A well-used journal, perhaps belonging to a member of the guard stationed here? You peek inside.
Captain's Log, Expedition 1
I'm honored to have been chosen to lead this undertaking to secure the swamp. Great men and women are under my command, and empowered by the crown and its people we have nothing to fear.
With hearts full of courage and arms full of steel we've braved the threshold to the swamp, and have established a working base here to launch further forays into this untamed place. I have the utmost confidence we will succeed.
Captain's Log, Expedition 27
Damn this swamp! Damn this fog, and damn everything that draws breath beneath its accursed boughs! My men are dying, and those fools sitting pretty in the royal court are blind to our struggles! I need more resources, more men. I need an army!
I'm at my wits' end dealing with the thieves and cutthroats that riddle this infernal hellscape. I refuse to wait for correspondence from the crown, they have no idea what we're dealing with here. It's time I took matters into my own hands.
Captain's Log, Expedition 32
I've cut a deal with pirates. Never thought I'd see the day. Sure, they're an untrustworthy sort, but the coin I've made off of their rum smuggling has helped keep this operation running. Twelve more bandits have been put to the sword today. They deserve such a fate for killing my men.
If it wasn't for this fog obscuring their movements I would be rid of them all by now, and the swamp would have been well secured ages ago. If only we could find a way to pierce through the illusory haze and be done with it. We can't very well be expected to secure a region if we can't even see it!
I'm offering doubled shifts, and awarding overpay for the brave soldiers who would volunteer their sword arm. Our efforts here will not be in vain.
Captain's Log, Expedition 38
Shifts have been doubled across the board, and I've ordered any unknown individuals sighted through the fog to be immediately purged unless they can identify themselves as friendly. Such measures are indeed drastic, but after this region belongs to us my men will understand the necessity of my commands.
Damn the crown! Once we hold this region they will hear of what we had to go through, whether they like it or not. Innocent men and women (guards and travelers both) are dying out here, and I will see the royals compensate us properly for our efforts, mark my words.
But first, we finish what we started. This region will belong to us if it's the last thing we do.
(Clearly things have changed around here since then.)
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The entries end here, for now. You put the book away.
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