#edgedale

I decided I wanted to talk to Ghend before going to sleep, but I couldn’t find her in her room. I asked Thwack who said Ghend mentioned having plans with Auve for the evening. I had no idea where I might find them other than Zildata’s and...well...I wasn’t too keen on going there alone, so I decided to find Immith first.

Immith wasn’t hard to convince even though she had her hands inside a very attractive woman’s dress.

We found both Ghend in Auve’s room at Zildata’s, but Auve was badly hurt, like she had been in a fight. And she had. With me. Everyone in the room looked at me the way most surface people do the first time they see me, like I’m some kind of monster that will attack them. I told them that Zildata did something to me and that I didn’t remember anything, and Auve confirmed that Zildata ordered me. Immith told me to go get Raiva, which I did (even though I suspected he was on Zildata’s side).

I was wrong.

Raiva transformed his bracelets into some kind of communication device and called for backup while sealing the door shut. 

He filled us in, telling us the real reason he moved to this town was to investigate several disappearances, but he hadn’t gotten many leads until now. He started questioning Auve about what happened.

Auve had interrupted whatever it was Zildata was doing to me while I was charmed, and Zildata had ordered me to make Auve leave after she refused to follow Zildata’s orders to do so. Somehow, Auve managed to trick me into thinking Zildata told me to go back to The Bed, so I left. Auve managed to burn Zildata, but Zildata got away through some kind of hole in the wall.

After she was done talking Raiva’s backup arrived. It was Zora! She took charge and got us out of Zildata’s and told us to go gather our things and that she’d take us to a safe location for the night. I asked her something in undercommon and she replied, which confirmed to me that she was the one who left the mysterious note for me.

A few things happened today, but we’ll get to that later. First I have to write down a few things about Auve’s boss, Zildata.      Ghend and I first met her when we were visiting Auve’s workplace, but I didn’t know she was Zildata at the time. See, Zildata is actually two people who look the same and finish each other’s sentences. It’s very weird. I thought they were twins at first and that maybe they were linked telepathically to be able the speak like that, but people refer to her as one person.      It got even weirder when we went to the race and bumped into Zildata there. She gave me and Ghend a note each saying ‘Help. I’m not we.’, and she also gave Ghend a big bloodied coin featuring an elf with an evil smile on both sides. It was super creepy. The coin looked really old, but the elves on it looks a lot like Zildata, but it also looks like a nether elf. Ghend and I have no idea what the coin or note meant, but we figured we should wait until after the race before asking Zildata about it. We still haven’t talked to her, and I didn’t get anything useful from Auve or Raiva (the bartender at Zildata’s establishment).

Today was an interesting day too though. It started off with Ghend showing off her...uniform...that she has to wear while Immith is teaching her to fight. Considering Immith stripped down and sat naked in my room the first time we met I should not have been surprised by the uniform.      Anyway, Ghend went off to practice and I went to the bar to ask Boda when I had to be on stage. Boda was drinking heavily while a young tiefling girl worked behind the bar. Boda had a magic nail of some sort pierced through her hand the day before, so she has to take some time off, but she doesn’t seem to like that a pretty young tiefling is doing her job. The tiefling (Zora Skyfire) and I carried Boda to Raiva’s place. Apparently he’s her boyfriend.       On our way there Zora and I chatted for a bit. She’s in town looking for her friend, named Kevais, who’s got dark skin, darker than Boda's, really shiny brown hair and likes to wear a yellow ribbon in her hair. I need to keep that in mind in case I see her around.       Raiva invited us in for coffee and I got to ask him a few questions about the ghost in my room. He thinks it’s made up, but the real problem is that I can’t end the contract I have with the pint other than by dying. I think that’s ridiculous and asked why they haven’t changed the contract, but apparently that has to be approved by the town's Decency Council, and they aren’t too fond of non-humans. Zora said they gave her a whole lecture on how to act while in town since she’s a non-human guest. I guess I should ask her about that, so that I don’t accidentally break any rules. Raiva also told me the glass statue is of Caytec, the first warrior blessed by Xezzasix when this town's ancestors were still a tribe of people looking for a home.      When I got back to The Bed Twack took me to this secret place under The Bed that he just casually mined in his spare time, then he slammed my legs with a hammer. Turns out I can train down there! So Thwack is going to train me. Ghend told him how disappointed I was that I couldn’t train with her and Immith because of the magic that protects me from being hurt by anyone in or from this town.      When I got back from training I took a long bath and then Ghend came in and invited me to a graduation ceremony at the fighting school. We went out to get some food and drinks before going to the ceremony and I found out that Ghend is really into me, and I tried to tell her that I wasn’t into her and...it was a mess. I really like her, but she shouldn’t get too close to me. I’ll just end up leaving her like I left Liv. But anyway, we hugged and it had some water and went to Immith’s thing.      And Immith’s thing was super weird. she brought us to a judge’s table and suddenly we were ‘life and death experts’? Apparently the graduation ceremony involves dying, and we had to go up and make sure the students were actually killed in the fighting ring before they brought out the next graduating student. I think all but two died, then at the end they came back. Only the ones who had been killed graduated, and the graduating guys looked excited, while the girls didn’t. I asked Immith about it, but she didn’t give me an answer. I also asked why we were brought up to the table to help judge the deaths, and she said the daughter of the couple who owns the school told her to bring us there. I asked her about the names of that couple, but she completely blanked on me. I asked her again and as she tried to remember it seemed she was hurt and got a headache, a lot like when I use my vicious mockery.