Post by johnpaul on Feb 27, 2017 13:49:56 GMT -6
Taking a Chance
I'm an easygoing kind of guy. Live & let live - I don't have a problem with anyone. Elves, Dwarves, Gnomes, humans - I'll deal with anyone. Sure, some people say I'm a shifty customer, but I don't trick anyone. Look, maybe some folk don't know what they've got is worth and I do - is that my fault? I don't force anyone to deal. I don't even own a sword, and while I do know magic, it's strictly to keep myself alive. And maybe to make a hit with the ladies (hey, life can't be all about work)!
Oh, I guess I should introduce myself. The name's Chance - some folks call me Professor Chance, but I ain't never gone to no college. Still, when dealing with sages it pays to sound intellectual - not that half of them have got any brains, they just use fancier words to say nothing. Bunch of poseurs, if you ask me.
So I'm wondering around this plane and I can't help noticing that it seems to be getting a lot damper all round the place. Like maybe it's been raining for a few years so the water's getting higher. Now this ain't a problem for me - I can leave any time I like - but it seems like everyone wants to get out. And if that happens to mean a few desperate folks have sudden need of a boat out of here and maybe want gold quick - well, I can get gold and love books. So we both get what we want, right?
So this elf comes by (fancy elf - solid black eyes, sun & moon ear rings, the works) and he looks kinda lost - definitely a long way from the Feywilds. Now I see he's got this book I've heard of, "Wheels within Wheels" - sounds real dull, right? Well, I hear it's all about jumping between planes - and in a time when everyone's looking to get out of this plane, THAT sure sounds like a valuable thing to get your hands on. And if he wants one of these tickets I have - well, we both get what we want, right?
Somebody I knew would be interested in this book was an acquaintance I'd made who went by the name of Welch the Blue (Yeah, it's a lady, and maybe you're expecting me to turn on the "old Chance Charm", but she's was a lady frog and they just don't do it for me - besides, she was pretty much obsessed with my work, not my charms - her loss, I guess). Even with the waters rising she's got herself a nice little place carved out - kinda cramped but it's got a sweet library there with all the info I could want. She wants me to work out where the portals are turning up while she protects me from the neighbours. Sounds like a fair deal to me.
So I'm floating around in the library when this same elf turns up. Well that was certainly a turn up for the books. And he had his mum with him - and that caused something else to turn up. Sure wanted to spend a few "intimate moments" with her - those elf ladies can be real firecrackers if you know the way to break through that frosty exterior.
But unfortunately, that's where my cushty gig started to go crazy. First off, the drow who'd been quiet until then send a Dryder in to attack. Fair play to those two crazy elves, they sure were brave to take it on by themselves. Poor kid gets stuck with one of those amber daggers and everyone's thinking, "Well, he's a gonner!" But he wasn't just going to lie down and wait for the end - he actually gets Welch to grow him a new arm. But once she'd done that, she locks herself in her lab and it's only when the stumpy dryad gets all nosy that she finds out that Welch ain't no frog at all, but a hag (guess I'm kinda glad I didn't put the old Chance charms on her now - I've always said, "Don't stick your dick in crazy!"). Now I don't have no beef with hags either, but she seems to have one with me, 'coz no sooner has she shown her face than she creates some sort of paper Golem out of my library that attacks me! What had I ever done to her? I was in a real tight spot, but those crazy elves threw themselves into the fight and managed to take the construct down PDQ. Now I may not be the most generous guy, but I figure I owe them for saving my life - well, that and I figure I owe Welch for trying to kill me.
And that's how I ended up in the Feywilds in a burning ship plummeting toward the Archmages Palace...
I'm an easygoing kind of guy. Live & let live - I don't have a problem with anyone. Elves, Dwarves, Gnomes, humans - I'll deal with anyone. Sure, some people say I'm a shifty customer, but I don't trick anyone. Look, maybe some folk don't know what they've got is worth and I do - is that my fault? I don't force anyone to deal. I don't even own a sword, and while I do know magic, it's strictly to keep myself alive. And maybe to make a hit with the ladies (hey, life can't be all about work)!
Oh, I guess I should introduce myself. The name's Chance - some folks call me Professor Chance, but I ain't never gone to no college. Still, when dealing with sages it pays to sound intellectual - not that half of them have got any brains, they just use fancier words to say nothing. Bunch of poseurs, if you ask me.
So I'm wondering around this plane and I can't help noticing that it seems to be getting a lot damper all round the place. Like maybe it's been raining for a few years so the water's getting higher. Now this ain't a problem for me - I can leave any time I like - but it seems like everyone wants to get out. And if that happens to mean a few desperate folks have sudden need of a boat out of here and maybe want gold quick - well, I can get gold and love books. So we both get what we want, right?
So this elf comes by (fancy elf - solid black eyes, sun & moon ear rings, the works) and he looks kinda lost - definitely a long way from the Feywilds. Now I see he's got this book I've heard of, "Wheels within Wheels" - sounds real dull, right? Well, I hear it's all about jumping between planes - and in a time when everyone's looking to get out of this plane, THAT sure sounds like a valuable thing to get your hands on. And if he wants one of these tickets I have - well, we both get what we want, right?
Somebody I knew would be interested in this book was an acquaintance I'd made who went by the name of Welch the Blue (Yeah, it's a lady, and maybe you're expecting me to turn on the "old Chance Charm", but she's was a lady frog and they just don't do it for me - besides, she was pretty much obsessed with my work, not my charms - her loss, I guess). Even with the waters rising she's got herself a nice little place carved out - kinda cramped but it's got a sweet library there with all the info I could want. She wants me to work out where the portals are turning up while she protects me from the neighbours. Sounds like a fair deal to me.
So I'm floating around in the library when this same elf turns up. Well that was certainly a turn up for the books. And he had his mum with him - and that caused something else to turn up. Sure wanted to spend a few "intimate moments" with her - those elf ladies can be real firecrackers if you know the way to break through that frosty exterior.
But unfortunately, that's where my cushty gig started to go crazy. First off, the drow who'd been quiet until then send a Dryder in to attack. Fair play to those two crazy elves, they sure were brave to take it on by themselves. Poor kid gets stuck with one of those amber daggers and everyone's thinking, "Well, he's a gonner!" But he wasn't just going to lie down and wait for the end - he actually gets Welch to grow him a new arm. But once she'd done that, she locks herself in her lab and it's only when the stumpy dryad gets all nosy that she finds out that Welch ain't no frog at all, but a hag (guess I'm kinda glad I didn't put the old Chance charms on her now - I've always said, "Don't stick your dick in crazy!"). Now I don't have no beef with hags either, but she seems to have one with me, 'coz no sooner has she shown her face than she creates some sort of paper Golem out of my library that attacks me! What had I ever done to her? I was in a real tight spot, but those crazy elves threw themselves into the fight and managed to take the construct down PDQ. Now I may not be the most generous guy, but I figure I owe them for saving my life - well, that and I figure I owe Welch for trying to kill me.
And that's how I ended up in the Feywilds in a burning ship plummeting toward the Archmages Palace...