12. Szraiels ‘Notes aboot Notin’

Now that we are government people it seems everyone feels a bit more puffed up, walking with authority – or at least ego.

Seems a shame no one bought a decent outfit. Apart from me and my new armour the rest are still wearing the thoroughly stained, fetid smelling clothes they fought, lived, slept in on the island. It really is curious. I heard that between washing hands, clean cloths and not eating where they poop humans basically doubled their lifespan overnight, managed to learn some magic that then added that much again .. so now they have 3x the life they had. I really cannot see it. They don’t buy new cloths, rarely wash.. never clean after leaving the toilet. It seems they are so reliant on magic a mere dead magic area would kill them in short order.

At least people get out of our way. We marched over to the warehouse to check on the supplies the government had amassed for the trip. Some blackfellas were there setting fire. I have to say it was good to be able to stand tall and look them in the eyes. We worked well as a team and shunted water about to stop the fire spreading. Unfortunately the building was toast. We managed to capture them after talking ron and titus down. Titus managed to threaten them, with what really amounted to lies, in prison that they revealed their base.

Next day we went to attack the whaling company their ‘brudders’ were. Their boss was rallying a mob using jask as a prop. I predicted he might get caught up and at the crescendo of the speech kill jask to trigger it, so it was imperative to remove the motivation to kill him (then and there). I had a new toy (a new spell power I had manifested) that I REALLY want to try out. I was going to use it but the paladin went berserk. I really wasn’t convinced a 10ft square swarm of slow spiders would do anything much but make them run. They really are a nuisance more than anything. That said he seemed VERY convinced so instead I was to blocked their view of the leader with a illusory wall, he objected that it would block us from seeing so I made a image of their god rejecting the speech. 

It worked, no longer captured by a spectacle they were easily spooked to run. A great success a riots are known to spread faster than any fire .. and with our luck with fire in my mind I HAD to avoid that.  What I had not predicted was the stupidity of these black mammals. Jask could still be a defence, a tool, a level, a trigger for a riot later. Instead their boss just cut his throat and dropped him. I don’t understand – if he wanted to kill him it would have been better to do it before and now it was better to save him for later especially when you’re up on a fortification behind lines and lines of armed militant activists.

I thought we might be out of our depth but seeing their leader had already resigned his fate and quit I attacked bravely with force I could not have otherwise mustered. Myself and Helga split of to take down the archers using our superior mobility and with some quick moves, spells and luck managed to down them as ron arrived and found titus finishing some others.

Its a pity about Jask, I really have to work out these humans better, I give them too much credit.