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Journal #9 - Arriving in Blackbough

by Amity Pell

I forgot how far it is to the next town… It feels like we’ve been on the road for weeks. Variel even got bored enough that she’s learning how to cook from Ample Harvest. I don’t think she did much of it when she was hanging out with fairy royalty… blech. But she’s been getting better. At first I wanted to help take care of the menagerie monsters, because that’s cool, right? But it turns out that it’s a whole lot of work… So mostly I’ve been napping on top of one of the wagons. Me and Prim are taking turns deciding what clouds look like when suddenly the wagon hits something in the road, and I go FLYING.
 
Ow.
 
After everybody rushes up to make sure I’m okay (don’t worry, totally fine, thanks), Maxwell lifts the whole wagon up and yep: the axle is busted. So me and Variel volunteer to go find some wood to make a temporary new one. There’s not really a lot of forest around or anything, but lucky the road is kinda close to the bay at this point, and we found this really nice really big piece of driftwood!
 
I pick it up all by myself! Then I use my magic to disappear and reappear 30 feet away! Then another 30 feet! Pretty good progress, right? But then I have to carry it the rest of the way back... it’s not super far but the driftwood is really heavy. Variel is helping too, but it doesn’t really… feel that way. But she wouldn’t just be pretending to help, right...? She did tell everyone how strong I am when we got back, though, which I guess is good.
 
I flop down next to Swindle, and he gives me a high five and a little mushroom. It tastes pretty good. Guess I was pretty tired from all that work, because I fell asleep right after that, and the wagon was all fixed when I woke up! So the caravan gets moving again, and finally, finally we make it to Blackbough.
 
Honestly, it would be better to keep going… the place is kind of uh. Gross. Real small, damp, everything is made of black painted rotting wood. People aren’t very friendly. But Maxwell, Swindle, and Miss Azalea want to stop here and check for a temple to the Sovereign Host.
To get rid of Peony. Which I can’t really argue against. I’ve been trying to stay away from the cage they’ve got her in, but sometimes I can’t help but travel by it, and then she glares at me. She probably really hates me now. And everyone. I think we should have left her back on the road, and just got as far away as possible. But it wasn’t really up to me.
 
Delebean puts Rhogkun in charge of finding a carpenter here too. So our list of tasks are now:
-find a temple/jail.
-find a tannery so Variel can get her winter wolf pelt fixed for coat-making.
-carpenter to fix the wagon.
-get a shield for Maxwell.
-tell people about the menagerie!
 
Azalea has a contact at the temple, his name’s Lyndon Smyj. Says we’ve got to stay here for three days!! Because they’re going to have trial for Peony, and we’re going to have to like, testify. That sounds like a huge pain….
 
This place has a tannery for sure, you can smell it from far away, and it gets worse the closer you get. I almost puked. We all leave Variel to deal with that on her own, but I think she gets it taken care of. Luckily it shouldn’t take any much longer than we’re stuck here for this trial thing anyway.
 
At the general store, Swindle buys… a small box? And some jars? I’m not sure why. But the shopkeep is a carpenter! So that’s real lucky. She says she’ll come have a look at the wagon later. Swindle says something weird to her when he’s buying the box, and she gets mad. But she seems to like Variel just fine. Max buys a carpenter’s kit, he says ‘cause “Azalea said I need a hobby.”
 
We go to the blacksmith next, which is pretty close. There’s no one home though, or at least that’s what it looks like. Swindle snags a charcoal piece out of the hearth, and it’s like the only bit there. Pretty cleaned out. We knock on the door, and actually someone is home. They’ve just been hiding? Swindle wants to know why everyone one in town looks so tired, and I guess now that he mentions it, they do… but anyway the blacksmith guy says that the town is cursed and he’s gonna stay inside forever and slammed the door on us. Okay.
 
We do a bit of busking to drum up business for the menagerie. Rhogkun has that big deep voice of his, so he gets people’s attention, then Variel sings the song she wrote. She’s a Bard, so she can come up with stuff like that really easy. I did some sparkles. That probably helped, right?
 
Swindle wants to go back to the temple… ughhh. So we do that. He asks about the town curse or whatever. Azalea’s been talking to Mr. Smyj about it, actually. She tells us that everyone in town has been having bad dreams (big deal), and it’s stopping them from sleeping. Also every time we come into the temple, Max starts picking up things and dusting them. It makes me a bit nervous to watch, cause everything looks small in his hands, but he’s real careful. Swindle says he needs a room here for about half an hour and he’ll catch up to us later… so finally we all go to the tavern.
 
