Hello, Everyone!
Last time, our heroes spent the night in Bytopia and headed towards Erathos in the morning. However, before falling asleep, Mary used her Book of Shadows to write to her Patron. This is their chat (which was an actual chat between me and our DM – how cool is that??)
I hope you like it as much as I did. It informs many of Mary’s actions and thoughts in the coming episodes.
Mary watched as her friends slowly fell asleep and rubbed her temples. She’d read the entry about black dragons a thousand times, and the words were beginning to get all jumbled up inside her head. In order to distract herself, she opened her Book of Shadows and reached out to Gillean.
We narrowly escaped after a fight with Nurvureem.
We're safe now, but everyone around us is dead.”
they're dead, but they seem alright and they look
so calm and peaceful… It's very bizarre!"
To her relief, she got an answer almost immediately.
about Nurvureem. I didn’t get to see your fight."
She was no longer angry at him. Having this wondrous world around her had somehow subsided her strong emotions.
Agatha teleported us all the way here, and I think
with her help we can even travel to the Fey Realm!"
You promised!"
in the end, but I almost died."
Colour me surprised," Gillean wrote.
Mary could almost feel his chuckle.
"You should give something really
nice to Bruno," he added.
“But we've been at odds lately. We either fight,
or we don’t talk at all. Or, when we talk, it's only about
our current ‘save-the-world’ situation." She sighed again.
"I miss the times we had in Frinkeltong.
I think we were better friends back then."
”He's the healer of the group and he
probably worries about it."
Why would he be worried?” she wrote.
”Plus, Aurum can heal us, too."
Gillean added. “Your constant reckless behaviour
must be stressing him out. Have you talked to him?"
“Aurum is the reckless one, I’m not…”
risking your life," Gillean wrote, and it was like he was
scolding her rather than stating a fact.
to get hurt! Because of us! Because of me!
Because Nurvureem wants to hurt
the people I care about!”
”Only that you're reckless. Which isn't a
bad thing, I don't blame you."
“He doesn't even understand why I did it! And he doesn't
appreciate me as a real part of the group. He behaves as if
I was a child that doesn't know what she's doing!"
Don't be too quick to grow up."
understand him. He's not led by emotion,
but by logic instead. Try to communicate
with that side of him."
Mary wrote, suddenly very aware of what their immediate
future could hold. “We're going back to Pamagos and we'll try to
kill Nurvureem. We can't leave her run amok there anymore,
too many innocent people will get hurt."
we can do it,” she wrote. ”You should have seen me,
Gillean! Nurvureem had concentrated all her bile at me.
She thought I was going to be terrified like before, but I was brave!
She splashed me with her acid, hit me with her tail, cut me
with her sword! But I survived, and you know what?
I gave it back to her, I managed to wound her!”
we fight her, we'll win! I even think I saw fear
in her eyes. Can you believe that?"
your fight and I'll root for you!"
know that we'll hold our own!"
from the dragon’s skin."
over our heads, now."
other than me? Lilly and Bramble, for example?
I'm worried for them and I was wondering if you
could cast an eye in their direction."
“I can only see you."
Gillean is so cool! I hope Mary can see his wisdom and act accordingly.
She's been so untrustful lately!
Next time, we'll go back to what our heroes were about to do. Which is, I guess, splattering on the ground falling from hundreds of feet in the air! 😅
See you then!
Take care and be well!
(Also, here's a link to the Chapter Guide, the Glossaries (Part 1 and Part 2)
and the Map for the series. You're welcome!)
An important disclaimer: Mary Windfiddle's story is my notes from a D&D game turned into a narrative. All the worldbuilding and NPC encounters belong to our DM, and all the actions of the other main characters (Aurum, Bruno and Agatha) belong to my co-players. My contribution to the story is only everything Mary-related (actions, reactions, inner thoughts), as well as the writing itself.