So about the games. I uhh actually I didn’t join at first because I had this messenger job first - I really was trying to do what I could to get some extra for the weapon that I need to save my mom. When I came back actually a lot of stuff happened - like I think they saved Torags mom, and found out about some bad stuff happening at Lutheria’s temple, and something about a wine trade thing that I didn’t really get? I was helping out with that too - it involved Pachinko disguising himself as Ellie to join me and MAN do they keep on finding new ways of making things awkward for me!! He was all cozy and I’m pretty sure I saw Nyssa (that’s my tiny dragon, if you don’t remember) gagging over it at some point.
Anyway we were also really getting into trying to free the minotaurs, since they’re used as slaves and sacrifices like, all the time here.
I did join the games eventually and they were fun but I wasn’t very good at it. In the end it was just Torag and Dardanus, although Pachinko and I think Astria helped them with magic. I meanwhile put up a little stand to sell some random stuff to make some more money. Like the daggers that I used and other stuff. I also sold some stuff about supporting Torag or Dardanus during the games. It was fun because everyone was helping, like Pachinko made some songs to attract people, and Nyssa guarded the money with all her tiny might! It worked pretty well, but then you look at the enormous amount you still need to find somehow and it’s actually not that much at all…
Anyway, eventually there were the finals and we were all allowed to join! I was doing the swimming part since I can hold my breath well and I did ok, kinda like the other sport people. Which is still good, right? The others did much better, which that as a group we actually ended up winning!! We were standing there in the arena and everyone was cheering, it felt great! Although Dardanus and Torag were really the winners because they got a lot of medals. Torag got some branch to put on his head. When there they were still really trying to tell people sacrificing minotaurs is bad, and actually people started to listen a bit.
Oh also, while the games were going on there was a this really beefy minotaur about to be sacrificed. Of course with the no-sacrifice thing we were doing we wanted to save him and it was actually amazing because Astria and Pachinko used like all their magic to make it seem like Sydon was really angry at all this sacrificing stuff. Everyone was so scared, haha. In the end Falios made him invisible and he managed to get out of there. Now Bullbug the beefy is traveling with us!!
Also we found a person turned into stone. Apparently there’s this lady of coin going about doing that? I can’t really remember but there was also another lady involved that escaped, and somehow we ended up at this rich guy’s house that wanted her killed I think. In the end we didn’t really do much with it for some reason, and I don’t think there were any more people turned to stone. Not that I know anyway.
And finally… Hmm I guess I should write about the thing with the vineyard… So umm, while I was gone they fixed something for this vineyard guy and he said he’d give this music instrument to us. I think it used to belong to Kyrah before it was stolen. Anyway instead of giving it the guy broke it and then people got angry and somehow a fight broke out. I might have… Accidentally killed the guy, really, really hard. Like.. I don’t know what happened, but it just didn’t make sense for why we were fighting. I guess I didn’t even really understand why we were fighting and how bad of a guy that was, other than especially Pachinko and Torag being really angry. So I felt horrible about that, that I kind of lost myself in the fight like that… I guess it sometimes feels like we’re playing somehow? Like it’s fun to do? Maybe I am a bit like Pythor, but in not a good way I think... Dardanus tried to comfort me in saying that if I wouldn’t have done it he would have, but still.
So we tried to, as some sort of apology, give him a reasonable burial at least. Also apparently he controlled this water elemental used to water the vineyard and now the wine supply to the whole of Mythros is probably going to crap. So uh… That’s… My bad…
