| Session | Start | Finish | Notes & Highlights |
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| 20051231 | 15 Hammer 1384 | 16 Hammer 1384 | 15th: Alynna tells her family she's going to Thunderstone to investigate Sara's problem, Storm volunteers to go with her and Alynna is happy for the help, Storm and Alynna go there in disguise and take work as serving wenches at the inn the brewery master also owns, Astra and Morgan spend the day together, Alax receives word that Adeara's camp was attacked by golems and she was seriously injured, Edmund feels Adeara getting wounded, in the evening Alax tells Kat that Adeara was hurt then attempts to tell Alynna, Elron takes Jullian and Sue to Silverymoon where they treat Adeara and other soldiers, Adeara is missing her right hand and is getting a magical & mechanical mithral hand crafted by an elven master smith, Jullian disapproves but heals her other wounds, during the evening Alynna finds that the three sons of the brewer are loud rude & crude and attempt to take liberties with Alynna and Storm, Alynna meets the brewer himself later and finds him nice, late at night one son comes into Alynna and Storms room and tries to get in bed with them but Storm throws him out; 16th: Elron rides out to meet Edmund and tell him of Adera's wounding then walks back with the rangers to town, once the elks are turned over Elron takes Edmund to see Adeara, two of the brewers sons try to intimidate Alynna but she remains defiant, Alynna has a private talk with Candra (the blind manager of the inn who is daughter of the brewer and sister to the sons) and learns that her brothers put her eyes out and she thinks her brothers are monsters, a bit later the three brothers attack Storm, Alynna rushes to help and they defeat the brothers after which they decide to turn the brothers over to Alax in Hullack for justice. |
| 20051230 | 13 Hammer 1384 | 15 Hammer 1384 | 13th: Edmund and rangers make it to near the edge of the Wailing Fog by the end of the day and camp there, they find evidence of a too-large herd of elk that is actually damaging to the forest; 14th: One of Edmund's camp guards is missing in the morning and it looks like some form of skeleton took him into the fog, Edmund and rangers track the herd of elk into the Realm of Wailing Fog and camp there, in the evening thugs again accost Sara and try to get her and Gantrin to pay them money; 15th:During the night of 14th/15th zombies attack Edmund's camp but are driven off, during the day Edmund and group takes four large elk then heads towards home, Edmund and group camp outside of the fog at the end of the day, Gantrin delivers a keg of ale to Henric, Alynna discovers that Sara was attacked again and treats her injuries, Gantrin believes the thugs were sent by the brewery master of Thunderstone because Gantrin took his Hullack business, Gantrin plans to go out and kill the thugs and brewery master until Alynna talks him out of it, Alynna treats Sara's injuries then places a contingency and telepathic bond spell on her so Alynna will know next time she is attacked, Alynna decides to deal with the thugs herself and gets Flonna to give her some time off; |
| 20051225 | 13 Hammer 1384, start of day | 13 Hammer 1384 | 13th: Sue orders Morgan's hand with the ring cut off based on a vision she received in a dream, Jullian stops and questions her on it, Graz'zt makes an appearance to reveal he sent the vision rather than Selūne, Sue is horrified, Graz'zt leaves after bandying words with Jullian, Alax frees Edmund Halth and Virgil and tells them that the Dragons are hunting, Edmund decks Alax after being freed but Alax lets him go, the rangers decide to go hunting so they can minimize the damage where the Dragons wouldn't, Alax visits Silverymoon to give Adeara a promotion to lionar and escort the previous commander of the unit back to Suzail, Alynna gives Sue advice on seeking redemption for her lapse, Gareth is able to arrange the purchase of several hundred suits of leather armor, Jerrid reveals that he had an affair with the youngest daughter of Lord Illance and she is preganat. |
| 20051224 | 11 Hammer 1384, start of day | 12 Hammer 1384, end of day | 11th: Alynna prepares her spells for dealing with Graz'zt, Mystra takes Astra Alax Morgan and Raymond to her plane for breakfast with her and Sune, Jullian frets because Morgan Alax and her babies are missing until she finds out they're with Mystra, Sune confirms to them that the twins switching is a manifestation of the growing power of their divine blood, Alax Morgan and husbands return to Hullack, Astra spends the day with Raymond while Morgan fills in Sue and Jullian, Tanner sends out Dragons to hunt dear and they find success, Morgan begins wearing her ring of contraception again although Jullian warns her Sue won't approve, Astra and Raymond go to the theater in the evening, Sue is angry to see Morgan wearing the ring and spends the night in the second bedroom after a heated argument, Sue and Jullian pray for guidance, Alax makes love to Morgan and sees no sign in her tattoo that any switching is happening; 12th: Jullian and Sue see a dove in their bedroom and interpret that as an answer to their prayers and a sign of peace and tolerance, Jullian will take care of feeding the dove until they figure out how to free it, Astra gives Raymond a wake up call and they end up making love, Raymond observes the switch begin to happen, Morgan climaxes with Astra, after breakfast Morgan and Astra talk and work on scrolls together, Mystra shows Morgan and Astra what Graz'zt want and that they are never to let him have it, Alax returns to the keep in the evening to find that the Dragons have bagged 35 more deer that day, Sir Brian recommends freeing Edmund and the other two rangers be released and Alax agrees. |
| 20051223 | 10 Hammer 1384 | 10 Hammer 1384, end of day | 10th: Naladar brought a skunk into the house as a pet and to keep it warm and it stank up Naladar and Andrhel's room, Alynna makes him release the skunk in the forest, Elron mentions that Ann used to have a spell to remove strong animal odor, Alynna visits Mystra to ask if she can get the spell from Mystra's library since Ann had destroyed all her magic books, Alynna also discusses the twins situation with Graz'zt with Mystra, Alynna describes her planned spells and Mystra says it should work, Mystra reveals that the Astra/Morgan bed switch was their own doing rather than Graz'zt's and a manifestation of their increasing power, Mystra rewards Alynna for the cleverness of her plan against Graz'zt with a golden apple that gives +1 inherent to INT, after Alynna reveals that Astra and Morgan do share sexual feelings they experience Mystra decides to consult Sune about their manifesting power, Sune decides to help by studying the twins, Sune visits Astra just as she's readying for bed and gets her turned on before leaving, Astra and Raymond then get it on, Morgan feels that and gets it on with Astra, Sune is secretly watching, After they're done Sune reveals to both that she was watching. |
| 20051217 | 9 Hammer 1384 | 10 Hammer 1384 | 9th: Alynna takes the modified orders to the rangers of Hullack but they refuse to hunt that many deer including Edmund, Jewel is disappointed in Edmund, Jewel has Malcom ask Gareth to seek to buy leather armor in foreign cities, Gareth agrees, Adeara is reassigned to the Purple Dragon force in Neverwinter, when Alax comes home in the evening he notices the rangers are in town and not hunting, Alax tries to talk the rangers into hunting then gives them the night to think on what he said, Sue and Morgan spend the night in the second bedroom; 10th: Alax talks to Tanner about the defiance of the rangers, Alax takes a squad of Purple Dragons with him to see the rangers, Alax tries to negotiate with the rangers but fails then arrests Edmund and two other ringleaders, Alycia doesn't like it when she hears of the arrest and goes to rant at Alax, Alycia then talks to Alynna who counsels restraint, Jullian spends time at the temple then finds Graz'zt waiting in the dining room when she returns home, Jullian summons Alynna and Elron, after a brief talk Graz'zt leaves, Alynna and Elron return home, |
| 20051216 | 9 Hammer 1384 | 9 Hammer 1384 | 9th: Morgan had moved to Jullian's bed after tending the children in the middle of the night, Alax learns that a Dragon patrol feared lost had actually survived and brought down a golem in the North by using a rust monster and brought back several pieces for study, Lirra's brother was the leader of the returning patrol, Alax is asked to send dragons to 'arrest' Alycia as part of a tradition involving newly married Lady Truesilvers, Alynna was unaware of the tradition and follows to find out why Alycia was arrested, Alynna looks at the returned golem parts with Laspeera and provides a clue about the composition of the metal, Laspeera gives an order to hunt every deer in sight to make leather armor for the Purple Dragons, Alynna takes the order to Axil who refuses unless it's a Queen's order, Jewel issues a modified order limiting the number of deer to be hunted. |
| 20051210 | 8 Hammer 1384 | 8 Hammer 1384 | 8th: Astra and Morgan wake up to find themselves switched (Astra in Alax's bed, Morgan in Raymond's), Astra guess that Graz'zt did it to send a message, after breakfast Alax summons Elron and Alynna to tell them what happened and discuss what to do, Elron wanted the twins to move to his house but it's decided that Astra and Raymond will move to the keep, Astra and Morgan decide to get tattoos so that it's easy to tell them apart, Elron takes them to Heather to get tattoos that are magically imbued to protect from the cold, Elron and Alynna return home and discuss Alynna's lingering grudge against Heather, Alynna tells Storm of the morning's events, Elron and Alynna visit Xander to pressure him to set a date for marrying Lirra, Xander says the only holdup is finding another Mielikkian priestess, Alynna suggests Rashan so Xander is willing to marry Lirra today, Alynna brings Rashan and Roderic and family to Hullack, Alynna tries to get Lirra's brother (an officer in the Dragons) but finds out he was killed in action at Silverymoon, Rashan performs the wedding for Xander and Lirra, the family celebrates at the inn afterward, Alynna and Storm end the evening together. |
| 20051209 | 7 Hammer 1384 | 7 Hammer 1384 | 7th: Astra senses Morgan's fear and goes to be with her, after a bit Astra returns home and begins researching lore about Graz'zt, Edmund and Kat go hunting, as Edmund and Kat are on the way back the town butcher beats up Adeara because her smokehouse is taking some of his business, Edmund goes to beat up the butcher to teach him not to do that again, Elron and Alynna visit Adeara after dinner. |
| 20051203 | 5 Hammer 1384 | 7 Hammer 1384 | 5th: Jewel continues talking with Jullian, Jewel says she wants to keep Alax out of this fighting for selfish reasons, Jewel says Silverymoon's the only city seriously attacked so far, Edmund Xander and Erin celebrate birthdays today, Alynna and Alycia talk of her improved performance since being married, Edmund returns the wayward Malarite priest's effects to the high priest of Malar in Suzail, the high priest gives Edmund a bone-carved key as a thank-you, Adeara and Kat give Edmund a very nice birthday evening; 6th: Kat takes the bone key to Alynna for identification, with some research and Willis' help Alynna learns the key is to the very old crypt of a disgraced elven ranger, Sue spends the day at the temple, Alax spends the day catching up on lordship matters, Morgan stays close to Alax; 7th: Alax and wives go for a horse ride, Alax notices that there are fewer Dragons around and learns of the golem attacks from Sir Brian, Jewel has gone to Neverwinter to meet with the heads of the Lords Alliance, Alax tries to get Malcom to send him to the fighting but Jullian wins the argument, Alax accepts a staff oficer position under Malcom for the duration, Jewel returns and updates them about the golems, Jullian and Alax return home, Morgan reveals the source of her fear - a demon lord will punish Alax because she refuses to aid him, Graz'zt appears to them, Morgan calls for Alynna who quickly comes, Graz'zt chooses to leave, Alynna tells Morgan to continue refusing Graz'zt, Alynna convers with Elron about Graz'zt. |
| 20051202 | 3 Hammer 1384 (Hullack) | 5 Hammer 1384 | 3rd: Alynna makes sure that Elron and Jenni enjoy their birthdays; 4th: Jullian learns that Purple Dragons have been reassigned away from Hullack, Jullian asks Tanner but he doesn't know why, Jullian asks Jewel and learns the men are being sent to aid an ally but Jewel won't say more at this time, Jewel is also trying to get as many cannon for the Purple Dragons as possible, Jewel has Jullian ask Durin to make cannonballs, Morgan has done nothing but pray for Alax's safety for the past couple of days, the gnomes return to work for Gareth; 5th: (end of day of 4th colony time) Alax returns to settlement, Alax speaks to Natan then gives copies of survey notes to Hellen before returning to Hullack, Alax and Morgan make love then sleep the day away, Astra senses the pleasure from Morgan and gets it on with Raymond, near dinnertime Jewel visits Jullian to tell her that Silverymoon is under attack by strange golems and asked for help from allies so Cormyr is helping, the golems have been encountered up and down the Sword Coast, it is unknown where the golems come from and cannon seems to be the only weapon effective against the golems. |
| 20051126 | 2 Hammer 1384 | 3 Hammer 1384 (Hullack) 4 Hammer 1384 (Colony) |
2nd: Alynna takes the day off to spend with her spouses, Midnight tells Alynna and spouses that Alycia and Quintin were married the previous evening, Edmund goes boar hunting for Jenni, Alycia and Quintin visit Alynna about noon, Storm takes Alycia to Roderic's home to collect her things and tell Roderic and Ann of the elopment, Quentin arranges with Henric to rent one of the noble-class inn rooms for a year, Ūmaryl has an attack of foul-smelling flatulence; 3rd: Alynna rises early to fix breakfast for Elron's & Jenni's birthday before going to temple, a demonic visitor intrudes on Astra's and Morgan's spellscribing to offer adventure then when turned down makes threats against Alax, Astra and Morgan visit Alynna to tell her of the demonic visitor, based on the description Alynna identifies the visitor as Graz'zt and warns the twins to avoid any dealings with him; 4th: Alax and expedition encounter a patrol of moon elves who have captured a female dusk elf spy and stripped her and bound her to make sure she had no weapons and could not attack, Alax and expedition return to the town at the end of the afternoon (pre-dawn of the 5th Hullack time). |
| 20051125 | 30 Nightal 1383 | 1 Hammer 1384 | 30th: Alycia indicates to Henric that she's in a hurry to get married to Quentin; 1st Hammer 1384: Alycia spends the night with Quintin in an inn room but claims nothing more than talk happened, Storm brings breakfast to Alynna, Morgan teleports to the expedition to bring Alax and Malic back, Roderic escorts Elron to the temple where he talks with Alycia briefly, Alynna and Elron are remarried without incident, the family celebrates at the inn, Alax Morgan and Sue leave the reception early, Alycia and Quintin sneak off and Aleethia goes after them, Aleethia returns after polymorphing Alycia into a rabbit, Roderic takes offense at the prank and gets in an argument with Aleethia, Alycia gets her fill of both of them and runs off, Damin tells Roderic that he thinks his wife is expecting a girl, Morgan takes Alax and Malic back to the colony near sunset Hullack time (just after sunrise colony time), Alynna and spouses return home for the evening. |
