Lessbelle Elmtree

Lessbelle is a charismatic teenage female half-elf. She is short and blonde, with soft features and appears timid at first, but naturally leans towards being mischievous. She can mostly be found wandering around, daydreaming, writing in her diary or spending time in nearby forests. She always carries her bow, despite being predominately a spell caster, a hangover from days past living in and around forests. She is usually wearing a billowy green cape, some light leathers as well as clothing that helps her best stealth through the forest. She has a strong affinity to Elven religious sentiment and enjoys fey related games and shenanigans. She is also a terrible nuisance.

## Background

### Early Years

As a young girl Lessbelle grew up under the care and attention of her loving Wood Elf Mother and Human Father. Both farmers, they worked the land on the far edges of civilisation in arable fields next to a large, wooded forest. With few children around and even fewer that could be named friends, Lessbelle spent a lot of time playing in the woods, with what was believed to be her imaginary friend Mr Tumble. Despite never having been seen by anyone but Lessbelle, Mr Tumble was in fact just as real as anyone else and was by chance a fey creature of rather pleasant countenance who enjoyed imaginative games and trickster illusions, much to Lessbelle’s delight. Lessbelle and Mr Tumble enjoyed many an adventure in those woods, in both her world and his, with the apparent separation between the two ever less noticeable as time went on. Eventually as she grew older Mr Tumble knew it would not be long before the childish innocence that he loved in her would begin to fade and so, after one tearful afternoon Mr Tumble wished Lessbelle goodbye. However, before he departed he placed his thumb on Lessbelle’s forehead and imparted a little of his magic as payment for the magic she had brought him and so began Lessbelle’s journey as a Wild Magic sorcerer.

Always a little bit of an outsider, as both a dreamer and a half breed, local folk were weary of Lessbelle and even more so as random acts of unusual emotional magics occurred around her and her teenage years. A weariness that came to a crescendo after a violent altercation between a local and her father occurred during an argument over Lessbelle and her unusual nature. Not wishing to bring harm or anger to her household for circumstances she found difficult to explain she decided it was for the best if she leave and set out on her own. Leaving a note for her Mother explaining that she had left and that she hoped they could be happy without her. How was it that she was a sorcerer and what did it mean to be one. Lessbelle sought adventure to find herself so that she may return to her family one day a truer version of herself.

### Joining the Adventurer's Guild

After a short few years hopping between farmsteads, towns and small cities, Lessbelle had grown weary of hovels, stable floors, cold nights and even wearier of the strange and nosey folk that came with them. Increasingly considering life as a Hermit, after struggling to find anywhere to fit in, she heard of an Adventurers Guild in the East Ridings after a couple of nights bartering food for lodgings in Nottermar. No short distance away, Lessbelle set off on foot for Otha’s Rest, before picking up rides on travelling caravans in exchange for providing campfires and help hunting small creatures in the woods to eat. Having spent a number of years in and out of forests, despite being no archer of renown, she had the requisite skills to catch the odd rabbit or two. Eventually landing in Otha’s Rest, tired and alone, she entered the guild to seek work, but was all the more interested in seeking friends, adventures and other magical folk who wouldn’t judge her solely for having powers she herself could barely control. Thankfully, the guild wasn’t fussy, apparently taking on any and all to be thrown to the wolves, or dragons or shadow portals or whatever the danger of the week was and so began Lessbelle’s career of adventuring.

### Adventuring Life

Thrown in at the deep end, Lessbelle has fought Dragons (well halflings, shadows and kobolds), wild dogs, evil jellies, zombies, necromancers, rats, spiders, automatons, thugs and all manner of nasty thing, but nothing annoys her more than smart mouthed members of the Teaque Family. Learning quickly to fight from the back and help others to despatch guild foes, she has become increasingly more confident in her abilities. She's also been humbled a few times too and learnt to appreciate her powers, while longing to help others more with healing. This longing, desire and devotion to Elven and Fey watchers and helpers, has seen her grow in love for Rillifane Rallathil, while never forgetting Mr Tumble. Lessbelle hopes she can continue to save the innocent, protect the weak, help those in need and shut the mouth of the odd Teaque or two, while harmlessly causing some mischief along the way.

## Spellcasting

Lessbelle uses an Bloodwell Vial as a Spellcasting focus, placing a few drops of her own blood in it to boost her spellcasting power

### Spells

**Cantrips**

* Create Bonfire
* Fire Bolt
* Mage Hand
* Message
* Minor Illusion
* Eldritch Blast
* Light
* Mind Sliver
* Sacred Flame

**1st Level Spell**

* Bane
* Chaos Bolt
* Silvery Barbs
* Sleep
* Guiding Bolt
* Cure Wounds

**2nd Level Spells**

* Mirror Image
* Misty Step
* Tasha's Mind Whip

**3rd Level Spells**

* Slow

## Lessbelle's Mission Log

* 07/01/2022 – A Shadowfell of a Doubt
* 14/01/2022 – The Dragon Emperor Cornered
* 04/02/2022 – A Fort Story
* 03/03/2022 – Auditions Part 2! Continuing in Mourn
* 14/04/2022 – The Teaques / Who is E.D.G.A.R
* 06/05/2022 – Level 2-5 game (The Jellies)
* 10/06/2022 – Zombie Crew
* 27/09/2022 – Pidgeon Return
* 13/12/2022 – A Grey Day
* 03/01/2023 – Vengeance Is Best Served Cold
* 17/01/2023 – A Long Voyage
* 31/01/2023 – Who Raided Billy Bugg’s Warehouse?
* 10/02/2023 - A Magical Request
* 13/02/2023 - The Lost Swords
* 13/03/2023 - A Suitable Candidate
* 03/04/2023 - The Test of Friends
* 04/04/2023 - Rabbit Hunt
* 06/04/2023 - Balro Lodrant's Travelling Show
* 11/04/2023 - Drok and Disorderly
* 25/04/2023 - Going Postal

