LU 19 - Space 6

April 16, Present Day (1050)

Things have changed a bit after we welcomed Boulty into the kingdom. We ended up taking him into Koratai's house after he grew on us a bit, and now he's our kid I guess? I'm not sure if anything's official, but things are definitely progressing. Speaking of things changing, today was really weird. I went in for my routinely work with Thornberry, and I found out that Viktor came and killed him. I guess after foiling his lawful methods, he took a more direct approach to getting revenge. I was surprised, but not really shocked or phased. I talked him into getting Viktor arrested, since that was entirely possible, but during our chat echo came down for the first time in a few years. Thornberry and I explained the situation, which echo seemed willing to help with. Then after some chatting, the topic of Hallthor came up. Apparently Thornberry abandoned him in the cage for a few years (which would explain why I haven't heard about him for a bit), and he decided to open him up to the world again. Of course the guy was pissed, and made that loud and clear. I explained to him again how he was just a lab rat, but Thornberry seemed against the concept. So, I explained the concept a bit more in detail, and after a bit he finally caught on. He seemed on board with tearing Hallthorr like human trash, but echo clearly wasn’t. They expressed their concerns with our plan to kill Hallthorr since he has become useless, but we were adamant. However, before Thornberry could get to Hallthorr, echo threw him their armor and told him to run. He did, taking them with him. Thornberry and i tried to go after them, but it was too late; they slipped away. We began to panic, and started to brainstorm ideas at spawn. Obviously there was a blue moon out tonight, because echo came back to confront us. I realized at this moment that I had two options: 1. stick with Thornberry and throw away the reputation I’ve built up, or 2. drum up some lie to worm my way out of this.

I obviously chose the second option, and decided to pull echo into a shop and convince echo that i don’t actually stand with Thornberry and what he’s doing (even though I talked him into it). So, with echo now on my side, we confronted Thornberry together and knocked him unconscious after he tried to run for it. We dragged him into one of his cells, where once he woke up he panicked and asked for a visitor. I didn’t see the issue, so I went out to find a Xever person. Luckily enough, he was right outside the therapy office. I took him to Thornberry and let them chat. They passed a book between them, which turned out to be them sharing secret escape plans. So, I took Xever out of the cell and shooed him away. Before leaving though, i decided to have a chat with Thornberry to give him some last minute advice. I explained that the difference between us was that i was smart enough to protect myself, whereas he was just smart enough to build goofy gadgets. I asked if he understood why i turned on him, and he just said that he hated me; he obviously did, which assured me that i got my point across. Then i left him and ran into Viktor in the town, who caught onto me working for Thornberry and was a bit suspicious. I explained that I was just working for him as an assistant therapist, and that i didn’t fully know about all the evil shit until recently. He seemed unsure, but let the topic slide. Speaking of letting things slide, we let Xever slip back into Thornberry’s cell and helped him escape. This was bad, but not nearly as bad as the situation I was in just a bit ago. Echo showed me to their base in case i needed them for anything, and i accepted their kindness. Then I made my way back to the kingdom, where I could calm down and process today. I had a feeling that Thornberry wouldn’t be able to keep up his nefarious activities, but I had no clue everything would collapse like this. Oh well, at least I’m free. For a scientist, he’s quite stupid and disorganized.