#session 3

see. i really like the number 3. and i do honestly believe ctyi staff did the best they could and blame not returning to glasnevin with more res spaces on dcu.

Combining two sessions since session 2 was mostly adjusting to the new travel system

Darcy loses the trail, and Fulmen prays to his god to help us find the trail again. However, none of us understand this and just see an old man talking to sky which raises some suspicion

Darcy has a vision, a voice tells him "The boy. Help." The next morning, he tells the group about the missing aarakocra, which upsets the party as they had no idea there was someone up here who needed help and felt this would have been important to know

Come across some bandits, but no fight breaks out

We reach the mountain with ease and prepare for the harder portion of the journey

Session 3 follows here

Lunara and Darcy search for Angela's son, and find a rest area

The group searches inside and finds a leather-bound journal informing them of other rest locations as well as a warning

Some names are written down, visitors is seems. Angela's son, Simon Ironclaw, signed the book about 2 days ago

Party signs the book as well

Group searches for signs of Simon, and find some claw marks.

Rest here for the night.

While travelling, Bellamy and Lunara see some movement, and after taking a closer look, they find Simon who has lost most of his equipment.

We set up camp where he tells the party he had been attatacked by an ice elemental. He begs to join, which everyone agrees to.

That night, Lunara goes missing, and party realizes it's a full moon. The recall that she informed them that on full moons she'll turn into a werewolf.

Fulman offers to find her, while Bellamy and Darcy agree so they can remain behind to protect Simon.

After finding her, they engage in a nightlong brawl. Notably, Fulman removed his blindfold during the fight. While Lunara did see it, whether or not she'll remember is unclear.

As Lunara turns back to normal, Fulman puts the blindfold back on before she opens her eyes.

Back on the road, the group manages to spot a Frost Salamander and decide to take it down. Super rare creatures, and as far Darcy can tell us, they're only found here. (Player note: DM planned for like, two, but Lunara's player was like "no, that's a little much" and the DM was like "ah, you're probs right")

Party manages to take down the salamander with ease, surprisingly (Player note: Our travel rolls were abysmal but we can sure throw hands. Maybe they second one wasn't that bad of an idea, but to be fair we did surprise the thing.)

Loot: Hide of the frost Salamander— 1,000 gold. Can be crafted into armor which will grant a magical effect.

Loot: Sack Gland— 2,000 gold. Source of the frost breath. Used in alchemy.

Loot: 12 supply points from butchered meat

i’ve always wanted a story. i should be excited about this, and in a way i am. but.. gosh. i don’t know. it’s almost ███ ███████████ ███████

there’s so much i wanna ask. too much. it’s overwhelming. ████████████

i think i need to sleep on this. if i can even find it in myself to fall asleep

i don’t know.

i just want to create something beautiful  please let me create something beautiful

[the writing feels more rushed than usual. the usual neat handwriting turned into scribbles of a desperate plea. most of the writing is scribbled out, with some pages missing. it's feel as if it should be barely readable]

i’m currently writing this in the tomb of the abandoned caste. it’s dark. i can barely see. but at least i can get away from everything for just a moment. be alone with my own thoughts

it’s funny. i wasn’t even aware a tomb like this existed. it’s odd. larger than the rest of the tombs, yet it lacks the chest that holds those books

honestly it looks more like a traditional tomb, with an entire room devoted to someone’s coffin. though, for a coffin it’s suspiciously empty, only holding a single hopper that holds nothing. 

i should █████ ████████████. no i shouldn’t

kelly was right, i guess. vampires are real. or well, at least. kier

[it seems this page is ripped out. it seems like a lot of pages are ripped out]

vampires are real. at least according to kelly

it was an interesting argument actually

i had ran into kelly in the woods, while on my way to a tomb, with aiden— one of the twins, following closely behind me.. for some odd reason

kelly asked to speak with me at the lake, that she had something important to tell me. something she entrusted me of knowing

the key factor of this entire interaction actually is the fact that kelly trusts me. out of everyone in town kelly trusting me is one of the biggest accomplishments i could have made. kelly’s the one with the most intriguing story, and with her trust now in my hands it’s only a matter of time before i get kelly’s full story

