Visiting Nirvana

Today I finally finished the quest to bring the gatekeeper's crystals to Waterdeep and was floated up and out of the plane with a modified starflight spell. It was definately nice to see Mystra again and she seemed very pleased with me. There's nothing better than an appreciative pat on the head from your goddess.

Anyhow she did more than that, naturally. She showed me the full uses of my powers as one of her chosen, and then I showed her the various spells I'd developed since we last met, though naturally she already knew them. It seemed like a very short time we were together before she sent me back to my home plane.

I found Marquie shortly thereafter and she said she'd nearly miscarried but had been healed somehow. She's got three kids in her thanks to that son of a bitch and she says she'd die if anything happened to them. Knowing Mar I know that's a physical and emotional possibility, and as much as it pains me to think of those two together I'd immediately send Zodiac to join her in the afterlife if she were to fall because of his idiocy! A seven hundred year old dragon forcing his desire for children on a mere girl! Gargh, the willpower it took not to simply tell her that she should have waited and not listened to the fool til her body was ready, til she was ready...

But no, I made nice. I'll have my chance at Zodiac one day when he screws up. The children are another story. I must admit I'm not entirely ambivalent to them, but considering their source and the shameful manner in which they were conceived I truly don't want much to do with them. They are after all his children more than Marquie's...

Perhaps I'm just being grumpy, my present circumstances might cause that. I've infiltrated a drow house in Menzoberanzan, the same one that sent people to spy on Navere and ended up hurting Xavier. I'd captured one of their nobles during the rescue and I convinced him to help me help him.

I found one of his sisters who seemed malleable enough and we're conspiring to make her Matron, with him becoming house sorcerer. I'll simply serve as an advisor of sorts out of notice... and perhaps open a few trade routes as well. The main goal however is to attain the safety of Navere without necessitating a war. So far one out of his three undesirable sisters has met a bad end.

The current house sorceress confronted him when he appeared but I used a trick to cast magic for him so that he was able to fend her off with a magical sword. Naturally she stole it, but by that time I'd put a great many explosive runes on it. Now there are only three more drow standing in the way of our conquest. Til then of course I'm stuck down in the slave pits while I keep up appearances. It's not so bad really as long as you avoid the ones with the whips.