The Master and I had been yet again hurled into the past and this time we were in a ghost like state and observing a much younger Eagle during a time where she was perhaps only six years old. The Master and I were able to make out more of her heritage or shall I say at her current state anyway. It became obvious that she was originally an Eagle then altered into a humanoid Anthropomorphic Eagle which gave her a humanoid shape of sorts. Then it seemed other racial characteristics had been added including Half Vampire, Half Fey, Unseelie Fey, Half Howling Dragon, and finally Half Celestial. Of course it now became apparent why the Masters cousin Kameron was attracted due to her Dragon Heritage and the Master somewhat repulsed due to her Celestial Ancestry. It also seemed apparent that as we noticed Mordalfus, Kameron, and Drago among us that we were about to get peek into the past of Kameron’s infatuation Eagle.
It seemed were near the Tower that Kameron in present day was converting into a temple of Ares. In the time we were view which the Master was able to narrow to around fourteen to sixteen years ago the Tower was in full repair and two figures were talking. Those figures fit the description of two Sealers know to be deceased in the present. None other than Eagle’s former Masters Moore and Ideal who it seemed had an important mission for her to handle. It was about that time while they were discussing the pirate Red Sam and Party Palace regarding pieces of the arcane Chrysalis. For a moment it seemed they about to acquire both of the pieces when the Master and I suddenly sensed some kind of mystical temporal shift. For it seemed that they originally acquired both pieces they now had decided to put Eagle in charge of acquiring the piece at the Party Palace.
Ideal who had seemed for the moment Eagle’s direct Master still bore a fresh scar it seemed from the disobedient Eagle which spoke something of Eagle as well as Ideal and there power struggles. It seemed that she and her Master had come to some kind of disagreement but they both still lived which was indeed a mystery. She was given the ability to think what he called Class Three thought to achieve the mission he would set her upon.
Her mission it seemed would be to travel to the Party Palace and acquire the chrysalis piece from a suit of armor on display inside a viewing room and return. Meanwhile Moore and Ideal could be overheard discussing that if she failed she could always be replaced. I had been wondering why we were watching these events as I noticed to huge creatures sparing nearby what seemed to be a modified flying Titan and a modified flying Tarrasque. Not that the Master was worried but Tarrasque Slaying as the Master had studied in the past was dangerous business and while I knew he felt up to the task but the cost of the Wish spell needed to keep it down would make in a profitless enterprise.
We did not get that chance anyway for soon Eagle was being teased by another Guardian of the Waste a small wolf like one at that. He actually looked familiar to a creature I had seen in Under but I was not sure. Eagle had flown up to top of the tower and he had climbed and proceeded to hurl rocks at her and insult her stating that she was a weak Guardian who could not even kill her own Master. It was about at this time that I noticed we were bound to Eagle’s current location by an eighty foot bubble. We also were still aware of her in the link and even seemed to be able to send thought to her mind which she might see as her own or directly talk to her mind.
Eagle seemed for some reason extremely sad and while Kameron started to send to her stream of emotions to try and alter her current mood it did not seem to have a discernable effect. The Master was thinking suddenly about how this mission was already changing time and if actions we took in this timeline if we got the chance might alter the future. The Masters thoughts were actually beginning to alter and I had a feeling that Amanda might soon emerge which was something I did not really look forward to.
As a side note I realize I have not spoken that much about the Mistress known as Amanda Quickshar. Since as we flew to the Party Palace or actually Eagle flew tirelessly as we were pulled along the Master came to the realization that the Mistress might be of more use in our current situation. Now of course I have already mentioned the philosophy of the Mistress and since she is a Becomer Changling I should be used to it. So I will just state the major differences in the behavior of the Mistress as they differ from the Master. The Master I should say focuses on his lighter nature shall we say being that of a loving, well-mannered loving Magi willing to play by the rules. The Mistress on the other hand is quite dark and fiendish being a greedy, egotistic, and immoral woman willing to do whatever it takes to get what she wants.
