Rolled 11, 10, 1 = 22 (3d20)
>>5323138>>5323095>>5322864>>5322840>>5322802>>5322797>>5322792>>5322791>>5322790>>5322781>>5322767>>5322751>>5322745>>5322741>>5322734>>5322723>>5322711You strategically retreat to your chambers to rest your weary body and mind. Not even the idle fantasies of sampling a thick-hipped local female, or curiosity about the berserker’s belt, can bring you to spend any more time explaining or justifying yourself to others—you crave recuperative solitude.
Despite this, when you return to your chamber, you find yourself restless. You toss and turn, wincing slightly whenever you roll onto a bruised muscle-group or overtaxed limb. Unable to find torpor, you find your mind wandering. Your thoughts drift from the political situation here in the mountain, to the journey ahead, and finally seem to coalesce on a lingering focus of your fascination: your moon-blade.
The single-edged elven sword—retrieved from the gut of the enormous rust monster called the Devourer, hewn of unblemished white stone, engraved or imprinted in some way with the phases of the moon, and prone to luminescence—was said to be a symbol of ancient elven kings, handed down from one of their false ‘gods’ in their legends. But what IS it, actually? What does it DO?
You ascend the mountain while night still remains, passing kobolds who avert their eyes or scurry away to avoid your wrath. You hold in a sigh. At least you are feared, somewhat, if not exactly beloved. And anyway, you’ve had enough of kobolds for today… Even when, in passing, you meet eyes with Tessu in passing, whose tail is hanging low and curled in the manner characteristic of a female in the early stages of estrus.
Another time, maybe. Reject the mammalian breeding-urge! Embrace GREATNESS!
You step out into the crisp mountain night, shivering slightly against the cold and pulling your cloak (also magical, also with properties yet unknown) tighter around yourself. You hold your sword aloft, up to the moon. As before when you thus held it, the sword glows; with the half-moon now visible to you, the half-moon symbol along the bale ALSO glows, faintly bluish against the smooth and pure white of the blade. The two are tied—moon and moon-sword. But how? What does it DO?
