Yay!

I saw my mom today and she combed my hair and did all the usual mom stuff. Then she said she was going to have to have another child just so I wouldnt be her littlest anymore and she could stop protecting me. I told her she was grounded and not allowed to and we had a playful little fight and I ended up teleporting us both into a pit of mud. She used her infernal cleaning spell on me and then I went back to my room at the inn after kissing her goodnight.

From there I watched a simulacrum spell I'd created head out to find Matron Navere. The duplicate finally caught up with her in sanctuary with a new weapons master. The funny thing is, they were making out. I decided at that point not to mention that Valkryn was still alive being tortured in the demon web pits. My duplicate gave her the weapons and told her where the former high priestess was, and she let him live! This new weapons master must have gotten her in a very good mood. I therefore asked her to give any positive reward she might have offered me to Xavier, and then my duplicate scurried off.

I spent the last part of the night writing to Xavier and asking to come back to her home.

Mission Complete

Today I met up with Marquie to finish up the last part of my tasks in Navere. I had Marquie pretend to be in labor and as the head priestess (my disguise) I took her into the temple of Lolth to help her. I got to the high priestess' rooms alright and was just getting ready to search for Valkryn's weapons wehn someone jumped out and attacked me.

It was one of the under priestesses and she seemed bent on murdering me, or rather who I was disguised as. Luckily Marquie caught up with me and after taking a dart in the shoulder and a kick or two we got her down. She cursed us and mentioned that she was doing this for Gia, at which point I revealed myself and told her I worked for Gia as well while Mar say on her to keep her from murdering us.

In the end we compromised. I gave her the priestess disguise and cast a spell to make her look like her rival, and she helped me find Valkryn's weaponry to take back to Gia. With that Mar and I left and Marquie went off to find some other adventure. I found Eclipse in my room waiting for me and we fought a little and just played around. Eclipse even let me hug her and climb up in her lap, so apparently she isnt quite as cold as Star.

We fell asleep after a while and I woke up to Marquie popping in to visit. Over the course of our talk Marquie revealed that she's killed people again thanks to Zodiac's death and I'm tiring of this game. Marquie and Siona's answer to all their problems seems to be slaughtering innocents and I'm going to put a stop to it. I bound Marquie's powers tonight so she can't do it again. Siona I'm not sure about, I havnt heard from her. She was supposed to help me during this mission.

Marquie seems so hurt, but also so dangerous. I know shes still my little sister but shes also a murderer many times over... I can't understand how those two sides can reconsile. I cried and got drunk when my mom was killed, I didn't go out and slaughter randomly... I just wish I could understand... Until then I'm going to do my best to keep her safe from herself and keep the world safe from her. I only hope in time she can find redemption.

Kirias and stuff

So I went to the future for a bit today and I decided it was about time I showed Kirias whose boss. Oh man did that ever not work. I was eating cookie dough in the living room, which she'd told me not to do, and I'd been planning to tell her off when I saw her. But instead she snuck down the stairs in her drowish way and surprised me.

After a while I admitted what I'd been doing and she made me throw away the cookie dough and forbid me from eating anything cookie related til Liv gets backm which I hope will be soon. Kirias told me if I didnt like her rules she'd leave me alone, which actually scared me. I hope Liv gets back soon regardless.

Kirias then threatened to use some kind of x ray thingy on my stomach to make sure I wasnt breaking my punishment. Shes a scary one. I muttered a bit and then she put me to bed, tucking me in entirely too tightly. Still, I have to say I'm glad she's here and I do like her.

Capturing the high priestess

I worked out a plan with Gia today and she brought me down to the dungeons. While she was sending for the treacherous priestess of Lolth I was preparing the ambush. When she arrived Jelia pulled the guards and I lay crumpled on the floor in a whimpering heap, as one might expect of a prisoner being tormented by Jelia.

She let down her guard and I sprung. The fight was heated regardless of my slight advantage, and I only won because I kept her from getting to her accursed whip by cutting off her belt. After knocking her out I chained her up and took her clothes for a disguise, also finding a letter that seemed to describe plans she had with Menzobaranzan's nobles.

