Hoj's Harrowing Handiwork

Adventuring On

2020-08-24

Retelling

Through a glorious song, this kindly bard Tried very hard to get the guards To see their orders were a canard But alas they sought to punch our cards Hoj also tried to warn them off But the Cultist Guard just scoffed He said that there was no mistake And that our lives his guards would take The Cultist Guard fell back a bit Opened a box and took a hit Of sparkly, powdery mana stuff And got some magic from that huff He summoned forth a ray of light Which missed us all, to our delight Will fired off a bursting shot But a glancing blow was all he got Selene summoned forth a hail of snow And down did four of the guardsmen go Lyrad fired her mighty bow And hit the last with an ensnarrow Down he fell, well ensnared When Mugs came 'round the corner prepared To take down an army all on her own And leaped upon the guard, now prone She knocked him out with a vicious blow And that is how the fight did go We went to interrogate the chap But Hoj seemed to have completely snapped He broke the poor man’s legs and arms Cut his throat and caused much harm Before we even learned his name The guard died from being so badly maimed The remaining guard, who was our friend Was shaken by this last guard’s end Vale spoke to him with kindly words Until the guard could rest assured That we weren’t a group of psychopaths He need not fear cruel Hoj’s wrath Selene probed new friend, Errol’s, mind A key detail did she find He liked my song! as it turned out I barely could suppress a shout Of joy as this did cheer my heart My career was off to a great start We stashed the dead guards in the crypt And then searched all the rest of it We found some coins amongst the urns And not much else did we learn Errol left with orders from Hoj He gladly got the hell out of dodge At the Citadel, we walked around Juniper’s locate spell searched the grounds For signs of lead boxes stashed inside But alas there was nothing we did find She sought out emblems amongst the guards Finding one wasn’t all that hard It belonged to Stannard’s aid And within moments he was made To confess his treason to us all But perhaps he simply took the fall Stannard asked us to report What we found in Saladbar’s fort Should we would tell her what we learned? Or like the others, has she turned?