My apprentices managed to obtain a pyrrhic victory today, they triumphed at the cost of pretty much all of their troops. What ended up happening was close to the beginning of the fight their commander was taken out by a stray arrow, nothing fatal with so many skilled healers hanging around but he was left unconscious to recover. And so Askos ended up taking command, and as a tactician, he is talented and incredibly aggressive, or so I have been told. Not exactly a subject that interests me.

All the while he was still healing all of the soldiers constantly, while he wasn’t able to provide any specialized or informed aid to any of the injured he was able to do some very basic healing on a very large scale. It’s really impressive for him to pull it off without the benefit of a hivemind like mine, though the quality of healing he was able to provide is nowhere near what it needs to be.

He did enjoy being the commander, but that’s not what I’m here to teach him, and he is much more talented as a healer than as a strategist. Once I am done teaching him all I can I will do what I can to get him a good teacher for that.

The biggest change I made my current project is a change in the way it actually creates words. Instead of printing on paper underneath it and constantly having to move it around the device creates paper from a spellwood creation I made for the project. That makes it much easier to use, though I still need to implement a way to properly store the paper that gets written. Maybe make a scroll like thing? I’m not sure what the best way to go about it would be, but I’m sure the scholars have some preference.

I was also able to improve how well the device understands words, but not by as much as I would have hoped. It ends up reducing the amount of time to actually put the words on the paper by about a tenth of what it was before. Working with the brain is tricky stuff, and unless I want to start messing with the soul then I’m going to have to keep grinding away like this.

Other than that I spent some time with my dad today, listening to his stories and telling a couple of my own. He told me about how he ensured his own fame by telling his stories to anyone who would listen, and going out of his way to share them with other storytellers. He’s told me several times that the reason he became an adventurer was because he wanted fame, but this is the first I’ve heard of him ensuring that his fame would spread.

What makes it weird to me is that he apparently didn’t gloss over his own failures and tragedies. Instead, he embellished them, making them even more grandiose often to the point of painting himself as the bad guy in the stories he was telling and spreading to the masses. But from his own words, he does the same with his victories and his triumphs. To hear him say it he did not care in the slightest whether he was hated or loved, just that he was famous for what he actually did instead of a lie.

Honestly, it does explain quite a bit, and if anything it makes me respect him more.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.