I headed into the city with my disguise but there was an unexpected complication. I met Natas Navere, Gia's sister, and she saw through the disguise. I ended up having to reveal the entire thing to her and she was actually nice about it. I agreed to lead her to her sister, as she'd been away for a time and didnt quite know here way. So now I have a new quest and I psent the night curled up in a chair at her room in the inn and guarding her. Just in case.

Vhaeraun is a jerk...

I headed to Menzobaranzan today and had my man in house Dalharuk get me in touch with Vhaerauns priesthood. After a good many donations (six hundred gold pieces to various individuals) plus a lizard ride and a lot of being spun around and blindfolded, and finally pushed through a portal to the shadow plane.

I didnt get to talk to Vhaeraun directly but one of his minions, when I asked if Valkryn's soul was there, got pissed and hit me so hard I have a huge welt on my chest. It threw me clear out of the place, and along with what his clergy said to me on the way there, I tihkn I have my answer.

Now I just need to put it to use...

Freedom

Gia appeared outside my cell today asking me why she shouldnt kill me. I made my case about the traitor priestess and retrieving Valkryn's weapons, and in the end I simply told her I was too useful to kill. I think that swayed her more than anything.

She apparently liked that and let me go after yelling at me a bit. I have seven days to create some results for her. After that she'll apparently have me hunted and killed or something. No matter, I'm used to such stakes, it'll be fun I think. An adventure for Gia, its been a while since I had one of those.

I went to sanctuary afterwards til I could settle things with Xavier. I think I wanns live with her, even if it is in her dungeons. Mar found me almost immediately and she was crushed.... Zodiac died, or ran off. I knew that bastard was trouble from day one but her babies seem healthy and she'll be ok, I hope.

I held her and tried to ask Siona for help but shes still crazy cuz of Valkryn so I was on my own. I finally had to use a sleep spell to get her to bed... I dunno what to do though I might trade souls with her to let her use my draconic form. She can't, cuz her dipshit boyfriend knocked her up long before she should have been able to bear children as a dragon.

Fun in the underdark

So the rangers finally sent Mar wqith the confession of a Navere priestess that my friends gained that reveals a lot of the circumstances around Valkryn's death, namely that the priestesses had prior knowledge and that Lolth might have Valkryn alive in the demon web pits.

After that I tried to get the information out but ended up spending some time with Liv. She was really pissy and eventually she just left me with Kirias, who I previously thought to be the meanest babysitter ever. She kept to that stigma when she paralyzed me and wanted to cut off my hand and slice away at my body with her dagger, but I dispelled the toxin and fought her. I definately got the worst of it and aafter my spells failed to stop her in time she made me surrender, which somehow had a big effect on her.

I guess once she realized I'd given in to her and accepted her she decided I wasnt a threat anymore and began to just treat me with a lot more care, well, as long as I behaved. She even cleaned me up after the fight and then we talked a bit, and she pretty much said that as long as I was good and didnt try to act as though I was too old or powerful for her to handle me she'd be nice to me, which is fine by me. We went to sleep after I got a bath.

After that I found out Gia wanted me in Navere and was wanting to try me for involvement in Valkryn's killing. Luckily I had the confession but she wouldnt listen to what I had to say. I was drugged so I couldnt think or move much and soon was on the way to Navere. I think I saw Siona today, and I know Star and Eclipse are still looking after me, so I think I'll be alright. I'm also looking forward to being able to help Gia.

Ouch...

So, I'm exiled from Dragonshire now amd staying in Xavier's dungeons and with Liv whenever she summons me, after which point I go back to the very same time I left from. It's interesting. I've met lots of neat people, especially Star and Eclipse, who I spoke of recently, but also Alana, who is sweet enough to be a Douglas in spirit if not by birth to Xavier.

She told me some secrets when she came to my cell, she'd accidentally wondered down there, and she told me all this stuff and I told her about my problems, which are comparatively tiny of course, and then that was it. We really got close during that time after she snuck into my cell. She even wanted to spend the night there on the floor, but I picked her up and put her in my bed and took the floor for myself. She's so sweet and I think we met as children back in Kielder.

Mar's been really bad off which is another reason I didnt write. Everythings just falling apart, even today. Mar told me she was doing better and the next thing I knew Gia came to tell me I was to go on trial in Navere for stealing Valkryn's weapons. I would run but there's nowhere to go. I don't know what to do now...