Ragnarr: Damn It Jacob

I don't know quite what happened to make Jacob run off, but it cannot be good.

I mean, I'm sure that the authorities will insist that he ran, escaped from justice or some shite, but I've got to wonder. It would seem out of place for him to run off, abandon us for no reason.

I'm sure that Arcadius will disagree, and likely some of the others. I don't know quite what Jacob did, to be honest. I know there was whatever happened with that book, but that was some time ago. Frankly, I don't even quite know what the enormous problem was. Seeking out information about your enemies is not a bad thing, even if he could have shown a wee bit better judgment by, say, bringing a Paladin to look further into the lad speaking infernal.

But alright, he made a mistake. From what I gather, the half naked lad whose soul we're bound to rescue made far more than that, yet we're still trying to rescue him. And he's dead.

Jacob is still alive, and he's going to need us damn soon. We owe him that much. For every time he's been the one to step through the portal, without concern for his own life. For every time he's transported some of us into danger, knowing damn well that he's been stuck before. For the dragon's keep, where he stayed behind with Ryan to try and destroy that portal, even as the shadows made to eat the whole bloody keep, or the times when he's been in the grasp of a horrific sea monster, and kept blasting away with no concern for his own safety.

It would be nice if we could get permission from the local authorities, to find him, take him out of the limits of the empire, and make our way around the long way. (Unless Ryan can teleport from the memory of the vision. I'll have to find out.)

But if the authorities say no, I think we owe it to Jacob to find him anyway, to locate him before the army does and get him out of their jurisdiction.

I don't doubt they'll find him, too. His dress is recognizable enough that it would be a simple thing to track his coat, his gauntlets. And if that doesn't work, the folks here could ask the gods his location as surely as I could.

The only thing we might have going for us is that they might have to organize a search party. We can just go.

Supposedly. Too often, it seems that we sit and argue while every other bloody person on the planet moves quicker than us.

I think I'll have to go, one way or another. No arguments, no long debates. If the Paladins would like to join me, that would be brilliant.

If not, so be it.

I've got a Jacob to find.