Gaming Session Game Dates for 2009

Session Start Finish Notes & Highlights
20091230 16th Hammer 1387, evening (Hullack) 16th Hammer 1387, evening (Lycosia) 16th: Astra and Morgan continue to talk until they both feel an unaccountable sharp pain, they go to see Mystra about it on Dweomerheart and find that she also suffered it and that normally only gods suffer it when a number of their followers have been killed, Astra guesses it might be some retaliation against Mystrans in Cormyr for what happened to Rhigaerd, Astra and Morgan go to the temple in Suzail to find a small mob of people murdering the Mystran priests, Astra stops it then kills the ringleader when he attacks her, Astra stops the rest from escaping until the Dragons get there to take them into custody, Astra and Morgan follow the officer to give a statement as to what happened then help the head priest clean up the temple, Astra and Morgan return to Mystra and tell her what happened then return home to bathe and go to bed, in Lycosia Jullian has a bad day when Tauivae tries to play at burning Shaelyn at the stake as a witch and comes within a moment of doing it for real then finding Philla giving some pleasure to one of the guards, Jullian learns the guard is dying and wanted the favor as a last request, after dinner Jullian sends him through the portal to see Lady Alynna to see if his cancer can be treated.
20091229 16th Hammer 1387, morning (Hullack) 16th Hammer 1387, evening (Hullack 16th: Alynna finishes her conversation with Leth Nimblehands and gets all the details of his soil-cleaning invention, Alynna visits her mother to talk, Alynna decides not to talk with Malcom after finding him drunk, Alynna talks with Rhigaerd then with Jewel then with the Sharessan priestess who healed Rhigaerd, Alynna visits Mystra to talk with her then returns to her duties for the rest of the day, Alax has a good and uneventful day, Astra talks with Morgan about the drug she took when she wakes up, Morgan reveals she was doing yet more things without Astra's knowledge (including a hint about magic that she later admits to joking about), Astra gets furious with her for doing so much in secret, later in the day Morgan apologizes, in the evening Morgan tells Astra everything she's done and kept secret from her.
20091225 15th Hammer 1387, evening (Suzail) 16th Hammer 1387, morning (Hullack) 15th: Astra Morgan Alax Jaleen and Jewel continue to talk, Jewel leaves to get dinner, the rest talk a bit more then Astra and Morgan go to the bathroom, Morgan snorts a drug up her nose and admits to Astra that she had planned on having Alax get Astra pregnant but Astra reminds her that wasn't part of their bargain, Astra and Morgan return to Alax and Jewel an Morgan starts to act weird from the drug, Morgan teleports herself and Astra to the roof of their tower then Morgan goes back to get Jaleen, the drug threw off her teleport so they arrived over the edge of the roof, Astra tries and fails to grab them causing them all to fall to the ground but featherfalls save them, Astra puts Morgan to bed, Astra checks on the Sharessan priest and Rhigaerd once more then talks with Jewel a bit more, Jewel reveals a serious wound that has become infected, Alax tells her to go see Jullian about it before returning home for the evening, Jewel goes to see Jullian and Jullian heals her up and they talk, the rest of Jullian's day is uneventful;
16th: Alynna wakes up cold and discovers a winter storm during the night broke some windows, Alynna fixes the windows then fixes the family breakfast, Edmund comes and gets Naladar and Puppy to lead him to where the gnome is in the forest, Edmund watches the gnome then confronts him, the gnome says he's invented a machine to clean salted soil to make it fertile again, Edmund escorts the gnome (Leth Nimblehands) to town to talk with Alax Axil and Alynna, Alax assesses a nominal fine for disturbing the forest without permission then leaves him to tell Alynna all about the machine and process.
20091222 15th Hammer 1387, suppertime (Hullack) 15th Hammer 1387, evening (Suzail) 15th: Alynna informs Axil of the gnome and the tree-griding machine that Naladar told her of then has a peaceful and fun evening at home with her mates, after supper Alax goes to visit Jewel to see how Rhigaerd's doing and they talk, Jewel is worried that her son may die or survive as a simpleton, Alax observes a young Sharessan priestess praying over Rhigaerd, Jewel demands that Alax summon Astra and Morgan to help, Jewel makes some threats about the twins that Alax talks her out of, Astra and Morgan come at Alax's request and bring Jaleen with them, Astra Morgan and Jaleen walk in on the Sharessan priestess performing a soul-binding ceremony between her and Rhigaerd, Astra objects on grounds of proper consent and consequences to the Crown, Jaleen believes the intent is to draw some or all of the disease out of Rhigaerd into the priestess, Astra goes to inform Jewel and Alax what is going on, the ceremony does seem to have made Rhigaerd rest easier, Alax takes the priestess into an adjoining guest room, Jewel is happier and relaxes, they discuss Morgan and Astra's deal about Astra and Alax.
20091211 15th Hammer 1387, morning (Hullack) 15th Hammer 1387, suppertime (Hullack) 15th: Alax finds Laspeera's assistant war wizard (Marleen) and gets her to take him to the war wizard citadel where he meets and talks to Colleena (the sister of the two brothers) and finds she doesn't want to go back home to them, Alax then visits Izak and talks to him for a while, Alax returns to Hullack and meets with the two brothers to tell them their sister chose to not come home, the brothers don't like it but Alax refuses to force their sister to return to them, Alax returns home and tells his wives of what happened then speaks to the house guard about letting the men take his daughter in the first place, after his other duties are done Alax returns home to find that Little Elron is there with William because Rhigaerd is very sick and Jewel doesn't want him getting it too, Alynna spends the morning researching the identity of the infernal being who she defeated but could find no specific name but merely a minor being who was less of a threat than she thought, Sasha reveals that since Triss left she has been randomly manifesting sorcerous talents and is worried because such are thought to be evil on her homeworld and would get her executed, Alynna thinks it might be psionic and gets Mellisa's help but disproves that theory, Alynna reassures Sasha that sorcerous talents are fine on Toril, Alynna learns from Adeara and Mellisa that the new Tormite cleric in town isn't exactly the most straight and ethical of priests, the rest of Alynna's day is peaceful, Durin talks to a stone giant bringing him ingots of iron from his clan up in the mountains along with gold ingots to pay for making the iron into pickaxes, Durin agrees to the work.
20091204 14th Hammer 1387, lunchtime (Lycosia) 15th Hammer 1387, morning (Hullack) 14th: Natasha learns that the nobles are blaming Laspeera for Rhigaerd's order to take magically-talented children, Jullian and Natasha talk, after dinner Laspeera takes Jullian and Natasha to the twins' towers to retrieve her children, Shaelyn makes a scene about not wanting to leave and sorcerously shocks Astra so bad Morgan feels it, Astra lectures Shaelyn about the need to learn some things from her mother, Laspeera takes them home;
15th: Astra talks with Morgan about some issues that came up during Jullian's visit, after wich they have an uneventful day with their gemwork, Alax finds that Cille has been kidnapped by two men impersonating two Purple Dragons, with a war wizard's help he discovers they are in the local abandoned temple of Helm, he rescues Cille unharmed and learns one of the men invalidly 'married' Cille to become family to Alax to get him to help them retrieve their own sister who was taken away because of Rhigaerd's decree and hasn't returned, Alax thrashes the two of them and punches the cleric who performed the invalid 'marriage' but promises to get their sister back, Alax goes to Suzail to discuss the girl's whereabouts with Jewel.
20091127 14th Hammer 1387, evening (Hullack) 14th Hammer 1387, lunchtime (Lycosia) 14th: Naladar is in an angry mood so Alynna talks to him after dinner, Alynna has a long and nice talk with Naladar to figure out and resolve what's bothering him, the talk is interrupted when Jenni comes to say Sasha's having a seizure, Alynna goes to try to help and finds it's a seizure cuased by a particularly bad prophetic vision, Alynna gets Sasha to wake up and Sasha tells of a 'man with pointed teeth' coming to kill Sasha and her family, Alynna goes to Sasha's house to keep a watch on her through the night, Puppy then Storm and Jenni come to be with her, they don't have long to wait before the first sign is Selgar being thrown from the window, the snow softens Selgar's fall, Alynna teleports in and kills the attacker with a disintegrate spell, Alynna heals Gantrin while Sara retrieves a minorly hurt Selgar from Storm, Alynna supposes that if she's right about the man being a devil he is now banished from Toril for a year, Alynna Storm Jenni and Puppy return home and talk on the way, when they get home Midnight is downstairs drinking tea because Elron and Sasha are upstairs and quite active, the wives talk for a while until Elron comes down then he joins the conversation, Alynna gets Midnight's permission to break from her priestly duties in order to research more epic magic spells then they all go to bed, Astra talks to Morgan about what she's been working on all day and Morgan reluctantly reveals it's a device for animating a golem with a soul, Astra has problems with that and barely manages to talk Morgan out of it, Jullian's day starts off nice but a rainstorm makes the guards track mud into the temple, Jullian sends a letter to Laspeera asking about the change to Rhigaerd's decree, Laspeera comes to see Jullian before lunch with her face bruised, Laspeera tells of how the nobles are outraged at Rhigard's decree and how the Purple Dragons are no longer guarding her, Laspeera suspects one of the nobles had their way with her after knocking her out, Jullian casts a commune to learn that Laspeera is pregnant with Izak's child, Jullian informs Laspeera of what she learned.
