May 607
5-15-607 (Tuesday)
Coaroo had requested my help on a problem he was having and so I went in search of him. I think he already knew the answers to the questions he asked, but it seemed to bring him some comfort hearing it from someone else. At least I could help in that sense. I told him about the cave outside the city with the undead in it and he seemed interested in going. I knew they needed my help in the guildhouse with the visions, so I thought maybe I could take him there after that.
Anyway, I get to the guildhouse and we again start relating our visions. Ya know, sometimes it seems like we just tell them over and over. I don't really think anyone gives much thought as to what they actually mean. I think they just hope someone else will understand. Maybe I'm wrong, it happens on occasion, but I don't know how many times I've heard them with and still we aren't getting any closer to an answer. So anyway, I remembered that I still had the package I had bought earlier, and really didn't want to forget it again, so I left to take it back to my room. I saw Sahan in the tavern, looking a might lonely, so I gave him the heads up on where we all were, and continued onto my room. I should have just stayed in the guildhall.
So while I'm in there, my ward starts to expire. Not that I care really, but if I'm going to pay for it, I want it, right? Or at least that was what I thought. So I open the door to leave and there is a pretty package outside. Nice. I was thinking how I would have to thank the person who left it for me when it exploded in my face. Stupid traps. Not that it hurt me much, mind you, but I did get shoved back into my room where I hit me head on the desk. Now that hurt. So I'm dazed and standing there when in walk a bunch of cloaked figures. I counted maybe 6-7. I don't really remember now, but I was sorta at the disadvantage and I had no clue what was going on.
I admit that I wasn't too worried until they shut the door and locked it. Yeah, that's when it became apparent to me that I might be in some sort of danger. My stupid sword was in the corner, and I could reach it if I jumped for it...but they could cut me down before that too. Who were these guys and what did they want?
The thought crossed my mind just as one of them removed his hood. DIAKARYU. I am not kidding. OMG I was speechless. He didn't look quite the same, but it was him. His hair wasn't just black anymore, but had some grey in it, and he had sharpened his teeth into points. ICK! I digress...what was *HE* doing here? Granted, he was just a human now, but he was still a powerful scholar and he had minions with him. Ok, so now my sword is looking really good and I jump for it. No one moves. Well except me, of course.
So Diakaryu tells me he has come for something of his. He wants to be rid of it because it has been nagging him these past few years. I assume he means me, because well he's always said similar things before, but I was wrong. We argued, my sword tip in his face, and finally he says that he has been able to track me because of something he had put on my spirit years ago. He wants to take it back and be rid of it, so I am no longer anywhere in his thoughts. That sounded suspicious to me, as most things are with this slime, but he gave me two options (He always gives me options. None of which are desirable in any way). We could do this the easy way which consisted of me allowing him to do whatever he needed to do to get this thing back, or we could do it the hard way. When he said that, all the other guys pulled out swords. Right...I get it. So yeah, I chose the easy way.
I admit he was telling the truth. Whatever he did make me sick though. So as I'm heaving up my dinner, out came a small blue gem. Hunh? It's hard to think that such a small thing had caused me so much grief over the years.
Now this is the part where I thought he would take his leave. After all, he did say he wanted nothing more to do with me, right? Well instead, as I sit there on all fours, puking, he decided to say some really nasty and mean things. Like how he had heard my marriage to Kiril was over, just as he had predicted. And how I had thrown away a grand future because I believed that I could actually feel love and the people I cared for, like Kiril, loved me as much in return. That while he had suffered a minor setback because of his defeat, I had completely failed at life. What do you say to something like that? It only struck me as odd that I had recently been thinking about the very things he was speaking of.
Diakaryu then warned me not to get in his way again. Where before he had some twisted sense of duty to keep me alive, now he had no such barrier. I just wanted him to leave, but as he walked out the door, he made a rude slur at my expense. All that crossed my mind was that if I let him get away with that last bit, then I had let him defeat me again. I couldn't let him think that, so I grabbed my sword and rushed him. I hate magic armor sometimes. As soon as my blade touched him, his went off and he grabbed me by the throat. I was too close to do any real harm to him, so I dropped my weapon and focused on trying to free myself from his grip since I was no longer able to breathe. Claws can be your friend at a time like this, and eventually he did drop me. He said the small wounds I gave him didn’t amount to any fear and that he had already laid his mark on me. That I knew my place and would return to him someday.
If I had not been gasping for air, I swear I would have bit his leg off. Why didn't he just leave? What mark?!?! Didn't he just get take out the gem?
