Chapter 3: Radament and the Beer
"Mummies!"
Another group of Mummies and skeletons were coming after them.
"Why are you screaming Adrian? Aren't you supposed to be good with that type of stuff?" Fury asked.
"Oh yeah!" He said.
He summoned up a big wall of bone in front of the mummies and skeletons. And then started mumbling to himself.
"Ok! Everybody stand back." He said.
"All who have died here shall now release their anger unto our enemies!"
He put his hands up and white stuff started coming out of the walls and ground. Soon there was a big gigantic white ball in his hand. This ball started wailing and screaming and vibrated as if it wanted to jump out of his hands. The necromancer whispered to himself, "Release!" And the big white ball went hurdling toward the undead.
BOOM! There is a big crash of bones and spirits tearing up the undead people into lots of shreds and stuff.
"That should take care of them." The Necromancer said smugly.
"That was so cool!" Effie commented looking at the mess in awe.
Fury said, "Except for the fact that there is still some left."
"What! But, that's impossible!" The Necromancer exclaimed.
Soon there was a whole army of undead again. Adrian started mumbling to himself and hurdled all the bone shards on the ground after the undead shredding them to pieces . . . again.
Just then a skeleton got up from the ground.
Fury exclaimed, "What unholy thing is this!"
Adrian started mumbling to himself again, waved his hand, pointed at the corpses, and they all exploded.
"Now that's just gross!" Effie shouted.
Just then little black balls started floating. Adrian screamed to Effie,
"DUCK!"
Effie looked around and asked "Where?" and got hit by one of the black balls.
"OW!" She yelped.
She then summoned a wall of spinning blades as the Necromancer summoned a wall of bone. The Barbarian said, "What about me? I want to summon a wall of some sort too!" He then got hit by one of the floating balls.
Adrian screamed, "We gotta find out where these things are coming from. And don't you have iron skin or something Fury?"
Fury said embarrassed, "I've only gotten as far as leather skin."
Adrian started mumbling to himself, "Amateurs." And he started running to the source of the black balls.
"AH! IT'S RADAMENT!" he screamed.
"How do you know?" Effie asked wincing in pain from the hit to her earlier.
"BECAUSE IT'S A BIG GIGANTIC MUMMY, THAT'S HOW! MAYBE YOU TWO WANNA COME AND HELP ME?" Adrian yelled from the room.
Effie and Fury looked at each other then ran into the room.
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"That's Radament?" Effie asked skeptically.
"Just help us fight!" Adrian ordered, as he and Fury were already busy fighting the Mummy. Adrian was muttering some sort of curse and Fury was leaping to and fro occasionally chopping at Radament.
Effie looked in her pouch producing some daggers and threw them with quick agility at Radament. Then doing a back flip she kicked the mummy with all her might getting poisoned in the process.
"What is that stuff?" Fury asked as Effie coughed running away from Radament.
"Poison! Stay away . . ." Effie managed to choke out and gulped down a vial of health potion.
"Look out behind you Fury!" Adrian yelled. Radament slapped Fury, who had not been paying attention.
"Can't you summon something?" Fury asked the Necromancer. He remembered hearing that Necromancers had that power and wondered why Adrian didn't do that now.
Adrian threw another curse at Radament and yelled, "I could but how will I know Radament might somehow control them, like all my other summoned?"
"That's right!" Fury remembered. Then Radament hit him again because he hadn't been paying attention again.
"You'll pay for that!" Fury said. And in a fury of rage, Fury ran after Radament waving his two war hammers in the air.
He started chopping away at the mummy and Effie joined him and stabbed at it with some strange dagger like things. (Fury had never seen weapons like hers before.) Adrian also joined in and stabbed at the mummy with a strange decorated dagger. They all converted to physical combat and forgot their magic spells.
Radament too confused, couldn't decide whom to attack because they were all chopping at him with a variety of weapons. Therefore he died because of his lack of quickness and Fury, Effie, and Adrian cheered loudly giving each other high fives.
"That was easy!" Effie said.
Adrian and Fury looked at Effie strangely.
"What?" Effie finally asked.
"You've seemed to have acquired a greener type of skin." Adrian said.
"Not to mention the fact that you are now decorated in mummy remnants." Fury added.
Effie looked down and realized that she was indeed still poisoned. She also had gross mummy guts all over her.
"Uhg!" she yelled shaking some of the gooey insides off of her.
"Look what I found!" Adrian yelled holding up some sort of scroll.
"And look!" Fury said pointing over to a glittering chest. "Wonder what's in there." He pondered.