20091126 13th Hammer 1387, evening (Hullack) 14th Hammer 1387, evening (Hullack) 13th: Alynna Natasha and Sasha travel to the Methuselan world, Alynna meets Natasha and Sasha's mother, Sasha retrieves a backup notebook to replace the one Triss destroyed, Alynna Natasha and Sasha take a dragonback trip to a nearby large city and Alynna is shown the sights, they return to Natasha's and Sasha's mother's house for dinner then return to Hullack and arrive just before dinner on the 14th, Jullian has a quiet day in Lycosia then at the end of the day she and Kailib exhaust themselves in bed;
14th: Morgan locks herself into the study with a notebook and pen leaving Astra to watch over the children, Alax has to get William out of a fight with a Dragon recruit because the recruit insulted is trainer's honor, Adeara tells Edmund she suspects she's pregnant, Alynna tells her mates of her trip over dinner.
20091121 13th Hammer 1387, morning (Cormyr) 13th Hammer 1387, evening (Hullack) 13th: Alynna and Izak continue to talk while Alynna heals Laspeera and Alynna adivses Izak that Rhigaerd is not yet ready to rule, Alynna verifies by scry that Jullian and Shaelyn are all right then goes to use her staff of life to bring Velunna back, the staff doesn't work at first but it does after Mystra intervenes, Alynna talks to Sasha briefly then goes to talk to Storm and Jenni, Alynna fills them in on what's happened then discusses Sasha's need to feed and her own unwillingness to be bitten, Storm shames her into providing for Sasha's need so Alynna returns to Sasha and lets her bite, as Sasha feeds she appears to gain the silver fire (despite Alynna's fire not being drained), Mystra comes to explain it's a temporary thing due to Mystra's manifesting to get a closer look at Sasha who she describes as being an oracle (a sorceress diviner), Mystra reveals that Talona is visiting a punishment on Rhigaerd for his violating the sanctity of temples with his decree, Alynna's students are returned to the temple shortly thereafter, meanwhile Alax turns back an attempt by a Lionar to take Cille away, a short while later a young female dragon delivers a message from Rhigaerd - a hard kick in the shin, shortly after that the same lionar tht was here earlier comes back in civilian attire looking for a job, after a bief interview Alax hires him on his house guard, Storm visits briefly during the afternoon to check on Alax and family, after dinner Alax goes to visit Jewel to check on her and sits with them for breakfast and talk, Natasha demonstrates that her pregnancy has made her prone to horniness and aggression as she tries to drag Alax off, Alax returns to Hullack, at Jullian's suggestion Natasha goes to see Sasha to get medication for hwer mood swings, Sasha doesn't have a cure because her notebook was destroyed by Triss but they decide to visit the Methuselan homeworld to obtain it.
20091120 12th Hammer 1387, morning (Lycosia) 13th Hammer 1387, morning (Cormyr) 12th: Jullian receives a letter from Laspeera saying that all children studying magic are to be sent to the War Wizard citadel by order of the King including Shaelyn, Jullian goes to the palace to try to talk Rhigaerd out of it but he won't budge, Jullian leaves in tears then asks Astra and Morgan to come to her temple, once Astra and Morgan arrive Jullian explains the situation and asks them to take her girls to the towers, Astra and Morgan agree, Jullaan tells Shaelyn and Tauivae what's happened and has the pack, once the girls are packed Astra and Morgan take them to their towers, Dragons come to Astra's tower with a letter from Rhigaerd asking them to come teach at the War Wizard citadel and Astra writes a return letter respectfully declining the offer, The rest of Jullian's day is uneventful;
13th: Morgan wakes up after a nightmare in which her mother Velunna is dead, Astra reassures her it was only a dresm but privately sends a message to Alynna to check it out, Alynna goes to the temple to find Velunna dead from a sword wound and Sasha cut and missing fingers, Sasha tells Alynna that Dragons came to take their students and one Dragon used his sword on them but that his commanding officer arrested the soldier, Alynna goes to the palace to fetch Rhigaerd Elron Izak and Jewel and sternly lecture them all about their errors in the matter, Alynna takes them back to the palace then returns to the temple to regenerate Sasha's hand, Alynna is then called to heal Laspeera who has been flogged for not following Rhigaerd's previous orders exactly, Alynna talks to Izak while she works on Laspeera.
20091107 12th Hammer 1387, morning (Hullack) 12th Hammer 1387, morning (Lycosia) 12th: A young adventurer named Tyran comes to the temple asking for Sasha but Alynna handles him herself, Tyran comes seeking help because Masoner's Bridge is suffering unheard-of warm temperatures, Alynna takes Tyran back to Masoner's Bridge to investigate and she finds that the heat is from a magical extraplanar source, Alynna finds Sadam, a middle-eastern looking man is a mage only recently arrived in town and she suspects him of causing the heat wave, Alynna talks to him but finds him unhelpful and even evil in demanding a child sacrifice to make the heat go away, Alynna confronts him and he reveals his otherworldly (possibly demonic/diabolic) nature, Alynna gives a hint she is more than a young human woman and Sadam leaves the town vowing he won't forget, the heat soon dissipates to the pleased surprise of Tyran, Alynna returns to Hullack and informs her mates of the confrontation, they pass the word to their children (Alax, Astra & Morgan, Jullian, Willis, Jewel, etc.) to watch out for the grandchildren, Alynna has a bad dream about Abby being taken during the night and walks the house to make sure everything is all right, Jullian's day is uneventful except for Shaelyn deciding to go to Hullack by herself to protect her faither, Jullian discusses with her the idea of visiting her father for a while.
20091106 11th Hammer 1387, start of day (Lycosia)
(late evening (Hullack))
12th Hammer 1387, morning (Hullack) 11th: When Jullian wakes up Sue admits to having had a toothache for a few days that is starting to get bad, Jullian looks and finds a seriously infected tooth, Jullian and Natasha take Sue to have Sasha treat her tooth, they find out that Sasha and Triss have split and why before finding Sasha at Elron's house, Sasha takes care of Sue's tooth, at Sue's request the three of them visit Alax before returning to Hullack, Ashrika meets Jullian for the first time and after showing Jullian her daughter quickly seduces her, Alax will get in on the action as well, after Alax Carmen and Ashrika go to sleep Jullian Sue and Natasha bathe then return to Lycosia, the rest of their day is uneventful;
12th: Astra's sleep is disturbed with a nightmare about Mystra and Morgan being dead, Astra remains close to Morgan the entire day but the day is otherwise peaceful.
20091031 10th Hammer 1387, late morning (Hullack) 11th Hammer 1387, late evening (Hullack) 10th: Triss chases Sasha out of the temple but Alynna brings her back and tells Triss to ignore Sasha, at ther end of the day Alynna discovers that Triss burned all of Sashas things including her research notes in removing her own things from their room, Alynna goes to Willis' house to scold her for destroying magical lore in a temple to Mystra and makes her pray in apology to Mystra, at dinner Storm tells of her visit to Jullian, just after dinner Jaleen begins to miscarry, Astra calls for Alynna to help and Alynna comes immediately, Alynna manages to save both Jaleen and her daughter through heroic means (a c-section, a wish spell, and her silver fire), Sehanine Moonbow comes to give Alynna a thank-you magical gift for saving her daughter and granddaughter, Jullian has a peaceful day in Lycosia, Sue continues studying lore about Sehanine Moonbow;
11th: Alax receives a nice wakeup call from Carmen, after breakfast William has a fall due to someone having cut his saddle strap, Alax and William's trainer Sylvia speculate it may have been intended for Alax, Alax takes Steel for a checkup with Elron, Alax wishes Astra and Morgan happy birthday and Morgan is joyous, Mystra allows Raymond to 'come back to life' for one day to visit Astra on her birthday and Astra is joyous, Elron brings the twins matching robes for a birthday present, then has a special night with Alynna, at night after they are intimate Ashrika tells Alax she will be fertile soon and wants another child with him and Alax agrees.
20091030 10th Hammer 1387, morning (Hullack) 10th Hammer 1387, late morning (Hullack) 10th: After waking Alynna and Sasha talk, both about similar dreams they shared about a terrible fate for the Chosen at the hands of Mask and about what they did last night, after breakfast Alynna and Storm talk and Alynna learns Storm and Sasha had discussed Alynna a month before and that Storm and Sasha had been together, Alynna tells Storm about her and Sasha's shared dream and Storm will look into it, Alynna goes to visit Willis and Elisa tells her that she got Willis to marry Triss with the condition that Willis stays away from Sasha, Alynna takes Sasha to see Gareth (a diviner) to discuss their dream but Gareth doesn't specialize in dreams, Gareth turns out to be ill so Alynna and Sasha treat him and convince him to get bed rest, Gareth gets Jerrid to take his place until he's better, Sasha has a war wizard take her to visit Astra and Morgan because she's looking for work after her splitup with Triss and ending her apprenticeship with Alynna, Astra talks her into continuing her magical work at the temple without being Alynna's apprentice, Astra and Morgan take Sasha back to the temple, Midnight and Alynna allow Sasha to continue her magical work at the temple independently.
20091023 9th Hammer 1387, morning (Lycosia) 10th Hammer 1387, morning (Hullack) 9th: Jullian and Sue talk while bathing, Sue announces her decision to leave Selūne's service for service to Sehanine Moonbow, Jullian accepts this easily, after bathing and dressing and breakfast Jullian finds a large basket of moonberries on her desc and large muddy pawprints on the floor, Jullian learns that Naladar and Puppy brought the berries to her, Jullian decides to make pies with them for everyone in the temple, the rest of their day and evening is peaceful.
