Welcome to The Chosen's journals. Each character is invited to keep a journal and write down the thoughts of their characters as they wander through Nyternia. In addition, the DM has a journal which highlights each session. The players are:

Blink - monk Errol - bard
Kestrel - fighter Malif - wizard
Vaugner - rogue Vernon - cleric/sorcerer


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Kestrel's Journal, session #4
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You know who I just don't get? Malif.

So we found this pouch that proves that his friend is innocent, or at least is good evidence that she's innocent. The obvious thing to do is take it to the magistrate. But Malif didn't think this was a good idea.

He thought that the fact that they arrested Alana showed that they are corrupt, and that if we just give them back the satchel that they will accuse us of thievery and murder, and we'll all get thrown in jail.

Now, there are lots of problems with this argument -- for instance, throwing Alana in jail is not evidence of corruption, it's evidence that they know she's a thief, and besides, we had assurances from the guard that there wouldn't be any problems, and anyway, it wouldn't make sense! -- but it didn't bother me so much that he brought it up. I mean, the guy is paranoid, but it's good to think about how things might go wrong so that we can avoid problems.

No, the reason it weirded me out was his attitude about it. He wasn't saying, "Hey, here's something we should think about." No, he was telling us about the evil corrupt guard as if we were all idiots for being so trusting so as to think that there might not be a dark conspiracy in the city guard aimed at us. It's weird! He's such a smart person, but he sees the world through some dark colored glasses. Why would the guard have it in for us? We've done nothing wrong, and beside, we're not important. (Yet!)

I'm beginning to think he's more paranoid and scared of the world than Vaugner.