15th Day of Autumn

A talking robot dog has joined our little adventurous group, as they do. Just a regular talking robot dog, so finally a hint of entirely standard normalcy. If it wasn’t for the other guys being all flabbergasted at the talking robot dog, as if they have never seen a talking robot dog called Seeker, who seeks to seek his self, helping out an adventuring guild. Weird guys, I tell you. Except the big green one, he wandered off, hence Seeker inheriting his guild contract and I his meals.

We also looked over some burnt scraps of paper we found on Verdan Dayi. Seems to be a kind of runic script with a couple of translation notes by the elder. One says Dragons, the rest I don’t remember. There is so much going on I only have capacity for the important things. Our little Seeker seemed very interested in those notes though, let’s see what he does with them.

Anyway, the next morning Lennox held a funeral for his late mentor. He walked me through the funerary rites and rituals he assured me would ward off any chance of him turning, although I am not convinced the couple twigs he used prevent the undead in these parts, which actually do seem mostly absent. There must be some much bigger magic going on in these forests, protecting them from the undead, at least I have no other explanation for the shocking calm the villagers treat the death with and lack of consequences.

Before we continued our exploration of the charred forest path, we checked in at the local merchant a… talking mushroom man. I don’t even know anymore. Regardless I finally picked up that backpack Lennox gifted me, he is a friendly and charitable guy despite his perpetually exasperated manners. We also agreed to look out for some magical cat creature, a Poracha, for the trader. Says he totally needs some trinket of it to run his shop better or something. No idea how we are supposed to find a creature that can hid inside trees inside a forest, this seems like the even worse version of searching for a needle in a haystack, but let’s see what comes up.

Afterwards we continued onto the charred path and I am pretty sure there is more charred path here than yesterday. Dylle said these fires are related to emotions of Pride, Purpose and Desperation this time around. I bet he is like one of those wandering fortune tellers, just keep being vague till you hit something that fits.

Going forward we found more and especially an even bigger fire elemental this time around. Gave us quite a run for our money this one, nasty guy constantly exploding and shooting rays of fire. The fumes it let out where horrid too, nauseating stench, they even got to Seeker, or especially Seeker. The poor thing was constantly trying to throw up to deal with the nausea, but I didn’t have the heart to tell him he is a robot and probably can’t throw up…

We are taking a rest after that last fight, like I mentioned it did a number on us, and I used the time to pen this, before we head on deeper into the forest.