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| 2023???? | 14th Eliasias 1388, morning | 14th: | |
| 2023???? | 19th Eleint 1388, morning | 19th:[21st Eleint is the first day of Autumn] [Higharvestide festival is day after 30 Eleint] [Natasha was due on 17 Eleint and is now 2 days overdue] [Tatiana's 1st birthday is in 3 days (Natasha & Kailib)] |
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| 20230624 | 14th Eliasias 1388, evening | 19th Eleint 1388, morning | 14th: Shaelyn and Jullian talk about life and death; [several weeks pass in uneventful peace] 18th Eleint: A young dragon who was recently assigned to the Hullack garrison had spread rumors about how the Tallmans are evil warlords and that they grow poison plants in their garden to make poisons, Roderic and wives discuss this in the evening; 19th: Roderic has the young Dragon summonned to his office and tries to talk reason to him, but the young man is impervious to reason, the young mean claims Alax's horse will soon kill Alax, Roderic lets the young man leave because he hasn't committed any specific crime yet, Roderic heads to Suzail to warn Alax about what the Dragon said, before Roderic gets there Alax is thrown by Steel while trying to mount him, Alax bumps his head but is not killed by the throw, Alax finds that a thin steel spike was carefully concealed in the leather of the saddle and caused a serious injury to Steel when Alax got in the saddle, Alax sends Yarl in to get Jullian, Jullian comes out and uses healing magic to restore Steel, Alax studies the saddle to see how the spike trap was concealed and realized whever did it needed a significant amount of time with his saddle, Roderic comes in and informs Alax of the young dragon, Alax is nearly hit by an arrow as soon as he leaves the barn, Alax sees the direction from which the arrow was fired and rushes in that direction, Alax gets to the archer without being hit again and engages in melee, Alax disarms and restrains the archer and starts to question him, Roderic catches up and verifies it's the same man he talked to earlier, Shaelyn arrives and witnesses the scene, the young man speaks a spell that causes the two arrows he had fire to free themselves and hit Roderic in the back, Alax ties the young man up and gags him so he can't speak or cast again, Jullian operates on Roderic to save him, Shaelyn uses a spell that Morgan taught her that lets Tauivae communicate with her and see and hear through her, Alax intends to have the young Dragon interrogated further. |
| 20230610 | 14th Eliasias 1388, morning | 14th Eliasias 1388, daytime | 14th: Shaelyn visits Alynna on her way to Astra's towers because she misses her grandmother, an emerald dragon lands outside of Alynna's house and Alynna goes out to talk to it, the dragon informs her that two green dragons want to feed on Elron's horses and intend to kill Edmund because he's been stopping them until now, the emerald dragon takes the form of a human women and Alynna invites her in for tea, before Alynna can spread warning one green dragon lands where Edmund is tranining several family children in archery, the green dragon demands that Edmund stay out of the way while they eat Elron's horses, Edmund refuses to let them, so the dragon snaps at him. Edmund and Cille both hit the dragon with one arrow, Cille hits one of its eyes, and the dragon flies off, Edmund knows the dragon will be enraged and will be back as soon as it gets it's friend so he has the children go to spread the word, bu the time the two green dragons return the entire town is ready and on alert so the dragons just fly over and away, after the excitement passes Shaelyn goes up to Astra's towers to resume her training, Astra puts Shaelyn to work. |
| 20230609 | 13th Eliasias 1388, afternoon | 13th Eliasias 1388, end of evening | 13th: Alax lets Daniel take a couple of pocketfuls of raw sapphire stones for his trouble, and Natasha picks out a nice one to have made into a necklace, then Edmund conceals and camouflages the cave entrance before they leave, the group heads back home and arrives in the evening, when Alax gets home he spends a bit of time with Steel and talks with some of his children before heading in to the rest of the family, Alax just rests and sleeps at bedtime; 14th: Alax, William, Cille and Cameal go horseback riding up to Jester's Green, Alax will spend much of the day meeting and informally inspecting the soldiers there, at lunch they have the same food as what's served to the soldiers, they spend a bit more time at Jester's Green in the afternoon then ride back home to Suzail to arrive by dinnertime, Alax and family enjoy the evening, then Alax and his wives entertain each other at bedtime. |
| 20230528 | 13th Eliasias 1388, afternoon | 13th Eliasias 1388, afternoon | 13th: Willis discovers a secret door in the sapphire chamber that leads to the vampire's sleeping chambers with coffins, Alax has the group destroy the coffins so vampires cannot use them again, the total treasure found in the cave was 1312gp and a +4 longsword with a pearl handle. |
| 20230527 | 13th Eliasias 1388, morning | 13th Eliasias 1388, afternoon | 13th: Willis joins the group tracking the vampires, in the afternoon the group discovers a cave that looks like a mine entrance, Natasha confirms that she senses vampires in there as well as a human, Alax leads them into the cave where they find and quickly slay four vampires and rescue one man who turns out to be Raymond's cousin Daniel, the group proceeds to the next chamber in the cave to discover a large deposit of sapphires, they discuss how technically the ssapphires belong to Alax since it's on his land. |
| 20230513 | 13th Eliasias 1388, morning | 13th Eliasias 1388, morning | 13th: A beholder servant of Queen Kirri, Malthair, arrives in Alax's house at breakfasttime looking for Daniella, Alax talks to him and learns that Queen Kirri learned of what happened to Daniella and asked Malthair to take Daniella to Durin to replace her broken sword, Alax realized that Malthair came to the wrong house and escorts him to Roderic's house, Roderic Alax and Malthair talk for a while then Roceric calls Daniella down, Daniella decides she likes Malthair and is willing to go with him, after their departure Alax returns home to prepare for his own mission, Durin already knows Malthair so isn't worried and is pleased to see Daniella, Durin offers Daniella the pick of his blades and she selects one but declines a dagger, Durin will sharpen the dagger she already has, while Daniella is gone Roderic talks about her with his wives and voices his concern about how she's dealing with (or isn't) what happened to her, meanwhile Alax, Edmund, Natasha, Jullian, Astra, Morgan, Alynna and Storm get their gear and assemble to begin their task, Edmund and Natasha take point and begin tracking where the vampires came from. |
