Medicine, baths, global catastrophe

These are the terrors I have faced recently. Let's see here, where do I start. Well I've begun visiting the future version of London. It's actually a lot of fun. I was formerly visiting some place in the central Americas, but it was destroyed by an evil vampire creature named Alice. I'd made good friends there such as Carrie, and I wanted to find them again. Finally I ended up in London to find Carrie laying on the floor comatose.

A nice, or so I thought, man named Mobi, which I guess is short for Mobius. Anyhow he seemed friendly enough until Alice showed up. He didnt seem to perturbed by her presence so I was on guard. I think he tried to kill me with a mental attack but with my defenses up all it did was stun me and knock me down. They took away a coffin and left just as Carrie woke up and stepped into the path of a weak lightening bolt I fired after Alice and Mobi.

Then Micah, another friend from the home Alice destroyed, just popped up half dead after being chased around by demons Alice summoned, apparently as a distraction. Carrie looked after us both and made sure we would be ok, but Micah had lost a lot of blood so I let him drink from me a bit.

Carrie and her clan are really nice and I decided to help them fight Alice, so I'll be hanging around there when I get the chance. I did head back home recently though because mom was around and I needed to talk to her. She apparently got ahold of that terrible medicine she mentioned, but she gave it to Athena. I actually cried when she said that and I'll be avoiding my sister for a while.

I'm trying to be nice to her (mom, not Athena) cuz I realized I was a real brat growing up and maybe she felt lonely cuz I never wanted to just hug on her, so I wanna make up for that. It's good to just talk with her and get things out cuz even if she cant really do anything it feels like she's helping somehow. One of our main worries is Siona's well being since mom sort of adopted her.

She's intensely private and she wont ask for help, but I know something's really wrong with her. She wont let me get close enough to find out though. I asked mom to ask Siona to teach me and stuff, which should both be humiliating for me and a coup for Siona with someone who she likes, so maybe she'll go for that. I know if I could just get some time with her when we're not fighting she might talk to me or at least I'd find some clues.

Anyhow mom kept scaring me with talk of baths and medicine and I was all squirming, so it wasnt long before I just tired out and fell asleep in her lap.

A good day

I met Bret today and told him to give mom back her cloak I made for her, and that I was not pleased with him. I think he knew what that displeasure meant, becuase he totally caved. He promised to give mom back the cloak, then told me Siona was paying him to spy on me and he'd stop that, then he gave me a ring with a bunch of magics on it and spells and stuff. I'm wearing it now actually. We chatted for a while and I was all bouncy about actually being treated like Siona's real apprentice. Instead of being treated like an unwanted child I was being treated like a somewhat wanted child! With that thought I left Bret and went to bed.

I woke up to the feeling of my mother's presence. I wasn't actively sensing her, it's actually different than that. Some people I can sense their aura if I look around, but mom I just feel a little calmer and a bit more... good when she's near. I skittered down the stairs and found her baking cookies and after the usual hugs and all that stuff I had my breakfast and told her about my plans with Lolth.

Bad idea. She was so mad that not only did she make me swear not to do it and threaten to do it herself if I tried, but she carried me upstairs and held me in the tub and bathed me... Then when I crawled out and flopped to the ground cuz of my wet robes, she decided I hadnt gotten clean because of them, took off my clothes and gave me another bath. Then she threatened me with medicine and I threw a (in my opinion) VERY well deserved tantrum.

She stalked off into the woods and I eventually went after her thanks to the talk about going through with the plan in my place. We made up and I promised again not to do it and told her she wasnt (that) mean, though she is still talking about dosing me with medicine that her sister uses on her children. Frankly I'm scared...

We went back to the tower and I was pretty tired, so I settled down and just talked with her for a while. I was glad Siona didnt show as sleepy as I was, and eventually mom caught on. She offered to put me to bed and said I probably wouldnt like it if I fell asleep in her lap. It was true for some in our family (ATHENA) but for her, well, she's my mommy.

I told her as much and I ended up with my head on her shoulder dozing off. I guess maybe its my fault that she feels I don't like all that stuff, when I was younger I hated going to bed even more than now, and I hated holding still, and I know I took her for granted, but now I know better, so it's nice to just have moments like that sometimes, or as often as possible.