## **Lessbelle's Diary**

### **07/01/2022 – A Shadowfell of a Doubt**

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> Leaving my family and joining an Adventurers Guild is scary. I really hope my parents are ok. I arrived and I don't think anyone noticed, but I have no idea what I'm doing, they all seemed more concerned with their own problems, which was a relief. Though, there was this one guy who was nice to everyone, who made sure everyone got what they needed, he even got this half orc lady a knife and fork, I think his name was Arctos, I guess he needed some help with this portal he was particularly concerned about. It was a good thing he was concerned about this portal too, cos this horsey looking guy came in and started bossing everyone around, he was very rude, but I think it's because he's rich and rich people can be very greedy and mean. Anyway, I guess if he hadn't of been concerned, then maybe we wouldn't have saved those people.
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> We all set off together, south, to this portal, everyone seemed very confident in their abilities, even I felt like we made a pretty strong outfit. We came across this caravan with all these poor dead horses, I don't like to see dead animals, but I guess this is going to be happening a lot more now and I'll have to get used to it. Anyway, these horses had these nasty bogles hiding in them, up to their usual trickery and this time they'd gotten a taste for teeth. Vicious little bogles they were too, trying to attack everyone in sight, I don't like those nasty little things, so I put them to sleep while all the brave warriors stabbed them to death. There was this other sorcerer there too, Vestra, all dark and mysterious and he spoke Sylvan too, interrogating the last bogle before we killed him too. I think he's probably been to more shadowlands than fae forests though. I hope whoever left those horses behind managed to get away and didn't die.
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> Then we headed through the darkness, I was worried at first, but everyone else didn't seem to be very scared of the dark and some of them can't even see that well in the dark. That's probably why that scorpion thing managed to sneak up on us, even though it was huge. All those silly men drinking and singing round a fire, in the middle of a dark forest, no wonder one of them died. I hope that silly man with the antlers wasn't late for his wedding and didn't make his bride cry. Anyway, that scorpion wasn't large for long that Vestra man made it all small and the half orc lady really big and scary, actually maybe just really big, I think she was probably already really scary.
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> Finally we made it to the portal, this big black scary mass that spewed forth a dragon and these scary shadow men. I nearly ran away, but everyone else was really brave and went running in, actually this Tiefling guy called Jackal flew in! and Arctos made this brilliant light and went marching on towards the portal. I guess he wanted to make sure that no one else was going to get hurt by that portal. Between Arctos and Jackal they got all their lights out, which was funny cos I didn't know tieflings were particularly fond of the light and masked guys are usually baddies. I didn't really do much and I think Vestra might have saved me at one point from one of those shadow men, but before I knew it that portal was destroyed, and the sun came out. Phew. I think I'm going to have to get a lot stronger if I'm going to survive all this adventuring. I'm glad everyone else was big and strong, hopefully I'll see them all again.
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> ### **14/01/2022 – The Dragon Emperor Cornered**
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> These Guild members are crazy! Fighting black portals and dragons, they all must think they're invincible, a halfling and a few hobgoblins indeed! It's a good thing they all think they're invincible otherwise I'd probably be dead, instead they seem particularly content trying to find new and novel ways to get themselves killed.
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> So, I met this guy called Sacrelik who's half man and half dragon and being half of something, is something I know plenty about. I suppose if I was a man and I was half of something I would probably pick dragon too. So, this Sacrelik guy has some kind of destiny across time and space blood feud with this halfling guy, except he's not a halfling he's a flippin dragon and a nasty one at that too. Anyway, so we went on this mission to find the Dragon Emperor even though I've never met him or heard anything about him before, but these guys wanted my help and they were going through this Elven forest town and I do like the forest, so I said I'd go. I think the Elder Elf was surprised to see me with this rag tag bunch from the guild, but as grumpy as they seem they were very hospitable as usual. I felt a lot better after staying there and Arctos found this really pretty leaf, which he left as an offering to Rallathil, which I think brought us good luck, if nearly dying can be considered luckier than actually dying.
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> Then we had to climb this huge mountain, and well I'm glad Sacrelik is strong, otherwise I'd never of gotten up there, cos I'm only small and that mountain was huge. After that, that's where all the trouble started, a bunch of Hobgoblins saw through our ruse and Vestra went from being the Dragon Emperor to being chased all through the darkness by these angry Hobgoblins, I think he likes the darkness though, so it probably felt like more of a game to him. He was also really nice and cast mage armour on me too, just to keep me safe, I think he pretends to be darker and more mysterious than he really is. Thankfully we beat those hobgoblins up good and they didn't last very long, but they did bang that gong which warned everyone inside the cave.
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> After that it all got a bit silly. A bunch of ogres and hobgoblins pretending to be draconic came out chanting some nonsense in the cave and so we fought them too, Sacrelik took a bit of a pummelling from that ogre but then Arctos went all beaming light again and we finished them off pretty quick. After that Sacrelik and Arctos tried resting, but this cocky halfling dressed as a draconic guy came in and put an end to that. Before we knew it, he turned into a dragon and started trying to kill everyone. Arctos was really brave and kept running around shouting stuff at the dragon, which is probably why the dragon tried to kill him, nearly did too if it wasn't for this satsuma Sacrelik had in his pocket, I didn't know the satsumas round here were that good, I wish someone had got me one for Christmas. Anyway, I was blasting that dragon with everything I had, but nothing was working cos he was really powerful and he just kept shrugging everything off. So, I tried the spell that keeps getting me out of trouble, I didn't even know if you could send a dragon to sleep, but I tried it and it worked, he fell out of the sky and landed on his head. Not that it killed him, but it certainly slowed him down. Gave Arctos enough time to finally kill him, before Sacrelik made sure and smashed that halflings head to pieces, I guess he was really angry cos the dragon had just tried to kill him. So then he puts on the Dragon Emperors ring and bam, he's a dragon too, although thankfully not a nasty one, cos he didn't start trying to kill everyone like the last guy, well not yet at least, let's hope he learns how to be a nice dragon instead.
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> I suppose the important thing is that we're all alive, maybe I should go thank Rallathil when I have the time.
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> ### **04/02/2022 – A Fort Story**
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> I don't know who this Reginald Beefington fella thinks he is, ordering us around and treating us like his personal servants while lining his pockets with gold from the pockets of the local people, but it won’t be long until folk start hating the guild cos he's a mean old coin guzzler. Anyway, we delivered his package of food, if you can call it that, but the real problem was all those pesky swarms eating up all the poor people's crops. We took care of them, but not before they caused me and all the other guild members a bunch of mischief. It's so hard to aim at those swarms, they just won’t sit still, well not until you put them to sleep anyway.
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> I think a bit of local pest control, was a bit more my pace after all these shadow portals and dragons and guild members passing out unconscious every five minutes. Problem was, the cause of all this pestilence was this mean angry hyena monster with these beady glowing eyes that had made the local soldiers fort its new home. I was a bit worried when we got to the fort all these hyenas running about everywhere, but Arctos was his usual brave self running in and making himself the centre of attention as usual, I think he thinks he's on a one man mission to bring light to all the dark places. It's probably all that heavy armour and his shield that makes him so confident though, I'm always really worried about getting hit, but if i were big enough to wear a suit of metal, I'd probably be a bit less worried.
