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We worked our way down from the Friendly Arm Inn to Beregost. We did indeed find the Ogre “with a belt fetish” that Unshey warned us about. Diomedes, Khalid and Jaheira all closed to melee with it while Imoen used her bow and I fired a Magic Missile then threw sling bullets. The fight went fairly fast. It was a little unnerving watching my new husband (!) charge the beast, fearing how easily one ill-timed swing would smash him to the ground. But all three warriors went in and they did their work. This seemed like our first bigger sort of fight, everything else we’ve faced seemed pretty inconsequential, like Diomedes really didn’t need our help at all. This time felt more all in, like our margin of error was very small. At this rate I expect to have an ulcer in no time.

We reached Beregost and explored around town some. We had some interesting encounters, including another of these annoying assassins who are looking for me. Perhaps most interesting we met a young woman (half-elf!) named Neera who is a Wild Mage. I’ve not met one before, the way they practice magic is pretty antithetical to how magic is taught at Candlekeep! She’s tagging along with us for now, she’s being hunted too and I think she’s more eager for company than she lets on. She seems pretty amoral, like she doesn’t consider consequence of anything. I wonder if that just comes with the wild magic? Still, it doesn’t seem right to let her come to harm if we can prevent it.

We also took some time to clear spiders out of Landrin’s house. She had asked us to look into it when we met her at the Friendly Arms Inn. Another fight that could have been more dangerous, I believe those things are poisonous! But it went quickly enough.

Everyone except Psyche is now 2nd level. So they’re already getting a little tougher. We have a +1 long sword for Diomedes, a +1 sling for Psyche and a small assortment of magic ammunition and potions. Capabilities build quickly!

I don’t know that I’ll continue to update this fast and in this much detail. But I do have a number of images already made and I expect to keep building my library of them! So there will certainly be more updates and more images than on previous runs.