Much to report

Ok, for one thing, Sydel blood bound me to her, so I'm sort of stuck with her now. On the bright side she's bound to me as well so she cant just up and kill me.

Navere fell recently. I'd heard tidings that it would so I showed up to raid their stores of anything that shouldnt fall into the hands of evil drow, and to protect Gia. She was stressed and I dare say scared, and more accessible than I'd ever known her to be. The night before the assault came I sat up with her and talked and it seemed to help.

Alais has been found, she's with one of my foes, but she is alright. I intend to tell Visus but for now I've told him to stay in my tower til the problems from Navere's fall stop.

The battle for Navere was massive. Even my magic couldnt effect the tide of it. It was all I could do to find and rescue a wounded Gia. I helped heal her and before I could tend to an arrow in my arm I found Siona still on the battlefield.

I took them both back to the tower and then went to feed from Sydel... She's so sweet and she's like my best friend now ever since Siona turned evil.

The next day Gia woke up and we talked. She's actually very nice to speak to and I'm glad I wasn't mistaken about her all the times I helped her house. After that I went to Siona... She'd ruined the room I let her stay in and told me to go away and die. I tried to kick her out of the tower, but she wouldnt leave. We got in a rather large fight and I would have killed her if not for my mother showing up. Finally I did scare Siona off only to find her later spreading lies about me to any who would listen. She seems to have gone mad, but that's no excuse for this.

Every time I've tried to help Siona or done something I thought she'd like she's spit on it, and I'm tired of her. If she loved me she wouldnt do this...

I went off with Sydel again and she was nice to me, she believed in me. It was so good to have a real friend on my side... We drank from eachother in the cave iwth the mermaids and the water felt good.

harmful healing, and some surprises

Today started out really well. I found Sydel in my tower, as she seems to like to hang around a lot. We talked and cuddled for a while and it was just so nice, I pretty much forgot that she was evil. Then she offered to heal me from all the owies I'd gotten so naturally I agreed. I was kinda surprised to learn she could heal at all.

Then I discovered there were strings attached. She'd put some of her essence into me which gave her an open door into my mind and vice versa. Unfortunately she had control of the connection. I saw horrors and suggestive images I dare not describe here. It was a long time before I managed to fight back.

She made a comment on one of the images I saw and I realized that the link was direct. So I turned it around and began to poke about in her memories. I discovered that during the night in my tower she'd taken some of my hair to use in some damned unholy spell, but the most interesting thing happened before she'd met me. She had been sent to kill a dark elf named Andrezon and she fell in love. He betrayed her and thats why she's become so cruel and emotionless. Maybe if I could get down to that without her reacting I could help her...

Anyhow she soon passed out from the strain of the mental link, fighting me and the healing. I wanted to lock her away where she couldn't hurt anyone but I felt that would be taking advantage of her. She hadnt done any harm to me physcially, so instead I took her up to bed and just curled up there with her.

She woke before I did and we had a few brief words before she left, she wasnt as friendly before, I suppose because she realized what a weak position she'd been in.

Later that same day my nephew, Visus arrived alone. I was wondering where Ali was and he soon told me that not only did he reach my tower alone, but he shadow ported there. I was really quite impressed. I tried to get him to stay never the less as he's still a bit young and I dont want to get in trouble with Ali, but he was adamant. I got him some cookies and we just sat and talked about spells. He really wanted to learn featherfall so he could jump off the top of the tower and float down.

It was great to see someone as excited about magic as I had often been. I fear that I'm losing that childish wonder and appreciation for my craft but it was good to see it in another. I havnt been so excited about a spell since clear mud. Anyhow he got tired soon and I took him up to Ali's room to sleep. He's a good kid, and definately growing up to be one hell of an adventurer. I can see all those days spent babysitting him paid off.

Sydel really is a bitch

So I went to meet SYdel and I waited... and waited. Then she dropped out of a tree on my shoulders and demanded that I carry her to some place in the mountains. I whined a bit but after a few hours I got us there. She made me undress and get into a pool of water that seemed fairly harmless. Too bad it wasnt. While I leaned on the side a mermaid grabbed me and dragged me under, taking away the last of my clothes as she did so.

The rest of the night was pure hell. Sydel forced me to drink from her time and time again, and chased me around the cave. After I'd taken enough of her blood into me I begged her to satisfy the desire the blood caused in me, losing all control of my body and mind only for her to deny me and leave just to twist the knife.

When I fianlly came back to myself I fled to my tower and began trying to cleanse myself with medicines and endless scrubbing. The one bright side as I saw it was that Valkryn would be freed. Sydel came by the tower and she brought Valkryn. He was indeed more like himself but his free will was dampened by the fact that she hadnt restored his whole memory so he still wanted her. He beat me up for a while and then Athena appeared and I just ran away... The whole thing hurt me terribly and I've lost my ability to cast for a time while my mind heals.

Sleeping with Sydel???

So I went to speak to my captive recently only to find Athena was up to something. We spoke for a time and my sister soon revealed that she had bargained a night with me, without my magics, for information about Valkryn. I'd have slain her had she not told me, but I don't think she'd do that to me.

She did bind my powers, and I whined a little, but she also healed my foot and told me she'd be watching after me and pull me out if I seemed in too much danger. Then I went in to face Sydel. For the next hours we battled back and forth. She seems to fight as though she were a snake, or a spider. She'll go for a swift attack, trap or disable her prey, and then simply play with it til she's ready to do what she wishes. Plus, she uses venom...

