Giornale di Aurelia

That was an awful fight. Jacob and Tupper went in the Fortress. I should have gone with them. I was almost useless outside. My arrows were not flying true this day. Maybe that is a good thing though, with all we have learned.

Arcadius, Fflam, and Chris were up on the battlements. Ragnarr was healing from a distance, and I was at a distance with my bow. Mayhap I should learn some hand to hand. At any rate, they were taking out the Mages on the battlements when all of sudden, the men we were fighting dropped arms.

It turns out, the Monks and Mages have not been here all that long and a certain gnome had come here hoping to find his allies. These fine folks were fighting us to protect what we had come to retrieve so that we may protect it. All this came about because they had put Tupper and Jacob in a cell with the gnome.

The Monks handed the gnome into our hands. It took a lot of discussion, but we eventually agreed that the only way to stop this gnome was to execute him. After much ritual, Arcadius carried out the sentence.

The staff is being kept here for safe guarding and we shall keep in touch with the Monks.

It appears now that our journey shall carry us across the deserts. I did not expect this task from Hercules to take me from the beautiful green and occasionally snowy forests, to both extremes of a desert of snow and deserts of sand.