The third, I was taken to beautiful costal city and shown a boy no older than 13 wearing what seems like apprentice armor looking at a huge marble statue of a faceless warrior holding a strange looking longsword with two hands and pointing the tip to a demon which he has under his foot with the engraving “The forgotten soldier, chosen of our lord”. The kid looks at the statue with adoration and determination as he mimics the warrior’s stance with his wooden sword, he is smacked up the head from and older woman who seems to be his instructor and shouted at to continue his training. As the kid walks away rubbing his head my vision of the scene fades.
Now you have seen a few of many plans I have for you my son, although they were more individual focused than group, I also wanted to show the trials that you must pass through to get there.
I was immediately hit with pain, fear, despair, misery as I sat there frozen my head knelt in prayer, I started sweating fearing the path I must walk. In response, I felt a being of light appeared next to me in an attempt to alleviate my pain, but it didn’t help as blood started to come out instead of sweat.
My son worry not I will be with you.
And then the voice that was always in the head or from the sky, was right next to me.
I saw a figure of a man, made half of the night sky and half of the daylight with a blue cloak over him and a smile that was as if made from hope itself. I stared upon my lord, and he looked back at me with these eyes made of the astral ether.
How do you like the look, nice right I haven’t used this before?
I nodded and he smiled.
I want to be like this always Abraham, but you are not ready yet.
From that proclamation, my face sank.
Buuutttt, you can get there, I have made arrangements for you, go to the great cultivators in the sands and from then you will be guided to what to do.
I looked upon him again and he brought his face closer to kiss my forehead and as his lips touched my lips, I felt an intense love, one that even a thousand parents combined can’t provide their son it felt as if the very being of anneau enveloped me
Sorry love is more my sister’s domain, but I hope my feelings reached you await, can’t wait to see you again Abraham, so don’t you dare die and remember cultivators in the sand. Goodnight Abraham, my beautiful chosen.
And as quick he appeared he left wiping the tears from my face I got up and headed to bed.
3rd Mirtul 250 3E We started heading to the camp and with the help of Morrigan we were able to scout it out it seems that there are a number of bandits we are coming up with a plan, Angus is rushing in. The battle was a close one, especially when they pulled a ballista!!, but we were able to get through it, I went down though twice in three days I need to fix that, we found prisoners that we were able to free two human, two dwarfs, one dwarf child, one emaciated but alive unicorn. I also found a shrine Qivnir, I felt a sense of familiarity close to familial? I prayed at the shrine asking for forgiveness for our actions and the actions of the bandit leader(since Qivnir wouldn’t support what his worshipper was doing, from what I gleamed of him at least), after which we divvied up the loot in the camp, and Amadeus found a trapdoor the led to some strange place, according to the bandit leader’s journal it seems that this was a place before the camp was even here and that none of the bandits dare to enter that holds some underground forest, so naturally Amadeus went in and daphne, master izorr and I followed, for some reason daphne couldn’t continue after a certain threshold and so we continued and gods is a beautiful place like a legitimate forest underground and there was also a miniature sun or something because the place shone as if we were outside it seems Amadeus ( LET”S GO CHOSEN BUDDIES) was called to the statue that stood in the middle of a pond that stood in the middle of the tow- I mean forest, anyway he went of to jump in the water and apparently he could walk but as he got closer we couldn’t follow as if some force was gently stopping us from moving forward. He stood there for what seemed like 5 minutes slumped in front of this statue and after that he fell in the water and after he got out the whole place became ruined and after nothing happened with master izorr we left the cave and took down the ballista, we found a bandit carriage after fixing our cart and giving them gifts, a letter to Moira, the shrine of Qivnir, and the cart we rested for the day and left together. Josiah weird. No cat sightings.
4th Mirtul 250 3E Me and izorr did a language exchange program? He learned celestial, it was weird speaking a language I never thought I could talk, and he started teaching me dwarvish, apparently my intelligence has been destroyed with all those arcane formulas I gave up. Caught a rabbit. No cat sightings.
5th Mirtul 250 3E Rabbit with nice cloak, speaking about being late, ignored he seemed too weird and also master izorr wanted his shoes, they were nice. No cat sightings.
6th Mirtul 250 3E Not much happened got some relationship advice from Amadeus which reminded me of his drawing skills he might help me right down my techniques, we’ll see. No cat sightings.
7th Mirtul 250 3E Boring day, got a couple of berries, mostly spent it foraging and learning dwarvish and am also trying to perfect my newly inspired techniques. No cat sightings.
8th Mirtul 250 3E We found an old keep, dark energies exude from it, master izorr seemed really curious, same vice as mine ,although mine has been subsiding, he argued to enter which we did, I tried to climb the wall and fell hard after which we encountered a night wraith, and the longsword proved helpful in hurting her which after we found the victim’s body with a sword into their back and now we are trying to figure out how to release the spirit. After we found some underground trapdoor that led to a tomb with a desecrated corpse and an escape hatch towards the forest (idea recorded). Master izorr found a spell that allows us to contact the spirit and push her towards her rest after a short rest we started the seance and we learned the story of the ghost lady angelica with a group effort we were able to dispel back right as shadowy beings started attacks us. I was able to contribute, and I think my experience made me able to connect to hers although her face reminded me of some bad memories, I was still happy to be able to do one thing I set out to do every day, where is despair, hope. After that we rested, and Amadeus took the bastard sword which seems to have been made specifically against specters and such. I pocketed the ring we got from the bandit camp since I was the only one left with no magic item, it’s only fair. No cat sightings
9th Mirtul 250 3E We spent this day travelling. No cat sighting.
