They tried to get me to swab the poop deck! The poop deck! How dare they?!

Sure, we were hired by a ship to try and bait pirates into attacking us to take them down, and were to aid around the ship some, but they ASKED ME TO SWAB THE POOP DECK! Absolutely insufferable. Preposterous! To think they would ask someone of my bearing to swab the thrice damned POOP DECK! First of all, these hands are far too delicate for manual labor. To dirty such is practically sinful! Secondly, IT WAS THE POOP DECK! YES I'M STILL ANGRY ABOUT IT ALMOST 3 WEEKS LATER DON'T JUDGE ME!

-Jax Waures

This time, we weare hired by an anonymous third party to fight in a battle in Orlbar. But we were given a map of the city and the plans of an orc band that would coincidentally happen at the same time. We were to slip into a warehouse occupied by some unsavory parties and take them down. We crossed a frozen river to sneak into the city (though I was nearly pulled under the ice by a clumsy companion) and ghosted into the city.

Somehow. Some way. We chose the exact building that had the boss of this unsavory party in it. Thus ensues what was at first a quite comedic fight where I got heavy use out of the command spell, and much rolling like a pillbug from the boss. It nearly became a very grim day when reinforcements arrived, but some healing from Cal and I managed to keep everyone alive and well. We triumphed in the end, and were not required to report back.

• Jax Waures

This... fucking.. job.

I don't even want to write about it. But I should.

We were hired by a halfling in a town called Honeypuddle to apprehend a criminal by the name of Elsie Rumknuckle. We failed in that task due to extenuating circumstances. She was to be at a festival the town was hosting, and we needed to find her amongst this festival. It was the great pudding festival, and we did find her and put her under arrest during the final event. But then, someone turned the mayor into a frog. We thought we could follow and try to help, but as it turns out it was a god, and another goddess had followed. They began arguing, and for some reason that may forever elude me as I have more common sense than a damned peanut, Sylthas decided to expose us to the pair of arguing gods. I won't go into detail as it may damage my mental health and Gyaba has covered it quite succintly.

We were cursed and forced to repeat the 14th of Alturiak for 2 weeks because of Sylthas' incompetence, but eventually we broke the loop, failed the contract as Elsi had been part of the loop as well, and killed a group of mercenaries that were also part of it and were opposing us (they say it's because they had to watch their companion die every day since he was injured, but they could have just come to us for healing for the man..?)

I'm getting a headache writing this so I will stop here.

This day we were hired by a merchant caravan to escort them along the Stonajaw river, and overall the actual escorting experience was rather peaceful. But of course, there will always be a hiccup with these contracts. Along the way, about 3 days in, a golden retriever approached our caravan and after a while we somehow realized it was trying to lead us somewhere. After we got a writ ensuring we would not be responsible for any damages that happened to the caravan while we were gone and dealing with this (they were oddly going along with this? Like, very adamant that we followed this random dog).

The dog led us to a large cave system which we explored, with steam vents coming up and burning us. After some slow exploring, we found that the dog was leading us to a group of goblins and hobgoblins that had kidnapped a group of animals (apparently the dog's friends. Also the dog was a person I think?) under the service of a supposedly terrifying dragon.

We freed the animals and left, but were chased down by the dragon. Which was.. a tiny one. No taller than any of us. We ambushed it and took it down, and scared off the bugbears that had followed it. Then we returned to the caravan and were greeted by the dog's... I don't even know what their relationship is. A wizard in the local area that had killed the parent of the dragon we had killed. We were paid, finished the caravan, and returned to the Syndicate.

Our first contract! Oh how naive we were. We were hired by the mayor of Shining Falls, as there was an issue of goblins in the area that were stealing from locals and merchants. We were tasked to remove them from the area, and along the way figure out if there were more as well as why they were being hostile.

We tracked them down to near their camp, but were ambushed upon approaching. It was a rough fight, with around 8 goblins and worgs. Bri and I came close to death, myself being knocked unconscious several times and resuscitated by healing. It was.. not fun. Several goblins got away, and we were unable to proceed to their camp, though we did capture one for interrogation to find more about their clan.