Today wasn’t particularly fun. For whatever reason, though likely random chance considering the forces at work, Fate seemed intent on giving me worse than normal consequences today. Which means I built it up faster today than most days, but still, it wasn’t fun.

You see, normally it causes me to do something like trip over my own feet or say something on my mind that is embarrassing but ultimately harmless. This is always really embarrassing, mostly because I have done everything I possibly can to make myself feel even more embarrassed when it happens, but ultimately tolerable. It’s definitely worth the rewards.

Today, however, started with me getting hit in the head with a brick traveling faster than I could see. My head was thoroughly crushed by this, and if I had a brain behind my eyes I likely would have died instantly. Instead, all I got was a lot of pain and embarrassment, and someone almost got lynched.

It didn’t really get worse from there, not consistently anyway, but it definitely didn’t get better. Just an hour ago some scholar accidentally dropped a colony of termites on me, really efficient termites. I am so glad I can turn off my sense of pain at will, but even with that feeling so many tiny creatures chew through your body rapidly is not a fun experience. Needless to say, I lit myself on fire, I burned slower than they did.

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All of this made it much harder to focus on my work, which was the most frustrating part. It wasn’t impossible, but I got maybe half the work done that I wanted to today. And while I did gain quite a bit of Fate, I prefer the steady, constant, and reliable progress of my normal day to day work to the random and chaotic boons I get from Fate. While at the same time I can’t just not Improve my Fate as often as I can, doing that is an integral part of my body. I built something using Spellwood to help me do it even when I was focused entirely on other things, stopping that would take a lot of work and ultimately wouldn’t be worth the effort.

I don’t really feel like talking about what I accomplished today because thinking about it makes me frustrated and my downtime was spent trying to deal with the results of today's string of bad luck. With the way I use Fate this was bound to happen eventually, and the occasional thing like this does happen frequently, but never this frequently. I’m also choosing to be more frustrated by this than I otherwise would be because that means I profit off it more, but still, not fun.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.