Quinalin's Thoughts on Psychic Reformation and a Story

During our encampment after our encounter with the Bandit King of Wa, Quinalin listens carefully as Kaylee describes the Psychic Reformation ability she is currently unlocking inside her head.

While most of the party members generally just comment on its coolness or make quips about using it to become as bad-ass as Quin, they see that he has a very serious look of contemplation on his face.

After several minutes, he eventually speaks up.

"Gaining knowledge or picking up tricks or abilities that we feel with hindsight might have been more useful does sound very intriguing, but for me, I feel the problem is much deeper.

My entire career as an adventurer starting all the way back shortly before I took that long and nightmarish boat ride across the Stormchalice Sea, I have focused on being a fighter, and I believe I have become a pretty damn good one, but for all that time, I have struggled with one severe weakness. That is my lack of willpower to fight off magical intrusions into my mind. The worst example was a few [years? months?] back when a vampire in Wydmoor took control of me and nearly caused me to slay Mose. I still have nightmares about that day, and I very nearly gave up entirely on adventuring, maybe my life, when it happened.

Today, when I felt that same haunting sensation of someone else¹s thoughts and will insinuating themselves into my mind, I panicked as I thought it was about to happen all over again. Even though this event was different, it was still a potential disaster that was again only narrowly averted by Mose's amazing and devastating onslaught against the Bandit King.

When I think about what I could go back and change, this is it. What choices have I made throughout my career that I could change to mold me to be more resistant to these magical intrusions? My deep desire would be to become an *unbreakable* warrior, not only by strength of body, but also by resolve of mind.

After the party has tended to their camp and settled in for a meal and rest, Quin speaks up again and recites the tale of Joshua and the witch.