| 20230506 | 12th Eliasias 1388, morning | 13th Eliasias 1388, morning | 12th: Alax Astra and Morgan go to visit Alynna and ask her to join the mission against the vampires, Alynna reminds them that the birthday party for Kirri's daughter Tauneara is today (Tauneara turns 17), they agree to postpone the mission to the day after, Alax Astra and Morgan then go to Edmund to ask him and Edmund agrees to participate, Astra and Morgan go home to prepare for the party, Alax goes home to prepare, Henric had closed the restaruant and taproom parts of the inn for the party and spent all day preparing for it, Alynna Elron and spouses meet Queen Kirri her hustband and Princess Tauneara and two elven guards as they arrive then esccort them to the inn, all of the other party guests arrive in short order (including a number of teenage elven maidens who are friends of Tauneara, who invite along a number of local Purple Dragons from the keep) and the party begins, there is music (some provided by Storm) food and dancing, a few Dragons get drunk, Alax keeps an eye on them to make sure they behave, Alax stops one Dragon from getting handsy with the birthday girl and sends him out, the drunk Dragon finds Shaelyn outside and grabs her ass, Shaelyn uses a new spell to non-lethally incapacitate him and that spell draws attention from everyone in the inn, Alax has the Dragon arrested and dragged off to a cell, Alax escorts Shaelyn back into the party, Aluara and Shaelyn put on a magic show to entertain the party and everyone is impressed, the party ends in the early evening and everyone goes home happy, during the night Alax wakes up to a nightmare that the Dragon he had arrested broke into his home and assaulted Shaelyn but he wakes up to a quiet house. |
| 20230505 | 11th Eliasias 1388, late evening | 12th Eliasias 1388, morning | 11th: Alax finds the guards who had taken the former commander away and, they are tending to runny eyes and noses and inform Alax the man threw some sort of dust in their faces and got away, Daniella tells Roderic that she wants a puppy just like Alax has Yarl, she also says she needs a new sword as the man Alax arrested and who raped her broke her sword, meanwhile Morgan is worried that there are more vampires where these came from and they'll rebuild and attack again, Morgan wants to put magic protextion around the entire town but Astra thinks it will be too difficult and require high magic, they decide that they'll need to deal with the vampires with their adventuring group; 12th: Roderic takes Daniella to Renee's place to get her a puppy and Renee gives Danialla one of Yarl's siblings from another litter, Astra and Morgan go to Alax to discuss assembling the group to track down the vampire lair and destroy it, they agree to gather Jullian, Natasha, Edmund, Alynna and Storm to handle it, Alax says they should talk to Alynna and Storm first. |
| 20230421 | 11th Eliasias 1388, late evening | 11th Eliasias 1388, late evening | 11th: Astra senses the entry of somone into the area around her towers, Astra warns her family and goes out to confront their visitor who turns out to be a vampire, seeing they are ready for him and he has no surprise the vampire runs off to seek easier prey, at nearly the same time a group of them enter Alynna and Elron's ranchstead and begin feeding off of Elron's horses, Sasha senses the proximity of the vampires, in Suzail Natasha is summonned to help with the vampires in Hullack, Natasha and Alax go to Hullack to help, they and the Dragons manage to kill off all the vampires with the loss of only 3 dragons, but several of Elron's horses lie dead, Alax informs Elron of the loss of his horses, Alax looks and sees several men on the keep wall drinking and not helping, Alax goes to see the commander of the keep about that and discovers the commander is drunk as well despite the fact that he's on duty, the commander claims he is royalty and is rude and insubordinate to Alax, he tries attacking Alax but is easily stopped due to his drunkenness, Alax has the commander arrested and taken away by guards, Alax goes to see the second in command of the keep, and officer named Mavlacar, and tells him he's now commander, Mavlacar promises to deal with the drunken Dragons on the wall that didn't help, Alax returns to his father's house in the keep and hears screaming, he and Roderic both go to the source to find the commander Alax just arrested and had taken away is raping Daniella, Alax immediately kills the man, Alax goes to find out how the man got away from his guards while Natasha stays with Daniella, |
| 20230414 | 11th Eliasias 1388, morning | 11th Eliasias 1388, evening | 11th: Aluara lost a tooth and shows it to Astra, the young son of one of the tower servants is rude to Aluara, Aluara sends her pet vraxa to torment the boy (they shock him non-lethally), a group of men come to the towers to auction them and the children inside off, the man claims to have an auctioneer's license from the Crown but Astra knows it's a forgery, Astra has her paladins arrest the group and take them to the keep, Storm sends a message to Astra that vampires are passing through tonight and to protect her family, Astra passes the word to her mates. |
| Microsessions from 20230319-27, then full session 20230407 | 11th Eliasias 1388, morning | 11th Eliasias 1388, morning | 11th: Astra and mates start cleaning up after the fight, Astra recognized the orcs aren't from the peaceful tribe the kingdom trades with, one of the paladins recongizes them as being from the northern end of the Thunder Peaks, Elron comes around to check on the twins and is proud they dealt with the orcs, he asks Astra to make him animal drugs he uses on his horses, Elron goes to Alax and mentions he wants to give Cille a male war horse that was just born from his mare White and his sire Steel, Alax agrees and takes Cille to Elron's stable in Hullack to meet her new horse, Cille and the horse take to each other right away, Cille names the horse Thunderstorm but calls him Storm for short. |
| Microsessions from 202230309-17, then full session 20230318 | 11th Eliasias 1388, morning | 11th Eliasias 1388, morning | 11th:At breakfast Elron and Naladar talk about horses (mention is made that Naladar's palomino is a riding horse and was bought for him by Elron) and Ivory tells Naladar she wants him to kill a dragon to use his hide for her wedding dress, Alynna reminds them that a wedding and children won't happen for many years yet, an orc comes to the front door to see Alynna and tells her that he wants a thousand gold pieces or Astra and Morgan will be put down, the orc claims to be from clan Gorrow (who call themselves masters of pain and have a reputation as rapists), Alynna refuses and sends him off, a short timer later many orcs attack the towers but the paladins there with help from Astra Morgan Trent and Jaleen kill them all, they find a total of 4000 gold pieces among the orc bodies which is more money than orcs usually have. |
| 20230308 | 10th Eliasias 1388, morning | 10th Eliasias 1388, late night | 9th: Elron returns home and thinks he smells an ogre, Naladar says he saw one in Alynna's garden and Puppy starts growling at the door, Puppy is let out and Alynna follows to see an ogre carrying a bag, Alynna shouts at the ogre and it runs into the forest, a naked human girl falls out of the bag, the girl turns out to be Frigga (Xander's daughter), Alynna tells Frigga to run for the house while she and Puppy deal with the ogre, Alynna kills the ogre with magic, Alynna heals Frigga and has her tell what happened then she uses magic to Summon Edmund, Edmund interrypts his dinner and comes right away, Alynna asks Edmund to track where the ogre came from and make sure there aren't more, Edmund starts tracking and quickly finds the dead bodies, eaten, of four more children that he recognizes as child of local Dragon troops, Erlon finds a lair of 7 ogres about 12 miles into the forest, Edmund watches them for a bit and see two leave the return with a small boy, Edmund goes in to save the boy despite the impossible odds but is aided by Puppy and a pack of other wolves, Edmumd frees the boy and tells him to run away, after the boy runs Edmund Puppy and the wolves finish off the ogres, Edmund is seriously hurt during the fight, Puppy leads him back to Alynna, Alynna heals Edmund up, Elron walks Edmund home. |
