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{1/12/2024} Settling In
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Living Quarters 1 is up.
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Yeah, I know it’s been a little while. I’ve been slowly settling into this town and its rhythms. I’ve got an apartment and a job at the nearby hospital. I tell you, keeping up a certification in basic medical spells is incredibly helpful. Half of what I do is just simple mild pain relief and antiseptic charms, and the other half is cleaning up after patients and bringing them food and whatever talis or the like that the professionals ordered for them. It’s been keeping me busy along with trying to get settled in.
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I haven’t been able to go visit the ruins much lately, but I’ve been spending some of my spare time in the library trying to find some info on some of the words used in the letter. I don’t know what kid didn’t grow up playing swordcery with sticks, but I don’t have many guesses as to what “Impetoris” could be, other than maybe being associated with swordcery. No findings yet.
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Anyway, I’ve been trying to probe to see what the townspeople know about the ruins in the woods. I haven’t mentioned the ruins directly, and neither have they, but I’ve been able to find out a bit from the librarian and a little book about town history she guided me to. The book looks to have been written by hand no more than a few years ago, its pages still smooth and crisp.
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It says that there used to be a garrison stationed here a long time ago—hundreds of years, even—back when this place sat right on the eastern border of the Lormithian Empire. A little fortress was built not far from here for defense. The book rambled on a bit about a century of intermittent war and how the border kept shifting back and forth, but eventually described how the empire wound up expanding far past this valley. As war stopped ravaging the area time and time again, the town grew and began to mine from the nearby mountain. There was very little information about the garrison afterwards, just a single sentence reading, “Despite the garrison no longer being stationed here, the mining and smithing industries continued to thrive due to outside demand.” That’s it.
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What doesn’t make sense to me, though, is that the border moved over 150 years ago. How would there still be identifiable paper, or more modern clothing in the bedrooms? Why would a fortress hold individual rooms for its troops rather than open barracks? While sure, maybe I’ve found the ruins of the old fortress, evidence points to the place having continued to be used much more recently. I’m not sure what to make of it.
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