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Rurek returns, thoughtfully jotting something down in his brand-new diary. This activity clearly interested him more than some trivial dividing of loot.
– What a curious little book... I'm ready to tinker with it all day! – the Sord muttered under his breath. – Not just paper, but a real miracle!
DIARY OF RUREK THE SHAKER
Acquaintances, friends, and foes:
1) Osh, now Saint Osh. Elm. Friend. Together we will save Ikazkan. Or die. Also together.
2) Jingo. Psycho. Complete psycho.
3) Barley. Onanist. Good at serving the cheesemakers. Useful.
4) Dorian. But "Charred" suits him better. Vile little human and almost certainly a cheesemaker! Must find him and give him a proper thrashing!
5) Rad. A good little human and definitely not a cheesemaker. Must find him and invite him to be one of Osh's protectors.
6) Safis. I wonder where he disappeared to... he was an interesting little human, actually...
7) Ukon. Half-brother. At first seemed like a perversion of nature, but then... then he proved himself to be a great guy.
8) Blueberry. Elm. But not Osh at all. Some kind of horror!
9) Her. Glory to our great cuckolded onanism!
10) Gekizo. Will I ever learn the skill that sword showed me? The sword... the sword is beautiful. I want to grip it tightly in my sweaty palms!
11) Letty. If we don't find a way for her to reach the surface, she'll turn us all to stone, right?
12) Usu... oooh... so hot! From her faith in Onu, of course, and not what you were thinking!
13) Kof. How powerful those paws are... He is a good one. But he's already dead. He couldn't defeat the cheesemakers without Ikazkan's help. It's a shame it turned out this way.
14) Tokoton. In a way, she saved me and returned me to Ikazkan. But she didn't say a word. She's probably Rad's friend.
15) Rizz. What muscles, what strength! So good that, to restore the balance of the underworld, he vanished in an unknown direction.
16) Svarka. Feeds us well. A goddess, it turns out.
17) Kekka. Who on earth thought of bringing a cripple in a wheelchair on an expedition? She hasn't been seen lately...
18) Vatagash. *text is illegible from a spilled meager Sord tear*
19) Hataraite. We shall meet again and it will be very painful... possibly for me. He is dangerous, there is no doubt about it.
20) Utsuwa. New acquaintance. Cute braids. Loves books. Gave me this diary.
21) Cabbage. With a skill set like that, I don't even want to laugh at the name.
22) Atsuha. The Ivilai are strange folks. But Atsuha once saved them all... and gave boots too. Good Atsuha.
23) Mane. I wonder if she's actually useful to Barley or just tags along for company?
24) Gnoll. The fact that he is still alive is one big mistake. Death to the cheesemakers!
25) Katharina. Another hire... how many skills, again? Come to me, baby!
26) Okonbra. Beautiful. Evil. Insane. In a word – a human woman.
27) Noxis. I hope we don't run dry traveling with him beyond Ikazkan.
28) Galak. Humans have a word for someone like him. "Cringe," I think.
29) Tono. I hope he was able to resist the cheesemakers. Otherwise... it's sad for him. Even if he is a furry.
30) Gigantes. Who is breeding half-Sords in Ikazkan? Show me this villain!
31) Kristalia. The lackeys have interesting mercenaries. Barley knows how to pick friends.
32) Normia. Strange, she has no mental disorders... or does knowing Osh count?
33) Ball. *text is illegible from a spilled meager Sord tear*
34) Gaal. *text is illegible from a spilled meager Sord tear*
35) Gadik. *text is illegible from a spilled meager Sord tear*
36) Gif. He was a cheerful furry. Mischievous. Rest in peace.
37) Lodi. Some kind of woolly loser.
38) Aru. Roughly like Lodi, but a woman.
39) Sherry. How did this furry end up living like this? If only he used his skills...
40) Shuk. Sometimes I regret not feeding him to the Serpent. There's some foul feeling when thinking about him...
41) Roga. Well, at least you don't die, brother, alright?
42) Lyu. The secret of the daddies remained unsolved. Maybe it's for the best. Ah, Lyu was a good one!
43) Mech. Ha, he croaked! I wish I could resurrect him just to kill him again!
44) Ostryak. Him too...
45) Skunk. *text is full of endless curses and expressions of hatred*
46) Hat. This cheesemaker melted in the lava like... cheese. Ha-ha-ha!
47) Kizun. He left behind a decent corpse. Wanted to run away, coward? Not so! Feed the worms!
48) Lyazhka and her pet freak. I'll find them and tear them apart! First, I'll strangle the little one in front of the cheesemaker woman, and then I'll break every bone in her own body!