| 20230225 | 10th Eleasias 1389, afternoon | 10th Eleasias 1389, dinnertime | 9th: While Alax is preoccupied managing the fight against the anti-mages and lycanthropes from his headquarters in Suzail a band of werewolves assault various points in Suzail, but the local Purple Dragon troops supported by a few of our characters present handily deal with them, the main battle in Hillmarch ends with victory and the group there finds a bag with 1000 platinum coins the enemies were using to fund their operations and a few more of the dead magic crystals, Alynna takes care of destroying the dead magic crystals, Roderic and Elron leave the commanding constal in charge of Hillmarch and bring the group home, Puppy is very happy to see Alynna upon her return home, Elron goes to check on Alax, by the time Elron gets to Alax's headquarters Alax has received word that all the other fights against anti-mages and lycanthropes have ended in victory as well, Elron goes to check on his grandchildren in Alax's house, and Alax returns home to join him after receiving a last few reports, Elron returns to his own home for dinner. |
| 20220827 | 9th Eliasias 1388, morning | 10th Eleasias 1389, afternoon | 9th: A dragon comes up and reports that wereboars are attacking the town from the south, Roderic tells the garrison commander to bring as many man as he can without dropping guard in other directions then runs to the inn, Henric joins his brother, they find Henric's adult children holding the wereboars off, and they join the fight, Joanus is seriously wounded but Roderic and Henric turn the tide of the fight and they kill the wereboars with Tess killing the last one, Alynna is summonned for healing aid and arrives by teleport, she starts working on Joanus right away, the rest of Henric's sons are woulded but still alive and standing and one daughter is down, Elisa arrives to lend a healing hand as well, Jullian arrives a bit later since she had farther to come but she helps with healing as well, Elron Edmund Rhigaerd and El arrive to check on them (too late for the fight), Roderic Edmund and El leave to get the rest of the rangers of the forest coordinated for a hunt for any remaining wereboars, El informs them that they lycanthropes have been gathering outside of all of the border towns of Cormyr, and that crown forces are nearly ready to defend against them, they agree that Roderic and Edmund will form a reserve force to go after their main base when El finds it, they all go home to their families, meanwhile Alax returned to Purple Dragon headquarters as soon as he learned of the kingdom-wide threat to coordinate the defense of the kingdom; 10th: El sends Alax word just after breakfast that he found the lycanthrope and anti-mage main base near Hillmarch, the reserve strike force (a group of Purple Dragons and war wizards led by a constal and are joined by Roderic, Edmund, Elron, Alynna, Jullian) assemble and go to Hillmarch, the constal gives Roderic and Elron the impression of being a fool, Elron works with the war wizards to set off the enemy traps early before the Dragons stumble into them, the Dragons take on the regular lycanthropes while Roderic and group take on the special wereboars and anti-mages, after a short fight all of the enemy are defeated and killed. |
| 20220819-20 | 9th Eliasias 1388, morning | 9th Eliasias 1388, morning | 9th: Elron and Edmund talk to El and Rhigaerd in Suzail, meanwhile Izak and Jewel show up at Astra's towers just as Roderic is leaving after giving Astra the gems, they talk for a bit and Izak and Jewel give Astra some more silver shuriken and a paralytic poison that works best on lycanthropes, Jewel is wearing the robes of a priestess of Selune, meanwhile a group of friendly orc fur traders enter Hullack Town bringing a wounded Dragon patrol with them, the orcs tell the keep guards that lycanthropes had attacke both of them on the road, Henric comes out to hear was happened too, then invites the friendly orcs to his taproom after they're done with their business, Roderic Izak and Jewel arrive in town in time to see the orc party and the Dragons being taken care of so they go over and learn what happened as well, the keep commander says hey'll step up patrols to find the wereboars, Roderic tells the garrison commander to arm his mean with silver weapons and tell them to be extra careful. |
| 20220708 | 9th Eliasias 1388, morning | 9th Eliasias 1388, morning | 9th: Mystra appears while Alynna and Lyn are talking and informs them the gods have discussed what Lyn did, Mystra de-ages Lyn back to the age of 14 and directs that she should become a priestess, Mystra then leaves them, Alynna and Lyn go to see Jullian, Jullian is shocked at Lyn's sudden youthfulness and Alynna explains it to her, Alynna suggests Lyn give up her arcane spellbook if she's to become a priestess and Lyn fetches it for her, Alynna will take it to be kept safe in Astra's arcane library, meanwhile Elron and Edmund go to see El to bring him up to speed on what they learned of the wereboars while Roderic goes to give the dead-magic gems to Astra and Morgan to be destroyed. |
| 20220624 | 9th Eliasias 1388, morning | 9th Eliasias 1388, morning | 9th: Garric calls to Edmund that a wereboar is attacking Cille and a young boy, Edmund goes to help and drives the wereboar away, the boy introduces himself as Povick Tallrick from north of Neverwinter and says he's 10 years old and a good-aligned werewolf (a 'white wolf' trait given by Selune), more wereboars are heard approaching so Edmund leads the children to safety, Edmund takes them home then tells Adeara to gather up all the children and take them to his father's house in the keep, Edmund heads up the road to warn other residents of the wereboars until he gets to the temple of Mielikki where he asks to borrow some silver weapons (a dozen arrows, a log sword, and a dagger) then heads into the forest to hunt wereboar, Adeara tells Roderic about the wereboars then Roderic gears up to join the hunt while Adeara gets her family settled in, Roderic and Elron join Edmund on the hunt, they encounter three wereboars on the main road feeding on a Dragon soldier, the three of them easily dispatch the three wereboars, after a fair bit of time the three of them find the wereboar camp and four more wereboars, Edmund Roderic and Elron defeat the four wereboars and search the camp, they find a note from an antimage named Thalmus instructing the wereboars to eat dead-magic gems, Roderic cuts dark gems out of the four wereboar bodies, they return to the three they defeated before and Roderic gets the gems out of them as well, meanwhile Cille goes Suzail to tell Alax and Rhigaerd of the wereboars in the forest then returns straight home, Alynna visits Lyn (the elder version of Shaelyn who came back in time from the future) and learns she was testing a new spell to repair Alax's armor but only cleaned it, Alynna suggests she think more about that, Lyn goes to talk to Jullian and Sue about it to talk about the failed spell and they put together that it was Lyn's failed spell that actually healed Alax of his old injuries -- an arcane spell healing living beings thus crossing the line between arcane and divine, Lyn goes to see Alax to see the effect for herself and they talk about it, Lyn teleports to Alynna to tell of what she learned. |
