...Bagdassarian and Kanis Rakkir managed to put down the Aboleth and keep the rest of us from dying but I don't think it will last. Gorgasuul is something else, something that should be fighting Abaia, not us. The Malice is afloat but morally wounded. It was an epic shitstorm, I'll write it up in prose when I have more time to think about putting it to music. Aiden was good as usual but for once that sword was just too short to do much. I think he's right that it's what Gorgasuul wanted all along, but even unconscious, that big sloppy whale of a thing couldn't get it off him. Opposable thumbs for the win. Limping back to Khazigur Eastport, Panagea needs to get back to the Cathedral and check in with Arsisiel, I'm going to hit up the library and see what they have on the thing we just fought.
...Incredible, he really did it. Those vampires under the House Absolute - we didn't even believe him, and he traced them to the clock garden and then - barely - we made it. Good teamwork, Baggy was spectacular from the shadows. Aiden just has the knack as a leader, I'm jealous of it but I cant deny he has a sixth sense when it comes to tactics on the fly. Its funny to see him argue about stuff with Selestina, Montsauvre and Berendon. Stuffy ass paladins. We'd all be dead if we let them run the show, especially that golden lion bitch.
...I just know I'm glad I can go back home to Khafra and see mom and dad soon. I know they're still pissed I left the farm to them and my brothers - dumb shits but I really miss them sometimes. Simple life. Who knew I'd turn out to be such a pussy?
...Bagdassarian did a great job talking us out of that fight in the city square. Celestials know, I didn't want to meet the family from a prison cell. Aiden just can't leave it alone, every little offense makes him crazy. He's always been a dick though, I guess I should be used to it, but try not to get the little town's most famous son thrown in jail over a bar fight with the Duke.
...[a series of illegible entries follow]
...Maybe when we hit Naugor Baggy can drug him or Kanis can cast a 'calm your shit down' spell and they'll stay at the clubhouse. I hate leaving Panagea there but clearly he can't focus on anything else. I don't get the paranoia, who would dare touch his wife?
...[more entries that seem lost to time and the stains, obviously blood, obscuring the light brown ink]
...place is crawling with Grimlocks, Troglodytes, brainwashed people. I much prefer killing the monsters to actual people who probably don't know better. Panagea told me she's worried Aiden prefers the people. I think so too, no idea what to do. I'm just the fuckin Bard, right? The paladins can keep his ass in line, right? If his wife can't. Shit, they are not my problem. Except that they kind of are.
...well, that could have gone better. God damn. How great was your plan, Montsauvre? The paladins are dead and Aiden is making us carry their bodies and stuff back out and has sworn to kill anyone who messes with it. He's called up a fucking Marilith just to watch over the bodies. She's pissed but she'll do as she's told.
...He was right, I knew it and the paladins shouldn't have doubted him. The sword found the phylactery and we ate that lich up, without all its spells and nonsense it was hardly a fair fight. And the ending will need to go in some kind of epic tale for sure - he crushed the phylactery up, pissed on it, and made the lich eat it, like a puppet because of course it was dead then. Then for kicks he ramrodded the thing from the shoulderblade down to its throne with the sword and he even posed it's scrawny lichy arms on the hilt. I don't know, as I write it out? It doesn't seem as hilarious as it was when he did it, just now. And now he's flipping his shit because he somehow chipped his worldbreaker sword on the dead lich's shiriveled up raisin heart. Anyway he's calmed down now. We're going to spend the night here and then head back home, stopping off over at Rakkir's stronghold place in the swamp which I gather is really close to here.
...holy shit. I mean, what the hell. What - I had to write this down, oh my god I'll have to burn this whole book, why am I writing that down? why the fuck am I writing this down? HOLY SHIT what did I do, I am a dead man. Panagea...oh my god what did you do to me? Why did this happen, fuck, I barely even like you? Gotta stay quiet, fuck, I fucking hate you, you did this, fuck, calm down, calm
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