Human Birds

After doing this Stewart thought. (My father told me to look for him in the cathedral of steam in Backlund; he might be a mechanical hivemind member or even a deacon. In his letter he said he had his own reasons for leaving so that may mean there is danger so I should look for other beyonder in Backlund or even ascend to sequence 8.) As he thought this he left his house and headed outside to buy a paper to take a look and see if there were going to be any beyonders gatherings at the brave heart bar recently so he could get in contact with Sharron and Maric. (I need to make this natural and logical so they won't suspect that I am a believer of the mother tree of desire.) After thinking this Stewart decided to wait until the next beyonder gathering at the brave heart bar to make it seem more natural and also Mr. Stanton's Sun brooch is equivalent to Sequence 7 Solar high priest so I can get him to bless some wood for me so I can seal my artifact. He had grabbed a newspaper but there was no signal for the gathering.

Stewart grabbed some paper and began making preparations for getting in contact with Klein after he transmigrates. He grabbed a pen and wrote in Chinese as he thought. (I have to find a more believable way of getting in contact with Klein; it's not like chanting the Honorary of a new fake god right after he created his own honorary name is suspicious at all.

[May 2nd Year 1349 5th Epoch , Desi Bay

To whoever is able to read this I am not not Roselle but another transmigrater and since no one in this world has been able to decrypt Roselle's diary yet I will assume that you are either a fellow transmigrater or someone who is reading this in the far future. And whoever you are, my old name is Zhao Kong but now I go by Stewart Fair so if you are reading this in the near future I implore you to come look for me at the most expensive glass ornament shop in desi bay I will meet you there. If you are unsure of the location just ask any respectable looking middle class in desi harbor and they should know hope this is able to reach someone who can read it.]

Stewart looked at his work then made many copies. (The best way for Klein to see this early on is to try to get a copy into old Niels hands. That may be challenging since even if I go for the smarter approach of selling it at the evil dragon bar I can't say that old Neil introduced me that would just bring me under the Tingen nighthawks radar. So that won't work. I guess I'll keep half the pages and if some don't end up in Klein's hands I'll sell some to Audrey when she goes to Mr.A's gathering. For now I don't have much to do so might as well go look for Xio to try and bargain for the supplementary ingredients for the arbiter potion formula. I might also be able to meet some low sequence beyonders which are not quite on the right path whom I could make into sealed artifacts.)

Stewart went toward the east borough buying a set of cheap dock worker clothes and put mud on the lower legs and chest of the clothes which are both places that easily get dirty when working on a dock. (The stains caused by the clothes being drenched in sweat for long periods of the time is very hard to replicate but as long as I don't run into any spectators or unusually observant people then these details shouldn't expose anything.) Stewart thought as he entered the east borough. Stewart maneuvered himself through the crowds of people that were wearing very battered and torn clothes, through the rips on their clothes Stewart found he could see a defined outline of ribs only rapped by skin. (The book said it was bad but I never imagined it would be this bad, everyone here is definitely malnourished and most likely depressed.) Stewart walked around the east borough until the sun started to set. Stewart still couldn't find Xio so he started heading back to the cherwood borough. As Stewart was about to leave the east borough he felt like he saw two human sized birds standing upright like humans with creepy smiles in the peripheral vision. Unlike other people who would think that they were seeing things Stewart immediately turned around and ran in the direction where the birds were still standing.

After Stewart turned he was now sure he wasn't seeing things the birds were indeed standing there looking at him. The bird seemed like they didn't expect Stewart's reaction as they froze in place. Only when Stewart ran towards them did they reveal their claws. Stewart felt like there was something wrong even though it was getting dark. The streets were no by no means quiet but it seemed no one could see the human shaped birds. Stewart was afraid that the battle would put him under the radar of official beyonder organizations so he looked around and ran into an alley with no people. The birds chased after him running through the streets right through people and the people acted normally. After both sides entered the alley the battle began. Stewart pulled out the rose. He knew the danger of twilight's corruption so he left the stick in the garden of glass.

Stewart tried to activate the curse of weakness but nothing happened so Stewart switched to firing poisonous fireballs which made contact with one of the birds. The other seeing this seemed angered and clawed at Stewart. Stewart jumped back but the claw still left a deep mark on his left cheek which instantly started growing gray fur. Stewart shot another fireball damaging the bird enough that the two birds decided to retreat by disappearing into thin air. At this point the fur growing around the wound had already turned into gray feathers.

POLL

your choices effect the future story

1. Stewart tries to track the bird before they get too far

or

2. Stewart enters the gate of glass to try and get rid of the feathers