Tarragon Danderpaws' journal

**Tarragon Danderpaws' journal** is a journal written by the Veruki explorer Tarragon Danderpaws. With the Veruki planet's impact with the UIltravoid, the pages of his journal were lost and scattered by the intense wind to different regions of the Void.

The player, as Rei, can find the journal pages and hear his story. Collecting five of Tarragon Danderpaws' journal pages unlocks the achievement called "A Veruki's Tale." Collecting all of them unlocks the achievement "There and Back Again."

## Pages

### First page

The temple priests are saying there are too many stars in the sky and that we should prepare for famine.

The stars seem to get bigger every night, and they glow a brilliant pink. I like them.

-- Tarragon Danderpaws 117 - 09 - 1841

### Second page

They came down. The stars came crashing down. I think Ironroot is on fire.

Thankfully, my apartment in the city is safe.

-- Tarragon Danderpaws 117 - 13 - 1841

### Third pqge

There is an unsettling sound of creaking and groaning all throughout the city, and the tremors will not stop.

I'm going to the temple to check on the old priests.

-- Tarragon Danderpaws 117 - 14 - 1841

### Fourth page

No one could breathe. Pipes came bursting out of the ground. The air burned.

I was lucky to make it out of the temple when I did. So many people tried to escape... No one knew which way to go. I saw a child... I don't know what happened to him. I just need to rest.

-- Tarragon Danderpaws 117 - 15 - 1841

### Fifth page

There is a black spot growing in the sky. Every night it gets bigger. First, we had too many stars... now we lose them every night...

I can't take it. Horrors freely hunt our once fertile land, and now even the heavens turn their back on us.

-- Tarragon Danderpaws 117 - 21 - 1841

### Sixth page

Endless explosions last night. The sounds of wailing went all throughout the basin. I think the hunters have stopped.

-- Tarragon Danderpaws 117 - 27 - 1841

### Seventh page

I had horrible dreams last night. When I awoke, everything looked like it had been destroyed.

I feel as if I've been torn in half and stitched back together.

Even my journal was not spared, binding destroyed, pages ripped out and scattered to the wind.

-- Tarragon Danderpaws 117 - 28 - 1841

### Eighth page

Nothing seems to grow any longer. Day, night, seasons?! All of them gone. The plants have no idea when to fruit.

Everything is slowly dying except for the shieldgrass and the ironroot trees. Try as I might, I can't eat these.

-- Tarragon Danderpaws ??? - ?? - ????

### Ninth page

I know now that I am no longer on my own world. Maybe I died, and this is the afterlife?

I am lucky to have made a friend. He has shown me how to grow things on this world. Regular plants do not grow here, but fungus still does.

-- Tarragon Danderpaws

### Tenth page

For the last fortnight, I have watched a planet grow closer and closer to the Ultravoid.

I do not fear death, not any longer. But I cannot watch another world suffer as mine has. May it end swiftly.

-- Tarragon Danderpaws

### Eleventh page

When I look up at it...I swear I can hear the sound of everyone I once loved crying out in pain. Is it the same sound on every planet?

### Twelfth page

The planet shattered into thousands of tiny pieces. There was a flood of burning rain. Devils of swirling rock and metal created chaos as they flew all around me.

I retreated to the safety of the Forest Altar. After some days, I dared step out into the open air. And...it is strange. This new world seems to have folded in as if it was always here.

-- Tarragon Danderpaws

### Thirteenth page

I can't believe it -- I found Lyris. She had exhausted herself looking for survivors...at least she's still alive.

It took some convincing, but she agreed that if there's nothing left of our old world -- then we should investigate this new one together.

-- Tarragon Danderpaws

### Fourteenth page

Seeing this place helps explain what happened to my people. Perhaps...perhaps this is where worlds go to die. Most everything here is gone; destroyed, chewed up, and floated away into the vast nothing.

Relics of a grand empire, technologies beyond imagination, all laid to ruin. It feels like I'm standing at the end of time.

Lyris has turned back. She says she can't continue on account of her leg. I'm alone again.

-- Tarragon Danderpaws

### Fifteenth page

Another planet grows larger -- first, it was a speck, but now I can make out where land and water meet.

I cannot bear to see the death of another world. It may be the natural law here, but watching life and death on such a scale is the duty of gods, not a simple Veruki.

The gardener told me to meet him at the crystal palace if I ever wanted to take the Panacea. It is a treacherous journey, but I will swallow the fear. With each step, I know I am on the right path.

-- Tarragon Danderpaws

### Sixteenth page

**Location:** The Crystal Palace in the Luminous Peak

I take the rites willingly. My friend has shown me there is nothing to be afraid of in passing over to the next life. The Eternal Garden awaits.

I am lucky. I have seen more in this life than any Veruki can imagine.

I will not return to my home of brambleberries and tansydids, but at least I will return to the land.

-- T. D.