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> Willow was there too, she's never worried about anything, she's always too busy trying to eat everything, like we were at some carnival and she was doing a tour of all the bbq stands. It didn't help that Nykykon kept skewering everything with his arrows turning everything into some sort of meat kebab. Anyway, after we'd bbq'd all these hyenas, we finally made it to the one with the scary eyes, I think he was trying to paralyze everyone, but thankfully I'm kind of luckier than normal people and so he didn't get me while I was trying to aim at him. Thankfully we killed him too, cos Arctos ended up unconscious on the floor again. I don't know any healing, so it was good that Jackal had one of those healers kits to stabilise him. I wonder if he'll decide to keep that crazy hat he found that made his eyes all glowy too.
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> I feel a bit more confident fighting everything now, especially with all the other guild members there, I hope they think I'm helpful and I hope all those peoples crops grow back and the children don't starve or anything. I suppose it wasn't all bad though, now I have this new cloak that's all swooshy and it flaps about like I have all this magical power. \*booming voice staring in the mirror 'I'm a mighty powerful wizard rargghh' hehehe. I do wonder why anyone would give one of these away though, let alone 5!
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> ### **03/03/2022 – Auditions Part 2! Continuing in Mourn**
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> There was a carnival and a play, it all looked very exciting. They were casting for roles too, but I was a bit too scared to audition. Vestra on the other hand was fully committed to performing in the play, I had no idea he was so theatrical, he always seems so dark and shadowy. Anyway Cecilia, the lady running the whole show had asked the guild to fetch stage supplies from this man called Edgar in Gandern, I’ve never been to Gandern, so it was nice to go on a little trip with Willow, Jackal and Vestra. What could go wrong, no dragons, no shadow portals, just a nice little road trip. Me and Vestra mostly rode in the back while Willow looked after the horses and drove the cart, with Jackal keeping watch like he does.
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> We camped out over night by the side of the road, I like camping and I got to go hunt some rabbits with Willow in the woods for dinner. Otha’s Rest and the guild are nice, but I much prefer being out in the woods.
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> The next day we rode out again, but there was this fallen tree in the road causing all this commotion. Willow has really big muscles, so she got down and lifted the thing cos she’s really strong, Vestra went to help, but I think he was just there to show support, cos he’s not really any bigger than me.
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> Eventually we made it into Gandern pretty late, but the tavern was still open and everyone in the town seemed to be there. Jackal bought all the drinks and food, cos he’s really nice, or maybe cos he’s also mr moneybags. That’s where we met Edgar, or the Edgars, I’m not really sure, there was five of them, who were all really drunk, but there was also kind of one of them, I think Edgar is magical, but they were really nice, so they’re probably the nice kind of magical, not the mean kind of magical. Everything in the bar was also really magical, things cleaned themselves and plates and glasses floated everywhere, it was nice to be in a place with a lot of magic peoples and for no one to be getting angry and fighting about it. I spoke to this nice lady who ran the place, I think she liked my billowy cape, so she gave me a blanket, which was really kind cos I think the fires go out when she goes to sleep.
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> The next day we got up to go to Edgar’s Ageless Emporium to load up the cart and we were all eating breakfast when Willow comes in from sleeping in the cart overnight, she so brave, and starts challenging these muscley gnomes called Arne and Schwarz to an arm wrestle, she’s so silly, but she’s also really strong and beat them both, but she’s also really nice cos she let one of them win one, so they didn’t feel so bad.
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> Then we went to Edgar’s shop and I thought I might have to do some carrying and lifting but the Edgar’s did it all for us, all of the stuff was pretty normal, but they gave us this really nice wooden bench, that’s supposedly really important which is why these teaque people really wanted it and so we had to watch out for them on the way back in case they tried to steal it. I dunno why anyone would care about a bench that much. Willow tried to make the cart less obvious, but Jackal bought the horses some carnival hats, so I guess we stood out like sore thumbs, Jackal can be silly sometimes too.
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> Willow did such a great job of driving the cart that I forgot all about the teaques and was busy enjoying the scenery on the way back with Vestra, looking at clouds and the trees, I guess Vestra likes pretty things too, it was just nice to be out on a trip. Thankfully Jackal was paying attention though and when we got back to the fallen tree, there were all these dirt piles that looked like the moles had been burrowing in the road. It all looked very suspicious, so I shot an arrow at one of the mounds and it sprung a trap, kablam. That’s when Jackal got shot by an arrow. Then all these tweed wearing angry woodsmen came out and started shouting about a wooden bench. I tried to get them to run, but they wouldn’t listen, so we had to kill a few of them, cos we’d promised Cecilia we would bring the bench back. Willow and Jackal were really brave and did all the fighting, Jackal kept tripping everyone over, while me and Vestra hid behind the cart for protection jumping out when we could to blast all the angry men. In the end one of them got away, the meanest one, but we let another one run and left one of them unconscious, but alive by the side of the road, cos I think they were paid mercenaries and not part of the family, they should get themselves new jobs. Hopefully, they know now not to come back now and that the bench isn’t worth it, even if it’s worth something to someone.
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> Cecilia seemed really pleased that we’d brought all the stuff back and Vestra was really excited to get his costume fitted, if only Jackal hadn’t chopped the head off his little wooden figurine by accident he’d probably be in charge of merchandise and be making all his money back.
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> I’m really glad my magic didn’t cause any mischief and this ended up being a nice trip even if we had to kill a few mean people. I get the feeling that my luck might not last forever though. Hopefully I’ll be lucky enough to see the Edgars again, they seemed like fun.
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> Poem for a gift of Rabbit Fur Handwarmers from Willow - The rabbit it did die / my wrists are warm as pie / my cloak it doth billow / when I see my friend Willow
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> ### **14/04/2022 – The Teaques / Who is E.D.G.A.R**
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> So off we went back on the road to Gandern to hunt those mean old Teaques down. Willow was kind enough to let me ride on her horse, so we got there real quick, Jackal and Arctos came too, although there was something funny about Arctos, he was all dark and moody and not his usual bright shiny self. We picked up the trail, from where the carriage had been ambushed and I grabbed Darren’s archaeology tools that were stuck on a broken wheel before we tracked down the abandoned carriage further down the road.
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> That’s when everything got crazy, first there was a guy hiding in a tree, then there was a huge house hiding in the tree, then there were hundreds of Teaques hiding in the house. The guild asked us if we could stop killing people and start arresting people instead, something about image problems, so we tried our best, but those Teaques are really really annoying, so it was really really hard. Williow managed to take most of their weapons from them, so me and Jackal got to tie a bunch of them up, but I think they really tried Arctos’s patience too much, so he tried to fry them with his hands, not very light of him!
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> We managed to arrest 5 of them, especially that Freddie Teaque, he’s the WORST one, but I think we might have killed one of them, which I might not mention to the clerk at the guild because I don’t think they’d be impressed and I didn’t see him die, so maybe he’s not dead. Darren also had this colleague called Sylas and we didn’t rescue him, cos we never saw him, so hopefully we can find them again, so we can get him back safely. Anyway, I hope they don’t hurt him cos I’m sure he hasn’t done anything to deserve it.
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> We didn’t see any of the gunpowder the Teaques were supposed to have stolen, or this fancy vase, I hope Jasper from the play isn’t mad, cos I really would like to be a T-rex in the play rarrgh.
