Session 10
“The dependent is thriving.” turned out to be true. The dependent… Giggs… had turned himself into a petty tyrant. A monopolist taking advantage of the power vacuum he had created. It seems the effects of the war have reached Neverwinter and the markets have been taken over by Giggs. His factory of misery now seems to sustain the city. But worse than that… that ignorant worthless sack of skin insulted my discipline and my life's work. When I suggested he use undead for his factory rather than slaves he said that they would make the product taste bad. Taste bad!?! It is not as if I suggested he use walking rotten flesh to pack rations! People are much more disgusting than walking bones… even flesh can be preserved with the right magic… His accomplishments were a product of opportunism and indifference to the suffering of others. Like the nobles I so despised. Any fool and dullard can use slaves to build wealth; it's not as if such a job requires the brightest of people. He has worked for nothing; he was handed freedom and he used it to steal it from others. He takes the credit and fruits of their work for his own. Moreover he was incapable of understanding the merits of my suggestion. The dead are tools, the living are capable of higher pursuits than this… this… recreation of the nine hells. I wonder how the elf would feel about Giggs now. But he is gone, turned to dust that shifts and moves in the confines of the jar he was buried in. The sand in the hour glass falls so slowly for so long, how long? How long did it fall? How long was I left with my thoughts? Those gods were trapped in that strange machine in that place so far way. The cult of crimson red, their captors. Ilmater and Kelemvor… the shadows stick to me still from that place… dye I can't wash off. I find myself between places so often, I have seen without sight for so long that I hadn't noticed the times I was blind. The dependent was a leach, a parasite, a person who begged for sympathy for freedom… for himself. He should have been discarded like a bad first draft. He shares that trait well with Rugo; he is a bad first draft. He will find his end the same way as Rugo did, cut down in a basement. No perhaps burnt to a cinder? Ripped apart by undead? Even now I am burning with rage just thinking about him, his smug smile, his know it all attitude. He thinks he knows so much but he knows nothing… But what of the other slaves then? Will they share the fate of him? Are they destined to walk the same path as their creator? Should they be saved? Can they be saved? Is it worth the risk to consider them? I feel it is my place to pass judgment on Giggs but is it my place to judge them for a life they haven’t lived? Judgment… the eternal scales… fate… how can one be judged for a life they are fated to live..? No, if fate is real then it will find me and if it isn't then I must decide I must pass judgment. Giggs must die… The slaves must be discarded… left to their own devices. This is fair judgment. I am no hero, I am a scholar…
Stygian's Journal Ordered oldest to newest
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Session 0
09 Apr 2023 09:58:22
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Session 1
09 Apr 2023 10:32:21
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Session 2
09 Apr 2023 10:37:40
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Session 3
09 Apr 2023 10:52:28
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Session 4
09 Apr 2023 11:51:31
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Session 5
11 Jun 2023 01:23:50
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Session 6
11 Jun 2023 01:28:36
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Session 7
10 Aug 2023 08:36:21
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Session 8
18 Aug 2023 12:03:37
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Session 9
10 Sep 2023 01:35:28
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Session 10
07 Jan 2024 08:00:22
09 Apr 2023 09:58:22
09 Apr 2023 10:32:21
09 Apr 2023 10:37:40
09 Apr 2023 10:52:28
09 Apr 2023 11:51:31
11 Jun 2023 01:23:50
11 Jun 2023 01:28:36
10 Aug 2023 08:36:21
18 Aug 2023 12:03:37
10 Sep 2023 01:35:28
07 Jan 2024 08:00:22
The major events and journals in Stygian's history, from the beginning to today.
Session 6
Today I made a breakthrough, one that will change everything, no longer am I shackled by my need for sleep I have successfully discovered a way to stay awake indefinitely, however, my body still needs time to rest from the events of the day but my eyes wi...
01:33 am - 11.06.2023Session 5
While eating and enjoying my meal, the other members of our little group, started off the day well with talk of what started as the ravings of Sepp talking about rats in the sewer, which is strange as you would think there are rats in the sewer after all,...
01:28 am - 11.06.2023Session 4
I awoke to nothing in particular—no dreams this night—but my dreams were replaced with a curious sight. The box that was sitting on my desk now sat there broken. Sliding aside the pieces, I saw a jet black gemstone inside, which looked to be an amulet...
12:20 am - 10.04.2023Session 3
After having woken up from the events at the potion shop and learning those two spells, divination and transmutation—how boring!—I decided to take another look at that box. I found myself instantly transported to a dark, void-like place, with such bla...
12:20 am - 10.04.2023Session 2
That is what I thought the future held for me, but life is not always predictable. A dream? A grim premonition? I don't know what I would call it or even how to begin to explain what I saw. A figure clad in a black robe sat across from me as we shared a c...
12:20 am - 10.04.2023Session 1
After having met the oddest bunch of… I guess there are adventurers, but I can't really tell; one is as quiet as a mouse, another fancies himself a womenizer, one seems to have a poor sense of judgement, which is saying something, as another seems not a...
12:19 am - 10.04.2023Session 0
Discredited and thrown out of T.E.A. University for my research on old necromantic magic, I no longer have the ability to find the answer to my burning question, "What happens after death?". During the events leading up to the end of my tenure, my college...
12:19 am - 10.04.2023The list of amazing people following the adventures of Stygian.
Social
Birthplace
Halagard
Current Residence
None
Contacts & Relations
Zirkle Brunsturn a female half orc and my old mentor.
T.E.A University's faculty poor relations.
Honorary & Occupational Titles
None.
Wealth & Financial state
Wealthy now but not in the way he wishes.
Family Ties
None.
Religious Views
"The gods? There are so many I don't bother picking, if one wishes me to be apart of its flock there isn't much that can be done to stop them." -Stygian
Social Aptitude
Not the best a conversation or deception but great at lecturing on history or the arcane
Mannerisms
None that are notable.
Hobbies & Pets
spell scribing always interested him however he never really had time to learn.
Speech
Nothing notable.