Egg & Toast

# Blueprint Logs ("Blogs")

Greetings! I see you have found my blueprint logs (or "blogs", as I have coined them). I am Eggavish, the Artificer (pronouns: all/any). I will be using this space to collect designs inspired by my travels across Ithlacar. Toast (he/him) is my steel defender, a cuddlefish. Toast is a very bright young boy, and I love him. Who defended whom, am I right?

### February 20, 2021: The Goblin Nightlight

During the Evening at the Jaunty Narwolf, our friends gathered to honor the birth of Baby Jareth and welcome Ekenir into the wonderful world of parenthood. I carved a small goblin figurine out of welterwood retrieved from the Narwoods and used some magical tinkering to cause it to glow. I gave it to Ekenir and Jareth to help the young goblin sleep at night. Blueprints for the figurine are given in Figure 1.

### March 6, 2021: Toast, the Cuddlefish

On the same inauspicious day that the mists were banished from Ithlacar and our party awakened a trickster god of unknown ill-repute, something quite wonderful happened. I had been tinkering with plans to build a steel defender (see Figure 2), a mechanized creature made of steel who could accompany me and my Haven community on our travels. On Saturday, I welded the final seam and installed the final treaded foot. Toast, as he has come to be known to me, awoke in that moment as a fully-realized gentleman. He is still a small boy, but he is very excited to learn more about the world and to do so in the highest of fashions. I am honored to know him.

(I remain a little wary about bringing him into battle. He was eager to demonstrate his defensive talents during our encounter with the lizardfolk's temple on Saturday, but I urged him to stick by my side. I would be utterly crushed if my little guy got hurt. I suppose I will have to respect his agency in the future, but I'm finding that parenthood—even of my supposedly resilient fish boy—is harder than I thought.)

### March 9, 2021: The "Brace Yourself"

During my first experience invading The Goblin Keep (see Crit in My Butthole a.k.a. Adventures in the Poop Chute), I lost my backpack, shield, and all my other belongings due to an (ill-advised yet successful) improvised explosion. When I returned to Haven, I made quick work of purchasing and scavenging new sets of tools, new weapons, and a shield. However, as I have been increasingly interested in collaborating with Boe, the Inventor, I decided to dedicate myself to the arts of invention and try my hand at a proposed enhancement to my shield. What follows is the "Brace Yourself," a bracer that channels energy from the user to unfurl into a shield or collapse into a bracer as an action. The blueprints are provided for your convenience in Figure 3.

### March 20, 2021: The Planar System for Neosneks

During our excursion to Spoopyton Abbey, Elizabeth rescued one of Sherbert's snake babies (who appear to have hatched and eaten through Sherbert's body) while we were at the Goblin Keep checking in on old Sherbert. Sherbert Jr. hatched during our battle with the Hobgoblins in Spoopyton, and Elizabeth eventually was able to bond with him. What joy!

To help ease the snek babe into life with its new parent, Toast and I wrote and illustrated a small book about the wonders of the planar system (Figure 4). The full text can be found in Little Lies, the children's section of the Haven Library. We hope you like it, Sherbert Jr.!