Eyeballs and Feelings

The next tower had eyesh and handses on the oushide. I’m not shure why though, we only founda big glashball full of eysh up top. No hansh at all. Shomebuddy saysh ash and shee, so I ashed it where da key ish. It showed mea big telecope. Sho I go ta leaf, but Shammy shays wait. He ashes if hish parens rin heaven. The eyeballs shay dey in Hell. Shammy makesh me fly ta look for da shcope, but I cannat findit. I wait on a big glash buildin. Foun the big heads body tho. Gotta givit back. I’m sheepy, sho I taka nap.

I wake up on his shoulder, feelin a bit better. We’re fightin more blue guys an we make em poof. Then Doc punches the door open, and a frog jumps out. I think Sammy shays itsa salad, or summin. We smoosh it. Up on the top floor is another big funny frog. Dis one’s lookin at the telesope. We cant talk to em and he only hisses at us. There’s no key in his pockets, so I slip in and lookit the scope – nuffin there.

He gets made though an hits me. Is fair, so I go look at some glowy letters, but everyone’s mad now, and hurt him. He throws a little fire at me, but it’s fine. Saalym doesn’t want to kill the frog, but the mage lady won’t read the words while people are fighting. And Sammy says it’s not really killing, just sends him home. But then he fireballs the whole room, and Saalym still says leave him alone, but the others don’t, and he goes poof, too. Saalym runs away mad again. Sammy and Eggy follow her.

The mage lady says the words talk about burning palms and sharing secrets – I wonder if it means the hags. If it does we’re never gonna get this magic key. Leshy and the mage lady think we need to go find more towers to see what the clue means. We look around some more, and then head down to keep looking.

But then Eggy, Sammy, and Saalym gets back, and Leshy makes my buzz go away. Sammy says Saalym’s god saved her life so she has to do what he says. He wants her to get revenge on evil things, even when those things help us. Which is silly. But she thinks I didn’t want her to listen to her god, I just didn’t want her to make Us listen to her god. I tell them I’m not allowed to hurt fey and I don’t agree with her god that people doing good things should just be killed because he says so. Eggy says we have to care about how what we do affects people, but I have been. I don’t touch magic things that could hurt people without asking first. Eggy says emotional hurt, not physical. So, now we’re supposed to talk about every decision first to make sure it won’t hurt people, but I don’t think this is going to work if we have to go back to the hags, because hurting them hurts me emotionally, but Saalym’s god thinks they’re evil and should die. But Saalym promised to talk and listen, so we will see what happens. I really do think maybe I’ll ask the dryad to send me and Doc home.

Everyone wants to rest after we have that big talk. I’m bored of them and sober, so Doc and I go check out the glass dome I slept on earlier. Everything inside is tiny and covered in ice, but it’s pretty. There’s a spinny ride in the middle of it. If you pull the lever then it all spins around. It’s really fun, but it tastes bloody. I think this is how they made weird creatures. Put blood in it and spin it all around together.

The other building nearby is a theatre. It’s really boring though. Not a single costume is left. There’s a chained up desk, so Doc fixes that. There’s a play about Blasting Kings or something. Bunch of copies with different characters on the front. I put them in my bag, maybe the Queen would like it if someone performed it for her. Then we go back to the group to rest. This place is weird.

Celebrations and Explosions

Spy Master,

Celebration Day was really fun. So many fun things to see and do. PageCat and I found new acts for the Cabaret!

Somebody blew people up outside our house! 11 people got blown up: an old woman, two men with swords – at least one of them with a Zhent tattoo, two women, a male half-elf, a dirty male gnome, and four halflings – two women and two men.

Candlekeep found a woman who said there was a puppet on a rooftop across the street when it happened. When the guard and inspector question us, they say that the dirty gnome was heading for the Cabaret.

Red said a kid saw a guy chasing the dirty gnome, and then stealing something from him before limping away very quickly. He thinks he was a Zhent, like the men with swords. Mary admits he took gems from the dead gnome, and Red takes them to see if he can find out who he was.

He also found a necklace of fireballs that was dropped by the puppet, I guess. The Big Guy says they sound like the puppets created by the Inspired Hands at the House of Gond for the Creation Parade. He and some of the others are going to go check it out.

This city is really strange. I’ve never seen puppets blow people up before.

~QS

Scare Crows

Note to Self:

Don’t go into the fields north of the city alone. The scarecrows are alive out there. Candlekeep says they might have just broken down, unless someone did it on purpose. I don’t know which is scarier. Orange, Red, and the Big Guy took care of them though, and Candlekeep took them back to his faction to look at. They’re going to look out for more. I should just stay in the city. Safer here.