10th Mirtul 250 3E We reached jathan, I gave a guard some gold thinking they were the tax collector, well no matter we reached the city, and some people were acting weirdly around daphne that made her uncomfortable, Josiah seems very protective towards her, hopefully he doesn’t fall into the same pitfalls I once did. We found some interesting things at the notice board, josephi seems to have impersonated master izorr and did crimes in a similar name to his, a serial killer in the area, some armor test required, and invisible stalker on the loose, need help with book stocking (took it), shoveling snow (took it), a request to go to an area and find some artifacts. After that and some arguing we paid our taxes and went to a bar named the violent banjo and got introduced to the barkeep to which after he started a bar fight and after that heading outside a portal appeared and a cockroach man came out of it telling Josiah that someone was missing, and Josiah asked daphne if he wants to come with him and she said yes!?! AND THEY JUST LEFT, I genuinely thought that my lord was going to descend from the heavens to take me with him. Anyway, after we recover from that we talk about how we want to sell the ballista a sexual gnome comes out of the sewers, and we discuss a possible negotiation to sell the ballista next week. After that I head to the laughing lobster, an antique inn near the dock and I take a room there to take in all that happened within the last five minutes. No cat sighting.
11th Mirtul 250 3E I spent the first day training and studying dwarven. I went to an armorer shop although what they had was marvelous it was too expensive for me unfortunately. I also took to talking with the sailors along the dock and within the inn, I started to give them advice about how to save and how to file their taxes. No cat sighting
12th Mirtul 250 3E Madame Hilga, the bookkeep who wanted help with stocking the books, she seems like a nice lady although she lacks focus but that is the life of what with the amount of knowledge she has after getting a finishing up and getting a book from her. I headed back to studying dwarven and talking with the sailors. No cat sighting.
13th Mirtul 250 3E After a short training session, I went to see that shoveling job and I got it done, kind of. I went to get a blank book and two rings one a signet ring that I might gift or use letter and a wedding ring similar to my parents since I never got their wedding rings, in case I get married (tough chance) or I meet them again and they don’t give me a good enough reason. I went back to the inn and spent the rest of the day mingling and studying dwarven. No cat sighting.
14th Mirtul 250 3E This day I went to find an amulet of my god as I heard from one of the sailors that there a specific family in this land that deals with religious trinkets of the sort and though if anyone would have it, they probably would. After that I went to look to find dieter’s house and it was relatively and when I got there everyone was surprisingly nice, after proper introductions were made. This time I spent the rest of the day showing the sailors some simple chemical reaction that usually the cubs at the school used to get wide eyed by, as well as studying dwarven. No cat sighting.
15th Mirtul 250 3E This day I asked Amadeus if he could draw the technique that my lord bestowed to me through my dreams, I don’t know what this could be used for but maybe I could send them to the manticore or use them something, I just feel that they could be useful later on. I spent the rest of the day studying and mingling and I think I could a basic conversation in dwarven now, as well as curse someone out pretty badly.
16th Mirtul 250 3E Training, studying and mingling No cat sighting.
17th Mirtul 250 3E Training, studying and mingling This time my mingling took a more different tone as through my stories I saw some faces light up with hope and so I took this opportunity to act as the instrument of my lord, sowing two things, where there is doubt, faith; where there is sadness, joy. I hope you are smiling upon my lord and that I am doing your will. No cat sighting.
18th Mirtul 250 3E Training, studying and mingling No cat sighting.
19th Mirtul 250 3E Training, studying and mingling No cat sighting.
20th Mirtul 250 3E I did the usual today, but I started pulling some favors and asking around for someone who could take us three to emporia or, preferably, paradise stand. No cat sighting.
21st Mirtul 250 3E We went to meet the sexual gnome through the sewers, Illyria was a great help with some very large centipedes. When we reached his “warehouse”?? it was locked by a large gate daina try to lockpick, but I was able to knock first after which we were met by the gnome, and we pursued his warehouse many exciting trinkets and sexual innuendos from him later we were able to make some deals and also sold our ballista. The fence gave a deal if we can take care of a kobold insurgence near him, we find them and take them out, well most of them some escaped within a water pool in the cave that leads to a deeper part of it. This day has poured a new problem into my new lake of problems, it seems I am becoming more risk taking, I am seeing my body as a tool pushing it even when it begs to stop, and I feel like I am trying to force myself into a leadership role into the group I am confused with this new group, I think? And with the new realized divine eyes staring at me I feel like I am doing enough, affecting enough, helping enough, knowing enough. I want to talk to the others, but they don’t feel close enough or that they could relate maybe that’s why I am forcing a role upon them and myself so I could much easier talk to them. I will have to think of this after we finish off these kobolds. After our rest me and daina headed towards a cave located in the top left of the den we found that it lead to what seems to be a beach on the edge of jathan, as we were inspecting the tunnel Illyria with Amadeus’s moral support went deeper into the cavern by entering the pool, as she reached a different part of the cave system she encountered kobolds and killed them after which she returned to Amadeus and waited for our return to attack the rest of the forces. We travelled using Illyria’s crocodile form and were able to decimate most of their forces, when er reached it seemed that there was elvish stonework and what seemed to be a kobold with a hand made of scrap metal, he was able to conjure a scrap metal golem that caused me and Amadeus to fall but daina came in with a great assist after which master izorr was able to vanquish the golem. After which we entered the tomb that they seem to be using as the leader’s private liar after we killed all of them, Amadeus fell again, but after all was said and done, we started splitting our enormous spoils, master izorr suggest two of us goes to the surface and get a bag of holding. I am actually enjoying taking care of the party’s spoils maybe I should suggest that I replace Josiah for treasurer… I spared a kobold, only one. It was cowering in a tunnel and I just couldn’t bring myself to it, no that’s a lie..I could have killed it if I wanted to but I didn’t want to, I have been avoiding my deed based on my moral ideas attributing to some, out of control other, a version of myself that deluded himself that he is a hero, but no longer I will live as I please even if it means as a hero. I feel as if my very fundamental being is slowly being melted but not in the unpleasant way it is as if I am entering a cocoon in preparation to transform into something although I don’t know what it could be I feel both a repugnant corrupting seed and a radiant sacred one, I will have to start meditating again. We split into two groups, the first consisting of me, Illyria and master izorr and the other being daina and Amadeus, we are to solve the riddle and the other two are to buy us a bag of holding. After some guidance and advice from me and wearing the sending earrings, they leave to the world above as we work on the riddle. It takes us about half an hour in which I take the oath of the custodian knights and a feeling of warmth and focus overcomes me, hopefully this is not an affront to my god maybe I should discuss it with him when we return above ground. Anyway master izorr comes up with the solution of “promise” to which the wall the riddle was written on had a part of it removed as a small elemental appeared and bowed to me and waved at the other in his action revealing a hidden room behind the wall, leaving the golem to play with Morrigan, we entered the room and saw the sarcophagus of Delsanra Norzumin, the head of this order, a bow a top of the sarcophagus, I took pebble, the golem (we gave him a name), he seemed to allow me to take the bow and after a conversation with