| 20220612 | 8th Eliasias 1388, afternoon | 8th Eliasias 1388, dinnertime | 8th: Alynna and Storm discuss the events of the morning, and the generational cycle of hate Alynna had found, and Storm had agreed that perhaps the man Alynna had captured and interrogated should be just imprisoned rather than executed, Alax feels a couple of sharp pains then feels better than ha has for years with his chronic aches from wounds suddenly gone, Alax runs the rest of the way home to the surprise of his wives when he arrives, Sue and Jullian examine him to find his scars gone, Sue calls to Alynna and Alynna teleports in with Storm to do her own examination and finds a remnant aura of holy magic on Alax so theorizes a cleric of the family did this, Jullian guesses it might have been Tauivae since she's been keeping to herself lately, Alynna Sue Jullian and Alax talk a bit more, Alynna and Storm walk home, Alax and family go to the Stately Oak for dinner. |
| 20220611 | 8th Eliasias 1388, morning | 8th Eliasias 1388, afternoon | 8th: Alynna is in her temple yard observing Selgar playing with several cousins nearby, suddenly they are attacked by a hidden archer, Selgar defends his cousins and takes an arrow in the arm for one then manifests a bolt of magical energy against the attacker, a man falls out of a tree 10 feet from Alynna, Alynna springs into action to capture the man while he is down, Alynna sends the children to get a Dragon patrol, Dragons come to take the man away, Gantrin comes out to punish Selgar for what he did but Alynna intervenes to say he did nothing wrong, Gantrin is still disappinted in his son because he wanted Selgar to become a Dragon not a mage, Gantrin walks away in disgust, Alynna and Selgar talk and Alynna realizes Selgar has manifested as a warlock and offers to train him, more arrows suddenly appear among them and Alynna sees three more men in a group shooting at them, Alynna takes them out with a chain lightningI> spell then tends to more wounded children including Shaelyn, Alynna examines the three bodies and finds written orders to kill all mages in Hullack, one also has an order to poison the water wells and has an empty Flask, Alynna runs down the road to spread work of the poisoned wells but she's too late to save everyone as she sees several dead people along the road, Once the Dragon garrison and Roderic are informed Alynna helps cleaning the wells for a while then goes to Suzail to participate in the interrogation of the first man she captured, the man gives up his organization and informs on the dozen men hidden around the country, Alynna questions him about the magical item he had to let him see magic users and about his motivations, the man is filled with hatred because Elron had killed his father years ago, Alynna visits Rhigaerd and Tauivae to tell them what she learned and find out what they've learned, then Alynna goes to the Royal Court to verify what the prisoner told her about Elron killing his father and found it was true but that the father was involved in the death of Elron's first child with his first wife, Alynna returns to Hullack to find that the work of cleaning the water wills is almost completely done, so she returns to her temple and family |
| 20220605 | 8th Eliasias 1388, morning | 8th: RESCINDED: Alynna witnesses some boys bullying Selgar then Selgar manifesting magic to defend himself, the boys run away and Alynna asks Selgar about it and based on what he says concludes that he is going to be a warlock, Selgar is a bit rude to Alynna but Alynna explains a few things and offers to train him, Selgar agrees, Alynna tells him the training will start in the temple tomorrow. |
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| 20220409 | 8th Eliasias 1388, morning | 8th: Alax decides the circumstances of the thief's presence in his home makes no sense at all so he resolves to find out the true story, Cameal tells Alax that an old mage had brought the thief here and that she saw him go to an tavern that Alax and Rhigaerd are familiar with, Alax goes there and finds an old mage with a rough group of people and talks to the mage, the mage says he left the man at Alax's house because the man was a fool and expendable, the mage says he is Lord Belthacar and an immortal, and that the King and Queen should be dead in moments, Alax decides his priorities lie elsewhere and rush to the palace to warn them but finds that the palace guard have already defeated the attackers and Rhigaerd and Tauivae are safely in their room under guard, After ensuring their safety Alax gets a patrol of Dragons and a couple of war wizards to return to the tavern that Belthacar was at and finds the tavern clear of living people, Belthacar and his men are gone and have left behind the bodies of tavern regulars, the only clue Alax has left is the man at his house so Alax decides to talk to him again, meanwhile that morning a group of people show up at Astra and Morgan's towers and attack them with magic, the paladin guard force response immediately, Astra and Morgan help the paladins as soon as the fires in the tower are put out, the twins and the paladins manage to kill the attackers but it is tough because the attckers are powerful themselves, Trent tends to a wound in Morgan's side, Astra examines the bodies of the attackers and finds evidence that they are from a radical group from Kara-Tur that sees the twins as witches and want them dead, Astra finds that they also have special weapons used to kill Mystra and her blook kin, Astra carefully gathers those weapons then as soon as Morgan is healed up takes her to see Mother Mystra, Astra tells Mystra what happened and learns that Mystra already knows about the group, the group sees the blood of Mystra-kin as a way to gain immortality for themselves and the 'burn the witches' is just a cover story, Astra realizes they'll have to watch out for repeat visits from the group but that there is no more immediate threat so they remain to visit with Mystra for a while. | |
| 20220206 | 8th Eliasias 1388, morning | 8th Eliasias 1388, morning | 8th: Alax discusses the task of gathering the rare flowers a bit more, then goes to visit Ednumd, Edmund agrees to scout the Hermit Wood with him the next day, Alax goes to visit Morgan since he's in the area, Morgan tells him she and Astra are working on a permanent gate between the palace and Alynna's home to replace the portable unit they have been using, Alax returns to Elron's stable to find that Elron's been pampering Steel and Steel enjoyed it, Alax takes Steel home then finds his elder children fighting to keep a number of gems away from the toddlers who want to eat the gems, the kids tell Alax the gems came from a thief who stole them from the mines and that the thief was brought here to be held until his trial, the kids tell him the man is in the kitchen, Alax goes to talk to the man but finds him having sex with the cook Emy but it appears to be consensual so he leaves, Alax and Sue discuss the man and their cook. |