| 20051119 | 29 Nightal 1383 | 30 Nightal 1383 | 29th: Morgan gives her testimony to Heather, Astra and Morgan show dislike for Jerrid then leave, Gareth advises Jerrid to be careful around the Royal ladies, Jullian and Morgan talk, Storm tells Alynna that she plans to rest in Hullack for a while, after supper Elron teleports to the colony and gives Alax and Malic the orders to attend the wedding and talks with them for a while, Elron returns home to his wives with champagne and treats after which they all spend the night together; 30th: Morgan is summonned to the palace to hear the Lantan response to the message Heather Laspeera and the other Emmarask crafted, the Lantans no longer want her head but her tongue, Jewel sees hope for negotiations, Jewel and Jullian go shopping for wedding gifts, Jewel purchase sapphire & diamond earrings for Alynna, Jewel and Jullian have to negotiate with Lord Ebonhawk to buy a saddle being made for him, Jullian buys an exquisite masterwork set of ivory carving tools, Edmund Kat and Izak arrive home to learn of the wedding, Edmund feels guilty when he learns Adeara had no meat in the house, Edmund and family go to inn for supper. |
| 20051118 | 29 Nightal 1383 | 29 Nightal 1383 | 29th: Gareth learns from Jerrid that the gnomes have stopped all work on cannon, Gareth learns from the head smith that a great inventor was murdered and that the Crown of Cormyr was shielding the suspect either Astra or Morgan from justice and the gnomes won't return to work until justice is done, Gareth goes to see Jewel to tell her the story, Jewel summons Astra and Morgan, the twins reveal that it was a mission from Mystra and are unapologetic about it, Gareth assembles Heather, Laspeera and some historian Emmarasks to draft an explanatory letter to the Lantanna. |
| 20051112 | 28 Nightal 1383 | 28 Nightal 1383 | 28th: Alynna and Elron continue going around informaing family and close friends of their remarriage, Flonna agrees to perform the ceremony, Malcom Truesilver writes orders for Alax and Malic to return home to attend and agrees to invite the Crownsilvers and Huntsilvers but no other nobles or political figures, Sasha is expecting another child, Alynna and Elron go to Waterdeep to invite Khelben and learn of a blackmail plot against Khelben that might involve Sara and Gantrin's brewery, Alynna gets a wedding dress then they visit Sara and Malic and learn that thugs robbed them and expect a continual cut of their earnings, the thugs threatened Sara with rape and castrated Gantrin, Alynna and Elron begin investigating who hey might be and ask Durin to help, Storm returns home this evening after exposing herself as a spy and feigning death. |
| 20051111 | 27 Nightal 1383 | 27 Nightal 1383 | 27th: Morgan goes to see Mystra alone at about noon and returns nervous - she has some secret tasks she is supposed to so specifically alone, Astra doesn't like it but has no choice but to accept it, several hours later Astra senses Morgan is wounded and goes to her, Morgan was shot through by a gnome with a firearm when Morgan destroyed some invention of his that threatened the Weave, Jullian heals Morgan up, Astra feeds Morgan's babies while she sleeps, the day passes uneventfully for Edmund and group except for chasing off a couple of poachers, Elron is late for dinner so he can finish enspelling a baby blanket that will generate a comfortable level of warmth permanently, Jenni spends the night with Alynna; 28th: Morgan wakes up feeling better and tells a little more (but not much detail) about her mission, Astra and Morgan resume their scrollwork, Elron gives Alynna a wakeup call and asks Alynna to marry him, after talking with Naladar and Andrhel Alynna accepts and sets the wedding day to be their 25th anniversary (1 Hammer), Elron gets Storm to come home to receive the news and Storm plans to end her spy mission in time for the wedding, Elron and Alynna begin telling the family. |
| 20051022 | 26 Nightal 1383 | 27 Nightal 1383 | 26th: Astra talks Maddie out of painting her and Morgan in togas, Morgan and Astra sit for the first posing session, Sue's eyesight has fully returned by now, Shar visits Julling and tries to tempt her but Jullian successfully resists, Selūne visits Jullian and the children, Edmund Kat and Izak continue to search and teach Izak in the process, they find tracks and follow them to one of the wayward Malarite priests, Edmund talks to the priest before killing him without getting a scratch himself; 27th: Jullian wakes up in the second bedroom to find all the younger children in bed with her. |
| 20051021 | 25 Nightal 1383 | 26 Nightal 1383 | 25th: At dinner Alax finds that Morgan used a cantrip to dye her hair blonde, after dinner Alax goes to the colony to lead the survey expedition out of town, Sue Jullian and Morgan talk while tending to personal hygeine, Morgan and Jullian visit Astra's house to tell Astra that Maddie will be coming to paint them starting on the morrow, after returning home Jullian goes to bed alone in the second bedroom, Edmund Kat and Izak have an uneventful day searching in the forest, Alax has a good day in the field with the Dragons and Malic is making an exceptional adjutant; 26th: Jullian wakes up to Sue and Morgan as bedmates, during the night the roof above the childrens rooms collapsed so the children are in the master bedroom, Sue reveals that Morgan heard Jullian confide her desires about Morgan to Sue, after breakfast Morgan takes Jullian to Mystra to discuss their problem, Mystra offers a spell to allow them to dream about it without actually doing it but Jullian declines because they should just do the right thing and not give in to their desires. |
| 20051015 | 24/25 Nightal 1383 | 25 Nightal 1383 | Night of 24th/25th: Edmund and Kat wake up Alynna to take them to see Rashan, Rashan agrees to go with them to Malarite temple in Suzail, the Malarite high priest tells them that two wayward priests of Malar have taken to savage killing in Hullak thus disturbing the balance; 25th: Edmund tells Axil what the Suzail Malarite priest told him and the rangers agreed to hunt the wayward Malarites, at breakfast Xander tells his parents that he's going to marry Lirra and that she's pregnant, Axil divides the rangers into teams of three and assigns search areas, Edmund's team will be Kat and Izak since he recommended that Xander stay on close patrol to defend the town, Edmund Kat and Izak gear up and head southeast toward the Realm of Wailing Fog, Alynna makes her monthly visit to Walth's place to examine the prostitutes, Walth was injured when defending Cherri from a rough customer, Alynna treats Cherri's injuries and discovers Therissa is pregnant, during the first day of their search a large brown bear rushes Kat, Izak grapples with the bear while he and Edmund kill it, Lirra has dinner at Elron's house with the family and they discuss each other's families. |
| 20051014 | 23 Nightal 1383 | 24 Nightal 1383 | 23rd: Alynna finishes her conversation with Jullian and Morgan advising against sharing a bed, Morgan and Jullian talk after she leaves, Elron spends the night with Alynna, Morgan stays up most of the night doing research; 24th: Morgan tells Astra that she's trying to learn a Dream spell that she can use to affect someone's dreams but won't reveal details about what she wants it for, in the evening Astra and Raymond have dinner at Alax's keep with Alax and family, Morgan announces her intent to move to the towers to end the rumors and taking her children with her, Alax objects to splitting the family for mere rumors, Morgan agrees to move to a different room in the house, Alax and guests talk after dinner, in the middle of the night Edmund is awakened by a Malarbeat in his bedroom with a message that Edmund's goddess' representative should meet the Malarite high priest in the Suzail temple to Malar, Edmund discusses it with his wives then Lirra the local Mielikkan priest, Xander is with Lirra and Lirra tells Edmund that she's pregnant, Edmund tells Xander to tell his parents then marry Lirra. |
| 20051008 | 15 Nightal 1383 | 23 Nightal 1383 | 15th: Izak and Alynna talk, the extended family gathers at Henrics inn for the welcome-back dinner for Izak, Izak explains fully why he faked his death and left and tells of the dragons he faced and demons he defeated and of how recovering an artifact of Helm earned his redemption, Izak asks Roderic to train him to be a ranger, after dinner Roderic prays to Mielikki for advice and she suggests Edmund do it; 16th: Roderic visits Edmund and Izak to arrange for Edmund to teach Izak, Jewel mentions that a permanent portal between Suzail and the colony will be finished by the end of the month and will be regulated but open to the public, the visit is cut short with Jewel getting amorous towards Izak; 17th: Edmund takes Izak to the colony first thing in the morning (which is late afternoon of the 16th colony-time) and has a brief beginning to training, Sara shows Alynna plans for rebuilding the house exactly the way it was; 20th: Alax has the extended family have a winter solstice dinner in his home, Izak pays the most attention to his children, his wives and Alynna; 21st: Alynna catches Alycia trying to learn a spell beyond her abilities from a book she didn't know had spells in it, she finds that a book on divine magic is actually a disguised spellbook revealed from a command word that Alycia discovered in the cover, Alycia is also impaitent to experience sex but Alynna counsels her to wait, Alycia kisses Alynna passionately to initiate sex but Alynna breaks it off; 23rd: After hearing rumors of intimacy betwen Morgan and Jullian Alynna visits them to investigate, Morgan and Jullian have never done more than sleep in the same bed at the same time but Alynna advises they stop that. |
| 20051007 | 15 Nightal 1383 | 15 Nightal 1383 | 15th: Henric and Izak finish their conversation. |
| 20051001 | 14 Nightal 1383 | 15 Nightal 1383 | Backtrack to 12th: Alax evicts the wizard who caused the flood from the tower he inhabited north of Masoner's Bridge and from his lands; 14th: Alax and wives finish dinner, Morgan takes Alax and Malic to colony then returns to Hullack, Edmund and Kat return home from their task in the forest, Midnight spends the night with Alynna, at colony Alax introduces Malic to all the officers of the regiment and gives him a tour of the city and forts, Alax and Malic begin inital planning for a survey expedition and patrol in strength to Lycosia, Sue Jullian and Morgan talk before Morgan tends to children and Sue and Jullian go to bed, Jullian confides to Sue (and swears her to secrecy) that she has desires for Morgan; 15th: Elron is in a bad mood at breakfast becauase Xander was out all night, Alynna scrys and catches him making love to the Mielikkian priestess at the oak temple, to everyone's surprise Izak joins Elron Alynna and family at breakfast after completing his redemption to Helm, Izak visits Alax at the colony (evening of the 14th colony time), Jullian wakes up early due to the cold and has to relight the fireplace, Sue shows signs of catching a cold, Jullian keeps Sue in bed for the day and casts a remove disease on her, Morgan and Astra decide to resume magical work and begin individual projects, Izak vists Astra and Morgan at Astra's house, Izak arranges a family dinner at the inn for that night, Izak drops an old mithril sword off at Durin's to be repaired. |
| 20050930 | 14 Nightal 1383 | 14 Nightal 1383 | 14th: Storm returns to Yulash right after breakfast, Alynna and Jenni talk, Elron and Midnight take Malic to Alax to serve as Alax's adjutant and Alax accepts him, Garth Umbringer brings one of Alynna's tressym (a female thought dead) back to her, Alynna uses her fire to fully heal the tressym, Alax spends the afternoon talking about the Dragons and the regiment to Malic, Alax and wives have dinner together. |
| 20050924 | 11 Nightal 1383 | 13 Nightal 1383 | 11th: Alynna and Storm are intimate this evening; 12th: Alynna takes storm to see where the house once stood and Damian's ghost makes a visitation to talk with them, Alynna gives the land to Sara so she and Gantrin can build their own home there, at Storm's desire Alynna permanently moves into Elron's house and Storm's room, Alynna shows Storm the statue of the captured Sharran prietess, Alynna and Storm go to the Moonshaes mansion to inform Yasmine about Damian then go shopping before returning home; 13th: the day passes uneventfully for everyone. |
| 20050923 | 8 Nightal 1383 | 11 Nightal 1383 | 8th: Flonna tells Alynna that she is needed - folk from Masoner's Bridge will soon be arriving in town after being flooded out, Alax is informed that Masoner's Bridge was flooded the previous day, Alax organizes the town to provide aid for the Bridge folk as they arrive, the rangers (including Edmund and Kat) are sent out to investigate the cause of the flood; 11th: Edmund and Kat arrive at the Falls of Tumbling Stars to prove the headwaters of the Immerflow are not responsible for the flood and stay to visit with Roderic and family, Alax receives word that a large area of land several miles north of Masoner's Bridge is warm and free of snow and ice due to roaming fire elementals and that a tower is in the center of the clear area, Alax gets Elron and Alynna to investigate with him, Elron and Alynna cast dismissals on several of the fire elementals and seal the portal they came through, then with Alax they confront the mage of the tower, the mage had a cold and wanted to keep warm, Alax makes him agree to pay for all the damages caused by the floods, upon returning to Elron's house Alynna overhears Naladar talking to his father's spirit, after returning home Alax searches the family papers and learns that he has rightful title of ownership of the tower the flooding wizard was at, at dinnertime Storm comes to join Alynna Elrona and family, Sue has been spending nights at the temple instead of Alax's bed since the evening of the 8th and Jullian has stayed with her, Morgan remains with Alax. |
| 20050917 | 1 Nightal 1383 | 8 Nightal 1383 | 1st: Alynna tells the children that their father is gone then settles them into Elron's house for the time being, Elron and Alynna talk, Midnight comes to help Alynna as well, Alax visit Gareth to inquire about the smokepowder used, Gareth tells Alax that * none is missing from his own stores * most nobles keep some smokepowder * House Dauntinghorn is second only to Lantan as a source of smokepowder, Alax tells Jewel of what happened, Jewel goes to Alynna's side to offer comfort, in the evening Lord Cormaeril is the first of the nobles to visit Alynna to offer condolences but he spoils it by trying (and failing) to get her drunk and seduce her (the promptness of his visit implies he spys on the royal family); 2nd: Alynna takes the children to see the ruins of the house to make them understand their father is dead; 8th: Dragons capture a Sharran priestess gating to the ruins of Alynna's house and capture her, Sue wants to burn the prisoner at the stake but Alax takes her to be interrogated in Suzail, the Sharran priestess reveals everything she knows - they are based in Westgate and have a priestess in Suzail and their plan is to wipe out the Chosen of Mystra, imprison Mystra, then attack Selūne, Alax reports this to Jewel and she orders him to give the prisoner to Alynna, Alax takes the priestess to Alynna who then turns her to stone for storage. |