10th: Alax witnesses William taking lance training from a purple dragon and it goes fairly well, Alax inspects a group of raw and unlikely-looking recruits then takes Steel for a walk, then goes inside to spend time with his family.
20091016 9th Hammer 1387, late evening (Hullack) 9th Hammer 1387, morning (Lycosia) 9th: Alynna returns home to be told Sasha has been suffering from a nosebleed all evening, Alynna goes to check and upon examination finds (with Storm's help) a brain bug has afflicted Sasha, Alynna kills the bug with a Remove Disease spell, after resting a while Sasha makes clear a wish for Alynna to be her lover but Alynna will not have affairs with apprentices, Sasha quits as an apprentice, after Storm says she's fine with it Alynna relents and finds Sasha an energetic lover, Alax misses Ashrika so Carmen pays a war wizard to contact her and get her to visit, Ashrika and Alydra come to visit and Alax is happy, they have a peaceful evening, Alax Carmen and Ashrika have fun after going to bed, Julian awakes with Sue and soon Kailib starts messing with Sue, Jullian talks to Sue and makes sure Sue wants to (she does) before telling Kailib to proceed, Kailib then pleasures first Sue then Jullian.
20091009 9th Hammer 1387, late morning (Hullack) 9th Hammer 1387, late evening (Hullack) 9th: Triss and Sasha return from Willis a few hours later then split up, Alynna stops Triss from killing herself for 'honor' and only talks her out of it with difficulty, Alynna talks with Sasha for a while and tells her she can stay at her home to be away from Triss (who is most unhappy with her), Sasha senses undead nerby and Alynna investgates and finds Baroness Ravenhold in her office, Baroness Ravenhold warns Alynna of a cult of necromancers under the war wizard lich Arelius Blackfoot is building an undead army in Moonever, Alynna goes to tell Jewel about this and Jewel decides to send Izak and Xander to investigate, Alynna (who was hoping for a stronger reaction) goes herself in disguise to keep an eye on Izak and Xander, Izak and Xander proceed to Moonever by way of Marsember, Izak stumbles into the necromantic cult under the temple to Chauntea and heads back to the local inn, many undead come into the inn from below, Izak and Xander make a getaway then Alynna (in disguise) defends the locals by dealing with the skeletons, Alynna goes below and finds five priests and four wraiths but they are not causing further trouble, Alynna goes to Suzail to report on what happened to Jewel, Jewel promises to send a large force to follow up on the situation, Alynna returns home.
20091002 9th Hammer 1387, morning (Hullack) 9th Hammer 1387, late morning (Hullack) 9th: Alax finds his horse Steel missing from the stable and learns that William took Steel to Elron to have a cut in his front left leg treated, after learning Steel will be fine Alax goes to Willis' house to tell Willis that his daughter Fashia is making a thieves guild of children and styling herself the grandmaster, Willis checks and finds evidence confirming it and Fashia has to admit it, Willis tells Alax to punish her the same as the boys although Alax will not have her flogged, Fashia tries to get out of it by calling 'rape' to Alynna, Alynna hears the story and agrees punishment is warranted but talks Willis out of putting her in an orphanage after the punishment is up, Alax spanks Fashia and takes her to a cell in the keep, Elisa doesn't like the punishment but Alynna talks her into accepting it, Alax stables Steel and tends to othe business, after a few hours Willis comes to have a talk with his daughter and she repents, Willis asks for and Alax grants Fashia's labor punishment to be reduced to one tenday, Willis visits Alynna's temple and is intimate with Sasha, Alynna and Sasha talk afterwards and Sasha reveals there were several other times and that she had gotten Triss drunk and with Willis too but now Triss won't be with Sasha, They go talk to Triss and confirm that Triss (as a Menarian woman) has bonded to Willis, Triss confirms the bond and Alynna realizes Triss is pregnant as well.
20090927 8th Hammer 1387, afternoon (Hullack) 9th Hammer 1387, morning (Hullack) 8th: Alax walks Cille back home then goes to talk with Sue, Sue admits she thinks Morgan is a 'devil's whore' and actually believes Morgan has consorted with devils, Alax tells her to examine the evil in her own heart and stalks out, Alax goes out for some hevy sword practice until dinner, Astra comforts Morgan for the afternoonthen they have dinner, Sue leaves Hullack and returns to Lycosia, in Lycosia Alynna verifies Natasha is pregnant with a girl, Kailib makes Jullian rest in bed so she does some paperwork there, Sue discusses her words with Jullian and Jullian advises her to pray and apologize to Morgan, their conversation is such that Morgan hears the accusation again, Morgan teleports to Lycosia to slap Sue, Astra follows her, Morgan and Astra both have harsh words for Sue, after Astra and Morgan leave Sue goes to pray, Jullian rests for the remainder of the afternoon, Sue joins them at dinner and is in a better mood;
9th: Alynna arrives at the temple to find a boy tied up outside and bloodstains in the altar, Alynna finds the temple staff helping a badly wounded Sasha and she finds out the boy tried to rob the temple and Sasha caught him and he stabbed her repeatedly, Goom gets some Dragons to take the boy into custody then goes to see Alax to file charges, Alynna uses her silver fire to heal Sasha, Alax summons the boys parents then holds a trial, Alax finds the boy guilty but beause of his age sentences him to a dozen lashes and six months labor.
20090925 8th Hammer 1387, morning (Hullack) 8th Hammer 1387, afternoon (Hullack) 8th: Alynna verifies that Jullian has not been turned but just weakened, Kailib and Jullian go to visit Alax and wives and tell them of Selūne's warning about the safety of Clareese Wolfwinter, then Kailib takes Jullian home, Jullian tells her mates of what happened then goes to sleep, after lunch Alax visits the head war wizard and discusses Clareese with him and is satisfied the war wizard has a good handle on the situation but has two of his house guards watch over the girl when she's outside of the tower, Alax learns from the war wizard that Cille took and passed the entrance examination to learn to be war wizard, Alax discusses Cille with his wives then takes Cille to talk with Alynna, Alynna discusses apprenticeship with Cille then Alax takes her back home, during the conversation Cille reveals that Sue told her that Morgan was a devil's whore who tainted herself with evil, Morgan hears that and is heartbroken, Astra spends the rest of the day comforting Morgan.
20090920 7th Hammer 1387, late afternoon (Hullack) 8th Hammer 1387, morning (Hullack) 7th: Alax finishes his talk with Sue, Sue reveals that Alysan got her the lingerie in exchange for Sue teaching her ballroom dancing, Alax takes Sue home to dinner with the family, at dinner William reveals he borrowed Carmen's wedding ring to use as an engagement ring for his girlfriend Clareese Wolfwinter who is in training to be a war wizard, William's parents and grandparents talk him into returning the ring and waiting on the engagement, there is a minor commotion outside of Elron's house just before dinner as Elron has Naladar test some leather armor Elron is wearing by firing a matchlock into it, the bullet goes through the armor to Elron's surprise and he is wounded but not mortally so, Elron was working on the armor for the sake of the rangers who are starting to face matchlock-armed poachers in the forest, Astra and Morgan have a peaceful day with their gemwork, in Lycosia Jullian awakes to find Natasha suffering from a bout of morning sickness, Jullian spends the day in prayer, Selūne joins her during dinner to follow up on what happened, Selune also gives permission for Kailib to give Jullian another child and gives Jullian a warning to protect Clareese Wolfwinter from her cousin;
8th: after dinner and the ceremony Jullian and Kailib visit Jewel in Suzail to find out if she's heard any more and she hasn't, Jullian decides she needs to visit the tower to insure Baroness Ravenhold is still there, Jullian warns her parents then gets the key from the vault, Laspeera has one of her wizards take Jullian to the tower, Jullian and Kailib enter and find the baroness still in the tower and upstairs, Jullian informs her what happened, the baroness bites and feeds off of Jullian as punishment but lets her go without turning her, Jullian leaves the tower and the war wizard takes her and Kailib to Hullack.
20090918 6th Hammer 1387, evening (Cormyr) 7th Hammer 1387, late afternoon (Hullack) 6th: Alax takes Jullian and Jullia to his house where they talk a bit then Jullian and Jullia head back to Lycosia, Alax has a nice evening with Carmen and his children before retiring to bed, Jullian tells her mates of the mission then goes to find Sue, she finds Sue unconscious and wounded so she heals Sue, Sue wakes up and tells how the man visiting her overpowered her and tortured her for information about Selūne and the Moongate, Sue is very shaken so Jullian sends her home to spend time with Alax, Jullian bathes in a depressed state, Mask visits Jullian to thank her for her unwitting help, states his actual goal was retrieving the black sword rather then the book and also and claims that he is Jullian's father before leaving, after bathing Jullian spends the rest of the day in prayer, Alax is happy to see Sue when she arrives but sue is acting a bit distant, Sue goes to bed with Alax and Carmen but gets up again as soon as they sleep;
7th: Alax wakes up to find Sue sitting in a chair and he is a bit disappointed but he respects her apparent need for some space, Alax finds that his duties for the previous day were already nicely taken care of, Alax observes some Dragons teaching his daughters about self defense, Cameal seriously hurts William while practicing her self-defense moves, Alax has Elisa treat William, Alax goes on a horseback ride for a while, Alysan gets Alax to come to her tavern where he finds Sue dressed alluringly in a back room so he talks with her.
