Rise of The Runelords - David Drake's Saga

by Raulfur

This is the Rise of the Runelords series as told by of David Drake, an American pagan who got tricked into the adventure. This series shows how he comes to understand the world and his journeys through it. The first three posts detail his companions, Faunra: a time displaced elven Magus, Dame Rebekah: a child of crusaders, and Jonathan: a skinwalker monk/kineticist. Still ongoing.

167. Day 163 or Undivulged Residuum

Day 163: Oathday the 28th, Calistril, 4708

*This is the final of six entries that are recorded after I came to after the today. My thinking meat was fully marinated with the good-good techno-organo-alchemical soup that had been produced by the one-a-day vita-meal. By the end of this day, after resting, my mind had adapted and adopted the changes to be self-sustaining, and my memory retention capabilities return to full. Again, this was a day that had minimized my recordkeeping capabilities. Maybe one day I will get a full reckoning of what all I had performed and accomplished during this missing cognitive period*

I have a vague memory of waking up this morning, I think that my capabilities of regaining memories were sorting themselves out again. Or at least I have the memory that I associate with this morning waking up, in that I needed to get better bedding material for Savah and I's bed. That's the only memory I currently have for the morning. I guess that I got up extra early before heading out to the school to start on something, because the Quads tell me that I was already there when they showed up. The Quads and Niddler have been the most helpful in piecing together what all I've done during this period of time.

We got to work right quick and finished up another unit, this one designated for cognitive improvement. At noon, when this portion of the workday was done, I apparently contacted everyone of the group that was participating in this, and we all took our appropriate meal supplements. Savah and I apparently walked to the farm where Niddler was working diligently on getting his chickens into the coop, as a blizzard was beginning to form. Niddler informed me of this after the fact, as he had glanced our way and we had waved back to him. He told me that I then walked her back to the house.

Savah tells me that she had said something about no one showing up for her shop for the day, due to the weather, so I had offered to take her with me to Magnimar. Savah said that she declined but asked if I could leave a movie playing. I apparently did and told her that I would be back before the end of the movie. I suited up in full view of her, and then changed the appearance of the armor back to my suit. I smiled at her and told her that I had to finish up the last little bits on moving furniture into the hangar and control tower and teleported away.

I apparently teleported directly to the Airport that I had made, and immediately started work on hollowing out an area right next to the original hangar that I had made and created the under area for the hangar for the flight Corp that I had agreed to make with the Lord-Mayor. The utility of this is that the planes were to be parked, and people could easily access their undersides without having to have them lifted. I then used the combined metamagic rods to make sure that the thing was entirely safe. I got the hangar fully created and included a lounge for the crew, a mechanical/technical services area, and even a bunk room for the thirty odd people I apparently expected to have in the corp. I even got all the furniture and tools in there.

I apparently made the place VERY defensible, as I built in multiple layers of walling, from the inside, are wood, iron, lead, solid stone, stacked stone, and finally packed earth. The layer of iron was also enchanted to prevent ectoplasmic intrusion. Since the building was also partially submerged, the top was covered with a layer of packed earth and then replaced with the sod that had been in the area. When I was done with everything, I even loaded the place up with whatever furniture that I could and apparently went somewhere for an hour before teleporting back to Sandpoint.

I got back just as the movie that I had loaded up for Savah was ending. Savah asked if I was done in Magnimar. I told her that I indeed was done in Magnimar, at least until the Golemwalk Parade. Savah nodded and patted the bed next to her. I relieved myself of my armored shell and plopped down beside her. When I asked Savah about the rest of our day, she just coyly smiled.