Thursday, September 11, 2008

EDIT: Forgot to change the inventory. New item added.

Knick said...

They should inquire about the mage, a place to stay, the dark, heroic trenchcoat to flap dramatically in the breeze, and the computer.

second_clone said...

They should attempt to take a rubbing of the door carving.

second_clone said...

They should also inquire about the identity of the silhouetted figure.


Corious, Bryan, and Grandpa Charlie entered into the shop. It had grown dark enough outside that their eyes needed no time to adjust to the dimly lit room. Their host was dressed in a robe as if he was about to go to bed, and he had turned his back on them when they came in. Walking over to a table, back still turned, he began to light a lantern as he spoke, "What brings you here at this time of night, good sirs?"
"My name is Corious Millerson," Corious replied, "My friends and I just arrived in town and need a place to stay the night. Somebody said you could help. We were also told we might find a mage here to aid us in our quest, and finally, I'd like to access a computer if I can, and my friend would like to get a trench coat if you sell those here."
The man got the lantern burning, and lifted it up off the table, "You seek the mage?"
"Yes, we'd like to speak with him."
"Well," The man turned to face them, "You're talking to the right guy!" he grinned, whipping up a pair of jazz hands; the lantern flicking from the motion. Corious, Bryan, and Grandpa Charlie stared at him. "Well you sure got here fast!" Corious said, "Where's the mage?"
"That's me!"
"You're the mage?"
"I'm the mage."
"A musical mage?" Bryan smirked.
"Don't forget the juggling!" The mage replied.
There was silence for a moment. Bryan was still smirking, Grandpa Charlie was starting to doze off, and Corious finally laughed and said, "Well, Mr. Odious, we need to talk."

After a while, they had given a run through of their story and how they were trying to retrieve Corious' grandmother. Mel the Musical Mage sat back at the end and paused to think for a moment. His face was solemn. His humorous joking manner was gone as he sat and stared at the floor, his chin resting between his thumb and index finger. "Well," he said quietly, "You're talking to the right guy." He glanced up and quickly shook a couple of pathetically sober jazz hands before going back to his thoughtful pose.
"You're not very encouraging." Bryan said. Grandpa Charlie was asleep by this time, so he didn't have anything to say. "I'm sorry," Mel replied, "But I myself haven't had the best encounters with the kidnappers you're after." He leaned forward in his chair and clasped his hands together, "They came into our village one night, silent as ghosts. Somebody spotted them and began to make a ruckus for reasons I don't know, but it must have been obvious that the invaders were up to no good. Anyway, by the time I awoke, my wife as gone from our room, along with various other people from the village. The invaders scattered instantly and were gone without a trace like vapor into the air. All that was left were markings on our doors."
"We saw those on the door of my grandparent's house too!" Corious stated, "But there were two monsters. I only saw one on your door."
"Hmmm," Mel went on, "I don't understand any of it, myself. I've searched for my wife for months, but we have nothing to go off of. No trace of the invaders. Search parties have gone out countless times and retrieved nothing. I've about given up hope. Only my songs keep my spirits up now."

They sat in silence for a bit until Mel finally said he was tired and needed to sleep. He showed them to the guest rooms and then went to his own room for the night. Before going to bed, however, Corious found a sheet of paper (hoping it wasn't some weird mage's cursed magical sheet of paper that would eventually bring doom upon them), whipped out their writing utensils (from their inventory, silly!) and went outside to get a rubbing of the carving on the door for future reference. Afterwards, he shoved it into one of their folders (from their inventory, silly!) and was about to shut the door when he noticed something move outside across the street. It spotted him staring and dashed into the black alleyway.



Inventory:



Mr. Jimbo

Mood Ring
of Illumination


Corious' Staff






Writing Utensils

Folders
(click for contents)


Risico Leaf

25 comments:

James K said...

Corious should put on his Mood Ring of Illumination and run down the alley, prepared to crush the shadowy figure with his staff.

J.R. Knickerbocker said...

But he should make sure he's wielding his staff.

James K said...

afterwards, he should inquire about some sort of encyclopedia of mythical creatures in which he could look up these beasts

Father Cory said...

Then Corious should realize that another of their team is missing.

J.R. Knickerbocker said...

Then he should create some sort of magical potion using mashed potatoes.

J.R. Knickerbocker said...

And perhaps they can run into a crazed ice fisher who mentions Lake Minnetonka every other sentence.

J.R. Knickerbocker said...

Corious should walk up to a stranger and say, "Every time I see K I think Potassium," just to see how he reacts.

J.R. Knickerbocker said...

If this takes too much longer I'm going to post something REALLY crazy.

J.R. Knickerbocker said...

Corious decides to use his quill (under 'writing utensils') to slit the bulging pockets of a wealthy looking man in hopes of getting at what is inside.

James K said...

corious has many voices in his head. perhaps he should stop listening to the one called second_clone.

J.R. Knickerbocker said...

Sir Brian the Manly decides to put the "comments" link at the top of the episodes instead of the bottom.

He also visits kniclonious.blogspot.com for a sort of copycat of The Tales of Corious Millerson...The Tale of Thorvald the Great and Mighty aka TOTTGAM.

J.R. Knickerbocker said...

And he should tell Kniclone how to get that cool background behind the text.

James K said...

wow, almost two months of just standing there, watching an alley.

James K said...

(formerly KNICK)

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