Nell's diary

Rise of the Runelords

This is the diary as written by Nell. She is writing it as an exercise in learning to read and write.

To End

First entry

<date>

Hello diary.

I am to write here to learn how to write. <Name> will help me write, when needed.

The big feast

<date>

Today a lot happened.

I was at the bid feast that the whole town have been preparing for for a long time. I went there with <Name>. There were lots of food. There were three tables filled with the best from each of the inns. I liked <one inn> best, even though it was quite spicy. Loads of butterflies were released, flying around everywhere. I was eating when mayor Kendra Deverin stood up and talked about something. Then the sheriff Belor Hemlock said boring stuff and Cyrdak Drokkus talked about his new play. I think I will make sure I get invited to see that. Then Father Abstalar Zantus was just about to speak even more, when <Name> wanted to go look at the bonfire. Or the pile that would become the big fire. I grabbed some more salmon and followed her. The salmon was really good. I wonder how its done. I've never been a good cook. <Name> said something was stirring somewhere towards the gate and we was just going that way when lots and lots of goblins poured in towards the central square where the feast was held.

There were one riding a dog and others singing a silly song. <Name> rushed ahead and threw some of her magic, powerful great magic, at them and several fell to the ground. I loaded my sling with several stones and hit many with my barrage of stones, blinding one temporary. I ran up to a goblin and made a move I've often used when in trouble. I showed plenty of thigh and stabbed with the dagger. Even if it worked I was a little put off as the goblin rather looked hungry when looking at my thigh. There followed a big melee where I felled goblin after goblin saving many of the villagers. Some of the people living here also fought with us. There were Nathaniel Deverin who I have met before. He is a nobleman from one of the four noble families here, but after today I think he's nice anyway. Also there were a strange looking rhenne called Dorothea Caiphon who used magic and a female satyr called Honeypot who helped us fighting the goblins while playing the flute. We killed most of the goblins and a few fled.

The boneyard

We were very proud when the sheriff told us that he had seen how good we were and asked us to check the gate. When we got there there were some commotion in the boneyard. I snuck in but they noticed me, so I threw a bullet at the bigger goblin with my sling. <Name> waved her fan at a group of goblins and almost all flew away. I hit him again with my sling and then stabbed him with my dagger. The others ran up to a group of goblins trying to protect others of them around a ladder raised to the wall. Several goblins suddenly surrounded me. They hit me from all over and I just barely got out before I got really hurt. Honeypot played some really refreshing tune and I attacked again. Soon most of the goblins were dead.

The goblins were dragging a sack from the cemetery and <Name> used her magic to suddenly appear on top of the wall where the goblins were trying to climb ladders to get away with the sack. She stopped them, blowing and burning them with her mighty magic. Then Nathaniel really showed what he could do. He ran up to the ladder and killed the big awful goblin dog that were chewing on Honeypot and continued up the ladder and skewered the goblin leader with his rapier helping <Name>. Then he climbed down and retrieved the sack back up to the wall. He dumped it down the ladder right in front of me, and pulled up the ladder on the outside of the wall. I peeked in the sack and it contained the remains of some dead body.

From the wall the others said that there came lots and lots of more goblins demanding to get the sack. Honeypot faked another sack ad threw it to them. I went looking for if there were any open grave the body could come from and found one. It was marked cleric Ezakien Tobyn. Nathaniel went to talk to the guards by the gate and I ran back to the square and told the sheriff. He was busy but said they were handling most of the goblins now that we had broken their attack. I went back and saw them throwing a live goblin over the wall. Strange. That fall would probably not even kill it.

I told them how things were and we brought the ladders and the remains of the body to the guards at the gate and went back to town to help cleaning up the last goblins. When we were nearing The White Deer, there were a really big goblin riding the biggest, meanest goblin dog so far attacking a dog while a man was trying to fend for himself a few yards further away. I put a bullet straight in the chest of the goblin. Nathaniel charged a goblin and split it in two in a mighty blow. <Name> ran up to the riding goblin leader and used her incredible magic. Nathaniel joining in too. Dorothea and Honeypot used their magic on other smaller but still very tough goblins. Those threw javelins at us hitting with several. Nathaniel was pierced by one and fell to the ground bleeding. Honeypot ran up to him reviving him and killing the leader goblin. I moved up to the awful, monstrous dog sure to kill the poor man trying desperately to defend himself, and hit it well with my dagger forcing it into <Names> impressive magic dancing dagger swarm, slicing it to shreds, thus saving surely saving the mans life. It turned out to be a <Given Name> Foxglove who is a passing nobleman I've seen partying at an inn earlier. You can never trust noblemen, except Nathaniel who seems to be nice, but Foxglove invited us to a hunting trip to thank us for saving him. I might actually go.

Now I will go to bed. It's already late. Good night.