master izorr, pebble showed him a vision of the catacomb we are currently in being teleported by a group of elven mages, which explains how it got this deep underground. Then pebble showed me a part of the story of this order and their head, they started as a prolific warrior order and remained as that but their head chose to be a custodian, a leader of the elves that dedicates their life to the service of the elvish race and is give a golden broach and then it moves forward to were during a failed rebellion she gave the broach to an old elf in order to safekeep it and then my vision ends. After some debates and questions towards pebble I open the sarcophagus and find the broach which exuded intense nature magic and bangles which I apologetically take both before we return the lady to rest and seal up the room again. We spend the next 2 to 3 hours playing with pebble and I draw the armor of the custodians in hope that I could remake it. After the wait daina and Amadeus arrive with a bag of holding that they got a 1000 gold discount on!!! I am so proud of Amadeus, after we organize everything into the bag we head back to the outside world. Oh, we took pebble with us, which is a no brainer, but I thought I must document it. I don’t know how to feel about what my new position holds, I have to research more about it, I hope I haven’t ruined any plans you had for others my lord and that I took someone else’s fate. However, I feel glad, I still can’t discern if it is my hubris or something else but being able to contribute to the world in such a way is almost a euphoric idea to me, I fear what this might grow into but every once in a while, I notice daina looking at me as if there is something wrong with me could she detect the putrid seed within me. No, I must dedicate myself to do good with this great responsibility to help the elves achieve what they desire with this relic I carry I will become their nameless reviver, maybe I could become this nameless hero I saw in my visions…I wish. We exit the sewers and head towards the adventuring guild to take a look at some bounties we take the “Jungle King” quest, a giant gorilla that appeared in the jungle near jathan that needs to be taken care of and its teeth delivered to the poster, and “Dying Wish” a quest about a person who tried to trick the fey out of a deal and now lives their life as a corpse, the quest was put by the friend of said person in order to lay him to rest. I seek out my friend who sold me your amulet, but he disappeared, and the neighboring stalls have not recollection of him, I smile at your jokes my lord. I went to see an old elf that I heard of from my time with master dieter, hoping maybe he could help me, and as I suspected that the oldest elf in this city would be the same elf in my vision. However, he did not meet me with the same enthusiasm that I had to meet him and so he started rag dolling me around demanding I give answer to which I started deflecting but he was able to enter my mind and rip the information. I thankfully was able to plead my case to him and got a name “The forgotten one” …. I am honored to know your name my lord after which he kicked me out and said he would think about my proposal. I took a room for pebble and order two longswords. I also believe that the amulet of lust has finally started to attempt and temp to wear it. No cat sighting.
22nd Mirtul 250 3E Amadeus and Illyria went to the place of power while I learned more about you my lord and at the evening, I figured out that the two longswords were male sex worker and so after clearing up the misunderstanding they left, unfortunately they didn’t know where I could actually get longswords. No cat sighting
23rd Mirtul 250 3E We met the quest giver for the dying wish quest he was a drunk man who is using alcohol to drown his sorrow over the loss of his best friend, he told the location of his target and we left to seek it out. Along the way we found a door in the middle of the day and inside it was a boy that was trapped by a wizard for stealing their sweet roll, after rescuing him it turned that they were a devil named Bathsheba should read up on it. No cat sighting
24th of Mirtul 250 3E We were trapped by a foglet and after almost dying, pebble rescued he crushed that thing to smithereens, great job pebble. As we were heading towards the graveyard, a castle appeared behind us made of strange stone and as I and the party enter, me more reluctantly, we go through the areas of the castle, and it seems generally empty. As we reached what seems to be the central place, we open the door and see a human undead standing in front of a sarcophagus and surprised to find it to be angus that seems to have been tricked by some fey to be within this body and as we catch up and he introduces us to the new and improved Amelie although her figure is more daunting and radiating strength it seems to have the same constitution from before. We attempt to figure out the rules of the curse and were able to uncover that angus’s original body is within the sarcophagus and with the help of izorr’s deductive skills and Amelie’s strength we were able to destroy the first pillar and after Amadeus and his copy grab a hold of undead angus, me and pebble were able to destroy the remaining two pillars. However, this did not free angus and so thinking quickly me and izorr rush to remove the black thorn crown which we previously saw on angus’s head, we distort the arcane weave contortion giving me enough time to remove the thorn crown to which I later burned. We caught up with our newly returned angus and after began searching the top floor for the castle where we find a crystal the seems to teleport the castle, we are in every 24 hours and after some more conversation between Master Izorr and me we figure out that it was either purposely or accidentally the ritual to use the crystal was not fully correct. Illyria finds a secret room that holds a mage’s study that holds a journal, two stories, and two books about arcane theories and studies. We also figured out that the friend the quest giver meant was actually angus and that we saved our friend and finished our quest in one fell swoop, goodness my lord, how are you gracious and kind to us. In this event, I truly felt like we were a team, maybe it is just time or maybe it is truly some other thing that made us get closer, but I really felt like we were more fluid and like we were helping and covering each other, with better planning and communications. It brings a smile to my face as now I feel we have an opportunity to get closer together and that I could maybe rely on the party for later endeavors, and they could rely on me. I gave Amadeus the amulet of lust. Note to self, don’t prank daina, too anxious. Master izorr started studying the books around the crystal, and I read the journal, it seems that this was an experimental project, and its creator did not want it to continue but because of governmental pressure they were forced to. The apparatus seemed to work around the concept of wide area localized weave collection by attracting arcane molecules and storing within the crystal turning it into a momentary tuning fork, from the theories it seems to travel to all planes not only the material, and then the crystal would converge the archaic weave vibration of the desired area or plane and collapse onto the specified area creating the effects of a large-scale teleportation or planar teleportation spell and through the use of glyphs we would be able to choose the area to be collected from working as weavic anchors which basically means as with all teleportation spells is that we are either using the weavic transportation method which means that use the strands of the weave and correspond them with leylines existing within the material plane or we are using the stop-over transportation method which transports us into a momentary demi-plane created by the spell and then juts us out into the specified location or it could use both depending on how sophisticated this technology is. So, taking all that into account and the fact that this very experimental technology that could, if messed with, end with us having a fate worse than death, we decided to try and stabilize it, after much deliberation of course, and by we, I mean master izorr, angus, Amelie, pebble and I, we stayed behind and after what could have possibly been our final goodbyes we began preparing the arcane rituals to stabilize the crystal. It took blood, sweat, stone, tears, divine aid and a lot of arcane concentration in order to complete but we thankfully did it and we got our own castle izorr. We finish talking about what to do with the castle and our remaining time in jathan as we as daina being a changeling after which we have pebble wall the door and we head to jathan. No cat sighting.
