tales of terrandrial - 01. prologue

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-Heroes of old-Aviva,the Elven Druid

Kylie, the Tiefling

Rogue

Douglas,

the Human Bard


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Jessica,

the Half-Elf

Ranger

Ricky, the

Human Fighter

-Heroes of old-


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Enjoy the tales, dear reader

-Garrett-


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Prologue"I told you not to open that door!"

"How was I supposed to know it was the guards

barracks?"

"Because it said 'GAURDS' on the sign!"

"I didn't know! I can't read Orcish!"

"It was in English!"

"...Oh."

An arrow swished past between their heads; lodging

itself in a wooden post ahead with a thunk!

"And now they're shooting arrows at us!" yelled Kylie.

"At least its not fireballs!" replied Douglas.Suddenly, a contingent of Orc guards, led by a black-

robed Reptorion mage, rounded the corner further down

the passageway they were escaping through.

"Damn."

"You just had to ask for it." sighed Kylie. The dark

mage barked a series of magic words in his crawling

lizard tongue and shot a fireball from his outstretched

hands at the fleeing pair.

"Walls!"


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They flattened themselves against the wall on either

side of the passage as the fireball blasted past between

them, striking the suddenly surprised guards behind with

a loud explosion; resulting in crispy Orc bits splattering

about.

Barely breaking stride, the pair launched forward and

continued running towards the mage and his cronies. The

mage hissed in anger and prepared another fireball. "Over

and under!" shouted Douglas as he tore a large shield offits decorative wall hanging and slung it onto his back.

Leaning forward, Douglas stopped for the briefest of

seconds as Kylie used the shield as a springboard to

launch herself into the air and over the Orc guards. Using

the tumbling rogue as a distraction, Douglas darted

forward, flung a dagger into the exposed neck of the

gawking spell-caster and, using his momentum to propel

him forward, flung himself on his shield and slid under

the group of confused Orcs, slicing a few of their tendons

along the way.

Kylie landed and delivered a few well-placed blows to

the confused Orcs at the back of the group, just in time to

clear a path for Douglas. The chaos they had inflicted was

enough to allow them a head start, but it wasn't long


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before the howls of the enraged guards could again be

heard on their heels.

"The exit is up ahead!" shouted Douglas.

"And not a moment too soon, they're almost upon us!"

replied Kylie. "Hey, look! Ricky!"

Ricky got up from leaning against the keep's large wooden

doors and waved at the two runners.

"Hey guys! Did you find the-OOF!" was the noise

Ricky made as he was tackled through the doors by therunning siblings.

"Avi! Jess!" they yelled in unison as they landed.

"On it!" answered Jessica, having already knocked several

arrows to her bow.

"kortunis calema-ti!" continued Avi, already almost

finishing her spell's incantation.

Lightning flared from her finger tips, and arrows

flew from their string as the Orc guards were greeted

with a deadly barrage of steel-tipped horror and nature's

fury. They were down in seconds. There were no

survivors."Sorry about that Ricky. You ok there?" asked

Douglas as he helped the fighter up.

"Yeah, just a bruised ego...and ass."


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"Nice going girls!" said Kylie dusting herself off and

examining the charred corpses of the ex-guards.

"All in a days work." Jessica said, high-fiving Avi.

"Haha! Yup!" said Avi with a smile. "Did you get the orb?"

she asked Kylie.

"Yeah, right here."

Kylie fished a beautiful blue and white glowing orb

from her belt pouch. Holding it up in one hand against the

backdrop of the cool night sky made it look like a tinyblue moon. The florescent patterns swirled as if reacting

to the presence of its admirers and bathed the area in a

calming blue light.

The earth beneath their feet suddenly began to

tremble violently causing them to stumble about. A great

fissure opened before them, belching fire and smoke high

into the air. The column hissed violently and the very air

seemed to be choking on this ferocious upheaval.

Red, glowing symbols carved their way across the

landscape, surrounding the group in a web of magical

sigils. Out from the smoke stepped a figure in a fine robe

and leather armour adorned with skulls and spikes in all

the right places.

The air crackled and sparked with magical tension as

the figure casually approached the group. The smoke and


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fire sucked back into the earth, as did the magical symbols

vanish before the fissure sealed itself with a crack.

"Well done everyone, haha, well done." said Garrett,

clapping slowly as he stood before the assembled heroes.

"I especially liked the ending, very flashy, very dead

Orcs." he said with a wink. His smile was filled with

sarcastic mirth, but his deep blue eyes never changed

from the cold, knowing gleam they had. The display of

power certainly captured their attention, as it always hadbefore.

"Ill take orb then, thanks." And suddenly the orb was

in his outstretched hand. "Ah, excellent. A few more and

your quest will be complete and youll be able to return

home." He let his hand drop and the orb floated its way

into a waiting pouch on his belt. His voice was calm,

almost friendly, but he could not keep the smile from his

face. He was clearly enjoying this.

"Oh, dont look at me like that. You know that you

need to gather all these orbs if you wish to return home.

Even with all my power, I am still limited to affecting

events in this realm only. If you wish to return to your

world, and the Garrett you know there, this is your only

hope." A small goblin-like creature appeared from under


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his robes and scurried over to Avi, handing her a rolled-up

parchment.

"Is this the location of the next orb?"

"Yes it is. It also includes a town where you can spend

the night and recover. See, Im not all bad. "He said with a

serpent-like smile." Well, I must be off. Try not to kill

yourselves my heroes." Evil-Garrett, as the group had

begun calling him, walked into a suddenly rising mist and

disappeared, laughing to himself as he vanished. Thegoblin-creature looked back at the group with almost a

hint of pity as he vanished after his master.

"Well, should we head to the town? I could do with

some food and a bed." Ricky said as he wrapped an arm

around Jessica.

"I just hope its better than the last place. At the very

least it needs to have hot water."

"Well, at least your demand is more realistic this time

Kyle, just before the last town you wanted TV and a

proper toilet!" laughed Avi.

At that, the group laughed away the days worries and

began the walk to the next town. A hard road lay ahead,

but the soon-to-be heroes of Terrandrial would soon find

it was much more rewarding, and dangerous, than they

ever imagined.


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