Today I finished creating buildings, now I need to figure out what to do next.

I haven’t used my puppets to spar in quite a while. I remember enjoying that quite a bit, but I don’t remember why I stopped. Something more important probably came up and I got distracted. I’m going to do that for a while, between improving the puppets and improving my own skill with them I should be kept busy for quite a while.

The other empire’s borders are getting closer and closer to our own. With the both of us constantly claiming more cities for our own empires constantly it is only a matter of time before we meet. I give it a month. To make matters worse they absolutely refuse to acknowledge us as a legitimate empire, publicly or privately, or at least that is what I have heard. They have ignored any attempts to contact them and frequently refer to us as ‘uncivilised savages’ and ‘barely sentient cur’ and a number of other demeaning phrases. All this from a group of people that have never gotten their hands dirty in actual armed conflict. And their leadership calls themselves ‘the angelic council’, how pretentious, saying that they speak for the will of all angelics. All of them aren’t even angelics, one of them is a lich.

I look forward to drawing their cities into my forest, these impersonators of ours. We were the first and we will be the last.

Wow, that got a lot darker than I was expecting. But yeah, I am pissed off at these guys for mocking us. Hopefully we can come to a peaceful solution, I would like to minimize death if possible, but given how angry our people are at them I would be surprised if anything but war results from our borders meeting.

Other than that I spent my downtime with Tiddol. I got to test some new potions of hers. Well, she didn’t actually make them, her assistants did. But she did approve of them. One of them perfectly captured the taste of chocolate despite not containing any chocolate, I’ll be honest that doesn’t really mean much to me as I have never eaten chocolate before, it’s supposedly super expensive and a pain to make. But the potion tasted really good. There was also one that causes you to hover in the air a couple inches, useful for crossing bodies of water without getting wet, or for vomiting up a potion that tastes like chocolate when the vertigo hits you. Teleportation doesn’t make me sick at all, but just hovering a hands length off the ground is apparently too much for my stomach. It’s not like I can heal that kind of motion sickness, I tried, but I wasn’t exactly able to figure out what caused it while I was busy vomiting.

Overall though it was fun, I particularly enjoyed the flavorings they were busy creating and trying to figure out how to mass produce. I look forward to going back.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.