25th of Mirtul 250 3E I head towards dieter’s house and pitched my store idea to him and he offered to host a party where I can pitch my idea to influential people in jathan, but I need to make the prototype. I am so excited I have to get to work. I have monster essence it could be used to make a strengthening potion.
26th of Mirtul 250 3E Working
27th of Mirtul 250 3E Working
28th of Mirtul 250 3E Experiment 1 fail
29th of Mirtul 250 3E Working
30th of Mirtul 250 3E Working
1st of Kythorn 250 3E Working
2nd of Kythorn 250 3E Experiment 53 success
3rd of Kythorn 250 3E I am almost there by there I would have it done and hopefully ready for showcasing. Wish me luck.
4th of Kythorn 250 3E Meeting is today I had some custom formal clothes made for pebble and we went to invite master gyaldeon to the party as a thanks for his help in the creation of what hopefully would be a steeping stone for me realizing my dream. He refused and seems to have also refused my invitation for an uprising, I don’t understand why but he does not want to help with my little game, I guess I will have to do it alone. I feel humiliated and extremely embarrassed maybe I was too excited and presumptuous to assume he would be happy with my invitation, but I can let that keep me down I have to be in high spirits for the meetings. So apparently the party needs me to help them fight some unclean, I sent pebble to the meeting, for that matriarch, I really don’t care I mean as I am listening to their conversation with the lady it is very obvious that her son is the monster but anyway now that I have time to think this potion do I know it will work? What happens if it doesn’t? oh great lord please be with me in that meeting.
5th of Kythorn 250 3E Hope, I can’t write to much now, but as I awoke a sentence crosses my mind, “Have hope and believe that I will bring it to you”. I have been bed ridden for most of the day unable to move without the assistance of pebble. It seems that the clerics of the lady cared not or did not believe my claim, I guess this persona had some uses after all however I was told it was time for me to grow and I believe so although I think their healing went overboard as parts of my body are gaining more energy than before. I gave the letter to my friends, Illyria cried, and master izorr blushed so that was nice to see that my writing skills were still good. As I was going to sleep for my mandated rest (can you believe this?!) Amadeus came to check on me apparently, he was uninformed of my incident, unfortunately we were not able to talk much but I was able to explain the situation to him. Before I sleep, I reflect on the past days, I have to make amends for many who I inconvenienced or hurt with my immature behavior, but I feel like I am climbing some mountain with this new development, but I am not at the bottom I am near the tip my first goal being beyond this mountain, but I don’t know what could let me get there.
6th of Kythorn 250 3E I am able to walk with the help of a walking stick, but that same energy is surging through me. I walked around jathan and was able to gather some of the people from my demonstration and proposed to them to hear an actual pitch, with no almost dying this time, they agreed thankfully and I was given what feels like a second wind, I went to see master gyaldeon and apologized for my behavior and I informed him that I will be continuing our quest on my own, he gave me a multi-language dictionary (Jackpot). I passed by thunderking manor however I was unable to meet the lady, but she will be in my prayers. As I was heading back I met angus and I took him to the quest giver who gave us the brooch of shielding which I wore and I also met back with Amadeus and we talked about what he did the night of my demonstration and MY BOY GOT DOWN AND DIRTY WITH A WATER GENASI HOTTIE, so I would say he was totally excused for no being there, also he agreed to join me and angus to see the cultivators so I dubbed us the Triple A. I gather at master dieter and make an actual pitch this time to some of the interested folk and they agree to it provided that I am able to give them a working model that is less detrimental and they also agreed on giving me a grant and some nice alchemist tools, things are starting to look up.
7th of Kythorn 250 3E We start heading to the castle to leave for paradise stand the road is uneventful and we are a mixture of excited and anxious, but still within that energy resides as it seems to seep to every cell in my body, to what end? I know not. I still feel at the precipice of the cliff, as if all I need is a simple gust of wind and the leap towards my goal can begin, but the gods are silent and so are the people so I must wait.
8th of Kythorn 250 3E Today I awoke my body mostly healed and hardier than last time however the energy seems to have suffused and took some of mine with it, I think that the healing energy made my body heal from the incident as if it was naturally tricking my body to give the results of what to it seemed to be a body conditioning workout. As we come close to the close that cliff stands before me as if an outside force can push me and the epiphany would hit, however my friends seem to not be this outside force, maybe in the desert I shall find my answer.
