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Sat 22nd Jun 2019 03:52

Return to Phandalin

by Nepheri

Returning, it feels like I need to focus on something current. Something more tangible. So I started off by checking the progress on the shrine I commisioned, which is coming along very nicely. What's not coming along nicely is my sense of direction. Unless that direction is towards ale. Lots of ale.
 
The rest of the party had met a wizard at the inn - Suffrax. An eccentric but pleasant traveller all the way from Calimshan and with an interest in the Wave Echo Cave. Sildar had already vetted him, so I guess he's in. I didn't care at the moment. I'll admit that part of me simply longed for the simpler days when I would have danced and swindled my way to food drink and shelter and not have thought twice about placing any meaning to it.
 
I tried to talk to Ellywick about the problems of not knowing what the right path is, but I'm not quite sure how that went. I'm a bit hazy at that point in the evening and onwards. I think she said something about finding a third path? That's not really applicable to me. Is it?
 
At least I woke up the next day with a sense of purpose. And an upset stomach and a headache that it took a spell to take care of, but more importantly a purpose. The mayor of Phandalin rules through his own hubris instead of remaining humble in the face of fate. Who should die when might not always be clear to me, but this is obviously going against the Raven Queen's wishes.
 
Enlisting the aid of Ellywick and Suffrax, I headed towards the town hall. Suffrax made his coffee taste of blood, while I darkened the room and let the sound of ravens be heard outside while Eye was staring at him. Ellywich added an illusion of a second, still, bird. I reached out and asked my goddess to give him a vision of his own possible death and he would sense the Raven Queen's power within me as I told him to step down from his position and enact an election for a new mayor. From the look on his face when we left, I doubt he'll disobey.
 
Maybe this is what the Queen needs me for? To take down those who abuse their power? To show the world that even the mighty who think themselves invincible will one day die? Maybe there's even room for reminding those who feel trapped that they can live while they're alive.
 
I wish I could talk to someone about this, but the clergy at the temple is far away. Declan might have understood, but would have had a hard time looking past the need for people to die and also see that death affects the living. As for the current members of our party... I don't know. At least Ellywick listened.

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  1. Business...
    11th of Uktar, 1489
  2. I'm ready for you, Raven Queen
    2nd Uktar, 1489
  3. You killed my father, now prepare to die
    2nd Uktar, 1489
  4. Dust to Dust
    1st of Uktar, 1489 DR
  5. Redbrands I
  6. Arrival at Phandalin
  7. Daddy Dearest
    1st of Uktar
  8. Day after
    30 Marpenoth, 1489 DR
  9. Lawful Stupid
    29 Marpenoth, 1489 DR
  10. Saving private Rupert
    29 Marpenoth, 1489 DR
  11. Dead to me
    29 Marpenoth, 1489 DR
  12. Close to Harvest
    28 Marpenoth, 1489 DR
  13. Recovery
  14. Insane Plans
  15. By the Book
  16. Dead feelings
  17. Disposed
  18. Dead Necromancers are the Best Necromancers
  19. Catching up
  20. Shipping
  21. Friendly or Not
  22. Unexpected Meetings
  23. Worlds Collide
  24. A very different city
  25. Festive Thornhold
  26. Thank you, my Queen
  27. Friends. Right.
  28. This is awkward....
  29. Landslide
  30. Dangerous Gnoll-age (sorry... the puns are spreading...)
  31. Cenceptions
  32. Seduction
  33. Wave Echo Cave II
  34. Wave Echo Cave
  35. Return to Phandalin
  36. Rest in peace, Declan...
  37. Crisis of Faith
  38. Thundertree II
  39. Thundertree I
  40. Path to Thundertree
  41. Orc hunting
  42. Redbrands III
  43. Redbrands II
  44. Far From Home
    ?? ?? ???
  45. Cold
    Tal'dorei, day 2
  46. Life, interrupted
  47. Hot and Cold
  48. The Dragon's Lair
  49. In the afternoon, we plan!
  50. A Song of Ice and Fire
  51. Celebration
  52. Relief is one hell of a drug
  53. Flight and Flutter
  54. Freedom of Movement
  55. At dusk we... do something?
  56. Pray for a quick end to our deception
  57. Catching up
  58. Fall
  59. Lizards in a hole
  60. Not Today
  61. Released
  62. A broken soul
  63. Skyfall
  64. Acid Falls
  65. Roped in
  66. Faith in Friends
  67. Insight into Emon
  68. A Calling
  69. Hypothetical 1: Healer (Ginny Di video)
  70. Hypothetical 3: Matchmaker (Ginny Di video)
  71. Hypothetical 2: Villain (Ginny Di video)
  72. For my Beating Heart
  73. Hypothetical 4: Prison guard (Ginny Di video)
  74. Hypothetical 5: Bard (Ginny Di video)
  75. Plagued Possibilities
  76. Visits in the Cloudtops

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