| 20220128 | 8th Eliasias 1388, morning | 8th Eliasias 1388, morning | 8th: Elron receives a letter from his sister Kirri (Queen of Myth Drannor) inviting the entire family to a birthday party for her daughter Tauneara who will be 17 in four days, Elron and Alynna discuss the event, Elron realizes the letter was sent a month ago and he's just getting it now, Elron suspects something is wrong so Alynna scrys on Kirri and finds her with a mage and warriors questioning a bound Baneite prisoner about raids into their country, Alynna gets Storm and goes to visit Kirri to check out the situation there, Kirri meets with them and tells them the Baneites are at war with Myth Drannor, Kirri asks for assistance from Cormyr and Alynna promises to relay the request, Alynna suggests holding the birthday party for Tauneara in Cormyr where it will be safer and Kirri agrees, meanwhile Alax brings Steel to Elron to repair a broken horseshoe, Elron suggests it might be time to put Steel out to pasture but Alax doesn't want to, Elron suggests he could make a potion of longevity for horses if he had some rare flowers, Elron mentions that the flower he needs (a large silver one called aquafere) is in Hermits Wood but guarded by goblins, Alax is surprised there are goblins in the wood. |
| 20211211 | 6th Eliasias 1388, morning | 7th Eliasias 1388, morning | 6th: Astra discusses lower undead with Shaelyn, Trent's white male vraxa grabs Arnunril and has his way with her and Arnunril didn't like it much, the rest of the day is uneventful, after dinner Alax Jullian Astra and Morgan chaperone William, Cille, Cameal, Gerric, and Shaelyn to the old cemetary outside the city, William takes the silver mace Rhigaerd gave them, William and group take on two skeletons and a ghoul, Jullian has to treat a cut on Cille and remove paralysis on Shaelyn before they continue, William and group kill five zombies in a small mausoleum next, they discover the mausoleum has a gold holy symbol of Selune on the back wall, Jullian and Cille pray to it, William leads the group to continue patrolling the graveyard until dawn but no other undead are seen; 7th:at dawn William reports to the cleric of Tyr what they did and the grateful cleric pays him, they return home to find the family and Edmund's family waiting for them, they have breakfast then William and group go to bed. |
| 20211204 | 5th Eliasias 1388, evening | 6th Eliasias 1388, morning | 5th: Astra and Trent talk about Karstiggian, Trent informs Astra of Alax's kids planning to go on an adventure and that she should be magical support, Astra says she'll discuss it with Alax tomorrow, they all go to a dinner that Alysan has prepared and it's good, meanwhile Alax takes the fmaily to the Stately Oak for dinner, Natasha sings for the family and is surprisingly good, Natasha says she's had a few lessons from Storm, Alax interrupts his dinner to guide a blind man home, by the time he gets back Storm has arrived to sing for the people in the restaraunt, when dinner is done Alax takes the family home, Natasha's water breaks as they get into bed, Jullian helps Natasha deliver a premature but healthy baby girl; 6th:Alax has a bath before breakfast and Sue and Ashrika join him, Carmen joins them a bit later, at breakfast Natasha asks Alax to name their daughter and Alax picks Irina, during breakfast Astra and Morgan arrive to visit Alax and family, Astra discusses the adventure in the graveyard with the children and they plan to do it that night, Astra and Morgan go see Irina then they return home with Shaelyn to begin the day's study, Alax goes to his normal duties in the Rpyal Court and find his men did an excellent job with the search of the Baneite temple the previous evening, Rhigaerd meets with Alax to give him a silver mace for the kids to use on their adventure, the grandparents come by Alax house during the day to see the newest member of the family, Astra has Shaelyn read up on the lesser undead she may face. |
| 20211120 | 5th Eliasias 1388, evening | 5th Eliasias 1388, evening | 5th: Alax leaves home again to follow up on the lead his new cook gave him, he takes a Purple Dragon patrol to the house and finds half a dozen men praying to Bane, the man leading the prayer (who happens to be the father of the bully-boy) yells out to kill the daughter, Alax enters the house and finds a man in the basement choking a girl, Alax manages to knock the man out before he kills the girl, the girl says she is the daughter of the new cook and that the priest was using her to force her mother to poison Alax and family, once the Dragon patrol has things well in hand Alax will take the girl home with him to return her to her mother, Alax asks the cook why she didn't ask for help and she fingers a dragon/houseguard as working for the priest, the guard tries to run but Alax catches him, Alax takes him to the Royal Court to formally dismiss him and charge him with crimes, Jullian promises the new cook that her daughter will be taken care of if she is arrested for what she did, meanwhile Astra hears a bookcase falling in the library followed by an unusual shriek from her vraxa, Astra runs to investigate and find that a large chunk of Arnunril's fur is pinned under the fallen bookshelf, Astra raises one end of the fallen shelf to find Karstiggian badly wounded underneath and she calls for Trent and Jaleen to help, Trent picks up the bookshelf and Jaleen tends to Karstiggian, Trent admits he unbalanced the shelf by removing all the books from the bottom and Arnunril must have made it fall due to that, Karstiggian's wing is badly broken so Alynna takes him to Alynna to heal, Alynna operates to fix the wing, it turns out when the bookshelf fell Karstiggian had pushed Arnunril out of the way and took the impact himself. |
| 20211113 | 5th Eliasias 1388, dinnertime | 5th Eliasias 1388, evening | 5th: Sue puts off dinner while Alax goes to the Dragons and authorizes a search of the temple of Tempus from which Alax's home was attacked, Alax leads a patrol to the temple and finds it abandoned, a search reveals a set of hidden stairs leading to an underground chamber that's a temple to Bane and an imprisoned very pregnant girl, the girl says she is Cara and was on her way to the Selunite temple about eight months ago when she was kidnapped and abused and that she is not yet 13 years old, Alax sends for Jullian and she comes as soon as word reaches her, Alax remains to continue searching the temple, on the way to the Selunite temple a man brushes by Jullian and Cara and Cara collapses, the man quickly gets away while Jullian tends to Cara and discovers she's been stabbed in the stomach (killing the unborn child), Cara dies while Jullian tends to her then Jullian collapses from exposure to a strong contact poison, Jullian's Chosen gift neutralizes the poison before harm is done, Jullian deals with Cara's body while Alax finishes his search then they arrive home nearly at the same time, the delayed dinner is served and Alax's Purple Dragon ring detects it's been poisoned before anyone eats, Alax summons the newly hired cook and begins questioning her, the cook tells that she is working for someone and where they may be found (the house across from the great cemetary). |
| 20211107 | 5th Eliasias 1388, end of afternoon | 5th Eliasias 1388, dinnertime | 5th: Alax goes over to the Dragon trainee practice field to find William practicing swordwork on magically animated skeletons, Alax talks with Roderic until William finishes and comes over, William informs Alax that Thaylin (a cleric of Tyr) has asked for William and his siblings to clear out some undead in an old graveyard, Roderic volunteers to chaperone William and his group once he hears rats may be present in the graveyard, Alax talks to William about what he did earlier and the day and gives him advice, Roderic returns home and Alax and William go home to have dinner with their family, Sue informs Alax that the Dragons would not search the temple of the bully-boy's father until Alax gave his approval. |