20090911 6th Hammer 1387 (Cormyr, before dawn) 6th Hammer 1387, evening (Cormyr) 6th: Arelius brings a descendant of Lady Ravenhold (and a distant cousin of Jullian's) to use her blood to drop the wards on the tome, Jullian convinces him to back off and she uses her fangs to shed sufficient blood without killing the woman, the wards fade and Jullian claims the bood, Arelius informs Jullian that the wards around her (Lady Ravenhold's) tower dropped at the same time, Jullian declines his offer to feast on children to read the book and passes a test of will and faith to do so without becoming corrupted, once the sun sets Jullian Alax Jullia and the distant cousin leave the underground necropolis and heads into the forest, once they are out of sight and earshot Jullian calls to Alynna to retrieve them and Storm accompanies Alynna, Alynna first takes them to Dweomerheart (to avoid them or the book being traced or scryed) then quickly to the Gates of the Moon after the light of Mystra's plane burns Jullian Alax and Jullia. Jullian offers the tome to Selūne but the Moonmaiden says she didn't send Jullian on this task, Selūne realizes it was all a plot of Mask and Jullian begs forgiveness, Selūne takes the tome for return to Velsharoon and removes the vampiric disguse from Jullian Alax and Jullia, Alynna takes them back home and Jullian Alax and Jullian head toward the gate, Alynna and Storm take the distant relative and go visit Laspeera to inform her of the outcome of Jullian's mission, once Alynna clears the distant relative's drugged state the girl reveals herself to be Gina Obarskyr and she was born and raised in the necropolis, Alynna leaves Gina in Laspeera's hands then heads home with Storm, they get some ale, drink a bit, then entertain each other in bed.
20090904 5th Hammer 1387 (Faerūn) 6th Hammer 1387 (Cormyr, before dawn) 5th: Astra and Morgan go shopping in Waterdeep then visit Laeral (Khelben is out) before returning home; Astra and Morgan spend the rest of their day with the gemwork then relax for the evening, Jullian and Jullia go to Hullack to get Alax then the three of them go to Alynna's house to change into their disguises, Alynna teleports them to the edge of the Hermit Wood then returns home;
6th: Jullian Alax and Jullia find the entrance to the underground city of the dead just before dawn and are escorted down to the lich Arelius Blackfoot by a death knight, Jullian introduces herself as Baroness Isadora Ravenhold and begins negotiating to get the Black Tome.
20090828 5th Hammer 1387, start of day (Faerūn) 5th Hammer 1387 5th: Alax and Carmen have a nice wakeup, William tells Alax that he got allowed to train with some dragons by punching one below the belt but Alax has his doubts and warns William a lesson is coming, Alax prepares for his mission with Jullian and finds later on that he was right and the Dragons did play a prank on William, the rest of the day is uneventful, Astra and Morgan come to talk with Sara and Alynna joins them, Astra and Morgan cast their protective spells on Sara then in private discuss Sara's infidelity with her, Astra gives Sara money after she learns the reson for the infidelity was an inability to pay wages, Astra and Morgan return to their towers.
20090821 4th Hammer 1387 4th Hammer 1387, end of day (Lycosia) 4th: Astra and Morgan have a peaceful day then talk while preparing dinner, Morgan tells of a vision that their sister Sara was brutally murdered and they discuss strategies of protecting her, after dinner Astra and Morgan scry on Sara to find her having an affair with her husband's assistant, when they go to bed Astra Morgan and Trent enjoy themselves, Jullian is pleasantly awakened by Kailib, Kailib tells Jullian he wants to give her another child after her mission and Jullian agrees pending Selūne's approval, Jullian spends the day preparing for her mission, Sue has dinner with Jullian's family, after Jullian has fun with her mates and sees them to sleep she joins Sue for the night.
20090814 4th Hammer 1387, start of day, Hullack 4th Hammer 1387 4th: When Alax and Carmen wake up it's still a blizzard outside so they stay in bed late and entertain each other, Carmen goes downstairs briefly to bring food and drink upstairs after which Alax and Carmen bathe dress and go downstairs, when the blizzard stops in late afternoon Alax goes out to check on the keep and inn, the remainder of the day is uneventful for Alax, Astra gets a wakeup call from Trent which she enjoys, then checks with the knights before starting the day's work.
20090807 3rd Hammer 1387, morning, Lycosia 3rd Hammer 1387, end of day, Lycosia 3rd: Jullian goes to Hullack to talk with Alax about her mission, Carmen and Alax both have doubts and reservations but Alax agrees to go, Jullian sets a start time for the evening of the 5th in Cormyr, Jullian helps tuck the children into bed then returns to Alax and Carmen to talk a bit more, Jullian goes with Alax and Carmen to bed to have some fun but then dresses and returns to Lycosia at about midnight Cormyr time, a heavy snowstorm hits Hullack preventing Carment from going on her early morning patrol, Jullian has a pleasant remainder of the day in Lycosia as she leads the evening ceremony then beds down with her mates.
20090731 3rd Hammer 1387, morning, Faerūn 3rd Hammer 1387, morning, Lycosia 3rd: Natasha takes Shaelyn home after Astra finishes teaching her the open/close cantrip then Astra and Morgan resume their gemwork under Trent's eye, Jullian tucks Shaelyn into bed then goes up to the outdoor ceremonial hall, Jullian talks with Natasha about her mission and her dilemma on who to take, Jullian eventually decides on a junior priestess and Alax, Alax has a peaceful day, Alynna has a peaceful day including a bit of training of Sara in magic, Velunna comes to Alynna and they are intimate for the first time since Velunna had Elron a month prior, Alynna Velunna and Midnight walk home at the end of the day in bitter cold and note a snowstorm is approaching, after breakfast Jullian talks with the junior priestesses and Jullia (a junior priestess who just happens to have a very similar name) volunteers to go.
20090724 2nd Hammer 1387, end of afternoon, Suzail 3rd Hammer 1387, morning, Faerūn 2nd: Sue and Alax spend the day together and Sue reveals to Alax that she's trying to use the law to get rid of Kailib so she can be with Jullian, Alax advises her to just ask Jullian for time when she wants it, when Jullian returns to Lycosia Philla expresses worries about her mission then Jullian catches up on sleep, Jullian awakes in the afternoon and talks with Sue, Sue tries to pull the legal trick to threaten to get rid of Kailib, Jullian gets upset and sets her straight, Jullian sees Kailib dealing with grave robbers, Jullian spends time with Natasha and the children, after dinner Natasha takes Shaelyn to see Astra and Morgan;
3rd: Shaelyn asks the twins about Velsharoon and the twins have to talk her out of promising to serve him, Morgan spends time with Natasha while Astra teaches Shaelyn an open/close cantrip.
20090717 2nd Hammer 1387, morning, Suzail 2nd Hammer 1387, end of afternoon, Suzail 2nd: Jullian continues her talk with Abby about how to pull off her impersonation then spends the remainder of the day studying the baroness' diary and lab notes, Alustriel teleports Abby away, when Jullian is ready to leave she asks Laspeera to seal the vault again, Laspeera begins by chaning a willing Storm to it, Alynna and Jullian immediately protest and with Alustriel's help convinces Laspeera Storm to not do it, Alynna and Storm leave while Jullian asks Laspeera to just use an arcane lock on the vault.
20090710 1st Hammer 1387, Suppertime (Lycosia) 2nd Hammer 1387, morning, Suzail 1st: Over dinner Kailib tells how he found a statue of what appears to be a demon that was bound in chains and how he ordered the statue to be brought out and the chains taken off, Jullian thinks that's a bad idea but Kailib insists he has the situation under control, Jullian doesn't press it because she has her own task, Sue is rude to Kailib and after dinner Jullian talks with her about it but they reach no firm resolution, Sue's attitude seems to be affected by her new elven body, Sue and Jullian go through the portal then Sue goes to see Alax while Jullian goes to see her mother;
2nd: Alax thinks Sue's becoming a bit racist too, Jullian Alynna and Storm go to the palace and get Jewel's permission to search the archive vaults (the Crypt of Tears) for the information Jullian needs, Storm tries to talk Jullian out of it but she can't, Laspeera shows up and says only a blood descendant of Baroness Ravenhold can break the magic seal, Alynna and Storm manage to convince Jullian she should pray for further guidance but Selūne appears to them all and tells them that Alynna and Jullian are blood descendants of the baroness (who was also an Obarskyr in reality), Storm is visibly nervous the entire time and threatens to kill Jullian if she opens the vault but can't go through with that when Jullian opens it, they enter the vault and find crypts books and a dormant lady bound in chains, Selūne leaves them to their work then Alustriel appears, she doesn't like that the vault her and her sisters sealed long ago has been opened but Jullian convinces her she needs it for her mission, Alustriel awakens the lady bound in chains (who is a vampire and a descendant of Lady Ravenhold herself) and convinces her to help Jullian by telling her what she needs to know.
20090703 1st Hammer 1387, Morning (Lycosia) 1st Hammer 1387, Suppertime (Lycosia) 1st: Selūne visits to give Jullian a task - to disguise herself as a vampire to steal an evil book from a lich for safekeeping, the vampire is an 800-year-old Cormyrean noblewoman (Baroness Isadora Ravenhold) who could pass as Jullian's sister and the lich used to be the traitor War Wizard Arelius Blackfoot and the book is the Black Tome (a book of necromancy and shadow weave created by Velsharoon himself), at lunch Kailib expresses a dislike of Sue because she told him if he cared for Jullian he'd leave her, Kailib also showed some discomfort with Jullian's continuing relationship with Alax, Jullian spends the afternoon with her children.
