Friday, August 10, 2012
Zelas' Journal Entry #3 (Session 19)
She loves me... she actually loves me. This has to be one of the best days I will ever have, the day that I know Canna loves me. And of course I love her back, I can't imagine my future with out her anymore, but knowing she shares the feeling sends me to heaven when I think of it. Though I suppose I am getting a bit ahead of myself in the sake of this journal, but fuck it, she loves me. To clarify from last time, it was what I thought was wrong and I seemed to have helped her through it a bit. She seems a bit more at ease now and happier in general.
But I should say where we are at this point. We had traveled to the Fey Wild once again to the Winter Queen's palace to have Dahlia examined on her possession. The Winter Queen did some magic thing she said was scrying to find the dracolich inside Dahlia. She apparently found what she was looking for, but right before she could remove it the lich took over Dahlia and said doing what the Winter Queen would do would mean the death of Dahlia, so everything stopped right there. The Winter Queen said she needed a little more information before she could continue and need to put Dahlia in a senseless state, almost as if she was in a coma. After some more magic stuff and a rest, she said that we would need three objects before we could continue with removing the lich. The closest to obtain was in her enemies territory, where she had a truce currently declared for the time being, so we would have to go there since we bear no mark of her and could infiltrate. I also asked her of my curse from the greater succubus, but I don't think I will get much more out of her then I did Darek.
So off we set to the caves of a self proclaimed hag queen, to find a crystal. Traveling there was nothing much, just had to go through some thick forests which was tiring. And to say these forests are creepy is an understatement, they moved as we attempted to hack through them at one point, but we thought better of forcing our way through like that. We reached the cave of the hag queen and it had three entrances, which Serriah picked which one to go in. Apparently one was a dummy entrance, another had much larger monsters going into them, and one real entrance which we went into, how the hell she can spot which one is which is lost on me. In the caves we found lizard men, and by hell they stunk. Apparently living in this cave gave them a stench so foul that I could hardly bear being next to one. They weren't extremely tough, just smelled of filth. But then hags started to appear, and I don't know what it was, but just being remotely close to them was painful. With whispers radiating from them, echoing in my mind, they were a force to be reckoned with, but death found them quickly and the whispers stopped. There was also a monster with giant tentacles that lashed out upon me... but it died before it could do any damage so wasn't very noteworthy.
It all went to shit once we found the hag queen. I have no idea what happened only that we got hurt rather badly. We spread out a bit to attack targets, another one of those tentacle things came out and was killed quickly again. Then I don't remember much, I know I did something but the only thing I can remember is how cold the floor of the cave felt. I remember having to get away from the hag queen and attacking something else, but I think I was just barely holding on to conciousnes at that point. In the end I saw enemies dead and Canna out of shape and barely conscious as well. I tried to comfort her, but I bet we just looked like a mess. Fuck this cave, I hope it collapses.
P.S. Gold bracelets and necklaces found upon hags, after a good cleaning they should fetch a nice price. Also we got that crystal thing and miniature statue things.
Monday, August 6, 2012
Pallith Backstory (Two Worlds campaign)
Pallith, born of the noble Veldalkin family in the city of Freeport. She was born into her family as a middle child, with an older brother, Moyl, and older sister, Akorlin, and another brother, Welvdor, arriving after her birth. Her father, Calmyr, and mother, Filfna, owned several buildings along the main merchant's row, and from leasing out the areas and taking a percentage of the profits, were able to live a lavish style all the while lounging in their home.
In her early life, Pallith was raised as a noble and second to heir after her sister Akorlin. Raised to be book smart and money wise so that the store fronts should never leave the family and they can always live the style they know. But Pallith was an active child, never wanting to read or learn how businesses work, she would rather go outside and explore the noble part of the city seeing what she could get into. It was during these little exploring bouts that she found a friend in one Avin Nalaar, a girl of an elf noble family, though of lower status. With Avin, Pallith learned of the backstreets and hidden corners of the town, and from which they played their games and pranks upon other passing nobles. Every time they were caught in their mischief, they were sent back to their homes, in which Pallith's mother would scold her and sentence her to her room, but every night after, Pallith always opened the window and climbed down to the streets, in which Avin was waiting for her in.