I really hate him! At least he's gone, right? This time anyway. He's just a human right? Powerful maybe, but just human now nonetheless.
Hoping he had truly left, I took a small breather before I found my way back to the guildhall. Nothing much had happened in the interim. Funny that. Oh well.
5-23-607 (Friday)
I met up with Arainyn today. Oh excuse me, His Excellency...whatever. Anyway we met up and traveled to the Kingdom of Kaurath. His friend, Trivanus, had asked us to help him 'go over the wall', whatever that meant. Anyway, so we get there and I see a lot of familiar faces. Familiar because most of them I recognized from Ravenholt when I was there last October. Let's not bring that up again. So anyway, they eventually warm up to me and I actually make some really nice friends. Well except for that hobling, Sid. He was just mean. He kept threatening me with rituals when he found out I didn't like them. Yeah no collection for him.
Later that night I found out what 'Going over the Wall' meant. Apparently there are these HUGE, dumb trolls that keep attacking the wall that surrounds the Kingdom. If they get through then the people die until it's repaired. So we earthwalk to the area and find that our transforms all manifest once we get there. Normally that would have been exciting, but there is something wrong with mine. First off, why do I have horns? And most of my gifts are missing. I have no clue what happened to them, but I guarantee you that I am going to find out and get them back. Needless to say, we annihilated the trolls and returned to the city. Trivanus also commented how nice my tail looked in thatform. He's so bad. If he wasn't a dragon, I might consider keeping him. It's just that dragon's need their hoards, and I'm not into belonging to one.
5-24-607 (Saturday)
Not much happened today at all. Seriously. There were rumors of things going on, but for some reason Arainyn and I could never seem to find them.
Baron Regent, Baelor, shoed up today. Arainyn had been looking forward to his vist all weekend, and I had not seen him in a very long time, so it was good to catch up. He had heard from Arainyn that I was a great help to his court and offered me a position is his. I could not take it, of course, seeing as how my loyalties lie with Baron Arainyn and the people of Drakemyre, but I admit I was flattered. In the end I told him I would be more the happy to help him in any way he needed, but I could not leave Drakemyre. He was satisfied with that agreement, so I presume that I should start seeing letters from him arriving in my roost in the not-so-distant future.
We arrived later that night to the tavern for the King's Feast. It was a grand affair and I was eager to meet some of the other nobility. That didn't happen though because some woman came in at the opening with her permanently dead child to speak to the King. That alone was odd, but then I heard her say 'formal' and reach for a circle. So I quickly excused myself and left. My only regret was that my food was still inside.
A few minutes later Baelor came out with his friend, Sasha, who offered to go retrieve my meal. Apparently this woman had asked to do a Spirit Farewell. Great, so let's not only disrupt the meal by shuffling dead babies through our view, but let's also destroy just a little bit more of Tyrra while we're at it. It was almost enough to make me lose my appetite. Almost.
This town seems relatively safe as not much happened the rest of the night. The silence was interrupted later though with the charging of an adventurer with murder. I don't think he did it personally because he doesn't seem capable of doing what they claimed he did. There was no trial, nothing. It was a quick process and before I could step away they shoved a sword through his heart. Ummm yeah. Not only that, but then when he reappeared in the circle, they did it again! Geez... Don't mess with a place like that, right?
Sid began to really get on my nerves after that with his racial mace. If he hit me in the head opne more time...I swear. I also happened to walk in the tavern at one point to find him casting a formal and had to leave in a hurry. He came out and laughed at me later for that. Jerk. That's when I decided it was time for bed. It was late and we all had a case of the giggle by the time we fell asleep.
5-26-607 (Monday)
I had asked Trivanus to help me with a problem I was having, and so he met up with me today to ask more about it. I had already dealt with it though, so I had no need for help. He was kind enough, however to tell me a story and warn me about working with elementals. I can't help but take what he says into consideration due to the things I've had to deal with pertaining to them.
I wonder if he can come to Drakemyre and tell me bedtime stories. I bet he has lots of good ones. Especially since gregor doesn't do it anymore and no one else wants to.
5-30-607 (Friday)
Dervite' identified me in the celestial circle today and OMG, Diakaryu has marked me. I thought I was going to be physically ill. Oh wait, I was. And I thought he was lying when he sauid he had his mark on me. Grrrrr, that makes me so mad. Dervite' had offered to remove them, but I'd like to go have that sad excuse for a human do it himself. That way he knows he cant' do this to me naymore.