I found my Dad!!! No, not in the blue dwarf castle, that was before. Dad was after. Okay. Wait. Start with the mushrooms.

We rested in the mage’s bedroom with all his shiny rocks. Then Twitch looked at and took all the rocks and a lantern that changes colors. And he said the dagger and armor from the stabby guy was also magic, so we took that, too. Then we went back out through the drop doors. And we found a goat out there eating a new dead dwarf. He sat down when he saw Saalym and he’s got fangs just like her. He’s a good boy.

Then we went out to the entry place and down the next hall. There’s noise behind the door so I opened the door and then hid behind it. These big mushrooms can wandering out. Like really big. Then shook some spores on Twitch and Sandro when Eggy tried to talk to them. So, of course he shot them. They started punching my friends, so I threw my psy blades at them. Then I got hit and went to sleep.

When I woke up again, there were lots more and they were all dead. Some of them had people inside them. Dwarves and humans. Leshy said his spell was going to go away, so we rushed up the next set of stairs. We only found a couple dwarves in their bed covered in mushrooms up there, so we stabbed them so they wouldn’t turn into mushroom monsters. Then we took all their stuff, including some really pretty carved pearls.

We decided it was time to sleep so the magic people could be magic again, so we went back to the mage’s bedroom. Eggy didn’t want the good boy goat in the room with us, even though Yogi was allowed in the room. So we put him out to guard the metal suited dead dwarves instead. Kit isn’t so sure about him either, but I like him. In the morning we gathered up everything useful from the metal suits and all the armor and war picks to sell and headed down to the town to find Garry and Good Boy.

Their Speaker sleeps in the snow. He’s silly. Called us thieves! We’re not thieves, but we found and killed the thieves. Told us that the Inn is missing a pretty lantern. When we go there, she’s really happy we brought back her color changing lamp, so she gives us free drinks. Says the goats came from the tavern and the carved pearls from the supply company. Eggy and Saalym go off to talk to those people. Saalym said she wanted to buy the good boy goat from the guy because she gave it fangs. I don’t understand, but the ale was okay. Then we had a drinking competition that night and Sandro won! I dunno, I slept through most of it.

The next day we went back to Targos. Garret had left before we got to the inn the day before so he made it back to his husband just before we did, and they were all very happy to see us again. They gave us some cute little figures carved out of bone. There was a fox just like Kit. They said there was another carver in town who was much better and his name is James Brewer!

I ran off then, but I had to get my friends to help me find the house because I forgot to listen to where it was, but I found it, and his front room was all filled with carved bone things, but he wasn’t there, so I snuck around back and he was in the kitchen carving something else, and I knocked and he opened the door and I told him he was my Dad and he was really confused and I tried to explain, I even showed him my face and everything and he thought it was a dream and pinched himself, but I’m not a dream and I asked him if he hated me cuz Mom said he never wanted to meet me and he said Mom never asked him about that, he’s just been having dreams for a couple years now but I think I’m more than that old and I showed him my pretty daggers, and then someone shouted to ask if I was okay.

I told him those were my friends and asked if we could come in his shop and he could come meet them when he was ready. He said okay, so I went back outside. Back around the front to tell them all I found my Dad, and then I brought them into the shop. The carvings were all really good, so I start explaining what some of them are. There’s some of the trees I exploded. And some plants I recognize. And there’s one that looks like Auntie’s hut. There’s one that Eggy recognizes of the MeanHead like the one Doc and I chased in the woods the other day. He says he had it in a cage but he forgot and the cage got broke when we crashed our ship. He’s really worried that it’ll take over all of Ten Towns or something, but it’s a little scaredy, it ran away from me and Doc.

Dad came in then and I introduced him to everyone. Then I started explaining the carvings to him. and people told him he made a good kid, and Eggy said he’s fae touched, but I think it takes more than touching to make a kid, but I don’t know for sure, Mom’s real tricky. Dad seems really confused, but he says I can stay with him if I want to, and there’s so much to say, so I say I will and get Leshy to leave us some mead and tell Doc to stick with Saalym so she doesn’t get scared because I’m not there.