The Nalaar family was not as fortunate as the Veldakin family in their wealth. The trading vessels that they owned and used to bring about their money were ransacked by pirates and burned to ashes out on the seas. With no means to bring about their money they were forced from their current home in the noble district and down to the middle class area where they used what money they had to open up a merchant's stall to make their living from there on in. To this Pallith and Avin were separated in class, but they remained friends, Pallith traveling down to Avin to explore this new section of the city and getting into more trouble.
As Pallith grew older into her teens, her parent's teachings were lost upon her. She began to gamble and fluttered away gold coins thinking nothing of it as her parents always had more upon them. The lavish style had gotten to her and she believed she was above the others in the streets, able to afford what the middle and lower class could only dream of. It was on one of her gambling ventures that she took it to far, taking coins from her parent's safe and betting them all on a fool's gamble. The loss of coins did not go over well with her parents and after so long of time from losing money to their gambling daughter they decided to be rid of her. Her entire family disowned Pallith and casted her upon the streets to fend for herself with naught a copper on her. Too this she went to the middle districts, to her friend Avin in which she remained in contact with through out the years, and she was welcomed in by the Nalaar family for as long as it took to her to get back on her own feet.
It was now that Avin showed Pallith her current "job". For under the rouge of a night worker, Avin actually went out about town cutting purses of others, using those backstreets and hidden corners they grew to knew as a kid. From this Avin taught Pallith, showing her sleight of hand and tricks to lighten the load of purses without anyone noticing. But Pallith saw more in this, she remembered the noble quarters, and the fact that they didn't carry all their worth on them, but instead kept it in their homes in trinkets and jewelery. Pallith lead Avin to the noble districts and they began a new trade, one of breaking into homes to take what they wish, not waiting for someone to pass by them. Pallith knew the families and had been in several of their houses before for parties and meetings between the parents. With this knowledge she targeted the houses she knew and took small valuables that could be "misplaced" by others and may not be missed as much. And within each house Pallith left little clues that she hoped would lead anyone investigating back to the Veldakin family, hopefully disgracing their good name. With the little trinkets and jewelery in tow, they sold them off to the side of the merchant stall, claiming them as their own goods to sell to the people.
Though the thefts did not go unnoticed, as the Undercity of the town kept its eyes on all would be thieves. Avin was able to skirt by unmolested by them since all she did was cut purses for the coins in them, but the plans of Pallith got their attention quickly. One day that Pallith was selling her side goods a man walked up inquiring about them. He was one of the undercity members and he was there for one reason, to stop Pallith from her side deals. He offered her the use of the fences from the Undercity or the taste of his blade and a dirt nap. She chose to go with the fences in fear of her life, but she was happy she could turn a quick profit from her heists, even if she felt the amount she was getting was on the small side. The fences kept offering more, but Pallith had to become one of the drones in the Undercity, she felt it beneath her that a noble that she was once to be working as a mere pawn to someone else's game and refused each and every time.
With her new outlet for goods, Pallith began to steal more and more items. With this easy cash flow for her, she was able to afford a place to live on her own and moved out of the Nalaar residence. Avin decided to actually forgo her family home and move in with Pallith as well, and together they began stealing even more from there new base of operations. From here they grew into young adults living off the gains of stolen goods and living their high life. That was up until Pallith tried to steal from one Lougith Veer, a male Eladrin that had came to the city not to long ago. On that heist, everything was going as planned, several trinkets picked up, a full bag of jewelry, everything was going along swimmingly. But Lougith was not what he appeared to be at first, he knew Pallith was in the house, and was actually watching her steal from him. The deftness and confidence in Pallith as she went about taking things, the keen eye finding shiny things that were "hidden", he knew that Pallith would be perfect for his plans. With a flick of a wand a searing pain goes through Pallith's skull and her vision goes black. Pallith stumbled about in pain and her vision blurs back and before her stands the form of Lougith.
