Rules are Rules

Some days, I wonder if I'm some kind of oracle or truthsayer, because I totally called it! We found our way out of the maze thing, though the others didn't let me poke at this huge teleport platform thing that I told them was trapped, because it obviously was. I can't believe none of them didn't see that until I told them! But yeah, they wouldn't let me do anything with it beyond tell them that it was there, because the trap was totally integrated into the platform thing, and if I was going to deactivate it, then it probably would have broken the platform. Not the stone part, but the stuff that made it teleportational or whatever that word would be. Note to self, ask Laniss if that's a word.

So we avoided that big thing, and there were some chain devil guys that wanted us to fight hydras, which was kind of fun, but then the weird lady with the lightning magic, Kruin, decided to attack the chain devil guys, which was so totally dumb. Ugh. But we got out of there because the orc guy and the not-so-orc guy are pretty good at hitting things! Then we ended up at the big scary cemetery at the front of Rappun Athuk, which was kind of not good, because we were supposed to be heaps far away in the other direction. We had a pretty easy solution to it though, we kind of just walked out.

That was when we met this girl (I think, it's kind of hard to tell when they're shapeshifters) called Corrack. KING Corrack, apparently! Anyway, they were pretty nice, to be honest. Very respectful and business like, which I totally appreciate! Turns out that 'king' means 'of the bandits', which was a little bit less nice, but they were acting more like the tax people Laniss sometimes talks about. But yeah, that was all going alright, sure, they wanted some of our gold, but only a bit, but that's when Kruin spoke up again and told the guy (girl? I don't know!) that the bird was totally the rightful lord of the land. UGH SO STUPID I DON'T EVEN WHAT SERIOUSLY. I mean who does that? UGH.

But yeah, so the king girl (guy?) challenged Shades to a duel to the death, with the orc guy accepted instead, even though he was so obviously outclassed. It was kind of neat how the king person (personette?) changed themselves to look like the orc guy and even use the same weapon. But yeah, our orc guy was about to get slashed all to death and stuff, when UGH I DON'T EVEN WANT TO WRITE HER NAME GOSH. When she totally jumped in and broke the rules! Along with the bird and the dwarf guy, though he was a little slower because of all that armour he wears. And with being short, I guess? Anyway, Laniss and I headed off then, because we totally didn't want anything to do with breaking rules.

But somehow, they all escaped alive, and met up with us again at the place with the ferry and the really creepy innkeeper (who I think might be allergic to silver maybe. Note to self, test this later). And so we headed back to the castle!

Of course when we got there, the door was shut, and people were being dumb. But we got in anyway, because Laniss is smart about that sort of thing. You can really tell that he went to school! But yes, we got back in, and everything was fine for a bit.

Then the bird told us that guy that looks after the horses had totally killed himself, because the bird had to fire him for being the dumbest one about the whole locking us out of the castle for dumb reasons thing. Total overreaction, I guess, but maybe he just couldn't stand to leave the castle? It is kind of neat looking.

Laniss is totally reading over my shoulder. He swears he isn't, but he just rolled his eyes as I wrote that last bit about the castle.

Anyway, that's enough about current events and all, let's talk about other stuff for a bit! Okay, now he's rolling his eyes at me pretending to write in conversation with this book. Spoilsport.

Right, so. I totally miss home! Sure, it's not much to look at, especially compared with this castle, but it's still home, you know? And I miss everyone from there, even Jamon! Mother is also dearly missed, though I know she's always thinking about me. I hope she doesn't feel too bad about Siurly dying, though. I don't like it when she's sad!