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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steverooo" data-source="post: 2605493" data-attributes="member: 9410">Eredave's Journal: New World, Day 1Off the Forge, at last!  Here's hoping I never see THAT place, again!  As many worlds as I've been thrown to, you'd think I majored in World-Hopping!  Makes me wonder if Evadere somehow managed to fire off a curse, before she died...  As many as I've gotten out of, though (including the ones that're supposed to be impossible!), you'd think I majored in Escape Artistry!  Anyway, I spent money I didn't really have on more maps.  This place surely isn't Greyhawk!  I'll have to make my way to a large city, somewhere, someplace where they have Sages knowledgable of the Planes, and see if I can find any way home...  I wonder how much that will cost?  These Humans always want money for everything!  If I'm lucky, maybe I can find some Elves.The people here don't even speak Common!  Amazing how many worlds that seems to work on.  This is the first one I've been to where it hasn't worked.  Thank God for that, anyway!  Despite the communication problem, the Humans here are a typical lot, from what I've seen.  A little more afraid of the forest than most.  They seemed to find it odd that I rode in alone...I met an interesting bunch in the inn, this morning...  A pretty little girl, Elvish (or more probably descended, as she didn't seem to have the wisdom of a century of living)... I haven't seen violet eyes, in a while!  A Sorceress, by the looks of her (although she had no spell component case), and talkative as all get-out (even if I didn't understand a word of it)!  I'm only 120, and she seems to have more energy than I do!  Almost ran into me, with my saddlebags!  Then there was the big, bad Barbarian...  I avoided him.  I still don't trust the last one I met...A couple of Fighter-types, an Axeman who reminded me a bit of the legendary Karl Belford, although of less Noble bearing...  The other looked like a typical shifty merc...  Probably a Farmboy-cum-Rogue, before that.  Not that I hold that against him! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  He didn't try to pick my pocket, and I returned the favor.  I also didn't claw him up so much that he fell out the window he just came in, and broke his neck on the ground, like the last one who tried that, either.  Profit for the both of us!A couple of religious types, one probably a Paladin, the other obviously a Cleric.  They both had the same holy symbol, although I didn't recognize it.  I greeted the Paladin, but he didn't seem to notice (or maybe he just didn't understand me... who knows, in this place?  I probably got the word for "Hello" wrong!).  The Cleric seemed absorbed in self-contemplation, so I just let'em go.  They both looked like they had other things on their minds...The Bard was odd, though...  Even the evil ones seem to have more charisma than this one bothered using...  She seemed the most mean-spirited thing, with her own party, that I've ever seen.  I wonder what her problem was?  Maybe she's as unhappy with her current adventuring party as I was with the last two.The last guy had the build and balance of a dancer, but the large, lumpy muscles of a weight-lifter, and no spell component case, either.  Maybe a really buff Sorcerer who eschews materia, or more likely a Monk.  They all looked pretty low level, with nothing obviously magical, but you never know...They discussed some business of theirs, right out in public...  I assume they must be new to adventuring.  I could have overheard all their plans, if I'd a mind to...  Fortunately for them, I wasn't interested.  I think I learned about five or six words during breakfast, though.Well, they have their business, and I have mine.  Never again, the "joining with a party, along the road, for safety in numbers".  NEVER AGAIN!  That's how I got transported to the last two worlds, willy-nilly!  No, THIS time, I'm going straight cross-country, off the roads and through the woods!  I don't care how dangerous the locals think the forest is.  It's almost home, to an ancient Elven Ranger like me, and I can be in that big city (what was its name, again?  I'll have to check the map, when I stop for lunch, and see if I can decipher any more of the script) in less than two weeks, cutting almost a month of travel time!Unless it's arrow-proof, I pity anything that gets in my way! <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" />  Hopefully the next forest I see will be on the Flanaess!  I'm in no mood to be held up!I'd better get down to the stable and give Arrohir his feed.  It'll be a long time before he gets any more!  We've still got a long way to ride!</blockquote>

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