Somewhere late in the night she managed to pin me down and got my clothes off down to my chastity belt. She'd tried to make me drink her blood before but I'd refushed. This time she was more forceful. Her blood seems to be a potent poison that causes a rise in heat and, well... excitement of a kind I am not accustomed to. Having me pinned to a chair she was able to forcefeed me some of her blood as though it were a medicine. Yet another reason I hate medicine...

Anyhow the only thing I could think of to do was to allow myself to overheat and pass out. When I awoke I was completely naked on the bed before a fully clothed Sydel. I quickly covered up and then she claimed we'd made love. So, naturally, I went to strangle her. I was terrified that she might have taken advantage of me while I was unconsious and under the influence of her poisoned blood.

As is her wont, she seemed far less apt to do combat now that she had her fangs in me with me worrying over what she'd done to me. However, there was another reason that I soon discovered: She was terrified of being confined, perhaps for a lack of victims, I'm not sure.

She looked as though she were about to cry after a time, and it was all I could do to at least try to be firm with her and demand that she give over Valkryn. That didnt last long. I had to carry the poor thing out of the tower. After she'd forced me to drink her blood, possibly raped me, and fought with me for a whole night I cradled her in my arms nad set her down in the free air just so she wouldn't cry... What can I say, I hate to make people cry.

Of course I do that anyways.. Mom and Mar both nearly spanked me for letting the witch free, Marquie almost seemed to wish I'd killed her. Mom wasn't much more encouraging. After they both yelled at me I set out to find Sydel and bought a truth serum to force her to tell me what her true intentions were and whether she'd keep her word and help Valkryn.

I found Sydel in her new cave but I didnt know what to do. I couldnt just jump on her and force the serum down her throat. We talked for a bit and then, thankfully, she tried to attack me. Once more we wrestled around the cave until I finally managed to pin her and tie her up. Then I forced her to drink the truth serum and she started to die.

As I found out later her body is composed of lies, so truth serum kills her. I couldnt very well kill her so I extracted as much of the serum as I could and then dabbed at her with my own blood. Blood, when applied to her skin, heals her, so I went to my tower and quickly got all the component blood I'd taken and poured it into her cauldron. I dunked her in and it saved her.

The odd thing is that afterwards she lured me into the cauldron. She almost drowned me before starting to speak. She was telling me about how my morals didn't matter, how I shouldnt have saved her and was weak, and that no one cared if I was being good... Then she seemed to grow sad as she said that no one cared, and ran off. I didn't know what to make of it at first, but later I decided that perhaps it had been some part of her family, her father or mother, who hadn't cared about her. Evil people aren't born that way, after all. Maybe she could be helped, or if nothing else she could use a friend...

It was much later that we met again and Valkryn was there. I had to lower my blade so as to make sure he wouldnt want to fight me. I don't know how weak he is or what powers he still has, but hurting him would both be wrong and also get slots of people mad at me. Luckily Sydel didnt want to attack me, she wanted to set up a meeting to change custody of Valkryn in return for me spending another night with her...

Snatching Sydel

Wow, what a day! Last night me and Marmar came up with a plan to catch Sydel and today we put it onto practice. I cast a bunch of hidey spells on myself and hung out outside of Sydel's cave. Then Mar showed up and presented herself to trade her freedom for Valkryn's.

Ideally Sydel would have popped up to accept and I'd have hit her with a sleeping dart. Instead it went differently. Athena showed up and mouthed off. She thought this was a trap Sydel had set for us, and in pointing it out she made Sydel realize that we were trying to trap her. I cursed at Athena til she left but by then it was too late and Sydel was ready.

Mar had to go deep into the cave to get Sydel to come out and when she did she knew Athena was about, so she sent hounds after Athena. By this time I was in the cave so I had to cast spider climb and go to the top of the cavern to avoid them. Mar was in the back and I slipped down there.

Sydel must have sensed me because she summoned some kind of huge bull like thing with an axe, like a minotaur. I darted her as soon as I could and then we had a bunch of hell hounds and a minotaur to fight. Mar distracted hte minotaur in her dragon form while I fougbht off the hell hounds. I picked up Sydel's form hoping that controling its summoner would make it stop, but that failed.

The minotaur thing went after Mar so I thought fast and turned the ground under it to mud. It sunk a bit and then I turned it back to stone. Unfortunately it got mad and started brigning the cave down. I dragged Sydel along but I was wounded and weak and the cave was falling around me. Mar was already out and she told me to leave Sydel behind. Even if she is evil it was impossible for me to let her die when I had her life in my hands.

I threw Sydel out first, and then tried to follow. The cave dropped too fast and when I woke there was a searing pain where my leg used to be. Marquie dug me out and found my leg was utterly broken. On hte bright side though SYdel was ok, although I got yelled at for my choice.

I got Sydel into the secure room in my tower where I kept Siona and then Athena poppedu p to help heal us,though my leg didnt repair easily. Then Mar went to sleep and Athena and I went to interrogate Sydel. She was MEAN! I mean I try to be mean to my captors, but she was just too mean. I threatened to torture her and do improper sexual type things and she just laughed! Finally I got so exasperated I just went to bed.