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Joachim's Journal - Smiling River - 02-26-2014
So after nearly a week’s worth of adventuring, I finally have a spare moment to write in this thing. This being my journal of course, which I plan to keep updated with stories from my travels. Who knows, it may be worth something one sun! And if not, it’d be a good read for the kids.
Who am I to speak of kids anyway, most would probably call myself a kid. My name is written on the inside of the leather binding of this journal, but I’ll repeat it here. My name is Joachim Fieldman, I am 16 years of age, and I’ve recently begun “adventuring.†It’s a bit of a dream come true, really. I’ve saved up just enough gil over the past few years to afford some camping supplies, some armor, and a weapon. Unfortunately I couldn't even get close to affording anything from the Celestial Forge like I dreamed, and got some bootleg knuckles instead. The guy at the strip told me they were on sale, and later I found that I overpaid for them! What a shitty weapon… I should have just went with a sword, or spear… isn’t that what Verence used? I’ll need to check the card.
Oh, I guess I should mention the cards. My friends and I grew up admiring the adventurers who made a killing slaying dangerous creatures, defended the realm, and fought the Empire itself. I think I was 9 or 10 when we actually made the first batch of Legacy Cards, for a card game we invented. Seems lame now, but it was a big deal to us. Edwyn drew them pretty good, and then we’d give them their special features, skills, and life points! We even had sets, based on the linkshells they were in. I remember I had a Corvus Cinis set for a while with Alothia, Zenge, and even Jake Roon! But then I traded in for the Eorzean Guard set, because I had Oskar in my deck for a while. He was kind of worthless until he became the head of the Second Division in the Guard. My friend Fox had Mtoto so I gave him Zenge for that (he thought Zenge would be a lot more valuable after he and Alothia hooked up) and I traded Ugar Alothia and Jake Roon for Mylor, Eva, AND Deirdre…
I don’t know why I just wrote all that, I’m all grown up now, and these cards were just a plaything. But I guess they kept us sane when the shit hit the fan. I hope to collect them all again, wherever they went, just to remind myself of what we went through and what I’m striving for.