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Spent the day in taverns, streets, and markets. Learned the whereabouts of a local magician. I will call on him tonight and try to enlist his services and convince him to join me.
...that did not go well at all
I arrived at the magician's house, and he welcomed me warmly and invited me inside. He fed me and shared his mead, and we ate and drank and spoke well into the night.
By way of a few reckless comments, it became evident to me that he has been using his wits and magicks to plunder local mercenaries, robbing them of their hard earned coin.
No hard matter to me. This simply means he values coin, and has no scruples about how he gets it. I'm convinced his services can be bought, and he will be able to contribute much wealth to his party.
Regrettably I made a fatal error in my assessment. The prideful wretch took insult at my observation and flew into a rage and attacked.
A magician in close melee is not much of a threat, but not incapable of getting a spell off, so I struck quickly and fell him in two blows. But not before the villain managed to stab me in the ribs with a shard of his shattered mead glass.
I will rest here the night and try to recover. I fear I may now have even less time to spend in Cumry than I thought: a town deprived of its magician is not a hospitable one.