3/11/02

Well, we got back home simply enough. We did stop by the halfling's to pick up some fish.

When we arrived back, there was lots of studying to do. I actually studied for the Ethics mid-term, but that guy has it in for me. I haven't received results yet, but I'm positive that they won't be good, even though I did rather well.

There's some new guy in our dorm. They gave him the big abandoned room with the big window. We didn't know why then, but we do now. The big bummer was that the maids cleaned out the closet. You know "The Closet", with the "Weed" in it. The "Devil Weed" in the "Big Pot". It's all gone, so my stash is a bit lower than usual. Drat. We tried to find it, but it was gone. Luckily I have that upperclassman who is still a very good connection.

The new guy, Spark, also had some detention coming. Apparently he was kidnapped by pirates or something. I've actually used that excuse before. He was probably just sitting in the forest looking for mushrooms. That's what I was doing.

Our mission, whether or not we chose to accept it, was to go out to some house that was donated to the university and collect any valuables and board it up. To tell the truth, I wasn't really listening the the Druidic Professor. She probably had an idea that this was the case, so she gave us our instructions in writing.

So, we left that night. We actually had a lot to do, and not much time to do it, so we decided to travel through the night in the wagon that the professor gave us.

About midnight, or a few hours later, we heard some tinkling noises off the road, so we decided to investigate. we found a tree with golden fruit and silver leaves. We quickly decided that this was way too good to be true and that this place was either guarded by a serious beasty or it was a trap. So we took off. Shigara had picked up a fruit, and then the tree started talking. We asked it if we could each take a fruit, and It said that was fine if we all left. Sounded good to us, so we did. The fruit turned into rocks. Figures.

Then Spark was flying around, and saw this house. We decided that it was probably the place we we looking for and decided to check it out in the morning. We slept.

In the morning, we tried the front door, but the place was like a vault. So we found a broken window and climbed inside. The room was pretty thrashed, and I started to check out the rest of the house. Then, I heard a scream and went back. Some huge centipede thing was attacking Skyld. It bit him, and Skyld looked a bit woozy. So, I chopped the thing in half.

I told everyone, "OK, no more searching old musty couches," but I don't think they were listening.