| 20050916 | Feast of the Moon 1383 | 1 Nightal 1383 | Feast of the Moon: Flonna tells Alax she can't raise Damian because she can't identify a piece that is certain to be him, the dragons recover enough to estimate 20 to 30 barrels of smokepowder were used in the attack, Alynna stops herself from going to pieces, Elron offers Alynna and her children rooms in his house, Alax and a dragon takes the recovered and intact possession of Alynna to Elron; 1st Nightal: Alynna's attempt to resurrect Damian fails and Mystra tells her to honor him by accepting his sacrifice. |
| 20050910 | 15 Uktar 1383 | Feast of the Moon 1383 | 15th Uktar: Mystra reveals that it is she who has started restoring Sue's sight as a reward for helping with Astra and Morgan's birthings in a visit to Sue Jullian and Alax, Mystra visits Alynna then Astra then Morgan, Alynna discovers that Storm has changed her appearance and started hooking for information to accomplish her mission; 18th: Astra visits Tower Lazarac; 19th: Astra and Morgan visit Tower Lazarac with husbands and babies; Feast of the Moon: During the feast, a number of servants of Shar use barrels of smokepowder to blow up Alynna's house, the Sharrans botch the attempt and kill themselves but also destroy the house and kill Damian and a number of pets Alynna is heartbroken, Alax coordinates the investigation; |
| 20050909 | 1 Marpenoth 1383 | 15 Uktar 1383 | 1st-26th: Morgan is miserable, and Astra is a little less so. 27th: Astra gives birth to an 11 lb. Aluara, Morgan gives birth to Thoric and Tharyl (ll lbs each); 28th: Khelben vistis Astra and Morgan as does Elron and Roderic and families, Alax hosts a celebration dinner; 15th Uktar: Sue reveals she's been having dizzy spells, Alynna examines Sue's eyes and find that her eyes are beginning to be restored |
| 20050905 | 28 Kythorn 1383, afternoon | 1 Marpenoth 1383 | 28th Kythorn: Roderic and Ann talk to Jewel then visit the children, Alynna and family have a quail dinner at Astra's house prepared by Alysan, the purple dragon the Alysan brought home early in the morning brings flowers to Alysan; 29th Kythorn - 20 Eleint: Astra continues scribing scrolls; 23rd Eleint: Astra and Raymond attend the paladin's ball in Waterdeep and have a good time, Raymond takes Alyan to an expensive luxury inn to spend the night; 24th: Astra shops in Waterdeep and visits Khelben and Laeral; 29th: Kandra gives birth to a boy, with Alynna and Heather's assistance; 1st Marpenoth: Kat gives birth to a girl, with Alynna's assistance. |
| 20050903 | 28 Kythorn 1383, morning | 28 Kythorn 1383, afternoon | 28th: Astra awakens to the sound of Alysan and a Dragon passing out drunk in the hallway, at breakfast Alysan admits that she stripped and performed sex acts for money during a bachelor party at Walth's the previous evening, Astra asks Alynna to talk with Aysan and Alynna does so, Alysan decides to stop her wild behavior, Alysan invites Alynna and family to a quail dinner that evening, Storm tells Alynna remotely that her mission is in Yulash, Roderic and Annaria come to check on Alycia's progress, Quintin is caught with his hand up Alycia's dress, Quintin asks Roderic for Alycia's hand in marriage but Roderic declines, Roderic Ann and Alynna discuss with Alycia her progress and personal life, Roderic and Ann take Alycia to the inn for lunch where they find Quintin, Roderic allows Quintin to have lunch with them and finds he's an honorable and respectable sort, Roderic allows Quintin to continue dating Alycia but marriage will have to wait, after lunch Roderic and Ann visit Jewel in Suzail. |
| 20050902 | 27 Kythorn 1383, morning | 27 Kythorn 1383, morning | 27th: Alysan helps Alynna clean up the marilith corpses and they talk, Alysan reveals that she takes money for sex on the side and that she and Storm think Alynna is having an affair with Ice, Alynna tries to talk Alysan out of prostitution and the false rumor but doesn't get far, Alynna talks with Storm to make sure she knows she is not Ice's lover and tell her about Alysan's problem, Storm tells Alynna to deal with Alysan as she has a mission for Mystra she's leaving on. |
| 20050827 | Late Kythorn, 1383 | 27 Kythorn 1383, morning | 20th Kythorn: Two mariliths meet with Damian in an attempt to coerce him into making some powerful magic item for them but their threat against his children fails, Alynna discusses it with him Elron and Storm and plans the next attempt of the demons to use Alynna against Damian; 27th: The two mariliths return to coerce Damian with Alynna's life but Damian refuses them, the mariliths come after Alynna but she meets them and kills them in spell battle, Damian mentions that the mariliths had claimed to want a powrful golem built for Orcus, Alynna properly disposes of the marilith's bodies. [Alynna gets 146XP for single-handedly killing two mariliths.] |
| 20050826 | 1st tenday, Mirtul 1383 | Late Kythorn, 1383 | 1st tenday: Astra and Morgan continue scribing scrolls, Moradin's anvil and hammer allows Durin to make product faster; 2nd tenday: Alynna finishes carving the ivory focus for Morgan's new spell, Morgan tries the spell and is pleased, Alynna recommends waiting until Morgan has her babies to begin making the magic item; Early Kythorn: Astra begins showing; Late Kythorn: Astra begins getting swollen ankles and backaches. |
| 20050820 | 1 Mirtul 1383 | 1st tenday, Mirtul 1383 | 1 Mirtul: Morgan takes chocolates and a dress she bought to Astra, Morgan and Astra decide to scribe scrolls for a while; During first tenday of Mirtul: Alax discusses current situation in colony with Natan then meets with Hellen to discuss the map she's drawing. |
| 20050819 | Greengrass 1383 | 1 Mirtul 1383 | Greengrass: Annaria and Jewel have words about Jewel's recent behavior, the family has a generally great time, Storm and Alysan play a duet for the family, Elron had initially not invited Ice, but Roderic (and the other rangers of the family) see her watching from the forest and Roderic talks Elron into inviting her in, Alynna gives an ivory carving she made to Storm; 1 Mirtul: Alax and wives have breakfast in bed, after which Morgan and Jullian plan to go shopping in Suzail during the morning. |
| 20050813 | 24 Tarsakh 1383 | Greengrass 1383 | 24th Tarsakh: Morgan successfully completes the spell Morgan's Dimensional Dwelling, Morgan talks Alynna into applying her woodcarving skills to ivory and brings her test pieces to practice on, Alynna examines Morgan and discovers she's carrying twins, Mystra visits the twins and Alynna, Astra and Morgan shop in a run-down section of Suzail that is surprisingly friendly, Jerrid inconsiderately celebrates his birthyday by getting drunk with soldier friends rather than with his family, Jerrid visits Alax for a while to drink and tell stories then Alax has guards take him home when he passes out, Jerrid attempts to have his way with Kandra in the colony but she lays him out cold, Gareth and Heather take Jerrid home to sleep it off; 25th: Jerrid promises to stop drinking and reveals the reason he drank heavily was the pain from his old war wounds; Greengrass: The festival goes well; Edmund and Jewel participate in archery contests, Alax jousts a bit but not competitively, Raymond and Elron joust in tournament, Raymond is injured in an accident but is healed, a farmer from Masoner's Bridge wins the joust. |
| 20050812 | 30 Alturiak 1383 | 24 Tarsakh 1383 | 30th: Tauivae's birthday is celebrated and Jullian heads the ceremony to accept Rasha Yandress as an acolyte; 1st Ches: Morgan is sick in the morning and learns she got pregnant the same day Astra did; Ches - Tarsakh: Roderic returns to the retreat but regularly visits Jewel and Rendel in Suzail, Rendel is better but has permanently retired and is writing a book, Astra and Morgan continue doing spell research with Ice's aid, Dauntinghorn finishes building the Avanguard's sister ship and launches it, Thistle and Markus are expecting again, Jullian spends more than half her time in the colony house and permanent staff have been hired there. |
| 20050806 | 29 Alturiak 1383 | 29 Alturiak 1383 | 29th: Alynna and Jewel continue to talk, Alynna scryes on Gwynn to find her safely in bed with a strange man apparently in Waterdeep, Alynna heads off a seduction attempt by Jewel, Astra and Morgan continue spell research begun on the 25th with Ice's help, Alax visits the colony and talks with Yandress, Yandress mentions that his 14-year-old daughter Rasha has run away some time ago after being caught by her aunt with a boy in her bed, Rasha comes to the Selūnite temple to ask Jullian to accept her as an acolyte and Jullian agrees after questioning her, Damian gives Astra and Morgan an arcane version of the druid Heat Metal spell and a dutch oven enspelled with it, Astra learns more about what Damian was like under the curse, Alax makes arrangements to bring Commodore Yandress to Hullack tomorrow so he can watch his daughter Rasha's acceptance ceremony. |
| 20050805 | 24 Alturiak 1383 | 29 Alturiak 1383 | 24th: Alax and patrol set out later than he had wanted but arrive at the cave by noon, Edmund is attacked by a beast of Malar in panther form but he grapples the beast and breaks its neck, Alax convinces the priest of Malar to leave Hullack without a fight, Jullian is not pleased that Alax let the priest leave unharmed, Alax has the patrol follow the priest until he enters the Thunder Peaks and leaves Cormyr before turning back; 28th: Alax and patrol return to Hullack town, Jullian tells Sue of the expedition and Sue is similarly displeased with Alax's actions, Edmund's wives try to talk him into getting better armor, in the Colony Hector returns to port from his patrol and reports to the commodore before finding Kandra and ravishing her, Kandra tells him she's pregnant; 29th: Damin starts making a dagger with a wolf's head etched into the blade for Edmund to commemorate his fight, Sue is particularly good at quarterstaff sparring with Alynna, Alynna finds Jewel at the palace beating Lord Creth up for impugning Rhigaerd's father, Alynna convinces him of the truth then peacefully escorts him out of the palace, Alynna and Jewel talk. [Edmund gets 1,400XP for killing the beast of Malar single-handedly in grappling hand-to-paw combat.] |
| 20050730 | 22 Alturiak 1383 | 24 Alturiak 1383 | 22nd: Durin has a talk with Damin to make sure he understands the honor and responsibility of working on Moradin's anvil and declares him no longer an apprentice but a journeyman, Damin chooses to stay with Durin rather than establishing his own shop, Goom has Durin sharpen his axe then tells Alax that he's killed his third beast of Malar this month after killing two last month, Alax is disturbed and orders Axil and Edmund to investigate; 23rd: Axil and Edmund find a cave in the forest in the morning in which a priest of Malar resided, Axil and Edmund get away without being detected and start back for home to report, Alynna spends her 44th birthday with Damian during the day (exloring ruins on Menaria) and with Storm during the evening (something more personal), Astra and Morgan finish learning and scribing the secure shelter spell, Astra finds Raymond gone when she gets home but he left Ice to watch over her, Raymond had gone to attend a meeting of his order; 24th: Raymond returns home to say that he and Astra will be attending a ball for paladins that Lord Piergieron is hosting in seven months, Astra and Morgan try out their new spells and evaluate their potential for enspelling into a magic item, Astra discovers that Ice used to be an assassin. |
| 20050729 | 20 Alturiak 1383 | 21 Alturiak 1383 | 20th: Towards the end of the day a man sells Durin an old dwarven hammer for ten silver falcons, Durin reads runes on the hammer that say 'key to the Forge of Life', Alynna confirms Durin's suspicion that the hammer is an artifact of Moradin, Storm is reunited with her once-wayward daughter Ice, Morgan enjoys a second anniversary celebration with Alax; 21st: Alynna takes Durin to the plane of Dwarfhome to return the hammer to Moradin, Moradin teaches Durin some smithing secrets and helps him build a magical hammer and anvil of his own to make magical weapons the way the dwarves of old did, Storm tells Alynna of her reunion with Storm, Roderic allows a knight with romantic interests to see Jewel but she turns him away, Ice comes to Alynna at night to try to seduce her but Alynna turns her away |
| 20050723 | 17 Alturiak 1383 | 20 Alturiak 1383 | 17th: Alynna gets Roderic to stay at the palace with Jewel for a while; 18th: Alynna gets a nice wakeup call from Damian, Naladar snuck in during the night to take Alynna's best necklace from her jewelry box so he could draw it, Alax begins planning for Morgan's 2nd anniversary dinner and buys her a gold diamond and star sapphire necklace as a present while Morgan spends the day with Astra discussing a new magic item project, Lord Emlar Goldsword has an audience with Jewel to propose a marraige with his son but Jewel vociferously rejects the proposal and insists he leave by the window, Roderic learns that Jewel is intimate with two of her guards and that she had herself sterilized, in court Roderic has an encounter with the Cormaeril patriarch, Astra and Morgan visit Alynna to get a spell for a magic item idea they had and talk about it, Morgan reveals that she has an innate talent to do a teleport trace, Morgan shows an interest in the idea of twins sharing a man, Alynna gives them a Leomund's Secure Shelter spell in return for a service at an unspecified later date, Edmund and family learn that Kat is pregnant; 19th: Astra uses an empathic sharing spell on herself and Raymond before lovemaking and the two of them are amazing; 20th: Astra and Morgan resume work on learning the secure shelter spell. |
| 20050722 | 16 Alturiak 1383 | 17 Alturiak 1383 | 16th: Alynna goes to talk to and have intimate time with Storm, Alynna joins Damian and children in the Moonshaes mansion, Damian is trying to put distance between Willis and the children because Willis taught Ūmaryl a dirty word, Willis had also lied to Damian in telling him Alynna had an affair with him; 17th: Gareth and Malcom talk about Jewel during one of their chess matches, Willis tries to bed Jewel but Alynna hears (because her name was spoken), Alynna and Storm prevent the event from happening, Alynna and Jewel talk and Jewel reveals she's been fixed at Malcom's suggestion, Gwynn is said to be on a mission to Amn for Mystra, Alynna and Storm escort Willis home. |
| 20050716 | 6 Alturiak 1383, afternoon | 16 Alturiak 1383 | 6th: Alynna and Velunna talk; 9th: After a few days of resting Astra visits Khelben, Morgan learns Alynna's Empathic Sharing spell and uses it on Alax; 10th: Morgan and Astra talk, Raymond introduces his visiting Uncle (by marriage) Alexster who is seeking the blood of a rare wolf to cure an outbreak of plague in Hultail, Astra directs Alexster to ask the rangers, Astra and Morgan tell Alynna of the visit, Alynna goes to Hultail to investiate and stays to tend to the plague-stricken people, Alynna has the healthy part of the town quarantine both itself from the outside and the sick part from the healthy part; 13th: Alexster returns with the blood of a Hullack dire wolf, the mage Gultran uses it (and other ingredients) to make an effective cure for the plague he learned in the far east, Alynna maintains the quarantine just to be sure the spread is halted, Gultran turns out to be talkative; 16th: Alynna is satisfied the threat of the plague is over so lifts the quarantine, Alynna goes to the palace to report the event but finds Jewel in bed with her two guards and all in a drunken sleep, Alynna is quite annoyed and rudely interrupts them, Alynna lectures Jewel about her irresponsibility, over breakfast Alynna fills Jewel in about the plague outbreak in Hultail. |
