Departure Cont'd and the Explosion of Jasher and Capture of Jason: BEYONDERS

We left off with the borehounds are chasing these men and they kill Tristan.  They catch up to Drake and Tark too but they start slaying the dogs.  Jason does too, but they get a hold of his arm and his leg, and he finally gets them off of him and he is bleeding.  Drake is not bleeding anywhere, and has four dead dogs around him, his sword covered in blood.  The dogs were followed by men on horses; one of them Kimp.  Then Jasher comes out with Rachel, and he rides toward Kimp.  Once close enough, Kimp jumps off his horse, colliding with Jasher.  Then a bright light and clash, and Jasher and Kimp are on the ground; Jasher blown to pieces, an arm over here, a leg over there, his head on top of his charred body; Kimp’s on the ground a little farther away, on fire.  The impact of Kimp’s tackle triggered Jasher’s Oriantum causing an explosion.  Jason runs to where Jasher lay, and starts frantically looking for the seed with his companions so that they can replant it and give Jasher a new life.  Jason checks the man’s charred neck for the seed, but it is not there.  He panics, asking his friends to look harder, and the anticipation builds, while their chances of escaping are becoming slimmer and slimmer.  Finally, after what feels like ages, they find the seed and head off on the horse Rachel has.  Unfortunately, there is a group of men coming their way.   Jason gives Tark the seed, and tells him to tell Rachel that the last syllable is DRA.  One half of the group of men pursue Tark’s group while the rest stay and confiscate Jason.  He surrenders, and they tell him they are taking him to a city called….. (Oh shoot, I can’t remember.  It’s kind of important to know what it’s called huh?  Sorry ‘bout that.)   Anyway, they start heading toward their destination.

That’s enough for now,
DINGBAT OUT!

Duke Conrad duel and departure cont: BEYONDERS

When the preparations are made they gather into the Billiard room, where one of the billiard tables is filled with billiard balls.  The rules are simple:  they pick up the billiard balls and throw them at each other until one of them dies or is killed.  The match starts, and Jason soon realizes that Duke Conrad is very slow and clumsy when it comes to dodging and throwing balls.  He hits Jason with one ball, and Jason soon throws a ball that unintentionally hits him in the head. Jason was aiming for his shoulder, but Duke Conrad ducks, making his head the target instead of his shoulder.  He slumps to the ground unconscious.  His second tells Jason he has the right to kill him, but Jason declines the offer.  All he wants is to leave.  He asks if anyone wants to come with him other than Tark, and finally Drake says he will.  He says that he told himself that if Jason won he would go with him.  Also, another man, Tristan, decides to come with him; however Jason is a little concerned because Tristan is very obese, and they were going to be doing a lot of running.  He offers one last time, and then they head off on foot, all armed with their own personal weapons.  They start running and almost immediately they hear dogs behind chasing them; borehounds mostly.  So they keep running, and Tark and Drake are very fast runners, so Jason is having a hard time keeping up with them.  Tristan on the other hand is having a hard time keeping up with them, and they haven't been running very far and his face is already red.  The borehounds are running faster than they can run, and they catch up to Tristan and attack and kill him.  

More to come....

Kimp and Duke Conrad Duel: BEYONDERS

Jason waits a long time in the bathhouse and finally Kimp comes in to take a bath.  He is bulging with muscle and covered from head to toe in tattoos.  Jason enters into the large tub and tries to strike up a conversation with Kimp.  Kimp is not showing any desire to talk, and tries to explain to him that this is his "relaxation time," but then Jason brings up his tattoos and he becomes much happier and accepting of the conversation.  He starts talking to Jason about them and even turns around to show him the shark on his back.  Jason is so excited and lucky!  The 4^th and last syllable is on Kimp's shoulder blade!  He eagerly scoots closer to see.  It's DRA.  He puts the word’s syllables together to create the "all powerful" word.  The word is Arimfexendrapuse.  Finally he has the word that can destroy Maldor!  He can now leave.  He tells Tark he is going to leave, and plans to announce it at dinner.  So, at dinner, he stands up and announces that he is going to leave.  Everyone goes silent.  Duke Conrad’s face twitches.  Duke Conrad stands up infuriated; face twitching with anger.  Jason tells him that he is leaving and will not change his mind.  Duke Conrad orders a duel in the courtyard with rapiers or swords.  Jason gets scared because if he fights Duke Conrad with a rapier or sword, he will surely be sliced up into bits.  Jason tells him that he wants to choose the weapon and Duke Conrad refuses at first, stating that he is so much higher than him, considering that Jason is only a lowly lord.  He corrects him, and tells him that he is also the Chancellor of Trensincourt.  Duke Conrad argues by saying that he resigned or gave up that post, and Jason says he did nothing of the kind.  Unable to win the argument, Duke Conrad finally succumbs and lets him choose weapon.  Jason, unsure of what to say, chooses the first thing that comes to his head:  billiard balls.  Since Duke Conrad is unfamiliar with this type of duel, Jason tells him the “customs” of the fighting style, and Duke Conrad has it arranged as so.  They each pick a second, well at least Duke Conrad does.  Tark sort of volunteers himself to be Jason’s second.  Afterward Jason tells him his reasoning for picking the billiard balls.  He picked them because he can throw balls really hard and accurately, but if they were to duel with a rapier or sword he’d be cut into bits. 

