fight fight fight fiiiight... awwwwwwww captured!

After Valkryn whined to the queen about how dishonoring it was for me to back out of fighting Zodiac. So I reissued to the challenge and today was the day it was finally going to occur. I walked about calmly in the woods and met Tanith. We talked a bit and horsed around, we're still kind of in the middle of deciding who's tougher. I think sine she's a drow she dosnt like the idea of a boy being able to beat her in a poking contest or something.

We talked about Marquie and she teased me about how I was probably in love with her and wanted her for myself. That got her an extra pouncing. I headed off to a clearing where I felt Mar near. It was good to see her around because Zodiac had dared to try to lock her up before the fight yesterday. I forced him to release her then and so it was good to see he'd had the goood sense not to do it again.

The fight was incredibly long. I delivered enough punishment to kill a couple of men but Zodiac just wouldn't fall down. I caved in his ribs and punched him in the temple and delivered a good chop to his breastbone, but he just kept getting up. By that time my jaw was a little sore and I'd been punched in the stomach once, but I didnt want to have to kill the guy just to end the fight so I called a draw.

Marquie was mad and I went over to her while Zodiac wondered off to either take care of his wounds or collapse and die. Mar and I talked and eventually she brightened up when she realized that everything was done and things would be ok. We went to find Zodiac and the three of them went and got a bath while I stayed on shore, though I eventually ended up getting lured in by Mar.

We went and changed clothes after that and those three went to bed while I went back to Dragonshire to inspect a strange person I'd seen during the fight. Lucky me, she turned out to be a shadowmancer and captured me in short order. She was trying to force me to tell her about Star, Zodiac's little sister, but when I told her to fuck off she shoved a bar of soap in my mouth and then put me to sleep. I was chained up and I wanted to stick around and figure out what she was up to, so after a while I drifted off.

Too much

So... No, theres no way I can explain it. In the past few days I've seen my whole world crumble around me. People I thought I could trust completely either stabbed me literally or disappeared... I guess I'll start from the begining.

The shit with Mar just made me want to run away or kill Zodiac. I still want to kill him but not as badly. I was trying to get to Navere when I felt Marquie being attacked. It took a tenth level spell to get in quickly since I didnt have time to mash the wards.

I ended up cutting a good slash through the green dragon that was attacking her not to mention the doors and guards that Zodiac had around. Mar was really hurt and I helped heal her and then tried to get away again only to be stabbed by Ali's daggers. She tried to cripple me so I wouldn't be able to go to Navere. I managed to escape before she could finish what she was doing but I ended up going back and that time she nearly kept me around except that that moron Zodiac interfered and kept me angry enough to force my way free.

I decided to kill him then and there and the next dat I called a duel. I could feel Marquie slipping away from me and I had to take action to stop it, but everyone I looked to for support was just acting like a complete ass. Siona finally made me call it off and then stormed off. I was damned near to following her and just disappearing forever. I felt like just killing, a lot and no one would let me kill the one I wanted.

I saw Ali slipping away and no one cared enough to try to help, no one felt about her like I did. Siona was just so cold, and everyone was yelling at me... and I couldnt talk to Mar. I'd hardly ever felt so alone.

I tried to run away but Marquie caught me and we went back to Ali's room and talked and talked til finally things seemed to be ok again between all of us. Ali and me even agreed about what to do with Navere. As tired and hurt as I was I was soon fast asleep curled up with Mar and Ali.

Today I woke up to find they'd mummified me and I could barely moved. I heard them and hopped out of the room to bite them to death but Ali subdued me and eventually just tugged me into her lap and held me still til I settled down. After that she let me go and then went for a nap while Ali went to talk to Kumi.

After that I went to craft a ring to protect one from the effects of shadow magics and Shar's corrupt weave. Those efforts were interupted by some magical combat in teh village. I went to look and found Siona and Ang were about to fight. I tried to protect the area but Valkryn came around to distract me so I teased him with a potion Ali had tried to give me that is apparently his.

He wandered off and then Siona tried to use something like spellfire to kill Ang but it failed and just dissipated into a big cloud that looked really ominous. I'd been working with focus stones to hold the power for the ring and so I was able to use one of them to trap a lot of Siona's energy, and, as it turns out, some of her essence as well.