Lougith laughs at Pallith stumbling and offers her a chance to have that power, saying how useful it is to make a person blind when robbing them as such. Pallith as scared out of her mind ran from the premise, leaving all the loot behind. But she thought upon the offer, an ability to make someone blind, though she was wary of this man, it seemed to good to be true. Pallith went back to Lougith, out of curiosity on the offer. She asked the man what she would have to do to get the power we used upon her, he merely said to say that she will follow him and he will giver her the power. Pallith figured he could trick the guy, say yes she would follow him, discover the secret to his power, then ditch at the first opportunity. She accepted Lougith's offer with thoughts of deceit, and after the pact was done and she gained the power Pallith desired, Lougith revealed the stipulations. She was to be his slave, stealing to gain money for him, and she would have to live on his premise, no longer with Avin in their home. Lougith also revealed she could not betray him, the pact she agreed to gave him power over her, and she is forced to follow his orders. Pallith was forced to leave her old life behind, into a life of servitude under her new master Lougith.
For over two decades Pallith lived with Lougith, stealing for him and making him richer and richer, waiting for a day she can finally be rid of him.
In her early life, Pallith was raised as a noble and second to heir after her sister Akorlin. Raised to be book smart and money wise so that the store fronts should never leave the family and they can always live the style they know. But Pallith was an active child, never wanting to read or learn how businesses work, she would rather go outside and explore the noble part of the city seeing what she could get into. It was during these little exploring bouts that she found a friend in one Avin Nalaar, a girl of an elf noble family, though of lower status. With Avin, Pallith learned of the backstreets and hidden corners of the town, and from which they played their games and pranks upon other passing nobles. Every time they were caught in their mischief, they were sent back to their homes, in which Pallith's mother would scold her and sentence her to her room, but every night after, Pallith always opened the window and climbed down to the streets, in which Avin was waiting for her in.
The Nalaar family was not as fortunate as the Veldakin family in their wealth. The trading vessels that they owned and used to bring about their money were ransacked by pirates and burned to ashes out on the seas. With no means to bring about their money they were forced from their current home in the noble district and down to the middle class area where they used what money they had to open up a merchant's stall to make their living from there on in. To this Pallith and Avin were separated in class, but they remained friends, Pallith traveling down to Avin to explore this new section of the city and getting into more trouble.
As Pallith grew older into her teens, her parent's teachings were lost upon her. She began to gamble and fluttered away gold coins thinking nothing of it as her parents always had more upon them. The lavish style had gotten to her and she believed she was above the others in the streets, able to afford what the middle and lower class could only dream of. It was on one of her gambling ventures that she took it to far, taking coins from her parent's safe and betting them all on a fool's gamble. The loss of coins did not go over well with her parents and after so long of time from losing money to their gambling daughter they decided to be rid of her. Her entire family disowned Pallith and casted her upon the streets to fend for herself with naught a copper on her. Too this she went to the middle districts, to her friend Avin in which she remained in contact with through out the years, and she was welcomed in by the Nalaar family for as long as it took to her to get back on her own feet.
It was now that Avin showed Pallith her current "job". For under the rouge of a night worker, Avin actually went out about town cutting purses of others, using those backstreets and hidden corners they grew to knew as a kid. From this Avin taught Pallith, showing her sleight of hand and tricks to lighten the load of purses without anyone noticing. But Pallith saw more in this, she remembered the noble quarters, and the fact that they didn't carry all their worth on them, but instead kept it in their homes in trinkets and jewelery. Pallith lead Avin to the noble districts and they began a new trade, one of breaking into homes to take what they wish, not waiting for someone to pass by them. Pallith knew the families and had been in several of their houses before for parties and meetings between the parents. With this knowledge she targeted the houses she knew and took small valuables that could be "misplaced" by others and may not be missed as much. And within each house Pallith left little clues that she hoped would lead anyone investigating back to the Veldakin family, hopefully disgracing their good name. With the little trinkets and jewelery in tow, they sold them off to the side of the merchant stall, claiming them as their own goods to sell to the people.
