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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aethan" data-source="post: 90716" data-attributes="member: 3270">Daeron’s Journals 43**Notes to follow**My dearest Aldar,    As I sit here, writing to you, I am thinking on you and Katherine.  I certainly hope you are well. I do not know how many more times we will be able to send word to the surface before we make our actual assault on Great Shaboath. I must report what’s been happening the last couple of days, though. Our Company is really starting to show the wear and strain of a group of people forced to live and work together so closely for so long. At this point, I firmly believe that many of us will go our separate way when this quest is over and never talk to one another again.    The evening that Heric cast his analyze dweomer spell on the rod, we agreed to have the hammer we’d found analyzed as well. In an effort to save time, we sent the hammer back to the Academy at Dunwall for study, and Zerai suggested hat he go and do some research as well. A perusal of our map showed our next goal to be too close to consider approaching without Zerai, who is our expert on the illithid, so we simply relaxed.  I finally took the chance to scribe the magic missile spell into my spellbook.Baer, as I’d mentioned at the end of our last journal, has indeed expressed a desire to wield Finslayer, and we’ve given the sword to him.  I now question the wisdom of such an action. With a magic sword in his hands, he seems to feel he’s invulnerable, and he is constantly prodding at everyone’s nerves again. He has as much as threatened to use Finslayer on Silvermane, due to the sword’s desire to slay Drow. And when he made some off comment about defeating me in combat, I replied that the sword was not called Elfslayer. When he started to bring up the fact that it could be, due to its powers against Drow, the wolf in me was loosed. I warned him to hold his tongue. Nai, trying to play peacemaker, unwisely tried to say that Baer was technically correct, and I had some choice words for him as well. Baer is ignorant, but I really thought better of one of our own kin. I calmed a bit and apologized to Baer…Nai, though…he should really know better. Whatever the avathari were, they are no kin to elesi now. But, even this point I felt mitigated a bit. I hold no ill towards Silvermane, though in his blood runs two of the elesi’s most hated enemies. Maybe I am truly learning to accept each person on their own and not hate a race as a whole. We shall see if that holds up if I ever meet a trueblooded avathari.    When Heric and Zerai returned, they had little to offer. Zerai had found some glyphs that the aboleth use, and I realized that the glyph for domination was the same as the glyph which Zerai had told us meant control on the illithid medallions.  The school had determined that the hammer was of strong enchantment but would be even more powerful in the hands of a dwarf. Damn Teollor for deserting us. Even if Pyzzar is not the most pleasant of gods, we might have been able to work something out. All this research done, we decided to approach the illithid and see what could be made of an alliance with them.    We decided to be very straightforward with them. From the little I was allowed to be a part of, I gather the illithid that serve the aboleth do so willingly. The illithid are willing to aid us in the assault on the dire machine, and they want a very specific contract worked out ahead of times. We also learned something of what their machine does, but I shall not get into that here. * Suffice to say, it must be destroyed for the good of all. For some reason, they decided that Zerai, Naidaushas, and Heric were the most trustworthy and agreed only to deal with them. This suited Silvermane and I fine, for neither of us wished to speak with the squidlings. Silvermane’s family was wiped out by them, and I hate them still for Arlen and for almost turning me against the others. We decided to amuse ourselves through games and songs in the private room we were assigned, while Taine and Jeleneth caught up on their sleep, Xanthius caught up on his drinking, and Baer mumbled back and forth with Finslayer. Silvermane reminds me much of K’rrg, but there is neither the raw fury nor the innocence in him that K’rrg possessed. I miss my predator-eyed brother.    After a goodly time, the others appeared. The illithid were willing to help.  They agreed that all the slaves we freed would be free to return to their homes.  We both agreed, on either side, to support and not betray each other after the battle with the aboleth.  This caused Silvermane some apoplexy, but I think we came to a mutually satisfactory agreement. A formal contract is being drawn up, and we will sign it tomorrow. I cannot wait until this quest is done and I need never step foot in a cave again. IT cannot be too soon for my tastes.    I miss you my nephew. I hope that you and Katherine bide safely and well.Your loving Uncle,Daeron* oh boy it’s bad. The machine is supposed to be powered up when the right amount of life force is sacrificed to it. At that point, the aboleths will be able to dominate everything for hundreds if not thousands of miles around. Very bad. Must be stopped!</blockquote>

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