[HQ Ignorance] Scene 12a: The Mystic Responds & Battle Begins!

[Lev Lafayette]

The Mystic of Vustria takes in your words and your
silence and waits, an uncomfortable length of time
before responding. You can see the glow of eyes around
the campfire, the heavy breathing of the Telmori. The
Red Goddess looks down from above from her apex.

"Let me tell of you Wilkairtha, and the Curse and of
the Deceiver", he begins quietly.

"Once upon a time, in the Golden Age of the Bright
Empire of Osentalka, all of Telmor's children were
pure."

"Then the Deceiver came, and saw the might of Telmor
and his friend Nysalor. The Deceiver threatened the
Bright Empire, so they gave part of their very soul to
the the Telmori, so they could change without using
their Power. The army of Telmori's children became
invincible!"

"But it was Talor; Talor The Deceiver, who changed the
blessing into the Curse. He tainted the Gift with
Chaos, so that the children *must* change and become
bloodthirsty. Then he said that Nysalor was the
Deceiver!"

"No wonder he laughed! He cause Arkat to hate the
peaceful Nysalor, and declare war upon him. There upon
the Tower of Justice, Arkat in Troll-form and the
Bright Nysalor fought to a standstill, until The
Deceiver stabbed the Bright One in the back, and our
lord Frud-fer was slain by the Axe of Ursula, a wicked
Babeester Gor priestess."

"Does not the hatred of the Babeester Gor for Zorak
Zoran show she could not be a friend of Arkat? Is she
not a goddess of mad violence and drunkeness? Ursula's
wounds that day were great and she lacked the
constitution to survive the wounds of tooth and claw
from Lord Frud-fer; she died in that tower, and her
Axe was taken by the wily child of Telmor, Adoff, who
esaped the carnage."

The Mystic is now shouting. All around you there is
the hideous transformation of man into beast. You draw
weapons, and form a tight circle and the children of
Telmor begin to circle.

"One of our kin, the mother of Wilkairtha, was taken
by Talor's soldiers. With an unholy alliance of
Mostal, Aldryami and the Darkmen, they used her body
to create a new being, supposedly representing the
union of humanity and the Elder Races in Arkat's new
Empire. They embedded in her womb on the high holy eve
of Subere's Darkness, a rock which grew within her
into a child on the single night. With hours of agony
her belly exploded and she was slain ON THIS VERY
GROUND WHERE WE MEET TONIGHT."

A great howling erupts from the assembled Telmori.
Bors the Faithful Hound, lunges at one of the
manwolves; several set themselves upon him. The Bishop
Donalari intervenes and several others attack him. 
 
"But Wilkairtha retained the Curse of Talor, and none
could contain him", the Mystic continues, seeming
oblivious to the battle. "He eventually escaped to
these Wild Lands where the Telmori gifted him with the
axe which Adoff stole, so that he make seek vengence.
He carved his way throughout the lands of Railos and
was hunted by many. Eventually he sought solace in the
land of Seshnela."

"It will take a HeroQuest to rescue Wilkairtha from
his Cursed existence and Form. But you seek him for
the Axe; the Axe of Talor, to stop the Telmori from
breaking the Curse and destroying the kin of Talor.
And tonight, our holy night, we will prevent you. It
will not be YOU who raise Talor The Deceiver again
against us."

With that, fully a score of manwolves rush past the
Mystic and charge at the Fellowship, fangs bared and
dripping with saliva. 

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