That might be helpful cuz right now she seems to wanna kill me. Maybe I can use a spell on it to calm her down...

Still trying to be nice

Today I finally reconciled with Mar. I guess the situation is a lot like when I was in love with R and Marquie had to put up with it. She reminded me of that and it helped put it in perspective. Ali actually loves the creep and until he hurts her I agreed to accept him and try to just pretend he dosnt exists without hurting him or being mean.

Marquie was really nice after that and then I left her with -cringe- him to talk to Siona and Athena. Siona was actually kinda pissed and we eventually got into a big fight. She took all her stuff and left the tower because I want to go beg Gia to let Ali be and stuff, and shes scared I'll like explode Gias head or something. I don't know whats with her but then I rarely do, do I?

I found Mara while I was wondering around and despite how Siona was acting I asked Mara to help her. Unfortuantely Mara was drunk and I was still tiny thanks to the fae and she thought I was a brownie or something and tried to kill me. Finally we got along though I never did get my snuggins from her and she wandered off before she could fix Siona.

I went and saw Ali and she was really mad at me for planning to go to Navere but I just feel I have to do it. I slipped away from her and made a preliminary reconaissance in Rivven Cheel before heading to bed since I hadnt been to the drow town in a time.

Settling

So let's see here what did I do today? Well I had to strap Siona down to the bed I'd put her to sleep in cuz she was going on about killing everyone and turning evil. I tried to feed her some breakfast but she ended up just spitting it over me and trying to kick me. After a while she tired herself out and fell asleep and I went outside to find that Mar and her douchebag boyfriend were around.

After threatening various horrible tortures against him I finally told Zodiac how it was going to be with Mar, and laid down the usual rules, then threatened him some more. It was good times! I let Mar go look after Siona so we could have our guy talk without bothering her and then the two of them went back to Zodiac's oil slicked love nest, but this time he at least asked. Mar's still mad at me for holding auditions for a replacement boyfriend but I think she'll get over it.

After that I went back to see to Siona and ended up lettin her go and cuddling with her, we even took a nap together and she claims when she woke up I was sucking not my thumb, but hers. I find it highly suspectable that she poked it in my mouth, but then it WAS awful slobbery...

Anyhow it was great to have all of Siona's attention for a while and talk to her and stuff and she seemed a lot happier too. She just kept getting better as we went to the hall and she met Braith. Braith isnt as evil now, she's just determined to have the queen do somethiong about me, whatever that means. Siona made me apologize and then Braith slipped outside and Valkryn came in.

I tried to convince Valkryn to let me speak to Gia but he was pretty elusive about it, though not as outright threatening and hostile as usual. Then Mythral, his rival for Siona, showed up and they started sizing eachother up while Siona watched in delight. She really enjoys attention as much as me and while that was going on a fae shrunk me so I spent some of the night in Siona's pocket.

When Mythral apparently won rights to her I had to scurry though, cuz he tried to stomp on me. I slipped out into the woods and there I found R. She was a bit mad at me but also amused at my condition and we talked for a bit. We're finally reconciled now and I went back to the church to sleep with her.

Destroy! Maim! Kill! Dismantle!

So today I found Marquie and that scum bag boyfriend of hers and he was just kissing all over her and stuff, so I nailed him with a ray of frost spell cast at my full power. I don't think it got the message across though. Unfortunately before I could fully get my point across, namely with my sword, Ali showed up and tugged me into her lap and covered my motuh.

Zodiac used the respite to kidnap Marquie to some oil slicked love nest of his. His death will be slow and painful when I get ahold of him. After a bit Ali calmed me down enough and I tired myself out enough that I fell asleep and I woke up in the tower later.

Athena was around, I dunno how she always manages to pop up when I wake up, but thats her thing now apparently. I told her to give me my wands back and she gave the two most useless ones back to me, so I started to craft another of the wands she stole. She didnt seem too mad and just went off to start reading my diary. I tried to snatch it back from her and we got in a fight. We eventually took it outside and she ended up dunking me in the stream and then washing my mouth out with soap and leaving me there.

