29 Marpenoth, 1489 DR

Dead to me

by Nepheri

Seems I finally got to see my dad again. I'm not sure what I expected out of that, but it wasn't this. Not at all.
 
A few things happened first I guess. Kaia returned to her temple. We went to spy on dad's meeting with someone. That someone seems to have been Mahry who we previously knew as a golem maker. And both of them in league with the Hemple of the Harvest. So I confronted dad. Not sure if that was a good idea or a bad idea, but I did.
 
He claims mum and him were drifting apart... Hardly the story she told me. But I'm not sure he cares enough about me to lie. And at first, I thought he had gone paler with time. It wasn't until I was about to leave that I might use the sight granted by the Raven Queen... and it revealed the lack of life in him and the stench of undeath.
 
My own father... I didn't care enough to truly hate him before, but now... Somehow I feel more betrayed by him. The fact that he's my dad and so truly everything I hate. I need to destroy him. I need for him to be destroyed, but preferably I want to burn him to dust myself for everything he's done. And now he and, ugh, Kelara are destroying lives together and exploiting people's fear of death to feed themselves. I'm not sure if I'm more angry, sad, or horrified. But I know I have trouble holding back my tears.
 
I managed to find some calm in prayer at the temple of the Raven Queen. The sanctum of fate and the natural progression of life brings me comfort and I have Faith in my Queen. Even Dworik tried to seek her aid, though I don't think he's a man made for faith.
 
Meeting up with the others again, we apparently got a new friend - a member of the Harpers. Nutter - the seeming ally of Mahry from when they came asking for the Manual of Golem Creation. But he claims to have infiltrated the Temple and wants to help us take it down. Apparently, there is a basement to their building, which has a kidnapped Rupert as well as an altar to Cyric. Great an evil god involved as well. And one who killed Mystra and caused the Spellplague isn't one of the better ones in my book. But Nutter also gave us a list of the top members of their organization, A powerful bunch it seems... We need to be careful. And gather as much information on dear old dad and his whore of a partner.

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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