49) Stencil. We tried our best, but he managed to avoid all hits. Tough bastard! But look at his fate... ha-ha-ha! Serves him right!
Cities and Settlements:
50) Ikazkan. Great. Mighty. The only city of the underworld. There is something special about it. Something that hermits and tribes could never achieve.
51) Eye Settlement. Weaklings. Naive weaklings! And they live in backwardness. But you wouldn't envy their fate... the cheesemakers will pay for everything!
52) Claw Settlement. It seems impressive, but then you realize it's not enough. The cheesemakers are always one step ahead. Only Ikazkan can withstand their cunning.
53) Ruins of the ancient city of humans. Humans are desperate. They often embark on insane adventures. Even if that city fell, it was still built and managed to stand for some amount of human time.
Beliefs:
54) Misanthropy. What a word... The best belief in the entire underworld. Well, as long as cheesemakers exist.
55) Tezot Exceptionalism. Just try saying we are all the same!
56) Furafura. Who comes up with these names?! It sounds like the ordinary lifestyle of an ordinary representative of the underworld peoples, except a human believed in furafura. Rad.
57) Lackey of Onu. What lackey! Onanism! Roughly like a protector of Ikazkan, only he tries not to reveal his intentions to exterminate all apostates. Our brothers. And sisters.
58) Protector of Ikazkan. The fruit of the love of a lackey of Onu and hatred for both humans and non-humans alike. Let's make Ikazkan great again! Whoever is not with us is against us.
Skills:
59) Conjurer. Based wizard. Osh and many others. Magic is a useful thing.
60) Weapon Master. Well, that's me, ha-ha-ha.
61) Marksmanship Master. A shooting Sord is a strange phenomenon, but as it turns out, it happens.
62) Artisan. Crafting things is cool.
63) Cook. And knowing how to make something tasty is even cooler.
64) Hide and Seek. Cunning Shuk...
65) Looting. This we know, can do, and practice. I'd love to dig through some guts right now... a bit of a questionable hobby, honestly.
66) Enchantment. And my friends understand very well what a good mercenary should be able to do.
67) Body Protection. Vatagash loved this skill.
68) Strong Attack. Grapnels, brrr.
69) Cleaving. Why does everyone around have a higher body stat than Sords?
70) Precise Attack. Well, precise is precise. What's the big deal?
71) Osh-whelming. Unpleasant. Especially for a Sord. You stop feeling invincible.
72) Laying Eggs. Wonderful.
73) Decapitation. Someday I will learn it... that's for sure.
74) Haste. Cheesemakers just love to make a run for it...
75) Acceleration. The favorite trick of cheesemaker wizards.
76) Shield. Excellent cover for vile cowards.
77) Cooling Drop. Surprisingly useful thing... Osh is a genius!
78) Barrier. Another version of excellent cover for vile cowards.
79) Healing Shard. A strange spell, it's as if it exists, but then again, it doesn't...
Origins:
80) Ivilai. Little flyers. In Ikazkan they are in charge, but only at first glance. In reality, humans have long been running everything, and the Ivilai just... don't seem to care.
81) Sords. The best people in the entire underworld! Strong, enduring, hot-blooded men! But somewhere in the depths lives our ancestress.
82) Furries. There is little pleasant about furries, but still they are original inhabitants of the underworld just like Sords. And there are interesting personalities among them. Take Kof, for example.
83) Elms. Judging by the differences between Osh and Blueberry, in some ways all Elms are alike, yet very, very different.
84) Humans. Outsiders from an incomprehensible place called Tezot. They are both weaker and stronger than any underworld resident. Dangerous, very dangerous. Cunning, very cunning!
Events:
85) Start of the Expedition. That's where everything went sideways... we aren't looking for the surface, but instead plunging all of Ikazkan into a pit of chaos.
86) Meeting with furries from the Eye tribe. A fateful moment after which everything changed. The cheesemakers revealed their vile designs.
87) Mad Stairs. Even though I managed to break free from there, I cannot forget them. A terrible place. A real nightmare.
88) Alliance with Kof. It all started so promisingly... I thought we would now gather strength together and crush the cheesemakers with one powerful blow. How naive I was!
89) Deadly Battle. The explosion of a rotten little human didn't kill me, but it destroyed the light in my soul. Hatred and despair seized me the moment Vatagash was gone.
90) Protectors of Ikazkan. I have suffered many failures, but I am ready to try starting over. There is still hope to save Ikazkan from the cunning plans of the cheesemakers.
– Phew, it's hard writing so much! – Rurek wiped his sweaty forehead. – So, what do we have? Ready to move out?
