16th Endings, 1294, cont.

Still 16^th Endings, 1294, Outside Karnax’s Last Resort,

Dear Diary,

This is wrong; this is not how it is supposed to be! I… I don’t know if we are the Good Guys anymore, I am so confused! I have been sick I think …. I, I don’t know what to, say, and I only have a few minutes, I guess I should….. I don’t know. Kord found the Kobold camp in near some kind of dig, archeological or mining, I just don’t know. Ioun had the brilliant idea to fall back and use the spell “Tenser’s Floating Disk” to create disk for us to ride on and thus avoid the rock ground. I even got to make a disk for Kord to ride on and despite only mastering the spell a few days ago I didn’t mess up. I figured we would then fly up on the disk, awe the Kobolds with some magic and then ask for the babies’ back, like we did last time. Like what normal reasonable people would do. Like what out teachers would do! But no sooner had we come into sight of the Kobold camp then Asmodeus (who I come to quite dislike!) unleashed a magical storm into their camp. He, he killed several of them! Tossed them around like John would with my dolls when we where growing up, and and then they, they fell! They just lay scattered around all … broken … oh Gods it was the worst sight I had ever seen. After that there was no option but to fight them, as they where out for blood, and I can hardly blame them. I tried to help with some of my magic, but I couldn’t focus at all and was, as normal, of no use. The rest of the party however tore trough them like nothing, poor Kord took a few grazes but was mostly unhurt, the poor dear! I think Asmodeus was also a little hurt, but he deserved what he got. It only took a few minutes to, to kill several people, innocents as far as we knew; we didn’t even try to talk to them! Ioun and Bahamut didn’t kill anyone I think, but I couldn’t be sure. Oh Gods, the the Kobolds back at the inn, they said they would be fine, but did we kill them too?!? This is not how heroes act! After our short fight we rested for a few minutes. Asmodeus, if you can believe it, wanted to loot the bodies, loot them! He obviously does not fallow the 5 Fold Path. Kord seemed to agree with him, but I, I had to do something so I spoke up and said we could not do that, it was not proper and I insisted that we give them a proper burial. Thank the Gods Ioun and Bahamut backed me up, I don’t know what I would do with out them. After we took care of that we rested for a bit more. I played “The Song of The Weary Warrior” to help everyone rest better. I think Kord even liked it. Oh Gods! I sung in front of him! He must think me the worst bard ever! After our rest we went down the dig shaft and began exploring what turned out to be ruins. We had not gone far when we ran into another band of Kobolds, these ones attacked us at once, and who could blame then. Ioun and Kord took two of them out right away. Then a couple of them hurt Kord, it looked bad, and I… I was filled with anger and rage, how could they hurt him! The, the anger helped, helped be focus the words and the magic as I had been thought, helped me to form the words right and push them into power and then push them at the Kobolds, and I KILLED one. I don’t remember anything after that. The next thing I remember I was in a corner being sick and the fight was over. And now all I can think about is that I have killed someone, committed the worst of sins. And not gloriously in a battle, no we came here into their home, with out asking, or talking to them, and have now killed them. We are not heroes! Gods this is all my fault. I must go now, I hear some kind of hollowing off in the distances, I fear that we shall pay for our trespasses, but first I think I shall be sick again…. Sarah

Still (truly the longest day) 16^th Endings, 1294, Outside Karnax’s Last Resort,

Dear Diary,

I have never been in this much pain before, why did I ever leave Wizard Mountain Academy? Gods forgive me! The hollowing I heard earlier was some kind of Hag that was helping the Kobolds, maybe some kind of mother/guardian spirit. We ran into her and some more Kobolds soon after we had rested. Again we attacked without warning, the Kobolds where not much of a fight, they seemed younger then the others, have we killed all the men and are now slaughtering the children? How did it come to this? The Hag was a much more formidable foe and put up a long hard fight. Asmodeus was knocked unconscious during the battle, and everyone else was very badly hurt. During the fight I was also knocked out, I recovered for minute but I could not resist her deadly howl and if not for Bahamut (Brave, Loyal Bahamut) reviving me I fear I would have died there. No sooner had he revived me then I saw the hag was upon Ioun, hurting her greatly. I, I rose up and marshaled all the anger I could, fixed it with magic upon my blade, and charged the Hag. I struck her a mighty blow! The strongest, hardest blow I could fueled with magic and rage, I stuck her right upon the neck. But of course, my best was not good enough, and the Hag seemed unhurt by the blow. Ioun or Bahamut ( I could not see which) then fired a powerful bolt at the hag, which (they being skilled and all) killed her. I, all of us came very close to death, in a cause I do not feel is right, I told them all this after we had rested for a bit and then, then I left headed back to town, I want to more of this madness, I want to go back to school where I belong. Gods I am too tired and in too much pain to write anymore, please please just let this day end! Good Night --- Love Sarah.