Session: August 27&28, 2023

We made it off the ship!!! I'll admit, airships are quite interesting, but I don't enjoy how restricted I feel on them. Anything can just come and attack, and you have nowhere to go. Being off the ship feels much freer.
 
The rest of the trip passed fairly uneventfully, though there were a few highlights. Ny'ell and I became friends. Not super close or anything, but it was really nice to just be able to chat about girl things and enjoy her company. Mortalis was able to really manifest himself this time! I used my own blood, and that seemed to work well. Only problem is, I don't think I can do that very often. I was fine afterwards, but it already had me feeling a little woozy. I don't want to have to wait two months to be able to do that again, so I'm going to have to figure something out. However, it was really amazing. Creepy. Terrifying. But amazing. I'm beginning to think we might be able to pull this off. Other than that, we tried to scry on Malzod, Dan'or'avil, and my mother, but got very little out of it. Malzod was on his way somewhere looking less fancy than normal, Dan'or'avil was in the human lands disguised as a human, and my mother hired someone new. Curious as to whether Malzod is the new hire and that would explain his look, but that's honestly a shot in the dark.
 
Stepping on land we realized very quickly that we were going to have to act as Elegant's retinue, and I'll be honest, I'm quite enjoying my role as Executive Assistant. It's not only extremely fun getting things done, but gives a great cover/excuse for being up in the middle of the night or wandering places I shouldn't be.
 
Speaking of which, I did not expect to meet a cute boy on this excursion. I don't typically have time for that, what with my strong revenge goals. But a cute night guard named Rand showed up wondering what I was doing (fair), and then offered to give me a tour of the venue. Tactically, this already made sense, but to be accompanied by someone closer to my age who seemed super sweet to boot was just icing on the cake. I got delight in making him blush just a little by asking for a dance tonight. He seemed very keen to take me up on it, so I hope that happens. It would be a lovely distraction during an otherwise harrowing time.
 
The female servants in the house are CHEEKY. One tried to "poison" Elegant (well, I think really she knew that we wanted more food and put laxitives in the ale for us, not so much Elegant, but she had no way of knowing he wouldn't drink one!), one directed Zun into the ladies bath, one tried to get into Elegant's pants...they're really keeping us on our toes here. However, the laxitives might make it easier for me to plead my case in getting a copy of the guest list, so perhaps that worked to our favour.
 
I don't imagine most of our enemies would use their real names, other than probably my mother. But still, being able to prepare ourselves would make me feel better. While I'm looking forward to dressing up and seeing Ny'ell and Elegant play, I can't help but feel uneasy. ANY of our enemies could come tonight for any purpose. Cormivoun could show up to kidnap Mud and Zun. Malzod could show up to kidnap Mud. Yll'sid could show up, though I highly doubt that would happen here. A little too public. My mother could show up to kidnap me and take me home. Dan'or'avil could show up to either murder OR kidnap me. Technically Ahzek or Orthek could show up, though I have no idea what purpose that would serve. Our list is growing much too long for my liking. There's too many things to prepare against. I'm trying to protect my own safety, while also trying to protect my friends against their own threats, and I worry it's going to spread us too thin.
 
Then on top of that, everything got changed around because of an Elven delegation coming? I'm highly suspicious that some part of Saanes's family will be involved there, but will it be for good or bad, I don't know. His family sounds mostly decent, so if it's just them coming to enjoy some music, that would be great, though strange. But if it's his brother Sevette, who we know is involved with the Cult, that bodes ill. OR it could be elves entirely unrelated to Saanes, and just simply working with the Cult, which would STILL be bad. Or they're just random elves. But nothing ever seems to be fully random with our group. We couldn't be so lucky.
 
Here's to an evening of good music and bad anxieties, and just trying not to get kidnapped.