Time to hit the road. It's been too long since any new terrible disasters happened. A whole five moments.
– What a curious little book... I'm ready to tinker with it all day! – the Sord muttered under his breath. – Not just paper, but a real miracle!
DIARY OF RUREK THE SHAKER
Acquaintances, friends, and foes:
1) Osh, now Saint Osh. Elm. Friend. Together we will save Ikazkan. Or die. Also together.
2) Jingo. Psycho. Complete psycho.
3) Barley. Onanist. Good at serving the cheesemakers. Useful.
4) Dorian. But "Charred" suits him better. Vile little human and almost certainly a cheesemaker! Must find him and give him a proper thrashing!
5) Rad. A good little human and definitely not a cheesemaker. Must find him and invite him to be one of Osh's protectors.
6) Safis. I wonder where he disappeared to... he was an interesting little human, actually...
7) Ukon. Half-brother. At first seemed like a perversion of nature, but then... then he proved himself to be a great guy.
8) Blueberry. Elm. But not Osh at all. Some kind of horror!
9) Her. Glory to our great cuckolded onanism!
10) Gekizo. Will I ever learn the skill that sword showed me? The sword... the sword is beautiful. I want to grip it tightly in my sweaty palms!
11) Letty. If we don't find a way for her to reach the surface, she'll turn us all to stone, right?
12) Usu... oooh... so hot! From her faith in Onu, of course, and not what you were thinking!
13) Kof. How powerful those paws are... He is a good one. But he's already dead. He couldn't defeat the cheesemakers without Ikazkan's help. It's a shame it turned out this way.
14) Tokoton. In a way, she saved me and returned me to Ikazkan. But she didn't say a word. She's probably Rad's friend.
15) Rizz. What muscles, what strength! So good that, to restore the balance of the underworld, he vanished in an unknown direction.
16) Svarka. Feeds us well. A goddess, it turns out.
17) Kekka. Who on earth thought of bringing a cripple in a wheelchair on an expedition? She hasn't been seen lately...
18) Vatagash. *text is illegible from a spilled meager Sord tear*
19) Hataraite. We shall meet again and it will be very painful... possibly for me. He is dangerous, there is no doubt about it.
20) Utsuwa. New acquaintance. Cute braids. Loves books. Gave me this diary.
21) Cabbage. With a skill set like that, I don't even want to laugh at the name.
22) Atsuha. The Ivilai are strange folks. But Atsuha once saved them all... and gave boots too. Good Atsuha.
23) Mane. I wonder if she's actually useful to Barley or just tags along for company?
24) Gnoll. The fact that he is still alive is one big mistake. Death to the cheesemakers!
25) Katharina. Another hire... how many skills, again? Come to me, baby!
26) Okonbra. Beautiful. Evil. Insane. In a word – a human woman.
27) Noxis. I hope we don't run dry traveling with him beyond Ikazkan.
28) Galak. Humans have a word for someone like him. "Cringe," I think.
29) Tono. I hope he was able to resist the cheesemakers. Otherwise... it's sad for him. Even if he is a furry.
30) Gigantes. Who is breeding half-Sords in Ikazkan? Show me this villain!
31) Kristalia. The lackeys have interesting mercenaries. Barley knows how to pick friends.
32) Normia. Strange, she has no mental disorders... or does knowing Osh count?
33) Ball. *text is illegible from a spilled meager Sord tear*
34) Gaal. *text is illegible from a spilled meager Sord tear*
35) Gadik. *text is illegible from a spilled meager Sord tear*
36) Gif. He was a cheerful furry. Mischievous. Rest in peace.
37) Lodi. Some kind of woolly loser.
38) Aru. Roughly like Lodi, but a woman.
39) Sherry. How did this furry end up living like this? If only he used his skills...
40) Shuk. Sometimes I regret not feeding him to the Serpent. There's some foul feeling when thinking about him...
41) Roga. Well, at least you don't die, brother, alright?
42) Lyu. The secret of the daddies remained unsolved. Maybe it's for the best. Ah, Lyu was a good one!
43) Mech. Ha, he croaked! I wish I could resurrect him just to kill him again!
44) Ostryak. Him too...
45) Skunk. *text is full of endless curses and expressions of hatred*
46) Hat. This cheesemaker melted in the lava like... cheese. Ha-ha-ha!
47) Kizun. He left behind a decent corpse. Wanted to run away, coward? Not so! Feed the worms!
48) Lyazhka and her pet freak. I'll find them and tear them apart! First, I'll strangle the little one in front of the cheesemaker woman, and then I'll break every bone in her own body!
