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Confusing? I think I'm going to have to preface my next journal with a who's who of short-hand names. It always seems to me that anyone reading this would lose track of who I'm talking about if they don't know the characters as well as I do. On a side note, every time I refer to any of these...

Black dragon? For the record, it's an Abyssal dragon. It was described as a blackish-purple color, however. :)

Joat Hey! I had "Jack of All Trades" going that day. I did *so* have the knowledge I needed. You just wouldn't let me roll it! ;) D.

Roland has an embarassingly high Diplomacy skill. Sometimes I'm afraid I'm dominating the game with it. D.

I've got another journal entry half done. I just can't find my motivation to finish it! Is anyone reading this? D.

For the record, this wasn't padding. It was the adventure as planned. I wasn't really sure what Singe would do once you found him, but I knew that he would be drunk, surly, and firey. :) I also wanted to add more encounters to the game that could be overcome with Diplomacy. It's very hard, as...

Bad Mojo! Yeah, Rock should have been able to clear out that gatehouse blindfolded. His original plan was to clear out the gatehouse, then hold it against any attack or re-occupation while the rest of the group continued storming the castle. My original plan was to let him clear out the...

The Collected Journals of Artemis Heuw, Excerpt 8 "...set it down and stared at it until the glow faded. How I had acheived that color, I was not sure: alchemist fire was supposed to glow red, not blue. I looked over to Stark to see him busily working on his own alchemy, his tiny body moving...

The Collected Journals of Artemis Heuw, Excerpt 7 "...dizziness made the ritual far more complex than it ought to have been. After two false starts early this morning, pulling another pint of blood from my system was taxing even my boundless energy. I pressed the open wound in my palm onto the...

The Collected Journals of Artemis Heuw, Excerpt 6 "... single piece of uninterrupted teak wood, with no metal of any sort: no cap on it's foot and no design on it's head. I bought the cane for it's simplistic beauty, thinking, at the time, that it's singular composition would act as a blank...

The Collected Journals of Artemis Heuw, Excerpt 5 "... flaring into light in order, one after another, until it took on the exact shape of the dragon constellation. I paused, then, unsure what to do. The crystal at the creature's eye was pink, and the nose blue, and those were supposed to be...

The Collected Journals of Artemis Heuw, Excerpt 4 "...completing the last of the blasphemous inscriptions. I double-checked the diagram [ref: CJ-V3-17] and carefully folded the parchment, making sure the arrows touched on both the top an bottom of the page. As expected, the re-arranged...

The Collected Journals of Artemis Heuw, Excerpt 3 "...decided to partake of it, as an experiment only. I removed my mask [ref: CJ-V2-27] and breathed in the fumes. Almost immediately, a blue-ish symphonic liquid bled from my left hand and started floating towards the scar on my right elbow...

The Collected Journals of Artemis Heuw, Excerpt 2 "...showing, once again, my inexperience. Especially with live components. [ref CJ-V1-17] Unfortunately that was the only one I had to work with, and without that critical component the potion slowly solidified into a gelatenous, greyish brick...

This is the point where I mention that Artemis has an 8 Wisdom, and maybe just a touch of conceit. Not everything in his journals exactly matches reality. :) There is also not a whole lot that Artemis is good at yet. He keeps on trying, though! :)