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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 225853" data-attributes="member: 259">Here's the Blessed's Journal from my game.  If you want to use this as a prop, change the initials for months into something appropriate for your gameworld.  At the five asterisks, change the font from something that looks like normal, neat handwriting to something that looks like crazy, insane handwriting (I used two fonts I found online, one called marathon and one called Bastarda).I used the "Black River" metaphor throughout the adventure to refer to opening a gate to the illithid's home plane.  Whenever crazy cultists talked, they referred to the black river; when the illithid sent them scary, suggestion-laced dreams, the black river figured into every one.M 8A long day, but w fruit borne.  Solved a part of the mystery.  “Light of Pearly Moon” not literal, not F moon as thought.  Al-Majahin in Essays on Salt and Quicksilver creates candles from “Pearl of Calf,” translated “vealfat.”  Pearly moon=what?  Owlfat?  Fat from albino?  Fat infused w quicksilver?L still insistent on shop act.  No understanding of True Art.  Spoke at length – no effect.Kabukeran merchant, Episetsi, sold ibn-Kathur’s volume III of Uses of Vegetation.  Will seek vols II, IV-VII, IX-XII.  Complete set invaluable.  Purchased al-Teki’s On Wisdom for 350 D – did I miss wis in book?Will research moon tomorrow.M12Moon is madman.  Simple!  Where to find?  Perhaps not difficult to create.M20Br, al-B, F opposed to creation of madman.  They lack vision!  no movement, no risk, meet failure!  Well then:  solitary work suits me.L again works shop.  Drives off customers, but I accept:  dilettantes unwelcome, and others unbothered.  Disgusting habits sometimes useful.Ibn-Rashif’s Placement of Stars sighted in Manzikert bookstore, acc. to Faredes.  Order?  Possibly worthwhile.M27 L is perfect, the consummate helper.  Still no understanding, but enjoys work.  New moon held in closet, fed quicksilver and Fly Agaric with poppysmoke.  L crouches outside door and speaks.  Scares me sometime!  How long till moon is full?I suspect L enters closet, performs disgusting acts on Moon.  Hastens process, I know, but still, unnerving.Reds outside house this afternoon.  Do they know?  Of course not.  Still, will have all windows shuttered tomorrow; no sense in giving them insight.M29Strange shadows in closet.  Smoke moves of own accord.  Visions?  Effect of poppies?  I believe the moon is awakening – his nightmares move beyond his head now, so that others see them.  Space near closet cold; even when he sleeps, voices mutter.  More than one.A11Shorter than I believed.  Yesterday butchered, rendered moon.  L nearly lost life removing moon from closet:  the cloud therein has faces in it.  Recognized myself in faces.  Pearly moon indeed!Candle manufacture next.  Other ingredients simple, except widow’s bonnet.  Will S provide?  She knows nothing.al-B sick, not at study last week.  I will visit his house soon.  No one can leave at this stage.A28Night approaches.  All profess readiness.  Circle scribed with Exile’s Welcome, candles placed.  Moon’s head prepared for habitation.  Tomorrow we light candles, call out to Servant.  What mysteries we will learn!  None for five hundred years have canlled such a servant.  All questions answered!  L will understand even.al-B returns, reluctantly.  He will be docile.*  *  *O the mystery is opened and the river flows o dear heart how we have learned more than we even hoped to learn, those of us which live still, though al-B died she lives on, preserved as the Moon was preserved!  More writhes  in that river than we guessed; call on a minnow and receive a leviathan and I have opened myself to the Master and He speaks to me, directing me O dear heart dear heart dear heart dear heart it is Love it is Change and All will be ready!  He instructs me as I sleep, showing me all that I feared, bringing to me the cool chill of darkness with secrets beyond my ken and though we nearly drowned before the flood subsided still we survived and we shall live to see the world change He tells me and I am His chosen He tells me and calls me dear heart as my father called me and I am His Tonight we opened the circle again as He  guides us though not there He  is always there and as opened He  called forth and called forth upon seven times and seven great servants arose from the Exile’s breath and we gave them as instructed the cloaks full of rainbows to remind them of change though gray as fog they donned the cloaks and spoke no words and Ahriman assures me they are not to replace us but can go places we cannot go and can perform tasks we cannot perform but still I am His dear heart I am the Blessed one who shall see this parched dry earth be restored by the soothing rushing flood!  All will open themselves before Him, and I will be His tool, His maiden!During the fair He says He laughs at the fair at the sadness of those who brighten their dull earth but see it gray again as the cloaks of the Ahihudi are grayed and discarded by close presence to such Holiness – during the fair We shall move against the dead rats who fight against the Holy Servants rats who stand like saplings before fire in the path of the oncoming Flood rats who do not know what they do – but we shall use them, we shall show them to the dead guards of this town and in the Confusion He who Speaks in Dreams will move, and soon soon soon soon soon all Manalapan will be His and all souls will be bent toward breaking the dam which holds back the Flood!  I am His I am His maiden I am the mouth through which He speaks in my dreams He moves and through me He directs His servants and I am His dear heart dear heart dear heart*****************************************Next:  the illithid's nightmares!Daniel</blockquote>

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