Ninth Entry
Well the last couple of weeks sure have been a… I don't know. I can barely even remember what happened. All I know is that I started some sort of party down at the tavern, then went off on some kind of road trip with three other folks, a woman, a man and some really short, stout thing that may or may not have been fully human. After that it's just a blur of fighting monsters, arguing about pay and downing more booze. So nothing too different than my regular life. Assuming it actually happened and it wasn't some kind of drunk dream that is, considering the fact that I woke up alone at some bench, wearing a stupid mask in a town far away from the estate, called Maidik, named after the founder, the "evil Maidik" called that way because of his cruel nature or some such bullshit.
When I finally came back to the hamlet I found some really weird things had gone down in my absence. Those shard mercs now live in the regular barracks that we do and seem to have almost no idea about the farmstead. They're going on regular missions too, they and John put down the "thing" that lived in the warrens a few days ago. Their weapons and armor were also in a pitiful state in comparison to what they were wearing when I last saw them. The only exception is that oriental looking guy with the scary mask, who has completely disappeared. Word on the street is that they got lost in space-time on their last mission, and that these guys are versions of them from the distant past. I wonder, will they inevitably leave the hamlet and come back as shard mercenaries, only to get lost in space-time again? Is that how they came to the hamlet and how they knew about the crystals in the first place? Did we alter their fate, are they trapped in a space-time loop? Are they even human or mortal like we are?