| 20050715 | 6 Alturiak 1383, very early morning | 6 Alturiak 1383, afternoon | 6th: Morgan tells that her kidnappers sought directions to the secret Obarskyr family vault to retrieve some crown, the kidnappers were Dragon Cultists who sought an artifact called the Crown of Ages along with the Rod of Antarack and Key of Zaradoom, the group returns to their homes, Alynna tends to Morgan then Astra, Astra reads a diary found on the ex-war wizard cultist to learn that they want to bring back Sammaster using the artifacts, Astra calls Khelben to tell him this, Khelben says that the Key of Zaradoom is to a magical device that can bring back even a soul whose phylactery was destroyed, in the afternoon Velunna visits Morgan and talks with her and Jullian. |
| 20050709 | 4 Alturiak 1383 | 6 Alturiak 1383, very early morning | 4th: Alax spends remainder of morning at Royal Court, during which he talks with Jerrid Dauntinghorn and convinces him not to see Jewel any more, Astra and Raymond make love during lunch and she conceives a girl, Alax and Morgan make love simultaneously in their own home; 5th: Astra and Morgan visit Laeral and Khelben in Waterdeep, Laeral suggests the two of them could accompany a gold shipment to Neverwinter but Khelben strenuously objects to Morgan abandoning her newborn, Khelben suggests a shorter task aiding him, the twins agree and go with him to the City of the Dead in Waterdeep but find another adventuring group already completed the task, one of the other group was an ex-war wizard who recognized Astra; 6th: In the very early morning hours Morgan is kidnapped from her bed, Astra is awakened by her fear and goes to Alax's house to see what's wrong, Astra and Alax discover Morgan's gone, Astra scrys and discovers the other adventuring group she Morgan and Khelben met the previous day has her and is torturing her for information about the Obarskyr vault, Astra informs Khelben and Laeral and they pass word, Khelben Elron and Storm show up in Alax's house, Alax Jullian Astra Raymond Khelben Elron and Storm teleport to where Morgan is being held to kill all the kidnappers and rescue her. Recapping Hector's explorations: 22 Hammer: Hector arrives at port city, and observes it before continuing southward. 26 Hammer: Hector encounters a dusk elven ship but it flees from him; he lets it go. Midwinter: Hector discovers two-river inlet and anchors there overnight; 3 Alturiak: Hector encounters ghoul town; 10 Alturiak: Hector reaches 10°S. |
| 20050708 | 4 Alturiak 1383 | 4 Alturiak 1383 | 4th: Alax visits Jewel with a copy of the Circle charter, Jewel has black eyes and a broken nose, Alax presses Jewel about her injuries until she says that Jerrid Dauntinghorn did it while having his way with her, Alax tries to advise Jewel about appearing strong for the sake of the kingdom if she wants to see her son in the throne but Jewel doesn't appear to get it, Jewel approves the Circle charter with the modifications Alax made, Astra and Morgan continue their talk, Morgan suggests the two of them go out adventuring on their own and suggests that Khelben might have some tasks for them, Astra and Morgan visit Alynna, Alynna suggests using a spell to get Astra pregnant, Astra discusses it (and the adventuring) with Raymond and he agrees, Alynna uses the conception spell on Astra. |
| 20050704 | 4 Alturiak 1383 | 4 Alturiak 1383 | 4th: Astra and Morgan continue their discussion of Alax, Astra uses spell to discover she has not become pregnant this month. |
| 20050702 | 30 Hammer 1383 | 4 Alturiak 1383 | 30th: Alynna and Morgan finish their conversation, Morgan returns to the colony where she tells her spouses that Astra agreed to conceive, the day is spent preparing for the dinner with the leader of the elven and dwarven settlements, the dinner goes exceedingly well, Alax discusses the politics with the elven and dwarven leaders and the nature of the long-past Circle then initially agrees to a rebirth of the Circle, Morgan spends the night in the library while Alax pleases his other two wives; 3rd: Alax learns Morgan is preparing to make a wand, Alax asks Morgan to spend the night with him and she agrees but the experience is not the best because Morgan is trying to shield the feelings from Astra; 4th: Morgan visits Astra, to show him her notes about making a wand and to talk to her about Alax and try to get her past her dislike of Alax. |
| 20050701 | 27 Hammer 1383 | 30 Hammer 1383 | 27th: At bedtime Raymond takes Astra's ring of contraception off and puts it in her jewelry box to indicate he's ready to have a family, Astra goes along with her husband and they begin to try to conceive, Raymond is exceptionally good to Astra; 28th: Morgan notices Astra was given pleasure the previous night; Astra and Raymond try again to conceive; 29th: Astra and Raymond try again to conceive; 30th: Morgan informs Alynna of Astra's agreeing to have a child, Alynna and Morgan discuss Astra. |
| 20050625 | 22 Hammer 1383, morning | 26 Hammer 1383 | 22nd: Alynna casts geases on all present to insure they cannot tell others about Izak's faking his death, little Elron beats up Rhigaerd and gets soundly spanked for it, Elron agrees to be a mentor figure for the boys, Alynna talks with Jewel before returning to Hullack, in late afternoon Alax visits Jewel while she's getting a massage to speak of colony politics, after Alax leaves Jewel has sex with the masseur, in the evening Alax tells his wives to plan a formal dinner to which he will invite the elven and dwarven leaders of the communities near the colony, Alax and wives discuss staffing the new house and receive news that the fill-in High Inquisitor has arrested the high priest of Helm for selling state secrets to foreign powers and that the man was actually a priest of Mask masquerading as a priest of Helm, Alynna is also notified of this, because the fill-in high inquisitor has made this widely public; 23rd: Jewel visits Alynna in her bedroom in the early morning to discuss the high inquisitor then has breakfast with Alynna and family, after breakfast Jewel has both the priest of Mask and the high inquisitor executed, Alynna spends time with little Elron and Rhigaerd, Kandra visits Gareth to show him her initial house plans that are far too small for a noble house, Garth shows her around Dauntinghorn House then she goes to a local draftsman, in the late afternoon (Hullack time) Alax goes to the colony (where it's morning) to invite the elven and dwarven leaders nearby to a dinner at his house on the 30th, Alax tells Ragosh to hire more guards for the new house, Jullian Sue and Morgan start looking for more house staff, Morgan hires another nanny this day; 26th: Kandra gets the plans for a much bigger house but is extremely overcharged for the plans. |
| 20050624 | 21 Hammer 1383, evening | 22 Hammer 1383, morning | 21st: Alynna finishes her conversation with Izak, after which she takes the king's battle sword home with her and Izak goes on, Alynna lets Damian pamper her with a bath, Izak visits Jullian in the colony temple (morning of 21st colony time), Izak spends the day with Jullian talking with her; 22nd: Alynna takes the sword back to the palace, tells Elron Storm Jenni Jewel Gwynn Elron (the younger) and Rhigaerd that Izak is still alive and why. |
| 20050618 | 25 Nightal 1382 | 21 Hammer 1383 | 25th Nightal: Morgan takes the books to show Astra and tells her of the library; 2nd Hammer: Alax gets word that a peace agreement was reached between Amn and Cormyr; [During the first ride of Hammer Jullian begins living primarily in the colonial mansion and her time in Hullack becomes just frequent visits.] 15th: The first four ships at the colony have completed their repairs, Hector's ship is one of them, Alax sends the four out to explore the coast further (two northward and two southward) while the Avanguard and three other ships remain at the settlement; 16th: Alynna tries with little success to discourage little Elron from his intent to become a blackguard and slaughter the people of Amn, Alynna visits Gwynn to tell her of the problem she perceives; 21st: Jewel comes to visit Jullian in the colony and talk with her, she apoligizes and makes up to Jullian then insists she comes to the palace for a remembrance of Izak, Jullian reluctantly goes but finds that there is still hostility towards her in the palace (much of it from Gwynn), they discover Izak's battle sword is missing, after the remembrance Jullian heads back to the colony but Alynna invites Jewel Gwynn and children to her house for dinner, little Elron is still speaking of killing all Amnians, after her guests leave Alynna scrys on the sword she enspelled to find it in the hands of a black knight defending Hilp from a red dragon, Alynna teleports to the scene to watch the knight defeat the dragon then confronts the knight, Alynna talks to the knight and gets him to at least indirectly admit he is Izak and alive; |
| 20050617 | 21 Nightal 1382 | 25 Nightal 1382 | 21st: Astra and Morgan spend the day at Tower Lazarac, Raymond sends a letter to his order before lunch; 22nd: Raymond receives a quick reply letter then tells Alynna that he intends to leave the temple to join a questing group to prove himself worthy of Astra, Alynna and Flonna try without avail to dissuade him, at home before dinner Raymond tells Astra his intent and she does convince him to stay then makes enthusiastic love to him that night; 25th: Brice sends for Jullian to show her a magical library she found in a hidden vault of the unearthed temple in the colony, Jullian sends for Morgan to show her, Morgan is impressed and borrows two books (summonning and abjuration spellbooks) to examine. |
| 20050611 | 19 Nightal 1382 | 20 Nightal 1382 | 19th: Alax and Jewel finish their talk, Alax returns to the colony, Jewel talks with Roderic for a little while, Edmund and wives talk, Kandra decides to ask for the dockmaster's position at the colony and the Dauntinghorns discuss it and related matters; 20th (Yuletide): Roderic spends the day with Rendel and Willis in the Tallman House in Suzail after rescuing Jewel from an arrogant and amorous younger cousin of Malcom Truesilver, all the Hullack Tallmans and Obarskyrs spend the day together in Alax's home, Damian brings menarian passion fruit as gifts for the adults, Astra is a little bothered by Elron hinting about her having a baby again, Alax and Jullian share a night enhanced by the passion fruit. |
| 20050610 | 19 Nightal 1382 | 19 Nightal 1382 | 19th: Heather starts putting pressure on Kandra over breakfast to stay home (and presumably make grandchildren) and Kandra and Hector discuss her taking a shore job at the colony, Malcom Truesilver summons Hector and asks him to write a detailed report of his tactics during the naval battle, Heather discusses Kandra's request with Alax in the colony (late afternoon colony time), Edmund finds that some loggers have come to cut down tall trees for ship masts and one of the trees is that which Roderic proposed to Rashan under, Edmund tries to stop the loggers from chopping the tree down by using a ranger spell to protect himself and the tree, Alax is sent for to get Alax out of the way, Alax stops by Suzail to bring Jewel with him, Edmund refuses to budge so Alax pulls him away from the tree (the spell is ineffective at stopping him) and the loggers go to work on the tree, Edmund heads home dejected, Alax and Jewel talk. |
| 20050604 | 28 Uktar 1382 | 18 Nightal 1382 | [Hector Dauntinghorn was promoted to commander and given command of one of the captured dusk elven ships. Sometime during the month of Uktar, after the pirate hunter ships arrived, Captain Yandress was promoted to Commodore of the colonial fleet.] 28th: Morgan feels her old self again but Astra has a hangover, Morgan names her daughter Paige, Alax is still working on getting replacements for his men killed in Proskur, in the afternoon Astra visits and meets her neice, Damian takes Alynna and their children to Menaria for a brief vacation and library-searching expedition (Alynna also gets a new psionic crystal ball to replace the one Morgan now has); 29th: Alax and Jullian visit the colony for the first time since returning from the raid to see the defense preparations and their finished house, Natan and Hellen are both recovering from a rather serious spat; Feast of the Moon: Jewel hosts a ball in the palace for all the nobles which nearly all the nobles attend, a few young noblemen try to hit on the newly widowed queen with no success, Jullian is hurt when little Rhigaerd blames her for his father's death, Lord Cormaeril makes an ass of himself trying to get into Jewel's bedroom after the ball is over; 1st Nightal: Jullian begins moving some family things into their new colonial house, with Morgan's help; 5th: Morgan sees in her scrying that Sedric's fleet is a tenday out from the colony and tells Alax, Alax and Morgan go to the colony to tell Commodore Yandress and he sails out immediately, Alax spends some time walking and talking with Jullian; 2nd-4th: Morgan keeps Yandress updated with Sedric's position through sending spells; 10th: Commodore Yandress and Sedric meet in battle during early afternoon colony-time, Yandress is victorious, taking two amnian ships as prizes after sinking 15 at the cost of 8 of his own ships, Sedric is killed as his ship burns and sinks, Kandra is very badly wounded, any living sailors in the water of either side are rescued; 18th: Yandress' remaining fleet of 6 ships and two prizes arrives back at the colony in the morning, Alax and Jewel are both there to greet the returning ships, many are a little shocked at the gruesome casualties from the first battle between two cannon-armed fleets, Hector takes Kandra home to Dauntinghorn House where Heather removes all of her scarring, they discuss the possibility of her quitting the Blue Dragons, Alax arranges to have the Amnian prisoners sent back to Cormyr; |
| 20050603 | 1 Uktar 1382 | 27 Uktar 1382 | 1st: The three pirate-hunter class ships Izak ordered sent in Alturiak arrive at the colony; 2nd: Alax and the oversword finish making their plans, one of Jewel's rangers tries to kidnap her by getting her to touch a twig enspelled with a teleport but Alynna sees it's magical and prevents Jewel from touching it, Morgan is angry that Alax sent her back home; 3rd: The battle of Proskur begins at first light as the Amnian solders posing as merchants begin attacking the townsfolk, Alax and his regiment are quickly called into battle, Alax and regiment fight to protect the townsfolk as much as to defeat the Amnians and win the battle after bitter fighting, an anonymous black-armored knight on horseback appears and gives aid to the Purple Dragons then disappears after the battle, Alax loses 250 dead and 150 wounded out of his regiment of 600 and is seriously wounded in the side and right thigh himself but the townsfolk suffer only 100 dead and 400 injured, the entire Amnian force of 1000 was killed to the last man, after hearing the news Alynna sleeps in the palace, at dinner Alax asks Alysan to give the ball to Morgan so she can scry more on Sedric; 15th: Alax gets a lengthy report from Natan about the status of the colony and explains that in a spat between them Hellen tore up his other reports the past month before they could be sent; 27th: Morgan goes into labor prematurely and delivers a baby girl after hours of difficult and painful labor, while elsewhere Astra gets drunk on brandy trying to dull the pain; |
