DAY 428 (4th Mirtul)(May) cont ...
Before dinner, myself and the good lady wife took a stroll along the wall and chatted about the future.
I don't have any sense of urgency for returning to Westgate. Fenrir will be settling in to his new role as the head of the Magical Watch or whatever he's up to and I suppose if he or Random need me, they will send word.
I'm currently really fascinated by the new species of red feather herons I saw around the place today and their hunting methods. I asked Lavinia if it was ok to stay for a while longer. She wasn't happy at first, but after we talked about setting this place up as a sort of base, then possibly turning it into a sort of 'mini-Farshore' she was more onboard. She was at Farshore recently and it sounds like it is doing fine. I'd like to go back again, but for now, here we are.
Lavinia seems to be the sort of girl that likes the idea of laying down roots. Inherited from her parents I think, so we discussed the idea of setting up a base somewhere. The
Lost Refuge is far from ideal, but it does have a few good points - it's remote, and it has an access point to the Plane of Shadows.
I think I would prefer, over all, to be setting up in Kryptgarden, but if it keeps her busy while I get to study my beetles and herons then it is all to the good.
K and the lizardmen seemed to have been under the impression that we would never be back and that this place was theirs now. It's understandable. I tried to make clear to them that it was, after all, us that cleared this place out and that we invited them in.
I don't mind really, and I don't think it will be a problem. The chances are we'll be gone in a few weeks or months anyway and having a druid around is surely a good thing?
So, I think we'll see how it goes. I like the idea of building up the place a bit anyway.
Anyway, first things first. As I left Fluffy back in the forests around Boravia, I need a new animal companion. This takes 24 hours, so I started the ritual later in the afternoon.
DAY 429 (5th Mirtul)(May)
After the ritual, my animal companion arrived - a megaraptor that I called Henny. She's pretty big, with a long tail and ferocious teeth and claws. The lizardfolk seemed quite impressed.
While I was doing that, Lavinia had cleaned out the top room in the central tower of the refuge. She'd done the best she could, but it needs some soap.
That afternoon, a little tired from no sleep last night, as we ate a late lunch K told me that Irritator the kobold wizard was known to be back in the area after spending a lot of his recent loot gold back in Weyloon.
I flew over to his house, if was just a few miles away. It was a tree house in a small wooded area. I knocked as a bird, then as a man, but there was no answer.
I sent Rolanda down the chimney, but she just started raiding the pantry so I turned into a snake and went in after her.
I looked about, and saw that he'd recently packed for a trip. I took myself and the rat back up the chimney, then popped a note under his door.
Turned back into an eagle and flew back with that useless rat clinging onto my back.
DAY 430 (6th Mirtul)(May)
Flew over to Weyloon today.
Purchased a 100 gold's worth of tools, tradable items and cleaning stuff. Shoved it all into my Bag of Holding and flew back.
Also managed to find the herbs, oils and incense for performing a Hallow spell. It wasn't cheap.
Noted that the bookshop is still there, but I'll go back later when I'm more set up.
I need to catch up on my sleep, but I decided to start the Hallow spell, centred on the tower, as soon as I returned. Here goes!
DAY 431 (7th Mirtul)(May)
Finished the Hallow spell today. Seemed to go well. Had some food and a nap afterwards.
DAY 441 (17th Mirtul)(May)
Has it really been ten days since I last updated my journal? Many apologies dear reader!
In truth I have not been on my usual adventures or feats of daring-do so perhaps it is not such a great lost to prosperity.
Since the 7th these have been the projects:
- drain the areas of water that come in under the main wall
- drain the areas of stagnant water nearby that look diseased
- drain the areas that are plagued with nasty insects
I used a combination of my knowledge of nature, the lizardmen and magic.
I've also spent more time than is healthy studying all the local beetles! Utterly fascinating but I will not go on about them in this journal.
Today was different anyway, because good-old Irritator turned up. Part of the plan I've been developing after that last wee while involves having a teleporter on the strength so I popped over to Weyloon and got him a Teleport Spell (not cheap either!). He was delighted about that, but I'll probably take it out of his next share of the loot.
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