Tanith found me shivering and coughing up soap suds and brought me back to the tower. There I managed to dry off and we just tickled eachother and played around til I felt something vaguely threatening and odd in the forrests. It turned out to be some kind of insane Paladin determined to kill everything on Faerun that wasn't a human or elf. Lucky she never knew I was part dragon!

She seemed interested in using my tower for something so I activated the wards to make the tower disappear from this plane and then started off for the main hall to see who was around. I found Siona in the library on the verge of a mental breakdown, which I can kind of understand.

Angelus must have been in a bad mood cuz he seems to have dredged up her worst fears and talked her into thinking they were real. When I came she was swearing everyone had abandoned her and that Myth didn't love her and so forth and so on, she was crying so I ended up holding her and trying to shoo Ang away.

I tried to tell Siona how much I loved her and needed her but it seemed to be a losing battle. The best I could do was calm her down enough that she just went to sleep.

After that I left her after making sure she wouldnt be able to get out of the room or hurt herself. I felt like I needed to do something besides be some kind of jailor for Mar and Siona so I went off and shadowed Braiths patrol to see if she might need any help. She didnt. There was a noise down an alley and I sighed when it turned out to only be some cats.

She heard and before long she'd yelled at me so loudly half the town must have woken up and then tried to pull me over her lap and smack my butt with her sword. It was all I could do to escape and flatten myself against a wall trying to fend her off with my staff. When she finally left in a huff promising to tell the queen and have me punished it was all I could do to slink back to the tower and fall asleep.

Diplomacy smells like ass

So, today I decided to try and be more concilliatory to people and try to get along better. Fat lot of good that did! Take it from me, the Chosen of Mystra: If you don't get along with someone cuz they're a jerk, they're not going to stop being a jerk if you try to be nice to them.

First off I sort of slept in today to try to settle things with Athena. I feigned being asleep after stuffing all sorts of wands under my blankets. The only problem was I ended up waiting for her for so long that I got bored and fell asleep. Next thing I knew she'd pounced on me and the wands all fell out. She took them all away (shes awful for stealing my toys) and then tickled me a bit.

Marmar came up to save me after a bit, or so I thought, but instead she just accepted Athena's offer to teach her this horrible bathing spell my mom invented. We fought for a bit longer and I ended up telling Mar and Athena about the situation with Ali, which got me scolded for interfering as usual, though Athena has agreed to participate in some of my plots.

After that I went up to the hall and found Braith. She and I never have gotten along. She's like some big burly armory general who likees the rules and I'm a thin scrawny roby mage who dosn't like rules at all. But I tried to be civilized. I asked if she wanted anything and even moved out of the throne which I'd been laying in. She wasn unimpressed.

Eventually she just started being mean talking about how much of a brat I am and the usual and threatening to spank my butt with her sword and have the maids put me in diapers and so on and so forth. I accepted her offer to put me in the dungeons since I needed practice with my escapism, but I've never really learned to escape a spanking so I passed on that bit. Ouch...

Eventually she tired of being mean to me cuz Delithri arrived, he's a really interesting elven mage and definately not as haughty as most of them seem to be at times, I kinda like him. We talked about security matters for a bit until I noticed a young half drow nearby. She looked like a wayward exile or perhaps an Elistraeean, and I think she was a half breed, but when she gave her name as Navere my ears perked up.

Turned out she was Elora, Gia's daughter and she was really nice. I think she was kinder to me than Valkryn, but then who wouldnt be, especially since he's her stepfather. I recall she was mentioned as being a mage so perhaps I'll have to exchange spells with her sometime.

Valkryn appeared after a bit to check on her and once more I tried my best to be nice, but he just continued to be his usual arrogant self "bla bla bla you know nothing" Even when Siona came around he was still being a jerk and she even glared at him for it. Siona and I are getting along better now aand IU think it's partly cuz shes trying to be good.

She told me she wants Amara Barimen to remove the curse she put on her so she can make some decisions, though I have no idea what that means. I told her Amara probably would since she's been taking such good care of Marquie, but then as soon as I thought she was being good she went and told me she'd kept Ivan locked in his room in Navere for a day or two and that he might be getting hungry! Gah! I hgave her some cookies to take to him so the poor guy would have some nourishment and then scurried off to the town.

