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Carhop Cavalier rolled 1 6-sided dice:
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 Posted: Tue May 05, 2015 11:57 pm
He'd made it back to the cavern with the axe trap, making sure to definitely not step on that same tile and trigger a booby trap that could end up with him decapitated, or at least missing a few fingers. Couldn't wield a spear with no thumb, could he?
Instead, he blundered into a wire that activated a hail of arrows that all but missed his vital organs.
"Holy...s**t." He breathed, wide eyed as he looked at the broken arrows that had hit his armor and the few stuck in his arms.
Whatever ancient was lurking around and making those terrible echoing noises was put to shame by the screams as Dirge pulled the barbed pieces of wood out.
QUEST STATUS Food remaining: 18 YOUR HP: 10
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Carhop Cavalier rolled 1 6-sided dice:
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Posted: Tue May 05, 2015 11:59 pm
Once more, here was the mountain top. He'd made it, panting and bleeding and still reeking of bear s**t. But at least he'd finally made it - maybe the others back at Camelot could ignore the blood and stench if he finally brought back with these damned Shoulders of Moonstone. Maybe, just maybe...
Halfway up the mountain, he heard a screech and felt a very sharp tug in his skin. Eagles. Giant eagles were attacking, and he was doomed.
QUEST STATUS Food remaining: 18 YOUR HP: 0
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Carhop Cavalier rolled 5 10-sided dice:
2, 10, 7, 8, 2
Total: 29 (5-50)
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2015 12:01 am
Dirge woke up in Camelot, bandages tied around his arms and free of the smell. Eyes ablaze and jaw clenched, he got out of the bed and instantly put his armor back on, ready to tackle the quest again, prove himself worthy of the Knight's Code.
Even as he stuffed food into his rucksack, the room kept teasing him. What would happen if he broke free?
QUEST STATUS Food remaining: 29 YOUR HP: 30
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Carhop Cavalier rolled 1 4-sided dice:
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2015 12:02 am
Distracted still, Dirge ran himself and his horse straight into a bee's hive. The horse bucked, panicked, and ran off with Dirge laying in the dust and swarmed by bees. By no small miracle, he escaped sting free.
This was going to be a very long walk...
QUEST STATUS Food remaining: 24 YOUR HP: 30
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Carhop Cavalier rolled 1 6-sided dice:
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Total: 2 (1-6)
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2015 12:08 am
The cavern greeted him once again, and somehow in his attempt to not trip the wire, he stepped on ye olde ax trap plate, and got a good grazing by the blade of a very sharp, very massive ax. One had to wonder how such an ancient trap stayed so sharp.
QUEST STATUS Food remaining: 19 YOUR HP: 25
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Carhop Cavalier rolled 1 6-sided dice:
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2015 12:11 am
He could see the artifact. It was so close, so very very close he could practically taste it. He hurried, not watching the ground and, of course, tripping all over himself. The rucksack with the sparse food left was flung from his shoulders, soaring over the artifact and rolling right off the mountain cliff.
Dirge could have cried, but that would be very-much-not-cool-or-knightly. Without that food, he'd never get back to Camelot, especially not while lugging those shoulder pads around.
It was going to be a very long day, he grumbled as he climbed down to mountain for the sack of destroyed food.
QUEST STATUS Food remaining: 14 YOUR HP: 25
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Carhop Cavalier rolled 5 10-sided dice:
6, 3, 7, 10, 5
Total: 31 (5-50)
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2015 12:16 am
The guild master gave Dirge a look as the man handed the apprentice a rucksack, making sure to tell him that he'd better not waste any more food trying to find this artifact for the king. Dirge nodded, telling him he would do his best to eat as little as possible and not let any more of it go over a cliff face, or into a pile of s**t, or be eaten by a giant spider. It may have been said with extreme sarcasm.
The older man gave him a stern look, reminding him that a knight remembers his place. Dirge nodded, muttered an apology, then mounted the horse.
QUEST STATUS Food remaining: 31 YOUR HP: 30
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Carhop Cavalier rolled 1 4-sided dice:
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2015 12:18 am
Dirge was very bad at keeping his promises, it would seem. He'd just gotten off the horse to give them both a rest, and of course there was another rock right under his foot, just waiting to trip him and make him land face first on the jagged earth, rucksack unbuckling from the impact.
QUEST STATUS Food remaining: 31 YOUR HP: 30
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Carhop Cavalier rolled 1 6-sided dice:
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Total: 4 (1-6)
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2015 12:20 am
Dirge didn't make the same mistake of trying to scramble for the food as it fell, only getting up as soon as he could and grumbling about how the world was apparently intent on making sure his rise to herodome was a tough one.
QUEST STATUS Food remaining: 27 YOUR HP: 30
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Carhop Cavalier rolled 1 4-sided dice:
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2015 12:22 am
The giant spider from before seemed to enjoy bread like a fat child enjoyed cake. It crept up behind Dirge and his horse, making sure to be as stealthy as it could, and plucked the bread from the apprentice's hands with grace unbecoming of a creature with monstrous proportions.
Needless to say, Dirge and his pony galloped away instantaneously.
QUEST STATUS Food remaining: 22 YOUR HP: 30
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Carhop Cavalier rolled 1 6-sided dice:
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2015 12:23 am
Dirge made it past the pressure plates, past the trip wires. He was doing just fine, everything was fine...
Then he heard a hiss, and saw the tile his foot was on begin to glow. His legs moved before his brain, running to the exit and hearing a louder hiss, the sound of scales against the stone. Snakes, bears, eagles. What wasn't out to kill him?
QUEST STATUS Food remaining: 22 YOUR HP: 20
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Carhop Cavalier rolled 1 6-sided dice:
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2015 12:24 am
The familiar screech echoed in Dirge's ears, and the spear was ready. He would fight, and he would be injured very badly, but we was still alive at the end and had done a bit of damage to those damned eagles. They would not have him, and he would have his damned prize.
QUEST STATUS Food remaining: 22 YOUR HP: 10
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2015 12:31 am
Finally, Dirge reached the artifact. Great, shining shoulder pads embedded with Moonstones and designed with a master's touch. He couldn't help but stare at them for a moment, wanting very badly to put them on [ii]right now.
He had to wait, though. Dirge very much doubted the Great King would be too happy if he came sauntering back to Camelot wearing a Horseman's artifact. The pauldrons were put in a bag on the horse, and Dirge headed home.
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