Seasick

     I made it back to the Imperial City late at night and went as fast as I could to my home in the waterfront district. Walking up to the door I felt that something was slightly amiss, but I couldn't figure out what it was, so I chose to ignore it.
     "Pages blur together as the book of life closes." I said. It was some corny junk that Hassiri came up with as a password for the spell on the door. But the door remained shut.
     I said it again.
     Nothing.
     I said it more forcefully.
     Nada.
     I was far too tired to care about why my stupid passphrase wasn't working, so I opted just to rent a bed somewhere for the night. I recalled that there was an inn built out of a docked boat just a little ways down the road called The Bloated Float and decided that it was my best choice considering proximity. I picked up my stuff and headed over.
     A high elf named Ormil runs the place and offered me a room at a modest price of 10 gold pieces. While he went to get the key, I looked about the tavern area of the inn and saw only a few people; his Orc bouncer at a far table drinking and singing to himself, and three hooded figures discussing something hurriedly at another table. Ormil handed me the key and informed me the rooms were on the deck below, so I walked toward the door leading down. As I passed the table with the hooded figures I heard one of them with a woman's voice whisper "Minx" to another, as though she was addressing someone. Half asleep anyway, I kept walking downstairs to my room. It was a tiny alcove with just enough space for the bed and my stuff, but I paid it no mind. As soon as my head hit my pillow, I was out.
     I woke up, scratched my scraggly face, and stretched out.  I could hear the soothing sound of the ocean and feel the rock of the boat. It made me want to just lay back down and take a day off. Until of course I recalled that this boat was anchored on the shore and was not supposed to be moving.
     I couldn't decide whether I wanted to go outside of my room to see what was happening or not. If I stayed here, I could remain out of any craziness that was going on outside my cabin and simply sleep away until it fixed itself. But then again, who's to say that it would ever fix itself? And even if it did I knew it would bother me if I never knew what happened. I cracked my door open just slightly.
     Peering out, I saw a man in leather armor with a fairly standard steel sword guarding a closet intently, he even appeared to be threatening it. It took me a while to realize that the drunk bouncer I had seen last night was being held in the closet. I picked up the heaviest thing I could see, a barrel, and snuck out towards the guy. I raised the barrel high above my head and brought it down as hard as I could, and with a loud clock he was on the ground.
     Oh gods. I just killed a guy.

2920, Morning Star (Volume 1) - Carlovac Townway

     2920, Morning Star by Carlovac Townway is the first book in a twelve part series about the history of Vivec and the empire. Another short book, this one is told through a series of journal entries that list the date of the entry and the location of the events for that entry. There are four entries that all take place, as you may have guessed, in the first month of the year Morning Star, although none of them seem to connect to each other. Still, the writing is very descriptive, drawing you into the scene and allowing you to really picture what's going on, so the disconnect is not as bad as it could be.
     The first entry takes place in Mournhold, Morrowind on 1 Morning Star, 2920. The demi-godess Almalexia awakes from her bed after having a vision. She walks outside to see her lover Vivec, a god, writing in his study across the courtyard and calls out to him. She then informs him that she had a vision of the end of the war between Morrowind and the Cyrodilic Empire, with the Cryodilic Empire as the victors. Vivec asks her to locate another god named Sotha Sil and return him to Morrowind, in order to protect the province. This entry is very hard to understand without knowing more about the locations and people involved, but it has good imagery and can be enjoyed regardless.
     The second entry is in Gideon, Black Marsh on 4 Morning Star, 2920. It takes place in a cell where the Empress of somewhere is pacing. She rips apart a tapestry she was making and calls for her guard, at which point she starts to plan to assassinate her husband. And that's about it. It's fairly difficult to tell what the purpose of this section is at the moment. Perhaps it will be explained in the next book. Moving on.
     The third entry is in my hometown of The Imperial City, Cyrodiil on 14 Morning Star, 2920. It details a friendly fight between The Emperor Reman III's son, Prince Juilek and the Potentate's (Chief Advisor's) son, Savirien-Chorak, in the Imperial Arena. The fight is fairly well described and worth reading, and the small bit of dialogue that the emperor and the potentate share teases at something bigger happening in the next books.
     The forth and final entry is back in Mournhold, Morrowind on 21 Morning Star, 2920 although we are with different people this time. The duke of Mournhold and who I can only assume is his lover talk to each other about their relationship, her weight, and current events as she dresses to leave. It is revealed on her way out of the door that she is pregnant with his child and that she is unsure of how he would feel about it.
     Because this is only the first in a series of books and it is following a style, I will excuse the most glaring part of my critique, that the book is disconnected and very hard to follow. The fact that it is a historical account makes it difficult to judge for content, so overall I can only really judge it for how well it is written. Which would be fairly well.

2920, Morning Star
Length: *
Difficulty: ***
Overall Enjoyment: ***