In the year twenty seven fourteen, a new squad of Opera Davis was chosen
by the College of Illusion. These fools promptly went on to frustrate their DM
at every opportunity. Today, still working together because really, who else would
work with them? They survive as adventurers of fortune. If you have a
problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them,
maybe you can hire the Second Breakfast Club. Tony Kinney as Eddie Falzoni,
Jess Owen as a deer a Glow, Michael Cole as Urag, and
Jesse Wicks as Bill Crilliance, Nico Rodriguez as your DM. Welcome back to
the continuing Tales of a Fool's Quest. I'll just go ahead and rear up.
I see you, little man. You can't hide from the spirits of
a host of a rock. And you hear a female say, damn it.
I knew it wouldn't work, And Valley drops her a minor illusion,
her little cantrip that she can cast, because that's pretty much all she can
do with her powers is do a little minor illusion. And she steps out
from around the rock to see you, and she's like, hi, Rag,
So i'd change it back to my regular form. What are you doing
here? I was hoping I could talk with you guys, and I was
trying to find the right time to chat. We'll work kind of on business,
I know, and that's kind of why I wanted to talk with you.
We'll see what idiot Bill had to say with this. Okay, escort
back to wherever sun up shot. So she comes down there and yeah,
you guys are they're feeding the mules and brushing them, and they're picking out
two horses and doing all this other stuff, and they're taking their time.
These are with the black one with the star on its head. I told
you, the black one with the star and has had just got here.
He needs to rest. Look at those legs. He's not even wearing shoes.
Look at those legs. They're better than the other horses legs. Well,
but the other horse has shoes, shoes, didn't wear shoes. He's
fine. Wiggled my toes, hey right, they're all crooked. I've got
Volley sitting up on my shoulder like a parrot. These toes are all crooked
and full of thorns and cutting, calloused and awful looking. I never wear
shoes he's got a corn. It's like, really, Irra, a corn
stuck in the toes, all right. So yeah, so Valley's there with
him. So you found a Valley Vally. She was following us. Yeah,
So as you following us, what can we do for you? Well,
I'm hoping you guys can maybe help me with something I am. I'm
looking to get back in the good graces of the Illusionist School. Now,
hear me out. So Valley, do she is like I said three five?
She's got long brown hair, pale skin, like a perfect smile,
like she is just like she she's a very charismatic in appearance, just to
be around like people generally like her and it's just kind of innate, almost
kind of to a Bardic level, right or or yeah? Yeah, And
so she says, I got kicked out at the school for a misunderstanding,
and I'm trying to show that like I can be an attribute and even if
they don't let me bag into like a full click, I can still help.
See, we know a little bit about that misunderstanding, Valley, And
well it's our understanding that you broke into the dean's office to try to set
us up. I'm broke into the dean's office to play a prank. We
didn't realize how powerful that magic was going to be. Yeah. Funny thing
about your prank though, with those evocation uniforms, you know, I think
that's what's got I'm the most worried about you being a security risk and everything.
Well they told you about the security risk thing. Well we kind of
figured it out. Oh, I'm telling you it's a misunderstanding. Did they
tell you what happened? What they found? What did they find? They
found that I was writing letters to someone of another nation, but it wasn't
a Vogers. What were you writing in the letters? I was writing letters
to my sister, who is an Abjurer in the Abjuration nation. And they
said that because I was communicating with somebody who is a full Abjurer, now
I broke protocol. It does seem a little unfair. How do you think
we can help you? Well, I guess I'm just like trying to prove
that my loyalties are here in the Illusion nation, Like, yeah, she's
my older sister. But I mean we're not at war with the Abjurers.
They're literally our next door neighbors. They I mean we have the best peace
treaty agreements with them, even though they are weird in their little turtle shell
of a nation. So I just I figure if I come with you and
I can prove myself and maybe you guys could vouch for me. You your
word probably goes a long way with Dean Smelting right now. Yeah, we
do have some some credit with him at the moment. What you guys think,
I think? Did I already sprink? I already spoke frankly with her
and asked if she served right? I think that was HERMI or I don't.