furthermore, kelly began asking us whether or not we’d “heard rumors” about the undead. about vampires, to be more specific. i asked what exactly she meant by that, and kelly began speaking about vampires, and how they were real. she was very assertive about that fact too. “it’s not a matter of believing, they’re real”

honestly speaking, i thought kelly was joking at first. i mean, i’ve heard hearsay about the logistics of vampires and their existence, but i had honestly chucked it up to mass hysteria. vampires just happened to be what the town clung onto

aiden was heavily against the idea. honestly i paint aiden as an average joe type of character. the type to not really engage in theories such as these. a boring character really, barely even a background character. basically forgettable 

i, however, pushed kelly to give more information. show any proof she may have gathered on the existence of vampires. honestly speaking i mostly asked just to see what would happen. would kelly stammer, struggle to give me anything? or would she actually provide some sort of physical proof

kelly, she.. gave me a bottle of blood. told me that was her evidence. holding a bottle of blood was something i’d never experienced, nor did i ever expect to experience. it was.. odd. almost a bit uncomfortable

i believe kelly claimed to have some sort of machine in her home, god knows what type of machine. but whatever machine it was, it was able to test the purity of people. honestly that sounds a bit too sci-fi for me, but sure

i believe she had claimed to have tested it out on kei, and said kei came out as clean. pure. but when kelly had tested it out on kalina and lillian.. i guess something impure happened. whatever happened, i guess, somehow extracted blood from those two, or how kelly puts it, “pure vampiric essence.” honestly.. i have no idea the logistics of that story. but kelly then claimed to hear both lillian and kalina admitting to “being vampires”

i guess using the theory that those two are vampires would explain how exactly they were deconcentrating beacons, assuming the beacons run on the energy given from a human’s soul. though that too in theory would also prove the priest’s claims on those two being inherently “unholy”

honestly i’m not too sure what the truth could be. the past couple of days have been so odd with the sudden claims of vampires spreading around town, and kelly’s weird sci-fi machine she claims to have. i don’t know. maybe kelly’s telling the truth. maybe this is all just bullshit. i do not know

but quite honestly i do not care

i came here for a story. i came here to discover and unravel secrets to weave them together into something beautiful. beauty does not simply come from what is true or not. what is fact and what is fiction. beauty comes from a story. a damn good story that can shake the ideals and beliefs of a person’s soul

i don’t honestly care if kelly just lied for half an hour to me, throwing around claims of vampires. all i care, is that kelly gave me something to work off of. a story to build off of

and, that kelly trust me

if kelly trust me, i’m sure to be able to scrap off the walls to her secrets, discover every little thing to know about her, and to weave her into something beautiful

the priest has been missing for a couple of days now. it’s starting to concern me

i honestly do not care for the priest. he is exactly what the town paints him out to be. stubborn, annoying, and just plain out disrespectful. to say i even like the priest is an incredible overstatement about my feelings towards the man

however. as i’ve admitted many times now, the priest definitely serves himself to be an incredibly interesting character. honestly without him i fear this town would have been incredibly dull, and i probably would have been stuck studying the beacons until i eventually grew bored of them. the priest is the reason why i’ve been so inspired. he’s so much of a despicable person that his character seems to gravitate towards me. he’s just.. interesting

that’s why his disappearance has been slightly concerning to me

the last conversation i had with the priest before his disappearance was him warning me about this town. about the people. about how there are more of “them”

i wonder now if “them” can be referring to lillian and kalina. lillian overheard me talking to kei about what the priest claimed and well, to say lillian was insulted might be an understatement

but disregarding that, i just find the disappearance of the priest almost a slight bit concerning. though, i must admit too on the same breathe it’s almost incredibly intriguing 

the people in town claimed to have seen the priest walk into the woods last. claimed to believe him to be out on a “cleansing excursion.” it seems the people here are nonetheless more pleased about the absence of the priest. though i find his absence to be a lot more deafening than i would like to adm

i just can’t help but wonder about his words of warning to me. i can’t help but wonder what exactly happened to have prompted his plea, and why it was me he warned

i’ve tried asking his housemate about him, though the housemate has proven himself to be quite useless in my questioning

i guess i have no other choice but to just wait for the priest to return. if he even returns

i got to question kalina today

well.. question is honestly being too generous. i only got two questions in before kalina ran off. it didn’t help that i asked in front of ite and amonit, who were horribly adamant about budding in their own questions