Though the thefts did not go unnoticed, as the Undercity of the town kept its eyes on all would be thieves. Avin was able to skirt by unmolested by them since all she did was cut purses for the coins in them, but the plans of Pallith got their attention quickly. One day that Pallith was selling her side goods a man walked up inquiring about them. He was one of the undercity members and he was there for one reason, to stop Pallith from her side deals. He offered her the use of the fences from the Undercity or the taste of his blade and a dirt nap. She chose to go with the fences in fear of her life, but she was happy she could turn a quick profit from her heists, even if she felt the amount she was getting was on the small side. The fences kept offering more, but Pallith had to become one of the drones in the Undercity, she felt it beneath her that a noble that she was once to be working as a mere pawn to someone else's game and refused each and every time.
With her new outlet for goods, Pallith began to steal more and more items. With this easy cash flow for her, she was able to afford a place to live on her own and moved out of the Nalaar residence. Avin decided to actually forgo her family home and move in with Pallith as well, and together they began stealing even more from there new base of operations. From here they grew into young adults living off the gains of stolen goods and living their high life. That was up until Pallith tried to steal from one Lougith Veer, a male Eladrin that had came to the city not to long ago. On that heist, everything was going as planned, several trinkets picked up, a full bag of jewelry, everything was going along swimmingly. But Lougith was not what he appeared to be at first, he knew Pallith was in the house, and was actually watching her steal from him. The deftness and confidence in Pallith as she went about taking things, the keen eye finding shiny things that were "hidden", he knew that Pallith would be perfect for his plans. With a flick of a wand a searing pain goes through Pallith's skull and her vision goes black. Pallith stumbled about in pain and her vision blurs back and before her stands the form of Lougith.
Lougith laughs at Pallith stumbling and offers her a chance to have that power, saying how useful it is to make a person blind when robbing them as such. Pallith as scared out of her mind ran from the premise, leaving all the loot behind. But she thought upon the offer, an ability to make someone blind, though she was wary of this man, it seemed to good to be true. Pallith went back to Lougith, out of curiosity on the offer. She asked the man what she would have to do to get the power we used upon her, he merely said to say that she will follow him and he will giver her the power. Pallith figured he could trick the guy, say yes she would follow him, discover the secret to his power, then ditch at the first opportunity. She accepted Lougith's offer with thoughts of deceit, and after the pact was done and she gained the power Pallith desired, Lougith revealed the stipulations. She was to be his slave, stealing to gain money for him, and she would have to live on his premise, no longer with Avin in their home. Lougith also revealed she could not betray him, the pact she agreed to gave him power over her, and she is forced to follow his orders. Pallith was forced to leave her old life behind, into a life of servitude under her new master Lougith.
For over two decades Pallith lived with Lougith, stealing for him and making him richer and richer, waiting for a day she can finally be rid of him.
Friday, August 3, 2012
Zelas' Journal Entry #2 (Session 18)
Well... I did it, I confessed to the rest about what happened with Xellia since last time. Though I don't have a clear answer to why I lied, they still understood and didn't seem to hold any major grudge against me on it. Though Darek seemed to be a bit more snarky about it, but he was using it as a joke and not trying to go against me and I do deserve it for what I hid. Later in the day after telling everyone I decided to ask Darek about the actual curse the demon bitch holds against me and to see if he can dispel the effect. On that night he told me that Xellia wasn't a normal succubi but a greater succubi with stronger abilities then that of the lower tiers. I'm slightly flattered that I gained the favor of a higher up, but why couldn't it be a princess or queen, at least then I get access to the treasury room.