I don't think we've talked to Valley before. You haven't talked, That's
what was. Yeah, I'm gonna he's chiming open and attempt to there's no
role for this one. When you speak frankly with someone, you asked their
player a question from the list below. They must answer it truthfully. Then
they may ask you a question from the list, which you must answer it
truthfully. So I'm just gonna ask her, who do you serve? I
would like to serve the illusination if they let me. Okay, so she
can ask when I return if she wants. But as far as I can
tell she's being honest. It's up to you if you want to take pity
on her. But what are you guys doing? Is what she asks you
in return? You don't need to know that. Do you have to answer?
Oh? You didn't roll that answer? I didn't. We're doing a
mission for the school evolution. That's up to how do you hear? If
he wants to disclose any details of it, it's his mission and we're headed
the new hipp Era. I'm not gonna tell you why though. But look,
there's no objections. I think you could come along. But you gotta
understand. We don't particularly trust someone who's used hostile magic against us once already.
So we're got to be keeping an eye on you. Yeah, that's
totally fine. You can keep an eye on me. I want you to.
I want you to say that I'm doing my best for the illucination,
all right, A person. I feel like she's crushing the boys club.
I remember in good standing at the he Man Woman Handers Club. Do Solomon
swear to be a he man? And hey women? And I play with
them or to them, and as I have to, and especially never fall
in love. And if I do, mad that slowly and pencil and stuff
for hours or until I scream bloody murder. That's just my thoughts, dear,
is like no girls allowed? What girl? All right? Shit?
Sorry, all right, all right, Masa, you can tag along.
This is valley, all right, Valley, you're not mesa. No,
all right, valley Plateau. You can tag along for now. It's going
to be a long journey though. And did you bring anything for you know,
provisions, camping, any of that. I only have a bed roll
and then I brought a bunch of hot pockets. All right, long as
we got something, we can probably make it stretch our provisions if we need
to too. We're not going to let you go hungry. She does have
a pack under her cloak that she's got, so it's got a bed roll
tied to the bottom of the pack and then in it just a bunch of
hot pockets. Yeah. And it's what like evening though, Yeah, it
is evening while they're getting the stuff. It's like dinner time, so you
could probably eat dinner while they're wrapping up getting your h With the horses done,
I mean they've got them pretty much good and ready to go. They're
just testing out walking on and getting them used to the weight of the wagon.
At this point, I loved to twin. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm
gonna break into our hot pockets or wait, I don't know how many I
ate earlier. I'm gonna make myself a hot pocket, and then to bond,
I will also make Valley a hot pocket, and they'll dust it with
some golden I'm gonna use silent image to make Valley a hot pocket, giant
athlete size hot pocket. The next time Urrek gets drunk. Stop looking at
me like that, like what like you see me naked? All right,
so you added some of that powder. Yeah, the golden and I'm just
gonna sit down and just be generally pleasant and build rapport or whatever it is
that bards do. Yeah. Yeah, not actually trying to fish anything out
right now, just trying to trying to make a bond with her. Yeah,
yeah, that works. You're trying to seduce the halfling. Not yet,
okay, while you wanting I can't wait. Oh my god, So
you guys chet halfway right now, So horses are good to go. You
break in your hot pockets, you can probably get another two and a half
hours on the road before you'd really need to stop and break for camp,
so you could do that, or you could stay here on the ranch if
you wanted, and you'd still have to camp outside here at the ranch.
But they've got like a well, and they've got you know, people around
and stuff like that. If I mean, it's a lot of safe yeah,
for not much time longest, right, Yeah, I guess it's probably
the better safe than sorry. I will set out first thing in the morning
and make some good disses tomorrow. Camp at the ranch, all right,
So you guys throw your camping stuff together at the ranch. You're hanging out
and in the middle of the night, are you guys setting watch? Are
you just like relying on the people around to keep an eye out and stuff
like? That's what's the area look like around where we're camped. So you're
at the base of a mountain, so it's kind of still rocky terrain,
but they've kind of like ragged it out and made like raised beds for these
garden areas that they've got around here. And they've got like, like I
said, that horses have fenced off areas that they try to keep in a
straight line, so the horses aren't hurting themselves by running all over rubble,
and then it kind of dips down at a pretty aggressive slope, you know,
down the rest of this hilly area towards the mainland. But it's i
mean grasses there on the ground, and you've got some decent plants and trees
and stuff growing up in little sparse areas. It's probably a little too sparse
for the spider web thing. So when I get ready to crash out for
the evening, I'm going to transform into a like a large mountainish cougar,
okay, with antlers. Okay, it's for hearing in night vision. Okay.
