By chance, I caught sight of the person while they were placing an explosive potion. They teleported away before I managed to get a good look at them, but judging by the fact that they have breasts I think it is safe to say they are female. There are species where the males have breasts, but she was way too small to belong to one of those species. Maybe a goblin or a gnome of some kind, I would have to get a better look at her in order to be certain.

The potion was still very much explosive, but it hadn’t been set to teleport when I found her. According to Tiddol, it is basically just a more refined version of the one we got previously, ingredients are all the same but the person that made it took longer to make a better potion.

Unfortunately, this did not prevent another attempt on Tiddol’s life today, that’ll teach us for letting our guards down for even a moment. Physically she is fine, but I can tell that the stress is getting to her. I’ve never seen someone so twitchy and paranoid in my life, it took a lot of effort just to get her to calm down enough to sleep.

There are still a lot of people that match the description of ‘small female’ here, but it is significantly fewer than we were looking at before. Of course the fact that they were able to walk around without a military escort means it might be a bit more difficult to actually find them, that plus the fact that my trees haven’t noticed anything means that they must have some stealth related abilities. Maybe an item of some sort? I highly doubt that one person is able to be a master teleporter, a master alchemist, and a master at stealth without also being a true immortal. Which they obviously aren’t as if they were Tiddol would just straight up be dead, nothing we can do about that. It might be a small team of people though, it would be a lot more reasonable for a teleporter to be good at sneaking around and for that person to be working with an alchemist than for one person to have all three skill sets.

I spent most of my day reading people’s memories, but no luck there quite yet. I also figured out that it is nearly impossible to learn any practical skills by reading people’s memories unless it is something I am already good at. Something about the level of obscurity between my brain and theirs makes it difficult to understand stuff like that, would be useful if I ever found a skilled healer that would let me pick their brains a bit though.

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I have quite a bit of Fate built up, more than I have ever built up before on account of my newfound lack of a need to sleep. I will burn that tomorrow while I am looking for the person trying to kill Tiddol, along with everything else we know hopefully that will be enough.

Azrezel, with the help of the dungeons, made a pretty big discovery today. They figured out why the only intelligent undead are those that were turned into undead while still alive. Something about seeding the soul into a corpse prevents the soul from forming properly, it simply doesn’t connect to the body the way it should. Nothing you do to the physical body of the undead is going to change that. This is another thing that makes absolutely no sense to me. I understand if the corpse is damaged, that might cause some issues. But even when I create a ‘corpse’ with flesh manipulation and have Azrezel raise it that issue is still there, despite the fact that the ‘corpse’ is in perfect condition and has never had a soul in it previously. Also, how is it any different from what I do when I create Ents? I have watched both happen, it is pretty much the same process both times. It isn’t complicated, and aside from the whole ‘split a piece of your soul off’ thing it isn’t difficult either. It only makes sense from the perspective of someone trying to cripple necromancers, having intelligent undead that were easy to create would be a huge boon to necromancers.

Luckily there is a way to fix that, by manually fixing what went wrong when the soul was forming. Unfortunately, Azrezel is only really able to interact with his own soul, and even then only really to form an undead. So he asked me to help him with that issue, which is something I am definitely capable of. I’ll do it as soon as we catch Tiddol’s would be assassin. Integrating a plant into someone’s body takes a really long time if I want to make sure not to mess up anywhere. And making sure Tiddol doesn’t die is the number one priority right now.

Unless we want to turn Tiddol into an undead, which does have some very obvious benefits in this situation, I don’t think Azrezel’s skill set would be too useful right now. I know he feels guilty about that, but there is very little he can do to help here, unfortunately.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.