Character Name: Dalia Vivian
Month: June
5 Lore Submissions:
Entry #11
I knew I’d seen this kind of movement before!
I had left the island with the screechers’ cave with many questions on my mind. I started following the river to the east. I quickly found a wooden pier on one side and could see that it was the end of the road I had been traveling on before. Near the side of the road there was a token and an abandoned caravan. I was curious to know who these things might belong to, but it was as if the road ended there, at the river. On the other bank there was also the wooden pier but there was no path. So I decided to continue following the river, looking for new clues.
I passed some red papoos and shortly afterwards I saw some screechers on top of the hills that flanked both banks of the river. I wasn’t going to stop as I’d had enough of the screechers. But I came to realize that they were moving in a way that I had already seen in the young screechers at Crystal Peak, in the many hours I spent there watching them: when in the presence of a high level screecher, the young ones seem to get more agitated. But how could there be a screecher of such a high level that would make the big ones behave like that?
Needless to say, that before I thought twice I was driving my strider up the ravine into the middle of the creatures. And that’s when I saw it: the Racc! I was right in the middle of Racc’s Hideout!
Of course, this time I didn’t stop to be attacked, as quickly as I went up the ravine, as quickly I went down. Some of the big screechers dove into the water after me, but they ended up drowning.
I marked the Racc’s Hideout location on the map. Now I have renewed my confidence again that this trip will not be in vain and that I still have so many things to discover!
Entry #12
The Haruspex: we have so much to learn from them! Yesterday I arrived at this place called Tanzanite View. So the caravans I was seeing on the way belong to them!
I thought it would be okay to come a little north as long as it didn’t get too close to the mountain area, and it was the best decision I could have made! Here everyone is very cordial and friendly.
Flora invited me to stay for a few days.
Early in the morning, Frederick was showing me around.
May said that she could help me gain some skills by crafting some items.
I only met Alve after lunch: he had gone on a mining trip and as soon as he arrived he looked at my backpack and said that it looks great for carrying mining material. He doesn’t even imagine that Herbert had it for exactly that purpose.
So in the afternoon I went to see the place with Frederick. He seems to be quite impressed with these big blue flowers and asked me to help him find some… No, wait! That was in the morning… or maybe before lunch? No! Before lunch I was watching the Hunting Specialist hunting one of these boars. The boar stew for dinner was delicious! Or rather… I think I’m a little confused… dinner was roasted fish and fruit salad, with the fruits I picked with Flora.
So in the afternoon I was crafting with May and we ended up going to clean up the mess Fri left behind when she decided to help make dinner. Fri seems a little crazy, always forgetting things and making a big confusion even with little things. So that’s when Alve and the Hunting Specialist arrived with a big boar they had hunted and we had roasted steak for lunch…well…wait, this doesn’t make any sense!
I’m certainly a little tired with so many things I’ve done today and maybe I should write things down correctly later.
Entry #13
My first day with the Haruspex was great. I’m looking forward to the things I’ll be able to learn.
May invited me to stay for a few days. She said she would show me the place and the people who live around here.
In the morning, I met Alve: he was going on a mining trip and said he would like to get a backpack like mine to carry mining material.
Fredrick showed up saying that Fri was again walking around without clothes so Flora went to help with the situation. So Frederick wanted to show me these big blue flowers and said I am good at finding them, so we could go look for some. But, I was seeing these flowers for the first time! It was also weird when May told me that I’m improving a lot in construction and that this way I can gain even more skills.
So then I helped Flora prepare lunch… well… yeah I think that was it… for a moment I was imagining that Flora was the first person I met when I arrived at this place… but of course that is impossible: the first one was Fri! I even wondered if she might be a little crazy, but I think she’s just distracted.
… wait… didn’t I write up there that I first met May?..
What a mess!..
This I remember very well: Flora came to call me to show me the place when I was talking with the Haruspex Elder! That was definitely first thing in the morning! And the Elder… well… that was an experience that is hard to describe! Exactly what they are I don’t know… but clearly they know many things we don’t about this place. As it was getting dark he told me that I could stay as long as I wanted and… what? this is not making any sense… again…
…maybe I should…
IMPORTANT: speak with Flora today
Don’t forget! The answer is in the details…
I need to get out of this place immediately!
Entry #14
I don’t know how many days I spent in that place… but it was probably too many!
My memory is still a little confused… I don’t even remember when or how I wrote the last two entries… although I have some fuzzy memories of actually doing these things… just fragments, details that made me realize that something was wrong.
But I don’t think the people there were trying to deceive me. Instead, it was as if everyone could see what was happening to me and were trying to give me tips.
Even at lunch, someone mentioned that I still hadn’t been able to eat with all of them together, either Alve was missing because he had gone to mine, or Fri was missing because she was doing some of her crazy things or simply because she forgot the time…
So I finally asked Flora directly how many days I had been with them. “A few! But you can stay as long as you want!”, she said.
“A few days? How is that possible?”, I thought. Am I supposed to believe that all those days I woke up looking forward to my first day there and to all that I could learn? "Yesterday I got to this place and today is my first day here!”, that was all I could remember!
I ran to my diary to find that it was true and that I had even written before that I needed to get out of that place. Why I didn’t do it immediately when I wrote it I don’t know… but this time I did it! I’ve been trying to put my memories in place and I decided to write my conclusions.
I don’t really remember everything that happened to me in Tanzanite, but at least now I’ve regained my sense of time and of what I’m doing. So everything went back to normal… well… except the fruits: I was sure I had picked a lot more than the ones I have… but for that I am sure will find a logical explanation!
Entry #15
I caught the fruit thief! I caught it in the act: a papoo snooping in my food. It ran when it saw me, leaving behind a red cap.
I was still so upset about all the recent events that I unleashed all my fury on the creature, protesting against him…
When I calmed down, the papoo, that was hiding behind a tree, slowly started to get closer: it seemed to want the hat… I threw it the cap and it was happy.
It was then that I heard a soft voice:
– So what about the food? Can I take it too?
“I’m really going crazy! Now I imagine the papoo talking.”, I thought.
– To share? – He said, staring at me.
– What? Do you really talk? – I asked still in disbelief.
– Yes, I talk. And what about our food?
– How? It can not be! Why do you talk?
– Well, you talk too… and a lot!
– Of course I talk! People talk, papoos don’t!
– Your logic isn’t very good: if I’m talking, then you can’t say that papoos don’t talk.
– What?.. okay, I’m not going to argue logic with a…with you. … So let’s try to start over: I’m Dalia. Who are you? Do you have a name?
– Dalia? Like the flower?
– Well, yes, like the flower.
– This can be quite confusing.
– How’s that?
– Well, if I tell someone that I talked to a Dalia, nobody will believe it, because everyone knows that flowers don’t talk. And that’s obvious! You’re not very smart, are you?
– What?.. Calm down, Dalia! You are talking to a papoo and a papoo’s logic is not logic at all!..
– Sorry to interrupt your thoughts, lady with a flower name, but maybe we’d better just talk about my food…
– YOUR food? … Sure! I can give you food! – I smiled to myself – I can do much better than that!
So that’s how I met Sebastian and convinced him to join me. After all, if I tell, no one will believe it. So tomorrow I’m going back home and I’m taking him with me.