A rest is called for..

Greetings all, we managed to escort the priest to the castle without any hassle. When we arrived we were escorted into the courtyard where the queen was making an announcement. It seems like she is taking this blood veil seriously. She has appointed a royal physician to oversee the control of this disease, which sounds like a good idea. I say sounds like a good idea because this doctor seems to be accompanied by these strange ‘doctors’ who are clad in large hats and cloaks and have strange bird like masks on. No sure about them, but if they are here to help then I won’t interfere, unless I have too. Also there is a lady called the Grey Lady all clad in armour who is now the right arm of the queen and has her own force of grey ladies to do the queens bidding. She has been given total authority by the queen and even outranks the captain of the city guards. I’m even more unsure about her, so will have to keep watch on the grey ladies. But if they are here to stop this plague then lets hope they do a good job.

A few days later we were sent to investigate an alleyway where it had been reported that some of the dead collectors had been dumping bodies rather than taking them down to the cemetery.

We arrived at the alley which was located just behind a toyshop, this was a strange little toy shop, the owner made all the usual sort of toys you’d expect but they always had eyes missing or the hair was falling out or sometimes limbs missing, but it didn’t seem to matter the kids loved them and they were highly sort after… in fact I believe I used to have one many years ago.

Anyway I digress, the alleyway did indeed contain a larger amount of bodies just dumped their. While investigating the bodies we were attacked by two vampire spawn… why they were in korvosa we don’t know, probably drawn here by all the death going on. Any way they didn’t stand much of a chance against our paladin and the rest of our crew, even Zonda joined in , I’ve noticed recently she has been getting a bit to keen to fight, I must keep an eye on her.

I discovered a hole in the wall of the toyshop so entered first, inside the shop we found the toy maker dead and covered in loads of vampire bite marks, the poor soul never stood a chance. I noticed movement near the ceiling and two more vampire spawn attacked, A few fire balls later one had been destroyed, I knew that spell would come in handy. The other one was set upon by Zonda who destroyed it rather violently, I think the change that everyone predicted is coming.

Due to Zonda’s recent violent outbreaks I have taken leave of the party so that I can help her through the change and try and calm her down a bit. It also gives me some more time to practice some of my magic and shape changing abilities.

Did I not mention I could shape change ? I’m only just beginning to get the hang of the it, I have mastered small animals and a few larger ones. Zonda did freak a bit when I changed into a pony for the first time, plus how was I to know the she has an appetite for small dear. That was a bad day, so I won’t turn into one of them again. Lets hope I can calm her down a bit.

One of the spells I have worked out is tuning into a tree…. Not the most useful of spells in a fight as once you’re a tree there’s not much you can do, but for relaxing it’s amazing. I have managed to calm Zonda down quite a bit by turning into a large tree on the edge of the cliff just outside, Zonda then falls asleep in my braches. It’s amazing what you can feel when being a tree, the wind in your branches , the birds that land on you they tickled at first, but I think they had a shock when I changed back. Also you can feel everything in the ground, people seem to forget about the roots of the trees. You can feel every stone, every insect, every worm even the sea eroding the cliff edge. You can feel the ground and become one with nature, perfect.

Zonda has indeed gone through the change and is now a lot bigger than she used to be, so no more hiding under my cloak or sitting on my shoulder I’m afraid. Not sure how we’ll explain her appearance to the more timid people of the city, but we’ll think of something. Now the change has happened she’s not as aggressive anymore which is good, but the claws on her feet are huge so I will spend the next few weeks training her so she doesn’t get carried away again.

I will catch up with the party later, now that Zonda isn’t a danger to them.