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> ### **06/05/2022 – Level 2-5 game (The Jellies)**
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> I'm starting to think that maybe I'm not a great person. All this fighting shadows and dragons must have gone to my head, cos Beefington called me in to the guild and I really did mean to be on time, but sitting beneath my tree outside the guild as I so often do, I fell asleep. Which is why, when I was sent off to help the other guild members I was so late. Something about ill children at the fair, anyway, that's not what it looked like when I arrived. 3 guilty looking guild members and a bunch of dead gnoll children is what I found and a rather mouthy adult gnoll who'd have been plenty at home in the Teaques.
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> So, there they were Sikander this giant barbarian and Barry this tiny rogue with Chase the Paladin, who as usual was hitting first and asking questions later. Needless to say that big gnoll talked himself into a quick grave. I really had hoped to be responsible for a bit less death, after that encouragement from the guild clerks to arrest a few more villains, rather than killing them all on sight.
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> Anyway, I found some tracks to lead us back to that sneaky old halfling who'd been handing out jellies, to not only children, but to me and Sikander as well, I really do like sweets, but those jellies were anything but delicious. I'm used to turning different colours by accident, but sickly yellow really isn't my colour.
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> So, we found him, in his cave with a bunch of jelly people and these giant blobs. I was trying to be smart and think up a good plan and stealth in, but Chase likes vengeance and is pretty no nonsense and so before I knew it, it was casting time, well it would have been if a giant jelly hadn't fallen from the ceiling and swallowed me and Sikander up!
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> Eurghhh Jellies are gross and Jelly gods even grosser. If I followed a god it certainly wouldn't be made of jelly. I was hoping to find a way to make all the jellies stop, but unfortunately making the jelly wizard sleep and killing the mean old halfling didn't stop them, so we had to do a bunch of blasting and slashing, or well bludgeoning as it happened to turn them all back into lifeless ooze. We made it out of there alive, even if covered in slime and thankfully we managed to help out all the ill children, so I suppose some good was done. I do wish maybe I hadn't been so trigger happy though, it's hard when there's jellies attacking you from everywhere though.
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> Maybe I should go to the temple in Fymdell and see what the Elvish gods have to say about all this. I might have to ask them some questions about the fey too, cos I've been feeling all weird recently and occasionally just disappearing and reappearing like 60ft away. This magic stuff is all pretty weird, but then so are most things these days.
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> ### **10/06/2022 – Zombie Crew**
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> Arghh late again, the other guild members had to come and find me, I'm so so bad at timekeeping. Thankfully what I am good for though is shouting at lazy incompetent towns guards even if I can be a bit rude. It did speed things up though, otherwise it would have took forevvvver to find that stinky necromancers hideout. We met this little kid called Andy though, I think he'll probably be a future adventurer if he keeps up his sword practice and doesn't get killed before he's big. Anyway, that stinky necromancer stole his mum, as well as a lot of other mums in the town, so I vowed to get her back for him, so long as he stayed safe at home.
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> Eventually we found his cave and usually I'm the one who sticks at the back while all the other guild members go smashing through the front door, but Fizz, Barry and Nykkon seemed even more scaredy cat than me! So I put my pretend brave face on and led the way in and I think this encouraged Nykky, cos he went from hiding at the back with his bow and arrow to charging to the front with his sword and shield.
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> Even Fizz got involved, dancing around the front lines, dodging this way and that, while I blasted from the back, those zombies really don't like to go down though do they. Once we got through to the last door, everyone wanted to take a rest and in fairness they had all taken more damage than me, but I was pretty worried about Andy's mum, so I took a look through the keyhole and there was all kinds of chanting and weird magical stuff going on, so I suggested we try sneaking in.
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> It was all going well, even big ol Nykky crept in, but then Barry must of tripped on something, cos that stinky Necromancer was suddenly aware we were all there and he didn't look to happy about us crashing in on his weird chanting party. It was a pretty open room, so Fizz made this chest for Barry to hide behind and I got to blasting while Nykky charged in like a lion getting all up in the necromancers face. Then the stinky necromancer starts turning the mums into these angry ghost things, so I thought I better start waking them up before they couldn't be woken up no more. In the end after one too many crossbow bolts to the chest, Barry finally put that evil maniac down and we managed to save 4 out of the 6 mums, which is better than none I suppose, but I felt really sad for the other two. I guess it was good that we saved Andy's mum though, cos I said we would and they looked so happy to be reunited.
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> We found these soul coins on the necromancer's body and apparently you can use them to avoid dying, which makes me feel bad, cos I couldn't save those mums from dying, so I might head out to Fymdell and see if I can pray for them or something to see if that helps them now they're on the other side.  I do hope they'll be ok, considering.
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> ### **27/09/2022 – Pidgeon Return**
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> Take some pigeons back to the North Warren they said, I knew it wasn’t going to be that simple, never is with this guild. After picking up the pigeons we set out on our journey, well I say we, I mostly slept. It was nice to have such a long rest, all this adventuring malarky gets pretty tiring and I’m of little use reading maps and marshalling horses anyway. The journey took forrrrreevvvvverrr though. I thought I might die of boredom, or from overeating all the honey that Master Marrius the bird man gave us, I didn’t die, but one of the pigeons did, after we failed to feed it for several days… we had one job! Anyyyway, the group banded together and got us to our destination, Andar and Bearhugger managing the horses, Todon bringing his pony and Nykky befriending the pigeons, it meant I could get some decent sleep when I wasn’t scaring away goats, talking to pipe smoking adventurers or getting woken up by nasty little scorpions.
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> Well, we finally got to the North Warren to find they’d been doing an awful job of looking after the place. Full of mighty wizards, experienced adventurers and soldiers aplenty, but somehow, they’d been overrun by some tiny kobolds and a MIGHTYYY DRAGOONN. I’m not scared of anything that claims to be mighty anymore, it rarely is, it’s always some halfling in disguise or some tiny kobold pretending he’s bigger than he really is, great big fusses over nothing.
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> Well, we tried being stealthy as usual, but within the first minute of entering the cave, we’d set off the traps and rung all the bells, dunno why we bother, we might as well run into every place screaming and banging till the Mighty Dragon in disguise comes out of hiding, so we can just bosh it on the nose and have done with it. Needless to say, the cave was full of Kobolds, probably just trying to find a new place to live, unfortunately for them they picked the wrong place to set up their new home and so between my spells, bearhuggers bearcub, Andar’s sword, Todon’s crossbow and Nykky’s sword and shield we made short work of all the creatures inside. By the end I mostly felt sorry for them, they just don’t know any better, but they really should pick uninhabited caves to expand into.
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> Hopefully all the surviving women and children will tell stories to all the other Kobolds and finally they might learn, and I’ll be able to get back to stopping nasty beasts and evil mages, instead of pretend dragons. Sometimes, I just wish I was helping more people with my powers, like I could heal people or make them feel better or persuade them to be less mean, cos wouldn’t it be nice if everyone could just be friends.
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> ### **13/12/2022 – A Grey Day**
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> Apparently, some of the guild members needed to return a book to some lord or Earl or something, I'm not sure why that requires guild members, but I guess every road in the east ridings can be a bit treacherous.
