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Another installment of Lirael Glimmereye's journal as he progresses as a Yuan-ti Cleric of the Twilight Domain/Rogue. He is a character in a D&D 5e High Fantasy home brew adventure campaign. Today's installment is the third part of our last session where we journeyed to Inverness and met with the Magic Academy's Headmaster and gleaned a great deal of valuable information and engineered a trade It is how the items I chose were selected - an out of session time. If you look below, this is the correct order of the journal entries. This installment also brings us up to tonight's session and from here on I won't be publishing them at such a frantic pace. Past Journal Entries: Lirael Glimmereye - Backstory The Prophets of Minwa A Journey Into the Dreamveil The Silent Struggle An Answer Well Received The Headmaster's Assistance In the hushed sanctum of the Headmaster's Office within the Inverness Magic Academy, after our discussions regarding Hassan and the Sha...

Another installment of Lirael Glimmereye's journal as he progresses as a Yuan-ti Cleric of the Twilight Domain/Rogue. He is a character in a D&D 5e High Fantasy home brew adventure campaign. Today's installment is the second part of our last session where we journeyed to Inverness and met with the Magic Academy's Headmaster and gleaned a great deal of valuable information and engineered a trade. If you look below, this is the correct order of the journal entries. Past Journal Entries: Lirael Glimmereye - Backstory The Prophets of Minwa A Journey Into the Dreamveil The Silent Struggle An Answer Well Received The Headmaster's Assistance As the dawn painted the woods in hues of gold, our fellowship emerged from our woodland encampment, bound for the bustling city of Inverness. A city teeming with a diverse array of races and cultures, it promised both intrigue and challenges. Our destination within this metropolis of magic was the esteemed Magic Academy, a place rumore...

The next installment of Lirael Glimmereye's journal as he progresses as a Yuan-ti Cleric of the Twilight Domain/Rogue. He is part of a D&D 5e High Fantasy home brew adventure campaign. Today's installment is the second part of an out of session episode, where Lirael confronts his future and his master with the choice he is making. Doing these journal entries makes the character seem more alive and creatively helps me create a character that I enjoy role playing. Lireal has his doubts, fears, hopes, and dreams. He also changes his mind and is someone beyond the usual PC who gets to live one night a week. Past Journal Entries: Lirael Glimmereye - Backstory The Prophets of Minwa The Silent Struggle An Answer Well Received Dear journal, the sweet taste of freedom dances on my lips, a turning point etched in the very fabric of my being has unfolded before me. A totally unanticipated result was provided to me from my Master this night. As we stop for the night on our journey to I...

The next installment of Lirael Glimmereye's journal as he progresses as a Yuan-ti Cleric of the Twilight Domain/Rogue. He is part of a D&D 5e High Fantasy home brew adventure campaign. Today's installment is the first part of an out of session episode, where Lirael figures out that he no longer wishes to become an assassin. It's part of of playing a character that I enjoy, where I think about different advancement possibilities available to a character and then weave a story about how they come to that decision. I think it adds depth to the character I'm role playing and shows a bit more about how I think when it comes to playing a character. Past Journal Entries Lirael Glimmereye - Backstory The Prophets of Minwa The Silent Struggle While in the carriage on the way from Minwa's temple to Inverness a revelation began to unfurl within me. Since my departure from Silvaa which had become liken to a distant memory, I had time to reassess my future. As we traveled to...

Another installment of Lirael Glimmereye's journal as he progresses as a Yuan-ti Cleric of the Twilight Domain/Rogue. He is a character in a D&D 5e High Fantasy home brew adventure campaign. Today's installment is the first installment of our last session where we entered the Dreamveil and is slightly out of sequence from some of my other out of session entries. Which meant that I had to do some creative writing to have it make sense.  Past Journal Entries: Lirael Glimmereye - Backstory The Prophets of Minwa The Silent Struggle An Answer Well Received A Journey Into the Dreamveil Now to get back to writing in my journal, the past few days have been a flurry of excitement, adventure, traveling, and yes, dreaming. Enough has happened that I needed to sit down and write out the next series of journal entries a few days after they actually happened and hope that my memory is such that when I go back to them that the order they are found in this journal, that they will make some...

The next installment of Lirael Glimmereye's journal as he progresses as a Yuan-ti 2nd Level Cleric of the Twilight Domain and 2nd Level Rogue who's starting a D&D 5e High Fantasy home brew adventure campaign created by our DM, which is based more on role playing your character than yet another hack and slash fantasy adventure. Today's session sets the stage for the adventure, how the characters come together, and are coerced into an adventure to save their world. Lirael Glimmereye - Backstory Ah, noble companions, gather 'round as I unfurl the tapestry of our odyssey from Silvaa to beyond the enigmatic city of Inverness, guided by the whims of fate and my enigmatic escort into the Yewwoods. The journey, though uneventful, spanned too many days, leaving me time to dwell on the perplexing swiftness with which my Master had sanctioned my venture. The peculiar parting words of Sister Elara lingered from when she stopped me as I was departing the Silvaa, adding layers to...

The first installment of Lirael Glimmereye's journal as he progresses as a Yuan-ti growing up in the city of Silvaa on the world of Crannog as an orphan. It is the backstory that many D&D players create for their characters before they begin to traverse the world that their DM sets them into. We are using the D&D 5e ruleset in a Homebrew world where my character begins play as a 2nd Level Cleric of the Twilight Domain and 2nd Level Rogue, who is at a crossroads regarding which direction he should take in the future. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- As I look back on my life so far, it like so many adventurer's stories, it is full of intrigue, abandonment, as well as overcoming the many obstacles along the way. These are my memories, which others might not agree with, but they are how I saw things growing up as a Yuan-ti in a world where too many want things to be cut and dry, not the different shades of reality that our world ...

That's a substantial question, isn't it? Deciding where to commence with the inaugural post on this blog is a bit like navigating a labyrinth of possibilities. For starters, let's delve into a bit of background. Once upon a time...well, back in October 2007, I initiated my blogging journey here on Blogger.  Yes, Blogger and initially I blogged about education since I was teaching and on the leading edge of using social media in my classrooms. Then when I left education to regain my health, I started writing about running which worked quite well for me until the pandemic, when the world changed. During that drudge time, I attempted to write about technology and home productivity, a bandwagon that was getting very popular, but that really wasn't the correct re-direction either.  I even started to get back into writing about my running, but injured my knee in May 2022 and didn't start running again until this summer. The injured runner writing about running, wasn't...