Finally, we're in Erinn! Took us a while, but still got there! If there is something that there is no such thing of, or I forgot to put in some quest, or there are too many people in the party to do that quest, I did it on purpose, so don't go and rage quit on me please!

I do not own any of the characters except Connor, Steve, Amalie, Shuka, Elsa, Kaylin, or Angie

Journal #5: Baltane

Filia

In Erinn, the order of days from Monday to Sunday is: Alban Eiler, Baltane, Alban Heruin, Lughnasadh, Alban Elved, Samhain, Imbolic

10 minutes is 15 real-life seconds.

There are 8 weeks in the time elapse of a real-world day.

One year is one week.

Alban Eiler is the spring (vernal) equinox.

Baltane is when summer begins/May Day.

Alban Heruin is the summer solstice/midsummer's day.

Lughnasadh is autumn harvest.

Alban Elved is autumn equinox/autumn begins.

Samhain is the first day of winter/haloween.

Imbolic is the winter solstice.

Just needed to note all that down.

I woke up at six (how I do these things, I don't know) and went over to the girls' room. I slammed on the door to wake them up (as usual) and dragged them back to where we first were. I finally got them there (it took a whole 200 minutes. That's only 5 real-day minute.) and met Vena. She's a human elf trainer. That seems a little impossible to me…

But first I'm going to tell you/myself what was in those bags. I never realized that no one is going to read these except me. What happens when you get overstressed…

Amalie had a mace and some HP pots. HP pots heal thou. Talking to myself again…

Kaylin started with a cylinder and clay, wind, fire, and water crystals (300 each).

I got a longbow and 300 arrows.

Vena taught them how to use their weapons, use l-rods, and sketch. While they were doing this, I left them and went up to Castanea to deliver some letter I found in my bag. We learned about the basics of Mabinogi and got pretty ranked up. What was really interesting was that I got an owl from Yoff. I thought, 'Oh, it must be time to start the falcon chain quest.' But actually, he walked us to the arena (it was empty. Was it just convenient, or was this deliberate?) and sacrificed a falcon on some altar. Kaylin asked, "What's he doing?" and then transformed into a falcon.

We had a level 7 falcon. Kind of scary.

We did this two more times and me and Amalie.

Oh yeah, Amalie has orange hair.

Say, I didn't introduce Amalie.

Amalie is (now) a orange haired girl that is a little smaller than Kaylin and is usually carefree and still cares for others at the same time (is that possible?), but respects when to be serious and/or quiet.

Back to the story: I asked Yoff how he did that, and told me it was called "quick summon". It turns out that every person has the potential to be a dark night, paladin, falcon, or savage beast, but needs to be in certain circumstances to summon it. For heroes, their potential is blocked by a bar, and can be released by sacrificing an animal (different animal for each day), but can only use the skill when it is in dire need, but can use it at will if you do the Falcon chain quests. We came out and got an owl telling us that they sent in a trainee into Longa Dessert Ruins a little bit earlier but hasn't come out, so they wanted us to check it out. We used a berry (same item that she used) and entered. We went through some rooms (the boxes weren't open?) and found our first opened box. We went a little longer and found the boss room. We were about to go in, but felt and heard a possible explosion, then something like a thump on the ground. Amalie and Kaylin were about to rush in, so I literally had to pull on their shirts to stop them. I wasted a lot of energy on stopping them, but still told them my plan: I would go in and revive the trainee while the other two rushed in and distracted the Guardian of Ruins. We went through with the plan and came to the end room (there was only one box because us three didn't come in first) and then I asked the first and most important question that you always ask a trainee:

"What level are you? If you got beat by the horse dude, you are really not fit for this dungeon." My cat scratched at the wall in agreement. Oh yeah, I forgot to introduce my cat.

Her name is Sarmies and she is a siamese that has more strength than I do. It's kind of sad.

I turns out that the trainee is ALSO someone whose parents' left her etc. etc.

Her name is Elsa and she wears glasses and has blond hair that goes up to her shoulders or a little longer and is about as tall as Kaylin or a little taller.

So now I know six of the seven that I will have to take care of (including myself) and know that it's going to be awkward sometimes, considering that there will at LEAST one more girl than guy.

And she had a message.

I can't recite it by heart, but basically she had a dream with Nao in it, she told her to do this dungeon and that she would find us in it, and to tell us that we would have to get to Uladh around 6:00 AM real time tomorrow, then finally meet up with the other three in Dunbarton.

By the time we got out, it was a little bit over midnight and 10:15 AM in real-life time. We did more beginner quests and finally finished the quest called Eliminate 1 Guardian of the Ruins at around noon, and 10:30 in real life. I also have the pets that I have in my Mabinogi file (not my real life), so I have a magic carpet named Sarpet, a two-seater horse called Sargolan, and an owl called Sensamos (biggest frickin' inventory I've ever seen!). We all came back to the inn and spent the night in the inn. I decited to write this, and now it is a little before noon. I think tomorrow we'll learn all our life skills, and then go to Uladh. I'm probably going to send a copy of this to
Connor and Shuka right now, so yeah.

As Spader of the Pendragon book series always,

Hobye-Ho

This is Steve, signing off.