| 20050528 | 22 Eleint 1382 | 2 Uktar 1382 | 22nd: Morgan goes to pray with Jullian, Alax and Elron drink together, Alynna tells why she cannot have Izak raised then goes to see Jewel, Alynna casts a communion to learn that Izak indeed cannot be resurrected and in fact his soul is still on Toril by his own choice and he cannot move on, Jullian stays at the temple praying all night and Morgan stays with her; 23rd: The day passes quietly and in mourning, Alynna begins spending evenings with Jewel to help and advise her; 24th: Elron gathers the entire family to have a goodbye lunch for Izak, Alynna completely ignores Jullian except for an angry glare when first seen, Morgan makes Jullian return home after lunch and gets Alax to comfort her, Jewel learns of what Laspeera and the inquisitor discovered about the seer and she tells Alynna that evening, Jewel and Alynna make plans then Jewel summons Alax, Jewel gives Alax command of a reinforcement regiment for Proskur then assigns Laspeera's assistant war wizard Tara to him for teleports, Alax has an introductory meeting with the oversword commanding the Proskur garrison. 25th: A cleric of Helm from Suzail visits Alynna to reveal he told Izak to relinquish the throne and spend his life doing Helm's work, this combined with her commune leads Alynna to believe that Izak did indeed choose to becomea guardian spirit or watchghost; 26th: Alysan sees through scry that her former 'husband' the leader of Amn has heard of Izak's death and celebrates it; 27th: Jullian hosts a smaller birthday party for Shaelyn than she had planned, just for the immediate family and not inviting guests, Morgan joins Jullian in the guest bedroom and they talk then sleep; 28th: Alax takes his horse Steel through a portal to take command of a cavalry regiment with attached archers in the Goblin Marches in the company of Tara; 30th Eleint: Alax meets up with the cavalry regiment and assumes command, then has Sue and Morgan brought to join him; 15th Marpenoth: Sue gives birth to a boy; 18th Marpenoth: Alynna finishes enspelling Alax's sword, Storm takes her to the Goblin Marches so she can give it to Alax; 2nd Uktar: Alax is relieved by the regular commander of the cavalry regiment (who has just recovered from an extended illness/injury) and Alax starts home, Alysan discovers vital information while scrying on her former 'husband' the Amnian leader has given orders to have Jewel kidnapped from her bedroom this night and Proskur attacked at sunrise tomorrow, Jullian relays this information to Alynna who goes and tells Jewel, Jewel sends word to the oversword in Proskur while Alynna gets Alax and takes him to Proskur, Alynna returns to Jewel in Suzail, Alax and the oversword make plans for the battle on the morrow. |
| 20050527 | 21 Eleint 1382 | 22 Eleint 1382 | 21st: The breakfast conversation continues, Izak gives Alax command of a cavalry regiment with attached archers in the Goblin Marches, Jullian criticizes Izak and Alax gives advice, Izak insults Jullian in response to her criticism then leaves, Izak visits Alynna and they have a nice conversation in which they talk about Alax's career and Alynna suggests Izak try to mend fences, Izak visits Astra briefly, Izak sends a gift of moonberry wine as an apology for his words but she sends it back because it doesn't address his larger sins; 22nd: Izak resends the moonberry wine along with chocolates and a note lacking in remorse for Eshpurta, Jullian accepts it but sends a letter telling him he must seek redemption to regain her favor, in the evening two Black Dragons come for Jullian, Alax goes with Jullian as the Black Dragons take her to see Laspeera and an Inquisitor in the palace, they search the seer's guest room and find a book written in Infernal that reveals the seer was an agent of Amn and that Amn sacrificed Eshpurta just to make Cormyr look bad and demoralized, Amn still plans to attack Cormyr later, Alax and Jullian return home to find two Royal Guards waiting for them, the two guards deliver Izak's heart in a box to Jullian and say that Izak ordered them to kill him to show his desire to atone, Izak appointed Jewel to be regent for Rhigaerd until he's old enough, Jullian goes to her temple to pray, Alax gathers the family to his office to tell them the news and all are shocked, Alynna blames Jullian for sending the letter; |
| 20050521 | 19 Eleint 1382 | 21 Eleint 1382 | 19th: Willis leaves Astra to tell Elron of what he figured out, Elron and Willis go to Alynna to discuss the matter then bring Astra in on the discussion, Astra learns that her blood could also be used to harm another of divine blood, Astra goes to warn Mystra then returns to Hullack, Astra gives Elron a sample of her blood too to use against Shar in the seer's guise, Elron goes to get rid of the seer, in the Inn a pair of dragons tell of what happened in Eshpurta and don't understand how they got swept up in doing it, many are apalled and Damin seeks confirmation from Alax, Alax confirms it then goes to the inn to try to calm the people and keep the peace, Danya doesn't like Faeryl's presence at all but Alax tries to keep peace there too; 20th: Alax awakes to learn that Rahsmai is dead by Elron's hand, Izak confronts Alynna at breakfast and demands to know her involvement in Rahsmai's murder and Alynna tells her she discussed it but played no active part, Izak announces he will execute Elron in one hour, Alynna walks with Izak to try to talk him out of that and to get him to see that Rahsmai was only using him, Alynna nearly makes a breakthrough but Izak holds on to Rahsmai's influence, Izak has a cleric try to resurrect Rahsmai but the failure of that begins to bring Izak around, Alynna spends the rest of the day talking with Izak, then discovers Elron's on the rack and gets Izak to release him, Alynna has Izak for dinner at her house, Sara is hesitant to cook for him, Izak heads to the inn to stay for the evening; 21st: Izak goes to visit Alax and wives at breakfast to try to make things right with all of them, but Jewel and Alax's wives are hesitant. |
| 20050520 | 19 Eleint 1382 | 19 Eleint 1382 | 19th: Jewel and Izak continue to talk of the recent terrible events, a Purple Dragon announces Faeryl Xarann (drow cleric of Kiaransalee) is a liaison betwen the Royal Chaplain and Alax by order of Izak, Sue and Jewel don't like her presence at all while she talks with Alax, Faeryl goes to wait at the inn while Alax goes to see Izak, Alax has to get permission from the chamberlain before entering the throne room, Izak explains Faeryl's presence as his new policy of tolerating all faiths in his kingdom as well as justifying his attack on Eshpurta and declaring an intent to live forever and insults Sue and Jullian before ordering Alax to take a complete vacation from all duty, Rahsmai visits Astra with four Purple Dragon guards and insists on taking Astra to see Izak, Astra insists on bringing Raymond with her over Rahsmai's objection, Izak tells Astra that Rahsmai's making a potion to greatly extend his life and needs a sample of her blood to make it, Astra finds out that he wiped out Eshpurta and refuses to give her blood then relents only after Izak threatens Raymond then suggests he'll get it from Morgan, Astra heads to her father to tell him of Izak's misdeeds before returning home, Elron sends Willis to watch over Astra, Willis discovers that Rahsmai's name backwards spells 'I am Shar'. |
| 20050514 | 15 Eleasias 1382 | 19 Eleint 1382 | 15th: Sue is in a better mood and Jewel visits Hullack to talk with Alax then Jullian, Jewel told Alax that Izak left with the troops on a show of force for Amn, Morgan relieves horniness with Alax; 12th Eleint: Jewel visits Alax to tell that there's been no word from Izak for a tenday, Gwynn takes the royal children to stay with Roderic for a while, Izak returns to Suzail and summons Jewel and Alax to see him, Izak has a new 'seer,' Rahsmai, Izak exhibits a change of attitude and orders Alax to lead an army to raze the Amnian city of Eshpurta, Alax asks too many questions advises against it and wants to know more about Rahsmai so Izak dismisses him, Izak is angry with Jewel that she sent the children away; 13th: Alax learns that the razing mission was given to an oversword he didn't particularly like, Alax talks with Malcom and finds Malcom was relieved of duty because he also objected, after an altercation with Izak Jewel is stripped naked and changed to the royal bed, Alax speaks with Izak then Jewel then gets Izak to allow him to take Jewel into exile in Hullack, Alax takes Jewel to Hullack where they talk about Morgan and Astra, Jewel visits Astra to learn that Astra feels some hatred for Alax because he reminds her of being raped by the alter-Alax, Jewel speaks with Alynna about Astra's feelings but Alynna is little help; 19th: Jewel brings Astra sweet rolls as a peace offering and tells Astra of Rahsmai but Astra refuses to discuss her anger for Alax, Alax gets a message that Eshpurta is burning and most of the people are dead, Sue then Jewel discuss it with him. |
| 20050507 | 12 Eleasias 1382 | 14 Eleasias 1382 | 12th: The married members of the group enjoy their spouses on their first night home; 13th: Izak comes to tell Alax what Alysan has done and Alax is horrified, Bryant and Zane pick up and pay for the longswords they had commissioned from Durin back in Tarsakh, Izak visits Alynna while she's teaching Alysan, Izak tells her that Alysan was sterilized for her treason and will be sent to hard labor in a mining colony and Alynna is upset, Alynna and Izak part after arguing, Izak goes to Henrics inn to get drunk, Alynna tells Storm what Izak told her, Storm goes to ask Alax to intercede on Alysan's behalf and manages to convince him to with the conditions that Alysan help in the battle and Alynna enchant Alax's thundersteel sword, Alax takes the drunk Izak back to the palace then gets Izak to release Alysan to him, Alax visits Alysan and learns what's been done to her, Alax takes her home, Jullian heals Alysan's surgery, Sue think Alysan deserved it while Jullian and Morgan disagree, Alynna and Storm spend the night together; 14th: Alynna starts enspelling Alax's sword, Alysan scrys on her Amnian 'husband' and nobles and learns she was lied to and used, Morgan scrys on Sedric and learns where he is, Alax buys a very expensive rosewood bed Morgan wants for the new house, Morgan and Jullian talk, Sue orders Alyan out of her house but Jullian has Alysan stay in Morgan's tower, Sue wants to force Alysan to work in a whorehouse when Alax release her and Jullain objects, Morgan then talks with Jullian. |
| 20050506 | 12 Eleasias 1382 | 12 Eleasias 1382 | 12th: The group finishes its dinner at the inn, Astra and Raymond find that Alysan has been gone from the house for some time but no sign she's moved out, Astra tells Alynna, Alynna scrys and sees Alysan in an Amnian harem, Alynna and Storm go get her and bring her back, Alysan informs them that she married the Amnian king three days ago and believes they aren't planning to attack, Alysan shows a great gullibility in buying into the lies of the Amnians and remains convinced of their truth, Alynna comes up with a plan to have Alysan use her ball to scry on the Amnians to discover their plans, Alynna and Storm take Alysan to Izak and tell him what she's done, Izak has Alysan taken away and ignores Alynna's pleas for mercy. |
| 20050430 | 6 Eleasias 1382 | 12 Eleasias 1382 | 3rd Flamerule - 6 Eleasias: Several group members shun Bryant because of his killing of the dryad, and Jullian argues with him over it; 6th: Astra and Alax teleport to Ornrion Dranor to discuss last minute attack plans, Astra and Alax return then prepare for the battle with the group, at late afternoon Dranor arrives with the army and launches directly into the attack, Alax and group attack the point of entry from within the city to destroy siege engines and distract the defenders, the raid is successfully pulled off and ten ships are sized, Jullian is badly wounded by many arrows, Alax and group sail on the last captured ship leaving port, the port facilities are destroyed as the army pulls out to head back over land, Alynna is summoned to heal Jullian's wounds; 6th-12th: The captured ships enjoy smooth sailing and strong favorable winds so make good time back; 12th: The captured ship arrive at the settlement in the predawn hours, the settlement celebrates once its realized Alax is leading the ships, Alax talks with Yandress and Natan then obeys written orders from Izak to return home until two months after Morgan's baby is born, the wives at home are very happy to have the group back and have a hearty dinner at the inn to celebrate. [The nine people in Alax's group get 3,000 XP for the advance scouting and the battle for the city during sessions 0415, 0416, 0422, 0423 and 0430.] |
| 20050429 | 29 Kythorn 1382 | 2 Flamerule 1382 | 29th: Jenni is particularly upset at the graves Xander found. 2nd Flamerule: Xander leaves home to find his own path in the world, Alynna converses with him through a spell but cannot talk him into returning, Xancer says he will study the ranger's life under Joelliana the Dark, Elron exhumes the graves to learn what further clues they might reveal and is depressed by what he finds - Morgan died in child birth and was buried with Astra's locket, Willis and Jullian look to be butchered, and only Astra's diary is in her coffin, Alynna visits Morgan and Sue, then Adaera and Kat, then talks with Elron about what he finds. |
| 20050423 | 29 Kythorn 1382 | 6 Eleasias 1382 | 29th: Ty starts speaking to Edmund of the benefits of having an animal companion; 30th: The group has its first close enounter with a dusk elven patrol but manage to avode being detected; 2nd Flamerule: The group has a minor breakdown of discipline in the form of insulting Alax to relieve boredom for several members; 3rd: The group encounteres a dryad who tries to induce Alax and Raymond to mate with her but Bryant suddenly attacks and kills the dryad, Edmund and Ty are angered at the killing; 9th: Raiding force being led by Ornrion Dranor breaks free of the peninsular forest and enters more open country, that evening Ty tells group they will reach the city tomorrow and tells them something of the mythals; 10th: Alax and group find port city, group enters city during late night and crawls through a sewer to get to an abandoned tower in an uninhabited part of the city to use as a base, Astra has a fit of temper at Alax; 11th: Alax Astra and Amiel teleport to visit with Ornrion Dranor to inform her of the whereabouts of the city, they talk to a group of elves who tell them of the weakness that allowed the dusk elves to take the city in the first place, Alax has the idea to destroy the docks and piers with kegs of smoke powder since the mythal prevents any structure in the city from being destroyed by fire; 12th: Alax and Astra teleport back to settlement to check in with Natan and resupply themselves with food, Alax learns that Morgan had Natan put most the men on completing the house and Alax has him put most of them back on defensive construction, including a seawall; 13th Flam - 6th Eleasias: Alax and group carefully observe city from their hidden base to learn as much as they can; 3rd Eleasias: The city becomes more active as the dusk elves prepare for the approaching army which will reach the city on late afternoon of the 6th; 5th: 10 ships are stocked for sailing, Alax and group discuss ways to sabotage the preparations for both the battle and the ships sailing, Willis spends the night stealing the conning wheels of all the ships; 6th: the dusk elves of the city begin searching for saboteurs. |