Darek told me the curse can be broken in a few different manners, easiest being kill the whore, which I can't do myself. Next is to get an item imbued with the power of a god, which isn't going to happen in the world we live in now... Unless there is a hidden temple some where that has a dormant item, which I highly doubt we will come across. Another method is to transfer the curse to someone else and let them deal with the demon. I liked that one, because not only would I be rid of the curse I could strike her down myself and see the life escape her, but Darek is not going to put another being in risk so that is out of the question. Last method is odd, Darek says he knows of a ritual to prevent being cursed by a succubus, but since the one after me is stronger, the ritual would only make the kiss of the curse be as strong as a normal succubus, which would then expire in twenty-four hours. So in order to remove it, I would have to get it reapplied to me then stay away for a day, which may sound easy, but I fear the next kiss might take over my mind and then I would be with her til the ritual wears off and I would be trapped.
We managed to make our way from Welgard back down to Winter Haven with little difficulty, and we had our wolves again, so the trip took less time and I didn't have to walk nearly as far. Once in Winter Haven we had a meeting on where and when the meeting with Jadeis was going to happen, against what I said everyone wanted to be in the inn full of innocent bystanders. I don't know why they wanted to bring the evil of this man to the town but I was out voted so there it was. And when Canna smashed the red crystal to send the message, she froze still. According to her, she was transferred to the Astral Plane, which screwed if I know what that was, from what I gathered, her mind left her body to another place and she could talk there. Of course the person she talked to had to be Xellia, so I am sure she taunted her as per the norm for that demon. But she also said that the meeting would take place in the ruins near by the town, the ruins in which was saw Szartharaxx so long ago... I think I may need to make a supplemental entry so who ever reads this knows what we did before hand... Which everyone seemed to be fine with at the time.
So in those three days time we had before the meeting, Canna and I went off to West Gate again. I went there to sell those gold necklaces we found on the spider's victims from last time and her to see if there was anymore information on... what she wanted information on. In the inn she did find a note to her, the note she was waiting for. We went up to a room and she read it to herself. She said that it was the answer she was expecting though looked down from it. I let her be at this point since she was expecting it and I figured she would work it out, though I don't believe that worked... I am going to have to have talk to her about it. After that though she payed off One-eyed Pete to see if he can't find information on Saritha and if she is still alive and where her parents might be at this time. Also she sent off a letter with Glyssa to be taken down south of the wall, I wonder what this letter pertains to. After that we headed off back to Winter Haven to get ready for the meeting with Jadeis.
This is where things fell apart a bit. When we arrived we saw the Eldritch Knights from the Winter Court in the inn. Apparently they have been looking for us ever since Canna smashed one of those crystals to send them a message. Poor bastards, we move around more then fleas on a dog's back. They were there to take the one infected with the Dragon Lich to the Winter Queen for inspection, which means they had no idea which one it was, until Canna said Dahlia straight out. I could have swore I heard someone slapping themselves after she said that. With news of this we held another meeting. While we were gone Darek and the others scouted out the new meeting location and found new information we didn't have back when we first saw it. Apparently in that room there is an inscribed circle that can be used to open a portal to another realm, this one in specific leads to the primordial one of the fire cultists, which Jadeis is the head of.
So thus began another discussion, should we have the meeting now, should we move the location on him, should we go to the Winter Court instead now that that is an option. It started off fine, but the multitudes of directions we could go seem to wear on everyone, especially Canna. Canna actually began yelling at Darek and in return he yelled back, this is the first time I seen them yell at each other with malicious intent. Canna then proceeded to leave the room and everyone else seemed to be stunned in silence. I quickly took over the decision process and we decided to go to the Winter Court, once that was achieved I went off to go find Canna and tell her this. Though she had left the inn already and was heading for the Winter Court now by herself. Serriah went off to go get Canna and I stayed back to tell everyone, I told the captain of the knights just one more night before we set off so we can calm down from what just happened. Something is wrong with Canna, I think I know the reason why...