20090626 1st Hammer 1387 1st Hammer 1387 1st: Six knights of Mystra with a supply train arrive at Astra's towers, Astra and Morgan talk with them and they say that Midnight arranged for them to be sent from Waterdeep to protect them, after the knights go to set up camp Astra and Morgan visit Mystra, Mystra confirms the identity of the knights (to Astra's relief), Astra and Morgan return home and settle into bed for the night, Jullian finds a sculptor starting work in a statue of Shar, the sculptor tells her that Lady Dauntinghorn is sponsoring the restoration of a park with a pair of statues depicting Selūne and Shar fighting, Jullian visits Heather and Heather confirms it and shows her some artifacts she recovered from a thief, Heather returns the artifacts to Jullian and Jullian takes them back to Lycosia.
20090619 1st Hammer 1387, morning 1st Hammer 1387 1st: Laspeera fetches Astra Morgan Alynna and Jullian to see something but won't tell them what it is, they all go to Hillmarch where Laspeera demonstrates that a local farm boy Ike Dalesman is completely immune to magic (in fact he is the center of an absence of the Weave that makes the mages ill), Laspeera wants them to agree the boy should be killed but since the boy has done nothing wrong everyone else refuses to support that, they let the boy go about his business and return home, Astra and Morgan visit Alax for a bit only to talk before returning to the towers, Astra and Morgan tend to the children for most of the rest of the day and Astra spends some time tending to Jaleen as well.
20090612 5th Nightal 1386 (morning) 30th Nightal 1386 5th: Morgan is unhappy and shies away from children and family, Alynna checks on Natasha and finds she still isn't pregnant and Alynna advises her to take it easy on Kailib;
6th: Alynna uses a wish to restore her mother's voice;
12th: Astra talks to Morgan about her mood and Morgan thinks she's evil because she thinks she liked doing what the gods told her, Astra talks her out of it and convinces her that it's her conscience making her miserable and if she has a conscience she's good, Morgan is cheered up, Trent and Astra work together to make her even happier that evening;
13th: Durin finishes Natasha's mithril armor and Natasha comes to pick it up;
30th: The entire Obarskyr and Tallman families gather in Lycosia for Jullian's hosting of the festivities and the gathering goes very well.
20090605 4th Nightal 1386 (midday) 5th Nightal 1386 (morning) 4th: Alynna spends 4 hours researching and finds a method for testing for cancer, Alynna returns to Truesilver house to inform her mother, Morgan is summonned by Mystra and Astra goes with her although only Morgan was summonned, Mystra talks to Morgan alone then tells Astra Morgan was sent on a task to execute a decision reached by the majority of the gods to kill a war wizard and everyone in his house because he was researching immortality magic, Astra objects but nothing can be done, when Morgan returns she is given a ritual purification bath, Astra and Morgan return to Alax in Cormanthor to have dinner with him and Ashrika, they tell Alax that the threatened attack on Cormanthor was but a ruse and will not occur, they turn in for the night but Astra and Morgan sit up all night with their thoughts, in Lycosia Selune personally tells Jullian of the execution and she is apalled at it as well;
5th: Astra and Morgan check on Aleethia at the same time Alynna does, Alynna performs her test and finds no evidence of the cancer, the four of them debate what Morgan was ordered to do then Astra and Morgan return to their towers, Mystra visits Aleethia and Alynna briefly, after Mystra leaves Alynna returns to the temple and her duties there.
20090529 4th Nightal 1386 (morning) 4th Nightal 1386 (midday) 4th: Astra and Morgan finish their talk with Mystra then go to Lycosia to talk with Natasha, Natasha says that the toxin from her glands may be the source of a cure but Sasha would know more about it, Astra expresses worry about the toxin and Jullian in a way that gives offense, Astra apologizes to Natasha while Morgan talks to Jullian, Astra and Morgan go to Hullack to talk with Sasha and they wait while Sasha whips up a potion, Astra and Morgan take the potion to Aleethia in Suzail and she takes it and seems to feel better, Alynna returns to the temple to research a way to test Aleethia to see if the cancer is cured.
20090522 4th Nightal 1386 (morning) 4th Nightal 1386 (morning) 4th: Alynna sees the mark of Talona on her mother's hand indicating who is responsible for the illness, Alynna casts a commune spell to get some answers from Mystra and she learns that the cancer is not treatable and that Talona targeted Aleethia specifically, Alynna asks Astra and Morgan to learn more from their mother, after visiting with Aleethia Astra and Morgan go to see Mystra and learn the cause is that Kelemvor disapproves of life-extending magic and has tasked Talona with afflicting those who create and use it, Mystra admits to them that Natasha might know how to treat the cancer, Astra wonders and Mystra confirms that the other gods might take some umbrage at them revealing this to Alynna thus trying to thwart the will of the gods.
20090515 3rd Nightal 1386 (late evening)
(late morning in Lycosia)
4th Nightal 1386 (morning) 3rd: Alynna sends Izak and Jewel and boys to bed to rest then questions a palace guard regarding events started by Bane this evening, the guard states that Bane bewitched Jewel into running off and leaving the throne to him then send his men out with sealed orders, Jewel tries to kill herself again but Astra and Morgan stop her then watch over here for the night to make sure she doesn't try again, a man arrives at Gareth's house with papers bearing a royal seal that he is now the head of House Dauntinghorn, Gareth doesn't believe them and has the man tied up until morning, a man comes to Lycosia bearing similar papers but also claims a right to Jullian's person, the man tries to take Jullian to rape her but Althrax kills the man;
4th: Alynna talks with Izak and sons over breakfast and Rhigaerd tries to assert some authority, Jullian joins them and after talking they resolve the hard feelings from yesterday's events, Gareth and a number of other nobles arrive to complain about the letters they received the previous day, Alynna and Jewel assure them the letters are forgeries and may be disregarded, Jacob Truesilver tells them the man coming to his house stabbed and seriously wounded Malcom then raped Aleethia, Alynna and Storm go to visit Aleethia and show support, Alynna learns that in addition to the current trouble her mother has cancer.
20090508 3rd Nightal 1386 (evening)
(morning in Lycosia)
3rd Nightal 1386 (late evening)
(late morning in Lycosia)
3rd: The dinner party ends well and Alax Morgan Astra and Ashrika head to bed, Jullian wakes up to find Jewel there trying to hang herself, Jewel tells Jullian that she ate her family and handed over the throne to Bane in return for him letting her join them in the afterlife, Jullian calls to Alynna to investigate this, Alynna takes Storm and Elron and cannot find Izak and the children but does finds Bane on the Dragon Throne in the Palace, after a brief conversation Alynna and mates leave with Alynna feeling rage helplessness and defeat, Alynna and mates go to Dweomerheart to inform Mystra and Selūne of this, Mystra assures her that Izak and the children are alive and imprisoned by Bane and that the gods will act on this, Alynna and mates go to Lycosia to tell Jullian and Jewel what they learned, Mystra calls upon Astra and Morgan to confront Bane as a diversion while she attacks him and they do so, Mystra "kills" Bane (temporarily), Mystra informs her twin daughters that the werewolf army attack on Cormanthor was just a ruse to get them out of the way since Bane feared Morgan, Astra and Morga rescue Izak and sons (who were whipped and beaten) from their captors in Zhentil Keep, Astra summons Alynna who goes to heal the boys, Alynna brings Jewel with her but Izak feels betrayed by Jewel.
20090501 3rd Nightal 1386 3rd Nightal 1386 3rd: Alax Astra Morgan and Ashrika talk a bit before Alax Astra and Morgan get intimate while Ashrika watches and draws them, it doesn't take long for Ashrika to stop drawing and join them, afterward they rest talk and clean up, they have dinner along with Ashrika's brother and his wife and a few generals and mages as dinner guests.
20090424 2nd Nightal 1386 3rd Nightal 1386 2nd: Alax grounds William for chasing female Dragons in the shower, Alax rescinds all of the demotions Styles gave to female Dragons and restores them to their original rank and duties, in Lycosia Sue is working hard to make up for lost time, shortly after dark when Jewel arrives Therax gets into a fight with a beast of Malar and kills it, Garalt the shadow dancer (an agent of Jewel's) comes to see Jewel and tells her that the Zhents are preparing to attack Cormanthor;
3rd: Garalt is waiting for Alax in his office at the top of the morning and informs Alax of the details of the Zhent attack on Cormanthor, that they will attack with a large army of werewolves, crossbowmen and mages, Alax asks Morgan for help so Morgan and Astra come to him then take him to Cormanthor, Alax informs Ashrika of the threat then tends to the drow defense while Ashrika gets Astra and Morgan settled in,
20090417 2nd Nightal 1386 2nd Nightal 1386 2nd: Alynna has to convince Uma that Sasha is not a monster, Naladar comes to tell Alynna he found a dead man in the forest, Alynna and Storm go to investigate and find a priest of Malar who looks like he was ripped to shreds, Storm leaves to inform the Malarite temple in Suzail, Naladar introduces Alynna to Puppy's pack and states that the pack serves Mielikki and watches over the town, Alynna loses her bond with Storm and teleports to her, Alynna fights a werewolf and two priests before she can get Storm out of the Malarite temple back to her own, Storm is dead so Alynna has to use her Staff of Life to bring her back, Alynna and Storm talk a bit then after Storm cleans up they go tell Jewel of the incident, Alynna and Elron and family (including children and Velunna) have dinner together at the inn, through the Chosen voice Astra and Morgan learn that Elron and Velunna were intimate and Morgan is disturbed but Astra reassures her.