9th of Kythorn 250 3E I awake as I prepare the ground for master izorr’s spell, we cross our fingers and we feel ourselves shunted from space and time and brought back into a land of sands and sun, it seems like we made, and leaving master izorr behind, we head south to paradise stand. The sands and sun feel like home, strangely, it reminds me of my days in the school, but it feels even more like a place I belong as if I meant to be here. As we head south we find an oasis and as we climb up to the top of a hill we find a knight atop a horse, who reveals themselves as a guardian of the ruins of dalpha and unfortunately as we do not take their warnings to heart we are attacked and as we fight them, it is revealed that they are a quetzalcoatlus and we are able to defeat it, just barely, and we find some equipment in a chest I take a shield and fancy looking chain shirt, As I look upon the guardian’s body, I am hit with immense sadness as we killed this creature for no reason other than selfish reason, the second time this happened, I carry the body to the top of the circle where the chest is and ask the entity for forgiveness, as we get ready to continue our journey.
10th of Kythorn 250 3E We reach the city in the evening as we reach the gate, the guard asks us our business to which after informing him of our knowledge of Josiah he informs us to not cause trouble and then the guard proceeds to fall for Angus's charm and honeyed words and they arrange a date together, his name is Mohammad. We are shown the way to the garrison and met guard captain William (The same captain William from the inclusivity in the workplace in the seminar) and we are invited to dinner at the garrison everyone seems to have been having fun, but Illyria, unfortunately, has to leave to sular and we bid her farewell but not before we welcome the arrival of daphne and Josiah and man have they changed, daphne seems more attuned to the arcane now as she is basically glowing with elvish magic and Josiah gained one extra muscle, hopefully, he learned how to cast healing spells on other people now, anyway we have a nice reunion and Josiah suggests we go pub hopping, which does not actually happen as we go into one tavern named the bounty board. Everyone but me and Angus proceed to get drunk, Amadeus gets taken by a large orc woman for sex, Josiah tries to fight a champion and gets beat beyond recognition and daphne steals a lot, and Angus….goes on a date with the tavern owner and Mohammad but when things turn intimate he refuses (TRIPLE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA) and we end the night with me and Angus carrying everyone back to the palace, yup your boy is sleeping in a royal bedroom, everything looks so expensive here but very beautiful as well. As the others were doing their alcohol drinking I spent most of our “bar-hopping” outside the sands winds blowing my hair and what little warmth escaping the land before the night sky, it felt strange I envision the great dune seas before all of this was here how beautiful and harsh it was ripe for the growth of self, but alas I am not close to that cliff yet, that last push eludes maybe during this days I could find it.
11th of Kythorn 250 3E Today is the first day of the festival, I wake up early to thank the sultana and gaslight Josiah, and then I and Angus go shopping for some clothes and books to help us on our journey through the desert. Later during the day, we all meet back together and join the gauntlet and are pitted against a group called the saviors of the dunes or something similar and we choose the rooftop rush game to which in the evening we begin. It was a hard challenge but daphne makes it through and is crowned victorious, the opposing team chooses fishing frenzy as the next challenge, to be honest, I cannot care less if I win and lose, I just hope the people are having fun. However, again I must postpone my trek to the sands that call to me especially now that I am so close, but that is out of my control I now must get ready to carry my drunk friends back to the palace after they finish their victory celebrations. We started celebrating by attending many of the games there and we had fun played a couple spent some money and I was able to give some people the prizes I didn’t want, I think the others don’t get why I do it, it is simple it is my duty as a hero and as a prevention of those who have the potential of becoming me to be nipped at the bud. I went to meet yuhana, a member of the opposing team, and I wanted to get directions to the Ohasian tribe, but after explaining my dreams to him he seemed to be piqued by something else and told me to come meet with him after our match tomorrow. At the last game angus stole the ticket box then he and daphne took all tickets, which made me feel a bit uncomfortable, but I will try not to impose my beliefs on the people who are sacrificing their lives fighting beside me on such a minor matter, although I would say I am a bit disappointed. I helped my friends to the palace as they ended the night with hallucinating whiskey.
12th of Kythorn 250 3E We start the day with an argument that arose between the city folk and the nomad tribes about the stolen tickets, it turned sour quickly, but not after my friends made a betting ring around the winners of the conflict, it ended up with Josiah having to pay the people what they owed, I hope it could serve as a lesson in both economics and morals, but I am a bit apprehensive to think much change will occur within my friends, they seem like the type to remain static in their ways. As the fight heated, I noticed weapons drawn and I was able to step before it took a turn to the worse, for the first time in ever I felt the presence of the one behind the veil but unlike other times it did not disappear like a blink it remained as if he finally saw me. However, with it the call to the dunes increased to unbearable heights. In the evening, it came time for the fishing frenzy, and I will not go into detail, but we won by a landslide and after it seems that the roguish fellow, who I would later learn is called fifth, wanted to throw our next game in order to continue the gauntlet to its entirety, not a bad deal. I won a steak dinner and, with the help of daphne, invited our opponents to a steak date to ease of the tension and to make sure that, what I said in the heat of the moment did not hurt anyone, mainly though I wanted to talk to yuhana who asked me the previous day to see after today’s game, although he seems to have forgotten. However, the dinner went well, minus that fifth seemed bothered by me talking about family and I think he tried to instigate me or something. I was able to petition yuhana to give me his amulet of the great lion in hopes that it would quell the call to the dunes, it didn’t. After all that me and daphne returned to the palace and I am hoping, started our study group for the next game. I started asking daphne about the life of elves in jathan hoping to get more information about how prejudice against the elvish population affected her everyday life, I was unable to get much information partly because daphne seems to not give much importance to the elvish kind as a whole and more about her more immediate company, herself included, and it seems that our conversation has been looked upon as problematic by the guards and was advised to take it to more private areas. Unfortunately, that left any continuation of the conversation today dead in the water. We finish our day with a fun session about the basics of cooking and presentation as well as some example recipes which were pretty fun to memorize.