So you is that how you're gonna sleep throughout the night? Yeah,
and I'll sleep on the bed. Go ahead, and the shape shift roll
and see what you get from moves while you're doing that. Did you guys
put a watch during the night? Are you just trusting the locals? Just
so? That's two okay. I'll sleep in the carriage. I'm just gonna
hang my symbols above the door, so if anybody tries to open its real
loud. Alright, cool, that's adeira. So if I go out to
pee, it's gonna Yes, we're all gonna know, we all already know
you've never peed without gun, never once a definite tail. I'll probably just
sleep on the driver's seat, not giving it up. Okay, that's cool,
and Valley do bust out her bedroll and goes goes right to sleep.
Like she looks like she's had a rough few days. She is not.
I mean, she's very pretty. You know, she's tried to keep herself
together, but her hair is not as well kept as it as you've seen
it ever before. She's got some dirt smudges and stuff like on her neck
and on her clothing, and she just looks like she's not had a good
go it late. So make sure I tell her get some sleep. You'll
meet your rest and if you betray our trust, all transform into something larger
than this and each okay dreams, so you won't go to sleep. And
in about in the in the twilight hours of the night, all right,
super dark. The moon is hidden behind the mountain. From where you are,
you hear the dwarf and lady that hooked everything up for you scream out,
it's alive. God, she made a flesh column. And then all
of a sudden you hear some shattering of some noise and like breaking and table
breaks, and she's like, no, no, stay listen to me,
don't go out there, no, and blushing through this door. Miss this
giant, meaty, hot dog looking mother finger. It's a frank Instein.
So it hurts acause bird it comes charging it. But you're all all of
you, and you've got plenty of time to form up and get ready.
So no surprise rounds for anybody. But let's go ahead and roll that initiative.
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back to the food. All right, So back to rolling initiative. So,
Eddie, you're first, Franken Furter m Franken furg in Stein's real name
is Oscar. I think I'm gonna use my wand of double vision to turn
Adira and myself invisible. Okay, he said, charge seven because the wand
hey seven works, But then I have to I'm gonna take the negative one
ongoing to cast spells. Okay, Sue, we are both invisible. You
both disappear. Rag. I charge out of the carriage and charge right at
it to attack. So you open the door. The symbols go everywhere and
you charge right at it to attack, and it's charging at you so you
can meet a head on you two just go right to town. Yeah mainly
right, yeah, hacking slash unless you're gonna do a move that's what moves
would a giant cougar have. I'm assuming you'd have something like a pounce or
like a bite and like where you tear and rent and try to disable.
I think I'm gonna like lunge at it with a pounce and go for like
that that grappling rear claw rake. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, the
wrap up and then you kick the guts out. Yeah okay, so that
would be a move. So so you can do the hacken slash for your
normal attack. But then if your attack is successful, then your move you
grapple him and take him down to the ground. Nice all right, that's
a roll plus strength. That's eight plus strength nine. So I deal my
damage, but he gets to make an attack against me. Yep, all
right. So you pounce at him with your claws out, and he was
charging right at you, and he had his fist rays and he just swings
hard direct punch right into your nose, doing six points of damage. He's
strong, he is strong, okay, but delicious. Okay. Well,
because of the smack on the nose, that attack didn't do very well.
So he got raped for two points all right, So two points of damage
there, But you do have him grappled now on the gun ground right with
your move. All right, so he's grappled. Yeah, I'm dug in.
I could just imagine the cougar getting hit in the face and just stopping
and doing that cat sneeze thing that you're up and then he he's after me,
right, Uh no, he just got tackled down to the ground,
so he's prone. He's prone. He goes after you, yes, oh
yeah, yeah, his turn is after yours. He's not chasing you though.
