Dumbarton Oaks’ Magic Tome

by Dumbarton

Dear Tome,

You won’t believe what happened to me today!

I’m having a relatively nice sleep when Rollie knocked on our door and woke us up at the break of dawn. Apparently, we were supposed to go adventuring or something but no one had told me about it. Or maybe they told me when I wasn’t listening but the end result is the same — a good night’s sleep ruined and me tramping around some rocky hillside on that stubborn goat.

Nothing much happened. We may be looking for a cave of some kind (note: ask somebody about that). We certainly didn’t find it, because we got jumped by some kobolds!

There must have been half a dozen of them — big bruisers with short swords. I turned invisible, as a precaution, while the others wiere running around. When I finished, I calmy assessed the situation:

Rollie was already engaging the enemy. This ruined area effect magic. Some other people were firing arrows. I wanted to keep the kobolds from running and drop as many as possible, quickly, to keep this from becoming a brawl.

Pretty much all I had was illusuions so I thought of Master Tan’s lesson — keep it believable. Something that looked good. Something they wouldn’t attack. Archers fit the bill — the enemy only had short swords, so I could keep the archers out of range easily.

It worked pretty well. The archers looked good, realistic. Most of the kobolds bought it. This one guy was like, “It’s not real! It’s not real!” but the others were too busy to listen much. I just kept pouring arrows in there. One poor sap bought it so well he just dropped!

Liam also shot Rollie in the butt, which was freaking hilarious! I’m not sure he even knows — he was pretty worked up at the time….

Anyway, we killed them and took their stuff and cut their ears off, which was all pretty good. We can get money out of all that.

N.B.: Give Rollie armor next time. Magic armor. He needed it more than I did.

Enough. I think they’re gonna make me get up again tomorrow morning. I’m going to bed.

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