Kaire was murdered today. She’s fine now, physically at least, but being dead seems to have shaken her up quite a bit.

Backing up a little bit, I was doing some special event game type thing with Azrezel that I will get to in a moment when suddenly something started orbiting me. It took a minute for me to realize that it was Kaire’s soul and that she was still conscious. After that, it didn’t take long for me to figure out how to communicate with her and from there she told me that she was murdered. Well, it was probably more of an assassination, but it is hard to know now as I was a bit overzealous when dealing with the perpetrator. I feel bad for the guys that have to fix and clean up that part of town. I didn’t know one creature could hold that much blood.

Anyway, I spent the next little while asking the dungeons about the whole thing with her soul orbiting me. I had heard about dungeon’s being able to resurrect specific followers after they had died and figured it had something to do with that. Anyway, what I learned is that one it is incredibly weird that I have gone this long without it happening to me and two it is indeed caused by my dungeon core. Though normally I wouldn’t be able to do anything about it for quite a while.

See, when a dungeon creature dies while inside of the dungeon its soul is captured by the dungeon core before it can degrade or reincarnate. This only works for creatures whose souls I have seeded as the mechanism relies on the bits of my own soul used in the process of anchoring theirs to the body. Kinda similar to how necromancers use pieces of their own soul to control the undead. This doesn’t work outside of the dungeon because a core only has control within its own borders. Even a step outside is too much, though you might get lucky and have the soul fly back in as it is trying to move on.

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So, to recap. Someone assassinated Kaire, I failed to extract any information from the assailant, and I can bring my Ents back to life if they die in my forest. Unfortunately, at this point it is a little too late to try and keep them all in my forest, unless I cover the entire world with it. At this point it is only a matter of time. And I built Kaire a new body, a bit better than her old one.

Now, back to the puppet thing. Azrezel suggested that we do a little event. He suggested that I build a fortress and have him try to siege it, both using the same amount of mana. We were to take today to build and design our parts and tomorrow we would do the actual siege. I think I did a good job, though I have no idea what goes into a good fortress. I look forward to testing it against Azrezel tomorrow. I’m getting really excited for this.

Now that I think about it isn’t that why I stopped in the first place? The whole sparring thing was making me more violent before. And then that whole thing today with the assassin, I killed him. Yeah, it wasn’t in cold blood or anything like that, but normally I would have at least tried to subdue and interrogate him. I acted completely on instinct and anger and ended his life brutally. Logically I know I should be appalled by this, I don’t want to kill people, in fact, I try to actively avoid it as much as possible. But I feel indifferent to his death, no, worse, I feel satisfaction over his death. And now that I am writing this all down and fully realizing it I am freaking out. I don’t want to be violent and aggressive. I don’t want to lash out in anger. I don’t want to kill people when there are better options.

I’m going to stop with the sparring after tomorrow’s event. As fun as it is I don’t think it is worth it.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.