49) Stencil. We tried our best, but he managed to avoid all hits. Tough bastard! But look at his fate... ha-ha-ha! Serves him right!
Cities and Settlements:
50) Ikazkan. Great. Mighty. The only city of the underworld. There is something special about it. Something that hermits and tribes could never achieve.
51) Eye Settlement. Weaklings. Naive weaklings! And they live in backwardness. But you wouldn't envy their fate... the cheesemakers will pay for everything!
52) Claw Settlement. It seems impressive, but then you realize it's not enough. The cheesemakers are always one step ahead. Only Ikazkan can withstand their cunning.
53) Ruins of the ancient city of humans. Humans are desperate. They often embark on insane adventures. Even if that city fell, it was still built and managed to stand for some amount of human time.
Beliefs:
54) Misanthropy. What a word... The best belief in the entire underworld. Well, as long as cheesemakers exist.
55) Tezot Exceptionalism. Just try saying we are all the same!
56) Furafura. Who comes up with these names?! It sounds like the ordinary lifestyle of an ordinary representative of the underworld peoples, except a human believed in furafura. Rad.
57) Lackey of Onu. What lackey! Onanism! Roughly like a protector of Ikazkan, only he tries not to reveal his intentions to exterminate all apostates. Our brothers. And sisters.
58) Protector of Ikazkan. The fruit of the love of a lackey of Onu and hatred for both humans and non-humans alike. Let's make Ikazkan great again! Whoever is not with us is against us.
Skills:
59) Conjurer. Based wizard. Osh and many others. Magic is a useful thing.
60) Weapon Master. Well, that's me, ha-ha-ha.
61) Marksmanship Master. A shooting Sord is a strange phenomenon, but as it turns out, it happens.
62) Artisan. Crafting things is cool.
63) Cook. And knowing how to make something tasty is even cooler.
64) Hide and Seek. Cunning Shuk...
65) Looting. This we know, can do, and practice. I'd love to dig through some guts right now... a bit of a questionable hobby, honestly.
66) Enchantment. And my friends understand very well what a good mercenary should be able to do.
67) Body Protection. Vatagash loved this skill.
68) Strong Attack. Grapnels, brrr.
69) Cleaving. Why does everyone around have a higher body stat than Sords?
70) Precise Attack. Well, precise is precise. What's the big deal?
71) Osh-whelming. Unpleasant. Especially for a Sord. You stop feeling invincible.
72) Laying Eggs. Wonderful.
73) Decapitation. Someday I will learn it... that's for sure.
74) Haste. Cheesemakers just love to make a run for it...
75) Acceleration. The favorite trick of cheesemaker wizards.
76) Shield. Excellent cover for vile cowards.
77) Cooling Drop. Surprisingly useful thing... Osh is a genius!
78) Barrier. Another version of excellent cover for vile cowards.
79) Healing Shard. A strange spell, it's as if it exists, but then again, it doesn't...
Origins:
80) Ivilai. Little flyers. In Ikazkan they are in charge, but only at first glance. In reality, humans have long been running everything, and the Ivilai just... don't seem to care.
81) Sords. The best people in the entire underworld! Strong, enduring, hot-blooded men! But somewhere in the depths lives our ancestress.
82) Furries. There is little pleasant about furries, but still they are original inhabitants of the underworld just like Sords. And there are interesting personalities among them. Take Kof, for example.
83) Elms. Judging by the differences between Osh and Blueberry, in some ways all Elms are alike, yet very, very different.
84) Humans. Outsiders from an incomprehensible place called Tezot. They are both weaker and stronger than any underworld resident. Dangerous, very dangerous. Cunning, very cunning!
Events:
85) Start of the Expedition. That's where everything went sideways... we aren't looking for the surface, but instead plunging all of Ikazkan into a pit of chaos.
86) Meeting with furries from the Eye tribe. A fateful moment after which everything changed. The cheesemakers revealed their vile designs.
87) Mad Stairs. Even though I managed to break free from there, I cannot forget them. A terrible place. A real nightmare.
88) Alliance with Kof. It all started so promisingly... I thought we would now gather strength together and crush the cheesemakers with one powerful blow. How naive I was!
89) Deadly Battle. The explosion of a rotten little human didn't kill me, but it destroyed the light in my soul. Hatred and despair seized me the moment Vatagash was gone.
90) Protectors of Ikazkan. I have suffered many failures, but I am ready to try starting over. There is still hope to save Ikazkan from the cunning plans of the cheesemakers.
– Phew, it's hard writing so much! – Rurek wiped his sweaty forehead. – So, what do we have? Ready to move out?
Time to hit the road. It's been too long since any new terrible disasters happened. A whole five moments.