Justain- God Fall 951- (Fifth month day 10)  

I left the house today with no real intention other than to make my way to a new town and see what they might have so that I can further my studies.  Upon arriving in this new town I found myself in search of water and was directed by a not too friendly town guard to a bar in the middle of town. Once inside I found my way to the bar and ordered some water from the barkeep which seemed to upset him. While waiting for the drink i was apparently robbed by a local cutpurse. The doorman at the bar attempted to catch him but ended up just creating a minor disaster area of spilled drinks and angry clients.  He was fired after these events and I was forced to exchange my pack for another that didn’t have a hole in it. I lost about 20 gold pieces to that cutpurse. I will take measures to prevent that in the future. I think keeping a purse of 30 or so copper coins on my belt as a decoy. As me and the doorman a part human by the name Bix Bog walked out of the establishment we encountered a goblin named Razzle. (encountered is a polite way of saying I tripped over him).  After exchanging pleasantries he asked me if the two of us would be looking for work. He also offered us soul contracts. Bix was not interested but I on the other hand had no objection to the offer and accepted. I signed the contract and in exchange for a small portion of my soul my rewards for completing jobs for the goblins is greatly increased by being paid in Glint and I enabled them to create another of these Souled goblins. Shortly after this we were approached by some gentlemen in stone armor with chains attached across the chest. World Binders  no doubt to it. They were not so happy about my choice to help the goblins but weren’t spoiling for a fight so we offered none. Rahzle had told us to meet him at the swamp gate the next morning to start our work for him. I needed some spell components and we went to a local shop Bix knew of to find them.

Once we entered the shop, I immediately went in search of the materials I needed while Bix talked to the shopkeep, a nice enough older lady.  He started acting funny and talking to her about cleaning up the shop then out of nowhere he runs down between some shelves and attacks some Unsouled goblins that were hiding there. Two of them came at me while he handled the other 3 in another corner. He made short work of them using his fists and handaxe. The two facing me weren’t much harder to take care of with a little of the magic I have been teaching myself. I was injured in the fray but the shopkeep was helpful enough to throw a nature based healing potion of some kind on me. It kept me alive while I can’t say much for the sensation it caused. The goblins all killed save one we were able to gather some small coin from the bodies and the shopkeep was forthcoming with some  information once everything was settled. She said that some World Binders had been in earlier demanding assistance and when she refused they came back shortly after and left the goblins in her shop. Why the World Binders would be employing unsouled goblins I can't understand except maybe trying to sow anti-goblin sentiment when they “attacked the shop” and at the same time punish a shopkeeper for not paying for their “protection”. The shopkeep was able to provide me the resources I needed and we handed over the live goblin to the town guard. The rest of the night was fairly uneventful.

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Justain - God fall 951 - Fifth month - day 11

After some unpleasantness with Bix’s landlord we were on our way to meet Razzle, we were informed upon meeting with him that we were searching for a ship that was his before God Fall.   Why the goblin is looking for such an old heap I do not know but we are getting paid to find it. We journeyed into the swamp we encountered a few creatures but nothing we couldn’t handle.

Justain - Godfall 951 - Fifth month - day 11

I am making this entry a couple days after the events of the journal. We encounted a large creature of some sort by a cliff, it was more than we could handle and I found myself trapped and under attack by the creature near the edge of the cliff as Bix attacked it from behind. I lost consciousness.

Justain -Godfall 951 - Fifth month - day unknown

I awoke today to find myself and Bix in rough shape being taken care of by Razhle. The creature that we were fighting absolutely decimated by some means unknown to me. I suspect the goblin had some hand in it but I am not familiar enough with their weapons to accurately determine. We found remnants of its body and a large portion of scorched forest beyond it.

Nearby we found the remains of another adventuring party after scavenging what we could from them including a spellbook from an unfortunate wizard and some stone gloves from another member along with various other trinkets we were on our way again. As we returned to Razhle the Ebony Star began to act up and it became obvious we were about to encounter some problematic things.   We ran as fast as we could but were eventually overcome by the black wave that followed after the tentril’s fall. We were hurriedly making for a village but two smaller apperiations appeared and we were able to fight them as ineffectual as we were and defeat them. A much larger apparition appeared and seemed to be able to warp the fabrics of nature in a manner unlike any magic I have ever read about. I became overwhelmed by it and according to Bix at one point I was babbling like some fool on the ground, while I don’t remember this part, I do believe him. I passed out once again and that is the last I remember before waking up in the snow.  How we escaped the creature and how we ended up on this Silt so far from the Bowl, I can only guess.