If drinking hurts your business, quit your business.

That next morning was when we met Vidar. Yeah, axes guy. We woke up to the guards making a ruckus, they started using the bell in the church whenever the Wolf Riders got too close. So the bell was ring-a-ding-dinging when we woke up and there was two Wolf Riders right on us with Vidar chasing ‘em. He was throwing his halberd at ‘em and slashing like crazy. Sledge and I scrambled up real quick and threw some nets we took from the goblins the day before to tangle up the wolves. Mine worked and Sledge’s didn’t. Or did Sledge’s work and mine didn’t? No, I’m pretty sure I tangled up that son of a gun pretty good.

It slowed ‘em down enough for Vidar to catch up and slash their ears off and kill ‘em. He introduced himself and said the town was paying him a high fancy price to collect as many goblin ears as he could. I said he seemed good at killing goblins, so he should join us. I told him we was gonna try and fix the problem with the Wolf Riders and he seemed interested as well. He talked a lot about.. killing things. He had a lot of respect for Sledge at first, I think because he was the only one as tall as him. But when he realized Sledge wasn’t really the type to fight without reason he seemed to like him less. I thought he seemed pretty uh.. well, bloodthirsty at first. But he’s an alright guy you just gotta.. get past the murder talk. I mean, he won’t stab you in the back, there ain’t no honor in it he says, but you also can’t get in his way too much. But he’s got honor and that ain’t half bad.

Anywho, we went to visit the witch at the edge of town. Way at the edge, it was a couple hour walk there. We talked to that sad boy guard and he told us about the area and such, mostly about the faerie. I was suspecting that maybe the faerie had something to do with how the goblins was acting. And there was a lot of faerie stuff going on there, so it wasn’t too far off. When we got to the witch he had a whole buncha wards against fae. I’m talking his whole swamp smelled like salt and sage. So they must’ve messed with him a bunch. He talked a lot, we was there at his hut for awhile. I don’t remember much, but he basically told us he had a potion to make us invisible, but he was missing some ingredients and we needed to go out and find ‘em. He needed some fancy magic moss and some monster faerie eyeballs.

No, it was eyeballs. Well what’s the difference between antennae and eyeballs then? Nah, they’re the same, they both make you see. Well, sure, they’re not balls I guess. Why are you laughing? You’re distracting me.