Literary Revenant
One Thousand Club
Captain's Log, Janet, Captain of the Light Lotus Company. Norg, if you're reading this looking for recounts of my love affairs, I'll kick your ass and cut your pay!
Today is the third Volgrodanen of Veiss. As the days grow colder, business is sparse. I haven't been able to scrounge any work from the Balthoran Nobles, not even The Board, no one has. It's been a shitty time for any form of business, the money from our last escort job has run out. We will need more to survive the rest of the winter. What's worse is that we lost almost all our crew to the Templars of Balthora. They joined me to become mercenaries, proud mercenaries! They took my oath and spat on it; joining those pathetic excuse for life Templars. From 25 we are down to 4, and that's including me. I hate to say it but not even Thon could reverse this fucking mess. We got a simple delivery job coming up this week, at last a job! Hopefully this will restore the morale of the boys. End Entry.
Captain's Log, Janet, Captain of the Me, Myself, and I company.
Today is the fourth Heldanen of Veiss. I might as well throw in the towel, I lost Norg and the last two members of my company during our last mission. Norg was killed after 'sampling' the product and getting caught by the Warden. What were we delivering? 50 Barrels of high grade Aldanor, solidified explosive magic shit which according to Norg made for a great narcotic. We got the 49 and a Half barrels to our contact, some pompous noble in the Nethers of Balthora, but he reported us to the Warden to 'illegally shipping contraband'! The nerve of him, hiring us only to later make us his scapegoat to tie loose ends... I should've known better than to trust the Nobles. As for Norg well... he died trying to fight off the Warden and 5 of his men. He fought well but was slain by beheading. Back in my earlier days I would've worshiped such strength, but now I feel I cannot even respect anyone with the strength to lift a pen. I was able to charm the Warden into releasing me and my men, worst two minutes of my life by the way, yet they still chose to leave me saying that I was some washed up nobody clinging to the past.
Like I care... I was not paid for the job so either I get an easy solo job soon or I gotta make money some other way. I'd really rather not sell my dignity as a mistress of the night again but if I have to... Well we'll see when it gets to that point. I should pay a visit to the Rose Gardens, I hear they have some Lotuses growing in the pond, I'd love to see them. Give me some hope for the future in this degrading cesspool of a world. End entry.
Captain's Log, Janet, Captain of the Lonely Lotus Company.
Today is the first Ysildanen of Thira, and possibly my last entry in this journal. It has been a long few weeks since my last job and now I am out of coin. I can honestly say that I miss Norg's company, hell even Lloyd would make for fun conversation. These lonely days are starting to bother me, I never thought I would feel this way but I've been wrong before. The only hope I have left is to send my company to the new world of Vian... Elana only knows how expensive that will be. I've heard rumors of the King wanting skilled help In the new world, something about fending off the other nations attacking Balthoran settlements. The only problem is that our party is small, like just me small. We will need a helluva lot more members to get preferential treatment in the mission deployment.
Really what I truly need is a sponsor. The Templars have already gotten their sponsor, the same noble who hired me for the delivery job. That asshole doesn't know quality work from hiring monkeys to dance at the carnival. However my luck getting a sponsor as a freelancer is noneexistent. I'd have better luck weaving magic than finding a sponsor. If only I could get more people to just join my company then maybe I'd have a chance to restore my name and that of the Light Lotus Company. End entry.
