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by Shokunin » Sun Mar 22, 2020 10:55 pm
From a roughly bound stack of loose paper titled 'Vlolkir'
Rich Dwarf Brumm wants to have strange food for a feast. I do not know why he wants this food, but he is a rich man, who says he has a title from the kingdom. These people do strange things. He says he will pay, so that is enough for me. I need to have enough to pay a trainer, I can feel myself close to entering the fourth circle. The wide world calls me, I feel soon I will reach a milestone.
I leave Throal with Carver, Xeviouz, Jael, Alari. We travel to grounds where rabbit things breed, Preces. We walk around but do not find any, they are hiding I think. Well, they come out of hiding, and hit hard. They are fast and have spines, give poison to some of the others. Hard to spot and vicious. They are covered in shadow. We strike hard and bring them down. But more come from behind a rock, one sticks Carver good. We kill the rest and I give Carver a boost potion so he does not die. Xeviouz is wounded much. We stay for two days at a nearby farm and I help haul their animals in exchange for salt. We salt the preces well, I help Carver with this. I know much of survival now.
We leave the farm and travel to the coil river. The river is wide and deep and there are T'skrang fishing. They have a camp nearby. They tell us the river is dangerous, they tell us one of their party was eaten by something in the river. They do not know what. They tell us to be careful, but to risk our lives not too dangrously. T'skrang speak strangely. We have a dead fish to use as bait, and Alari casts it into the river. We all grab on to Alari. Something in the river grabs onto the fish. It pulls hard, Jael falls, Alari goes into the river and is floating, I go into the river and it comes to my belt. Alari swims back and leaves me. Jub jubs come to us, one jumps towards them on the shore, a big big one comes and tries to take me under the water, I dodge. They kill one on the shore, I go back to the shore and help kill another one. The big big one jumps on to shore, it knocks Alari down, bites him, poisons him. We surround and kill it. Alari freezes like a statue. We butcher the jub jub. We get salt for free from T'skrang Niall for avenging their fallen.
We go to Servos jungle, need to find fruit. We find trees full of fruit. Also apes, apes throw fruit at us. I am glad to have a chance to fight apes again, it was fun when I went to the forest before. These apes are covered in metal though, like armor. They do not bleed easy. We pick up fruit they throw, and they come towards us. As they rush we make a line and surround as they come. I am hit badly, their claws are strong. I step away and go join Jael, the one that is fighting him takes my mace well and is injured as badly as I was. We fight hard but apes are killed. We pick up fruits, Alari drinks bad water, we return to Throal.
The strange dwarf Brumm thanks us for food, gives us gold, Alari tries to get invited to feast. I do not think it worked.