Road to Perdition

Subject: Road to Perdition Sun Feb 08, 2009 4:54 am

Something is happening to me, something I fear will ruin everything I have worked so hard to build. My position as magistrate of this beautiful city will be stripped from me, my family will be cast from the kingdom in shame, my soul will suffer in the deepest pit of

Subject: Re: Road to Perdition Sun Feb 08, 2009 4:55 am

hell for all eternity, and worse than all of that, my heart itself will turn his back on me. I have decided to recount these recent events in the hopes that this journal will be found at some point after my body is broken on the wheel, severed on the guillotine,

Subject: Re: Road to Perdition Sun Feb 08, 2009 4:55 am

burned to ash at the stake, stoned into mincemeat, or disposed of by any other means my crimes warrant from the benevolent king of this land. I do not justify my actions, I have no defense worth its salt. I am the monster they will proclaim me to be. I fear

Subject: Re: Road to Perdition Sun Feb 08, 2009 4:55 am

that all control of my mind and even my magic has been lost. I have done it again. Well technically I haven’t done anything again. More accurately, I have done something else. As if the mental attack suffered by my assistant and her lover was not bad enough, the evil

Subject: Re: Road to Perdition Sun Feb 08, 2009 4:56 am

darkness in my soul had widened it’s parameters and found an all new depth at which to lash out against my completely innocent and unwitting victims. Let me go back to the beginning, I think I may be getting ahead of myself just a bit. That same day, today, the

Subject: Re: Road to Perdition Sun Feb 08, 2009 4:56 am

where I hurt poor Madeline and Shane in such an awful way, I was seeking solace. No, that’s not right, I was seeking redemption, forgiveness, even absolution. The only place I thought I could find these things was the temple. I had considered seeking refuge at the natural altar my

Subject: Re: Road to Perdition Sun Feb 08, 2009 4:57 am

father favored but I knew that one harboring the putrid and malignant depravity residing within me should dare not desecrate the heart of the world for fear that I would corrupt that most beautiful and sacred place. Instead I would go to the temple, the home of the gods built by mortal hands.

Subject: Re: Road to Perdition Sun Feb 08, 2009 4:57 am

I would still risk contaminating the holy aura of such a place, but to infect a place created by fallible hands was less of an atrocity than doing so at an altar created by the gods themselves. I was plagued by the fear that my power had surpassed my strength

Subject: Re: Road to Perdition Sun Feb 08, 2009 4:58 am

of control, that it had usurped my ability as well as my desire to use my gifts for the greater good and my country. The fear was eating away at me, like a parasite feeding off of it’s host until all that remains of the unfortunate host is an empty

Subject: Re: Road to Perdition Sun Feb 08, 2009 4:58 am

hull that was once something worth cherishing. I came from the tunnel, into the vestibule where the smaller individual altars to the lesser gods were housed among the alcoves. Lesser gods would offer me no respite, my deeds warranted the highest judgment available. I was standing in the Temple of Justice,

Subject: Re: Road to Perdition Sun Feb 08, 2009 4:59 am

Lord Imm’s homage to the Judge Goddess, The Lady of Justice herself. Some claim that she is blind, but standing there, surrounded by her omnipotent presence, I knew she had seen my sins more clearly than I had. Unworthy of her grace, even unworthy of her divine punishment, I knelt

Subject: Re: Road to Perdition Sun Feb 08, 2009 4:59 am

before her altar and began my prayer. My admissions were silent, kept between the lady and myself, I did not need the priests or my fellow worshipers to hear what I had done just yet, I did not wish to watch them flee in terror. At the end of my

Subject: Re: Road to Perdition Sun Feb 08, 2009 5:00 am

prayer I pleaded to the Lady to send me a sign of my judgment, to carry out my punishment swiftly, or to strike me dead where I currently knelt. Since I am writing this down you can guess which of the options did not happen. No burst of radiance

Subject: Re: Road to Perdition Sun Feb 08, 2009 5:00 am

the form of blue lightning came down from the heavens to snuff out the brief candle of my life, though now I wish it had, believe me, all of Al’Yak would be better off if the Lady of Justice had charged me a sinner and rained down upon me the

Subject: Re: Road to Perdition Sun Feb 08, 2009 5:01 am

force of her holy smite. The Lady is too forgiving to her wayward children. The sign she sent me was the priest who had sealed my marriage vows to Darius mere weeks before this day. The same man who had stood before me at the happiest moment of my short

Subject: Re: Road to Perdition Sun Feb 08, 2009 5:01 am

life, the man who bound me to my love for all time. The Lady touched him, urged him my way, I assume she thought he would convey her blessed forgiveness and calm my tortured soul. Only that is not what happened. My soul was tortured, there is no doubt to

Subject: Re: Road to Perdition Sun Feb 08, 2009 5:02 am

that, but the priest did not get far in his comforting speech. He approached me and knelt by my side. One of his kind hands rested gently upon my shoulder as he asked what was troubling me. I told him, at least I started to. I had not even gotten

Subject: Re: Road to Perdition Sun Feb 08, 2009 5:02 am

to the actual crime I had committed before the well of emotions rose within me and drowned out all reason. It was almost like when I was younger and my mother would take me swimming in the ocean. I would wade out until the water level was well above my

Subject: Re: Road to Perdition Sun Feb 08, 2009 5:03 am

head. Then I would dive down to the bottom and stretch out underneath the water. From there I could see the sky through the wall of water separating me from it’s vast expanse. It was like that in my mind, I was at the bottom of the ocean created by

Subject: Re: Road to Perdition Sun Feb 08, 2009 5:03 am

my uncontrolled emotions, watching the altar and the gentle priest spread before me like the sky above the water. Once again I felt the same blinding rage that I had experienced as I watched Shane and Madeline, only this time there was enough of myself left aware to prevent

Subject: Re: Road to Perdition Sun Feb 08, 2009 5:04 am

same attack. I had not considered the possibility that there was any other attack I could release that would harm this wonderful man who was only trying to help me. This time I could feel the magic gathering, but I was powerless to stop it, all the power I had

Subject: Re: Road to Perdition Sun Feb 08, 2009 5:04 am

was concentrated on forming a beam of energy and hurling it forth to strike the priest where he knelt. There was nothing but caring concern on the man’s face just before the attack hit him, once the magic entered his mind that concern was lost. His features contorted into a

Subject: Re: Road to Perdition Sun Feb 08, 2009 5:04 am

mask of pure agony. Blood began to trickle from his nose, then came from his ears, and finally it seeped from the corners of his eyes. The trickle grew into a steady pour, the crimson flow running down his aged face and spreading across the front of his pristine white holy robes, staining them with his life force as if he had just been dealt a fatal blow.
Silver Mage Mastery – Mentalstrike (A)

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