Urtweichs letter home #1
I am writing to thank you for showing me the wonderful opportunities of Korthos. I did wonder how tipping me overboard was supposed to be a reward for my wonderful singing, but now that I have met such wonderful people here I understand.
I washed up to find a small person checking my pockets for scorpions. He told me that sometimes they sneak in there when you're asleep, it is good that people are so friendly here or I might never have known. Anyway, all of my money washed away in the ocean, but the little man gave me an easy job. All I had to do was walk in front of him while he checked for traps, which was easy-peasy.
It turned out to be a little harder than we expected as we were attacked by Sowhar... Soohar... Sauhaw... Fish-men. Everyone battled really hard and it filled me with joy. I felt a song welling up inside of me and the music exploded through me, lighting my comerades hearts on fire and filling them with the glory of battle. I have never seen such rage. Shortly afterwards we arrived in Korthos Village and they said they had to go far far away, which was sad, but they seemed to leave in good spirits so that's something.
Anyway, I really landed on my feet here! I answered a notice looking for arcane help (I have learned a spell mother, it's called sonic blast, I just play like I usually do and the bad peoples ears bleed until they go away) and found the most wonderful group of people. I wasn't the only person who answered the note, a sorceress was there too, she's all powerful and stuff and I was sure they were going to pick her, but then they said something about "Fragile" and "Back up" and decided I could come as well. They are all vallient heroes!
Father will never believe this next bit, make sure he's reading it with you okay? They're almost all women! And the other one is a dwarf! How does that sound Mr "Son at 30 you really should have found a wife by now, or at least a girl who can stand to be around you"? Are you impressed with me?
Well you will be, we saved the village three times in an afternoon!
That's right, we ran into someone who left some piece of paper in a cellar, someone who was worried about there not being enough rubble in the crypt and someone who said that the crystal of korthos that is keeping everyone alive was being attacked RIGHT NOW!?!
So obviously we did the cellar thing first, I was hoping that we'd find beer, but there were only rats and fish-men and the tiles that looked like my dream of pipes. Then we did the crypt thing, the little one who always stabs fish-men in the back of the neck said something about "liberating" (which is a good word that good guys use) which meant we had to go check out the crypt. Between you and me I think she's a little clumsy, she was always breaking the sarco... sawrco... stone tomb thingies and accidenlty putting the dead guys copper into her pack rather than back into their grave. I didn't want to say anything because it would be rude to make fun of her disability. You brought me up well mother.
Anyway, once we'd done that we went to deal with the crystal being attacked thing. The cultists and fish men were ever so nice, they waited for us to get there and get organised around the crystal before they attacked. They even gave me enough time to sing a song and boost my new comrades morale before they attacked (It was such a good song, one of them was screaming "C'mon, attack already" before I was even through the whole thing). We beat them all and saved the day, the nice man outside even told us how we'd saved the whole village.
Then we did it again, since the cult decided to attack the crystal once more. Maybe they do it every evening or something? Or perhaps they send a letter? I like letters. I hope you like this letter. Anyway, that's the story of how I found my feet in Korthos, saved the village three times and made friends with a big group of ladies (and a dwarf). I hope you are having as good a time with the rest of your journey as I am here.
Lovingly,
Urtweich Heimlich
I washed up to find a small person checking my pockets for scorpions. He told me that sometimes they sneak in there when you're asleep, it is good that people are so friendly here or I might never have known. Anyway, all of my money washed away in the ocean, but the little man gave me an easy job. All I had to do was walk in front of him while he checked for traps, which was easy-peasy.
It turned out to be a little harder than we expected as we were attacked by Sowhar... Soohar... Sauhaw... Fish-men. Everyone battled really hard and it filled me with joy. I felt a song welling up inside of me and the music exploded through me, lighting my comerades hearts on fire and filling them with the glory of battle. I have never seen such rage. Shortly afterwards we arrived in Korthos Village and they said they had to go far far away, which was sad, but they seemed to leave in good spirits so that's something.
Anyway, I really landed on my feet here! I answered a notice looking for arcane help (I have learned a spell mother, it's called sonic blast, I just play like I usually do and the bad peoples ears bleed until they go away) and found the most wonderful group of people. I wasn't the only person who answered the note, a sorceress was there too, she's all powerful and stuff and I was sure they were going to pick her, but then they said something about "Fragile" and "Back up" and decided I could come as well. They are all vallient heroes!
Father will never believe this next bit, make sure he's reading it with you okay? They're almost all women! And the other one is a dwarf! How does that sound Mr "Son at 30 you really should have found a wife by now, or at least a girl who can stand to be around you"? Are you impressed with me?
Well you will be, we saved the village three times in an afternoon!
That's right, we ran into someone who left some piece of paper in a cellar, someone who was worried about there not being enough rubble in the crypt and someone who said that the crystal of korthos that is keeping everyone alive was being attacked RIGHT NOW!?!
So obviously we did the cellar thing first, I was hoping that we'd find beer, but there were only rats and fish-men and the tiles that looked like my dream of pipes. Then we did the crypt thing, the little one who always stabs fish-men in the back of the neck said something about "liberating" (which is a good word that good guys use) which meant we had to go check out the crypt. Between you and me I think she's a little clumsy, she was always breaking the sarco... sawrco... stone tomb thingies and accidenlty putting the dead guys copper into her pack rather than back into their grave. I didn't want to say anything because it would be rude to make fun of her disability. You brought me up well mother.
Anyway, once we'd done that we went to deal with the crystal being attacked thing. The cultists and fish men were ever so nice, they waited for us to get there and get organised around the crystal before they attacked. They even gave me enough time to sing a song and boost my new comrades morale before they attacked (It was such a good song, one of them was screaming "C'mon, attack already" before I was even through the whole thing). We beat them all and saved the day, the nice man outside even told us how we'd saved the whole village.
Then we did it again, since the cult decided to attack the crystal once more. Maybe they do it every evening or something? Or perhaps they send a letter? I like letters. I hope you like this letter. Anyway, that's the story of how I found my feet in Korthos, saved the village three times and made friends with a big group of ladies (and a dwarf). I hope you are having as good a time with the rest of your journey as I am here.
Lovingly,
Urtweich Heimlich