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Amity!

Journal #6 AKA I Got Stabbed!!

by Amity Pell

It looks like… like a face, that’s got thick ash just pouring out of it, and all that ash is swirling around and making up the rest of it. And it says something to me inside my head, and I don’t… I don’t understand. But everything gets all weird, and before I know it, I’ve punched Rhogkun! I hope he’s okay. I’ll have to say sorry later. Variel sees what it’s doing, and she shouts not to listen to it. She says this ghost thing is what happens when somebody gets into a magical secret that they can’t handle. It’s so mad it got this way, that it wants to tell everyone the secret and make them the way it is too.
 
And there are more of those statues in this room, only this time they’re inside the pillars that are holding it up! And when they start trying to get at us, they start bringing the room down! Not good. The ghost thing is SO STRONG. But luckily we have Max, cause he hits it with some kinda glowy magical holy attack, and it really hurts it. Swindle, Variel, and Rhogkun hide out in the hallway the whole time btw! Then I throw one last Crystal Blast at it and it turns inside out and dies. Whew. Cept we can’t rest now at all, because the whole place is coming down. A big rock lands on Variel and for a second I think we’ve lost her, but Swindle’s magic fox spirit (when did that get here…?) boops her with its nose and she’s okay again. Then we run and run for the sweet sweet sunlight that awaits us outside.
 
Well. I guess we can go say we finished the job and everyone is safe now. We’re all real tired, so we head directly back to the wagons to deliver the good news and hopefully receive a warm welcome.
 
We don’t.
 
When we get to the top of the hill, we can see that there are a bunch of soldiers mingling with the Menagerie folks. Swindle takes one look at them and dives behind a bush, gesturing frantically and whispering to Maxwell. Rhogkun and Variel look about as confused as I feel.
 
Before we can head down there to find out what’s going on, a few of the soldiers come up to see what we’re up to. One of them has got real sharp eyes, and he sees Max and Swindle behind the bush, in spite their excellent hiding skills. He turns and shouts “Commander Peony, we found ‘em!” and then… a panther jumps out of the bush and knocks him down??
 
It’s… a suspiciously Swindle-colored panther (he can turn into a panther???). It yowls right in the soldier’s face and then clambers up onto Maxwell, who starts doing his very best to spin a tale about how we captured “the beast” that the caravan was looking for. Max isn’t a great liar, as you might guess, but the soldiers buy it anyhow, and the Swindle-panther lets itself get taken away to one of the empty cages that the caravan still has.
 
A halfling lady in shiny armor comes up to join us all on top of the hill, and I guess her and Max know each other.
 
Have you ever talked to someone who just knows they’ve got you cornered, and they’re real happy about it, but just playing with you til you figure it out? She was like that. She says that when Swindle stole Max from the temple, they really got left in a bind. I guess he’s from a place called the Pharos Shrine. She calls him Oracle and at first Rhogkun thinks she means him, ‘cause that’s his whole thing, but she really means Max. I guess maybe he told fortunes there? It’s a shrine to the Sovereign Host which is… kind of a big deal. But yeah. She says she needs him to come back there now with her. Cause he belongs there. Max says that he gets her for sure, but he really thinks that he can do a lot of good out here in the world. And I think it’s good for him too. There’s a lot of stuff he hasn’t got to see yet, you know?
 
For a second I think that maybe this will work, since it’s the honest truth, but instead she calls to her soldiers and tells them that if Max won’t come with her, they’ve got to break his legs and carry him. And while I’m trying to process this quick turnaround, she comes up close to me and Max, and! She! Stabs me!!
 
I tried to shout for help, but the soldiers don’t care. And then we have to fight for our lives.
 
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  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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