Our party wakes up at the Inn. After their rest here is how the party's stats measure up:
TRITHAL (20/20 HP; 10/10 SP; 41/3000 EXP)
AXEM (22/22 HP; 18/18 SP; 48/3000 EXP)
CHRIS (8/8 HP; 5/5 SP; 26/3000 EXP) (after leveling-up recently)
...and before Thrax left us.....
THRAX (18/18 HP; 21/25 SP; 37/3000 EXP)
Our party wanders outside the Inn when they are confronted by the town crier, who says "Sirs, we have most unfortunate news. We have learned that some jackass knocked down the catwalk near the entrance of the Castle."
TRITHAL, although guilty of the crime, fakes innocence and says, "Yeah, and...?"
Town crier: "The King's Goddaugher was on her way back from a top secret mission and now she's stuck in the ogre's labyrinth."
TRITHAL: "Oooooooooooh, so that's what that scream was all about. It must've been her shouting for help or something when she ran into a monster or something. Quite interesting."
TRITHAL continues to show little remorse for the whole thing while, in true CHRIS fashion, CHRIS begins to spill the beans that it was TRITHAL who is responsible for what happened to the catwalk. And in a typical AXEM fashion, he accosts CHRIS for not learning his lesson about what happens when he doesn't keep secrets....but it was too late. The town crier pieced together what little CHRIS had spouted off.
"So you are the ones that are responsible?!!!", the town crier angrily assumes.
AXEM (to CHRIS): "See, I tol' ya whut the fuck happens when yo' ass can't keep it on da downlow."
Then CHRIS snaps back and says, "You are not black, OK? Shut the hell up. You're white. That's just as bad as THRAX and TRITHAL's gibberish." Then CHRIS proceeds to ramble on and on about his party member's idiosyncrasies.
TRITHAL: "Chris, this is not the time for your rambling!"
AXEM: "Yeah, more importantly, why are we all responsible?"
Town crier: "Because you are all together in the same party. Therefore, you are all responsible for each other's actions. Don't you know how RPGs work?"
AXEM: "Are you the game guru or something? Why the hell are you pointing that bullshit out?"
Town crier: "Because the king has ordered the persons responsible to be put to torture."
AXEM: "See, Chris? That's why you should shut your mouth."
TRITHAL: "Yeah, well, it doesn't matter now 'cuz apparently we are gonna be put to torture."
"Unless....", the town crier interrupts.
CHRIS (blurts out): "Unless???!?!!? Unless what?!?!!? We'll do anything!! Oh, man. I just gotta live. I am important. Pretty soon I'll be needed in some war or something. I am needed!!! I'm...."
"........fucking annoying!" TRITHAL says while grabbing a pillow from off-screen and hitting CHRIS with it.
AXEM (perplexed): "Whoa, where'd you get that?"
With a curious look, TRITHAL answers, "I dunno," then tosses the pillow over his shoulder off-screen.
Town crier: "If you three would put your differences aside, then you would be more alert to the danger that you are faced with."
TRITHAL: "Hey, we're all L.D. cases here."
CHRIS: "Yeah, especially me. I am extremely retarded, and shouldn't be held up to the same standard as other people. It's something that I have had a hard time dealing with my whole life. There is nothing I can do. I've tried to destroy it, but I just couldn't--"
"SHUT UP!!!" AXEM and TRITHAL both yell together while they grab pillows from off-screen and whack CHRIS with them simultaneously, sending CHRIS tumbling and flying through the air like this one character in this one Anime TRITHAL's seen a few times; in which said character gets sent flying like that at least once each episode, and yet manages to return to where he was standing 2 seconds later as if it never happened.
TRITHAL: "So let's hear the unless..."
Town crier: "Unless your party ventures into the outskirts near the labrynth and rescues the king's Goddaughter. She has been sworn with the knowledge of the key to His Majesty's restoration. If she is not returned, the king will perish....along with you three.........."
The party agrees to the mission: rescue the king's Goddaughter. The party will encounter many monsters along the way as the area was infested with infidels looking for her. With one member short, this is uncertain territory for the Divine Wind, the Stone Pillar, and the Wet Blanket.
*cue dramatic music*
(END CHAPTER ONE)
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