| 20211105 | 5th Eleasias 1388, morning | 5th Eleasias 1388, end of afternoon | 5th: William mercy-kills the unconscious bully boy after learning that the brain damage causing the boys misbehavior is irreparable, Roderic and Elron find out from a Dragon officer what the fight was all about -- that a priest made his junior priests attempt to kill William because William will get into the Dragons but the priest's son was expelled, Roderic stays with William for the rest of they day, Elron Alynna and Storm talk to Jullian a bit before going home, Jullian has the house staff clean up as much of the mess as possible before Alax gets home, in contrast Alax has an enjoyable and peaceful ride then arrives in Hullack at the end of the day, Alax returns to Suzail through the portal, Cille meets him and tells him everything that happened. |
| 20211031 | 4th Eleasias 1388, morning | 4th Eleasias 1388, morning | 4th: Jullian continues her conversation with Natasha, Natasha and Carmen oversee the children's training while Jullian Sue and Ashrika sit together and talk for the day; 5th: A boy a few years older than William and much bigger challenges William to prove William is unworthy to become a Dragon, Jullian and wives discuss it, Cille objects strongly and says the boy should be killed but won't say exactly why, William admits the boy had already killed him once and the boy's father recurrected them on the condition that William and Cille wouldn't tell anyone, Jullian questions Cille and William until she gets the full story and learns the boy's father is a cleric of Tempus masquerading as a cleric of Tyr, Jullian tells William he can disregard the challenge without dishonor, Jullian goes for a walk around town with William, when they return to the house they find it under attack by follwers of Talos and the front door open, Jullian and William fight through the battle between guards and Dragons on one side and followers of Talos on the other side to get in the house and find the bully boy had got in to injure Emy Natasha and Sue, an enraged Cille is in the process of beating the boy to death, Shaelyn had used the portal to go for help from the family elders, Jullian helps the injured, Alynna and Sasha arrive to lend a hand, Alynna starts clearing the interior of the house, Roderic Elron Storm and Edmund arrive and go out to help finish the fight outside, Alynna finds two men robbing jewelry boxes and deals with them but otherwise finds the rest of the family safe, when examining the unconscious bully boy Jullian finds evidence of years of abuse about the head indicating brain damage that can no longer be fixed. |
| 20211029 | 3rd Eliasias 1388, dinner | 4th Eleasias 1388, morning | 3rd: After dinner Alax and Cille are entertained by dwarven storytellers before going to their rooms for the night; 4th:B> Alax finds Cille to be gone, with a note in her room saying 'Thanks for the present', Alax searches for any trace of who might have taken his daughter and finds a flier inviting adventurers to Undermountain, Alax immediately suspects a Waterdhavian is responsible for kidnapping his daughter, Alax tells Durin of this and Durin is shocked and angered, Durin summons the night guards for an explanation and the guards are brought to him drunk, Durin has the night guards thrown into a cell and helps Alax searc further but they find no other trace, Alax calls to Alynna for help, Alynna scrys and finds Cille sleeping in a room and watched by Halaster Blackcloak, Alynna has Jenni take over breakfast and teleports to her grandfather Khelben to ask his advice, Khelben informs her that Halaster had announced he would soon wed and is presently in his mansion at the edge of Waterdeep, Alynna learns that Halaster actually intends Cille to wed his grandson to bring vampire hunters into the family, Alynna tells him that Cille will not be wed until she is of age, is willing, and has the consent of her parent, Alynna then advises him to not test her power, Halaster reluctantly backs down, Alynna takes Cille home and advises her to stay close to home just in case, Alynna teleports to Alax and Durin to fill them in, Alynna returns home and tells her spouses what happened over breakfast, Alax sets out for home with Steel and Yarl, an old man shows up at the Tallman House and tries to talk Natasha into working for him but gets thrown out when he indecently exposes himself. |
| 20210625 | 3rd Eliasias 1388, lunchtime | 3rd Eliasias 1388, dinner | 3rd: A purple dragon (a real dragon, not a soldier) named Razaria lands to thank Durin for the repairs his clansmen made to her home higher up on the mountain, and also says that a young ranger and Durin's workers need clerical aid because of injuries sustained while trying (but not fully succeeding) to stop thieves from robbing her lair, Durin promises to send his cleric Torvan up to help but realizes that the paths from Thunderholme up to Razaria's lair are few and narrow so they won't be able to avoid encountering the thieves on their way down, Durin and Alax agree to set an ambush here for the thieves, soon a large group of men carrying heavy bags come down the trail and the ambush is successfully carried out, the thieves are killed and Razaria's stolen coin is recovered, Torvan takes care of the few wounded dwarves then leads a small party up the trail to the lair to tend to the injudred workers there, Durin hosts a belated lunch for Alax and Cille, Durin tells Alax more about Razaria, after lunch Durin measures Cille for the new suit of armor then teaches Grendorff about how to make the fire for a thundersteel forge, Alax relaizes it's too late to start back home so he and Cille stay for dinner and the night. |
| 20200626 | 2nd Eliasias 1388, evening | 3rd Eleasias 1388, lunchtime | 2nd: The half-orc camps with Alax and Cille that night and they maintain a watch to keep an eye on his prisoner wife; 3rd: Alax and group break camp and continue on towards Thunderholme, the trip is uneventful other than encountering a patrol of Purple Dragons headed away from Thunderholme, Alax hands their prisoner off to them and informs them what she did, they quickly find Durin and talk with him, the half-orc's name is revealed to be Grendorff and he's in business to sell steel to Durin, Durin invites them all to have lunch with him. |
| 20200613 | 2nd Eliasias 1388, lunchtime | 2nd Eliasias 1388, evening | 2nd: After lunch Alax and Cille continue on without incident, they turn off of the East Way on the road south to Thunderholme and set up camp and fix dinner, about when dinner's done a wounded half-orc stumbles into camp asking for help because his family was taken by a troll, the half-orc is a local miner that used to be a Dragon until being kicked out by a human office for not being human, Alax agrees to help, the half-orc leads him and Cille back to his shack, Alax bandages the orcs wounds then tracks his family, after a half hour Alax and Cille find a woman and the robber, the woman does not seem in distress -- she is playing with the stolen money while the robber watches, Alax looks around a bit more without revealing himself and finds a troll in a cage eating a young boy's arm, bones are all that remain of the rest of the boy, Cille handles the robber easily by throwing a dagger and hitting him between the eyes, the woman admits her guilt under questioning, Alax restrains her when she tries to go free the troll then Alax kills the trill while still in its cage, Alax searches the body of the dead robber/mage and finds a vial of poison and a note from a dwarf in Thunderholme to use it to kill the queen, Alax takes the woman back to the half-orc and tells him the truth of what she did, the half-orc decides to take his wife to Lord Durin who administers justice in the area, Alax agrees to accompany him there since he was headed there anyway. |
