This was it, the great adventure Rhiannon was looking for! She felt apprehensive, this being her first quest as a knight--- almost knight ---but she was determined. The young girl grabbed as many provisions as she thought she needed, saddled up Goddess, and turned toward the mountains.
QUEST STATUS
Food remaining: 25/25 YOUR HP: 30/30
OOC
My character's name: Rhiannon Character's journal link:Here~ BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MY CHARACTER: "Ri" is a pale, slender, young girl with long layered pink hair tied with a ribbon. Her eyes are as pink as her hair, and are usually set in a blank expression when not in battle-mode. (See avatar and Legacy Alt art.) Rank of character: Knight-Apprentice Horse: A silvery-white Andalusian mare by the name of Goddess. Her tack is colored in different shades of blue and gold, with accents of blue roses and gold thorns as a form of decoration. Her armor gives off a bluish tint in the light, and roses and thorns have been carefully etched into its surface.
Rolling a 4: You catch some medieval version of dysentry and feel extremely sick. You need to be sent home IMMEDIATELY (QUEST FAIL for that person, they will have to retry again either single or with another group).
Ri wasn't sure what came over her. Maybe it was spending too much time amongst the decaying books in the Strategy Room. Maybe it was her fear catching up to her. Whatever it was, it was painful and made her extremely sick. While she would rather continue her very important quest for the King, she figured it would be best to get back and see a medic while she was still close by to the kingdom.
Of course, her decision to ride recklessly into the rocky, uneven terrain might not have been such a brilliant one. Her horse ran through the path easily enough, that is, until she made Goddess jump over a rather large fallen log, causing the white horse to dive right down onto a bees' nest. BEES!
The little buggers swarmed right up around them, scaring her horse and causing Ri to fall to the ground, hard.
"No, wait!" She called after her, but it was no use. Looks like she would have to go it alone.
'This knight thing isn't too bad', Ri decided. Though the road now seemed lonely without her horse. She was worried that the poor thing would get lost, or worse, be attacked by the darkness or run into enemy territory. She briefly wondered what they would do to her, the horse obviously belonging to the Great King's army. Would they spare her? She shook her head in an attempt to clear such depressing thoughts.
Rhiannon just kept marching on, sometimes getting lost in the labyrinthine forest, making sure she didn't run into the legendary giant killer spiders or the mythical territorial elves. It took a few days, but she did eventually manage to get out in one piece.
Now came the real test, the journey up the mountains. It wasn't hard enough that the forest felt like a maze, now there was the even tougher task of navigating through the vast mountain range. The young knight-apprentice walked up the first hill, noticing the scattered bones and armor of fallen soldiers when...
SWOOSH
She walked right into a booby trap. Two large dwarven axes went straight for her and she ducked, a little too late, as the weapons cut into her back. Ri ran as far away from it as she could, crying in pain. She only took a moment to bandage her wounds the best she could before continuing. The faster she got out of here, the better.
She winced in pain as she made it over a small hill, about halfway through the foreboding range, her quest seeming to stretch out far before her-- and then there came the sound of hoof beats?
She turned around, and saw her horse! Goddess miraculously came running up the path, whinnying and nuzzling her with a velvet nose.
"You came!" Ri cried with joy, petting the horse with love and happiness. She crawled onto Goddess' back gratefully, feeling less lonely and extremely glad to be able to rest her wounded back. Together, they climbed up the mountain path.
Sore, wounded, and impossibly tired, Rhiannon and Goddess rode through the mountain range carefully. It was bad enough Ri's back stung from the axes, and she had been thrown from her horse, she thought it best that she didn't take any chances and went slower than she had been. And there, standing like a sentinel in the midst of its brethren: the highest mountain where a certain king might hide... She quickened their pace.
Finally, after much riding, terrible pain, and the worst case of dysentry the kingdom had ever known, Rhiannon didn't find the King. Instead, she saw something half-buried in the ground.
"Odd. What's this doing here?" She dug the item out carefully, pulling the heavy pair of armored pants from its resting place. But these being rather large magical pants meant for a man, and her being female, they changed shape right in her hands! They felt lighter, they began to shine and sparkle, until...
Ri now had a pair of highly protective armored panties.