P.S. Those four gold necklaces sold for 380 gold pieces, which is 76 gold pieces each
Darek told me the curse can be broken in a few different manners, easiest being kill the whore, which I can't do myself. Next is to get an item imbued with the power of a god, which isn't going to happen in the world we live in now... Unless there is a hidden temple some where that has a dormant item, which I highly doubt we will come across. Another method is to transfer the curse to someone else and let them deal with the demon. I liked that one, because not only would I be rid of the curse I could strike her down myself and see the life escape her, but Darek is not going to put another being in risk so that is out of the question. Last method is odd, Darek says he knows of a ritual to prevent being cursed by a succubus, but since the one after me is stronger, the ritual would only make the kiss of the curse be as strong as a normal succubus, which would then expire in twenty-four hours. So in order to remove it, I would have to get it reapplied to me then stay away for a day, which may sound easy, but I fear the next kiss might take over my mind and then I would be with her til the ritual wears off and I would be trapped.
We managed to make our way from Welgard back down to Winter Haven with little difficulty, and we had our wolves again, so the trip took less time and I didn't have to walk nearly as far. Once in Winter Haven we had a meeting on where and when the meeting with Jadeis was going to happen, against what I said everyone wanted to be in the inn full of innocent bystanders. I don't know why they wanted to bring the evil of this man to the town but I was out voted so there it was. And when Canna smashed the red crystal to send the message, she froze still. According to her, she was transferred to the Astral Plane, which screwed if I know what that was, from what I gathered, her mind left her body to another place and she could talk there. Of course the person she talked to had to be Xellia, so I am sure she taunted her as per the norm for that demon. But she also said that the meeting would take place in the ruins near by the town, the ruins in which was saw Szartharaxx so long ago... I think I may need to make a supplemental entry so who ever reads this knows what we did before hand... Which everyone seemed to be fine with at the time.
So in those three days time we had before the meeting, Canna and I went off to West Gate again. I went there to sell those gold necklaces we found on the spider's victims from last time and her to see if there was anymore information on... what she wanted information on. In the inn she did find a note to her, the note she was waiting for. We went up to a room and she read it to herself. She said that it was the answer she was expecting though looked down from it. I let her be at this point since she was expecting it and I figured she would work it out, though I don't believe that worked... I am going to have to have talk to her about it. After that though she payed off One-eyed Pete to see if he can't find information on Saritha and if she is still alive and where her parents might be at this time. Also she sent off a letter with Glyssa to be taken down south of the wall, I wonder what this letter pertains to. After that we headed off back to Winter Haven to get ready for the meeting with Jadeis.
This is where things fell apart a bit. When we arrived we saw the Eldritch Knights from the Winter Court in the inn. Apparently they have been looking for us ever since Canna smashed one of those crystals to send them a message. Poor bastards, we move around more then fleas on a dog's back. They were there to take the one infected with the Dragon Lich to the Winter Queen for inspection, which means they had no idea which one it was, until Canna said Dahlia straight out. I could have swore I heard someone slapping themselves after she said that. With news of this we held another meeting. While we were gone Darek and the others scouted out the new meeting location and found new information we didn't have back when we first saw it. Apparently in that room there is an inscribed circle that can be used to open a portal to another realm, this one in specific leads to the primordial one of the fire cultists, which Jadeis is the head of.
So thus began another discussion, should we have the meeting now, should we move the location on him, should we go to the Winter Court instead now that that is an option. It started off fine, but the multitudes of directions we could go seem to wear on everyone, especially Canna. Canna actually began yelling at Darek and in return he yelled back, this is the first time I seen them yell at each other with malicious intent. Canna then proceeded to leave the room and everyone else seemed to be stunned in silence. I quickly took over the decision process and we decided to go to the Winter Court, once that was achieved I went off to go find Canna and tell her this. Though she had left the inn already and was heading for the Winter Court now by herself. Serriah went off to go get Canna and I stayed back to tell everyone, I told the captain of the knights just one more night before we set off so we can calm down from what just happened. Something is wrong with Canna, I think I know the reason why...
P.S. Those four gold necklaces sold for 380 gold pieces, which is 76 gold pieces each
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