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Hi!!
Yup, I’m home, and a day early too! Tales to be told, but am going to go pull in pictures and read everyone else’s blogs first. 
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I had a lovely evening with Elf and Pug tonight – went to see Spiderman 2, and greatly enjoyed it, despite my initial reticence. Woo! I’m interested to hear what our resident comic expert thought about it, now. But I guess that conversation will have to wait – my family is leaving in the morning for a two-week trip to New Mexico and back. We lived in Albuquerque for seven years when I was little, and haven’t been back since. Also, my grandfather lives in Las Cruces, so going to see him is a major incentive for making the trip. Etcetera. Tales when I return! We should be back the 23rd. Oooh, shoot – that reminds me. Tae, I hear you were hoping to get the group to go see Camelot, which is wonderful and I’m thrilled that Athena is involved (glee!!), but don’t get me a ticket because I already have one…the family is going. Wanted you to know!!!
With all that out of the way…here is part 3 of the current D&D campaign. This is as far as we’ve gone.
The following day, Tae and Petra were back on the road. The terrain was getting rockier and steeper until they came to a fortress set on a stony slope (yay synonyms!) The front door was huge, and while Petra could easily have gotten herself up to the knocker, they decided that the front entrance was perhaps not the wisest idea. They went around looking for windows, and the first one they found was indeed at ground level – it looked like a prison cell or a dungeon.
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Tae and Nadrak found Astrae, the Queen’s city, to be a truly delightful place. Arriving at the palace, they were met at the door by a man in the Queen’s livery, who graciously ushered them into the Queen’s presence and introduced them.
Queen Miralana herself was probably half-celestial. She had the height of an elf, feathered wings, and black hair. She seemed ageless, and had an unusually intense gaze. She invited her guests to feast with her. At dinner, she explains herself. The land of one of her earls…
(Aside. Contrary to last night, I’ve decided to call them all earls rather than lords, because I think I can get away with using it for the women, too. I don’t know what the English call a female earl, and for this, it doesn’t really matter. This is my world and earl is a good word. Plus, we get to sing Duke, duke, duke, duke of earl, duke, duke, duke of earl… err, right. End aside.)
The land of one of her earls, Sir Edmund of Spens has been usurped by what Miralana refers to only as “a foul beast.” She says that this is because that’s all Sir Edmund’s letter’s have called it. She implies that he is getting on in years, and his eyesight not be good enough to get a good look at it, and he is too stubborn to trust the judgement of those around him. She has sent many of her best knights to his aid, but the messages Sir Edmund send her say that none of them have arrived.
Apparently she had not only been seeking a healer, as the old man in the inn seemed to think, but an entire group of adventurers. Tae admitted that she had some friends in that line of work whom she could contact. Miralana asked that they go to Sir Edmund’s aid, and hopefully discover the fates of her knights along the way.
So Tae contacted Petra, and Nadrak went window shopping. In fact, he got so caught up in it, that Petra and Tae went off without him. (aka J.C. goes to Europe)
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Yes, my friends, you have succeeded in corrupting my brain yet again. I spent the morning reading the “Very Secret Diaries.” So funny….sooooo baaaaad. Painful. Must stop laughing. Am currently inserting a memory block on it…
Ahem.
We now return to our previously scheduled story.
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Since Carmen and Crunch have been waiting oh so patiently for me to get my act together….
I know corrections will be forthcoming – the following will be changed accordingly. Unless it’s funnier not to.
Tae was sitting by her self in the tavern of the inn she’d been staying at for the past few days. After the whole big mess with the Temple of Elemental Evil, everyone had felt the need for a little R&R or alone time or something like that. Carmen had wandered back into the wilds to look for her beloved Lurk, and had Odette tagging along, looking for a new owl. Similarly, Athena was doing her druid thing, and Crunch was fighting the Xill again. Something like that. And then there was Petra. Into mischief somewhere, no doubt.
So here was Tae at the Fox’s Tail Tavern – an establishment Carmen would have adored, no doubt. And sure, it was a reasonably clean, nice place. The atmosphere was cheerful, and there was a red-haired bard entertaining the patrons on the other side of the room. Sitting next to her is an old man with a tanned, weather-beaten look to him. He looks Tae over, saying “From the looks o’ ye, I’m betting ye could spin a tale more wonderous than that weaver o’ dreams over there. But I don’t reckon you’ve heard of Miralana.”
Tae had to admit that she hadn’t, and he told her that Miralana was the Queen of the Fey, a monarch renown for holding a gracious court and welcoming guests in need of her help. He hinted at a great number of tales about the feasts and balls she held and the great deeds performed by her knights. He went on to claim that he had heard that “Miralana herself has been looking for a healer such as yourself!”
Tae took the plot hook like a good PC, and the old man gave her directions and a map, which I’m sure was much better than my pathetic representation of it, since he had been a ranger for many years. She left a note for the innkeeper for her friends, and set off.