13th of Kythorn 250 3E We go to the cook-off and are presented with 10 minutes and 3 gold coins to buy ingredients after we chose the tentacle dish, we find Marcus, the same Marcus from jathan, and as we are getting meat from him, he requests some help capturing monster for him to experiment on as his previous subjects proved as failures, I agree in exchange for an apprenticeship. After we gather all the ingredients, we start work making what seems to be a decent meal and we present to the judges however I keep looking at what seems to be smoke, my gut tells me something is wrong, I am going to check out, maybe I should ask yuhana to help? We were attacked by what seemed to be ghouls but they were mutated in a way I have never seen before although they seem weaker from this mutation there is still beautiful change in them and the dragon ohhhh the dragon is a truly beautiful creature, whoever made this has my interest and attention for sure, they perfectly mixed the dragons cells with this insectoid’s cells almost down the middle, truly magnificent work, just remembering dissecting this thing makes me giddy as I write this Amadeus is taking his turn looking through the monster but I was able to get these eggs from the corpse, I might petition the sultana for research license within the sultanate, hopefully, that works, I might have to put an extra farce and make some sacrifices with my research but this is undeniably a once in a lifetime opportunity that I can’t pass up on. I have some theories on where these creatures might have come from, but for now, it seems this isn’t the end of this mutant scourge. We do a little ritual to mark us killing a dragon that made out medallion turn green, according to master izorr these kinds of things happen, and it is not something out of the usual a mechanism to help slayers fight the type of enemy they specialize in, and I trust him, so we start heading outside to follow Josiah. As we leave the coliseum it seems that the chaos has spread throughout the sultanate many were hurt and left out to fend for themselves, I did my duty as much as I could, as we reach the palace we see another dragon this one more similar to a crab and it seems to had that same perfect split in the cells and I took it to study it later, however some of the subject was destroyed with fire, a shame. As we reach the palace, we find Josiah fighting a guard and after some mediation and intervention from the royal messenger we are escorted into what seems to be a war room as we enter, I see the priests safe within their walls and I realize the disconnect, curse these inner walls and what they represent. As we enter this council, I go ahead myself and lash out on the sultana, thankfully she wasn’t too focused on me, we are told that we must enter the place where the mutants are believed to have come from, the first sultan’s treasury, and that is why they called us, as we leave I head towards Marcus’s stand, he wasn’t there, but through some hired help I was able to discover what seemed to be an obscured hatch that after some investigation and help from master izorr that this was an escape portal, which put some suspicion on Marcus but believing that he might not be specifically involved master izorr advised me to return to the palace. As we sat there thinking on when to best enter the treasury, we all agreed that we should wait a week till we go down there and as we were making sure of our plan, an emissary of my lord brought me a message that the culprit behind the mutated beings is down there and could be taken and saved, this revelation made the team choose to go into the treasury tomorrow. After a brief rundown of my relationship with my lord and a more thorough explanation about how I don’t really know anything about anything we agreed that tomorrow would be the best day to go down into the unknown. I tried to convince Josiah to focus on his healing and support capabilities, but he seemed to not listen at all and may have even been offended. I must talk to the sultana to see of something could be arranged … Master izorr pointed something out for me, he seems to think that we are some special people, but I don’t think similarly although I trust master izorr something feels off about what he said it seems to have really stuck to me maybe after tomorrow I could think about what he said more.
14th of Kythorn 250 3E As we start off our day, I wake up a bit early and head towards the meeting place it takes almost an hour of waiting and everyone gathers, after I check up that everyone have their equipment ready, we are taken to the dungeon and down a ladder, that is totally not up to code, we reach the TREASURY OF THE FIRST SULTAN. As we reach it, we find the TREASURY OF THE FIRST SULTAN to be a bit lackluster, time has truly left a mark everywhere in this place as we face off against the same ghouls from before we move further into the treasury and Josiah, through bravery or stupidity, finds an ice elemental that we fight and vanquish which leaves us with another part of the treasury to explore. We find a group of ghouls I as a response, I grab a stone casket nearby and throw it at them, the reason being is that I felt I could do it and if I failed it wouldn’t have caused much issue, but damn was it exhilarating when I actually did it, that was honestly fun. After which we headed towards a corridor and daphne scouted ahead where she found a lab and the confirmation to my suspicions, it was Marcus and he was working on something although before we were able to reach him, we were noticed, and he drank a potion that turned him into a hulking beast. At that moment, I realized it was my decoction, in less time than it took me to make it, Marcus has made an enhanced version of mine in every way, how can I amount to such genius and what other smarter people exist out there that might have both the effort and talent that I don’t have, but never am I given time to think as we immediately began escape, before I notice that Marcus is escaping through the portal I found the day before. Then, suddenly, Josiah dispels the portal, decapitating, what an absolute genius tactic, I mean I wish I could see it again, don’t get me wrong I used to hate the guy but after that wonderful play he at least deserves a retry from a neutral position. After we finish up the treasury and clear up the loot and head top side to rest and daphne gets a letter through dismembered hand, that izorr recognized as to have the symbol of an empress from the 2nd era that either is or is related to daphne’s mother? I have a secret I took everything that Marcus had as the party was talking to the guards and gathering some treasure, I took all his research and equipment, I don’t know what I’ll do with the equipment but the research I will destroy after they served their purpose.
15th of Kythorn 250 3E Rise and shine Mr. Revenant. Today begins beautifully everyone wakes up, late as usual, begrudgingly and they start training or reading, I for once begin this training week relaxing and by relaxing, I mean learning dwarvish, I also start helping in the city’s reconstruction efforts, good workout for the muscles and stamina. At the afternoon I went back to my room to check on pebble and write a letter to master Dietrich and the other investors of my project and sent them through the messengers HQ to be sent to jathan. At noon we finish work for the day, and I go back to the palace, and I make an appointment with the sultana to offer my project for the rest of the day I spend it checking on the party by order I go to daphne, izorr, Josiah, Amadeus, and finally angus. At night I finish up the first part of copying over Marcus’s research.