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> Apparently, this Brooke bond man sells tea, though I rather think he does a lot more than sell tea if you ask me, but I did like his cat Mr Tips. Anyway, he has a magical cart, oh and a dog named Typhoo and a suspicious friend too. I guess that suspicious friend helps the cart through weird places, but we were told not to look out of the cart or sing. I was pretty sure I'd end up looking out of the cart, but when Mr Bond told me it was the feywild outside, I thought better of it, funny stuff happens in that place and you do have to be really careful.
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> Anyway, we got to Brook rising and Mr bond gave people some tea samples, it kept everyone alert, but we also alerted a bear and it got angry, so we had to fight it. Must've angered some dusty ghosts too, cos they tried to get us as well. I guess that's why couriers rarely take important books anywhere.
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> In all the commotion this mist took Dacen and I wasn't really sure what to do about that, I don't really know how you fight mist, but Fizz suggested shooting an arrow tied with rope at Dacen, I tried but it was a really hard shot and I hit a bird instead by accident. Poor bird.
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> After all that we had to stomp up some hill to find Dacen, I don't like hills, they're too much hard work. Anyway, we found him, or well we heard him, as he was playing some tune on his flute, so it couldn't have been all that bad. He'd been imprisoned by some Gnome who called himself the Ice King or some other silly name. I didn't trust him, but he seemed to know stuff about the book and shadows, so we had to listen to him. Before you knew it, I'm touching books and everything's going all sepia. Bosu nearly lost his mind it was all that weird.
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> Anyway, we found this spot where you're supposed to put the book back, but as we approached it these angry dogs turned up. They weren't friendly like typhoo, they were mean and tried to eat me and Fizz. I tried telling it to stop, but it wasn't listening very much, thankfully Bosu, Andar and Dacen didn't waste any time putting them down.
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> Afterwards we put the book back, then we were suddenly in the normal world outside Earl Grey's house. He's got this funny little Goblin helper who let us in, to put the real book back. Caught Fizz stealing too, which is naughty cos Fizz is usually all about rules and good stuff, maybe all the weird stuff got too much for him. Earl Grey did offer us this mechanical arm, but to be honest I'm rather attached to the arms I already have thank you very much.
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> Anyway, book delivered it was time to go home, I could do with a nap after that, though I can't help feeling like the Gnome fella might be back.
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> ### **03/01/2023 – Vengeance Is Best Served Cold**
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> Where are all the clever Wizards when you need one. Books, seasonal spirits, the feywild, magic trolls and sneaky thiefs. My head was practically spinning by the end.
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> Anyway, this magic little squirrel turned up at the guild, well I say little, he was nearly as tall as me. Maltravers he said his name was, and he was so cute, I practically stopped listening as soon as he started speaking, such was my urge to scritch him all over his furry head.
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> He did say something about that icy Gnome being the spirit of winter and there being other spirits than needed rescuing from other planes or something and one trapped in the feywild, so we had to go back to Earl Grey's in order to jump to the feywild with a magic twig. Or something like that, again I wasn't entirely sure what was going on.
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> Then poof, we were near Earl Grey's, thanks to this teleportation circle. Then poof and there's a big angry troll, arghhhhh. So I poofed myself away from the thing and someone said something about fire, so I tried burning the troll which worked, but then another troll came and he was fire proof. It was all very confusing. Thankfully we killed both trolls, but then Fizz tried healing the troll, I think this was his first time meeting trolls. I mean I usually just run, but you've gotta be brave to be in the guild.
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> With the trolls gone, we went up to the Chapel at the back of Earl Grey's and it had all this fancy stained glass in it, with all these funny pictures of fancy fey folk. That's where we decided to jump into the feywild using this special twig Maltravers gave us.
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> That's when we met this goblin who said he was called the guide, except he was awful at directions, so I stole his ball and threw it away. So he stole my coin purse, not that I realised till later, Mr Tumble always told me never to trust fey creatures, anyway I got it back in the end, which was good, otherwise I might’ve got myself into another fight.
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> So off we went till we found the Chapel again, but suddenly there were all these quick little people running about stabbing people and stealing our compass. They were really fast and deadly, so I thought it best to put them all to sleep. I did manage to put them all to sleep and get the compass back, but I wasn't fast enough and one of them killed Todon inside the Chapel. I liked that little forest Gnome, I'm sad he's gone, maybe if I knew some healing then maybe I could have saved him.
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> We killed all those little monsters and then we had to head in to Earl Grey's fey mansion in order to return this book or so the compass seemed to suggest, I'm not sure how this compass worked exactly, it didn't exactly have directions on it.
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> But these two leafy knights didn't want to let us in and one of them made me really small, all I was trying to do was knock, the big meanys. So, we tried burning and hurting them too. For the third fight in a row, everyone was dropping like flies, which is why I like to keep really far back. By the end I was exhausted, I barely had any magic left in me, but at least no one died this time.
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> So we returned the book and rescued the leaf Lord of summer. He didn't even say thank you, barely even acknowledged our presence. I tell you, being a hero isn't what you think it is, you put your life on the line for like 100gold and people don't even say thank you.
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> Anyway, we gathered up Todons body to take back to the guild, I'm not sure where he was from though, he did talk about the fey a lot, maybe he would have preferred staying there. I drew a picture of him in my book, so I don't forget him.
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> ### **17/01/2023 - A LONG VOYAGE**
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> Owwhwww my head hurts. My advice, don't start drinking with a bunch of space pirates, ahem, sailors and end up falling asleep in their space boat. I'd never seen a hippo drink before, I couldn't help myself but get drawn in. Just one more they said and blam, nothing but black until pow, banging headache in the hull of some floaty space boat. After trying to sleep it off, I finally got up and had a wander about. Saw the boat docked by some asteroids, I've never seen space, never mind been in it! Saw Nykkon making his way off the boat, which I thought was strange so jumped off to see what was going on.
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> Bearhugger, Nykkon, Fizz and this new Kobold guy named Trinn, were there looking for some dwarves, so I ran up and surprised them. Before you knew it rats everywhere, no dwarves, but plenty of rats. I tried slowing them down and blasting them, but to be honest my head was all over the place, I nearly threw up there and then. Was so distracted I didn't even notice them chewing up Fizz till he fell over. After that I tried to protect him a bit better, I figured he'd be fine given he's partial to eating a few rats.
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> Anyway, rats dead, we found this cold storage room, I nearly had to take another lie down. Then these angry fire people were chucking lots of stuff about in the forge. I tried to tell em to stop it, but they weren't listening, no matter how much I screamed in their heads. In the end we just had to kill them. At least one of them anyway, until the others tried to run.
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> Lesson learned, don't drink with hippos, pirates or sailors, you never know what might happen, but it'll probably be bad. Eurghhh I'm off to find a bath house to relax.
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> ### **31/01/2023 - Who Raided Billy Buggs Warehouse?**
