Chapter 27

Praise be to Baldr for he is 

Meeting The Wizard
Baldr's ass blood I hate this city. We were standing in front of the gates of the grandest mansion I've ever seen, when a man in servant's outfit answered the door. I swear he had no brain between his ears. He let us in to meet The Wizard, this powerful ancient, well, um, wizard that is in charge of the Horizon Walkers.

He's evil. And also a monster. I think.

His mansion is filled with slaves. Just mindless husks of people doing chores for him. One of these servants brought us into the Wizard's... dining room? It was big enough to fit half the town, and this is a large town. The Wizard introduced himself to Helike mostly us, and Helike almost immediately began trying to stick his tongue down The Wizard's throat. No really, he licked The Wizard's ring. The Wizard was no help about Lenny's sister, he kept speaking of her as if she already left the mortal plane, all while sizing Gurney up like he was a prized horse.

Instead, he teleported everyone to look at his disgusting display of wealth. My entire hometown could be fed for years with the money from this collection. I refused to go with them, instead taking the long way so that I could identify whatever spell had been cast on these servants. This man is like Mercer but so much worse I hate him I HATE him

I couldn't finish the spell, but when I looked back at the group Castelis looked like he had seen a ghost. Lenny and Gurney bought us some time: Gurney convinced The Wizard to let us bring Leela here, and Lenny offered to stay while we left to get her. Once we were out of sight, Castelis pulled an impressive magical display himself and dispelled whatever had been cast on one of the servants. She suddenly dropped as if in a coma, and we carried her off while Castelis snuck back to watch over Lenny.

While Castelis and Lenny explored the castle, Gurney, Helike and I left to safely hide away the woman we rescued and bring Leela back to the mansion. Gurney had to smash in the doors to get to Leela, which of course her neighbor Randolph saw. While they went to get Leela, I went off to distract him with some pleasant conversation. I was halfway through mending his prized clock when Helike burst the poor man's porch into flames. I swear, we are all going to go to prison for arson because of him.

So Gurney's trying to put out the fire and I have to pull the poor old man out of the way and I'm yelling at them that we can't take Leela back to that godsforsaken Wizard and in the backdrop an old man's retirement house is going up in flames. I hope Lenny forgives me if I snap and start murdering people in her hometown.

Well. We brought her back. The others looked through a secret lab while I took care of Leela. I'm preparing some spells to see what's wrong with her, but right now I'm scared and angry and if the shadows don't destroy us, the Wizard might. If we don't destroy him first.