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Alijham: Journey to the Cure!

4 posts · started by Alijham on Jan 15, 2020 · 256 views · in Active Journals & Diaries
AlijhamJan 15, 2020
Jan 15, 2020 at 06:01 AM #1
Hello myself,

It's been a very long time since I have written a log. To keep it short and sweet, however, I have decided to seek out a cure for my lycanthrophy. What spurred this was just a normal visit to a local library.

I happened to come across a book called "Experiments with Lycanthropy" by a dunmer named Ralo Fathran. In the literature, he captures many werewolves in his lifetime and performs many experiments on them—dead and alive. One of the experiments in particular posed the question: can hereditary lycanthropy be cured? And he finds out that the answer is... yes.

My entire life, I have always been under the impression that a cure would kill me, that my beast is intertwined in my very bones, in my very soul, and it would be impossible. At this point in my life, though, I would rather die trying to cure myself than die murdered for what I am. For me, and for my family. It is time to turn over a new leaf.

Since reading that book, I have purchased and rented a number of other pieces of literature on lycanthrophy. I have since read that it is possible to find a cure through the Glenmoril Witches of the Wyrd. I am determined to find them, but that is not the only hangup I have encountered in my readings—they won't just cure anyone because someone says 'please.' So, I am to prepare some offering to please them.

My plan is to visit my mother and father, a practicing priest and priestess of Hircine, and ask them to hold a ritual to speak with Hircine for me to ask what I may do to gain his favor. Whatever he asks of me to do, I shall do it, and present it to the Witches instead.

Estre said it was smart. Estre is usually right. Oh gods, I hope this works. I hope this works. I suppose this is my first log of many, on my accounts of trying to rid myself of this daedric poison I was born into. We will see what comes of me.

Alijham
AlijhamJan 16, 2020
Jan 16, 2020 at 02:38 AM #2
Evening,

Today I traveled home to Malabal Tor to visit my mother and father. The performed a ritual for me to confer with Hircine. I told him that I would like to prove my devotion to him, as I had been silent and not prayed for sometime. I guess that's as good of a reason as any to someone who is truly devoted to him. I shouldn't be talking, really, because I used to be—up until this point. I feel rather lied to, really, by my family. I've always been told I cannot be cured.

During the ritual, I heard him speak to me. It's always a very uncomfortable experience to hear him. It's quite like trying to speak to an elderly uncle that doesn't listen, only hears, doesn't be quiet, and has smoked a great deal in his lifetime. The type of guy that really is sure he knows everything and everything—which is a normal attitude for a daedric prince, isn't it?

In short, I was informed that in order to prove my utmost devotion I was to find my way to Skyrim and kill a grand sabre cat. He described it to have black fur, and scarred, milky-white eyes, standing as tall as a mammoth and as wide as a titan. I am meant to bring to him its pelt, head attached, and lay it at his altar there in Eastmarch.

As I write this, I am on my way to purchase a VERY EXPENSIVE (so expensive, I cannot fathom) portal to Eastmarch to search for this thing. Thank Hircine, for the very last time, that I am blessed with this ability to track very accurately. We will see how this pans out.

Til I write again,

Alijham
AlijhamJan 16, 2020
Jan 16, 2020 at 07:28 PM #3
Morning,

I have been awake until dawn tracking this beast. When I arrived, I asked locals about possibly seeing it. I didn't strike any luck until I arrived at a camp by the Sea of Ghosts at nearly midnight. There were two nords and a dunmer around a fire talking, all women. I approached them with my hands up and a very obvious "hello" to not startle them. They were startled, unfortunately, and all drew their weapons and asked me what I wanted of them. I explained to them what I was searching for—minus the Hircine part, obviously. They calmed and looked at one another grimly.

The dunmer woman spoke after a bit of looking back and fourth and said they had encountered it just last night in the forest, and thus moved their camp to the Sea of Ghosts to hopefully avoid seeing it again. They described so terrifying that I'm not sure I believed them. However, I handed them my map and asked them to point to where they had seen it. They drew me some lines and wrote some notes: trees with large scratches the originally thought were from a bear; bones of a two khajiit; trail of blood under a hang of rock; tufts of black and grey fur scattered about.

The last point leads me to believe that the beast may be injured. I wonder if it is, and that's why those women escaped with their lives. Anyhow, with my pointers and my map, I traveled to the location they had marked the best that I was able. It was harder to find than I imagined—in a canyon, actually, through a narrow chasm. The only way I was able to recognize I could pass through is from the clumps of black fur floating around the entrance. I cautiously went inside and took a peek about. There, I found: trees with large scratches the originally thought were from a bear; bones of a two khajiit; trail of blood under a hang of rock. The canyon was hardly large enough to miss any of the items described. It was missing one thing, though: any sign of life. I made myself a little makeshift holdup in a position I thought to be hidden and waited until dawn. Nothing happened, however, so I decided I needed to leave and go find something to eat and somewhere to bathe.

Now, I am making my way back after a meal and a bath, and I am hoping to find my animal. Hopefully I do not die,

Alijham
AlijhamJan 18, 2020
Jan 18, 2020 at 02:21 AM #4
Afternoon,

Last night, I encountered the beast. I was holed up in that canyon for several more hours before she arrived home. I took down a good sized buck, and put a slit in its side so hopefully the smell would spread. I injected a very potent poison into the animal in the hopes of killing the beast without having to fight her face-to-face. I climbed up into one of the trees and awaited her arrival.

She was a majesty of a sabre cat. I could see that she was, in fact, missing patches of fur here and there. Rippling muscles, wide-set stance and short legs quite like a bulldog. One of the tusks was broken off, an eye missing as well. We matched. Both of the ears were ripped almost completely off—no doubt from all of the battles she had encountered. As I looked down on her from my hiding spot, I felt a little pain in my heart. I didn't want to kill her. I would have to do it, though. I watched her intently as she sniffed the meat I had left for her. She seemed unsure about it, and for a moment, I didn't think she would take the bait... until she did. She took slow and careful bites, like she was still undecided, but just a few bites was all the poison needed to kill her.

I fell asleep there in that tree. Like an idiot, I did, and it could have cost me my life, but it didn't. I woke up to see the excellent beast lying dead beneath her rock shelter. I scurried down the tree, full of excitement and anxiety, and double-checked her life signs. When I was sure she was gone, I got started on the long and disgusting process of preparing her lovely hide to present to the witches.

Now, I am on my way to purchase a portal to Glenumbra to visit the ladies of the Wyrd and see if they can help me.

Alijham

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