I thought I'd felt an odd feeling coming from Mar and wanted to investigate but instead I just found Carey. She did the fire to my butt thing and so I tacked her into a trough of water. We talked for a bit after I helped her out and she threatened to sell me to Braith when she heard what was said, which really wouldnt be awful given my previosuly mentioned escape tactics. After that I laughed while Carey drug ten tons of soaking wet armor and cloth into the inn to get changed. I knew once she was dry she'd be able to chase me down so I beat a hasty retreat to my bed. I'd need a bit of rest to find out what was bugging Mar and start my mischief in Navere.

Oooow

So R got mad at me and kicked me out of the church. To pay her back I blocked our link and started ignoring ner and then went to bed. When I woke up it was to Athena pouncing me and torturing me by holding me still. Then while I whined and squirmed she gave me a bath and I threw stuff at her.

The torment didnt end there. Siona was around and she was really mean too saying I dumped her, and then Athena found out about me and R. They kinda took turns yelling at me til I ran away.

I tried to tell Siona that when I said we'd split up I was just trying to explain things to Mar but shes as insistent as ever that I'm evil and so on and so forth. Finally I got a chance for some revenge when I slipped off for a bit to get an item I'd made up and managed to snap it on Athena's wrist.

She flipped out about it and finally took it off after a lot of screaming and got soaked by the warm water it summoned over her. After that she pounced on me and started ttrying to cut off my ear. I screamed for help and Siona just walked away but Dante and Harmony did show up and try to help though it was mainly be throwing their weight around even after Athena calmed down.

I thanked Dante for trying to look out for me and then went and plotted with Ali. She has her own plans to protect her son but mine involved changelings and doubles and lots of spells. She said to keep it simple and I asked if that meant asking Gia to try to come to an agreement, but I don't think she'd go that far. Finally we both climbed into my bed and cuddled up to sleep.

Fixed right up

So I saw Mar in the hall in another of her trances and went to hold her and look after her and such. She was pretty deep but I think she was still comforted by my presence.

Until Siona came in. She seemed to have gone completely nuts. She started accusing me of being evil and saying that it was my fault she was burdened with Mar, and so many other horrible things that I would have slapped her if Mar hadn't been on my lap. To say Marquie was a burden...

All of a sudden Marquie woke up, she gave Siona a piece of her mind as well as telling me she didnt like my being around R. We went into the kitchen to talk and I told her about me and Siona breaking up, though I promised we'd sitll be her family. Siona apparently overheard and took offense that I'd called Myth her boyfriend but I wasnt worried since Siona wanted to be offended.

Anyhow Mar settled Siona then and then she made a great announcement: her latest trance was the last one, she'd mastered her past and put down her memories, come to terms iwth them so now she can live as she should be, my Marmar. We chased eachother around the hall and laughed a bit until she went to bed.

While I was at the tower I had the rangers send off a cart of gifts to Trossach's Crossing, Nic's new home since Kielder's fall. I hope her and her family enjoy them. once that was organized I went to see Siona again and eventually she calmed down and we talked. She dosnt want Myth thinking she likes him cuz it would give him power over her or something. I don't understand I guess cuz its a girl thing. She really seems a lot like some teenager now, right down to the moodswings and boy-crazyness. I hope she'll be ok but I did tell her never to treat Mar like that again.

After Siona left (thankfully on ok terms with me) a messanger came from Mes saying that the elders had returned. The elders are an evil group that turn shifters and other intelligent animals into familiars and sell them. They'd taken Kumi and Elaithias, the Netherese elf was around to help get her back, so the two of us went and stormed the elders dungeon.

Aside from a helmed horror we found little resistance and nothing alive until we reached a secret passageway and penetrated deep inside. I was nearly killed by a barrage of acid and poison, but managed to heal myself up a little bit, still I knew I couldn't go on. I gave El a magic item to help him and a few spells and then whined until I could get myself back to R's.

Owch...

I woke up today in the bed R had put me in and wandered about to get some food and then look for company. I found Adriana and we talked for a bit and walked around, which now that I look back was probably a bad idea since I followed her out of the church. She told me to go back before R got angry, but it was a bit too late for that.

