Solo Warrior 14: Repairing Honor With Honor

[Bungleau]

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She exited into a small clearing and looked around. It was dark, and there was little she could see. The occasional glowfly lifted the darkness slightly, but it was truly the hour of the night. Wishing she could remember the words to the torchlight spell she’d seen, Missy Hissy began to explore this new area.

Not far ahead, she spotted some other Boogres. These didn’t behave like the Tinkers and Plunders she’d seen in the caves; they ran around a bit more purposefully, and soon they fixed their purpose on her. With no choice but to defend herself, she dispatched the poor cursed beings. Perhaps, in another day, she’d have been able to save them and restore them to their normal families; tonight, she simply ended their existence.

Stumbling around in the dark brought some mountain spiders, a few rattling rogues and sneaks, and the occasional worgur pack. As she slew them one after another, she spied something moving in the distance. Something large.

As she moved forward, she realized she was wrong. It wasn’t large – it was huge! With the words of the guildmaster ringing in her ears… you’ll recognize ‘im ‘cause he’s a giant… an’ he’s got two heads… which is why we calls ‘im a two-‘eaded giant… she began to move forward.

He was a giant. And he did have two heads. Well, time to collect the debts for the warrior guild… and yet, she didn’t really want to use firestorm, and wipe out the giant in mere moments. Somehow, it didn’t seem right to use magic to settle a warrior’s score. With one hand on the handle of her katana, Missy strode up to the giant. “Ho, friend, what’s the news?”

Doshi-Gin looked at her with both heads. “You not from here,” the giant said, more a statement than a question. “Youse goes bye-byes.”

“Are you Doshi-Gin?” asked Missy. Better to have a straight answer than no answer at all.

“Me Doshi-Gin. Youse Warrior?”

“Aye, I can call myself a warrior.”

“If youse is warrior, youse is yum-yums. Come here, yum-yums. Me hungry.” And so saying, the two-headed warrior began swinging a pair of huge battle-axes in tandem, creating a windmill of slashing steel.

Missy stepped back and returned the favor, inserting her katana into the fray and slicing away at his arms, occasionally getting a shot at his torso. Because of the windmilling axes, she couldn’t get a good strong hit it like she wanted, couldn’t deliver a major blow to cripple his ability to attack or defend. In fact, it seemed like every time she went in for an attack, she came back out with as much pain as she’d inflicted.

She began to question the wisdom of taking on this giant warrior. True, it seemed like he wasn’t the sharpest arrow in the quiver, but the skills he showed, even as addle-brained as he seemed to be, seemed to be equal or superior to hers. Shaking, Missy stepped back a few meters to grab a quick healing potion, and then a few more when she realized she needed a great healing potion instead.

Missy thought of all the clan members who’d been slain by the giant, some warriors, but some only pages and squires. She thought of all who had been slain since the guildmaster asked her to look into it, easily another 30 or 40 clan members. She thought of how handily Doshi-Gin was besting her in spite of all her training. She realized that if anyone could slay the giant, it should be her, and with a burst of renewed energy, she leapt back into the fray.

Had there been a bard available, he would have sung songs late into the evening. Axes flying, katana darting, jabs, thrusts, parries, blocks, slices, nicks – the battle lasted for hours. Others soon joined – swamp flies and worgurs – but Missy kept her focus on the giant. The others would only annoy her, and might take her away from an opportunity to finish the fight.

Missy’s only advantage was the hundred potions of healing she’d acquired in her travels, and by the end, they no longer measured in the hundreds. At long last, a final thrust from her katana split the battle axes and pierced Doshi-Gin’s heart, sending him on to the clan hall in the heavens.

Dispatching the other creatures who’d threatened her, she looked down at the decomposing corpse, her mouth drawing a tight, thin line across her face. “Rest better,” she said, gazing down. “No more you’ll bother, and no more you’ll slay.”

Grabbing the twin axes, she went back to the Boogre Cave and climbed up the other wall, to the other exit from the hole room. In a chest near the end, she found the Band of Boars that Bratsol had been looking for, and she put it into her pack. She thought for a moment about heading back into the Boogre Cave to finish off whatever was left, and perhaps to search for a clue to ending this Boogrism, but she was tired and weary, and really wanted to let the clan know that the giant was no more. Stepping out, she cast the spells to take her back to town to rest for the next day.

On to Chapter 15

[ 02-26-2003, 10:52 PM: Message edited by: Bungleau ]

[Heron]

Very good, Very good, Bravo, Bravo--Just what I needed to go to sleep on.
The neverending stories of the Gael......

Chop Chop stick stick crush crush slash slash into the grass crumbling in fear?

[All High Monkey0]

yet another victory under missy's belt, bravo, hope she remembered to grab the lamp....

[LiOnHe@rT]

but then wont the villages be startled at having a boogre in town??? wont they go ? hope nothing happens.............

[WillowIX]

YAY! Missy is going boogre! I love´em. Now I´m not the only one staying "cursed" in the game lol. But a single boogre? Ohh this is uncharted waters Bungleau! [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]

[macoati]

Ah, sweet Missy! What has befallen you? A curse of monumental (or at least monsterous) proportions, no doubt. I wish you well in your dealings with the townsfolk and the guildmasters. I feverently hope they are able to see the true hero beneath your current visage!

[Olli Kalma]

WOW! There's some who try single boogre as I wandered one day what would it feels like to play like that!

Keep us posting, I want to hear all Missy's adventures as boogre!