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> We met this furry guy called Billy Bugg and well he'd had all his stuff stolen from his warehouse, cos he doesn't keep very good security. He said it was all non magical, cos all his magical stuff was locked away somewhere safe. He was like oh, its dice and toys and fishing rods and stuff. I was struggling to care, but then he said they took all his bows and arrows and I thought I'd probably be mighty annoyed if someone took my bow, so I decided we better find his stuff.
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> Anyway, they burrowed up through his floor and left this giant hole, so we climbed in and set off underground. Got attacked by these rats, which wasn't all that bad, but we must've made too much noise cos all these beetles turned up. Luckily, we killed everything before it became a problem.
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> Same could not be said of all these nasty spidermen and their spiderqueen, they were not friendly at all, Skamos even tried to reason with them, but they were all very stabby. We were all dropping like flies, which is kinda funny really with them being spidermen. Thankfully all the others know loads of healing and I'm kinda lucky, so we all survived. But, it was pretty rough, I wasn't sure we were all gonna make it. By the time it finished I was tired and angry.
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> I needed a breather, but where we stopped Skamos leant on this wall and almost fell through it. There was this weird Drow guy behind it, talked all funny about his master, had a bunch of Bugg enterprise boxes too, but said it was the dark dwarves who'd stole em and he was just taking payment for crossing their territory. Anyway he gave us two choices, go back to the spiders, which no one wanted to do, or owe him a favour, I think I'd of rather took my chances with the spiders, but Dacen was feeling reckless and so took this dragon tattoo. Rallathil knows what trouble he's gonna get himself into.
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> I was sad not to have got Billy's stuff back, but he didn't seem too bothered, seems like we'd got enough evidence to get Billy his insurance money. I guess that's how business works. He was pleased enough that he got this imp guy to let us take a magic item from this catalogue. I took this fairy stone thing that looked real pretty, apparently it's for good luck. Maybe it was worth it after all. Seemed silly nearly dying for a bunch of boxes of stuff.
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> ### **10/02/2023 - A Magical Request**
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> Beefington is getting stingier and stingier with his details these days, you'd think they were gold coins the way he treats them, he barely set foot in the meeting room this time. Mighty Wizard, missing butler, a place called Wildevale, suspicious message, that was it. Not a lot to go on. I wasn't really sure where it was, but there was a map and Master Sharian showed me how to use the teleportation obelisks. I tried to picture Deepriver and I got us there.
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> Sad place Deepriver, there were lots of refugees about, too many to help properly, I figured if we sorted out whatever mess it was hopefully, they'd all get to go home, quicker than helping them all out individually. Some man who was selling a lot of random goods out of his coat pointed us to a coach to Wildevale, so we went and waited for it. Everyone was getting very excited about 'danger' on the road, but I was tired from teleporting us to Deepriver so took a nap in the back of the coach, if anything important happens usually someone will wake you up.
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> Got to Wildevale, what a mess. People being forced from their homes, someone stealing everybody's books, the Wizard's family dead and gone crazy by all accounts, very evasive copperguards who all thought they were very important. It was all very confusing and no one wanted to give anyone a straight answer about anything. It was making Creed, Aloissius and Skamos kind of angry, I thought someone was going to start stabbing someone if I didn't butt in. Helping people isn't as straightforward as you think, so I convinced this captain named Monty to let me see the butler, who was the copperguard's 'guest'.
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> They had this anti magic tower that they were hiding in, good protection from Wizards I suppose, but they were all acting kind of fishy. Told me the butler was called Martin, then got out this bird that looked like a sort of pidgeon, said this was the butler. I nearly walked straight out of this nonsense, birds don't make tea or carry trays, but then I remembered Wizards are pretty powerful and can turn things into other things, so I asked the bird some questions. In the end it was just easier to go to the Wizard's Manor and check it out cos no one anywhere seemed like they were telling the truth.
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> We got followed by some copperguards which was weird, but they thought better of it and we told them to go home. Broke into the Manor by climbing up to the top floor, that was full of magical items, everyone picked something up, some of it was good I suppose, I mean it was a bit like stealing, but I figured no one would be going back in here. After looking about, the only major thing we found was a dining room with lots of poisoned food, but there were no bodies, but there was this weird fey vacuum chest that Skamos nearly opened, I told him it probably wasn't a good idea, so he left it.
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> Anyway, we went downstairs and got attacked by the kitchen. Wizard's are so weird, never healing anyone but making their pots and pans come to life, someone ought to start vetting the people they let into wizard schools cos they're all crazy. I did my best to try and damage all the kitchen stuff and this weird cat dog thing that turned up. To be honest I don't know what was going on, it was a total nightmare, but everyone survived. Thankfully Grrder was there and he's like a bunch of pots and pans that someone made into a Gnome, but like the good kind of pots and pans that feed people and keep everyone happy. I bet he's made of the pots and pans that came from a really good kitchen.
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> After getting the evidence and taking it to the copperguards they gave us the bird and said we could take it to the Wizard, so we tried taking the bird to the Wizard in the keep. It wasn't a bird though, nor was it a butler instead it was a lady assassin who killed the wizard and then said she was from the guild. She was wearing guild clothing, but I didn't recognise her. Anyway, we agreed to take her into custody. Maybe this was one of those key details Beefington conveniently forgot to mention. What a headache and far too many dead for my liking, someone better have a good explanation for all this.
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> ### **13/02/2023 - The Lost Swords**
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> Arghhhh, late again, there's something wrong with me, I'm never on time for anything and I never mean to be late. Oh, I'm such a liability. Didn't seem to miss much though and everyone was talking all posh, except this new Kenku who was mimicking me, she's pretty funny.
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> So, this fancy man turns up, being all weird like those moneyed people are. Turns out Aloissius is a giant mr moneybags, or son of moneybags the third or whatever and has annoying servants and stuff, servants so old they practically turn to dust just trying to talk.
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> Someone said something about swords though, which peaked Aloissius's interest just enough to stop him looking at himself in the mirror for 5 seconds and actually begin to take charge. Anyway, he asked us to go help him retrieve his family swords and well I had nothing better to do anyway, so I said I'd join everyone. Creak looked just as uninterested as me, but it's good she came along cos she's handy in a dark spot.
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> Hamer took us to Hollyhead and we got to drink and dance with all the sailors and pirates, which Aloissius must have enjoyed cos he got naked and everything. Even the Dragon Wizard got more drunk than he wanted too. One of the sailors offered to paint me a tattoo, but I said I'd think about it and come back to him when I hadn't been drinking, not that I was drinking, but I don't know about needles and painting myself.
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> The next day we all went off tracking these giant footsteps, they were huge, but I'd have still probably missed them if it wasn't for Creak. Found these ugly grey dwarves near a cave and saw this scary black cat, well for a second anyway cos it disappeared. I've got this new friend in a bag toy that I bought, so I used it and the happy man came out, cos I got that big laughing dog again. He's such a good boy.
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> So, we all ran in the cave and everyone was chanting and being weird, so I tried to get everyone sticky with molasses and slow them all down. Really messed up their rhythm. Gave Aloissius chance to try and grab the swords, but I think there was something wrong with them, cos he didn't look right good after touching them. Happy man kept us safe though distracting the giant, happy man's a big dog, but that giant was huuuuuge, he was nearly as big as a dragon.
