Sixth Entry

Man, what a day. Where to start…well, it's been a few days after we left the Peninsula, and entered the Ironmine Downs region. It feels strange not to see water on the horizon. Hmm. Anyways, we have gotten our second drop of myrrh! Huzzah! It was on our way to Marr's Pass, the only real settlement in the area. Unless we went back to Tipa, but that'd mean crossing the miasma stream again…ugh.
It was Se Kan that noticed it first. As we were riding down the road to Marr's Pass, there were many mushrooms lining the road. I didn't think much of it, but it sure got Se Kan excited. He grabbed as much as he could get and stuffed them in his pack. Abadae warned him that they were probably poisonous, but he didn't listen. As usual.

But, the funny thing was, as we rode along, each mushroom we passed was larger than the last! Even Kenach got out to look, after we passed one taller than myself! He was taking one of his naps, and not much can wake him up from that. Needless to say, we had taken a wrong turn. Whoops. We were in the Mushroom Forest, a detour on the way to the crossroads.

We had all gotten out of the wagon to look around, when a Gremlin leapt out from behind a mushroom. It caught us by surprise, but we fought it off. We continued through the forest for what seemed like forever, constantly on guard. We could barely see through all that spore.
Heh…I actually helped out a bit this time. And not just be driving the wagon, or holding the chalice. I fought! And killed monsters! My father had given me a sword before I left, but I was afraid to use it. Kenach has been teaching me fighting techniques ever since we camped at Port Tipa beach.

It's a good thing we lost our way, though. There was a myrrh tree at the end of the forest. But as we walked up to it, Yusha stepped on this…thing. It looked kind of like a plant, but…it had this huge mouth full of pointy teeth. Pretty gross, if you ask me. It got kinda mad, and started snarling at her and stuff. I felt a sudden gush of air, and all the mushroom spores were pulled in…right to the plant-thing. It seemed to absorb them all, grow to ten times it's size, and began to attack!

It tried to inhale us, just like it did with the spores, but we all grabbed onto some nearby 'shrooms. Kenach and Se Kan rushed in after it stopped to take a breath, and dealt some pretty good damage to it. Until it breathed poison smog at them. Yusha ran to heal them after the cloud vanished, and me and Abadae went to fight it. Alone.

It immediately flailed at us with it's tentacle…vine…things. It caught me by the right arm, but since I wield my sword with my left hand, I could still stab it. We kept that up for a while, attacking it's arms like that. Then Se Kan delivered the final blow, by firing an arrow strait into it's open mouth.

I've still got bandages on my arm as I'm writing this. The darned thing had thorns, and big ones too! Still, it's good to know I can be of some use. Maybe next time I'll try to keep us on track, though…

Tristen