Today I asked Par and Mest what their birthdays are. Par has no idea, he doesn’t remember that far back and didn’t exactly have someone keeping track of it for him. Mest on the other hand, his birthday is in about a month, Day twenty-five if I use my diary as a pseudo calendar, which I tend to do.

I spent most of my mana growing trees, I want to expand as much as I can before the end of spring, when it will become a bit more difficult to grow my grove. partially for the sake of pride, lord of the forest sounds much better than lord of the grove, but also because that is both of the ways I can increase my mana regeneration. First, the trees all give me a bit of mana, so the more trees there are the more mana I get, second I get a bit of the overflow mana from every living thing in my territory, which is my grove, so a bigger grove means more mana. It wasn’t immediately noticeable but expanding my Grove to cover Par’s village was a huge boost to my mana production, apparently, it takes a couple days for the results of that to really show themselves.

For the rest of time I spent focusing on my Fate. The good news about that is I that I can do something else while I am focusing on it, though nothing really mentally challenging. The bad news was that I lost every board game I played with Talus, horribly. I have never lost at a board game so badly, never mind twelve different games in a row. And yet it did wonders for my Fate, though I honestly have no idea what it did, which is the rule rather than the norm, unfortunately, both with the positives and the negatives.

And thinking back on today I think I figured out a trick to this whole Fate thing. At least with the scale I am working at every event I trigger has to do immediately with me, what I am doing, what I am thinking about, what the people around me are doing, stuff like that. Pretty much unless it is entirely under my control, like any time I work with my plants, it can be affected by Fate.

Also, the amount of Fate I gain seems to rely on the subjective value of the event that happens, like during a couple games from earlier there were times when I really wanted something to happen, even though it would have only been a minor inconvenience for it to not happen, if I triggered my Fate to increase, which I did as often as I could, and that event didn’t happen I would gain a lot more Fate than if I triggered my Fate and an event that was objectively terrible happened, but that I didn’t particularly care about.

Taking those two facts I know the quickest way to increase my Fate. I just need to put myself into a situation where being unlucky would be very embarrassing and subjectively terrible, but not particularly dangerous. I really don’t want to do this, but if I want any hope of improving at Fate then the only solution is to get as much Fate as possible. I can’t exactly stay up for days on end to build up Fate, I would get too tired to maintain it before lunch on the second day.

How bad can it be, right?

Anyway, Good Night Diary.