Adrian and Fury ran over to it and carefully pulled the top open leaving the Assassin still dripping in entrails on the other side of the room.
"Wonder what this is?" Fury said holding up a small strange looking book. "I'll have to ask Deckard Cain about it."
"Hello?" Effie shouted annoyed. "Have you already forgotten about me? Aren't you gonna help me get this stuff off?"
Adrian and Fury looked disgusted at the mess on Effie, then looked at each other as if thinking the same thing.
"Nah!" They said at the same time.
"I guess I should have expected as much. Hey if Adrian gets a scroll and you get a book, what do I get?" Effie asked wanted to get her share in the profit.
"Hey look!" Fury said ignoring Effie, "It gives instructions on how to learn a new skill, specifically for Barbarians only!"
"I wanna learn a new skill too!" Effie whined.
"That's a great find!" Adrian said.
"I wonder what this scroll says though. I can't interpret the writing."
"You'll have to ask Deckard Cain about it. He knows practically everything!"
"We'll before we go on anymore quests I need a bath!" Effie stated trying to wipe off more blood and guts from her body. Finally she gave up and started to make her way back to the entrance of the sewers.
"Does she not know that it would be faster to take a town portal to get to town, than to waste her time walking back through the sewers?" Adrian whispered to Fury.
"We should just leave her." Fury whispered back a mischievous grin on his face. Adrian smiled. It would be a funny little prank. Fury read a town portal scroll and immediately a portal to town opened up. He snickered watching Effie's descending figure in the darkness and beckoned Adrian through to the portal. They both jumped through the portal holding their laughs inside till they finally got to Lut Gholein.
"I wonder when she'll figure out that we've left her?" Adrian asked smiling.
As you can see, Fury and Adrian had already become fast friends.
~*~
"WHY YOU LITTLE . . .!"
Fury and Adrian said . . . "Uh oh."
Effie starts chasing Fury and Adrian, yelling bad stuff at them as they run screaming for their lives.
"Can't we negotiate?" Fury yelled behind him.
Adrian said, "I'll buy us all drinks at the bar!"
Effie stopped right away and says "OK. Let's drink."
"You guys go set up the table while I take a dip in the lake."
"Don't you need us strong men to watch over you, so you don't get attacked by any monsters?" Adrian suggested.
"WHY YOU PERVERT!" Effie yelled.
"Never mind. Fury lets go."
Then they start running for their lives again without looking back.
Later Fury and Adrian were happily drinking at the bar.
"So Fury, you said that book teaches Barbarian moves huh?" Adrian asked.
"You ain't touching my book!" Fury said stuffing it deeper into his backpack.
The Necromancer mumbled to himself, "I wonder how Barbarians can read anyway?" Then he starts thinking of an evil plot. He starts searching through all his plant samples, and then says, "Fury! What's that?" And he points behind Fury.
"What?" Fury says looking behind him.
Adrian quickly squeezes two drops from these plants into Fury's drink. Fury looks back and says, "Yeah! That's were I pinned Effie with my javelins!"
"But before I tell you about that story, I think I'll have something to drink."
The Barbarian takes a sip of his beer and starts droning about how he caught Effie. Adrian looks on in disbelief, "That should have knocked him out in seconds!"
Just then Effie walks in and sits next to them free of her gooey bindings.
"Fury's such a braggart." Effie thought to herself. She then notices the beer in front of her and says, "Hey you guys already bought me a drink." And she takes a sip of it.
Adrian yells "No! Don't!" But before he can do anything, Effie falls over. Fury looks on stunned, "Man! She can't handle that stuff, can she?"
Adrian emits a small laugh and says, "I guess not."
Then the Barbarian says, "I'll show you how much I can handle."
"Waiter! Get me the strongest beer you got!"
The whole crowd goes silent as Atma walks in with a big mug of steaming ale.
"This is called 'Moon Glow'. The only person who can stand this is Geglash." Atma explained.
Fury pays her the money and takes a big gulp of it, while everyone watches on in anticipation. He yells to Adrian, "Oh! That stuff's good!" And he falls down unconscious.
"Good night Fury, Effie. I've got some reading to do." Adrian said smiling mischievously, as he pulled the book out of the Barbarian's backpack grinning.
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Adrian was alone in one of the street corners clutching the book. Effie had been carried to her room and plopped unto her bed. Fury, who was too heavy for even Griez to lift, was left in the bar. Atma put a pillow under the Barbarian's head and Adrian guessed that was where Fury would be spending the night.
