Liaueld
Coskurt-Zriokots Road, Stillspring 30
Drovakna, Stillspring 30, 254
Morchella continues to impress. Today she spotted a plains beast I've never even heard of, something called a "Tusked Skyfish". Apparently these are creatures that just float over the plains and kill things. Very, very weird. We escaped, although I'm a bit messed up and so is MauMau. He is helping Morchella clean up the messkit, since I have to cook. Apparently, her horse hates cooks, and Morchella loves to cook, which is funny and cute.
How does a horse decide it doesn't like cooks?
Coskurt, Stillspring 29
29th of Stillspring, 254
Adventuring is super profitable. Like, no kidding profitable.
What do I mean? I mean I pulled in 250 gp in gold and gems today for walking a cop up a river and fighting a couple of guys.
Which sucked, honestly. I've killed a person, and it's sort of hitting me that that's what happened. I didn't kill him, Morchella did, but I shot him and he's dead now.
I don't think it gets a lot easier over time. I mean, who was that person? Besides someone who kidnapped a kids mom. We ran into this kid...
Morchella is really good with kids.
I'm going out. I'm going to spend some of this money and turn my brain off for a while.
Coskurt, 28 Stillspring
28th of Stillspring, 254
Why do I pick up strays?
It was certainly an interesting couple of days. When I got to Coskurt yesterday, I stopped at a tavern... the Rat and Something or other. I'm staying there, its cheap and all that but anyway it was a weird vibe for the afternoon, bunch of just rowdy and angry people, complaining about something work related? I don't know. Anyway, this half-orc girl walked in, took a look around, and just walked right out and she looked so upset that I sorta had to go after her.
I don't know why I do stuff like that, but she was such a big person and then looked so small.
Okay, yeah, she's big and strong and
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She actually really reminds me of Lineke a bit.
Anyway, her name's Morkella, she has a twin brother, she's planning on going to gods damned Rar'tia to look for her missing dad, definitely would be my type but anyway she was heading up river and I followed her, bought some wraps 'cause the stupid tavern service was shit, and I sat down near her and offered her a wrap, cause a girl that big just had to be hungry and then she started talking and it's like... she's innocent. Like... you ever meet somebody, and you just KNOW they're a good person? Like that, but also like she's about 14 even though she looks more like my age. So, you know, NOT my type.
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I can't go back to my little sister or my own brothers. And I don't know... I feel responsible for her in a weird way.
Not that she can't take care of herself okay. We bummed around last night and I sort of showed her how to hang out in a town, just catching some buskers and people watching and stuff, and this morning we met for breakfast and checked out the notice board. Two jobs, one that I think has to do with those standing stones and another that was a kidnapping thing. We picked 'em both up and went to the guard captain and some giant Orc lady representing the rich folks whose kid got snatched. Turned out to be like a family squabble, so we walked out into the woods and tried to talk this batty old lady into just handing the kid over.
Then she sent a swarm of ravens at me and started slamming Morkella with Thunderclaps. Morkella barely blinked, it was pretty impressive, and she carved the old bat up pretty good but we didn't kill her. She's going to be hurting real bad when she wakes up but we did our best to keep her from dying. She could have just given up, you know? Why can't people just know when they're beat?
So, yeah, that happened and tomorrow we're meeting up with some superguard to show them where these standing stones are. Because I remembered where I've seen those runes before. It's that same cult of Drotha, and I guess I'm looking out for her now because I'm an idiot and I screwed things up so bad
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They're bad news, like, Sentient sacrifice bad news.
I should try to sleep.
the one that dad said he and his gang stomped out decades back. He had some rubbings in his journal, which yeah I shouldn't have read but I wanted to know, you know?
Escaped the Dragon Tree
That was terrifying. Last night the tree I was sleeping in turned out to be what's called a Dragon Tree. These are ancient trees that seem to be connected to Dragon's somehow. This one was guarded by a water elemental, but it didn't see me and I escaped.
Riverside
I've been travelling for about six months, I guess, since leaving Stordur. It's a long way from home here, but Solbjørg sent me out here for a reason, I guess. I don't know. She really just said I needed to get out of town for a while and that I could look up the guild in any old port city in the Empire, so I guess I can.
I've been on foot for the last few days. I'm hoping I can find some work or something to do when I get to the next town. Farmer a ways back said I should get there tomorrow afternoon. Name of the town is Qeerag, which is Goblin. So I guess it's a goblin town.
Guess I'll get some sleep. Sun's going down. I think I've got a secure spot in this tree... this hammock is the best investment ever.
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