16th of Kythorn 250 3E Today after work, I am given my time with the sultana, I give her my report, with emphasis on the contribution of the other members, especially Josiah and daphne, I also give her my congratulation on her new situation with Josiah, I present my project and its needs after we which I am asked to leave, to give her time to think. As I am leaving, I meet the minister of education and ask him about any language tutors, he recommended some that lost their old clients to the attack, so they were free now, I quickly sent to hire those who were needed for the language I am studying. I spend the rest of the day checking in the party in the opposite order this time, to shake it up. I end the night copying Marcus’s research, as I am copying his knowledge, I ponder in what my lesson was through my interaction with him, but come out blank, I hope it isn’t another “friends good” lesson.
17th of Kythorn 250 3E I meet the royal blacksmith at work today they seem pretty nice although maybe a bit to enamored with smithing, I asked if they had any half-plate armor left not wanting to be left behind by my other party member, they promised me they would into it. I spent the rest of the day checking on the party switching izorr with Amadeus in the first day’s order. I finish copying Marcus’s research and burn them in deserts surrounding the city, and make sure that all that remains is ash.
18th of Kythorn 250 3E Not much happens today I am able to get in more study time before going to work and after work headed to the party to check on them. At night, I started studying Marcus’s research and getting a grasp on this equipment I got from him.
19th of Kythorn 250 3E Today has been more work than studying as we were close to some good progress, I have enjoyed my time with people focused on the same task, I even started teaching some commoners how to start using a shortsword. I go back to check on the party then head to my room working on Marcus’s research.
20th of Kythorn 250 3E Study, work, check on party, research.
21st of Kythorn 250 3E Study, work, check on party, research.
22nd of Kythorn 250 3E Study, work, check on party, research.
23rd of Kythorn 250 3E Study, work, check on party, research.
24th of Kythorn 250 3E Today when we finish work, I am given a new technique, for my growing connection with people I am allowed to bring the ray of hope in order to move forward in their journey towards their destiny and not just for the party but for everyone. Today after I check on the party I go to celebrate with my workmates and a job well done so far and I sleep pretty late.
25th of Kythorn 250 3E We head to moonrest.
26th of Kythorn 250 3E Travel
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29th of Kythorn 250 3E We travelled through moonrest as the undead watched daphne under the command of the mother after reaching the hold of the mother, many is revealed and daphne is one of 10 sisters and the one to inherit this mother’s special powers, she is forced after some pressure to kill one of mother’s dwarven slaves and then asked to kill Josiah where Josiah was able to kill her with a spell and her evil was vanquished. Master izorr discover that daphne’s origin is more artificial than she thought, anger wells up within her and we end up burning the shack and leave with daphne in the same situation I was in, maybe I could help her?
30th of Kythorn 250 3E We return to travelling back to paradise standing, nothing of import to note.
1st of Flamerule 250 3E Travelling back to paradise standing, nothing of import to note.
2nd of Flamerule 250 3E Travelling back to paradise standing, nothing of import to note.
3rd of Flamerule 250 3E We reach paradise stand.
4th of Flamerule 250 3E The manticore is gone, at least from what is known of them, I have lost everyone that I cared for and now what is left, what remains of me, am I a slayer? Could we rebuild? Should we rebuild?
5th of Flamerule 250 3E I had a funeral today for the fallen members, I don’t know how to feel a part of me still holds hope that such a part of me would just be gone, I don’t know what actually is happening over there, but I must go with the assumption that it is gone. I read the letters that were supposed to be sent in case of my death and they were the ones who ended up dying, I am alone here….why not? I saw Amadeus in the tavern I went to go to him, but I suddenly felt it the distance between us I have been ignoring it for a while but now I can’t it is obvious I no longer recognize the person in front of me, maybe I changed maybe he did maybe we both did, is it truly all gone?
22nd of Flamerule 250 3E Today I discovered something it seems that Marcus has been many a time to the silver Isles his goal was the same as mine there were more proof that I could have connected with him he could have been someone who understood me it also brings upon me the idea that I might have to kill my own teacher. In the writing it seems that's my Lord has been guiding me to a lesson be good friends I'm getting sick of this it seems like even he doesn't understand me and he's the one who chose me if not him then who could connect with me would actually be my friend, would I ever be able to take off this mask I thought with those new people that that may be maybe they could have the chance to allow me to take it off but no much more it seems that they don't even recognize my existence nobody seems to do that, I feel frustrated about that angry but I can't do anything about it I'm tired and I'm in pain and like always I'm alone, I would argue I'm the most alone than I ever was good night.
1st of Eleasis 250 3E I saw master izorr today, it seems that he wanted some hallucinogens from his ramblings it seems that he wanted to experience the same thing I experienced when I met my Lord, this is the first time I've talked to him and he talked back since my whole school was destroyed and he wants to recreate one of the most traumatic events in my life, why not? I'm not getting through to Daphne, It's like she doesn't hear me or I'm not not there most of the days and the other days she just locks me out of the room, I really can't connect with these people I try I try so much why won't they look at me.
7th of Eleasis 250 3E today was my birthday Bing my journal of course you know I went to Pebble today I've been doing that more recently he's made effigies of us I think I think I think I should send them back home to Illyria he'd be appreciated there here they forget him just like they do to me. The desert is calm I'm alone the sun is setting Pebble is playing in the sand I'm alone will my mask forever stick to my face I don't know.
30th of Eleasis 250 3E Josiah is forging something seems as if he's trying to make something out of those construct material that we gathered, I see his eyes they don't see me they are projecting an image that isn't me that is if he even acknowledges my existence most of the days I help him, maybe he's making something for me, that would be nice.
1st of Elient 250 3E Josiah has made something it's plate armor, and an axe for Amadeus, I must remember that he did make a sword for me, I'd like to think you did consider me, but honestly I'm seeing the threads between us, me and the party , the cut it's deep the line is almost gone, why not?
22nd of Elient 250 3E Daphne's finally out of her room, I sit there trying to make something and I barely did anything made a nothing potion, why not?
