Officer in Charge:Celuvian Haap, Arcanist
Attendees:Graum Trolle, Watchman
Brenna Night, Guardsman Recruit
It was late and Cove was nice and quiet, so Arcanist Haap decided that us two junior ranks present needed a task to test our skills, and to try and teach us something, supposedly. He ordered a forced march to the graveyard for us both, and once on location he gave us the task to eliminate the lich that dwelled within and get back out again without either of us falling. To add a twist to the task we were also told to do so fast, by rushing in and taking out the lich directly, or Arcanist Haap would "help out" from the sidelines, but inflicting further pain on us to speed it up.
The task itself was easy enough, but the added instruction of doing so by rushing the lich directly to complete the task faster did make it harder, and while we were able to easily bring the lich down, by that time we were so surrounded and overwhelmed by the undead hordes that making it out safely became quite a challenge, and unfortunately the task as set out failed to be completed. Brenna and myself were both quite peeved at the failure, as we both knew we could've easily completed it successfully if it had been done in a more tactical fashion. Arcanist Haap however explained that that was exactly what the point of the training was, and that we needed to ponder what had happened and what lesson could be taken from it.
Recruit Brenna's take on it was that the lesson was that senior officers was allowed to order junior ranked guardsmen to do strange things for no real reason. While she does have a point I'd rather like to think the lesson was that sometimes instructions given are best ignored to get a job done right, and that successfully completing a mission can be more important then necessarily follow instructions to do so.
Note: The fight itself was very brief, so unfortunately no pictures were taken of it.Signed,
Graum Trolle,
Watchman
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