[HQ Ignorance] Scene 105: The Gophers of Pent

[Nicolas Hughes]

On 31 Mar 2010, at 07:19, Lev Lafayette wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 22:43 +1100, Michael Cole wrote:
>> Lev Lafayette wrote:
> 
>> 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..."
> 
> [OOC: I do hope you realise what you've just done!]
> 
>> 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?"
> 
> "We will help you, as you will help us, Lightbringer. Follow me. You may
> bring your horses..."
> 

Aalmon seems a little surprised at the Fourth being referred to as a lightbringer, somehow he feels that the rhyme should have been familiar to him but he could not quite place it.

His companion's knowledge seemed to have earned them some help and possibly some friendship, surely fate would play her usual tricks in her own time but for now he would go along with it and trust the Fourth's judgement.

Nic