Editing WS:Secret Diary of Varin (section)

===Session 12===
It seemed like the next few days would be just another quick bash and slash, followed by more wandering towards an army we wanted to take over, yet it became far more fun and interesting – thank Loki.

With our guard being scythed down, most of us awoke and immediately sent retribution towards those who had broken into our dreams. With both sides being armoured, this caused less damage than could have been hoped for, yet Thodric showed his mettle with the scum he was facing, knocking him unconscious. Then, brilliantly, appropriately and humorously, he pushed Riso—who was attempting to prevent the idiot attacker’s death—out of the way and coup de graced the teleporting fool.

The other attacker paused to pay attention to me, and paid for his action when Red grabbed him and I disarmed him. Thodric, amusingly, cuffed him. We tied him up, looted the bodies – much to the greedy enjoyment of us all – and then tried to interrogate him. Unfortunately, whatever the Baron did cause the elf’s brain to dribble out his ears—which caused much surprise among most of us, who had little realised, or even suspected, that elven heads actually contained brains.

The next day consisted of dull trudging, but then we came across that damn Seer again. Fortunately, this time I had little reason to need him silent, so I let him blather on. Indeed, it turned out to be quite funny—though it will cause some problems, on which I will have to think.

Most of the secrets of my current friends were let loose – some surprising; others, well, interesting, but who really cares? Constantia is a dark elf sorceress and the elves are attempting to wipe out humans? Well, that should spice things up for a while. The hive queen is trying to escape, not kill everything? Huh. At least that solves one problem. The Duke of Bayern is in league with the elves? Great! Looks like I have way to stop my skills getting rusty. Riso is a elf? Yawn.

On the plus side, I saw this bout of Seer-borne truthfulness coming and managed to get Thodric—or, should I say, Theodoric, an ex-ruler—to give his word to the Baron and I that for our help he would not attempt to do any of us harm for any past actions or associations we may have had. Just in time, too, as the cry of “Baaaaaastaaaard!” echoed from the Seer’s wagon. Red, it appeared, had just found out my earlier manipulations.

So I stole his device, gave it to my god, gave him back a fake and ensured the group chased figments of my imagination rather than suspecting Cadmus. You’d have thought I’d done something really bad. It’s not like I killed him and ate his corpse in front of his family. He took it all better than expected I guess, but, really, what did he expect? It’s not like he didn’t know who I worked for. Still, he’s a nice guy most of the time, if too prone to moralising over irrelevancies. I should probably work out a way to calm him down...

Anyway, the Baron, Riso and I got together to design a poison to knock off Constantia. However, we needed one item from the Wood Elves, whom our new cloaks fortunately gave us quick access to. So Riso and I took off to get it. we should be back soon.

Actually...with the poison in hand and Thodric wanting to smash rather than sneak, I may not come back for a bit. I can be more useful looking up the Duke of Bayern—and I may try to find Red’s device and whoever in the Hand played me. I mean, it is fair enough to play me, but that does not mean I have to like it or put up with it. So, yeah...once Riso gets us back with the stuff, I may dump him and head to visit a Duke. My rep could do with that sort of kill...

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