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Fri 23rd Sep 2022 12:08

Year 1

by Shest

It's strange, I remember language, my general knowledge is pretty good and I even have a passing familiarity of history and religion. Also I have... I guess you'd call it a personality? I'm not some sort of mindless automaton, I can have a friendly conversation and enjoy a bad joke. Obviously I learnt these things and developed these traits somewhere but when I try to place it I can't remember anything clearly - sometimes I draw a complete blank sometimes it's just a muddled blur. Like something from a distant dream, except I don't sleep.
 
I've been travelling around for a while now. I didn't really keep track properly at first but at a guess I'd say it's been a little over year now. Aside from needing to conceal some of my more obvious abnormalities I've been able to get by without much difficulty; I can't say that people are exactly at ease around me but that's likely the usual unease that a strange scarred individual would cause when passing through villages.
 
Odd jobs have kept me going, I've found I don't really need to eat or drink but I still need accommodation and if I sit around in a bar trying to find a job - well I get funny looks if I don't drink anything. So yeah, sometimes I act as an extra paid of hands for a caravan traveling to another village, sometimes I help to track down criminals or missing people - whatever earns me some coin.
 
A few other freelancers have recommended the city of Luskan as a place to get higher paying and more regular work but some part of me knows that it's not a safe place for me. Neverwinter was mentioned as well but that feels like the wrong direction. These mountains are oddly familiar, I think I can remember them from before I died but they don't look quite right?