*It seems that at least thirty pages have been ripped out of this journal, making whatever past the halfling Nelum had unknown*

I have found a strange thing indeed; large gates with really, really tall guards at the front, i have never seen anyone so big! When i tried to go in they were all looking at me, probably planing something bad to do to me...

On my first day in this city i learnt alot; the city is called Sanctuary and it was built by deep gnomes a long time ago, i have no idea what a deep gnome is or even if there are other kinds of gnome-thingys. Surface-race slaves found the city when it was abandoned and clamed it for themselves si they would have a place to hide from dark elves and mind flayers (i still dont know what any surface-race is, or what a dark elves or a mind flayers is)

I met one some of the tall people, three wore the metal stuff they call armor and one wore a light-brown robe, i only learnt the two female's names because the males were really, really scary, the female's names were; Talia and Elo, Talia was scary at first but she told me she wouldnt hurt me and that there was no reason to be scared of her so i started to trust her and Elo didnt carry and wepons or wear any of that armor stuff so i wasnt that afraid of her to begin with. We went down a lift into the lower-place to fight some hobgoblins in a brewery, hobgoblins were something i knew about and i know they are absolutly terrifying because they eat little halflings. The five of us went there and Elo didnt fight but when we were outside the brewery she saved my life; one of the hobgoblins had me cornered and i was sure he was going to eat me, i ran past him and got hit bad, i ran past ELo and she healed me then the three others killed it. We fought off the hobgoblins in the brewery and went back into the lower-town near a place called the Crone and Samiil, the small black deep dragon that follows me around for some reason, decided to come out of my pack, the two males started scaring me and said things like "that dragon could probably eat him" i was even more scared then before, but Elo stood up for me and told them to stop being bullys and they did. I like Elo, she is the leest scary of these tall things.

I also met two others about my size who said they were part of a bussiness called; Speed Runners delivery service. They offered me a job working for them, but they have not told me what i'd be doing for them and i havent told them that i want to be a part of this yet so technicaly i dont have the job but i will soon enough, i hope.

I cant remember much about where i come from but if all people here are like those two halflings or Elo i dont think i want to find out.

There is a plauge in the city, and unfortunatly, i have contracted the disease, just when i was setting my sights on finding a master to teach me some skills in Weave. Though i have had a really good idea for a book i may be able to sell to the Rare Book Shop, considering that plauge sufferers are mistreated and most are unable to find work, i could use the gold badly. My book would be baised around images and stories i have heard of the surface ( i stil do not know if i come from there ).

I have given up hope of leaving the Underdark, but maybe it would be a good idea to at least try, i do not wish to infect anyone else. From what i have been told of the gods, Ilmater must be really busy right now...

I met a few dwarves (short people, but still taller then me, they are usaly very strong) before i fell infected, they seemed tough and though scary they seem nice enough.

I went with two of them to do some work outside the city. Whgen we returned was when i started feeling oddly weak and i hurt all over, that was when i caught the illness. I found one of the dwarves (we had split up just before i fell ill) and tried to tell him, at a distance, that i had caught the plauge, but just as i got his attention a man in dark armor walked up and said i was infected, i told him i already knew though. The man in dark armor said he was immune to the disease because he was a paladin of Hoar, i was about to ask him what a paladin and who Hoar was when another infected, a human (one of the really tall people) came up and told me of a way to be cured, my first thought was to go with him and be free of the illness but the dwarf and the paladin told me not to trust him and that he wanted my soul, so i told the infected human i would not go with him and he told me that when the illness begins to cause pain i should seek him out.

I have been thinking of finding him, this plauge just hurts too much, but it doesnt seem to be about to take my life, not so long as i use the stone in the seekers hall.

The plauge has seemingly ended. I do not trust it and have set my sights on leaving Sanctuary as soon as i can. Alone. I plan to find where i came from, master the 'Art' and then return to the cursed city, most likly to lead it's people from the underdark. Considering the people in power are making little effort to find the surface mainly because when they have left the city their authorety will mean nothing and they could easaly be killed, that i simply the way of things.

In the darkness, man shall turn on man, untill there is only one remaining, then shall he see his errors. Peace shall never be atained and there shall be only war and killing in the names of greed and gods by the foolish 'intelligent' races of dwarf, elf, gnome, human and halfling. Never shall there be peace in the lives of the innocent, the traitors of life have proven that time and time again, yet most are willing to let them back in, with the possible exception of the long-lived elves.

I have learnt much in my time here and have made a mission, a oath, to gain some from of godlyness and thus aid the world in what i see as the only way; from power. The races will always have war unless one unites them under a steel fist to end fighting and create fair-treatment amungst the kingdoms and their peoples. If i am forced to fight, i shall fight only for peace and to protect innocents, yet shall accept no form of reward for what i do, for what i do i do inb pure selflessness, that is the kind of world i want to create, where money and value mean nothing and even-sharing is provided, status means nothing and everyone shall be the same to reduce hostility. Of corse, i have come to the realization that if i eliminate the negative emotions, would i not be slaying their sister emotions; love, joy and caring?

I will have to work at this, untill i have become enlightened and wise is shall live a life of solitude and thought, with this i leave Sanctuary and begin my quest for peace.