He opened the book thinking to himself, "Now I can learn a Barbarian attack or perhaps one of their famous war cries!" But when he opened the book the words jumbled and formed new writing. The Necromancer read and immediately hit himself in frustration. The words had all changed into spells for a Necromancer. It seemed the book knew who held it. He shut the book disappointed that he wouldn't be able to learn a Barbarian attack. He shoved it in his backpack thinking he would look over it later and learn another move for a Necromancer. Or perhaps he could enhance his abilities. But there was no time to think. He was itching to know what the scroll of Radament's said.
He walked into the center of town to see an old guy wearing a gray cloak leaning on a staff. He humbly walked over to the old man and asked, "Are you the one called Deckard Cain?"
"Yes I am." The old man answered with an old-wise-man-like-voice. "And are you the Necromancer whom the Barbarian, Fury and the mysterious woman Effie found in the sewers?"
"Uh, yes." Adrian answered wondering how fast news of his presence had traveled.
"Then you have joined our forces in the fight against Diablo and the forces of hell?" Deckard Cain asked.
"Yes." Adrian answered feeling very important.
"Then how can I help you, O' Necromancer?"
"I have found this scroll and was wondering if you could interpret it's writing because I cannot." Adrian said handing the scroll to Cain.
Deckard Cain opened it curiously. When he saw the writing his face lit up.
"Ahh! The lost Horadric Scroll! What a fortunate turn of events . . ."
"You can read it?" Adrian asked. It was written in a language he had never seen before.
Cain looked at the Necromancer proudly. "As the last living Horadrim. I ALONE have knowledge of its meaning. Now, to read the Horadric runes it bears . . ."
He studied it intently for a minute Adrian peering over his shoulder curiously.
"Hmmm . . ." Cain said stroking his chin thoughtfully.
"The Horadric Mages, after finding Baal within Tal Rasha, magically sealed off his burial chamber from the mortal realm. Those same mages also crafted fearsome Horadric Staves and imbued them with the special power to open the chamber's hidden door.
After nearly losing one to the thievery of a Rouge Sorcerer they divided all the Horadric Staves into two parts—Wooden Shaft and metal headpiece—hiding them separately to safe guard them. The Horadric foresaw our current plight and designed the hiding places to reveal themselves to worthy hero's like you."
Adrian smiled proudly and puffed out his chest.
"Collect both parts of the Horadric staff and unite them using the Horadric cube. Then you may enter Tal Rasha's burial chamber." Cain continued.
"I will find the tomb." Adrian stated nobly. "And help Fury and Effie kill Diablo and stop him from releasing his brothers."
He walked away ready to tell Fury and Effie of their new adventure and then remembered that they were probably still knocked out from the beers.
"Oh well. More time for me to study." And he traveled back to the hole in the wall in the sewers and stayed there till morning.
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"Mummies!"
Another group of Mummies and skeletons were coming after them.
"Why are you screaming Adrian? Aren't you supposed to be good with that type of stuff?" Fury asked.
"Oh yeah!" He said.
He summoned up a big wall of bone in front of the mummies and skeletons. And then started mumbling to himself.
"Ok! Everybody stand back." He said.
"All who have died here shall now release their anger unto our enemies!"
He put his hands up and white stuff started coming out of the walls and ground. Soon there was a big gigantic white ball in his hand. This ball started wailing and screaming and vibrated as if it wanted to jump out of his hands. The necromancer whispered to himself, "Release!" And the big white ball went hurdling toward the undead.
BOOM! There is a big crash of bones and spirits tearing up the undead people into lots of shreds and stuff.
"That should take care of them." The Necromancer said smugly.
"That was so cool!" Effie commented looking at the mess in awe.
Fury said, "Except for the fact that there is still some left."
"What! But, that's impossible!" The Necromancer exclaimed.
Soon there was a whole army of undead again. Adrian started mumbling to himself and hurdled all the bone shards on the ground after the undead shredding them to pieces . . . again.
Just then a skeleton got up from the ground.
Fury exclaimed, "What unholy thing is this!"
Adrian started mumbling to himself again, waved his hand, pointed at the corpses, and they all exploded.
"Now that's just gross!" Effie shouted.
Just then little black balls started floating. Adrian screamed to Effie,
"DUCK!"
Effie looked around and asked "Where?" and got hit by one of the black balls.
"OW!" She yelped.
She then summoned a wall of spinning blades as the Necromancer summoned a wall of bone. The Barbarian said, "What about me? I want to summon a wall of some sort too!" He then got hit by one of the floating balls.
