Legend

Myriad Reality

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*Narrows my eyes*
You’re joking, right?… That’s surely not what’s happening?

@Valiance

*Gets up and brushes myself off*
Looks like I'm okay... Come on! Let's go!
*A huge crowd of warriors stream into the forest after her*

Myriad Reality

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*My body writhes and contorts, knocking several other impoverished residents over, while my eyes fill with a deep red hue and black scales creep up my arms*

@Artifact

*Charges you and jams the spear into your wing*
We slayed one dragon today, we can crush another!

Myriad Reality

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*My body writhes and contorts, knocking several other impoverished residents over, while my eyes fill with a deep red hue and black scales creep up my arms*

@Artifact

Woah... HEY!

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*Stops in my tracks and snaps my gaze over*

@Valiance

Come on, we need to go!
*Rushes toward the girl, pulling my spear from my back*

Myriad Reality

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*Takes the plate in one hand and bumps you on the shoulder with the other, clearly not focused fully on you but still showing a friendly gesture before I walk off with the food back from where I came*
Nothing lives forever, eh?

@Valiance

I guess not, huh? At least the rest of the city doesn't have to know that, right?
*Laughs, but a screech, followed by a reactionary high-pitched scream cuts through the noise of the crowd*
Heh?

Myriad Reality

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Soon.
*Takes a serving plate and tops it up with a share of the finest cuts of meat still available within arm’s reach*

@Valiance

Yeah, fair enough. I'm pretty hungry too. I'm still shocked it didn't put up more of a fight than that. Yeah, we lost some guys, but I fully expected it to wipe the floor with us. Maybe it was finally aging.

Myriad Reality

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*Does a double take back at you as I walk past, but doesn’t stare. Instead I slow to a halt, grunt in affirmation of what’s happening, and turn back around toward the infantry’s end of the beast*

@Valiance

Hey, welcome back! Did you have the chance to talk to anyone about your part in this adventure? Everyone's buzzing.

Myriad Reality

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…
*Crosses my arms and watches the crowd, looking around as well for any inkling of something else going on*

@Valiance

*Through cheers, the city gathers to feast and celebrate, clearly following a socioeconomic order as the warrior team gathers at the choice cuts and head, a scaly white, ancient beast the size of a man, followed by aristocrats and trailed by the poor, who get the worst cuts and organs*
What are we just standing here for? Let's have the best meal of our lives!
*Rushes over and takes my place with the rest of the infantry*

Myriad Reality

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Mm…
*Keeps an eye over my shoulder on what is being brought into town as we walk away*

@Valiance

*The men place the board down on a prepared set of flat stones sectioned off with wooden slats, spanning the length of the town square; a red-headed troop among them stands at the head of the makeshift table and places his hands around his mouth to amplify his voice*
Warrior: Ladies and gentlemen, our ancestors have waited for this day for three hundred years. These fine men put their lives on the line to end this tyranny over our city. I won't waste your time or theirs with fanciful speech, but they can tell you the story themselves. We celebrate, for we lost not ten men this day. But we would have given the same had we all left to perish. I'll leave you with the first words spoken once the battle was over, by none other than Ghill, of course. We did it!
*Amidst the laugh of the crowd, the soldiers pull the tarp off the slats, revealing enough meat to feed the entire town, already prepared and sizzling on a hot metal sheet heated by stones below it and the flat stones prepared by the town*

Myriad Reality

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And that's what that is? They're parading the corpse through the gates?

@Valiance

*Grins*
Better. Come on.
*Ducks through the gate and jaunts toward the inner city, where festival preparations are hastily being set up*
Can you believe it? Three hundred years—not even our great great grandparents thought this day would come.

Myriad Reality

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By who?

@Valiance

The ground army! Their plan was as courageous as it gets. They managed to sneak into its lair and slay it with an overwhelming force of men.
*Places my hand to my mouth and speaks with a hushed whisper*
They won’t tell you this, but they planted a spotter to evacuate the city while they held it off if the tides started to turn. One way or another, you were all getting out.