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> I think in the end we got lucky and the giant's so stupid he started eating the dwarves. Luckily I think that cat got away, hopefully it goes somewhere nicer away from all this nonsense. Anyway, Aloissius grabbed the swords and we got out of there.
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> I went back to that sailor and I don't really like tattoos, but I've been real sad since Todon died and I've been wanting to get something to remember him by. So, I got a tattoo of his face and it's like all magical, cos the sailor made it so that it can cast revivify one time. So maybe the best way I can remember Todon is by saving somebody else's life with his face. I think that would be a nice thing to do.
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> The next night though was weird, I had all these weird dreams and Rallathil came to me and said something about helping people and being a guardian of the realms or some other important thing, it's all a bit hazy now. But, when I woke up in the morning, I suddenly felt a lot stronger, I was better with my bow and everything. So, I went and got this cool studded leather armour cos I'm like a badass servant of god now or something. Rarghh don't mess with me, cos I got Rallathil with me now. \*pulls mean face in the mirror
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> ### **13/03/2023 - A Suitable Candidate**
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> I'm not that sure about picking up missions on scraps of paper delivered by birds. I do wonder if there shouldn't be something more official. I'm not sure if it's just me, but I don't seem to be knowing what I'm doing anymore.
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> Anyway, some elf lady was looking into Beefington in Glimmergate, so we teleported there and went to this fancy bar, where the milk cost more than feeding a whole village for a week. How some of these people live is ridiculous, maybe that's why some people are bothered about corruption and politics and stuff.
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> So, after talking to some people we went to Beefington's Manor where he was holding some kind of ball. The security there was pretty poor to be honest, for somebody with guild members on his payroll he doesn't half employ some useless guards, though I hear they're not paid very well, so thats probably why. I convinced some guard we were there on official business, so we went into Beefington's office, only to find this elf lady ransacking Beefington's paperwork. Me and the new girl Polly Darton, I think she's called, chased after her, but the corruption must be spreading cos mostly everyone else took to stealing everything from Beefington's office.
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> So, we captured Isa and I got the paperwork back which had a lot of confusing numbers on it. To be honest I just want to be a hero and help people and this had all got a bit confusing and gone over my head. Saving children from monsters is a lot simpler than all this complicated numbers business.
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> This Isa lady wanted to investigate the ball, apparently there was some corruption she was interested in, and wouldn't come with us till we checked it out. I'd tried putting her to sleep a few times, but it hadn't worked and so it seemed simpler to check out the ball and I've never been to a ball before, so I was kind of curious.
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> Vestra is pretty clever, so he turned himself into Beefington and convinced the guards to let us in the Manor without invitations, so we got in and I went to go hide in the storeroom behind the kitchen. Aloissius must have been really rich before he joined the guild, cos he mostly likes making paid help feel inferior by being really mean to them, I mean the guards were pretty useless.
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> There was a lot of waiting around so I made friends with the staff and had some beer and cheese with them while they complained about working for Beefington. I told the head waiter man I was there to work, so he gave me a suit and I pretended to be a waitress handing out oderves? Or whatever they're called.
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> It looked like everyone else was trying to get down these stairs with guards on them, but there was these burgundy blazer people who like went downstairs to work, so eventually I went back through the kitchen downstairs, till we were all in this casino. Everyone was gambling and stuff, I think most people kind of forgot why we were there, but I guess they say gambling is kind of addictive. I just tried to stay incognito just in case.
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> I think everyone worked out there was a ledger with peoples names in and so they tried to steal it. It wasn't going well until Vestra cast darkness and all this commotion started, so I like teleported away and told everyone to follow me out the staff stairs back up into the kitchen. We all managed to get away and ran back to the office to get ourselves together before we took the ledger/evidence back to Othas Rest. In all the commotion though we forgot to take Isa with us, though if I was her I wouldn't want to be seen with us either.
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> What a palava. I don't really know what to do about it all. Hopefully the more experienced guild members know what to do, cos I don't.
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> ### **03/04/2023 -** **A Test of Friends**
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> I like birthday parties they're fun and I don't get to go to many, so I thought I'd braid my hair and stick a flower in it to look all fancy. Circe did the same, but she looked a lot prettier with all her fancy flowers.
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> We got to the hoighty toighty tavern where Aloissius had put on the first round of drinks for us, which was nice cos its sooooooo expensive in there. I don't usually drink much, but it was a party, so I tried this gold shot and it tasted like candy, so I drank a few, not as many as Skamos though, he's real silly, he drank loads and came in costume.
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> I got told off by the boss though, Beefington was real mad at me for being in his house from when we investigated the casino, he thinks I scribbled all over his desk, yikes. He's probably gonna be more mad if he finds out we snuck in again, but I did take the time to fix his desk. Not that I defaced it in the first place.
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> We went into the casino downstairs and everything was really quiet, except we found Aloissius in some torture closet. Creed tried to get him out of there fast, not that there was any rush, but when we turned around we were surrounded by pigmen. They shoulda squealed and run away, but they didn't or couldn't cos I stuck them all with molasses. They didn't do too good after that, though they did try get Skamos cos he was a super huge dragon and I think that scared them. Anyway, we blasted everyone dead, I think these guys probably deserved it. Then we got Aloissius out of there. I finally had chance to give him my present of a blood rose. I hope when he's not a wreck and nearly dead he enjoys it. Shame about the party though.
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> Suppose I better go see Beefington and take my telling off. I hope he's not super mean to me humpfff.
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> ### **04/04/2023 -** **A Rabbit Hunt**
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> I made my way to the guild to meet up with some of the others, but there was this giant pillow man there who was looking for help with an urgent mission. Apparently, someone had placed magic eggs around Otha’s Rest that were due to explode if we didn't find them. Only thing was, these eggs were invisible, except if you knew where to look for them.
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> Now I do love a good game, but I'm not really the best investigator, not of clues at least anyway. Turns out the first clue was a riddle and we all agreed it was probably the market, although it could have been the tavern, which was also very tempting to go to too.
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> We found the giant egg, but it was being guarded by these weird ordinary looking people who weren't very good at talking about anything but eggs. They attacked us, so as is the way these days we beat them in a fight. This gave Circe enough time to figure out there were fireworks in the magic egg and a hatch at the top and bottom of the egg for getting the fireworks out and defusing them. Market saved, we searched the bodies for more clues.
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> These clues were really tough and they didn't make any sense at all, I was close to giving up as they were impossible, but I'm really lucky and came upon the answer by chance, the next location was the abandoned mine. Except it wasn't abandoned, it was full of egg guarding maniacs again. So we beat them too before defusing the egg and finding some more clues.