| 202000418 | 1st Eleasias 1388, daytime | 2nd Eliasias 1388, lunchtime | 1st: Alax catches up on work at his office during the afternoon, after dinner Storm and Ivory come to entertain Alax and family, after they are done and return home Alax takes his wives to bed; 2nd:After breakfast, Alax and Cille head through the portal to Hullack Town then up the road to Thunderholme, Alax works on training Cille, Yarl catches them rabbits for lunch, |
| 20200103 | 1st Eleasias 1388, daytime | 1st Eleasias 1388, daytime | 26th: Jullian and Carmen discuss having Alax take Cille to see Durin to have some armor made to keep Cille busy until the other children's vampirism can be cured, after Jullian and Carmen return home Sasha tells Alynna she had a vision about Jullian when she touched Jullian's hand in which Jullian died in childbirth, Alynna knows that Jullian is taking the contraceptive herb so it shouldn't be an issue, once they return home Jullian fully examines William and Cameal to verify their status, a while later Alax and companions return and the other children quickly get attached to Thane, Alax agrees to take Cille to Thunderholme tomorrow, Cameal is rapidly turning and in the evening tries to bite Shaelyn, Shaelyn kicks her sasses Jullian then runs off, Jullian takes Cameal to Alynna to be placed in temporal stasis before she can fully change, Sasha tells them that she changed the recipe for the potion a bit so one potion will be ready tomorrow, Jullian returns home, Alynna and Sasha discuss Alynna's next visit to Damian on Menaria and Sasha's accompanying her, Naladar requests having the Mystran ceremony of the Blessing of Magic done for him and Ivory. |
| 20191221 | Shieldmeet 1388, late evening | 1st Eleasias 1388, daytime | Shieldmeet: after returning home at the end of the evening Alax takes Yarl for the last walk of the day and Natasha accompanies them, Natasha expresses a desire to get her own dog, Alax agrees to take her to visit Renee tomorrow to get a pup; 1st Eleasias:, some of Alax's children are pale when they come to breakfast, Cille says they were bitten by a vampire during the night and need to be killed, Alax and wives forbid her from killing any of them, Jullian examines them and find that William and Cameal are infected and that Shaelyn was bitten but her divine blood protected her, after breakfast Jullian goes to Alynna to get the cure for vampirism while Alax takes Natasha and Cille to visit Renee, Renee tells him that a Constal Belrooks and his men have been giving her trouble over breeding half-wolves and have threatened to kill them and put her in jail, Natasha picks a happy friendly playful puppy out and names him Thane, Yarl wants a mate but Renee has none he can mate with, Alax and companions leave Renee's house and go to Constal Belrooks' garrison, Alax stops some dragons from whipping a ranger who tried to protect a wilf at Belrooks' orders, Alax orders the ranger freed an his injury tended to, Belrooks explains that his wife and child were killed by a wolf and he promosed to kill all the wolves, Alax sympathizes but orders him to not kill wolves that aren't directly threatening anyone, Belrooks swears to obey, Alax and companions head home, meanwhile Jullian and Carmen visit Alynna to get the cure for vampirism, Sasha tells her it will take two days to prepare. |
| 20191130 | 28 Flamerule 1388, evening | Shieldmeet 1388 | 26th: That evening after dinner Alynna tells her spouses about the day's events involving the Skatterhawks, Elron Storm and Alynna spend the evening pleasuring each other, Sasha comes in not feeling well and Alynna examines her to find a female fungus infection, Sasha has a potion to take care of that, meanwhile Alax's older children are late for dinner because they are out heloing some elderly people get around; 30th Flamerule (Midsummer's Eve): Jaleen and Trent host the traditional (and expected) Sharessan celebration but Astra Morgan and Alysan do not participate; Midsummer: The family has fun at the midsummer festival; Shieldmeet:The family joins the gathering of nobles at the palace for the customary activities. |
| 20191017 | 28 Flamerule 1388, morning | 28 Flamerule 1388, morning | 26th: Lady Skatterhawk leaves the palace and returns home, Alynna and Rhigaerd talk a bit more before Alynna takes Shaelyn home, Alynna asks Shaelyn to be more restrained in her used of magic and Shaelyn agrees. |
| 20190927 | 28 Flamerule 1388, morning | 28 Flamerule 1388, morning | 26th: Tauivae enters and says that a group of Skatterhawks flung horse dung on her and other prisetesses at the temple, Jullian returns to her temple with Tauivae to handle the matter, Alynna stays with Rhigaerd and he sends a summons to the head of the Skatterhawk house (who is the daughter of Lord Skatterhawk as the Lord is very ill), after an hour passes Lord Skatterhawk's daughter arrives, Lady Skatterhawk does not recognize Alynna and is rude to her at first until she is told Alynna's identity, Lady Skatterhawk explains that her younger brother (an 11-year-old) was fond of Shaelyn until she used magic on him, then learns that her brother told her only half the story, Lady Skatterhaws is apologetic once she learns the whole story and promised to deal with her brother. |
| 20190921 | 28 Flamerule 1388, morning | 28 Flamerule 1388, morning | 26th: Jullian treat's William's injury and it turns out to have been an altercation between William's and Cille over some amorous feelings William has toward Cille, Jullian advises them to quash that, Shaelyn is studying at Alynna's temple when a War Wizard with an escort of four Royal Guards enters, the war wizard tries to put a mage collar on Shaelyn, Alynna stops him and sends word to Jullian, Alynna argues with the war wizard until Jullian arrives, the war wizard claims that a Skatterhawk boy has pressed charges that Shaelyn used magic against him and the war wizard claimss Shaelyn will be tried as a witch and executed, Alynna and Jullian take Shaelyn to see Rhigaerd along with the war wizard, Rhigaerd dismisses the Skatterhawk boy's complaint and confirms that the war wizard was acting illegally (only the King himself can have a member of the royal family arrested and tried), the war wizard is dismissed in some disgrace, after Shaelyn is safe she tells the story that she only shocked the boy after he punched her first. |
| 20190824 | 28 Flamerule 1388, morning | 26th: After breakfast Alax's children go out to their various training regimens, Alax goes to his office in the Royal Court to get caught up with work, Jullian is told that William suffered an injury during training and has him brought to her. | |
| 20190802 | 27th Flamerule 1388, daytime | 27th Flamerule 1388, daytime | 27th: A war wizard comes to Alax's house to inform him of a new training dungeon employing goblins and orcs as opponents and asks Alax to allow his children to test the dungeon, Alax asks a few questions to learn more then summons the children to hear the requst directly, the children listen to the war wizard and ask questions but decide to decline the invitation, after the war wizard leaves Alax asks them why and the children are concerned that Astra will not like their involvement with goblins, Astra hears her name being mentioned and comes to talk to the children about that, then the children go out to resume their own manner of training. |