So as Eagle had made her way into the Party Palace and eventually not only charmed nearly everyone inside but also found the suit of armor she sought she came up empty handed. It just so happened that there was mystery to be solved. Ti it seemed had worked for the Master of the Manor while served as the Party Palace and being over three centuries old at the time we had arrived perhaps still did. It was he that had provided the vital clue to the mystery of the missing chrysalis piece when he had stated he had observed the never ending party which was the Party Palace and notice that often the contents of the display rooms often changed without any apparent effort. The clue of course was that he had never seen anyone actually moving anything around in the rooms which meant a puzzle and also that someone might have to join Eagle to assist her.
Of course the Mistress had found a pattern on the floor which seemed to comprise of four exterior puzzles and two inner puzzles. In the center was a figure that was known to Ti a Tempar Joe who was also the head of security. While he was the center of attention he also seemed to also maintain an excuse to stay near his post which he shared with an extravagant sweet table. About the same time as the Mistress tried to explain her plan to Kameron and it mainly focused on his unwillingness to hide his Ares holy symbol while he changed forms to help guide Eagle through the puzzles. Kameron as I expected went thru the room literally and I believe would left if he could have.
Perhaps it might have had something to do with Mordalfus putting Drago in charge after almost putting Kameron in charge. For what it worth Kameron had not seemed all too proceed and Drago had stepped up which revealed a flaw I had not realized existed within Kameron. It seemed he already had become adjusted to being worshipped on Spearhead Island and being with a group like Justice that did not and had already shown themselves more than willing to eliminate him if he proved to be problematic for their goals had unbalanced him. The issue was only resolved after I managed to calm the Mistress for she was unwilling to budge on the issue being much too proud.
In the end I had to persuade the Mistress to leave her fate in the hands of Kameron regardless of how illogical it sounded and allow his superior insight to guide him. The Mistress actually only relented in the end by writing off Eagle entirely for she would not be a willing participant in a plan she did not endorse. It was only the mystery of the puzzles that the Master wanted to solve and the thoughts of what she might be able to gain either by altering the past or in the present from the Party Palace while using Eagle as her unwitting pawn that made it profitable and worthwhile.
So it came to pass since Drago had figured out a complex set of dance steps which would allow a dance partner to lead her which would allow access to the puzzles. Kameron emerged into her reality as we had realized that we could manifest for a number of minutes yet still be bound by our eighty foot reins. He had emerged as a human wearing a symbol of Ares which had of course been the part of the plan which the Mistress had opposed and lead her on a dance to bring her to the puzzles. Oddly Mordalfus had in the end actually embraced Kameron’s plan seeming to believe that perhaps seeing the symbols might have made it easier for her to accept him in the future. I suppose time would have to tell.
The first puzzle of four was solved and then the second which was an intriguing puzzle of logic. What had stood before us was a grid on the floor with we needed to clear by directing Eagle to step on the correct positions. I could make out that we had just cleared the puzzle when suddenly I could feel the now telltale pressure which indicated we were heading back to the present.
When we returned the Master suddenly assumed the form of the Mistress and suddenly I knew something was wrong. I soon realized what it was as the Mistress spoke the words that would take us back to Nym’Kren. The Mistress was an egotistic being and having two female attendants serving her would just not do. That meant of course that Armana and Mandy who were even at that very moment assisting Mordalfus and Drago respectively were as they feared being replaced by newer improved models. The lives of Gul’Vol and Tal’Vol Simulacra or in Drow Predator of the Blood and Sword of the Blood began just that quickly.
So in the end the Mistress tasked me to acquire identical equipment that had already been bestowed upon Sebastian for shall we say Gul and Tal for short and the rest of the story will be told in my next entry. Since seriously while the Master might have been content to allow Sebastian to exist and be the only superior Simulacrum the Mistress Amanda was most certainly not.
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