Entry Sixteen: Crustacean Frustration, and the Weather Man

Aínn'leás A'oileáin of Metztlitona...

Should anyone be reading this, this is a simply account of my journey and findings since leaving Tecolocali. My name is, or was, Aínn'leás A'oileáin. I am of the city Tecolocali, of the Metztlitonan Empire. I left my home seeking its cure. ...

I may have forgotten to record my journey overseas. It has been approximately a month since I departed from Krathus. We have reached Igari, along its northern shore. I have been directed to a place called (Evermorn?) Hivermourne. * Swamp. More murk...

* Found a riverboat * Full of undead. Disgusting creatures. * Found a gorgeous staff, but it is too heavy for me to wield effectively. I have handed it to Haka in hopes she may find better use for it. * Decided to take shelter in a cave for th...

* Traveling again. Found some ruins — odd symbol. (The symbol is drawn, a U with a horizontal line through it) * New traveling companion: Masatake * Encountered his campsite. Rahnce does not understand how to talk to people. Mori left us. I do...

* There are fucking whales in the sky * I miss home * This was a fucking mistake * Encountered a shrine: dog-statue, called an okami * Sea shells, acorns, food, copper coins left as offerings * Haka is a priestess of Moriko. Forests and l...

((For some reason I don't have any notes of this session. I am recounting this as best I can)) Things keep getting stranger. We found a child. *Underground settlement * Found a young boy. Grabbed him and ran from a hellhound. * He can change ...

I skipped a few days of writing this, so this entry holds the course of many days. The city is unlike anything I have ever seen. Farmlands stretch around it, orchards and rice paddies, a lake in the distance. And a city of the likes I've never seen be...

* "The Emerald" ? Ostentatious building. * There is a magic institution here! I will have to see what they can offer * House Marinth? Those unicorn fellows we saw before * Temple of Miojin? "Of cleansing flame" * Amara — their goddess of m...

* Masatake took us down to the Black Dog distillery. * Blue oni named Red Nobu * We engaged in a foolish battle. Arrogance could have killed me. Haka was the only reason we escaped with our lives, and I am too ashamed to meet her gaze long enough t...

There have been changes in the jungle, back home. I was uncertain what it meant, but now... We went to a soothsayer. I doubted their ability, but Rahnce's reaction... he wept. I have never seen him grieve before. And then they turned to me. "Flames...

* The performance was nice, but I couldn't understand the story * Why do they not use words * We moved as a crowd, to the Twilight Gate * The Empress, Mino Azai, lit three lanterns (Is that its meaning) upon the Dreaming Gate, in the middle of th...

I forgot to note this before. Haka's friend, Kurosuko? A pleasant individual. Quite a pretty face — I find myself surrounded by pretty faces as of late. I marked two promises upon my wrist. They stand as bars marked onto my skin in black ink, but on...

* We arrived at Primont today * Mostly farmlands, with a church raised above it all * Met Marshal Exsomnus Malleus * States they are trying to bring the gods back. Is this why that chalice washed up under the moon? Is She guiding me? * We ar...

* In the morning, Haka performed a ceremony * Rahnce took his sword — Hundrumir Hearthguard * We traveled until we located the Kipine * It was a rough fight. The creatures could fly, and we were forced to run up and down a mountainside. Rahnce...

* We found ourselves a ship * Stayed in a tavern. It was fun! Rahnce and I played music, Haka danced with us. My affection for these two grows every day. It feels like home, like being with Siklil and Enshu and sneaking away to the lakeside. I would pl...

* It was an odd day * Haka reported a storm, but only she could see it. A ship was approaching * We cut the lanterns, I climbed up into the rigging to settle down with my crossbow. If we were to engage in a battle, being on the front lines would not...

* So. Admittedly we should have kept an eye out for Rahnce * He was missing come morning. Had been kidnapped by. Crab people. * Tasked us with dispatching an enemy of theirs in exchange for a ship wheel * Luckily it was quite easy! It turns out ...