20090410 1st Nightal 1386 2nd Nightal 1386 1st: Astra and mates have a cold and windy day, the cold wind seeps through cracks in the towers, Jewel talks with Jullian about her encounter with the beast of Malar and Jullian reassures her, the rest of Jullian's day is peaceful;
2nd: Naladar goes with Puppy into the forest again, Sasha has a lab accident and puts the entire temple to sleep, Sasha also tells Alynna about a pheromone perfume and splashes some on her, when Velunna wakes up she starts making out with Alynna but Alynna stops it, at Alynna and Midnight's suggestion Velunna goes to see Elron, Storm and Jenni bring the children to the temple and talk with Alynna.
20090403 1st Nightal 1386 1st Nightal 1386 1st: Roderic Cameal and Jewel find the tracks of an old lone male wolf in the forest, Jewel senses a cat is stalking nearby, a beast of Malar confronts them and tries to get at Jewel, Roderic blocks and delays the beast while Jewel and Cameal run until they find Edmund, Edmund goes to help his father and together they slay the beast of Malar, Jewel and Cameal return to town to fetch Alax but by the time Alax gets there the Edmund and Roderic are resting victoriously, Jewel leaves with the intent of visiting Jullian, Mielikki graces Roderic and Edmund with her presence but Cameal doesn't see her, they spend more time in the forest and see Naladar and Puppy by themselves and talks to him briefly, upon returning to town Roderic visits with Elron and informs him of Naladar's traveling alone in the forest, Alynna talks with Naladar in the evening when she gets home about his solo travels in the forests and Naladar tells of the pack of dire wolves Puppy took over, Alynna insists Naladar stop his solo travles but Naladar is defiant and refuses, Alynna looks in her Menarian library and finds such defiance and independence is normal in Menarian boys from 10 into their teens, Alax discovers Styles hired a bard to perform personal services for him and releases her from service, Alax spends the rest of the evening with Carmen and the children before turning into bed.
20090327 Feast of the Moon, 1386, Hullack (late evening) 1st Nightal 1386 Feast of the Moon: Jullian Sue and Alax enjoy each other's company then go to sleep, Jullian and Sue only nap for a while before returning to Lycosia to perform the Feast of the Moon ceremony there, Jullian is visited by Malcom Truesilver Lord Emmarask and Lady Wyvernspur who are investigating claims Jewel is a lycanthrope, Jullian confirms it for them and explains it to them and they seem to accept the situation, Jullian tells Malcom about what Alynna did to Styles and Malcom is not upset about it, the nobles attend Jullian's ceremony before returning to Hullack;
1st Nightal: Alax goes to the Royal Court to get his battlemaster tassles and sees a flood of nobles and courtiers in the palace who mostly seem to accept Jewel's condition, Alax visits Rhigaerd a bit before returning to Hullack, Alax discovers that Styles was having a young female blade offer services to gain promotion and Alax puts an end to that, a number of nobles visit Alynna at the temple seeking her support to remove Jewel as regent and Alynna puts them straight, Alynna pays a visit to Jewel to show her support by standing behind her, Gareth visits Jewel to show loyalty even though he is not well and just recovering from serious illness, the day goes well for Jewel all things considered withonly two assassination attempts (both failed), Jewel calls the day early and finds Roderic and Cameal in the forest and spend time with them.
20090320 17th Marpenoth 1386 Feast of the Moon, 1386, Hullack (late evening) 17th: Time begins to pass uneventfully, allowing all to pursue other projects;
9th Uktar: Astra successfully completes her Location Alarm spell;
15th: Astra casts her new Location Alarm spell in a permanency ritual to make the effect permanent on her.
Feast of the Moon: Jullian is invited to lead the ceremony at the Selūnite temple in Hullack and she does so, the ceremony is briefly interrupted by Battlemaster Styles who attempts to kill Jewel for being a lycanthrope but Alynna turns him into a frog and cages him, Jullian is blessed with moonfire which she gifts to the Hullack temple, after the ceremony Rhigaerd promotes Alax to battlemaster and assigns him to replace Styles, Jewel's secret of being a weretiger seems to have gotten out and the family talks about that, Naladar asks Cameal to have sex with him in front of all and slaps her on the butt, Alynna tries to make him apologize but he gives further offense so she spanks him, a Dragon attempts to kill Jewel as a werecreature but Alax numps in front of her to take the bolt, the Dragon is restrained and Jullian heals Alax, everyone heads home.
20090313 16th Marpenoth 1386, Hullack (start of day) 16th Marpenoth 1386, Lycosia (end of day) 16th: Alax invites Roderic to move from Hullack Inn into the family house in the keep and Roderic and wives agree, Roderic moves in the morning then goes hunting with Edmund Jewel and Cameal in the afternoon, Battlemaster Styles has a brief confrontation with Jewel over one of his dogs she killed but Jewel puts him in his place, they take some wild turkeys, Jewel injures her hand trying to hold Cameal's elven silver dagger, they have roast turkey at dinenr, Izak and Pegan join them bringing a hind quarter of deer that little Elron and Rhigaerd brought down that day, Tess prepares the hind quarter for the next day's meal, Alynna has an uneventful day working on Natasha's treatment, Astra and Morgan have an uneventful day with their family and gemwork, Trent went salmon fishing and is saddened because he used to do that with Raymond, Astra is sadded too when he tells her what's bothering him, Jullian has a generally uneventful day, Shaelyn stays close to Jullian and has her fairy dragon listen in when Jullian sees a stranger, Jullian does the ceremony that evening that Tauivae repeats softly to herself, Shaelyn has another nightmare during their night and Jullian comforts her.
20090307 15th Marpenoth 1386, Hullack (morning) 15th Marpenoth 1386, Lycosia (end of day) 15th: Alynna gets Volo's book (Volo's Guide to the Fairer Sex) from Naladar and finds it rather offensive, Erin has an accident in saber practice and Alynna heals her and they talk, Erin buys a new saber from Durin, Durin helps Gantrin with a bit of heavy lifting, Alynna and Elron talk, Erin comes to the temple where Alynna treats her for a broken jaw and Erin thinks Naladar told Shadow to kick her, Astra and Morgan wake up during late afternoon and talk to Trent and Jaleen about what happened, they bathe have dinner then go to visit Shaelyn and Jullian, after a brief visit Astra and Morgan return home for a peaceful evening, Ashrika returns home after breakfast, Alax Carmen and the children spend the day moving back to the Hullack house, Roderic Edmund and Jewel go hunting and bring back a boar, afterward Jewel senses a werewolf (in human form) drinking in the inn, after the werewolf leaves Jewel follows and kills it when it tries to double back, Jewel goes to visit Jullian briefly to ask forgiveness from Selūne and Jullian reassures her none is needed, Sue spends time with Jullian learning from her, the rest of the day goes well.
20090306 14th Marpenoth 1386 15th Marpenoth 1386, Hullack (morning) 14th: Jullian goes to bed at Philla's insistence to sleep through the day and keeps her girls with her, Shaelyn has nightmares and a restless sleep, Sue performs the ceremony in the evening, Sue and Jullian talk after the ceremony and Sue stays with the children during the night allowing Jullian to get some rest;
15th: Alynna finds notes from Trent stating the twins' condition, Alynna cooks breakfast and finds Naladar is eating more than usual and has an inconsiderate attitude towards women due to reading a new book by Volothamp Geddarm.
20090228 13th Marpenoth 1386, evening (Suzail) 14th Marpenoth 1386 13th: Alax finishes the talk with Ragosh and the rest of his evening goes well, Jewel and Izak take their children to the Hullack Inn for dinner with their grandfather, Elminster arrives at the inn and takes a room for the evening, the evening gets unusually bitter cold in Hullack, Alynna Sasha and Triss finish their search for the ingredients needed for Natasha's treatment, a blizzard hits Astra's towers in the evening, Morgan tells Astra about the ploy of Shar taking her over being part of a plot to reveal the one hiding shadow crystals and Astra is relieved it's a ploy and not real, Astra spends the night with her research while Morgan makes a golem out of shadow stuff, Jullian finds one of her junior priestesses has been the subject of a ceremony of Mask in the temple room and she gives aid to the priestess and the beaten guards, the followers of Mask left them a message to 'tell Lady Shar to leave things of shadow to those who dwell in shadow', Jullian is in an unhappy mood the rest of the day and can't sleep that night;
14th: Morgan's shadow golem turns out wrong being only 2 ft. high, Elminster visits Alynna to show her he found a large shadow crystal and tell her that Morgan is Shar arisen, Alynna is unhappy with the news about Morgan and has Goom destroy the crystal, Astra and Morgan visit Mystra for guidance about finding the crystals, Mystra gathers Alynna Elminster Selūne Tyche and Jullian for a conference about the situation, Tyche reveals the large number of small crystals in Jullian's temple was her doing, Jullian learns to her great relief that Morgan being Shar arisen was but a ploy, they decide that Mask has probably hidden many of the remaining crystals on the Ethereal Plane, the meeting concludes and Astra and Morgan take Jullian to their towers to spend time with her girls, Astra gets Trent to give her a couple of plane travel scrolls, Astra and Morgan go to the Ethereal Plane, after several hours of walking Astra and Morgan finally come to a large accumulation of shadow crystals guarded by several human guards and Mask, Astra and Morgan fireball the crystals and destroy them and the men, as Astra uses a scroll to return them home Mask attacks from behind and beheads Morgan, Astra collapses upon arriving at the towers and Morgan's headless body frightens the girls, after a few moments Mystra brings Morgan back and turns the old body to dust, Astra and Morgan are put in bed together to rest until they wake up, Tauivae cleans her daughters up and tries to comfort them and explain what happened, Trent takes Jullian back to Lycosia (where it's the early morning of the 14th as opposed to the late afternoon).