1st of Marpenoth 250 3E Do you remember the mountain, the Cliff I felt that I was near of that all I needed was a push to fly, what if I'm already at the bottom?
2nd of Marpenoth 250 3E What if I'm already at the bottom, what if I'm so accustomed to the darkness that I thought I was at the top, have I lead so many people to light and forgot myself down in the darkness will nobody lead me as I lead others will my time not come is there no way for me to climb out what if I cry out well I did cry out nobody heard maybe they just heard but didn't want to answer, why not?
3rd of Marpenoth 250 3E The armies are marching to war today, they went the wrong way now the country is in chaos at least the heads of it, do you want to help? Why should I help, I will help.
4th of Marpenoth 250 3E I went to the merchants and the army today well the guard to be specific they each gave me one unit let's hope this helps.
5th of Marpenoth 250 3E The church and the adventuring Guild barely heard me but they did give me some tokens of help, the party was able to hire some help from the underground world of this country.
6th of Marpenoth 250 3E I don't cavalry well master izorr ordered me to send cavalry to scout the oak parties Two days and they come back.
7th of Marpenoth 250 3E I'll finalize the talks with the region today I was able to convince her to do with the slum asked of us.
8th of Marpenoth 250 3E the cavalry returned with the news of different parties, different orcs of different clans they want to wait and talk.
9th of Marpenoth 250 3E I sit with the men today they seem ready I am ready I'm not sure what I want from this but I will continue moving forward it's not like I'll ever move to a goal I want.
10th of Marpenoth 250 3E The warband came, more like a refugee camp we head there for talks, wondering what will come out of it. We reach the camp and are greeted by the war chief we enter a discussion about guaranteeing the orcs safety within the city in exchange for their warriors, as we’re discussing the plan, Josiah grows emotional from information about one of his friends it causes an outburst from me, although I don’t regret the things said or the intention behind maybe they weren’t conveyed in a correct way. We learn that Marcus is the guy who made those mutated orcs, I hope he’s happy his legacy lives on, but unfortunately, I have to cut that short too. We finish negotiations and izorr proposes we take the civilians to the castle we agree, then a part split from horde of bloodskulls rushes towards the camp I am writing as I currently stand before the troops, I was able to gather, I hope I could live through this, I just remembered that I told Amadeus that my will was in this journal, what a funny lie who and what do I have to write will to, but he probably never thought of that. We rose victorious although we lost many an orc, we were able to rise victorious as we returned to the castle I stare at that field of bodies, these are monsters yes but what different are they from the orcs I am leading to the castle. We reach the castle and get everyone situated as I witness those totems of neglect pebble made, my stomach turns and I chose to retire early, I am tired.
11th of Marpenoth 250 3E I was able to gather some food from the others for about a week, we receive word that the sultana’s army has returned to paradise stand and has started to fight off the orcish horde, which seems to have split into cells to avoid eradication through the superior force. I was able to sneak in one of those mutated orc’s bodies and I started working on it.
12th of Marpenoth 250 3E This is all wrong organs, anatomy, everything doesn’t make sense, gods above Marcus what have you fell into this was supposed to be science, science not what this is, why did you fall into the temptation of that world if we just used magic then what was the point of all this effort, why did you choose to do this Marcus? We got word that the soldiers in some areas are experiencing that same area of effect curse that hakim’s men faced when they approached the main army, what is the source of that?
13th of Marpenoth 250 3E Master Izorr got word that some of the manticore is alive although I am not holding out hope, at least I’m not trying, I wonder what they will do now?
14th of Marpenoth 250 3E We teleport to silvestria, daphne chose to stay behind. The land is destroyed among the forest long lost embers of villages that held the lives of many a people the same people that haunt me to take their revenge now. I took some of my men to scout the area and we were ambushed; I didn’t pay enough attention…My men die under on my command. Some of the orcs helped those I was able to bring back. Maybe I could find orcs that could support my cause and I could help them become the dominant party. I did a little ritual for the fallen, why wasn’t I better or was this another reminder that I will never get what I want?
15th of Marpenoth 250 3E I was unable to get anybody yet.
16th of Marpenoth 250 3E We found a few but they didn’t produce anything useful.
17th of Marpenoth 250 3E NOTHING FUCKING NOTHING, NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM WANTS TO STOP MURDERING VILLAGERS, HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE? I apologized to the warchief, I finally understood something. I was thinking that maybe I could make a change, but I was mistaken. Thankfully I was able to catch this harmful belief and destroy it before it hurt my life.
18th of Marpenoth 250 3E We start to head towards woodsfall. As we journey, we are surrounded by fog and three copies of us appear, we are attacked, and we are able to vanquish the fakes and receive the treasure they are protecting among it was pride which we gave to Amadeus and later we head back to the road. It felt nice to defeat a fake to prove that none could truly replicate me, but again not even an ancient seal could truly understand me but that the way it is I must accept this.
19th of Marpenoth 250 3E We continue to travel.
20th of Marpenoth 250 3E We reach the city of woodsfall and it is ruined and everything was raized and when we were patrolling we met a group of survivors, I was tired and the party could have handled so I caused a scene and continued towards the whiteyard, our last hope seem to be cast against the rocks. I bury dead an old man he reminded me of the professor, and it gave me a bit of solace. We set up camp and get ready to rest.
21st of Marpenoth 250 3E We arise at dawn and the party heads back into the city as I go to get the useful information and meet a cursed wizard who was turned into a kobold, he is able to give a lot of useful information, for example about the three parties that seem to be active: The defiant, “revolutionaries”, headed by hate, a Tiefling female, who wields a “cat-anna”, stationed at the keep. Jackals, insane people that are stationed in the emerald glade, a forest east of the keep. Disgraced orc survivors, hopefully in undertow that seems to be a very dangerous place. Learned about a gnome bard named Seabow that seems to be a well of information, should probably seek them out. The cavalry was attacked most of them are dead, I’m get dangerously close to losing everything I value, I hope your alive Eadwin.

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Journal, Personal