Adrian screamed, "We gotta find out where these things are coming from. And don't you have iron skin or something Fury?"
Fury said embarrassed, "I've only gotten as far as leather skin."
Adrian started mumbling to himself, "Amateurs." And he started running to the source of the black balls.
"AH! IT'S RADAMENT!" he screamed.
"How do you know?" Effie asked wincing in pain from the hit to her earlier.
"BECAUSE IT'S A BIG GIGANTIC MUMMY, THAT'S HOW! MAYBE YOU TWO WANNA COME AND HELP ME?" Adrian yelled from the room.
Effie and Fury looked at each other then ran into the room.
~*~
"That's Radament?" Effie asked skeptically.
"Just help us fight!" Adrian ordered, as he and Fury were already busy fighting the Mummy. Adrian was muttering some sort of curse and Fury was leaping to and fro occasionally chopping at Radament.
Effie looked in her pouch producing some daggers and threw them with quick agility at Radament. Then doing a back flip she kicked the mummy with all her might getting poisoned in the process.
"What is that stuff?" Fury asked as Effie coughed running away from Radament.
"Poison! Stay away . . ." Effie managed to choke out and gulped down a vial of health potion.
"Look out behind you Fury!" Adrian yelled. Radament slapped Fury, who had not been paying attention.
"Can't you summon something?" Fury asked the Necromancer. He remembered hearing that Necromancers had that power and wondered why Adrian didn't do that now.
Adrian threw another curse at Radament and yelled, "I could but how will I know Radament might somehow control them, like all my other summoned?"
"That's right!" Fury remembered. Then Radament hit him again because he hadn't been paying attention again.
"You'll pay for that!" Fury said. And in a fury of rage, Fury ran after Radament waving his two war hammers in the air.
He started chopping away at the mummy and Effie joined him and stabbed at it with some strange dagger like things. (Fury had never seen weapons like hers before.) Adrian also joined in and stabbed at the mummy with a strange decorated dagger. They all converted to physical combat and forgot their magic spells.
Radament too confused, couldn't decide whom to attack because they were all chopping at him with a variety of weapons. Therefore he died because of his lack of quickness and Fury, Effie, and Adrian cheered loudly giving each other high fives.
"That was easy!" Effie said.
Adrian and Fury looked at Effie strangely.
"What?" Effie finally asked.
"You've seemed to have acquired a greener type of skin." Adrian said.
"Not to mention the fact that you are now decorated in mummy remnants." Fury added.
Effie looked down and realized that she was indeed still poisoned. She also had gross mummy guts all over her.
"Uhg!" she yelled shaking some of the gooey insides off of her.
"Look what I found!" Adrian yelled holding up some sort of scroll.
"And look!" Fury said pointing over to a glittering chest. "Wonder what's in there." He pondered.
Adrian and Fury ran over to it and carefully pulled the top open leaving the Assassin still dripping in entrails on the other side of the room.
"Wonder what this is?" Fury said holding up a small strange looking book. "I'll have to ask Deckard Cain about it."
"Hello?" Effie shouted annoyed. "Have you already forgotten about me? Aren't you gonna help me get this stuff off?"
Adrian and Fury looked disgusted at the mess on Effie, then looked at each other as if thinking the same thing.
"Nah!" They said at the same time.
"I guess I should have expected as much. Hey if Adrian gets a scroll and you get a book, what do I get?" Effie asked wanted to get her share in the profit.
"Hey look!" Fury said ignoring Effie, "It gives instructions on how to learn a new skill, specifically for Barbarians only!"
"I wanna learn a new skill too!" Effie whined.
"That's a great find!" Adrian said.
"I wonder what this scroll says though. I can't interpret the writing."
"You'll have to ask Deckard Cain about it. He knows practically everything!"
"We'll before we go on anymore quests I need a bath!" Effie stated trying to wipe off more blood and guts from her body. Finally she gave up and started to make her way back to the entrance of the sewers.
"Does she not know that it would be faster to take a town portal to get to town, than to waste her time walking back through the sewers?" Adrian whispered to Fury.
"We should just leave her." Fury whispered back a mischievous grin on his face. Adrian smiled. It would be a funny little prank. Fury read a town portal scroll and immediately a portal to town opened up. He snickered watching Effie's descending figure in the darkness and beckoned Adrian through to the portal. They both jumped through the portal holding their laughs inside till they finally got to Lut Gholein.
"I wonder when she'll figure out that we've left her?" Adrian asked smiling.
As you can see, Fury and Adrian had already become fast friends.
~*~
"WHY YOU LITTLE . . .!"
