Today I worked on refining Pipeweed. At the rate I’m going I should get it to the point that I can’t refine it anymore in ten days, give or take a couple days. Then I can move on to pumping it as full of mana as I can, hopefully, brute forcing my way to an evolution.

  In my downtime, I managed to get Talus to play board games with me, and I actually managed to win a couple with the handicap of building up my Fate. though to be fair we mostly played cooperative games, like one where we had to lead a resistance movement against a ruthless warlord. It was actually pretty cool, every time we took our turn one of us would draw a card from the warlord's deck that would describe his actions, and then some other cards would be played and occasionally some dice rolled to determine the results. For example, one time the warlord sent assassins after me, well that happened near constantly but I’m talking about one time, in particular, I had a card that basically let me bait enemies into an ambush which I used to kill the assassins. Or another time we had to lay siege to a city, so we decided to arrange for the food supplies to be poisoned, so talus used a card depicting poison and a card for a master thief and poisoned the army.

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  It was a lot of fun, I hope to play again someday. Or maybe we could get a bunch of people together and play the version of the game where the warlord is an actual player instead of what it was this time.

  Other than that not a lot happened.

  Anyway, Good NIght Diary.

  we're currently sitting at rank 35, or rank 25 by the fantasy only chart