20090227 12th Marpenoth 1386, start of day (Lycosia) 13th Marpenoth 1386, evening (Suzail) 12th: after breakfast Bane visits Jullian to inform her that her sister is Shar and request she relay the message to give his servants control of the Shadow Weave, Jullian is disturbed by this news through the rest of the day;
13th: Astra starts the day off after breakfast tending to the chidren, Alax spends the day with his children (horseback riding and weapons practice), at dinner Cille reveals that one of the house guards behaved inappropriately towards her, Alax has a talk with captain of the guard Ragosh to get rid of the man.
20090221 11th Marpenoth 1386, evening (Lycosia) 12th Marpenoth 1386, end of day (Hullack) 11th: Jullian and mates go to bed but Jullian lies and worrys for a while before going to sleep;
12th: Astra and Morgan bathe after returning from Jullian's temple, Morgan says a few things that worry Astra and they talk about them, after bathing Astra and Morgan go to destroy a large shadow crystal in Waterdeep, the teleport the crystal to the Galena mountains for destruction then return home, Astra and Morgan spend the rest of the day with the children, after dinner Astra and Morgan go to Waterdeep to gamble a bit at Morgan's suggestion< but they turn out to be poor gamblers so they go home, they check each other's tattoos the Morgan tries a spell on Astra that backfires and Trent has to dispel it, Astra and Morgan have a talk that ends in Anger because Morgan won't say the words Astra wants to hear to reassure her Morgan isn't turning to the dark side, Astra spends the rest of the night at her spell research, Alax and Carmen talk to Lord Malcom then take a tour of Hullack, Alax finds repairs to the outside of his house have been completed and the inside work will be completed in about a ride, the rest of Alax's day is peaceful, Sara comes to help Alynna with dinner in the evening.
20090220 11th Marpenoth 1386, evening (Cormyr) 11th Marpenoth 1386, evening (Lycosia) 11th: Alynna returns home and talks with her mates for a bit before they all go to bed, the day goes well for Jullian until ceremony time during which a man is caught trying to sneak into her quarters, upon questioning the man reveals that he is an assassin sent by a priestess of Shar to kill her and that there will be a sign from Shar soon, Jullian investigates a sound and finds dark crystals erupting out of the mosaic wall hiding the Moongate room, Jullian prays to Selūne and she comes to talk fora bit, Jullian gathers up the crystals and calls for Astra and Morgan, Astra and Morgan recognize the crystals as shadow energy crystals and destroy them all removing a large portion of their tattoos, Astra and Morgan talk with Jullian a bit then return home, Jullian questions the assassin a bit more then has him taken for trial in the Royal Court.
20090214 11th Marpenoth 1386, start of day 11th Marpenoth 1386, evening 11th: Ann and Ashrika get along well and the day in Alax's house is peaceful, Roderic Edmund and Cameal work with treants in Hullack to deal with illegal loggers, at dinner Carmen talks about her previous night's patrol and has to leave again right after dinner to Alax's consternation, Shaelyn has a temper attack with Arnūnril and Astra scolds her, Elron visists Astra and Morgan just before dinner to warn Morgan about the Shar cultist but find that Astra and Morgan already know about it, Elron joins them for dinner then returns home, Astra has a peaceful evening then resumes her spell research, Alynna visits Jullian but finds she already knows of the Sharran cultist threat and is dealing with the problem so Alynna returns home, Alynna and Elron both feel a bit useless because their daughters were already aware of the crisis and dealing with it without parental help, Puppy senses something wrong during the evening and runs for the brewery, Alynna and Elron follow and find orcs robbing the brewery, Alynna Elron and Puppy dispatch the orcs and Alynna treats Gantrin who was beat up, a dragon patrol led by Oversword Battlestar happens by and Battlestar insists that Puppy should be killed and is quite disrespectful to Alynna but Alynna overrules him, Alynna visits Jewel and talks her into having Oversword Battlestar busted down two or three ranks.
20090213 11th Marpenoth 1386, start of day 11th Marpenoth 1386 11th: Henric and Edward check out a report fo trouble at Willis' house to find that Willis and family were attacked bound and left to freeze to death, Henric calls Alynna and Alynna saves them from dying of frostbite and pneumonia, Alynna stays with them at the temple until they wake, Elisa wakes first and tells Alynna that a man tortured them to learn about Jullian whom he was tasked to kill, Alynna has Elisa scry on the man and they see him praying before a statue of Shar resembling Morgan, Alynna returns home and informs her mates of the new crisis, Alynna decides that she will inform Jullian while Elron informs Astra and Morgan, Carmen returns home and goes to sleep after her patrol, Ann spends the day with Alax and family getting to know Ashrika and Alydra while Roderic takes Cameal out.
20090207 9th Marpenoth 1386 10th Marpenoth 1386, evening 9th: Astra and Morgan spend more time talking with Jullian's daughters, towards the end of the afternoon Trent takes them all to Lantan to buy Astra and Morgan masterwork tools for gemwork, they see an odd tower there and overhear talk that it's intended to draw power from the Weave and render magic obsolete, when they get closer the twins can sense it drawing on the Weave, Astra has an idea to render it harmless by creating a dead magic zone around the tower, they go home then Astra and Morgan visit Mystra on Dweomerheart, Mystra teaches Astra and Morgan how to create a dead magic zone then they return home, Jullian returns to Lycosia with Natasha but the rest of the night there is peaceful, Jullian joins her mates in bed and the rest of her day is peaceful with no attack, at midnight Astra and Morgan return to Lantan and create a dead magic zone around the odd tower without interruption or incident then return home where they join their mates in bed;
10th: Alax gets Ashrika to visit him by passing a message through Alynna, Alax and Ashrika catch up then go visit Gareth Dauntinghorn so he and Ashrika can finalize a trade agreement, the two of them are accosted upon leaving by two egg-throwing young boys, Gareth has his guards catch them and learns the Zathchos merchant family hired them to pull the prank, Alax and Ashrika return home to bathe and enjoy themselves before rejoining the rest of the family, Ashrika meets Roderic for the first time when he brings Cameal back and they talk for a bit, at bedtime Carmen must leave to take a duty shift given her by the new battlemaster (Styles) in charge of Hullack, Alax remembers him and can't believe the man made battlemaster, Roderic tells his wives about Ashrika that evening.
20090206 9th Marpenoth 1386 9th Marpenoth 1386 9th: A black-armored night comes to Astra and Morgan to pay tribute and make sacrifices to them thinking they are Shar, Astra tries to talk him out of that to no avail although he does get the a young boy from him that he was planning to sacrifice, Astra questions the child and learns a new cult of Shar under the streets of Waterdeep has built a statue that looks just like her and Morgan, she learns that the boy's father was sent far away to kill a Chosen priestess of Selūne that Astra guesses is Jullian, Astra and Morgan go to Lycosia to warn Jullian but since she's gone they warn Althrax who spreads the word, Astra and Morgan then go to Suzail to talk to Jullian and Jewel, Jullian lets her daughters stay with Astra and Morgan to keep them out of danger while she returns to her temple, Astra and Morgan spend time talking with Jullian's daughters in their towers.
20090131 7th Marpenoth 1386 9th Marpenoth 1386 7th: Jullian and Jewel continue their conversation and have a peaceful day, Izak and Pegan bring home some orphaned kittens with them, Alax and Sue decide to return home tomorrow, Astra and mates have a peaceful day, Alynna has a peaceful day and cheers up Elron that night;
8th: Alynna brings Alax and Jullian home where they have a peaceful day, Jullian helps Jewel with her animal form again then takes her girls to visit Alax in the afternoon, Jullian learns that Nianthe told Shaelyn of Jewel's changing and Alax dismisses it, that evening Jullian talks to Nianthe and swears her to secrecy on what she saw then gets her girls to promise to speak no more of it, Alynna has a peaceful remainder of the day, Roderic talks with Alax and Sue a bit when bringing Cameal back, Alax gets reacquainted with Carmen that night;
9th: Astra and mates continue their work in peace, Alax tells his mates he plans to visit Ashrika the next day, Alynna completes her research into Natasha's hormonal imbalance and fids a treatment, Alynna Sasha and Triss start gathering the ingredients needed for the treatment,
20090130 7th Marpenoth 1386 7th Marpenoth 1386 7th: Jullian awakes to find her girls in her palace room with her, she learns from Laspeera that her girls came through the portal by themselves and Shaelyn assaulted a palace guard with her sorcery when he tried to restrain them, Laspeera wants to either collar Shaelyn or take her away from Jullian and Jullian protests and stops her, Laspeera teleports Jullian to Hullack in an attempt to get her out of the way but Jullian stops her from teleporting back alone, they agree to discuss the matter with Alynna, Alynna helps talk Laspeera into letting Jullian try to handle Shaelyn, Laspeera teleports away and Alynna takes Jullian back to her room in the palace, they get Shaelyn to promise to not use her magic offensively any more, over breakfast Jewel and Jullian discuss Shaelyn's situation, Alynna reappears briefly to address an off-hand insulting remark Jewel made about Izak and Elron, Jullian has Jewel practice her transformation between her human and animal forms.
