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Message: <blockquote data-quote="calighis" data-source="post: 4140155" data-attributes="member: 63027">Things went swimmingly. The characters got ship wrecked indeed but all the while the characters brazenly bragged of their ability to slay the Medusa. This intruiged them enough to put the characters to the test against the black dragon that lived beneath the rocky shores and indeed kept close watch on the sirens. The Sirens felt that if the characters could indeed slay the dragon then they might stand a chance against the medusa.  So they were invited into the Sirens underwater cave. A water free hollow. There, they beat the black dragon (EL9) and looted its treasure. The Sirens were miffed at not getting a cut so they did not tell the characters how to proceed. Instead they wished them luck and swam away.It was then that the characters discovered the cave routes leading towards the surface. The entrances were enchanted to keep the water pressure from filling the vacuum tight hollow. They discovered a few Grimlocks milling about in a certain chamber. foolishly they killed one without provocation and left the other, only slightly stable but at negatives at the foot of the entrance to their lair. Then the characters back tracked towards where they had initially found the Grimlocks and discovered a recentlly created tube perfectly symmetrical leading down a dark hall. At the end of which was a purple worm (EL12) and its eggs. For some reason the characters chose to make off with the eggs after vanquishing the worm. There is no market value for purple worm eggs, unless you can sell them to Mind flayers. They will prove impossible to store safely and end up being more hassle than they are worth but what an you do?Meanwhile The Grimlocks will be pleased with the defeat of the worm and this will go some ways in sealing the characters relationship with them. Now it is only a matter of whether the characters will have the good sense to heal the surviving Grimlock and ask him for his help. He may even be willing to overlook the death of recently fallen comrade in light of the characters slaying the worm as well. He may even ask for some credit in the deed when the tail is relayed to the elders. (I think I'll call him Dooph) If not the characters can expect to have to deal with the full might of the Grimlocks. If they try to use the eggs to show they have vanquished the worm, that wont work. They need Dooph. I have the latest map from the D&D Minis set and that actually makes an ideal set up for the Grimlock home. Now this part is tricky because if the characters fight the grimlocks i expect them to lose and be taken prisoner as offerings to the Shinafel. That is the easy scenario. In that case the characters can be taken prisoner and freed later by Uktuk once they understand the dilemma. Easy plot exposition. On the other hand, if they win, then things get  complicated.Uktuk will still approach them speaking common and he will urge them to slay no more of his people. If the characters agree to this then he will cooperate and plot will be expedited.The real question is what is so important about that diary?What is in it?I think it will reveal that Faraday still loved her no matter what she had become. he still believed that she was in there somewhere and that they would be reunited one day. Day 1 back on the island. I was not well recieved. It appearrs I am trapped in a somewhat luxurious prsion complete with pen and paper and books. Her taste in literature is rather grim. It's nothing but tragedy after tragedy. I am filled with despair, for she will not let me even look on her. this is not the Shinafel that i remember. Also I know not where the statues came from but there seem to be a lot of them and though they be of different races and dressed in all manner they share the same frightened visage, locked in terror. The sightless ones who were merley goodneighbours before, now serve slavishly.I cannot fathom the meaning of such a thing. I am ill at ease hereDay 3 The silence has yet to be broken and I wonder now whether she intends to see me at all. I am however well attended, receiving food and beverage through a slit in the door. As well my chamber pot has been emptied regularly. The books are all I have to keep me company. The lovers keep dying in the end. I am ill at ease. Day 7There are many questions that have been festering in me. Why did I come back here is chief among them. It was certainly not with this in mind, but my feelings have been severley called in to question. Can I truly love someone who would do something so grotesque as this to me? I have searched long and hard for the answer but there is so much i don't understand.I can understand her anger with me, but 7 days of confinement without so much as a word?The questions are eating me up alive!Why do this?What do I say if she does finally talk to me?To try and think of romance in a time such as this! It's impossible.Day 9 She showed up at my door today and opened the slit. I could not see her face but merley her torso. Not a word she said but the servant Uktuk announced her. She sought to hear me speak. Taken aback and ill prepared I blurted out. "I take it then that you are unhappy with me?" I saw her hand go to her heart. It was covered in scales and I heard the sound of one hundred snkaes hissing all at once in anger.What happenned next perhaps condemned me. Overcome with revulsion I said"By the Gods! Shinafel? What have you become?" At first there was silence but I could see her body shaking and I knew then she must be crying. I reached out to touch her hand. I was shocked to feel the scales there and I recoiled my hand in horror. Immedeatly realizing my foolishness I inquired"Shinafel are you alright? A  scream was the only reply, and not just any scream. I heard in it both the anguish of a broken heart and the triumph of a demon. What have I done? It is clear now that she was reaching out to me and by mkaing obvious my revulsion I may have sealed my fate. Still the fact that she reached out at all attests to the fact that there is still something of her left inside whatever it is she has become. I only fear that in my vanity, I may have killed what little may have remained.  Day 12I now realize that she won't be coming back.I blew it. big time. Everything makes sense now. She locked me up here because she was afraid that I would revile her and she needed time to consider how best to introduce this transformation. All the while she feared my rejection and when she finally worked up the courage to show me some small part of it, I,  showed her only revulsion. It confirmed all her worst fears. It's odd. I could feel the magic leave me as soon as I said it. As though I had sealed something in her soul and confined her forever to what it was she had become. It is with terrible grief that I now scribe this entry for I realize that I too am now cursed with the knowledge that I have condemned her to this fate. And further, that I have done so to my one true love. Irealize now that I love her in spite of whatever it is she has done or whatever it is she has become. If only she could find it within herself to give me another chance and let me explain that I was caught off guard.I am sure that together we could overcome any geas and that there is no curse that goes beyond my love for her. But it's too late. I fear that I will never be able to tell her now.day17I have stopped eating and bathing. It is my hope that she will notice  and come to inquire.day21I am weak and overcome with hunger. She does not care. I call from my window that I love her. She does not come. She  thinks me a treacherous liar.I try to reason. "Why would I come back here if not because i love you"She is beyond reason now. She thinks I will say anything to see myself freed.Day 27I have not eaten for 10 days. I have barely the strength to write. but today there is a glimmer of hope. Formal clothing has been passed through the slit. It appearrs to be a traditional wedding garment. My spirits are bolstered. She has seen my dedication. She believes me. I think I will have something to eat. ((More to come))</blockquote>

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