"...tlils nac't levebie ew idd tawh ew idd.. I lwil ryt ot lalc oyu gania, Leah."
Another message sent that won't go through. Pointless, but perhaps a comfort for myself. I cannot believe all that happened today, what a mess. It was just supposed to be a simple task by our captain, nice and straightforward: Get the contraband! We figured it would only be the belt, but there's more than we expected, or bargained for.
There were multiple unusual occurrences. For one, the beetle was quite focused on a ring of mushrooms, despite them not being magical. Perhaps there's something important there we missed? I will need to speak to the captain over it that we might recheck there when things die down. We found in the basement of the manor odd paintings and the like that show we were being spied on by the folks here! We'll need to be wary around the owls, not to mention the odd stones that were apparently set up in a puzzle. Admittedly I wasn't there for that on account of the Roc literally showing up! I'm lucky I was able to put the unconscious guard hidden, or else that would've been a disaster! Rha, Seth and Alabaster were able to take him down.
I...Still feel a bit terrible for being unable to help against the Roc. I was just... too scared to really face him. We were in the end, able to at least get the belt, which was the main piece of contraband, along with the stones and paintings. Seth retrieved a book but... It wasn't what the beetle was pointing toward, so that's something we may have to try to retrieve at some point. There was some more good news though at least! One of the wrestling representatives, Honey, has joined the group! Seth seems to really have taken a liking to her right away. I wonder if that is a normal reaction or not?
Don't think we'll be able to go to the IWL again after that debacle. Ah well, I was never a fan of Wrestling anyway.