## Fragments of a Wizard's Journey

Here lie the echoes of Arcaena's past moments, whispers, and memories.

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## Start of the Journey?

I found myself with my usual group of adventurers. I forgot again what we needed to do, or what we did last. I do remember though, that I had 20 gold pieces.

## Getting trapped and the duke.

We were called from the adventurer's guild to help some dude, I don't remember at this point, he was quite the odd one.

He needed to go to a city to deliver some supplies. We went through a forest, and got ambushed by Goblins. The goblins were quite weak and there weren't that many. Only about 5 for our group of 5. I ended up exploding one of them with a firebolt, getting the paladin full of goblin soup. Absolutely disgusting. He seemed to be okay with it though, even somewhat... happy? Perhaps he thought he was the one that killed it just by looking at it.

After we got rid of the goblins, we continued our way to the city. We got there without any other issues. On the entrance we were stopped by guards, I tried not to talk as I'm horrible with people. He asked us to see the cargo, and turns out we had been tricked into carrying illegal goods. The guards took us to the jail. We were there for about...30 minutes? An hour? We were taken to see the duke, which was another goofball. In a bad way. He asked us to go and save his son from bandits, he would let us go if we did it.

My question is simple: Why do I keep getting into these situations?

Anyways we accepted, because we had no other choice.

Even if we could have just escaped the city afterwards, why would the duke care about some random low life adventurers? He wouldn't. We went to a bar to gather information, the paladin started a fight with some guy that escaped through the window. It was kinda amusing as I didn't ask for any alcohol and the lizard had to pay for the paladin's desaster.

After that, the lizard and me went to the center of the city, to find our party, but we couldn't find them. I think someone hit the lizard as he lay on the ground unconscious. I poked him with my staff to wake him up. But instead dealt some of damage to him. Oops. My memories after that are a little hazy.

## Dream?

I remember waking up in a field, surrounded by fog, we found a small gnome that had a shack nearby. My team members decided it was a good idea to kill the rats there. They were the gnome's pets. ...Yeah... Suddenly a big ass dragon thing with three heads appeared and started attacking us. I believe it was a Hydra. I don't know how the paladin was able to not die, as the hydra bit him multiple times. After this, we found ourselves on the ground of a forest, as we were leaving, we got ambushed by an elf, he said he wanted us to go to their city.

## Meeting the Elf Queen

For whatever reason we met with a Wood Elf Queen, or leader or something. The elf called "Rigoberto" brought us to her. She was acting very hostile towards me, even if I was just silent the whole time. I really, really don't care about this whole situation with the races and politics. I thought she was going to attack us, but she just wanted to kill Rigoberto for... bringing us there? I remember she had a crown of flowers.

I was the one that was forced to speak though, because I was the only one that knew Elvish. The most annoying part was that she kept looking at me funny like she was mad at me, not like I cared. I just wanted to leave. Bitch was crazy. I didn't even want to be there, why do I keep getting into these situations???

I think we were looking for a way to get to the bandits camp. To search for the son of a nobleman who had been kidnapped. That's what we told her anyways, and she seemed to buy it. We left the city after buying an overpriced armor for one of the members of the group. I had to put one of gold, and talk to the overjoyed shopkeeper. As again, nobody else knew Elvish. Perhaps we were his first customers in a good while, apparently they don't use metal.

## Confrontation with the Bandits

After leaving the wood elf camp, we made our way to the bandits' camp. The journey was uneventful. As we approached the camp, the paladin in our group suggested he would go with his bigass armor to sneak around and see the layout of the camp. I thought that was a terrible idea, but whatever. He went off on his own. The lizard ran to accompany him, and I stayed back with the rest of the group. They were able to take the bandits by surprise, in the dumbest way possible. Attacking them after they pretended to be bandits, every time the bandit turned around, he just smashed his head. The aftermath was kinda gross.

## A quiet day.

After we took the son of the nobleman back to his father, which he wasn't expecting, we were given a reward.

I spent my day reading in one of the town libraries. The group said they wanted to do, something... I think. I don't remember. I just wanted to be alone and read for a while. I was tired of all the noise. I think I might have fallen asleep there, because when I woke up, there was a ruckus outside.