Nell's diary

Rise of the Runelords

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

The latest chapter is called Template:Rise of the Runelords chapter, in which Template:Rise of the Runelords chapter. It is chapter Template:Rise of the Runelords chapter of the Rise of the Runelords story.

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Play

It was well into the evening and the playhouse had just emptied after the nights performance when I and Honeypot entered Cracktooth’s Tavern. We also brought Dorothea, but she was strangely absentminded. The play had been a very funny comedy by a traveling troupe from Magnimar and most of the audience had had the same idea as us. The mood was high and it was hard to get heard when I ordered a plate. As we had been quick we even had a table.

Someone tried to make an appearance on the stage but was hardly noticed. I noted how Honeypot still looked at the stage longingly.
"You want to play tonight?" I asked Honeypot.
"You have told me how much fun it would be."
"Yes, and it will. But I don't know if it's that easy to get their attention tonight."
Honeypot started to stand up when I said "Wait. You'll need an introduction."

I stood up and climbed up on the table and looked around. Hardly no one noticed me. I took two steps on the table and jumped up on the stage just barely avoiding a large man. Some of the crowd closest noticed and pointed to me as they continued to talk.

I cleared my throat and shouted as high as I could. "Have you had enough for the evening?" There were some "No"s from the crowd. "Do you want more?" There were some more "Yes"s and more people turned to the stage. "But can you take it?" Now nearly all close to the stage answered "Yes!" I swallowed and cleared my throat again. "Then prepare to be enchanted by a mysterious force of nature, a seductively sounding siren, the beautiful... Honeypot!"

There were shouts and cheers as Honeypot entered the stage. She bowed and put the flute to her lips. When the music started the room slowly quieted down. It was soft and dreamy, almost painting a scene of a misty forest at night. As the song continued the mood changed as if the first beams of the sun broke through the branches. Honeypot drilled with the flute in a way that you could see birds greeting the sun with your inner eye. The song got merrier as more animals joined in and soon there was a party going on. Honeypot danced around the stage and soon around the whole tavern. Several of the audience joined in and there were a lot of dancing that night.

Cyrdak approached us afterwards asking Honeypot to appear in his theater and she accepted. He asked me too, but I don't think I have the ability to remember the lines or speak in that theatrical way. I said I would think about it, and in the meantime I would have fun, leading him to the bar.

Guard duty

One evening Nathaniel sighed sitting down at our usual table at the Rusty Dragon. We were all there. I asked what was wrong and he said "Nothing!", but after some pushing mentioned that his aunt, the mayor had wished him to start working for the sheriff, and I think it's to get into politics or so. Anyway, he had been hanging around at the garrison a lot lately, and he told us about some people who were wanted by the guards. He said that if we saw any of them we should tell him about it.

There was a river pirate called Shadz "Rodshaw" Bilgar. They also wanted a rhenne called Graced Sevillia, but they only wanted him for questioning. Nathaniel said there were drawings of them back at the garrison. There were apparently some rewards too, to be claimed at Magnimar from a judge called Ironbriar. When he said the name I froze. All my bad memories came back. I coughed and excused me from the table and ran up to my room. I thought I had put that awful, evil elf who I met in Magnimar behind me, but I hadn't. I just hadn't thought of it for quite some time. Now all the hate and fear came back.