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> This time the location was the old train station. To be honest I didn't know where half these places were and I live in Otha’s Rest, either I'm really unobservant or I need to get out some more and do some actual adventuring.
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> At the train station, Aloissius tried to reason with the egg guards and even convinced one to go home, but the others in the party were pretty restless and tried bashing a bunch of the others. I did say there was no talking to these people and turns out I might've been wrong, we probably should've tried tricking them all. Anyway Circe doesn't know a lot about fireworks and started throwing them around. I think she probably learnt her lesson though as the massive explosion singed all the flowers in her hair. Creed luckily doesn't mind fire too much and looked more toasty than burned.
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> We defused the two egg bombs here, but all the fire and explosions must have brought the attention of the Otha’s Rest fire safety inspectors as all these official looking officers arrived screaming about fire and so we all grabbed our stuff and ran like naughty teenagers. I hope in all the chaos we didn't miss any more clues or anymore egg bombs, otherwise some people are probably in a lot of trouble.
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> ### **06/04/2023 -** **Balro Lodrant's Travelling Show!**
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> Awwwwoohhoohh I don't feel so great, I don't think one person's supposed to eat so many doughnuts. It was probably the only thing that was keeping me awake the whole time though.
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> So, all the others suggested going to Greg's for breakfast, I've never been, so I said I'd go. There were all these colourful doughnuts, so I ordered 5, but Greg was nice and gave me 6. That's where all the trouble began. Then everyone wanted to go to this fair and I like fairs, so I said I'd go.
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> When we got there it was rubbish though, there was nothing on and no fun to be had, just these animals and metal people in cages that all looked sad. So, I ended up eating most of my doughnuts. There were a bunch of these fair robots who were just standing around doing nothing entertaining, so I pestered them for more treats and they directed me to the toffee apple seller, so I bought some of those too.
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> Then I met this Balro Lodrant guy who ran the fair and I told him his fair was shit and no fun, cos it didn't have anything fun to do, so he gave me some candy floss and told me to take a seat as the giant fight was about to start. It was AMAZZZING, there were these giant's fighting in this tiny tent and it was absolute chaos, BUT, then I found out they weren't real which was bullshit. At this point I was done with this stupid fair and just wanted to go home, but all this commotion started. There was a fire and Aloissius was fighting robots and Skamos was smashing up all the cages and I had no idea what was going on.
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> Then everybody started falling asleep and the robots kept misting everyone. But, I'd had enough sugar to explode a monkey, so I was just running this way and that trying to slow down the robots and that Balro guy, but it was super hard, cos robots aren't like people and they just wouldn't stay still. Balro must have told Aloissius he was poor or something cos Aloissius was really trying to kill him, except he really wouldn't die.
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> I tried shaking the others awake, but they wouldn't get up, so I just started stabbing them awake, cos we really needed their help. Thankfully people can't sleep through a stabbing, so the others finally started doing something. In the end we smashed up the robots, but Balro got away. Bad man apparently, runs an appalling fair but also likes enslaving metal people, which isn't very nice of him.
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> At this point I was starting to get a headache and so I just wanted to go back to bed, now I'm back I feel awful, I think tomorrow I should probably just stick to porridge and carrots eurghhh.
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> ### **11/04/2023 -** **Drok and Disorderly**
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> It's always books books books with these guys. Never a pretty picture book or a magical adventure book, it's always return this important book to a lord or free some spirit of nature or get trapped in some magic dungeon nonsense.
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> This book was the worst of ALL of them. This book just contained a crying girl, who wouldn't stop wailing. The story about her misery wasn't any better either. I did feel sorry for her, but I woulda felt more sorry for her if she'd have stopped crying.
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> Creed was reading some stuff and said we had to go to some monastery or something in a place I'd never heard of. I got in Hamers cart and went to sleep, told everyone to wake me up when we got there. When we did get there, there was some unhelpful old clergyman. I don't really trust those guys at the best of times, they all say they're all holy, but they're rarely kind or nice. Except the ones in Fymdell.
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> I told him we were there to sort guild matters out and searched Drok's quarters in the Chapel, but I didn't find anything useful. Drok was some man from the book, evil smelly man by all accounts. Creed found some deeds to some ruin outside of town, so we decided to go there next. Some lazy town guard called Tim turned up attempting to perform some sort of duty, so we paid him to take us to where we were going.
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> When we got there everyone got very excited by a lot of smelly camping gear, I didn't really want to touch the stuff in all honesty. As we went into the ruin we found some stairs into an underground lair. We headed in and as is the case with a lot of underground lairs, we mostly had to kill everyone we met inside. All these silly cultists who I don't think had very much of a clue about anything and these angry vampires who kept trying to eat Aloissius. I think Creed maybe knew some people in there, it wasnt exactly clear cos he's a bit weird with his emotions.
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> ### **25/04/2023 -** **Going Postal**
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> So, there I was just minding my own business walking around Otha’s Rest when I bumped into Hamer looking after the cart. He had a load of sandwiches with him, so I checked them out, sandwiches are so popular these days. That's when I caught Aloissius, Creed and Aldier out with the new girl Io on a job. Apparently, somebody had been out putting up anti magic posts in Otha’s Rest, I'M MAGIC! So, I didn't dare go near the posts, I avoided them, can't be having myself disappear.
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> I thought I'd let the others deal with the first bunch of assassins, I was a bit scared to go near the posts, that's why I got the monkey man out of my pouch. He's real strong and fun and not really scared of anything, so he was a real help. We saw these shady guys messing about with the posts and then they ran in this building. I thought it was probably best to send the monkey man in, but Creed and Aloissius thought the best idea was setting everything on fire, I tried to remind them that you don't start fires in the centre of towns, but they didn't listen, cos Creed is stupid, so I told him so via a message into his mind.
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> Eventually the monkey man ran in and pulled out these drunk guards after they put the fires out. We found this tankard too, but I don't really drink much, so I gave it to Aldier, last time I saw him he was having beer for breakfast, so I figured he'd get more use out of it. I tried interrogating the drunk guards, but they were too drunk, I tried drowning one in mayonnaise, I thought maybe the jug could make coffee, but it doesn't, so mayonnaise, Aloissius was pleased cos he needed some for his sandwich.
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> After that we went through a sausage factory, though there wasn't any sausages, just loads of shelves. Then there was a room with no shelves, just bad guys and demons and anti magic posts. That was tough, I wanted to spell all of them to sleep or death or whatever, but they were all conveniently arranged, so that I couldn't blast them all, but they didn't count on me bringing the monkey man, big mistake! So as usual I had to get all the unconscious guys off the floor again with my radiant presence, I mean I am really rather lovely. But, it was the monkey man that went grabbing all the bad guys off their perches, cos he's a really good climber. I'm glad he turned up, cos the laughing man would have probably been useless in this fight.
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