Max and Rhogkun find places they can fit, and Variel gets the barkeep’s permission to sing a few songs. I hop up to the counter, and order the special. It’s a stew! It’s okay. The barkeep (her name’s Beatrice) is about to hand me my drink, when some other lady comes up and knocks it out of her hand!! She shouts at me that it was poison! I’m just staring at both of them kind of confused, ‘cause I’m just minding my own business and my soup, but Beatrice looks like fed up, and I don’t know who or what with, but she reaches behind her back, and starts to pull a big kitchen knife out of her belt!
 
I better not get stabbed again I swear!!

Continue reading...

  1. Journal #1
    Amity!
  2. Journal #2
    Amity!
  3. Journal #3
    Amity!
  4. Amity & Prim
    Amity!
  5. Journal #4
    Amity!
  6. Journal #5
    Amity!
  7. Journal #6
    Amity!
  8. Journal #6 AKA I Got Stabbed!!
    Amity!
  9. Journal #7 Flowers
    Amity!
  10. RP w/ Prim and Variel- Royalty, Family, and Luck
    Amity!
  11. RP w/ Rhogkun - Familiars and Spellbooks
    Amity!
  12. RP w/ Rhogkun and Delebean - Secrets
    Amity!
  13. RP - The first one. Amity and her Fortune.
    Amity!
  14. RP - the second one. At the Siren's Sigh w/ Rhogkun.
    Amity!
  15. Journal #9 - Arriving in Blackbough
    Amity!
  16. zoop
    Amity!
  17. Journal #9 - Arriving in Blackbough
    Amity!
  18. RP w/ Swindle - AKA You Cant Bullshit a Bullshitter
    Amity!
  19. Journal #10
    Amity!
  20. Journal #11 - Into Darkness
    Amity!
  21. Journal #11 - Into Darkness
    Amity!
  22. Journal #12 - Inside the Nightmare
    Amity!
  23. RP - With Azalea. Very Short.
    Amity!
  24. Journal #13 - The Trial
    Amity!
  25. RP - w/ the group - Night Before the Trial, Actually
    Amity!
  26. RP w/ Swindle (secrets?)
    Amity!
  27. RP w/ Rhogkun and Prim - Pockets
    Amity!
  28. Journal #14 - Back on the Road
    Amity!
  29. RP w/ Variel - In Between
    Amity!
  30. Journal #14 - Back on the Road
    Amity!
  31. RP w/ the group - We're Going to Riverpuddle!
    Amity!
  32. Journal #15 Back in Town
    Amity!
  33. Journal #16 - River Night and Golden Day
    Amity!
  34. Journal #17 - The New Old House
    Amity!
  35. Journal #18 - The Terrible Room
    Amity!
  36. Journal #19 - Ghosts
    Amity!
  37. Journal #20 - More Ghosts
    Amity!
  38. Journal #21 - Everything Falls Down
    Amity!
  39. RP w/ Rhogkun, Swindle - Two Conversations That Go Just Fine
    Amity!
  40. Journal #22 - Dogged
    Amity!
  41. Journal #23 - Treya....
    Amity!
  42. RP w/ Everyone - Tale Telling
    Amity!
  43. RP w/ Rhogkun - Dad Talk
    Amity!
  44. Journal #24 - The Next Day
  45. Journal #25 - Heading North
  46. Journal #26 - On the Road
  47. Journal #27 - Vimgalier
  48. Journal #28 - Instructions...
  49. Journal #29 - Rigani's Tower pt 1
  50. Journal #30 - Rigani's Tower pt 2
  51. Journal #31 - Rigani's Tower pt 3
  52. RP w/ Variel and Swindle - the god plate
  53. Journal #32 - Ambush
  54. Journal #33 - Music
  55. Incident Reports
  56. Journal #34 - Ivorfall
  57. Journal #35 - Shire!
  58. Journal #36 - Escalation
  59. Journal #37 - Giving Up
  60. Journal #38 - It's Fine. Let's Go to Another Wizard Tower.
  61. Journal #39 - Memories, All Bad
  62. (out of order) RP w/ Variel at the Bergwin Inn
  63. (out of order) RP w/ Max - Caravan Guards
  64. (out of order) RP w/ Katya - Taking a Break
  65. That Dream Again
  66. Journal #40 - Talking Too Much
  67. RP w/ Swindle - Asking for Help is Hard
  68. Journal #41 - The Wizard's Friend part 1
  69. Journal #42 - The Wizard's Friend part 2
  70. Journal #43 - The Wizard's Friend part 3
  71. RP - Checking In

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