Yeah. I was wondering if I could aid or interfere. You could
definitely aid if you wanted, So how do we do that with a roll
plus bond's We replaced bond with whatever whatever makes sense for that logical thing.
So if you're aiding by let's say, holding him down with hou rag,
then we would add your strength. So that's what I'm doing, traida aid
and holding them down. Oh natural twelve o oh all right, so yeah
that's great. Roll again, plus my strength was at fourteen and it was
invisible. Doesn't that until I attacked? But I don't know either. Second
roll was a sixth Okay, don't you have something that does additional damage?
Though? If you critically hit, I mean you're just trying to aid,
So I don't know if it. I don't know what that ability did.
Oh the aid or interfere, Oh no, you cripple someone with a critical
hit. But I wasn't tacking and slashing. But what I will say because
it is a crit When you press down, you feel his hot dog meaty
knee snap, so his one beam breaks into hot dog juice just squirts out
the back of his leg, the hot dog flavored water. Yeah, so
you Rod gets plus one or minus two my choice. What does that mean?
If it was a bad guy, if you were hindering, they would
get minus two. But you're helping, so he's plus one on his next
roll. All right? Oh? Good? Is that it? Okay?
Cool? That was fun? Yeah, and I am actually exposed to danger.
So he is going to focus his attack on me, all right,
I mean if he can get up, if he can yeah, oh,
actually it is his turn. So he's going to use his other meaty,
hot dog leg and try to kick you. I try to kick you.
Ooh and that is an eleven that hit so so he does he? I
mean, you broke his leg and just instinct, hot dog big frank instinct
just kicks back at you, and oh my god, does minimum damage four
points of damage? He critically grazed you. He critically grazed you. He
just kicks you with his hot dog leg and you feel hot dogs smash against
your head, which puts me into a rage because he attacked me, right
if you want, Yeah, he can't fire up the rage. Yeah,
all right, time hello, Georgy just got uh right, and uh he
doesn't try to break free from uh yeah he does, he will. So
he's going to do opposing strength checks with rag new rag. You get a
plus one okay, oh six plus one seven plus eight nine plus year well
plus the extra one ten. Yeah, no, he got an eighth.
So so he's still pinned down, just kicking and flailing. His one meaty
leg is broken and his other one's trying to hit the dero. Literally,
we are doing all the work and anybody want to help. And now it's
over to Bill. You're doing great. Additional two D four. I've never
seen such a cool cougar. The cougar, yeah, leopard, whatever you
are, you're a scary cat. I'm gonna roll that. It is a
seventeen. I rolled a seven. I rolled Sorry, yeah no, that's
my Christmas is seventeen seventeen of twty six is correct, So seven, uh,
yep, seven to uh trying to buff uh give him the heel and
the damage going forward, so there should be seven should be a success or
something happens, correct, yep, okay, So in the meantime, I'll
roll is healing? All right? So you heal for seven? Damn?
I wish I had chosen because of my armor. I was only down with
three twoty eight forward to damage and what was your what's the bad thing that
happens? Arcane says, either still works, but you draw on one to
the tension, or it reverberates to other targets, affecting them as well.
Some of the hot dogs. Yeah, all right, how much did you
heal? Seven? Seven? I'm not giving him the full seven? I
also gave two D four left. Yeah, so he takes the remaining four,
the four that didn't heal. Who egg? I am his knees working
still? Yeah? His his leg snaps back into place, so one that
a dearest snapped. I would like to point out that when I, when
I do all this, I lean out the door of the cabin and start
cheering him on. But I don't come out. This seems like a lot.
All right, we're back to Eddie. Look, you get to choose
something he loses. You should have just said the will to fight. I
didn't, though I'm still invisible, so I'm gonna go up and around behind
him and bunk him on the back of his hot dog melon, all right,
dog with my with my black jack yep, all right, Oh that's
ten. What wow? I I've got a six and a four and I
was like, that's seven. Do I have anything to add to it?
Seven? That's ten? So yeah, I guess the blonking four plus two
three damage? Okay, all right, and then that's my turn. It's's
turn first, oh yeah, and then back to the hack and slash.
