[Pankoki]

Phew... Its been a while since I wrote in this thing. Well I've been adventuring left and right, so I had no time to gather my thoughts on paper. But I guess now I have all the time in the world. Why? Cause I'm in prison, that's why!
I guess the adventuring caught up to me. Too stressed out to make the right decisions, or something like that. Well who wouldn't? Between finding helmets for greedy academy fellows, killing vampires left and right, trying to rescue a friend from eternal damnation, and killing golems with wings and killer penguins.. well.. anyone would have gone crazy already!!

So what happened? A bad mistake, that's the best way to put it. The shortest way would be that a guard following orders from a corrupt individual was acting without thinking and a warning shot went real bad and fell the poor fellow. I've never felt so bad before... And It's not like it was the guard's fault either, he was only doing his job. But he was putting lots of people in danger by delaying our passage and in the heat of the moment a really really bad mistake was made. I guess I need more practice with my bow, need to learn to aim where I need to, not where the wind feels like.

So I'm paying for my crimes. The court saw that I was sorry for my deeds and that I wanted to help this man's poor wife. So they kindly reduced the sentence and let me pay tribute to the wife. I will pay 10,000 gp before the end of this year and every year thereafter up to 20 years I will pay 1,000 gp. A fair sum I think, it should be enough to keep her well fed and clothed. I would have really liked to pay for the ressurrection, but I guess the courts up here don't do that type of thing.

And now I'm in the slammer. They brought me here to mine, but they saw that I ruined more ore than actually extracted so they gladly put me to other tasks. Something about me talking too much in the mines.. Weird tall people. So they put me to tailor some leather armors. That I can do! If only Frin could see the work I'm making. He would be so proud. They make me work with gems every once in a while too, seeing that I'm pretty good with them. And when they are running low on personnel I work in the alchemy labs making polishing oil. They say that way I can provide for my gems and don't have to bug them with question. Again, strange.

Frin has visited me a couple of times, he seems to be holding strong but I can tell he is sad. He can't come here that often, the journey is quite hard and well the guards won't let me see him that much anyway. But I sure enjoy the time when he is around. Serenity and Kreder came the other day too! They brought me lots of chicken! I put it in my little hiding place, I don't think I can eat more orc stew. Their visit was kinda interrupted when Enzo and Mochibungo decided to show up. Rather rude of them not to say hello, but I guess they have been following Serenity for quite a while, I hope she doesn't end up fangy too.

Well they are screaming again cause I'm talking too much. But I will come back to this journal when I have more ink and time. Until then, lets hope I don't get in anymore trouble.

- Triba Gues