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Sun 16th Jan 2022 08:57

How I Became a Lady

by Lady of M'tannan Jessica Morgan

M'tannan has traditionally been part of the Fei'nos pilgrimage to The Gathering for quite a while. I'm going to assume a long time. However for years it has been ruins ruled by malevolent entities, so the Fei'nos pilgrims have avoided it and gone around or something. Or maybe they didn't avoid it and they had bad things happen. Either way, I decided to do something about it, so I convinced everyone that we should return to M'tannan and rid the badness.
 
We arrive to find the place coated in darkness. Like a literal disk of darkness with dark things in the dark ... stuff. That bear that was angry at us was dead and torn up. Or at least a bear. It's hard to tell if it was the same one as I'm not well-informed on bear characteristics or the general local bear population. The Dryad lady was also pretty freaked out and didn't want to come out of her tree. Luckily it's a giant tree, so she has plenty of space to move around. The evil maybe-flying toads were also dead, which is nice. At least evil stuff fights other evil stuff sometimes. The real bad thing was hearing that Kavress was apparently eaten. Then when we get to the manor (see journal entry 2 in my last journal), there are Fei'nos skeletons guarding it with Kavress's apparent animated corpse there. I did not look forward to making that into a fight, so I improvised and grabbed that medallion of Wen'ded and requested an audience. It totally worked! He didn't remember me, but I managed to convince him to let us try to cleanse the place rather than fight.
 
Inside the manor was an animated Sarie corpse guy, and he pointed a shotgun at me. Not cool, dude. Still, he seemed like he didn't want any part in all of this, so we let him be.
 
Then we decided to look for the necromancer at the cemetery, which was flooded with bog. Pretty gross. The others decided to just wade across, so I went too, and it was just as gross as I imagined. We found the Kith girl there though and she mentioned a focusing crystal that was creating all the darkness. So we trudged over that way and I started blasting the crystal. The Hag showed up, but she more resembled Fiona than any sort of hag one would imagine. She was biting and stuff while I just kept blasting the crystal. Eventually the Hag morphed into me, but my knowledge of Twilight saved the day and let the others know who was whom. I transformed into Sailor Moon (outfit) and while they killed the Hag, I blew up the crystal!
 
Woo! When that happened there was a huge rush of mana. It was AMAZING. All my nerves were firing. It looks like Jo, the Kith girl, and Carter got even more of it though. Carter even picked me up and hugged me. Then he started walking off with me and I was starting to think he was just going to bang me right there or something. Honestly, I probably would have gone along with it. Luckily for everyone, it didn't come to that.
 
Avery said he's starting to think Carter is hot, which is cute. I was crushing on dudes at Avery's age too, so it's totally normal.
 
We returned to Kavress, and he was pretty thankful as his undead bindings were fading away or something. Then he bequeathed me his manor and stuff, which apparently means that I inherit his title? So now I'm the Lady of M'tannan, I guess? Bizarre, but totally awesome too. Not a princess, but that seems kind of close right? I'm Fei'nos nobility now? I feel like an eligible bachelorette.