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Tue 7th Mar 2023 07:13

Session: Mar. 6, 2023

by Eirlyssia Tsurovitchna

I had thought our evening would be filled simply with a tailor's fitting and then a well needed sleep. I did not anticipate accidentally maiming a worker for the inn and finding out several integral pieces of information for us going forward.
 
First of all - we now know that Malzod wants the Black King's Axe that Mud has. We don't know why, or really anything about the axe. Everyone was too caught up on Mortalis to think too much about the axe, but now that's probably something we should really look into. Mud is refusing to put the axe away for safe keeping so that someone can't use Locate Object on it, which is fine, that's his choice, but it does make me uneasy. It means that at any given point, Malzod could be using it to find our location. We went from being able to set up a place to attack Malzod, to always just being on the defensive, ready for a fight. Not my favourite strategy, and one that I hope does not come with collateral damage.
 
On top of that, apparently Corin's Exemplar has siblings, and one of those siblings ALSO wants the axe. We got the names of both, but we didn't find out which one wants the axe, so we don't know which one to be on the lookout for. Interestingly enough though, one of the siblings, Leadros, has the same name as the fiend who runs the mercenary organization that Zun's girlfriend is a part of. That cannot possibly be a coincidence. But is he the same person? Is he related? And if he is the same person - does that mean he's the evil one who's after the axe? I'm loathe to just automatically assume the fiend is the evil one, since that's so cliche.
 
But hey, since we're about to go and meet him anyway, hopefully that's one question that we can get sorted relatively quickly. I was surprised by how easily everyone agreed to just hire someone to assassinate Ahzek. Why didn't I think of that until now? I'm always on the side of "if you want someone killed right, you need to do it yourself", but we've already proven to not be very successful in that area with Ahzek. Plus, we're starting to get a very full roster of people who don't like us and may eventually want to use us or kill us, so taking one out now is probably doing us a favour in the long run. There's too many people to kill, and not enough time to do it in. Sigh.
 
Also on the topic of killing, kind of, it sounds like all of Daren's soul is inside of Mortalis now. He isn't 100% sure, which does mean there's a slim chance there could be more Daren out there somewhere. But after breaking the phylactery, it sounds like Daren is more or less all in there now, which is a relief. My only fear with that is if Daren was able to overtake Mortalis briefly when only part of his soul was there, what if he's able to gain more control now that he's fully in there? I don't think we totally understood just how powerful and terrifying Daren was when I led the charge to attack him. I'll have to keep checking in with Mortalis that it doesn't feel like anything has changed there.
 
Mortalis also noted that it is NOT recommended to scry on a soul that's inside of him, given that it would likely suck whoever was trying to scry INTO Mortalis without warning. That's...unexpected and a little horrifying. Is there a way to use that to our advantage though? Corin was bringing up some interesting points about trying to manipulate people into scrying on someone we've killed - it's an intriguing idea that requires more thought from me, I think.
 
With all that information to process, it makes sense to me to head to the Temple and ask them for answers about many of these things. Maybe we leave the axe with them? Who knows.

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