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by Shokunin » Sat Feb 08, 2020 5:31 am
From a roughly bound stack of loose paper titled 'Vlolkir'
I hear from others in a tavern about a crew looking to go out. They say the need strong fighters to go a dangerous route into the mountain. There is a magician, obsidiman, he hid in some special cave in the long night. We may find him, or not, I care little. I have initiated, I am strong, I am ready to see the world. I've seen the sky and now I want to see all the land too. I say I'll go with them, for some silvers or some of what we may find.
There is me, Xeviouz a human who looks strong, I think him a warrior, Carver a human who is small but says he can find the way so that will be good, I have never been far into mountains. We also have a windling called Zil, very small but a magician so should be strong.
We head out, alone just us, into the world, we as adepts. It is the best feeling I have. We follow mountains south and east out of throal and follow Carver the scout across valley and sharp rocks into mountain peaks. A few days pass, I love being so close to the sky. There are big nasty birds I will come for later to sell feathers for cloaks and talons for necklaces. We are very far away and very high up, near where old papers told us caves are when I see a bear! Big and strong it looks like a troll, some parts of it are hard like rock. It is asleep and we wise warriors surprise it. The bear fights and it is hard to hit body through all the crystal, but we crush it all together. My friends are good fighters, even the smallest one, his magic is good.
The others are hurt, so we stay a night outside of the cave. They build a fire and I climb up higher on the mountain to look around. I can't see twilight peaks, too far. I wonder when I will see them. In the morning we go in. Cave goes down and in and twists until we see light. Crystals in the floor are making light, and there are 3 smaller ones acting strange, they move crystals and pile them, but nothing happens, they dont see us, we look harder and they are dead. We go in and they still dont see us until we try to go further down into the cave. One is angry and I attack him. I am hurt badly, but still fight. Humans fighting hard, Windling using great spells, we are fighting for our lives. We manage to kill the 3 and break a spell on the cave.
All hurt we rest 2 nights outside. The windling is a good doctor and cook. We go back in, go all the way to the bottom. We meet a rock that makes itself an orc lady. We see the obsidiman in crystal. It wants us to break a necklace we found above. I don't know what we have found or what we should do. We talk and agree that we will come back later when we are stronger and smarter. We sell some living crystal and the necklace (it has some earth element in it and miners are very happy to have it).
I am sad when we walk down from the mountains. I want to be close to the sky again soon. But now I am a blooded warrior, I am spinning legend. Soon I will be even stronger and I will see much more of the outside.