20090124 5th Marpenoth 1386, morning (Suzail) 6th Marpenoth 1386, end of day 5th: Jullian and Natasha have breakfast at an inn in Suzail before returning to the evening of the 4th in Lycosia, Natasha goes to visit her sister, Natasha sees Alynna first to tell her about Jewel, Sasha and Natasha take Alynna for coffee and pie at the inn before Natasha returns to Lycosia, Alynna walks with Sasha back to the temple, after Philla and Kailib are asleep Jullian uses the Moongate to visit Selūne for guidance about Jewel, Selūne advises Jullian to stay with Jewel to help her, Jullian returns and informs Kailib and Philla before packing a few things and going to Suzail, Natasha finds Jullian there, Jullian spends the rest of the day with Jewel, Alax and Sue endure a day-long storm on the island and talk, Astra and Morgan have another uneventful day of gem work and spell research;
6th: Alynna prepares different spells then comes to see Jewel only to learn she cannot be cured because she's already fed, Alynna discusses the problems of Jewel's affliction with her and Jullian, Natasha thinks Jewel should be put down but Jullian and Alynna tell her a clear no, at Alynna's prompting Jewel decides Jullian will succeed her as regent if the secret gets out and Jewel cannot rule anymore and she writes the documents making it official, the rest of the day is uneventful, just before dinner Jewel goes to see Roderic with Jullian and Natasha in tow and Jewel tells Roderic her secret, Roderic is shocked but ultimately accepts it, Jewel Jullian and Natasha return to the palace and have a peaceful evening, Alax and Sue have a good day, Alynna tells her mates of Jewel's condition at the end of the day.
20090123 4th Marpenoth 1386 5th Marpenoth 1386, morning (Suzail) 4th: Alax and Sue have an good but uneventful day, Astra has an uneventful day with gem work and spell research, Jullian spends an uneventful day with her duties and in Natasha's company, Sir Brian and the army return to Lycosia at the end of the day, Jullian expresses to Oversword Whiteriver the need to boost the army's morale, Jullian spots some Zhent guards in town, she investigates and finds the Zhents did not get here through the portal but are in the company of a Westhavian merchant and the former War Wizard Racheal, Jullian and Natasha go to the Palace to report this to Jewel;
5th: but find Jewel has become a weretiger, after Jewel resume human form they go to Laspeera and Jullian tells all they learned of the possible threat.
20090117 4th Marpenoth 1386, morning, Hullack 4th Marpenoth 1386 4th: Alynna returns to the temple and finds that one of Amanda's experiments has gone wrong, upon investigation they find that most of the valuable materials and componets in the lab have been stolen and replaced with worthless substitutes, Alynna teleports to Lycosia and wakes Natasha up to help her investigate, Natasha uses her stalker skills to find that someone teleported into and out of the lab and opens a potal to the destination, Alynna and Natasha go through to find themselves in the mage shop in Suzail she knows well, the owner tells her how to find the woman who teleported in and sold him supplies, Alynna and Natasha stake out the house until they observe War Wizard Belinda Truesilver leaving, Alynna goes to Laspeera and informs her of the situation, they then go to Malcom and tell him, Belinda is brought to explain herself and she admits the theft and says she needed the money to pay off blackmailers, she further reveals involvement with the Shadow Thieves, Alynna suggest she become a double agent so they can learn what long range plot the Shadow Thieves have and Belinda agrees, Alynna returns Natasha to Lycosia then has a good evening with her mages, Alynna tells her mates everything.
20090116 4th Marpenoth 1386, start of day, Hullack 4th Marpenoth 1386, morning, Hullack 4th: Trent is pushed off the top of the tower and assumes Morgan did it because she was the closest to him, Morgan says she didn't do it and Trent believes her, they check out the roof but see no sign of anyone else, with no clue to act on they return to normal activities for the rest of the day, Alynna finds that Triss and Sasha had a spat over a spell idea of Sasha's and Alynna assures them it's a reasonable idea and convinces them to make up, Roderic takes Cameal out into the forest but has to cut the day short when a blizzard comes in, Roderic gets Cameal safely back to town and the talk at the inn, Joanus gets Alynna to come check out Danya and Alynna finds she is over two months along with a girl, Joanus makes an advance toward Alynna but she declines.
20090110 2nd Marpenoth 1386, Lycosia 3rd Marpenoth 1386, end of day, Lycosia 2nd: Jullian finishes talking with her daughters, Jullian discusses improving temple security with her staff, Jullian is told more about the murder victim then later learns a young man was arrested but both Jullian and Kailib suspect that either a coverup is underway or the arrest is just a ploy by the officer investigating the crime (Huge) and they decide to give Huge the benefit of the doubt for now, Jullian has the junior priestesses handle the ceremony that evening, Shaelyn gets in Jullian's bed to snuggle with her for the night;
3rd: Most of the wounded Dragons from the battle are well enough and released from the temples today, Alynna has a generally good day, Roderic again takes Cameal into the forest, at the end of the day Roderic takes Carmen to Tallman House in Suzail to care for her plants then they visit Jewel and talk with her for a bit before returning to Hullack, Astra and family have an uneventful day, Alax and Sue have a fun and uneventful day, Jullian is awakened in the pre-dawn hours to tend to Sasha who was attacked, Huge tells her that it was Sasha's help that got the true murders revealed and arrested, Jullian heals Sasha then Sasha and Triss have breakfast at the temple with them, Jullian and family spend the morning killing some giant rats that have gotten into the temple and arrange to have the damage repaired, Jullian learns from Huge that the Sharran holy symbol was also put there by the murderers as a ploy to try to divert suspicion from them, Jullian and Kailib have a bit of mid-afternoon fun, the rest of the day and evening go well for Jullian.
20090109 2nd Marpenoth 1386, Hullack 2nd Marpenoth 1386, Lycosia 2nd: Alynna has an enjoyable evening with her family, Alax and Sue have an enjoyable day on the island despite some rain, Astra has an uneventful day with family and gemcutting then stays up the night to start spell research, Jullian and the temple staff are confined to the temple for a short while in the morning because a murder on the steps to the temple was done during the night, Jullian and Philla talk of a number of things while they are kept in the temple, Jullian finds a holy symbol of Shar under her altar and carefully disposes of it, Jullian talks with her daughters.
20090104 1st Marpenoth 1386 2nd Marpenoth 1386, Hullack 1st: Astra and Morgan spend much of the day working on their gemcutting and watching the children, during a break they take a walk around the tower grounds and discover a group of orcs talking to Stupid and Dumbass, the orcs want their help to kill the humans in the tower and take over but Stupid and Dumbass refuse, Astra offers that they should stay in the towers if they think they are in danger and the two tame orcs quickly take them up on it, Astra and Morgan discuss the situation with their mates then set up a guard rotation on top of the towers, the wild orcs come to attack at Sundown but Astra frightens them off without a fight, Morgan wanted to kill them even after Astra gave them a chance to retreat but Astra stopped her, Trent scouts the retreating orcs and finds they have camped out at an old abandoned temple a few miles away, Astra decides that starting the next night she'll stay up to conduct research, Jullian has a mostly uneventful day with her duties and her children except for a minor annoying discussion with one of the dwarven workers;
2nd: Alynna has a peaceful day with her researches (she finds a possible treatment to Natasha's disease that will require time to develop) and talks with Carmen for a bit, Alynna treats one of the wounded Dragons for a black widow bite.
20090102 Higharvestide 1386, evening, Hullack 1st Marpenoth 1386 Higharvestide: Astra and spouses have fun in bed, Jullian takes Shaelyn and Tauivae back to Lycosia with her, the girls have a nap before enjoying the festival day in Lycosia, Jullian leads the ceremony in the evening the puts the children to bed;
1st Marpenoth: Carmen wakes up ill so Alax and Sue take her to Alynna, Alynna examines Carmen and finds she has appendicitis to she operates to remove Carmen's appendix, Alynna Sue and Alax talk and Alynna decides Sue badly needs a vacation so she takes Sue to the tropical isle she knows of, Alynna talks with Sue there for a bit then brings Alax to spend time with her and returns to Hullack, Alynna has Elron bring Alax's children to their house to stay, Alynna and Carmen talk after she wakes up, at the end of the day Alynna notifies Jewel that she send Alax and Sue away for a vacation and Jewel is amused, Roderic brings Cameal back to Elron's house after a day in the forest, Alynna has a relaxing evening and fun with her mates, Astra trent and Morgan talk in bed after waking up.
20090101 Higharvestide 1386, Hullack Higharvestide 1386, evening, Hullack Higharvestide: Astra and Morgan visit with Khelben and Laeral for a while and returns the deed of Blackstaff Tower to Khelben, Astra and Morgan visit with Mystra then Raymond and Kalan in Dweomerheart, Kalan has become an historical observer of past/current events who can observe and report back without affecting them and was off observing Tilverton and Myth Drannor where the vampire army tried to invade Faerūn, Astra and Morgan then take their family to Hullack to join the Higharvestide festivities in progress, Astra Morgan and Jullian have a serious talk about Shaelyn's emerging sorcerous talent, Edmund agrees to make Cameal a learning bow, Alax and Jewel have a private talk about Izak's new girlfriend and about the battle in Tilverton, the inn runs out of stoat so Gantrin brings more, the festivities end in the evening and everyone goes home.

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