I slipped back in apparently unnoticed and laid down for a nap in the bed R had first placed me in. I woke up alone once more and began to consider trying to escape from the chains only to find that they were now attached on a long chain to the ceiling. I was still able to move about but I couldnt leave the room anymore, and Soon R arrived to scold me for leaving.

And by scold I mean probably stab me, but instead Baeryne showed up. Shar herself could have walked in the room and I'd have been happier. R gave me over to Baeryne, and despite trying to fight her off she'd soon left two marks of blackened and scorched skin over my face and neck that she went out of her way to make sure wouldnt heal.

Adriana returned and R and her left me with Baeryne. She taunted me and used spells to make waves of sadness wash over me until I cried, as if I wasnt already ready to from the wounds she'd burned into me. I tried to hold the blankets of the bed over my face to hide the mark just so she couldnt get the satisfaction, but she soon drew me into conversation when she revealed that her father is Hades, which makes her a demi-goddess. I really pick the wrong people to make mad...

She kept taunting me and using spells until I was in tears and then R returned with Adriana to use me as practice. R even said that she might fix the mark, which seemed to bother Baeryne a lot. I couldnt help but grin at her and she stormed off.

Adriana bit me, but it felt more like burning fire traveling through all my veins than the pleasure I'd expected. I cried out and tried to escape but she held me too tightly and then finally it was over. I was whining miserably again and feeling even more betrayed by R.

Finally R decided I'd had enough and Adri gave me over to her, thankfully that was the end of my torment for the night as she no longer wanted to practice and wandered off to her room. R held me in her lap like she used to do before all the trouble between us, and she really did make me feel better.

She can bring a great deal of pain, but she can also take it away. I even forgot about the mark Baeryne had given me. After she calmed me down I just settled down with her and cuddled. After a bit she shifted me around and licked my cheek, her vampiric healing abilities helping the wounds a lot though not healing them completely. After that I just hugged her and clung to her while she fed from me and put me to sleep.

Capture, torture, the usual.

I met Kumi today during my travels through the forrest. She was curious about mage craft and I said I'd teach her a bit, but then it sturck me that she was a little TOO curious and acting rather off. It seemed someone had given her some liquer. She scarcely remembered what she'd said about Mar's mother and just kept getting more confused, so I excused myself.

I nearly appeared in Siona's lap, which I don't consider to be a bad prospect. She was in the hall and I'd been heading there to see who was about. Siona was awfully playful, partly because she'd just had relations with Myth a night or two ago as I suspected. She kept nipping at me and I kept squirming til we ended up just snuggling and enjoying eachother.

She asked if I could get her a room in the castle, though she knows she has rooms in the tower. Then it struck me that regardless of my approval having men come into my tower whom she meant to have sex with would just be weird, so I slipped a Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion spell into the back of her pants and snickered.

Marquie came in and Siona thankfully started behaving. Valkryn had apparently beaten me to telling Mar about how Siona thought she'd react to the return of her mom. Siona cursed at him, which always brings joy to my heart even if hes not around to hear it. Then we eventually settled down and just talked. It was so nice to be like a real family for once, if only for a while.

Siona went into the kitchens to get some cocoa and then R appeared. She was curiously nice but Marquie didnt even say hi to her. R scolded her and I told her to stop, then Siona popped back in threatening to eat R's child and all sorts of other drowy stuff and calling me weak for not doing the same. I was rather put off but kept quiet and eventually they both got along and Marquie went out for a walk.

I wanted to join her but Siona and her needed to talk so I went after R instead. I followed her to the church and sat down beside her bed and before I knew it she'd gotten a chain around my wrist that just wasnt popping off. She started poking at me with a knife insisting that I'd made Marquie sad. When she told me she'd seen Marquie crying because of me I didnt even struggle anymore, I figured I deserved it.

She shoved me out the door after she was done, telling me to make things right with Mar, a rather strange order fro mher. Maybe she really does care for Marquie, it's not so hard to believe. I made my way back to the tower and cleaned up a bit, countering the shadow magic she'd used to bring a chill to the wounds, though I didnt magically heal them since she'd said not to.

