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Dear Journal,
Life has been a real adventure lately. I woke up in jail the other day. Yeah, that's what I said. "What? How did this
happen?" I hadn't been that confused since I hit puberty and my sorcery powers started to emerge. Then I remembered,
I went into that little pub for some mead. A fight broke out and I got hit over the head with a bottle. Next thing I knew
I was in a strange cell with two halflings and another elf. We pulled up this stone in the floor after a few tries and some
broken fingernails and you wouldn't believe it... the entire jail caved in!
We were about to run though the sewers
before anyone could catch us, but then I saw my bag with my bow and arrows, my dagger, short spear and all my other stuff,
minus my money. I couldn't believe it though; my birth emeralds were still in my hidden pouch. The two little halflings
kept trying to steal my stuff, but I think they realized we were in this together and eventually stopped trying. Good thing
or the rude one would have gotten a missile up his butt. I know I am not strong enough to kill him, but at least it would
have singed some of his butt hair.
So anyway, we argued a bit, then all started to run before anyone started to
chase us. Before we knew it, we were getting arrows fired at us. It wasn't anyone chasing us though.. There were these kobolds
in the tunnels shooting at us. Just our luck, eh? Luckily, the other elf pointed out a spear trap to me and I was afraid
I couldn't jump it so I stayed back a moment. Just then, then rude halfling ran forward into the trap. I felt pretty bad
I didn't have a chance to tell him that was there. He got hurt really bad. I was able to heal him a little bit, but he lost
a lot of blood.
Meanwhile, the other Elf and halfling chased the little kobolds into some kind of den. I just wanted
out of there. Then the halfling, nimbletwig I think was her name, shot the kobold with a big headdress. You should have seen
all those guys run after that! We must have shot their leader.
Anyway, so it turns out there is a hatch looking
exit on top of this cave, right. So I try to crawl up there and get soaked in acid. So when I go to rinse it off, I get practically
eaten by this hissing head thing. Thank gosh Nimbletwig found a healing potion, and I felt a lot better. So as we are trying
to climb up and the dang thing attacks the poor halfling who fell on the spears. So I am healing him, and the stupid thing,
which now I realize is a dragon, uses me as a chew toy! Finally while I am being devoured, the others managed to kill the
thing. Yes... we killed a dragon! A DRAGON! Ok.. True it was a baby... but it's still a DRAGON!
I after some
more healing potions, we managed to get the dragon to the guild. They bought it from us for part and we had it stuffed and
put on display at the guild. Nimbletwig actually sold the other stuff she found in the cave and split the money with us.
It was very nice of her to do. So after I told everyone at the guild what I had done, they sent me on ... fact finding mission
is what they called it.
They set me up with a funny looking fellow who took me to another party who is on a treasure
hunt. They have some keys and are looking for a third one. It is rumored that someone in this party has the cured sword
that kills wizards. What's the name of that guy? Oh, I will remember it later, but anyway, they thought since I helped kill
the dragon, I would be a perfect candidate to go research this rumor. So I meet up with this party. There are two Orks,
smelly, as anything is rotten, named Grak and Twack. Then there is a dwarf named Grendel, and the funny looking guy that
brought us there, Renos. Turns out Renos has some strange connection with his brother, but I am not sure what yet. So there
are some other people there too, but mind you, these are the people who are actively wearing armor. So I am looking to them
to have the swords. There is Martock who is pretty tough, but is a monk. So he wouldn't have a sword. And a wonderful man
who I owe my life too Don Miguel. He also happens to honor the gods of vengeance, so I will do my best not to piss him off.
Just then, this huge bear comes up to me and scared me to death. Chased me up a tree and I was about to get my bow
and arrows aimed, when that dang bear offered me some strawberry cream pie! The bear TALKED! I said, "Wait a minute!
Bears don't talk!" Just then it said, "Elves don't have wings!" Good point the bear makes. So I quickly
accepted that we are both freaks of nature. Turns out her name is Faraer. Funny thing isn't that the same name as the sister
of that chick who no one likes that got killed a few months back by a bear? I didn't ask.
Turned out the bear is
very friendly and we had a couple nice chats. As we were trucking along, I did notice someone was following us. Even laughing
as we tried to figure out how everyone and the bear are going to get down this cliff. Well, the cliff caved in and we decided
to take a path. Then we came into these funny creatures they called Rust Monsters. I have heard something of them before,
but never seen one. They pounced on all the people I was suspect of having the sword and ate all their metal. I couldn't
believe it. It was a site to see. I tried to put them to sleep to stop, but it didn't work. They were kind of cute really.
Almost affectionate I thought. However, the people who got all their armor destroyed didn't think so and they killed them.
There was one sword that the Ork Grak kept well out of harms way. I suspect that is either the sword, or the Guild has sent
me on a wild chase. (Just like the time they sent me to find Gwochy root to find out it didn't exist.)
Well, that
night we tried to camp and those dang kobolds kept waking us up. Well, Martok and Grak thought they took care of it by killing
some of them, pushing some off a cliff and taking one as a prisoner. Well, they came back again with 3 Ogar friends. We
killed them, but as I ran to hide, a stupid kobald shot me with a very good shot and I almost died again. Don Miguel healed
me and I gave him one of my birth emeralds as a thank you. Hopefully it will appease his god. I really want to tread lightly
around him for 1. He can save me. And 2. I believe that is how my adopted parents died were by making a member of that same
deity mad, even unintentionally. I don't have much to give him, so I hope he will appreciate my emerald.
Well,
we are going to get on our way tomorrow, so I must get some sleep now. I heard there is a dragon expected to be in the area
and I am very nervous. So if there are no more entries in my dear journal, you know what probably happened.
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