| 20190706 | 26th Flamerule 1388, late evening | 27th Flamerule 1388, dinnetime | 26th: The woman claims to be a new generation of Red Wizard and claims to be of true royal blood unlike the Obarskyrs, Astra casts a spell to turn her to stone, Mystra appears and identifies her as J'carra daughter of Talona, Astra and Morgan talk with Mystra for a bit and Mystra tells them how to make Astra's alarm spell work with those of divine blood, Mystra leaves with the stone J'carra, Alysan comes in complaining of a headache and telling Astra that two other paladins home (nine of them were away from the tower at the time) were found dead with their flesh stripped off, Alysan goes to Alynna to have her head checked out, Alynna finds a tumorous mass in her head, then calls for Storm to tell her then spends a few hours successfully operating to remove it, after Alysan wakes up she says she is blind in her left eye; 27th:Astra sends for Jullian to tend to the two dead paladins, Jullian uses her staff of life to resurrect them, at dinnertime the other nine paladins return home and Astra tells them what happened, after a day of no improvement to Alysan's left eye Alynna uses a spell to restore sight. |
| 20190423 | 26th Flamerule 1388, late evening | 26th Flamerule 1388, late evening | 26th: Astra advises that they not let the children get too overconfident after their success this evening, Astra and Morgan go home to their towers to find the door ajar and the paladin guards missing, they enter and find the paladins in the entryway turned to stone, they go to the dining room to find Alysan turned to stone and the cook with her tongue cut out, on the way upstairs they find a dead medusa on the stairs hen a bit farther up another one on top of Jaleen's incapacitated body, in the children's room upstairs they find a mage's body who had been cut in half then find Trent with the children all alive, the room is under the effect of a silence spell so they can't speak, Astra searches the body and finds a note with a couple of magical items, once the spell wears off Astra talks to Trent and tells him to go downstairs to tend to Jaleen and the cook, Astra and Morgan search around more and find a woman mage in their library stealing books. |
| 20190222 | 26th Flamerule 1388, evening | 26th Flamerule 1388, late evening | 26th: Alynna Quilain and Shaelyn take the petrified body of the necromancer to the royal vaults in Suzail for secure storage then return to Immersea, after it's fully dark the spectres come out and Alynna Quilain and Shaelyn make good work in wiping them out, once they are sure none remain at their location they return to Suzail to get reports on how the other cities are faring, meanwhile Alax watches over William and the group of family children as they take out the largest group of spectres, Jullian stays with Tauivae, Astra and Morgan escort the rest of Alax's wives home then stay the evening with them, Alax and children get home and tell them of their success. |
| 20190202 | 26th Flamerule 1388, morning | 26th Flamerule 1388, evening | 26th: Alynna and Quilain discuss tactics for daling with the necromancer, Quilain's faerie dragon familiar Kelasta (Karstiggian's older brother) joins them, they wait concealed outside until evening then see the necromancer arrive, Alynna and companions go in after and confront him, Alynna engages the necromancer in conversation in which each tries to goad the other into starting the duel first, the necromancer finally starts with the first spell then they exchange a couple of spells until Alynna casts a flesh to stone to petrify him and end the duel, Alynna and Quilain discuss options at that point. |
| 20181221 | 26th Flamerule 1388, morning | 26th Flamerule 1388, morning | 26th:Alynna, Quilain, Shaelyn and Karstiggian head to the Selunite temple on Spring Hill in Immersea, they arrive at the temple to see funeral rites for several young children in progress, Alynna talks to the priestess then some of the older children who survived the attack on the orphanage and hears what happened, the children said a man in black robes created the first four spectures then they attacked the younger children, they head to the orphanage to investigate it and find many spectres in the basement, Alynna destroys them all with a chain lightning spell that Karstiggian enhances with metamagic, Alynn afinds a book on necromancy in a bag labeled "Sembia Trade Good Company", they theorize that the necromancer is using this building as a base and will be back tonight. |
| 20181209 | 26th Flamerule 1388, morning | 26th Flamerule 1388, morning | 26th: Alynna tells her mates what she did and learned while away from home this morning, Alynna goes to the palace while Storm goes to the vacation island, Storm tells Alax and wives what happened this morning, and they all pack up camp and return, Astra Morgan Alax and Jullian go to the palace to be with Tauivae and Rhigaerd while Storm takes the other wives home to get their children, Alynna meets with Quilain to review all reported attacks and try to determine some pattern, the pattern they find is that households with babies and unborn are the ones attacked, Quilain theorizes that such young life may be main component in making the new kind of spectre, Alynna asks if there was any prior incident of a large number of child deaths recently that could have been used to make the first ones and they find a report of an orphanage in Immersea was attacked and nearly all of the children were killed, Alynna and Quilain go to Immersea to investigate further. |
| 20181208 | 26th Flamerule 1388, pre-dawn | 26th Flamerule 1388, morning | 26th: Alynna Rashan and Shaelyn compare notes on the spectre and discuss it, Alynna gets a message that a number of families in Suzail were also attacked, Ann tells Roderic about Tauivae, Alynna and Rashan get Cameal to shoot the specture with an arrow to test whether it can be wounded and it does get wounded, Alynna waits until sunrise to watch the spectre get killed from the indirect light of the sun in the room, Cameal goes to see Edmund to get more arrows like that, Alynna joins Roderic and family for breakfast and they discuss allowing William and the grandchildren to form a party to hunt these spectres that only they can see, they also discuss informing Alax and wives knowing they will end their vacation, at the end of breakfast Alynna heads home. |
| 20181207 | 26th Flamerule 1388, pre-dawn | 26th Flamerule 1388, pre-dawn | 26th: Alynna is awakened by the commotion of Puppy fighting an invisible opponent, Naladar and Ivory come in and see the enemy is a spectre, Alynna uses a true seeing spell but that only reveals the location of the attacker and not any detail about what it is, Puppy is wounded but Alynna Naladar and Ivory kill it, Alynna heals Puppy, Alynna and Naladar check the rest of the house but it's clear, the same sort of creature attacks Roderic's bedroom but Shaelyn trapped it in a magical cage using a scroll of a variant Morgan created of forcecage, Rashan calls for Alynna's help in healing Ann and some house staff, Alynna goes and helps, William and Shaelyn insist a spectre is inside the forcecage but none of the adults see anything, Alynna and Rashan then go to the palace to check on Rhigaerd and Tauivae and find Tauivae being attacked, Alynna manages to defeat the spectre withing seeing it directly, Alynna examines Tauivae and learns her unborn child has been devoured (there is no trace of the fetus inside Tauivae), Alynna and Rashan return to Hullack to find Shaelyn studying the spectre trapped in the forcecage. |