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A day in the life of one Enric Porras, currently hiding out in the countryside and living under the name ‘Aspex Arodenius’. 

The morning starts with a leak in the roof. Someone needs to climb up there and patch it up, and that someone is most definitely the guest. Enric spends the morning cutting away rotten thatch and working in new material to replace it. This would be easier to do if it wasn’t currently raining. Yes, a rainstorm this bad is out of season and probably sent by a god or wizard, but that’s really no excuse for not keeping your house together. Enric knows better than to be rude to his hosts, so he tries to stop being annoyed and instead be glad there’s something he can do to pay them back for letting him stay the night. 

The early afternoon is spent gathering branches from the closest woods. If he brings them inside the house early enough, they’ll be dry by evening, when it’s time to start a fire. 

The late afternoon brings a meeting with a foolhardy merchant who, despite the rain turning the roads to mud, tried to get his wagon to the city. Enric joined a handful of other men in struggling to get the wagon un-stuck.

The evening sees the wagon finally free, and the merchant join everyone for dinner because there’s no way to make it to the city by nightfall. As payment for the dinner and the help, the merchant is convinced to share a bottle of wine that was supposed to be a gift for some functionary in the city. 

The night sees the merchant declared the ‘guest of honor’ which means he gets to sleep on the floor near the fire, which was Enric’s spot last night. Enric, meanwhile, joins the merchant’s horse in the barn. 

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That was a great day. There was actual work to do! People needed help in the way where it’s solved by putting your back into it! It’s so refreshing to have problems that can be pointed to without having to debate whether it’s a real problem or not, and where the good thing to do isn’t complicated at all. Enric’s back hurts but that’s so much better than the headache of trying to read a law.

He does need to do some complicated thinking, though, before falling asleep. His evening prayers used to be simple, but haven’t been ever since gods decided to teleport him to a city and make him involved in things. 

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To Erastil. We thank you that on this day we had what to eat and that we took meals together. We thank you that we were able to do what needed to get done today. We ask that you continue to provide the bounty of the earth, and offer that we will do with it good works. We thank you for the ones you chose to guide us, specifically the Sower who told us all to leave the city to escape the madness. People say things went really badly back there, and it’s much better to be out here. 

To Gorzeh or Aroden, whoever the rain is from. Thank you for the rain, for putting out the fires in the city. It’s causing problems here outside the city, though. There’s no buildings on fire out here, if there’s a way to make it weaker then please do. 

To Iomedae. Already said this but… apologies for any evil we were supposed to fight but didn’t because we left the city. I don’t know if you can see this, but most of us in Cheliax are really bad at fighting evil. I know I am, don’t know how to use a sword or how to tell who the enemy is. I know your priest said all the people needed to kill the evil nobles from the Thrunes, but it’s complicated which ones are evil and most people don’t know who appointed which noble. There were a lot of lists and each one had different names and reading even one of them is hard. I’ll try to get better at reading and buy a dagger, in case you need everyone again. But please send paladins to fight the evil nobles instead, they know what they’re doing and don’t get scared.

To The Sun. I can’t do any redemption yet because I don’t regret anything except not being fast enough to stop them, or that I didn’t get them both into the river. Instead, please help my friend with her redemption and her judgement. Even if she was a lawyer wizard for hell, turning everything around and using lawyer powers for good has to count as a redemption. Maybe she wasn’t done yet, but she was on the right path, and please don’t let helping me get out of the city be a reason she doesn’t get to finish that path. 

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