Yep. Just since I've got him there, I'm just gonna start trying to
maul him. Okay, six plus four ten twelve hits for sure, D
eight for red and claw. So that's four plus another two D eight twoty
four? Is it? Two four eight? Okay? The D eight are
for healing. I'm sorry, Okay, got one of these days on I
was like, I was doing all that wrong. So he's he's already taken
what four he got healed for four and hit for three? He got hit
for three, then healed for four damage that ed and then and then two
on the dice plus the two for strengths. That's four plus two more nine,
right, Yeah, holy crap. Wow. Okay, so that's twelve
damage altogether after already did geez. All right, and so you just gouging
into this hot dog mee. There are chunks of hot dogs flying out everywhere.
Frank is just getting ripped at pieces, and he's like letting out this
ghastly howl and throw hot dog and Adira here up my yell, weenie.
Well, I swing my X nine to hit yep nine points of damage.
All right, so you kill this thing? So o. Rag moved to
the side while he was biting into this thing, still holding it down.
But how do you? How do you? I was still holding him down,
so I kind of like dragged my axe around and kind of like shove
the blade up through his ches. Oh so I can't really swing, I
can just drag it. Yeah. That tracks. So you skewered hot dog,
Frank. It's an axe roasted it. Yeah, and then we ate
like kings. Yeah, And I totally forgot I was gonna have Valley helping
in this fight. But I forgot she was there because everything got so wild.
So she put a minor illusion on herself and hid next to the wagon
as one of the wheels. Uh, I want to call it to marry.
Hey, Mary, next time, make a marshmallow monster deal. You
see her like flipping the table over in the barn that she was in.
Seriously though, why did you make this horrifect thing? Oh? I just
I was thinking maybe, like we breed horses and mules here, maybe if
we could breed meat creatures, we could just have meat creatures to farm and
give to the mountain folk. Where did you get the meat to make it
a new creature? Oh? That was mostly horse and meal meat. It's
mostly you know, nostrils, your lobes, some rats from tending the fields,
a few other random squirrels. It's a sordid monster by products. I
guess it's a efficient use of your your resources. But gross, I was
wondering why they were there that giant lightning rod on top of the house.
All right, I'm still on fire bill. You want to hold out your
symbol there kind of shed come down and carefully avoid all the hot dogs.
She brings out buns for everyone. Mary Shelley does brings out buns for everyone's
you know, get a sliver of hot dog that the rex claws sliced all
and we've got hot pockets and little smokies. Now I'm just on top of
the carriage, licking all the hot dog juice off my fur, rubbing your
face with your little cat hand, just creaning and big cat hand. All
right, So do you guys go back to better? Are you gonna hit
the road and washing off the hot dog flavored water? Leave if you can?
What time is it, it's still like the middle of the night.
Yeah, it's like three or four in the morning. You would say,
I think, go back to bed. Yeah, wait for the next one.
So stay a cat warm back on the bed, and I smell like
hot dog. You see Mary open this giant jar or giant container of something.
It's like a barrel and on the side of it, you know,
she's like scooting it over and you can see the word spam written on it.
It's like, take me a few weeks, but maybe we'll try again.
And yeah, I hope you do. You see you guys go to
bed. You wake up the next morning before we start traveling. I need
a wild magic travel check from all of you. So D twenty twenty D
twenty eleven, eighteen nineteen seven. I thought that was a one because I
cannot see Oh no, that's still two events. Oh no, so eighteen
and nineteen. So roll D twenty and tell me what you got. And
these won't happen necessarily immediately. It depends on what you get. But Bill,
what did you get? Fifteen for Bill? Okay, don't do that.
That's great, Eddie, I got a five? Okay, Okay.
These noises you're making aren't reassuring this. Are you looking at the list?