| 20050422 | 17 Kythorn 1382 | 28 Kythorn 1382 (colony) 29 Kythorn 1382 (Hullack) |
18th: The group meet's Ty's tiger companion for the first time when he playfully pounces on Astra, the tiger reported a dusk elf patrol a day ahead of them and Alax decides to swerve to avoid them the next day; 19th: Alax and group swerve eastward, hugging the interior edge of the coastal hill country; 21th: Alax and group break out of the forest and continue hugging the edge of the hill country while heading eastward towards the coast; 24th: Alax and group reach the coast at mid-morning. 25th: Alax and group at mid-morning find a ruined town once inhabited by half-elves until slaughtered by dusk elves a few decades ago. 26th: Astra awakens to feeling pain in her left hand and teleports back to Hullack to find that a guard dog had startled Morgan and caused her to cut her fingertips off; 27th: During the day Alas sees two dusk elven ships patrolling at sea and directs the group inland to avoid being spotted; 28th: Alax discusses with Ty what they should expect to see at the target port; 29th: In Hullack Alynna and Morgan talk, Jenni sends for Alynna, Xander has discovered graves in the forest that are marked as belonging to most of their family, the graves appear to have been there for a long time. |
| 20050416 | 7 Kythorn 1382 (Hullack) 9 Kythorn 1382 (Colony) |
17 Kythorn 1382 (Colony) | 7th: Sue visits Alynna and tells of Morgan being miserable, Alynna goes with Damian to view the damage to the Moonshaes mansion and speak with the engineer Damian hired to repair it, Lynnara is waiting for them when they return to Hullack, Lynnara tells Alynna she's heard that Sedric is leading an Amnian fleet westward towards a colony, Alynna takes Lynnara to tell this to Izak (who already knows) and discusses the situation with him, Alynna returns to Hullack, Lynnara first learns to Morgan's marriage into Alax's family and doesn't approve; 9th: Alax and group continues talking to the friendly dusk elf about the city and its mythals, when the group camps for the evening they tell the elf of the assassin hunting Alax and the elf goes off to take care of him, Astra doesn't trust the elf but Amiel reveals she's heard talk of him before; 10th: The elf returns with the head of the assassin and reveals his name is Ty; 11th: Edmund leads the group through an area with bees in the trees that keep enemies from travelling in the trees after them, the day passes uneventfully; 12th: By talking to animals, Ty learns of forest trolls to the north of their camp and a dusk elven patrol to the south, the group discusses attacking the patrol tomorrow; 13th: Ty Edmund and Amiel split from the group to deal with the dusk elven patrol then link up with the group later in the day; 14th: Alax and group have yellow-to-red star shaped fruit for breakfast; 17th: Alax and group encounter a clear lake several hundred acres in size in which they stop briefly to bathe before continuing on. |
| 20050415 | 6 Kythorn 1382, morning | 9 Kythorn 1382, morning (Colony) | 6th: Damian returns to Alynna after barely surviving an explosion that ends his research and brings her Xandrax fruit from Menaria, Alax & group leave the settlement under cover of distraction and spell, then once they are clear Ornrion Dranor leands the raiding force southwards after them; 9th: A dusk elf comes into Alax's camp claiming to be Miva's son and offering to be their guide, Alax and group talk to him, the elf claims to have been in and out of the port city before rescuing someone and that the city is protected by several mythals, Astra believes the mission is impossible because of that. |
| 20050409 | 30 Mirtul 1382 | 6 Kythorn 1382 | 30th (Colony): After dinner Alax visits the local elves to ask for elven troops for his planned raiding force and they agree to send 400 archers; 1st: Alax visits the dwarves and gets them to send 200 dwarves to his force, Alax assigns Natan to command the settlement and Dranor to take the raiding force south, Alax and group visit Hullack before setting out on the extended mission; 3rd: Astra and Morgan spend day at Tower Lazarac then Alax and wives join them to have dinner with Khelben; 4th: Astra and Morgan spend day at Tower Lazarac; 5th: Astra and Morgan return to Hullack, Morgan decides (at Mystra's prompting) to stay home and not go on the mission; 6th: Alax and group (less Morgan) returns to the colony so that they arrive early in the morning of the 6th. |
| 20050408 | 30 Mirtul 1382 (Colony) 1 Kythorn 1382 (Cormyr) |
30 Mirtul 1382 | 30th (Colony): Alax tells Izak Gareth and Capt. Yandress of his plan to get more ships by raiding the assumed dusk elven port town and they generally approve after discussion, Izak and Gareth return to Suzail to inform Malcom, Alax tells the group of the mission then informs Natan and Dranor of it, Alax is attacked at range by an archer in the forest, Alax and Raymond are struck by magic arrows that cause swiftly festering wounds, Alynna heals Raymond and a combination of Astra Jullian and Brice heals Alax, Edmund tracks the archer until warned off by him, the archer turns out to be a dusk elf, Natan assigns a constant guard shift of four Dragons to Alax; |
| 20050402 | 22 Mirtul 1382 | 30 Mirtul 1382 (Colony) 1 Kythorn 1382 (Cormyr) |
22nd: Morgan is nauseous after awakening and discovers she is pregnant, Morgan is talked into keeping the pregnancy but Astra chooses not to get pregnant (thus breaking the deal she had with Morgan), Alax talks with Ornrion Dranor about his intentions and methods of colonization and how it differs from what other countries did in Maztica, Izak sent more people out to work on the temple today bringing the total to about a thousand, during dinner Alax and Morgan argue over whether she will be going adventuring with the group; 23rd: Lionar Dranor attempts to arrest some local dwarves and elves who came to help despite Alax's talk with her but Alax overrules her, Alax has another talk with her to straighten her out then apologizes to the elves and dwarves; 24th: The Moongate of the temple is unearthed and discovered to be intact, Selūne makes a brief personal appearance, Willis angers Jullian by urinating in the temple; 25th: Jullian has to deal with worker complaints that turn out to be just routine griping rather than real grievances; 26th: Brice suggests that Jullian ease up on her workload but Jullian respectfully declines; 27th: Astra finishes copying a new spell into her spellbook; 30th, day: The temple excavation and cleaning is finished during the day; 30th,night/1st,morning: Selūne herself visits the temple in the evening and approves of the job Brice and Jullian have done, Selūne brings Alax and Alynna to the temple and converses with Jullian and Alynna before returning to her plane, Brice suggests to Alynna that a Mystran priest be assigned here and the temple become a joint place, Alynna returns home and discusses the matter with Midnight then spends the day with her, Gareth receives word that the Amnians greatly dislike Cormyr's colonial effort and has launched a fleet of 20 ships to go to a new colony, Gareth fears the worst and reports this to Izak, Gareth and Izak discuss it then get a war wizard to take them to the colony to discuss it with Alax and Yandress, the four of them make inital plans for a possible war with Amn if the Amnian fleet attacks the colony in 7-8 months. [Note: Morgan's child was conceived on 5 Tarsakh in Mystra's palace on the plane of Dweomerheart when Alax visited her.] |
| 20050401 | 21 Mirtul 1382 | 22 Mirtul 1382 | 21st: After refusing to start immediately excavating the temple Alax has Natan place a constant guard on the hole, Jullian goes down to the temple intending to stay until Alax digs it out, Morgan joins Jullian in the temple, Morgan calls on Alynna to bring her the book to help translating Netherese, Alynna brings it and is impressed with the temple, Morgan translates writings that say the very first high priestess of Mystra was anointed here, Alynna discovers the temple is filled with powerful protective magics and a source of dimensional magic lies still buried, Alynna goes to get help guarding and excavating the temple from Izak, Izak grants the help easily and without argument, Alynna seeks out the Selūnite priestess Brice in Immersea to come to the newly-discovered temple, Izak sends Ornrion Falina Dranor with more Dragons and workers to work at the temple site, Jullian invites Brice and Dranor to dine with Alax's family; 22nd: Digging work at the temple resumes at first light. |
| 20050326 | 12 Mirtul 1382 | 21 Mirtul 1382 | 12th: Alax holds a fair trial for the four barbarians for attacking a Royal, the barbarians are contemptuous of the law and his authority, Alax finds them guilty and sentences them to death by hanging, and the men are hanged as soon as it can be set up, Astra wakes up very sick from an stomach parasite and Morgan brings Velunna to cure her, Astra and Morgan take Velunna to see Tower Lazarac after Astra's better; 13th-19th: Astra learns and copies another 5th-level spell into her book, while Roderic Alax and Edmund visit Rendel and Izak and Alax also visits Truesilver; 20th: Alax and group return to the colony along with a hundred farmers, Jullian discovers the dwarves have pitched in on the mansion building free of charge just to be neighborly, Natan tells Alax that there are rumors of Shar worshippers among the humans they've brought here from Cormyr, at dinner a Sharite holy symbol falls out of Astra's pocket but she cannot explain how it got there, Jullian destroys the holy symbol during her nightly prayers, Astra Morgan Raymond and Willis discuss children, on the walk back to their barracks Jullian almost falls in to a hole that suddenly opens up in the ground but Alax catches her; 21st: Investigation of the hole reveals a cavern underneath in which rests an ancient temple to Selūne that looks exactly like a moongate temple known back in Faerūn. Alax and Jullian have a heated argument about whether to immediately start excavating and restoring the temple. |
| 20050325 | 10 Mirtul 1382 | 12 Mirtul 1382 | 10th: Sue is attacked by a panther on the way home from the temple that evening but Jullian and the Tallman House Guards drive it off with only minor injury to Sue, Alax tells her that guard must always accompany her to the temple from now on, Alax learns for the first time that Sue has permitted new building in Hullack Town for a barber and herbalist, Alax strongly suggests a proclamation forbidding any more building; 11th: At breakfast Roderic also brings up the new building and doesn't like it, then he and Rashan go out to track the panther themselves to try to resolve the matter without killing the panther, Roderic and Rashan find the panther and Rashan cures its tooth trouble, a group of men pass through town with a bronze dragon hide they are taking to the parents of the dragon to keep it from becoming armor, at the end of the afternoon four barbarians come into Durin's shop and rudely demand that Damin fix the leader's axe within an hour, the job is impossible as well as rudely demanded so Damin refuses, the barbarian attacks Damin so Damin throws him out in the street; 12th: Damin finds that during the night Damin and his wife Tallia were both beaten nearly to death in their homes, Alax sends a patrol out to hunt the barbarians down and Roderic goes with them, Roderic finds the barbarians and the patrol captures them and brings them back to town. |
| 20050319 | 9 Mirtul 1382 | 10 Mirtul 1382 | 9th: The family dinner begins, Jewel has a black eye because Izak hit her for excessive flirting with a Purple Dragon, Jewel and Gwynn hint that Izak's attitude changed after receiving an evil-looking suit of armor from a merchant as a gift, Alynna leaves dinner to investigate but Laspeera had examined the armor and there was no mind-affecting magic so Alynna returns to dinner in time for dessert, the family discusses the colony until a messenger arrives with a box for Storm, a human heart is in it with a letter from the Fire Knives claiming to have killed Willis, Alynna tries to resurrect from the heart but a man named Bactus is brought back, Bactus claims to be a servant of Willis who saw Willis killed, Alynna and Storm organize a raiding party to try to get Willis back or at least seek vengeance, Elron Nigel Roderic Henric and Durin all choose to go with Alynna and Storm, Alax and group insist on going until Jewel orders them to stay, Alynna takes the 1st-gen group to Westgate and Bactus leads them to the underground Fire Knives lair and into a trap, Chosen magic allows them to overcome the trap and capture the grandmaster, the group gets Willis' soul gem from him then take him back to Suzail for interrogation and imprisonment, Willis is resurrected and the group returns home, Alynna and Elron spend night together; 10th: Tallman men have to get minotaur Goom's horns unstuck from a tree branch, Henric sees Izak and gets Edward and Tanja out of running the inn at the colony. |
| 20050318 | 9 Mirtul 1382 | 9 Mirtul 1382 | 9th: Alynna Morgan and Velunna talk, Alynna introduces Velunna to Flonna and the temple, Mielikki assigns Roderic the task of taking an acorn to the new continent to be planted, Roderic and Rashan do so, getting Alynna to take them, Selūne informs Alynna that the acorn should be planted at the base of her broken statue in Lycosia, Alynna takes the group to Lycosia and Roderic plants the acorn, the acorn planted magically grows rapidly into a large meeting hall under the trunk, Helm appears to inform Alynna that several gods will meet there to discuss the Faerūnian pantheon extending itself to this new continent, Morgan gets Alax to agree to accept some Halruuan scholars in the colony to study the ancient civilization, Roderic and Rashan visit Alax and Family in Hullack, upon discovering Sue is blind Rashan decides the parents should stay with her for a while, much of the extended family gathers at Hullack inn for dinner, Alynna and Velunna observe a follower of Velsharoon stopping at the inn then buying things from the potion shop before leaving town and heading back eastward, Edward tells Henric that he's going to run the new inn in the colony and Henric doesn't like it, Henric makes Edward tell Tess and she doesn't like it either. |
| 20050312 | 20 Tarsakh 1382 (Cormyr) 7 Mirtul 1382 (Colony) |
9 Mirtul 1382 | 20th Tarsakh: Alynna also speaks to Storm regarding Harper help in determining drow intentions, while still in Dweomerheart Mystra discusses with Astra and Morgan Bane's threat; 21st-30th: Storm and Alynna hear from Harpers that the drow are patrolling more than before, Alynna relays this to Izak; 7th Mirtul: Astra and Morgan show that they are glad to be back with their husbands, during the night Morgan moves from Alax's to Jullian's bedroll to avoid a draft; 8th: Jullian and Morgan discuss the acceptability of sharing a bed without having sexual relations, after breakfast the group returns to Hullack, the treasure split is done, Morgan asks Alynna to take her and Astra to Halruaa to find a book on the Netherese language that might help them in the colony and Alynna does so, Alynna discovers a diary of Morgan's birth mother then the diary and spellbooks of her father, after reading both Morgan believes that her father killed her mother, upon investigation Morgan's mother is found frozen in temporal stasis in the vaults, Alynna breaks the stasis spell and revives Morgan's birth mother Velunna Kersa, the four of them talk then Velunna returns with the others to Hullack, Alynna heals Henrym who was gored by a bull in the process of saving a little girl, Velunna meets Alax and his other wives and spends the night at Hullack Keep, Alynna spends the night with Storm and Jenni; 9th: One of Elron's foals gives birth to identical twin horses in the early morning, Velunna meets Elron and Storm, then wishes to visit the temple to find work. [Treasure split for the Sharite keep during this session was 842.17 gp per person for the eight in Alax's group other than Astra and Morgan.] |
