Oh the son of a bitch! He wrote in my damn journal! That horn headed demon! It messes up the chaotic order in my journal and everything! Not only did he do that, I he took over my body! Novia, from my perspective, what had happened followed this...
I first readied a ritual circle to directly commune with Aka Manto, against Joryth's wishes. Want to know why I did that? Because I wanted to get something done right on my own for once. Every time I do something right, someone else takes the credit, and I'm called an idiot. And thus the chain of that continues to this day... great. I tried appealing to his sense of clanship and family... it seemed to have backfired because he took my body over, banished Joryth, and throat punched Kosuke to the point of not being able to speak for two weeks. And you know the rest with him detonating the entire town... I still kinda feel guilty. Because of my actions I let people... hundreds die by my hand.... literally! Even if it was Aka, it was also me by proxy.
[Redacted portions from the Heavens, except for a few jots of info where the Heavenly Forge is]
One note from the heavens when you saw me bolt away. I convinced one of the generals to commune and come back as a guiding spirit for Xozgoral, and maybe rally his men to do the same for the oni on the ground. He said we shall see, but I got faith in the old man.
So even if you were on our adventure to Desert Rose, I'm writing it down for sake of continuity for maybe a future book or something, who knows. So, we made our way from Reprieve to Port Mareh via one of your personal submarines. Got to admit, the sea life look is pretty nice looking, I think I saw a dragon turtle in the far distance a week in, but I was tired, maybe I didn't see anything. Once we came ashore, it looked awfully sketchy with a near-abandoned town look as soon as we arrived. Turns out it was a town filled with Drow from the nearby Underdark coming out for their crops and work during the night, gotta admit it was kinda really cool to see that kind of culture. And appreciate some other... activities as well, good times.
[Redacted about drow from the town]
We then secured a caravan on your dime Novia, which we rode across the vast deserts for about a day or two, being constantly on the move only to be interrupted by freaking dune worms! The nerve of those freaks! So of course I made shatter lures explode into the sand as Solomon and Radegast took care of them with their explosives, and from that we managed to fend them off. Victory, whoopie, hoorah and stuffs.
Finally we make to Desert Rose, turns out there is a festival to water there, really beautiful sandstone architecture and sapphire gems alongside waterways. Turns out from the talk of the locals, there might be magic bandits. Novia, I hereby request that at some point we deal with them, they might be related to the graveyard since the magic is as their words "unknown origin", and they keep coming back no matter how many they deal with.
[Redacted about a succubus]
And ey, I still need to get home to bring those other letters to the oni for the war effort. Xozgoral is counting on me, and I won't let down Aunty, she's family and she needs me.