After midnight, in Wright

(there is a scorch mark across the top half of the page)
 
So I might maybe be a little bit more drunk than I thought. I figured just using my own fire would be safer than trying to find a candle without knocking into something in the dark, but that... didn't really go that well. Nothing actually caught on fire though! Which is good, because I don't want to have to explain to Radiance why something in her house caught fire. And I don't think Damiel noticed the near miss either - he's still trancing and out of it as far as I can tell.
 
Instead of setting out right away, we decided to spend yesterday too in Wright to make sure that we're ready to face Tazra and Margoth. It might give them a head start, but... I think the time to gather more allies and supplies will be worth it in the end. I hope it's worth it. At the very least, the healing potions we got will probably help keep someone alive without forcing most of us to devote our magic to healing spells. And Margoth hopefully doesn't shrug off lightning magic like she does fire.
 
We met the king, too! Which is... a strange thought. Half because I never expected to be able to say that, but also, I don't really know whether he's my king. I never bothered to learn about whether the Mortal Kingdom's sovereignty extends to the plains. Come to think of it, I think more of us would question whether we're considered subjects of the Mortal Kingdom than not.
 
Either way, he offered us soldiers to help, and at this point, we'll take whatever we can get. The elven ambassador, a woman named Ave Lo, is coming with us too - she seems to know what she's doing. Radiance started off that arrangement by going off without us to meet them, but then she ended up needing us all to come anyway to corroborate her story...
 
Later on, Iltiari also recruited Pliskin, Risf's adventuring friend. Truthfully, we don't know much of anything about him - but we barely know anything about a lot of our allies, other than having someone else vouch for them. And I trust Risf's endorsement a hell of a lot more than I trust Radiance's vouching for her allies. At least most of them have Navy connections, though. Seems more reliable to me than Dagon. He's.... weird. Kinda wanna know what's up with him, also kinda don't.
 
He’s coming with us when we fight Tazra and Margoth, though, so I hope he’s as competent as he claims he is. We’ve got a plan that I think is good - split the bad guys up, have us take out the real dangerous ones while the others keep the minions from overwhelming us, hope we can actually beat Tazra and Margoth at the same time because there’s no way that fate won’t decide to make things hard for us, profit??? Hopefully without kickstarting the apocalypse in the process because I doubt we can handle a large number of demons after fighting those two.
 
Something I found out earlier tonight - Damiel thinks he's managed to alchemize true immortality? Honestly, coming out of anyone else's mouth, I'd be certain they were out of their mind, but from him I'm only half sure. Everything dies, eventually, except perhaps the gods - the idea of that suddenly changing is insane. But he seems certain that he's gotten it, or at least that he's gotten very close. And I can't help but believe him, and want to know how it would work.
 
Does that count as heresy? It sounds like it should, but either I can't remember or there's no explicit rule against it - probably because no one ever thought it would be possible, honestly.
 
He thinks that if he's right, this will be enough for him to be able to go back to the Elven Kingdom, which is... it's everything he's wanted the whole time, so I want it to work for him, and I'll figure everything else out later. I don't even really know what I want to do after this. We're going to win; I have to believe that. But afterwards - what do you do after saving the world, when nowhere feels right to go home to? I can't just wander around forever after I figure out what happened to my parents. but the plains wouldn't be an option outside of the temple... maybe Wright? It seems nice enough? I should ask the others about what they're going to do.
 
I feel like I should be more worried than I am right now, and I probably will be in the morning, but for now? I still don’t want anyone to die, but... I guess getting drunk was good for something. I think I’ll be able to fall asleep even knowing what’s coming tomorrow.