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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JoyHealinghand" data-source="post: 62705" data-attributes="member: 1127">Joy's Diary - Nonus 10 (the quiet)Since nothing else was going on I went back to infirmary and worked on my new song.  Later in the quiet while I was talking to Toiva about the song, we heard sounds of combat!  The doors to the temple opened and there were the chain and bone devils and skeletons and zombies!  Actually, I was glad to see the undead, because at least I could do something about them, and that is all that I could do because I still didn’t have any miracles left!  At first only Toiva, Galena, Arin and I were there.  We tried to stay together, but the devils could create ice walls, and they were trying to keep us apart.  At first it wasn’t much of a fight.  They got a couple of hits on us, and Toiva and Liana got a couple of hits on them. I did take care of all the undead, though.  Now maybe their spirits will rest in peace.  Toiva finally killed one of the chain devils, and the bone devils tried to poison both Toiva and Liana, but I helped them fight it off.    During the fighting, the “master” appeared.  He wasn’t human though.  It had tentacles over the lower part of its face.  When I had a chance to tell everyone about it, Galena told us it was an illithid—a mind flayer!  I almost got singed when Galena used burning hands to take down TWO walls; fortunately the ring Mother gave me protected me.  There was also a red winged demon that appeared while Toiva was separated from us (stupid ice walls), but it turns out it was only an illusion.  Galena sent Lux for Cobbe and Alexander at the beginning of the fight, but it took Cobbe too long to get his armor on, and the fight was over before he got there.  The devils put up two last ice walls to keep us away from them after Toiva dropped the chain devil, and we decided to let them go.  I can guess why Alexander didn’t come to help, but I was hoping that his concern for us would out weigh his own self-doubt and self-pity.  At least he was still in the infirmary when I went back there to sleep.  Not that he was there when I woke up.About a half hour before first bell Lux woke me up to tell me that there was another fight going on in front of the library!  When I looked around Alexander was gone.  There was just a note saying thanks for my kindness and that he wouldn’t need it anymore.  He had also torn his holy symbol of The Lady—a closed fist—from his robes and left it with the note.  I guess that is a pretty good sign that he is not planning on coming back.  He is free to unchoose Her, but I don’t think he realizes that The Lady does not unchoose Her champions.  Ohhh <Joy’s small foot stomps the ground>.  If I wasn’t so sad and hurt I wouldn’t be so mad at him, but it’s hard to be really mad when you are so worried.  I feel like I should have been able to do something for him.  Some champion I am.  I bet Mother would have known what to do.  How am I supposed to be an agent of The Lady when I can’t even help my own friends?!  By the Other this is frustrating!  If we weren’t so busy fighting all the time I would just lie down and cry for a few days.  I’ll settle for getting out of this evil invested city as soon as we can.Anyway, there were the devils again, and this time they must have dug up every person who had died in Sazon in the last 30 years!  It seemed like there were hundreds of zombies and skeletons surrounding them.  Cobbe had already turned some of the undead to dust by the time I got there, and he and Liana were fighting their way toward the devils trying to be careful of the chains the devils had scattered around. (Don’t these guys ever sleep?!)  Galena webbed the door to the library to try and stop the undead from tearing down the doors and getting in.  The devils trapped Arin in an ice dome, and they tried to trap Liana, but she was too fast and agile for them.  I was turning the undead; Cobbe was turning undead and fighting off zombies; Liana was fighting. Galena was summoning creatures everywhere including some demon looking things—at least I hope she was the reason they were there; they did attack the devils.  Poor Toiva had the some problem Cobbe had in the previous fight--armor.  Suddenly another HUGE mass of undead came shambling up, but nothing happened when Cobbe tried to turn them.  It must have been another illusion like the red winged demon from the previous fight.  As soon as we figured that out the devils took off running.  Galena’s arrow hawk tried to follow, but it couldn’t kill a devil before its time in this place was done.  I sent the last of the undead to their final rest, and the new day finally dawned.  Lady’s Light, but this has been one of the worst days of my life!  And we still haven’t got rid of the damned devils and illithid!  2nd Farmersday does not promise to be any better than 2nd Sagesday was.  Lady grant us the strength to vanquish Your foes and bring Your peace and grace to this horrible place.</blockquote>

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