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Mid-morning of the 20th

So Zombres found a very unique solution to the problem of trust.  If there is someone that you have reason not to trustâ€”you can render them trustworthy by preventing their malicious activities (or, you know, their most malicious activities).  Specifically, we de-poisoned the red widow.  After that it was time to leave this whole horrible mess behind us.  All that we got was a clueâ€”Heleoglobus and Dahoodorus are behind this, and they did some stuff in Baha Rainâ€”so we decide to go over there.  

We show up, undisguised, on the outskirts of town and follow the tracks of assmen into town.  We get the lowdown from a local rat that some strong people have been in town, and Karl decides to disguise himself as a woman by braiding his beard. 

Shortly after talking to this rat a barber tells us that for some dollars heâ€™ll point us out to a place with treasure.  Itâ€™s a verdant hill where a naked invisible man sits in meditation.  I say hello and he doesnâ€™t move.  Karl throws a rock at him and he screams, at which point I only remember being woken up.  Heâ€™s tied up with some strong rope or something, and just as Iâ€™m collecting my bearings he screams again and I pass out.  

Everyone waits around for a little while and we decend this hole in the hill, being careful not to harm any of the plants on the way down.  Exploring for a little while, we find a room with a dragon corpse and a snake.  I look at it and go blind.  

So what can I learn from all of this?  Hereâ€™s what.  I went to bed so angry at everyone involved in this ill fated mission to accidentally on purpose murder the death speaking goat headed spider that I was unable to sleep well.  If you look over my notes for the past little while itâ€™s just anger anger anger.  This is not like me.  Sureâ€”if you oppress the poor and corrupt the Christian faith I will get a little mad at you, but no one involved did that.  I was just lied to a few times.  But, for all I know everyone is always lying to me.  Why should I care if anyone is telling the truth?  Iâ€™m just going to go on doing the good work I learned to do sitting in that tree by myself.  I learned a lot just looking at animals, and talking to myself, and then talking to Jesus when he started showing up.  I know he didnâ€™t lie to me because I put my hands in some dirt and it corroborated his story.  So hereâ€™s where I stand on the question of trust.  Donâ€™t trust anyone.  Why would you need to?  Once you trust them, youâ€™ve already let them get in a position where you can be mad at them if they happen to be lying to you.  Always assume that everyone is just speaking nonsense that doesnâ€™t have any bearing on reality and then you will be able to sleep well at night and not go blind when you look at snakes.  

Soâ€”while I may have lost consciousness and sight, I have gained the true insight on the question of trust Iâ€™ve been looking for the past while.  All in all, I think I come out ahead on this one.  Iâ€™m just sorry that a powerful guardian who is protecting the planet form some nefarious dudeâ€™s plan had to get murdered for me to learn this lesson.  But, Iâ€™m glad that snake who is indifferent to the future existence of the planet got his golden tale.  I should have asked him to feed the poor in exchange for its returnâ€”but I was just so preoccupied.  Another failing on my part.  Oh well, Iâ€™ll do better next time.