Oh – before leaving town, Tae rented a horse called Arpha – the economy model, naturally.
On the road, she was attacked by bandits, but she found that they were already being tracked by a half-drow wizard called Nadrak who was more than happy to help her fight them off. They chatted a good deal on the road, and the DM was half expecting Tae to want to start a civil rights movement for half-drow, but that’s another story.
After coming to the ruins of a temple to Olidammara, and carefully going around it, Tae and Nadrak fought off a second band of bandits. In due time, they come to Miralana’s castle, at which point your narrator is going to pause for the night because she is exhausted from a gruelling day of playing Civilzation: the Boardgame with Graham, Ben, and Mother. We’re on the cusp of the Modern era, so we left it up for tomorrow morning. I’m doing pretty well at the moment, though Graham is sulking a bit because we were beating up on him…but he left some prime property wide open!! I just sailed right in – it’s not my fault his belligerent fleet let me through!
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I’m not commenting on the June 17th entry title.
For anyone who was wondering, Jen and I did get to the Gulfarium on Monday, and had a good time, despite the rain! Rain just seemed to follow us that day… Mother Nature would trick us into coming outside with a little sunshine, then bring back the rain clouds.
Despite that, I think we did quite a lot in five and half days! We were out at the beach on three separate occaisions, spent an afternoon at the pool (which was deserted…even the lifeguard left before we did!), biked down to Meigs park, and watched several good movies! Went to go see Troy, too, for that matter, which was better than some of the reviews had suggested. I rather liked it. Anyway, we had a wonderful time!!
I’ve also taken up the DM’s hat again for a while. I’m putting the campaign together myself – and despite having had at least six months’ warning, I’m still playing half off-the-cuff. I meant to write it this spring, but there never seemed to be time or inspiration. Until I starting studying for final exams – go figure. So I took the time to outline it then, and I’m detailing it now. Also tying everying together…. The biggest problem here is that my players can’t interrogate anyone very effectively, because I don’t know the answers, either! Tae and Petra had problems with that today….sorry gals!
I’m about to start school work again. We have to do a lot of the reading and writing for the courses I’ll be taking in England this fall over the summer. That way, we don’t have to lock ourselves in our rooms and do it while we’re there – VERY good. The only tripwire is that I realized (when the first of my internet-ordered textbooks started arriving this week) that I have a paper due at the end of June. It’s not long, but does require a little research, and I haven’t really started to think about it. I’m not terribly worried – I don’t have any other imperatives at the moment – but it did startle me when I saw the due date! I have other papers, etc. to write this summer, but everything else is due in mid-August. Anyway, starting tomorrow, my life is going to be devoted to Jane Austen and the city of Bath for the next week and a half.
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Yayyy!!
This is why there have been no updates. Well, that and unpacking. And I’m lazy.  Cope.
Yah, yah. Love you all…will update some time in the near future. Really!! Believe it, believe it!
And if any one out there has any control over the weather this morning…could you send those rain clouds away? Please? We wanna play outside and go see the dolphins… and sharks! Yay Gulfarium!
Catch ya latah!
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This is at home, but the daffodils are blooming here in Greenville too!
Spring term classes start today. *crosses fingers!*
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December 15, 2003 6:12 pm
I had a little adventure concerning my finger and the car door today…ouchies.
Turned out, that was the least of it, though. I had just arrived at the post office and I guess was just still in shock from jamming my finger, because I fainted there in the post office lobby, standing in line. Twice. It was truly bizzare, like something out of a dream – I open my eyes and there I am on the floor looking up at all these shocked people. After the second time, the people around me insist that I need help (I wasn’t about to argue at that point), and that I certainly mustn’t drive (wasn’t going to argue that either). One nice lady pulls out her cell phone and calls 911 (!!!), while I realize that the man talking to me was my seventh grade math teacher. At the same time another woman flashes a card saying that she’s a nurse and offers me her cell phone to call someone who could come for me. Little problem with that – Dad’s half an hour away; Mom’s ten minutes away, but I have her car. So my former math teacher offers to drive over and fetch her. By this point, the paramedics have arrived and are taking pulse, blood pressure, that sort of thing. Mother shows up promptly, and they leave me with her, with admonitions to go rest and that sort of thing.
Apparently a wee bit of random fainting runs in my family…guess now I know that I did get that gene.
My faith in the goodness of humanity in general has been restored today, too. :)
Go gag if you like, I care not!
Anyway, that was MY adventure of the day. And here I thought my excitement today was going to be in checking my brother out of school to get his braces off and chortling about signing in the column that says “parent signature”. Hee hee!
Postscript for those who are about to remember that this started with my finger and freak out over that: It looks almost normal, and come one – I’m typing with it! I did keep ice (or rather, frozen veggies) on in all afternoon, but it’s certainly not broken, maybe a little bruised and swollen is all. I’ll be fine, promise.
[Apologies to Billy Joel for stealing my title from him.]
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