| 20050311 | 5 Tars 1382 (Cormyr) | 20 Tars 1382 (Cormyr) | 5th: Alynna and Storm talk and make up after Storm returns from the inn, Alynna joins Jenni and Storm for the night; 6th: Storm and Sasha make amends from the previous evening's disagreement; 20th: Bane visits Alynna to tell her the drow of Cormanthor plan to move against the Dales then Cormyr and are also a threat to Zhentil Keep, Bane wants Alynna's help in convincing Izak to stand against the drow, Bane also reveals that Helm told him Astra and Morgan were Mystra's daughters and Bane is interested in begetting children with his blood with them, once Bane leaves Alynna goes to Mystra to relay this threat, Alynna then goes to Izak to talk to him about drow and find that Izak deliberately exposed himself to a Fire Knives assassin who would have killed him if Alynna had not intervened, Alynna strongly chastizes Izak for the risk he took then informs him of the alleged drow movements, Izak agrees to Alynna's suggestions to check into it, Alynna and Izak also discuss Willis' punishment for slaving, Izak suggests prison while Alynna suggests exile to the colony, Alynna also informs Elminster of the threat but he's heard nothing. |
| 20050305 | 5 Tars 1382 | 7 Mirtul 1382 | 5th: After Sue's done with her visit, Alynna comes and takes them to visit Astra and Morgan briefly, Alynna Alax and wives hear Help speak to Mystra about the twins as if they were immortal, Alax Sue and Jullian visit Astra and Morgan then Alynna takes them home with Astra and Morgan remaining behind; 7th: Alax and group of 8 set out as described in session 20050226; 22nd: Alax and group find the dark keep that is their goal at late afternoon and assault it late at night, the group kills 20 guards and rescues the winter elf acolyte who broght the Moon masks here, the group encounters the Sharite priestess who has the masks and kills her to take the masks, Jullian defaces a throne dedicated to Shar and hears Shar's voice swearing vengeance, the group rescues the sister of the winter elf acolyte (whose capture was why she stole the masks); 23rd: Alax and group start back towards the settlement; Greengrass: The festival proceeds back in Cormyr without Alax and group there; 7th Mirtul: Alax and group arrive back at the settlement at late afternoon, Willis leaves them quickly to return to Cormyr, the winter elves are taken back home, Selūne visits Jullian in person to take the masks, Mystra allows Astra and Morgan to return to Toril. [The eight people in Alax's group other than Astra and Morgan get 1,000 XP for the guards and Sharite priestess.] |
| 20050304 | 5 Tars 1382 (Hullack) | 5 Tars 1382 (Hullack) | 5th: Storm goes off to be alone, Alynna talks with Elron then goes riding, dinner goes badly as Storm and Sahsa argue (Sasha knew at least a little of what Willis was doing) and Sasha leaves the house, Alynna is angry at Storm for encouraging a split in the family unity, Alynna avoids Storm, Alynna finds Sue alone at the hilltop temple, Alynna talks with Sue then takes her to visit with her spouses, Alax Sue and Jullian make love, Alynna talks with Juga, Alynna talks with Elron a bit more then spends the evening guarding the children in Elron's house. |
| 20050226 | 3 Tars 1382 (Colony) 5 Tars 1382 (Hullack) |
7 Tars 1382 (Colony) 5 Tars 1382 (Hullack) |
4th: Alax and Raymond wake up in the morning to find Morgan and Astra missing, Astra and Morgan wake up in Mystra's palace in Dweomerheart, Astra and Morgan learn that Helm has barred them from Toril until the moon masks have been properly dealt with, Amiel Bryant and Zane pay a war wizard to take them back to Cormyr to shop, Bryant and Zane commission three swords from Durin, at Astra's request Mystra sends a celestial messenger to inform Raymond and Alax what has happened, Selūne visits the twins and they talk her into trying to get Helm to rescind his decree, Selūne tells the twins more details of the moon masks, Selūne visits Alax and Jullian to inform them of the twins, Mystra teaches Astra and Morgan how to locally control the rate of timeflow on Dweomerhome; 5th: Alynna Storm and Elron free the slaves in the mine but the guards (and supposedly a spellcasting boss) escape, the slaves also finger Willis as the slavemaster and show great disrespect for Alynna, Alynna retrieves a notebook and a chest full of polished star sapphires both with the symbol of the Fire Knives on them, Alynna takes Rue's mother back to him, Alynna Storm and Elron visit Willis who readily admits to keeping them in indentured servitude to repay debts, Alynna Storm and Elron are greatly disappointed in Wills; 7th: Alax gathers group for breakfast, since the storms have passed Alax and group heads out on quest without Astra and Morgan, |
| 20050225 | 5 Tars 1382 | 5th: Alynna goes into the forest to sneak up on the boy awaiting the extortion payment and talk with him, the boy is injured falling out of a tree but Alynna heals him, the boy gives his name (Rue) and says that he wanted money to buy his parents back from slavery, Rue claims Willis keeps slaves to work in a mine, Alynna disbelieves but promises to investigate, Alynna informs Storm and Elron what she was told, Storm and Elron don't believe it either but agree to investigate, the three of them discover the mine north of Arabel in the foothills of the Storm Horns. | |
| 20050218 | 3 Tars 1382 | 3 Tars 1382 (Colony) 5 Tars 1382 (Hullack) |
3rd: Jullian shows Natan the house sketches she put together for the new house to be built in the colony, Natan makes a pass at Jullian but she declines, Natan tells Jullian that a large storm is coming soon so the group should not leave the next day on the mission, meanwhile Astra is with Morgan doing something involving magic, after dinner Jullian goes out to pray; 4th: Alynna gets a second extortion note via messenger for 10,000 lions, Alynna questions messenger about who gave him the note then lets him go, Alynna starts scrying on the messenger near constantly to see who he meets; 5th: Alynna sees via scry that the messenger receives another note from the same person (an adolescent boy), Alynna changes her scry to follow the boy and sees him use a ring of invisibility to come to Hullack through the portal then go to a tree near the drop-off point, Storm gets the third note (this time asking for only 1,000 lions) and shows it to Alynna, Storm and Alynna discuss what to do. |
| 20050212 | 24 Ches 1382 (Colony) | 3 Tars 1382 | 24th: Alax and group clear out the rest of the tree tower by defeating two mariliths, Morgan disappears while they are investigating the gate, the group assumes Graz'zt took her and discusses going through the gate after her, Astra calls for Elron to help, Elron seals the gate then spanks Astra, Morgan returns after having been with Mystra rather than being taken by Graz'zt, the group takes Xanador back home, Jullian argues with Natan about the lord's house under construction again; 25th: The group does the treasure split for the coins gems and artwork; 26th: Astra and Morgan begin sorting and identifying the magical items, Willis discusses an intent to for a thieves guild in the colony and Alax doesn't like it; 1st Tarsakh: Astra and Morgan finish identifying the magic, the group gathers for a feast then picks through the magic items during the evening; 2nd: Astra and Raymond take unpicked magic items to Izak and sell them to the Crown, Morgan visits Alynna in the afternoon colony time (which is late night Moonshaes time) and otherwise spends a lot of intimate time with Alax, Natan bugs Jullian about house plan changes again, late at night Astra has a bad dream about her and Morgan wearing masks and fighting; 3rd: In the afternoon Miva comes to ask the group to search for two stolen masks that are artifacts of Selūne, Astra is uncomfortable with it and tells of her dream but the group takes the mission. [Treasure split for coins gems and artwork on the 25th was 4,669.70 gp per person in Alax's group.] [Treasure split for sold weapons armor and magic on the 2nd was 16,878.15 per person in Alax's group.] [Alax's group of 10 gets 2,250 XP for 2 vrocks from session 20050205 and two mariliths from this session.] |
| 20050211 | 2 Tars 1382 (Hullack) | 3 Tars 1382 (Hullack) | 2nd: Alynna and Sue and group return to Hullack from Thunderstone, Alynna goes to Damian and children at Moonshaes mansion, Alynna makes Naladar promise to not jump off the cliff any more, Alynna has dinner with the family then is briefly with Damian before he goes off to do research, Morgan comes and talks with Alynna (as described in session 20050212), Henric talks with a Kara-Turan who is passing through with a young half-ogre teen who shows no visible sign of his ogrish heritage, Elisa and the teen talk, Joanus has a cold; 3rd: Tanja tells Henric she is with child, a messenger brings Alynna a note from the Fire Knives demanding a 1,000,000 lion ransom to avoid harm coming to her daughters, Alynna informs Elron and Storm of this then gathers the girls in Hullack to Elron's house for safety where they spend the night. |
| 20050205 | 17 Ches 1382 (Colony) 30 Ches 1382 (Hullack) |
24 Ches 1382 (Colony) 1 Tars 1382 (Hullack) |
17th: Alax and group continues to clear out ruins and destroying 6 huecuvas and 12 swordwraiths before finishing; 18th: Alax and group leave ruins and arrive at Adanail's fishing hole by the end of the day; 19th: Alax and group rests at fishing hole; 20th: Adanail visits Alax and gives him new mission to find the missing Xanador the Elder, Astra and Morgan teleport group back to settlement, Alax speaks with the winter elf Miva for more information on Xanador and learns he went to visit a demonologist, Raymond and Zane have a discussion, Jullian and Natan have an argument about the house Natan is having built for Alax and the construction is halted for now, in the evening Raymond speaks privately with Astra about leaving the group because he doesn't like Zane but Astra talks him out of it; 21st: Alax and group sets out on mission; 22nd: After a full day's hike Alax and group camp at a leopard's watering hole, Edmund talks with the leopard to establish nonagression; 24th: Alax and group arrive at the demonologist's twisted tree in early afternoon, they defeat 2 vrocks, enter the tower and find Xanador badly wounded but still alive in a room warded against evil, Xanador tells them that the demon lord Graz'zt is alive and has been summonned by the demonologist who was then killed; 1st Tarsakh: Alynna Sue Juga Fay and Uhma travel to Thunderstone so Fay and Uhma can take their test, Fay and Uhma do well but meet the necromancer causing the trouble and get in over their heads, Alynna guides Sue to the rescue and the necromancer is defeated, Sue passes the two acolytes, the five of them celebrate at a local inn then turn in, Alynna stays up on guard; [Alax's group of 10 gets 2,957 XP for 4 Mohrgs & 8 spectres in session 20050129 and 6 huecuvas and 12 swordwraiths in this session; the 2 vrocks are not included.] |
| 20050204 | 17 Ches 1382 | 30 Ches 1382 | 17th: Alynna talks Damian into curing Heather by turning her into a half-Menarian as he did Alynna then changing her back with the special fruit, the three of them return to Toril, Heather discusses the cure with Gareth and he doesn't like it but sees no other choice, Damian takes Alynna and Heather to Menaria and they do the deed; 18th: On Menaria Heather and Damian have become bonded, Heather betrays Alynna by slipping her the fruit that undoes the transformation, Damian is shocked and tends to Alynna; Alynna avoids Heather for the rest of their stay; 20th: Heather is cured and restored to humanity so they return to Toril, Heather returns to Gareth, that evening Damian re-bonds with Alynna and begins her re-transformation (which takes only tenday this time); 20th-29th: Damian and Alynna spend one of their happiest tendays ever together during her re-transformation. 30th: Alynna has quarterstaff practice with Sue, Sue tells that she's taking Fay and Uhma for their final test, Alynna asks to come along and Sue agrees; |
| 20050129 | 7 Ches 1382 | 17 Ches 1382 | 7th: Alynna and Regenald talk a bit more on the way to a jewelers where Alynna can sell the gems for cash, Alynna gets $220,000 for the gems, Alynna and Heather check into the Luxor to have a luxurious stay, Alynna sheds blood into a drinking glass for Heather every day; 12th: Alax and group feel watched for most of the evening in their camp; 13th: Alax calls a day of rest, Adanail the Bearhound pays the group a visit and talks with them; 14th: Alax and group go to clear out a cave of werewolves Adanail told them about, group kills 11 adult werewolves, including some spellcasters, and Morgan accounts for 3 children as collateral casualties from a fireball, the group returns to the same campsite they had the previous day; 15th: Adanail pays the group another visit and gives the group another mission, Astra and Morgan take their treasure haul thus far back to Hullack for storage until it can be split; 16th: Alax and group travel southwest a full day to the ruins Adanail told them of, Adenail points out a couple of new kinds of tuber vegetables and the presence of cinnamon trees; 17th: Alax and group go into the underground portions of ruined city and defeat 4 mohrgs, 8 spectres, meanwhile Damian shows up at the Luxor hotel and tells Alynna he has a cure but will take enough of his own blood to put him asleep for 5 to 10 centuries, Alynna is distressed at that and discusses possible alternatives; [Alax's group of 10 gets 14,525 XP for 11 werewolves in the cave in this session; award does not include undead.] |
| 20050128 | 6 Ches 1382 | 7 Ches 1382 | 7th: Alynna sends for more blood for Heather, Izak orders Heather killed but Alynna blocks the guards, Izak relents for the moment but demands Hether's head by dinner, Damian comes to tell of his lack of progress at developing a cure, at dinnertime the guards again try to kill Heather but Alynna uses magic to block them, the guards are struck fearful and respond by walling off the cell door thus entombing Alynna and Heather, Alynna calls for Elron to help, Elron has the wall torn down, Izak discusses the situation with Alynna, Alynna decides to take Heather off of Toril and takes her to Earth to the city of Las Vegas, Alynna and Heather are arrested as illegal aliens after trying to sell gems for cash with no ID, Alynna and Heather are rescued and given passports by a man named Regenald, Reginald is a mage who knows more about them than they know about him, meanwhile a strange mage goes to the Avanguard to tell Hector his mother is dead and bring him home for a will-reading, Hector is shocked and disbelieving and refused to go. |
