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A Dally with Dragons
While Mikkil cuts off the monk's head to take back as proof and Svenya helps Gorm get bandaged up, I gather up the bodies to burn and give a proper sendoff to Valhalla. There's a hole in the ice inside each of the tents giving quite comfortable access to the hot springs as well as making the tents themselves quite warm, but apparently nobody thought to move Carmilla into them, and she was pretty upset when she stumbled in, having woken up hours later alone out in the snow.
We spend the rest of the short day gathering supplies for the impending blizzard before resting the night, and set out for home the next morning. I'm a bit disappointed to cut off such a large leg of our journey, but with Ulfhild missing and Gorm without an eye, I can't blame them for wanting to just get back to safety for a while. We still need to figure out what we're going to say to her parents...
That large river gives us some trouble again, with Jormund and Gorm falling in this time. Gorm simply turns into a fish and hops back out, while Svenya uses her new lyre to make Jormund levitate back out and starts flying him like a kite. All in all, no real difficulties getting back to the throne.
Carmilla, daft bastard that she is, immediately goes to sit on the throne again, but this time nothing happens. Svenya talks to the pixies again who tell her that there's no court today, so of course nothing happened. We ought to be able to speak to Freyja any time we wish though, particularly if we give her an offering, so long as we genuinely mean it to please her. It's a bit odd watching her as she talks to what appears to be no one at all, but at least the throne seems to have some sort of charm over it, protecting us from the brunt of the storm.
We go through the portal as soon as Svenya's finished with her chat, and step out onto a shelf of yellow, springy, mushroom-like material, much higher than the other two doors we've gone through. There are quite a few more obstacles between this doorway and our home, and as I clamber over the tree roots, all the little tree-dragon wyrmlings rouse up threateningly. We take more care the rest of the way and nearly reach the door without incident, but with the tangled mess of roots along the ground not all of us are able to make it over without touching them, and the wyrmlings start attacking. Despite how young they are they're incredibly strong, quickly trapping Jormund and Shepard with some heightened-gravity field. Despite all of our best efforts and some help from Mimyr who happened to be nearby, we barely got them out alive, and not every piece at that. Gorm's not the only one missing an eye now... I wonder if an eye patch would look good on Shepard?
But, we're back. Almost a month later, and with more treasure than most of us have seen together at once. Yet, we failed to complete our plans, we failed to rescue those who needed us, and we return with four less eyes in the party... Is this going to be the price of our adventures? No! We may have had some poor luck this time around, but the only thing to do is keep trying, train ourselves up to be stronger, and use every new tool at our disposal. Then, next time when the time comes, we try even harder!
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Ulfhild Killed a Troll!
Khalday, 6th of Lori, 512 EC
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Planning a Monster Hunt
Khalday, 6th of Lori, 522 EC
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The Mushroom Men
Devday, 7th of Lori, 522 E.C.
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Defending the Grung
Devday, 7th of Lori, 522 E.C.
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Into the Treehouses
Devday, 7th of Lori, 522 E.C.
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Twigblight Trimming
Devday, 7th of Lori, 522 E.C.
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Decapus Decimation
Devday, 7th of Lori, 522 E.C.
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Through the Roots of Yggdrasil
Devday, 7th of Lori, 522 E.C.
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Ever Further We Must Venture
Devday, 17th of Junal, 522 E.C.
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The Infected Graveyard
Gucsday, 19th of Junal, 522 E.C.
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Carmilla's Pets Just Keep Dying
Kronday, 22nd of Junal, 522 E.C.
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The Valkyrie
Draday, 24th of Junal, 522 E.C.
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A Friend and a Fiend of Fire
Kaiday, 25th of Junal, 522 E.C.
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Finding Fugitives
Wilsday, 30th of Junal, 522 E.C.
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The Majesty of Nature
Cothsday, 31st of Junal, 522 E.C.
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Freyja's Throne
Kronday, 32nd of Junal, 522 E.C.
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A Scrape With Death
Draday, 2nd of Toby, 522 E.C.
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A Dally with Dragons
Loriday, 6th of Tobi, 522 E.C.
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Ready for Anything
Wilsday, 14th of Indra, 522 E.C.
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Kobold Forest
Cothsday, 15th of Indra, 522 E.C.
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Cowardly Giant
Cothsday, 15th of Indra, 522 E.C.
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Bigger Giant, Harder Fall
Cothsday, 15th of Indra, 522 E.C.
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Gates of the Gods
Kronday, 16th of Indra, 522 E.C.
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Al Hazir
Kronday, 16th of Indra, 522 E.C.
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Tentacles
Kronday, 16th of Indra, 522 E.C.
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The Journal Entry’s title
Khalday, 6th of Lori, 512 EC
Khalday, 6th of Lori, 522 EC
Devday, 7th of Lori, 522 E.C.
Devday, 7th of Lori, 522 E.C.
Devday, 7th of Lori, 522 E.C.
Devday, 7th of Lori, 522 E.C.
Devday, 7th of Lori, 522 E.C.
Devday, 7th of Lori, 522 E.C.
Devday, 17th of Junal, 522 E.C.
Gucsday, 19th of Junal, 522 E.C.
Kronday, 22nd of Junal, 522 E.C.
Draday, 24th of Junal, 522 E.C.
Kaiday, 25th of Junal, 522 E.C.
Wilsday, 30th of Junal, 522 E.C.
Cothsday, 31st of Junal, 522 E.C.
Kronday, 32nd of Junal, 522 E.C.
Draday, 2nd of Toby, 522 E.C.
Loriday, 6th of Tobi, 522 E.C.
Wilsday, 14th of Indra, 522 E.C.
Cothsday, 15th of Indra, 522 E.C.
Cothsday, 15th of Indra, 522 E.C.
Cothsday, 15th of Indra, 522 E.C.
Kronday, 16th of Indra, 522 E.C.
Kronday, 16th of Indra, 522 E.C.
Kronday, 16th of Indra, 522 E.C.
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