Savage Tide: Lightless Depths; ECL 12 Garrik von Keizer Wizard 12; Fifth Entry

          After a brief encounter with some Hooked Horrors things went 'sideways.'

          Seeming immediately after the battle one of our companions had been sucked into a silver dagger, a malnourished dragonborn claimed to be over a thousand years old, and we found possible the most dangerous set of cards in existence.

          More on the vanishing ally in a bit, but the dragonborn said that he was Sir Maxilimiun Vanderboren, ancestor to Lavinia Vanderboren. Unlikely to be sure, however the Professor took him to town and verified his identity with Lavinia. I am still skeptical of his identity as it would not be difficult to, with some effort, to assume anyone's place.

          After their return we continued and dispatched a rather unwholesome beast with clever use of spells and brute force. At the bottom of this spiral pit we found the creatures corpse. It had been... eviscerated by stalagmites. It had consumed many of unfortunate creatures and adventurers as it was full of equipment and metal coins it could not digest. Unusually there was a unscathed, small wooden box. it was opened to reveal a set of cards. Damn myself for not recognizing them earlier, this ancient magic is more of a practical joke made by the gods than anything else. Before I could get my hands on them many of our troupe had drawn from it, some benefited, most did not. Our member in the dagger even pulled some on his own. He is no longer in the dagger.

          I finally managed to snatch it out from someones hands and was about to will the cards away, but something called to me. I could hear the cards whispering to me to pull from the deck. A urge I i could not resist.

          Two cards. One to change my fate. The other was my soul being lost in the eternal darkness of the void. I snapped out of my stupor just in time to feel darkness over coming me. I'm still here so figure out what my next action was. After that I wanted me to give the deck over. This time i was prepared and refused its request. Three more times it asked and three times I refused. I place it back in the box and it vanished soon after.

         I feel some resentment from the group for my actions. Perhaps I should have given them the chance for Oblivion, but then they would have a chance for more power, and I couldn't very well let that happen. Of all the cards that were drawn I do not know what the overgrown lizard got but when it looked me in the eye I was filled with an intense desire to disintegrate it.

          I still do.