Dueling tantrums

So, I told Marquie about Alais coming back and what actually happened with her. She took it really well actually. So it's looking like Marquie's making her recovery from her troubles and that's good. I don't know what I'd have done if she'd gone after Ali or anyone else for that matter... Its occured to me that I taught her to cast, fight, use her draconic powers... It's not only my moral teachings that are failing, my martial teachings are being used for murder... I'm partly responsible for everyone Marquie hurts... I hope she never does it again...

Anyhow, I took care of that so now Ali can see Mar again, though I havn't gotten to tell her. Our last meeting Foxxy was around and we just played with Visus and messed around and had fun. It was good to do that again. I'm also proud to say that I think I gave Visus his first cookie, and even at such a young age he rather likes them.

Then today all hell broke loose. I'd been spying for Siona. And after I finished I went to talk with mom. She was in the forrest with a friend and we just did the usual talking and snuggling and she told me Athena is fighting demons somewhere. Then Siona appeared and started calling me "young Kuchi" thanks to the appretnice dealy... Oh man was I mad, but I still had a job to do. I told her about Auric Stormcloud, the new weapons master, and that Gia gave him his position personally... Wrong words.

She blew up and I had to literally hold her still. She was mad cuz she thought Gia was betraying Valkryn, who we both know is alive, though Gia and the rest of the world except Ali and my mom and Mar believe is dead. So she wanted Auric killed. I tried to stop her and we got in a huge fight. I was winning til she got me down and kneed me between the legs.

So I cried and cursed at her (thankfully mom didn't wash my mouth out with soap this time) and then I cast a spell to flash in her face and speared her to the ground with my shoulder and held her til she calmed down a bit. I wanted to cancel her casting ability but she counterspelled. So I hopped off her and I told her I was going to rescue Valkryn without her if she didn't take me to her tower so we could plot a rescue together.

Taking me to her tower was both as payment for my spying and for my letting her beat me up, but also a security thing. I don't want Lolth knowing my plan. I also said we would both tell Gia about Valkryn being alive. Siona agreed myraculously.... but on the condition that I call her "mistress"(snort laugh growl)"Siona"... I could have stabbed her, I could have screamed... I should have.

Instead I just nodded. Getting along with Siona and saving Valkryn and Gia is more important. Siona left shortly thereafter promising to come fetch me and then I kissed mom goodnight. On the brihgt side though she told me to look after Siona after the aforementioned left. See, I can be the good one sometimes!

Ali!

I finally found Alais. I was searching for her soul to ressurect her and I found her, oddly enough, on a whole different plane. It was just a trace, but it was in a cave that someone had been living in. I was sure that her killer was planes hopping to avoid me. I had an idea though, a modified recall spell like the kind sometimes put on enchanted weapons. I first cast a tracing spell on the little spit that had been used for cooking and then cast the spell to return it to its owner.

Once that was done I opened a portal to where the item was. I was tired by this time after so much planar travel but whoever had killed Alais couldnt be allowed to go free any longer. I ported to my destination and found... Alais.

After we tried to kill eachother for a bit and I threw a tantrum she told me that the one that was killed had been a clone, that Valkryn had taken her when she left the tower, which she apparently did because she thought *I* was a danger to her. I can't even explain how much that hurt, that her complete lack of faith in me, acting like I was some fool when I'd braved dragons and drow and dryders all over her pointy eared ass.... And that that caused so much misery.

Anyhow, I yelled at her for what her disappearance without any explanation had done to Mar, and then we made out a way we could keep in touch and I went and told Marquie. I couldnt tell her the whole thing, she's still very unstable. But I did tell her that Ali was going to be broguht back good as new, and she seemed to brighten. She also acknowledged that her killings had been wrong and that she was going to change that part of herself and stop going batshit insane any time someone died.

That made me feel a bit better considering that Siona's reaction when I bound Mar's powers was to demand that I fix it and just let her run off and kill whoever she pleased. Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only one who cares about human life anymore, everyone else is just concerned for their own little circle of friends, if that. It all seemed to be for nothing until Marquie told me I was doing the right thing and that made it all better. Mar has that effect on people...

After that it got rather lonely, hardly anyone I know is about. I've been working for Siona in that usual futile hope that she'll start being my friend again. Sometimes I wish it worked like that. I'm researching Navere's weapons master and such. It's hardly the work I'm meant for, but it's something at least, and the love of a friend is a worthy cause.