[HQ Ignorance] Scene 105: The Gophers of Pent

[Michael Cole]

Lev Lafayette wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 23:42 +0100, Nicolas Hughes wrote:
>
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>> Aalmon laughs at this, perhaps with a little more bitterness than he
>> intends. "I have run across the power of Rabbit and I have learned to
>> respect it, if Gopher works with Rabbit then they both have my
>> respect."
>>
>> "All the same I have to cross these plains as fast as I can, not for
>> myself but for my people who I will save from disaster even if I have
>> to save the whole world to do so. A horse can carry me fast. Your
>> Gophers can cripple my horse as I have seen Rabbit doing but can
>> Gopher carry us fast across the plains like a horse so that we can
>> save the world from the coming Darkness?"
>>
>
> The Gord'Un scout looks at Aalmon with serious eyes. "You seek to save
> your entire people from disaster? What greatness do you and your
> friend have to save a nation? And what is this Darkness you speak of?"
>
> He lowers his voice, and begins an intonation, almost a chant..
>
> "Chaos stalks my world.
> Broos have bruised me, the Hand has pawed me.
> I have taken up the impossible path,
> And seek those who must aid my task...."

The Fourth continues in the same vein, almost to himself...

"You are not the first of my friends.
Others walked with me to Heal.
The Devil took them, they died.
I failed to save them, chaos grows..."

He looks up at the scout, smiling slightly, and after a pause, adds, "Choose 
our own path, we must.  Is that path to be one well trodden, or force 
through the undergrowth alone, must we?  Challenges, we must all face, but 
companionship makes the task easier."

"Understand, I do, the struggles of your people.  From the underdark my 
people too have come.  Downtrodden, we were once.  Still are many of my kin. 
But to become great, outwards you must look.  Better it is to be a pauper in 
a mighty world, than a King in a cottage."

He pauses, and then adds, "Mightiness of a host united, can defeat the 
darkest of foes.  We go to fight chaos.  Will you help or hinder us?"


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Regards,

Michael Cole