| 20050122 | 6 Ches 1382 | 12 Ches 1382 | 7th: The day passes unevenfully except for climbing and great views; 8th: Group encounters the mountain cave lair of the silver dragon sage Gigrathrax and has a peaceful talk with him, that evening a group of dwarves comes into camp after escaping from some attacking beasts in caves; 9th: Group investigates the caves and kill six phase spiders and a very large long-legged spider then camp in the caves; 10th: Group rests in the cave for a day; 11th: Group continues exploring mountain; 12th: Astra wakes to find a pseudodragon sleeping on her for warmth and shoos it away, at the end of the day the group camps on the bank of the stream at the western foot of the mountain. [Alax's group of 10 gets 4,620 XP for zombies in session 20050107 and owlbears & werewolf in session 20050115.] [Hector and crew of Avanguard get 100 XP for sea zombies and first battle with dusk elven flotilla in session 20050107 and second battle with dusk elven flotilla in session 20050115.] [Alax's group of 10 gets 200 XP for phase spiders and large spider in this session.] |
| 20050121 | 6 Ches 1382 | 6 Ches 1382 | 6th: Heather was kidnapped from the Royal Wizard's tower by Orlak (the vampire who once ran the Night Masks and the underworld of Westgate) and made into a living (not undead) form of vampire by him, Gareth and some war wizards investigated her disappearance then went on a successful rescue mission to retrieve Heather, Alynna stays with Heather while Damian looks into a cure and Gareth goes to arrange the protection of the rest of his family. |
| 20050115 | 14 Alturiak 1382 | 6 Ches 1382 | 14th: Alynna returns home and tells Damian everything of what happened, he's not upset but wants a sample of the nectar she drank, Alynna returns to the colony and gets a sample from Willis and takes it to Damian, Izak received the report Alax sent of the discovery of a dusk elven fleet and the likelihood of a city-state or nation supporting it, Izak agrees to send a 3 pirate-hunter ships to the colony; 15th: Willis gives Alynna the nectar sample at early-to-mid morning; 24th: The Avanguard battles a dozen dusk elven ships in the morning and sinks them all at the cost of significant damage to her rigging and heavy casualties (120 dead (incl. 4 lieutenants), 350 badly wounded (incl. 3 lieutenants all evacuated to Cormyr), all but 12 of the rest lightly wounded); 27th: The Avanguard arrives back at the colony at late afternoon, Capt. Yandress reports the battle to Alax and Alax dispatches the report to Cormyr right away, the wounded (including Hector) are put ashore and repairs begun; 3rd Ches: Avanguard sails south again to resume patrolling 200 to 250 miles south, Alax and group sets out to explore Granite Mountain and the northern tip of the peninsula; 4th: Group finds the caverns of the Artificers (a settlement of elven and dwarven smiths) and meets with them, the Artificers tell them of a white dragon living in the mountain; 6th: Alax and group find the lair of the white dragon but find it is far too old and large for them to take on and successfully evade contact with it, group finds a lair of a couple of owlbears and kills them, that evening in camp a man wanders in then reveals himself to be a werewolf as he attacks Jullian, Alax heads him off and the werewolf is killed; |
| 20050114 | 13 Alturiak 1382 | 14 Alturiak 1382 | 13th: Sue summons Alynna to check on her nausea, Alynna discovers Sue is pregnant with Alax's son (conceived on 20 Hammer), Capt. Yandress reports to Alax his plan to find and attack the city the dusk elven ships are from and that he expects to not return, Alax cancels that plan and provides a better one, Kandra is ordered to remain behind to work on making boats and a pier for the colony and she has some boatwrights brought from Suzail, Alax has Natan build observation posts on the cliff tops to either side of the colony, in the evening Alynna visits to tell Alax and wives that Sue is pregnant with a boy, Alynna visits briefly with Astra, Alynna visits with Willis, because of an improperly spiced bird Willis cooked and Alynna sampled Alynna inadvertantly drinks too much of a potent intoxicant in Willis' waterskin and rapidly gets hammered, Alynna calls for Elron to take her home then passes out, Elron takes her home; 14th: Avanguard sails southward at first light on the mission Alax gave her, Alynna wakes up 12 hours later in Elron's bed with Elron and Storm (morning of 14th colony time, evening of 14th Hullack time), Alynna doesn't remember any of the 12 hours but is told that she gave Elron Storm and Jenni a very good time; |
| 20050107 | 19 Hammer 1382 | 13 Alturiak 1382 | 19th: Alynna tries a remove blindness spell to restore Sue's sight but fails, Alynna brings Sue a quarterstaff and will train her to use it, Jullian reluctantly agrees to take Sue's place on the expedition but tells Juga to guard Sue as well as he guarded herself; 21st: Alax and group returns to colony after dinner Hullack time and mid-morning colony time, Natan reports only a few isolated encounters with bands of dusk elves during the group's vacation; 22nd: Alax and group head out to explore southward along the interior edge of the hills; 23rd: Avanguard arrives at colony after having charted northward and encountering sea zombies; 25th Avanguard sets out to explore southward along coast; 27th: Group finds ruins of ancient human settlement and clears out an infestation of tougher than expected zombies, then begins exploring the ruins; 28th-30th: Group explores the ruins and finds coins carved from moonstones, a "rosetta stone" grammar book written in both elven and the ancient human language and preserved with oil of timelessness, and magical items made out of a white metal; Midwinter: Group leaves ruins and continues southward; 3rd Alturiak: Group encounters moon elven village of 20 or so homes and spends the remainder of the day there, the elves tell of ruins infested with undead but Bryant and Zane prefer to avoid them until they get magical weapons, in the evening a lycan priest of Selūne visits the village and Jullian talks with him; 4th: Group leaves the elven village and heads back northward towards the colony; 6th: Group encounters a patch of flowers having seed pods that burst into flame when stepped upon; 9th: Avanguard encounters a flotilla of dusk elven ships about 450 miles south of colony that are smaller and faster and is forced to battle them, the dusk elven ships break off after two are sunk by Avanguard's broadsides, Capt. Yandress is wounded in the battle, after battle Avanguard heads for the colony; 10th: Group encounters a patrol of friendly moon elves; 12th: Group arrives at colony in late morning, Alax and group move into one of the newly completed huts inside the keep, Alax and wives have dinner with Natan in the evening to exchange news, Alax and Jullian tell Natan to have his men be friendly with any lycans encountered; 13th: Avanguard arrives back at colony; |
| 20050101 | 13 Hammer 1382, evening | 18 Hammer 1382, evening | 13th: Alynna and Damian discuss where he got the rings of wishes he have Edward and Henrym, Damian mentions he may have only decades of life remaining rather than millennia, Alynna gives Damian a good night; 14th: Jullian takes Alax this evening and Sue sleeps with Morgan; 15th: Edmund and Jewel go hunting in the forest then talk afterward, Edmund says something that offends Mielikki and she sends a sign in the form of a knife through his foot, Izak and family have dinner at Edmund's that evening, during the night Alax has to deal with a minor infestation of osquips in the attic; 16th: Durin trades Gantrin a good utility axe for a gallon jug of good dwarven ripple; 17th: Alax and Edmund go to visit Rendel and find that he still appears sick - thin and mostly skin and bones, Dalia brings Jullian news that the alter at the temple is bleeding, Sue and Jullian send Dalia to the House of the Moon in Waterdeep to ask for advice while they rush to their own temple, Dalia returns stating that the altar in Waterdeep is bleeding as well, Sue has Jullian Dalia Fay and Uhma pray all day for their lady, late in the evening Sue insists that Jullian goes to rest, Jullian reluctantly uses a room in the temple to rest, Selūne appears to Jullian to tell her that her soul stone is broken and only one with the blood of Selūne can find and restore it, Mystra appears to Alynna to tell her that Selūne's palace in her home plane is besieged by Shar's forces, Jullian tells Sue of Selūne's visitation then calls for Alynna to take them to Lycosia where the statue was, Alynna takes Sue and Jullian there (where it's late morning) and find Mask there desecrating the shattered remains of the statue, after a brief conversation with Alynna Mask leaves, Jullian and Alynna can see the pieces of the soul stone but Sue cannot, Jullian gathers it and she and Alynna reassemble it, Mask reappears as Selūne to try to trick them into handing the stone over but Sue foils him and is blinded for the effort, Alynna takes them and the statue back to the temple to Selūne in Hullack, Selūne herself is there and thanks them then buries her soul stone under the temple, Alynna takes Sue and Jullian home, Alax is waiting there and is shocked to learn what happened; 18th: Alax and family stay indoors but go to inn for dinner. |
| 20041231 | 11 Hammer 1382, evening | 13 Hammer 1382, evening | 11th: The returning adventurers enjoy being with their families for the evening; 12th: Naladar tells Alynna he saw a 'wolfman' devouring a young girl of the town (Thessa Mueler, the spoiled daughter of a worker at the general store) the previous day, Alynna gets two rangers to track the werewolf with her, they track it to the inn, they devise a plan to get all the inn's guests to drink from silver goblets to identify the werewolf by who refuses to drink, a mage draws suspicion by refusing to drink, Jullian orders the mage watched until it can be proven he's the werewolf but also orders increased patrols in the village, Elisa spends the evening talking to the mage about magic then talks a bit with Henric about choosing a calling for her life, Alax spent part of the day giving his children rides on his horse Steel; 13th: The werewolf is trapped in Walth's place after trying to attack one of the ladies there, Henric and Joanus go to help kill it, the werewolf turns out to have been a newly-transferred-in Purple Dragon rather than the suspected mage, Joanus reveals that the Shades made him eat what he killed as a gladiator slave, Elisa turns out to be a natural with the bow, Gantrin brings a large barrel of vinegar to Tess around noon, in the afternoon Alynna needs to cast a neutralize poison on one of Damian's rare snakes because it got sick from bad food, Alax goes to spend time with Izak telling stories of the expedition, Izak summons Gareth and returns to him the docks taken away in punishment for Westgate, Izak mentions to Alax that Jullian was attacked, Edward and Henrym have their 18th birthday party in the evening, after the party Alax and Sue make Jullian tell of her ghostly attacker, Alax spends evening with Morgan and Sue with Jullian. |
| 20041225 | 26 Nightal 1381 | 11 Hammer 1382 | 26th: The dwarves begin bringing uniformly cut stones for foundations and the Alax has men begin laying the foundation of the keep, back in Hullack (the night of 26/27) Selūne visits Jullian to compliment her on the new temple; 27th: The hilltop on which the keep will be built is cleared off, Alax goes to visit the moon elven settlement; 28th: Alax goes to visit the dwarven settlement in Granite Mountain; 29th: A forest giant visits the settlement, the village trades the giant meant for several large lumps of adamantite; 30th: Enough commoner workmen and specialists have arrived through the portal that the Avanguard's crew are no longer needed, Alax asks Capt. Yandress to go out and chart more of the coast; 1st Hammer 1382: The Avanguard sails northward from the settlement at first light, Alax sends a report to Izak suggesting it's time to exlore more deeply into the new land; 2nd: Izak replies to Alax agreeing that exploration is in order and saying he's restored Natan's nobility and made him a baron to be lord of the settlement under Alax; 3rd: Natan arrives, Alax fills Natan and introduces him to the moon elves and dwarves, Natan and Hellen dine with Alax at their tent; 4th: Alax and group head out on exploration mission, Alax and group encounter ruins of ancient fort just 3 miles from settlement and find a band of 10 dusk elves there, the dusk elves attack and are killed by Alax's group, the group feels watched during the night after they camp; 5th: The group enters into forested hills this days and finds the tracks of a treant; 6th: Alax and group find a dusk elven village near noon and take cover to observe it, there is no movement save for a helmet falling, Alax suspects a trap so he backs the group off to find a defensible camp, during the night a flock of large flightless birds runs through the camp; 7th: Edmund Willis and Zane scout out the dusk elven village and find the entire population was killed two or three days prior by having their throats torn out then return to the group's camp during the afternoon; 8th: Alax and group start back for the settlement at the day's start; 10th: Alax and group arrive back at the settlement at late afternoon, Alax and group goes to talk to the local moon elven leader Lieranel and learns the village was most likely wiped out by Selūne-worshipping weretigers from the Great Swamp to the south, the settlement is currently about 200 soldiers and 25 commoner/experts; 11th: Before breakfast, Alax and group return to Hullack for an extended break and arrive at dinnertime. [Alax's group of 10 gets 1,000 XP for band of 10 dusk elf warriors.] |
| 20041224 | 20 Nightal 1381 | 25 Nightal 1381 | 20th: Hector and Kendra go back to Suzail with a war wizard to find it is the morning of the 21st in Suzail due to the 10 3/4 hour time difference; 21st (in Cormyr): Alax and group arrive early in the predawn morning, Sue Morgan and Astra prepare a large breakfast for Jullian, Jullian takes Sue to see the completed temple in Hullack, Alax and wives then sleep for much of the day, Hector and Kandra split up to spend the day with their families, Hector spends most of the day telling stories of the trip then retires to bed early; 22nd (In Cormyr): First thing in the morning, Alax and group and Kandra and Hector separately return to the ship, Hector learns that Kandra's mother died while she and her father were away; 21st (on ship): Alax and group and Hector & Kandra return to Avanguard in the evening; 22nd: The Avanguard sails at first light for the area selected for the settlement and arrives near the end of the day, an initial camp is set up on shore before dark including a large tent the war wizards set up; 23rd: Purple Dragon patrols leave the war wizard tent after the war wizards set up a portal in it, in the evening a group of wood elves comes to greet the humans and Alax talks with them, after the elves leave Kandra takes Hector inland to a nearby stream for a swim and they make love afterwards, Lieutenant Bangar steals their clothes and takes them back to camp, Captain Yandress gives Bangar a tongue-lashing then expresses disappointment in Hector and requires him to marry his daughter, Astra and Morgan are sent to Suzail to bring Gareth and Heather back to see it, Sue performs the wedding ceremony, Gareth and Capt. Yandress talk, a brief celebration follows until everyone goes to bed; 24th: real work gets underway as the Purple Dragons begin logging, they and Edmund find trees similar to a duskwood but even harder to cut, a dwarf arrives to meet the humans, the war wizards spend the day bringing supplies (arrows, food, pigs, cickens, calves, goats) through their portal, the Dragons begin making a split-rail fence to contain the livestock, Hector and Kandra are each assigned to a hunting detail; 25th: the dwarf returns to sell adamantine axeheads and saws that are capable of cutting the super-duskwood trees. |