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| Author: | Alli |
| Summary: | Sil catches up his journal on a year's worth of events, plus the latest in Deepholm. ~1400 words. |
| Rating: | T for Teen |
Arc: Deepholm
I didn’t write anything else for over another year, whoops! This one’s gonna be a happier journal entry than my last one, but first maybe I ought to update on all the things that’ve changed. Last time I wrote was right after King Varian Wrynn took us all on a surprise invasion of the Undercity. It was not a great surprise, but I guess I got to see two capital Horde cities which was interesting. After that, there’s been a lot of ups and downs, so let me see if I can take you through.
Just after the Undercity, I went with a Cobalt squad to Zul’drak, where we helped the Argent Crusade for a while. Then I went to Sholazar and lived in a tent alone for a few months.That wasn’t for certain related to Wrathgate, and the Undercity, and having to help a Forsaken alchemist guy in the Argent Crusade in Zul’drak. But I guess it wasn’t not not related, either. Then Aze came looking for me and told me I needed to get my shit together. Which was rich, coming from her, but she made me promise to live in Dalaran and interact with people.
Dalaran was nice, and I reconnected with some of my friends, and I started to feel… maybe not like my old self again? More like okay with my current self, which is a pretty good place to be. It was a couple months of calm before the Nightmare hit. When folk started sleep-attacking, I got worried about what my friends in the 7th Legion might do while asleep. That’s why I went down to Wintergarde and helped keep folk restrained till the druids sorted things out.
Not long after that was when I started talking to Fallon about maybe being a sailor. I’ve never been a sailor before, and I thought it sounded like a good time. Also, Fallon was pretty good-looking and kinda flirty. That’s how I joined the fleet for the Northrend campaign, and I think it was a good idea in the end. That’s where I’m best, small groups - a Cobalt team, a 7th Legion EU, or a crew of a ship. I did do some shore fighting with them, too, against the Scarlets and the kvaldir. I fought together with death knights, even, and it went okay. I also took a little time to go to Ulduar with some folk and help kill an Old God.
Cobalt ended up going into Icecrown Citadel to kill the Lich King while I was with the fleet, and I feel alright about it. I’m glad that it happened and that our people helped. That ended the Scourge war, so all of us went back south. Post-war in Elwynn was a bit rough, lots of people lost and looking for non-soldier work. I camped out in the woods for a little bit (not too far from the Atleys, Fallons and Aspenwoods) till the cataclysm.
After Deathwing and all the disasters, I moved in with the Atleys for a while. They’re wonderful people - Karson lucked out in the birth lottery for parents. From there I just did what I could, riding out through the countryside to try to help survivors or help with the quakes or bring food and supplies to folk. I did some other stuff too, like supporting Roz (used to be Terrineth) after her parents were murdered, and letting Lena summon me out to the sea to support Ben and Mizzy and the other Cobalts with underwater Old God stuff.
And then there’s Cressidha, which is a whole other topic. Cressidha lost family and more in the Stormwind attack, and she was not okay after Icecrown to start with. Maybe it was not quite the same way I wasn’t okay after Wrathgate, but I tried to encourage her as I could. Time went on, I got this crazy idea like maybe she and I could be partners? We see eye to eye on a lot of things, and there’s just something so cute about her, like the solemn way she can say a joke or how she hides a smile sometimes like she’s bashful of it. And then, you know, she can set down a blizzard to stop a whole army in its tracks, too.
I tried to set the whole idea aside for a while, because she’s an Aspenwood and I’m just me, but then I talked to Ben and then Colson and thought maybe I ought to at least present the thought. She said it had never occurred to her, but maybe she could think about it, and now we’re officially courting. I don’t know if she’s going to lose interest, but either way we’ll get to know each other better. No matter what happens, I think that’s a good thing.
To bring things up to the present, that’s where I was when we got the call to help the Earthen Ring in Deepholm. Or anyway Cressidha was called to be on the main team going down there, and I went along to help. First few weeks, I was mostly scouting around the Temple of Earth while they dealt with this whole airship attack and lost World Pillar fragment scenario. Twilight’s Hammer set things up to look like the Alliance attacked the Horde, but our team saw through the ruse right off. Anyway, they got the fragment, and then I got to join the main team!
The team right now is Sir Atley, Cressidha, Oranna and me, which is a pretty good balance. Cressidha’s got the magic knowledge, Oranna knows about the Earthen and stuff, Atley protects us all with Thunderfury, and I know poisons and stealth. Auralind and Bran were with the team before, and I hope maybe I’ll get a chance to work with them in the future. Auralind makes surprisingly tasty spider snacks, which is a thing I never thought I’d write. Anyway, I’m trying to make sure I don’t act weirdly solicitous with Cressidha, because obviously I know she can handle herself in the field. I’m not sure how a person is supposed to act if they’re courting somebody they’re deployed with, but I’ll do my best.
Back to the mission, our first thing we did as a team was to go find a missing goblin shaman initiate, only to find out he’d rescued the prince of the Earthen from rock flayers. I’m kind of in split feelings about the goblin. It was for sure a good thing in his heart to rescue the Earthen guy, and then to stick with him and find a way to heal him. But also, the way he healed him was breaking a contract with his fire elemental, and maybe doing harm. Cressidha was plain out mad, I could tell, and she confiscated his totem to give back to his teacher. I think that was a good idea, but I hope the teacher was able to fix anything he broke with the elemental.
At least the Earthen prince was healed. Then, he was all in a panic about his father, kidnapped by troggs. He also said his dad knows where one of the World Pillar fragments are. That seems awfully convenient to me, but I hope the Temple would’ve helped him regardless. The shamans sent us to handle the situation, and somehow it ended up with us helping the Earthen in a three (four?) way war. And I mean, parts of it were pretty cool - seeing Sir Atley attack elemental giants with an Earthen axe and having that Earthen fellow send us traveling through the ground (even Oranna’d never done that before!) - but I worry about that guy’s father. I hope he’s holding out okay with the troggs in the meantime. We’ll get to him, as soon as we can, I’m sure of it.
After the mission, Sir Atley and Cressidha and I went to stop this quicksilver research thing the Twilight’s had going on. Cressidha was nervous about the poisonous properties of quicksilver, so we all did our best to avoid as much exposure as we could. Marina was a big help, to be honest, in the usual fighting way and also for hosing us all down. At the end of it all, Cressidha and I went back to Stormwind, while Sir Atley went back to Stonehearth to check in on Oranna. She seemed a little unsettled, but I hope us being all together as a team will help her feel better about all this. I’m heading back down to Deepholm today, for whatever they’ve got us on next.