Auber Ambitious - Beets the Beetle - 11.01.2022
Jan 18, 2022 18:49:41 GMT
Henry (Felix/Sterling), Derthaad, and 2 more like this
Post by Beets The Beetle (Feenix) on Jan 18, 2022 18:49:41 GMT
Lord Auber? More like Auber-bearing! Ha, it's still funny!
But seriously this guy was meant to be such an awesome warrior, and yet he mistook our band of fearless adventurers for a bunch of kids with momma bird treatseeking on Fayenight Festival?!
Though I guess Lolli did look pretty adorable in her outfit, and Sterling was riding his robot dog..and I had a basket of cherry tarts...Well it's besides the point!!!
It turned out that Aubeeeeeeer is a walk and talk kinda guy, so as he escorted us through Daring Heights-with me still carrying our very generous-and delicious-oh so delicious-smelling gift basket-
he filled us in that we'd been hired on behalf of him to clear out a sculptors workshop of some ferocious rock monsters so that he could bag himself a free statue-he's probably not got enough mirrors to admire himself in at home!
Again I questioned why a-oh so great warrior such as himself-wouldn't jump at the opportunity to bash some stone heads and provide some inspiration of some epic fighting poses for the sculptor to work from? But he started spewing a bunch of huey about political status and stature and money....seems like Mr Moneybags or -Countman as I dubbed him-has more money than muscle or honour in that large form of his.
So after a quick magic warp at Portal Plaza-during which we sadly didn't see our good friend Jenna-we arrived at one of the coolest-if coldest-looking villages I've ever been too-Kurzig Vonda, a mining town grown in the shadow of some epic looking peaks-and filled with dragonfolk of all shapes and sizes!
It was here in....something something tavern, we meet up with our poor down on her luck stoneartist-and believe me I know a hungry patron of the arts when I see one-a beautiful blue dragonborn gal named Ardana who filled us in on the facts...whilst Auber filled his fat face with most of the cherry tarts-Seriously I didn't even get to taste one!!
Ardana told us that a piece of stone for her latest creation had in fact turned out to be a nest for an egg, and that upon on unearthing-stoning?- it that her workshop was besieged by these fearsome-and honestly pretty awesome sounding ggaarrrgoyles...GGGARRRGOYLES!-Gosh thats fun to say! It was just as she was getting to the gruesome details that an Old'timey little dragon fella, that so reminded of Gramps, named Teddy perked up saying that they were merely trying to protect the egg like a momma bird-which I can totally respect-I mean have you watched a buzzard protect it's nest?!-Serious momma power!
Unfortunately-Gargoyles apparently nest a little longer than the average hawk..by...a couple years soooo, waiting was out of the question!
And so it was down our epic team of strength, mind...and just plain totally gonna get squished into a messy pulp of adorableness to pull off the most epic egg smuggling heist you've ever see!
What could go wrong?
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Okaay...So..apparently quite a lot...
Whilst Yuli and myself took the route of stealthily sneaked in through the rooftop of the barn ala flightmode-with a bit of extra magical ‘invisibility’ help from Loli. Sterling-according to Marto-decided that a breaking and entering approach would be the best course of action, and immediately set off the doorbell thus alerting the gargoyle to our presence-He seriously deserved that sneaky tug I gave him on his muttonchops heheh!
Anyway, phase one complete, I proceeded to sneak down to the eggyrock, readied my rope…and suddenly was overshadowed by the biggest, most terrifying-MOST AWESOME-beast I have ever faced-
A GGGGARRRRGOYLE!!
Ahem well seeing as this was a stealth mission I decidedly that surely the best course of action would be to adopt the tactics of the wondrously skilful spider that had woven my spider silk line and string up my scary foe…And..yeah…that didn’t go so well…it kinda got free…and gave me a five razor sharp stalactite…mite..talon..? It stabbed me right in the gut okay-yeowch!
I’ll admit I thought I was a goner, till I heard it, the wondrous heroic cry of my brave knight, Marto, boom out, “I’ll save you Beets!”…Well okay so maybe that wasn’t what he said, but come on I was bleeding out at the time, and just wow does Marto have a set of pipes on him!
That stopped the beast in it's flight…That is, till an even bigger, even more monstrous-and so so cool-GGGAAARGOYLE flew up and grabbed me in it’s claws, and I thought, “If this is how Beet’s the Beetle is gonna die, being ripped in two by a giant flying beast, well…IT’S GONNA LOOK BUGGING AWESOME!"
But no..As it turns out Marto, with the help of our young bun magician friend Loli had actually worked out a way to communicate with the-one more time now-GGGAAARRGOYLES!-and so they were able to convince them to help us heft the eggy’stone up onto the cart and haul it over to their new home, el adbandeno’caveo!
Marto did give me a bit of a telling off in the cart as he helped me fix up wounds on the journey-But that just means he cares about me hehe!
-I seriously hope I get a wicked looking scar out of this!
-I seriously hope I get a wicked looking scar out of this!
Ardana rewarded us with our efforts by giving Marto a sick looking new axe which he seemed pretty pleased with, meanwhile his Fat’ship gave us the promised gold-Seriously need to get Marto or someone to explain the value of this stuff to me sometime-and…wait for it…the most epic…powerful…UTTER world destroying…Stick…-Oh wait Lolli just corrected me, ‘A MAGGIC STICK’-OOoooo! Which Sterling seemed pretty jived about…and…Well…Marto told me that Sterling actual kinda resisted in not blasting the gargoyles with his super shooter mutt after seeing me get gut’slucked which most definitely would have resulted in my most gory demise so…Maybe he’s not stuck a clunk-head after all…at least depending on it takes him to find out when we swap his magic stick with an ordinary one heheh!
As for Auber the Aubearing’, he didn’t honour us with the joy of his presence for long after the job was done. Though Marto let slip just before he headed out for home that thanks to our wise owl folk friend Yuli, Ardana’s statue commission for the fat lump is probably gonna leave him feeling…
preeettty sour!