Captain's Log, Janet, Captain of the Light Lotus Company
Today is... oh who cares!!!! We just got the best new member ever! A Ramirov! And I didn't even have to sleep with him! Well.... hes not really a member, I just found him bloodied, half dead in the forest buuuuut I managed to convinced him to join my company in exchange for a favor. He's from Vian, the new world! If only he was Balthoran maybe I'd let him be my boyfriend... Back to the point! Ramirov is from Fra... Fraiz... some place called Frostburne in Vian. He can speak with the Customs Officer and get us a ship to Vian for free, as he is a Native to Vian. That means I can transport an entire company to Vian for free! A no hassle sponsor! We should have members and a contract in no time! The Light Lotus Company will be number one again! I just gotta make the forms and we should be all set to go![/parchment]
Today is the third Volgrodanen of Veiss. As the days grow colder, business is sparse. I haven't been able to scrounge any work from the Balthoran Nobles, not even The Board, no one has. It's been a shitty time for any form of business, the money from our last escort job has run out. We will need more to survive the rest of the winter. What's worse is that we lost almost all our crew to the Templars of Balthora. They joined me to become mercenaries, proud mercenaries! They took my oath and spat on it; joining those pathetic excuse for life Templars. From 25 we are down to 4, and that's including me. I hate to say it but not even Thon could reverse this fucking mess. We got a simple delivery job coming up this week, at last a job! Hopefully this will restore the morale of the boys. End Entry.
Captain's Log, Janet, Captain of the Me, Myself, and I company.
Today is the fourth Heldanen of Veiss. I might as well throw in the towel, I lost Norg and the last two members of my company during our last mission. Norg was killed after 'sampling' the product and getting caught by the Warden. What were we delivering? 50 Barrels of high grade Aldanor, solidified explosive magic shit which according to Norg made for a great narcotic. We got the 49 and a Half barrels to our contact, some pompous noble in the Nethers of Balthora, but he reported us to the Warden to 'illegally shipping contraband'! The nerve of him, hiring us only to later make us his scapegoat to tie loose ends... I should've known better than to trust the Nobles. As for Norg well... he died trying to fight off the Warden and 5 of his men. He fought well but was slain by beheading. Back in my earlier days I would've worshiped such strength, but now I feel I cannot even respect anyone with the strength to lift a pen. I was able to charm the Warden into releasing me and my men, worst two minutes of my life by the way, yet they still chose to leave me saying that I was some washed up nobody clinging to the past.
Like I care... I was not paid for the job so either I get an easy solo job soon or I gotta make money some other way. I'd really rather not sell my dignity as a mistress of the night again but if I have to... Well we'll see when it gets to that point. I should pay a visit to the Rose Gardens, I hear they have some Lotuses growing in the pond, I'd love to see them. Give me some hope for the future in this degrading cesspool of a world. End entry.
Captain's Log, Janet, Captain of the Lonely Lotus Company.
Today is the first Ysildanen of Thira, and possibly my last entry in this journal. It has been a long few weeks since my last job and now I am out of coin. I can honestly say that I miss Norg's company, hell even Lloyd would make for fun conversation. These lonely days are starting to bother me, I never thought I would feel this way but I've been wrong before. The only hope I have left is to send my company to the new world of Vian... Elana only knows how expensive that will be. I've heard rumors of the King wanting skilled help In the new world, something about fending off the other nations attacking Balthoran settlements. The only problem is that our party is small, like just me small. We will need a helluva lot more members to get preferential treatment in the mission deployment.
Really what I truly need is a sponsor. The Templars have already gotten their sponsor, the same noble who hired me for the delivery job. That asshole doesn't know quality work from hiring monkeys to dance at the carnival. However my luck getting a sponsor as a freelancer is noneexistent. I'd have better luck weaving magic than finding a sponsor. If only I could get more people to just join my company then maybe I'd have a chance to restore my name and that of the Light Lotus Company. End entry.
Captain's Log, Janet, Captain of the Light Lotus Company
Today is... oh who cares!!!! We just got the best new member ever! A Ramirov! And I didn't even have to sleep with him! Well.... hes not really a member, I just found him bloodied, half dead in the forest buuuuut I managed to convinced him to join my company in exchange for a favor. He's from Vian, the new world! If only he was Balthoran maybe I'd let him be my boyfriend... Back to the point! Ramirov is from Fra... Fraiz... some place called Frostburne in Vian. He can speak with the Customs Officer and get us a ship to Vian for free, as he is a Native to Vian. That means I can transport an entire company to Vian for free! A no hassle sponsor! We should have members and a contract in no time! The Light Lotus Company will be number one again! I just gotta make the forms and we should be all set to go![/parchment]