All right? So you guys, wake up the next morning and eat hot
pockets before you hit the road. Take a leak? I mean, do
you do anything morning ritual? I know Ure's got some stuff he does to
each day, prepare my spells and whatnot. Okay, the same, but
clean myself and tidy myself up and make sure I look sufficiently regal. Okay,
Bill, You get out of the wagon and you start walking kind of
still half asleep, waking up, going through the motions, and roll me
a D six is a five. For the next five hours, you start
to see flames every time you walk. You walk across the ground, flames
shoot out beside you. You move your arm, flames shoot out beside your
arm. You twist your head too far to one side, flames shoot out
of your neck. Non destructive flames shoot up from the ground wherever you walk
or run or with any quick movements of your body. Bruh, A dear,
what did you do? What are you talking about? The rest of
us see him? Yeah, everyone can see him. Check this out real
quick. I'm just gonna run in a circle over. Thank god. What
am I looking at? I look like the flash on the seat. I
do that all the time. I don't see anything weird. Supposed to say
time too, I'm not supposed to be fiery. What the tackle and start
trying to put him out? Here, hold my brother the blanket. Just
follow behind him and not really try to put him out. But I'm just
gonna pat the ground that's behind him. Stop it. And the fire just
keeps burning wherever you walk. It just it just stays for five hours.
That's the trail of fire everywhere he goes, everywhere. It doesn't go out,
yeah, for five hours. But it's non destructive, so it doesn't
hurt anyway. It's just illusion. Yeah, one's following us, because you're
gonna have which way did they go? Follow the flame? The valley would
not have had a hard time keeping up now I'm gonna climb some trees real
quick. Hold on the forest on fire, climb a tree, Treak out,
Mary Kelly. What you want the horses? Yeah, speaking of the
horses, you should probably stay oh behind them. No, I've always actually
wanted to do this. I'm gonna walk around and make the punisher's logo flames
so that they can get the shot from above. The end of the movie.
One like the cro Bill had some meth for breakfast. You're like,
this one's for Frank, who is momentarily just amazed that he can stick his
hand in the fire and it doesn't burn it. Try to touch a deer.
It's real cheap as fire. I'm gonna jump on racks back. So
now he's on fire. Scrubby, stop it. That just makes more fire.
Yeah, it doesn't come off. It's worse than spider web. I
knew. I should you in your sleep, if you should notice fires for
longer than five hours, consult your doctor. All right, So you make
your way down to the commercial coming up. So I'm going to dance on
the roof of the Oh my God carriage as we're rolling away. So it
just leaves a trail of fire in the air to computees people. This is
your fault. Yeah, I'm so sorry. So you make it down the
path, down the road for a while, sow so, and you travel
for about two hours, and you get kind of down near the river and
you start to hear we see a van down by the river. You start
to hear strange noises from the woods, like whining noises from certain animals as
you're you're getting down in like a more wooded area once you leave the mountains
and you start to hear these strange noises, and Oorag can tell out the
gate. There's something wrong with the natural aura here, just with his innate
ability to sense the environment, especially in his own restless for those two hours.
I want to and I want to. I want to keep an eye
on his flames and see, actually can I discern realities? Six eight?
Hm. It's not one of the questions on the list, but you can't
ask it. What do you want to know? Buy the book? Buy
the book? Would I be able to recreate that? Huh and make it
last? Yeah? Like the faery fire spell? I I think you would
go ahead and give me an intelligence check though, to see if you can
almost like an arcana roll if you will nine nine, So yeah, I
would say I would say you definitely can, but it's gonna take you a
few hours to write out the formula, the spell and your spell book.
Cool, all right, I'm gonna work on that while we're rolling until who
regg gives us that warning? Okay, I'm going to do my best to
make sure the whole wagon is on fire. So here to come here here,
yeah, inside, outside, all around it. You put your foot
down on the wheel as it's spinning, as it's rolling, so the whole
wheel is now looks like they're just on fire. Yeah, slap the spokes
as they go by. It's get the whole thing carriage ride from a ghost
rider. So these uh cries from the wilderness to me that would sound like
words? Are they? Is there anything I can interpret? They are animals
that are communicating that there is danger around different animals, all sorts of different
animals. Birds are acting weird there, you know, Raccoons are acting weird,
like, beavers are acting weird, every like all sorts of things are
acting weird. And this is the Anuxi forest. No you are, You're
still a good ways away from that, Okay, Oh, that's right.
