Frin, a wandering halfling

[dajuke]

Well, I might write more in this, or I might just leave it at one entry and let the rest of my time here speak for myself. But anyway, why Cormyr? Why all the way from Damara? It's not like we don't have halflings in Damara. I mean, I'm one after all, and so is my whole village....... and the villages around us.

But it's different for me. Most of my friends enjoy cooking, and eating, and farming. Some of our more well-known people have even gone out and made a name for them self in the big world. Don't get me wrong, I like cooking and eating too. I mean, I AM a halfling. But I also like sitting in the forest singing with the birds, watching how the fish swim. I'm always happy out there.

I met an old tall one with a gray beard one day in the woods. He came on me so quietly I didn't even realize he was there while I was watching some fish. I just turned around, and there he was, watching the fish too, a slight smile on his face. Then he looked at me, winked, and turned into a wolf and ran off!!

I saw him again a few days later, and asked how he did that. He said it was something all druids can do, and that's when I realized what I was meant for. Why I like the things that I do. I asked him if he would teach me. He laughed and said he was too old to teach, but I could learn with him. It was a really good couple years, but then he got sick and had to stop teaching me. He's still around somewhere, probably curled up in a den, but he told me if I wanted to continue learning, I had to go seek out the teachers.

He said something else kind of funny though before I left. He said I could sing so much like the birds, swim so much like the fish that he wouldnt' be surprised if one day I turned into one. I asked him if he could, and he said that he could only take a few shapes, but others could take far more. It was an art only a few ever mastered though, and if I wanted to learn more, I would have to seek them out. So here I am, looking for teachers, hoping one day to go home and show him something he can be proud of.

Cormyr!! Here comes Frin!!

[dajuke]

Well, didn't think I would have anything to write in here so soon. But then again, I didn't think I would be having epic battles my first tenday in Cormyr either!! I should probably start at the beginning though.

So after I helped out the inn with some rats and cockroaches I found a nice fellow hin named Mary who showed me the public board asking for help. I looked it over and saw the one about the farmer and his rat problem. No problem right? I mean, I just handled a whole bunch of rats under the inn after all, how bad could this be?

So I went to the farmer and talked to him. He was nice, had some big cows and chickens..... whys is this important? I'll get to that later. Anyway, so the farmer asks me to find out where a nest of rats is that's bugging him. His wife suggests I look in the storage room. I dont' know what kind of people live here, but back home we looked in our own storage room rather than ask strangers to riffling through everything. But different folks I guess, though some tall people sure are odd. But I go to their storage room and look around, and sure enough, there's a few rats. Okay, no problem, so I make them all leave. Then I turn around and there's a HUGE rat behind me. Luckily I was able to talk to it, and it started biting all the the other rats and making them leave.

I think I've got it all wrapped up now. I'll just ask the big rat to make all the little rats leave, then ask the big rat to leave. We go a little further though, and then this funny looking white rat LEAPS out at us and knocks down the big rat in one bite. Funny that, she wasn't even that big. But then she turns on me, and before I know it she knocks ME down!! What a rat!! So I lay there wondering what just happened? and then this COW comes charging in and kicks the rat!! but she bites its nose and it runs off. Happily the cow gave me enough time to stagger back to my feet and run to front of the barn, where I had to catch my breath and drink some of those potions the nice man on the hill sold me.

So now I'm feeling okay again, and ready to try again. So I go back in, and tell the farmer I'm ready, but wait here. I go way into the back of the storage room where the white rat is, and she comes chasing me again. But THIS time I'm too smart for her!! I make her chase me out of the storage room, and then what a mighty battle began!! I held her off, but she bit me a couple times and I had to back off. then the farmer waded in, swinging his pitchfork like a mad man! back and forth!! He wasn't fast enough to stop her though, and she lunged for a cow, that got mad and then the COW kicked her, which upset the chickens in the back of the barn and before I knew it THE CHICKENS WERE ATTACKING!! And there I was in the middle of it all, swinging my sickle for all I was worth!! And the farmer swung, and the cow kicked, and the chicken pecked!!! And the rat bit!! Adn finally I was able to strike the final blow against the big rat..... cutting off it's tail. the farmer liked the tail.... like I said, an odd one.... and gave me some coin..... but boy was I exhausted after that amazing battle.


I want some pie.

[dajuke]

Boy, do I have an aching head today. It was a rough one let me tell you Journal. First, I thought I'd go down the well in town and look around for a bit. When I first got down there I thought I was really lucky to find another person down there, and maybe they would want to walk around together. And then, you know what I realize? First, he has some sort of creeping shadow thing following him around. And then he just BOASTS that he's a priest of Cyric!! Well, I got out of there fast, but not before he said when I did he's going to make a puppet of my corpse and make me do his bidding. He was not a nice person.

And then I think I'll head north into the woods. I like the woods, the ones around my home were nice and peaceful. But is ANY place in this land peaceful? I was attacked by some bandits, but Malas and a nearby bear were kind enough to help me fend them off. Then after going a bit further north I came across the things that looked like people but had DOG's heads. A bunch of them came running at us, and one hit Malas so hard she yelped and ran away. THEN it chased me ALL the way back to town, not even giving me a chance to get my breath!! fortunately the guard at the entrance to the woods helped me fend it off, otherwise it might have romped through town attacking all KINDS of people.

It was a rough day.