honestly i don’t see a real point in writing here. the only reason i am is because of the fact that kalina herself has fully acknowledged and addressed the fact that there is something off with her

it’s interesting actually. every single time something weird is brought up in this town it can always be connected back to her and lillian. like they’re the cause of all the abnormalities in this town. like they themselves are the abnormality 

the more i think about it the more pissed off i get about the fact that barely got the question kalina

well, at least i got to ask some questions. kalina has verbally confirmed to me that she is one of the ones deconsecrating the beacons. how exactly she’s deconsecrating them it seems not even she understands, which honestly is making me lean more towards a supernatural answer, assuming the beacons have something to do with the human’s soul

she’s also verbally acknowledging the “sizzling” sound. honestly my first assumption wasn’t to pin the sizzling on her, but i guess it was amonit’s. and well, i guess she did confirm it to be her. she never answered why she sizzled or what exactly is sizzling on her, only that the sizzling was “uncomfortable but not painful”

i’m starting to understand the vampire claims a bit more now. kalina’s almost a textbook example of a stereotypical vampire. it’s almost too easy to assume that kalina is a vampire

other than that though, i was unable to gather anything else about kalina, or the beacons. she ran away after i had mentioned the barriers of this town. it seems she was never aware of the barriers until i spoke them into existence

kalina.. is a weird case to say the least. she seems to be on the run from something.. or maybe someone? there’s obviously a lot more to her character that she has yet to tell

and i plan to fish out everything from hers

amonit has proven themself to be much more useful then i had first initially thought

me and amonit have.. a friendly relationship. though it’s been more of amonit coming up to me and starting up a conversation. i’ve always entertained their conversations, but i must admit i never really did give amonit much thought

honestly they’ve always painted themself as kinda mad. they desperately excuse every unnatural occurrence as some sort of hallucination. they’ve honestly had the reaction i thought most people in this town would have had. mass hysteria of some sort. that’s why i never took interest in them. they were just another predictable character

but amonit.. gosh amonit. if their goal was to slither their way into my creative process, gosh have they achieved that

amonit was off about another theory of theirs to explain the abnormalities of this town, with the twin standing near. me and kei were there too, honestly i forget why we were all there, or why we just decided to start discussing in the middle of town

kei and the twin started to discuss the books that crumble into your hands. or well.. discussing is a nice way to put it. it honestly seemed to have been bordering across the line of an argument

amonit, of course, argued against the existence of the books themself. i believe they think the powers are just hallucinations, and that the books just get lost into the ground when it’s opened. in hindsight their explanation makes no sense, but who am i to shut down a theory 

honestly i forget how i got to this point of the conversation, but somehow someway i started to make a joke about vampires, and how they could be a possible explanation towards the beacon. i never meant it to be a real argument, more just something to throw into the mix. something to be waved off

and, gosh. i don’t know what exactly ticked off in amonit’s mind, but they started to go off. heavily denying the existence of vampires and actively arguing against an argument i hadn’t even put up

i guess amonit’s screaming got the attention of most of town, since eventually everyone began circling around us, questioning what exactly the shouting was about 

and then amonit. oh amonit. they started pointing fingers at kieran, aggressively claiming him to be sick without letting kieran even get a word in for himself

i guess kieran took being accused as sick fairly personal, as the two started arguing with each other, with luca stepping in to defend kieran

things started to escalate from there. with amonit shouting and pointing fingers while the town tried to fight back. i don’t think i’ve ever seen someone so adamant about their own delusions before. amonit seemed close to tears

i walked away from it eventually, mostly due to the fact that the conversation started from a joke i said, and the fact that i desperately did not want to get on any bad footing with anyone. being on bad footing just means losing an opportunity to discover someone’s story, and that’s just not a risk i’m willing to take

amonit calmed down, eventually. but it was the most worked up i’ve ever seen them

honestly speaking though, their reactions were well, predictable. surprising, but predictable from what i’ve learned about amonit’s character 

though seeing how much they’re willing to fight and die on a hill they built themself’s is.. inspiring 

amonit might not be an interesting character, but they could serve to be a useful tool for my creative process

perhaps i could combine amonit’s stubbornness with kana’s character. it would lead to a much less one dimensional character, and it would serve as a very obvious yet compelling character flaw

i wonder how amonit is doing now