We got to get through that way stations and stuff first, Yeah, leasas
leases something less hold. Yeah, so you would just come down the mountain,
you'd gone to the damn and you would finish coming down the mountain and
you're getting there's there's a river that flows from the forest Saken Lake, a
small river that flows from the forest Sake and Lake and into the ocean,
and that you've come down to near where that river is, and you're going
to follow that river. You're going to follow it southwest, kind of along
the wrong way down to you get down until you get to this really big
bridge and then you'll cross this bridge and start traveling east from there. So
that's where you're at. You're in a lightly wooded area. It's not like
a big forest area like the forest of Anoxie. Okay, right, I
will relay to everyone the nearby animals warn of danger. We should take caution.
It's not the fighter, right, No, not the fire. There
is something in the area that has spooked. Then let's keep your eyes peeled.
That we did. I don't think we're hiding from anything. So so
since I'm still in cap Woe, I'm going to follow parallel to our current
course, but off to the side in the nearby brush. Okay, all
right, So as you go into the brush, you start to see there
are strange markings along the trees, like something brushed into them, maybe burned
them. Different spots show like it looks like a big carapace rupped against them
and scratched the bark off one side and did it in a path across some
different things. Some of the brush has been trampled down that you noticed.
You could follow further into the woods if you wanted, But you are picking
up a trail here that looks like something unnatural has gone through this area.
On a more serious note, there is a legend in the world of Euphray,
a story that parents tell their children before bed, a tale so widely
spread that it is known within all twelve nations of Euphray. While the hero
of the tale may shift from nation to nation, the focal point of the
story is the same in every variation. The story is called the Ten Souls,
and it tells the tale of the most famous sword in the world,
the Nine Lives Scimitar. In the story, the Nine Lives Scimitar is exceptionally
long for a scimitar extending to just under three feet in line. The blade
is crafted with the finest dwarven steel and housed in a handle made from the
strongest elven wood ever to have been grown. While the stories do not say
how the sword was crafted or name the one who forged the blade, many
suggest that the gods created the elves and the dwarfs just to make the blade.
This is nonsense, of course, but it adds a flare of poetry,
don't you think. What all the stories do agree on is that the
nine live scimitar is marked with nine ruins that appear on both sides of the
blade. It is said that each room houses a soul that was collected evil
souls. Legend has it that nine different heroes have wielded the blade over the
course of centuries. Each hero embarked on a personal quest against the forces of
evil. Through acts of valor, clever schemes, and boundless luck, the
heroes were able to confront their enemy. Upon taking the life of their enemy,
the scimitar absorbed the soul of their opponent, causing the blade to grow
more powerful throughout the ages. Once all nine ruins were filled with souls,
the blade was activated and the power of the bound souls could be unleashed during
battle. The first soul dates back all the way to the Age of Giants.
The soul of a nameless hill giant filled the first room and granted a
special force damage to the scimitar. The next three souls were collected throughout the
Age of Chroniclers. The second ruin was filled by an undead nagoquein that granted
the blade a poison property. The third room was filled by a demon lord
that granted the blade fires from the Nine Hells, and the fourth was a
kraken that granted the sword powers of cold from the oceans. Three more were
collected during the Age of Judges, but the stories are never quite clear about
the order. A lich soul gave the scimitar anacrotic damage, a corrupt agatheon
gave the blade radiant damage, and most notably, the soul of a demigod
said to be the first dragon ever born on Euphrae contributed a lightning damage to
the scimitar. The last two souls were collected in the current age, the
Age of Academics. This is where the stories deviate. Each tale is manipulated
to match the school and nation where the story has been told. While not
all stories align with which powers were granted to the blade, all revisions do
agree that the blade has been filled. All nine ruins have their souls.
The wielder of this blade, known as the Tenth Soul, is considered a
hero among bedtime stories. The hero slays evil monsters that lurk in closets and
hide under beds. No creepy monsters that go bump in the night are safe
from the Ten Soul, at least that is what the children are told.
Should you meet Bill Quiverlance along the road, ask him for the song of
the Ten Souls and listen while he serenades you with the legends of old.
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