Our last job was to get some magical artifact from a bunch of bandits that didn't know they had it. Someone else got there first, so our patron told us to go after her. We managed to capture her, but she'd handed it off to her partner and told him to get lost. She told me that our patron had approached her before her capture, and tried to get her to give the artifact to him directly; he'd said I was planning to use it to unseal some ancient evil.
Sometime in there, it occurred to me that what I could do was use the thing we were sent after to maybe stand a chance on my own. So I freed our prisoner. I expected that would break ties with everyone but... Zolf and Rodimus at least decided they were more loyal to me than our patron. Maybe I should have confided more in them.
[he's nearly done now]
So there were five of us left. Zolf, Rodimus, me, and Lina and Gourry, who were the two who'd gotten the artifact first. And it was pretty obvious to everyone that Re- our former patron was going off the deep end in collateral damage. He got the artifact by threatening to blow up a town. It turned out what he told Lina that I wanted to do? Yeah, that was his motivation. Risk destroying the world by unsealing a being that literally embodied destruction because that was the cause of his blindness.
Selfish bastard. Given the seal was inside him, he pretty much got his body hijacked and transformed for his troubles.
Zolf and I threw out our most powerful spells, to no effect. Zolf was crushed like a bug. Rodimus just attacked without thinking and was killed as well. If Lina hadn't dragged me out, I probably would have done something similar. This was pretty much the end of the world and I expected to die stopping it. Or would have been if I didn't happen to run into two people who just happened to have an unheard of spell and a legendary magical artifact lying around.
I still am friends with Lina and Gourry. We cross paths occasionally, usually when there's more trouble. But everyone in my world who knew this face [a gesture to indicate his current human appearance] is dead.
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Our last job was to get some magical artifact from a bunch of bandits that didn't know they had it. Someone else got there first, so our patron told us to go after her. We managed to capture her, but she'd handed it off to her partner and told him to get lost. She told me that our patron had approached her before her capture, and tried to get her to give the artifact to him directly; he'd said I was planning to use it to unseal some ancient evil.
Sometime in there, it occurred to me that what I could do was use the thing we were sent after to maybe stand a chance on my own. So I freed our prisoner. I expected that would break ties with everyone but... Zolf and Rodimus at least decided they were more loyal to me than our patron. Maybe I should have confided more in them.
[he's nearly done now]
So there were five of us left. Zolf, Rodimus, me, and Lina and Gourry, who were the two who'd gotten the artifact first. And it was pretty obvious to everyone that Re- our former patron was going off the deep end in collateral damage. He got the artifact by threatening to blow up a town. It turned out what he told Lina that I wanted to do? Yeah, that was his motivation. Risk destroying the world by unsealing a being that literally embodied destruction because that was the cause of his blindness.
Selfish bastard. Given the seal was inside him, he pretty much got his body hijacked and transformed for his troubles.
Zolf and I threw out our most powerful spells, to no effect. Zolf was crushed like a bug. Rodimus just attacked without thinking and was killed as well. If Lina hadn't dragged me out, I probably would have done something similar. This was pretty much the end of the world and I expected to die stopping it. Or would have been if I didn't happen to run into two people who just happened to have an unheard of spell and a legendary magical artifact lying around.
I still am friends with Lina and Gourry. We cross paths occasionally, usually when there's more trouble. But everyone in my world who knew this face [a gesture to indicate his current human appearance] is dead.
So that's the story.