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Sun 23rd Jul 2023 05:29

Day 11

by Ralsei Dreemurr

We immediately followed where they went and when we arrived at the top of the mountain that lay before us, we found a massacre had happened. Almost everyone was dead or gone. We only found one survivor that was dying. I tried using "Spare the Dying" on them, but they ended up plunging a knife in their chest anyways.
I'm not paid enough for this...
 
Anyways, Grin's dog, Bloodbark, went to scout the area, and found that a single necromancy monster had killed everyone here, and was still out there. We all went back, disappointed that we had not found any clues, and I quickly told the head mage about the monster, and gave him the diary notes I had found from the necromancers. Finally, I decided that I would give Lisa her doll back...
I somehow found her, and when she held the doll in her hands again, she beamed and smiled at me. I felt it was the proper thing to do, but I did not know why just yet, although I'm sure I will remember if I concentrate hard enough.
We got back to see Jyrone awake, but still very sick. Grin took a look at him, and realized that we would need an herbal treatment instead of magic. So we set off quickly for the next town. However, one of Jyrone's symptoms of being ill was excreting a strange substance from his mouth. Apparently, humans naturally do that when they're sick, and it is called things such as "barf, puke, vomit, etc.". And it stinks. That's all I will say; don't mess with puke...
 
We arrived at the next small down and got Jyrone treated early in the morning. Grin foolishly refused to pay and caused the price to go up. He finally obliged, after being shunned by the two witch doctors that saved him. I apologized profusely to the two doctors, and we then left to get supplies. Mammon and I browsed the area, and Jyrone and Grin somehow met a Dragonborn woman named Nala, who hired all of us to help her save some people from a raid that a large town was facing. I unfortunately was not able to choose not to join, and I got lumped along with the rest of the gang.
However, once we got on the road, I talked with Nala when she was up front driving instead of Grin. I learned a bit about Dragonborns, and I felt that I could trust her, so I revealed to her that I was undead, and I mentioned a bit about Noelle, and how I had feelings for her. Nala just told me to be myself, and to push the boundaries, since I won't know what is right until I discover what is wrong. I was a bit reluctant to accept her advice, since it involved possibly making mistakes, but I realized that such a big thing couldn't be done perfectly. I'd have to hope for the best. I also talked to her about my lost memory. She said a relative of hers suffered the same fate, but they regained their memories by reading books about memory, and that the memories are there, but I just need to be willing to unlock it.
However, our talk was interrupted by the others experimenting with Jyrone and his split personality. He tried to escape, but Mammon caught him, and after that, the other personality, who I found out was called "Chaos", started to respect him. But before Chaos left, he mentioned that he despised the fact that I used pacify on him, saying I was manipulating his mind, and that bothered me. I did not wish to mess with others in that way. I only wanted to keep everyone safe. So I decided the right thing to do is to apologize, and I did so.
After a while more of travelling, we arrived at the city to hear a blood-curdling scream...