I found Mar when I'd finished cleaning up and mending my clothes and nearly cried again as I begged her forgiveness, but she promised her problems werent because of me, and suddenly I figured out what had happened. When I failed to tell R what was really wrong with Mar she must have thought it was my fault, thus the torture.

So I was happy again and talked to Mar until I put her to bed. There was a strange feeling I was being watched so I created a warding above Dragonshire to defeat any scrying and then went back to tell R. I found her daughter Adriana instead,and she looked like she'd just awoke and was rather scantily clad. I was trying not to look and remain polite and she rather seemed to enjoy it.

R arrived after a bit and I told her my story as she led me to another bedroom in the slowly rebuilding church. She snapped both my wrists into chains this time with an incredible speed... or perhaps she'd simply dazzled me first. She was going to punish me further regardless of whether I deserved it or not just to amuse her daughter.

I was having none of it and summoned Calysmere, but Adriana and I began arguing and while that happened R slipped in and bit my neck gently. As usual I dropped my sword and fell into her arms. Luckily she wasn't mad at my challenge and just put me to bed.

Woodle!

Everything seems to be going a lot better now. I spent most of the day getting this silly double disks spell to work for no good reason except to anger Valkryn, which now that I think about it is a great reason. After that I talked with R for a bit and she asked about Mar, I'm starting to think she actually cares about her or something.

After cookies and the usual chatter I went out and found Siona, and we actually got along, and agreed to sort of stay together just for Mar, and to remain friends. I was glad for that. Siona is finally back to her old self, I think. When I left her I went to find Mar, and she was doing better too. It's like Mystra just decided that everything wrong in my life could be fixed, and it's fortunate too cuz I was about to break.

And in other neat news Mar's mom showed up and Mar handled it really well. Kumi had prophesised that Mar's real mom would return and so we were kind of ready fori t, though Siona didn't take it well when I told her later. Mar seems to be doing great and is even getting a little more lucid. She even managed to tolerate Valkryn. He scurried off in his own drowy fashion after speaking to her a bit, but not before I got to show off my (somewhat unwieldy) double drift disk spell, the second magic I've worked from scratch in my life. It's not as good as clear mud, but still pretty neat! I'll have much to thank the Lady of Mysteries for in my prayers!

Renewal

Today was a long day. I found Siona first off and she was just like usual. Not only is she still defensive but she's pretty much admitted to... things with others. Honestly I could care less so long as Mar dosn't find out, we have to remain together for Marquie, she needs that stability now even if Siona can't be around.

What I do mind is that Siona keeps forcing me to handle Marquie on my own, as well as all the other problems around. I can't handle it anymore and after Siona walked off thyis time I went to get drunk. Short time that lasted, I had to go find Mar.

I found her in the woods and she is just a tiny bit better. We talked for a while and I used a mind link spell to try to focus her mind on me and not on her own memories and visions... She's very much feeling like she's back in Kielder, having visions of it and seeming confused and once more I'm largely powerless and without help. And best of all Kalendrose, some pompous ass, showed up.

Kalendrose is like Valkryn without drow, and every bit the asshole, though not as evil. He wanted a fight with Mar and I let him get it since Mar wanted to. In the mean time I went to talk to Mera as she'd just appeared. We spoke of old times and she seemed so cold and evasive, I couldn't figure out what to do and finally just left her to go help Marquie as the fight was going ill. I appeared as she was on her last legs and the coward battling her just ran.

After that I cleaned her up and put her to bed and went off to find Ali. I heard Siona calling to me asking me to talk to Valkryn for her, but I yelled at her and was ready to kill something with all that's happened. I'm already promised to kill Kalendrose and then she comes to me clearly having just been up to something, or at least I think so, and then asks to see, not me, but Valkryn.

Gah... I just walked away after punching a few things and yelling a lot and found Ali. She's at least acting half decent and we both had a laugh as Valkryn appeared and yelled at her for using a floating disk spell I made for her. He wandered off after the usual threats and sillyness and then Ali and I got around to plotting how to keep him and Gia from getting ahold of her little one. I've got a fine plan, but I doubt she'll like it...

Even less fun

I should go back to R.

That's the conclusion I've reached after today. I went and found R as night was falling and we just wandered around talking and she even gave me some cookies and introduced me to her daughter. She asked if she could feed from me. It was good to be wanted again.