Stay tuned….

Harthenham Cont'd: BEYONDERS

The next day Jason goes to the lounge to check the place out.  He sees one of the men there that he saw at his feast.  The man is eating some pie with purple berries.  There are very fat people there, and skinny hags, and all manner of miserable beings.  Trying to get away from this image, he walks over to the long black-haired man eating the pie.  The man starts talking and tells him his name is Drake, and that the pie he is eating is called Lumbaberry pie, and it is the most delicious thing in the world.  He tells him it does not provide real nourishment, but once you get hooked on it, it’s all you ever want to eat, so it gradually kills you.  Jason shudders at this thought and says that he’d rather skip the pie.  Then Drake tells him that the pie killed him three times, and that makes it obvious that Drake is a displacer.  Jason asks him how these people could do this to themselves, how Drake could do this to himself.  Drake sighs and tells him that he thought it would be good just to be ridden of all the opposition.  Jason offers to take him with him, and they can leave, but Drake turns down the offer.  The conversation ceases, and Drake tells him that Kimp, the one he knows he’s looking for, takes a bath in the bathhouse in the afternoon. 

After leaving the lounge, Jason explores the grounds a little bit more.  Jason then heads to the bathhouse in hopes that he will find Kimp there.  While walking there, he finds Tark sitting on a bench outside in the courtyard and sits down by him.  They start talking.  Jason was not expecting to see him there.  Tark tells him he was invited there because he killed some manglers, blew some stuff up, and therefore threatened Maldor.  He tells him how ashamed he is by coming here because he feels he just gave up again like last time, and it seems like that's all he's good for.  Jason tells him to come away with him because he's leaving after he gets the information he came for.  Tark's countenance changes into a look of hope and his face brightens.  Tark tells him he will go with him, and then he asks him why he's here, but Jason can't tell him.  They leave and he goes to the bathhouses in hope of finding Kimp.

That's enough for this blog, 
DINGBAT OUT!

Harthenham: BEYONDERS

Jason goes with Jasher and Rachel to Harthenham Castle where they drop him off and hide.  Jason rides and meets up with a horseman who escorts him to the castle, where he meets Duke Conrad, a very refined, clip-speaking man who wears a white uniform.  The castle is so beautiful, even beyond belief.  Duke Conrad takes Jason in and has him make the demands and orders for the welcoming feast and as to what he wants.  Jason is the guest of honor.  Jason tells Conrad that he wishes to be escorted to his room, rest a small while, and then promptly after attend the welcoming feast.  Jason goes to his room and is absolutely blown away.  He’s so drawn in that he fears it will soon become impossible to leave.  Anyway, Jason attends his feast at a big table which is strewn with guests, most of them obese.  Conrad takes his seat at one end of the table and Jason at the other.  On one side of Conrad, there is a bald man with tons of tattoos all over his head and face.  JACKPOT!  IT’S KIMP!  Servants come out with plates and platters towered high with food, sausages, etc. etc. etc. etc. ETC!!  There’s so much stuff.  Jason is soon disgusted at watching the really fat people just cram the food down their throats, dipping their hands in the clean water and wiping them and getting them dirty immediately again.  Jason tries to pace himself, eating everything in little portions, trying to look refined as the Lord of Caberton should be.  Then he notices him, it's TARK!  It’s the musician of the Giddy Nine!!!  He had no idea he was here.  Anyway, dessert finally comes and the first entree is the livers of a Wasitch.  A Wasitch is the only rodent who can eat a certain plant that is poisonous.  I can’t remember what it is.  Anyway, this makes their livers taste delectable.  Jason tastes one of the five on his plate pensively and then scarfs the rest down greedily.  The food here is the best he has ever had.  It is the best in this world.  Anyway, they finish eating and he goes off to bed.  


OK, we'll stop here.

DINGBAT OUT!