However after that I sensed that Mar was in trouble and had to go to her, telling R I'd be back later. Mar was having one of her flashbacks and I did what I could. She semes to be trying to face it and I have no idea how to help her. Siona appeared and somehow managed to make things worse by saying something like Mar was weak, the same thing Logain used to call her when Siona sent her to live with him.

I realize now that of all that Siona's done that's one thing I can't forgive her for. Maybe the only thing... Anyhow we got Siona to bed and I tried to tell her that I needed help, that I was scared and couldnt do this on my own. She just turned it into some attack on her and ran off with some weird guy.

I love her but I really do need to stop. R's love didn't do me much better but I at least had someone to cuddle with and no silly illusions of family or... bah... whatever.

Blargh...

This has been one of the more trying days of my life. For one such as me to say that it no doubt conjures up images of torture and death, huge armies clashing, and magical duels beyond imagination. That is hardly the case.

The day started out when I found the woman I thought to be my ressurected mother in the forrest. I asked her about this and she seemed to be playing dumb. She claimed to be from castle Dracon in the year five hundred, under the reign of some queen named Amauril, I think.

When I went to leave she said I knew too much and she'd have to kill me. I politely requested to be burned at the stake and she decided to drown me instead, which would indeed have killed me had I not put up a fight. We battled for a bit before Mar came and distracted her. At that time she'd sunk me into a mire underground.

The mud wasn't water so I couldn't cast underwater breathing, but I thought fast and used an iron body spell since that relieved me of having to breathe anything. Once I'd had time to build up a meteor swarm I hopped out and fired at her but it bounded off her shields. However with two against her she got annoyed and ran off as I struggled to keep the meteor swarm from harming anything in the forrest, especially Mar.

We took a walk while I explained what had happened, and Mar was just generally being mean to me the whole time. She's gotten so distant and rude lately it's terrible to see her. She did finally apologize and explain that she's trying to push me away so she won't hurt me if she loses control. She's having a lot of problems now relating to the death of her parents.

She also said she was moving out of the tower. At that I was stunned and I went quiet while we went to try to find Ali, but she was grumpy from her pregnancy and just blew me off. With my two favoritest sisters being mean to me and Siona nowhere in sight as she has been since forever, I just slipped off to the tower and curled up and cried. Marquie leaving really got to me more then anything, as did the fact that theres nothing I can do to help her...

R-aarrgghhh

Yesterday I was just wondering around the village minding my own business and behaving myself when R started talking to me. I have to say I wasn't too surprised. After a while you get used to weird stuff like that. She eventually manifested and I begged her not to harm Marquie or bring further pain to Dragonshire. She myraculously agreed and I hugged her. I wish I could say it was only out of gratitutde, but somewhere deep down I still feel sorry for her and wish she could be different.

Marquie saw and got really angry but I talked her down after a while and then put her to bed. While I was walking through the woods afterwards and discovered a rather odd lady. She kept hiding herself from me and she resembled my mother in some odd way, but she woudlnt come close and seemed odd. When she left I just slunk off to sleep away my confusion.

Now today I was enchanting a cursed ring that would cause the wearer to be unable to lie until it was given to someone else who took it willingly. Athena appeared and I was thinking about using her as a lab rat. I told her it was a ring that would allow me to sap spells from the repetoires of any mage on Faerun gain a power like unto the gods. Naturally she asked to take it and hide it and after a while I gave it to her. She knew something was up though because I didnt make her resort to physical violence to get it from me.

So I ended up having to tell her the true purpose of the ring, and also told her about mother, which she was sure was impossible. We b oth agreed to keep a watch on that situation, and speaking of watches I noticed somnething going on in the village and we scurried down to check it out. Two women had been kidnapped and I used some of my old tracking skills to find the way to... R.

It had been two people that took them, not just R but an accomplice too, but both of their trails disappeared. I never knew that R had undreground dungeons but she apparently does and I tried for hours to break into them. Athena and I both exhausted ourselves moving earth around and I was nearly eaten by an acid jelly R left as a trap. Finally, drained of all my energy, I limped off to a thicket where I'd be safe and curled up to sleep.