Fury and Adrian said . . . "Uh oh."
Effie starts chasing Fury and Adrian, yelling bad stuff at them as they run screaming for their lives.
"Can't we negotiate?" Fury yelled behind him.
Adrian said, "I'll buy us all drinks at the bar!"
Effie stopped right away and says "OK. Let's drink."
"You guys go set up the table while I take a dip in the lake."
"Don't you need us strong men to watch over you, so you don't get attacked by any monsters?" Adrian suggested.
"WHY YOU PERVERT!" Effie yelled.
"Never mind. Fury lets go."
Then they start running for their lives again without looking back.
Later Fury and Adrian were happily drinking at the bar.
"So Fury, you said that book teaches Barbarian moves huh?" Adrian asked.
"You ain't touching my book!" Fury said stuffing it deeper into his backpack.
The Necromancer mumbled to himself, "I wonder how Barbarians can read anyway?" Then he starts thinking of an evil plot. He starts searching through all his plant samples, and then says, "Fury! What's that?" And he points behind Fury.
"What?" Fury says looking behind him.
Adrian quickly squeezes two drops from these plants into Fury's drink. Fury looks back and says, "Yeah! That's were I pinned Effie with my javelins!"
"But before I tell you about that story, I think I'll have something to drink."
The Barbarian takes a sip of his beer and starts droning about how he caught Effie. Adrian looks on in disbelief, "That should have knocked him out in seconds!"
Just then Effie walks in and sits next to them free of her gooey bindings.
"Fury's such a braggart." Effie thought to herself. She then notices the beer in front of her and says, "Hey you guys already bought me a drink." And she takes a sip of it.
Adrian yells "No! Don't!" But before he can do anything, Effie falls over. Fury looks on stunned, "Man! She can't handle that stuff, can she?"
Adrian emits a small laugh and says, "I guess not."
Then the Barbarian says, "I'll show you how much I can handle."
"Waiter! Get me the strongest beer you got!"
The whole crowd goes silent as Atma walks in with a big mug of steaming ale.
"This is called 'Moon Glow'. The only person who can stand this is Geglash." Atma explained.
Fury pays her the money and takes a big gulp of it, while everyone watches on in anticipation. He yells to Adrian, "Oh! That stuff's good!" And he falls down unconscious.
"Good night Fury, Effie. I've got some reading to do." Adrian said smiling mischievously, as he pulled the book out of the Barbarian's backpack grinning.
~*~
Adrian was alone in one of the street corners clutching the book. Effie had been carried to her room and plopped unto her bed. Fury, who was too heavy for even Griez to lift, was left in the bar. Atma put a pillow under the Barbarian's head and Adrian guessed that was where Fury would be spending the night.
He opened the book thinking to himself, "Now I can learn a Barbarian attack or perhaps one of their famous war cries!" But when he opened the book the words jumbled and formed new writing. The Necromancer read and immediately hit himself in frustration. The words had all changed into spells for a Necromancer. It seemed the book knew who held it. He shut the book disappointed that he wouldn't be able to learn a Barbarian attack. He shoved it in his backpack thinking he would look over it later and learn another move for a Necromancer. Or perhaps he could enhance his abilities. But there was no time to think. He was itching to know what the scroll of Radament's said.
He walked into the center of town to see an old guy wearing a gray cloak leaning on a staff. He humbly walked over to the old man and asked, "Are you the one called Deckard Cain?"
"Yes I am." The old man answered with an old-wise-man-like-voice. "And are you the Necromancer whom the Barbarian, Fury and the mysterious woman Effie found in the sewers?"
"Uh, yes." Adrian answered wondering how fast news of his presence had traveled.
"Then you have joined our forces in the fight against Diablo and the forces of hell?" Deckard Cain asked.
"Yes." Adrian answered feeling very important.
"Then how can I help you, O' Necromancer?"
"I have found this scroll and was wondering if you could interpret it's writing because I cannot." Adrian said handing the scroll to Cain.
Deckard Cain opened it curiously. When he saw the writing his face lit up.
"Ahh! The lost Horadric Scroll! What a fortunate turn of events . . ."
"You can read it?" Adrian asked. It was written in a language he had never seen before.
Cain looked at the Necromancer proudly. "As the last living Horadrim. I ALONE have knowledge of its meaning. Now, to read the Horadric runes it bears . . ."
He studied it intently for a minute Adrian peering over his shoulder curiously.
"Hmmm . . ." Cain said stroking his chin thoughtfully.
"The Horadric Mages, after finding Baal within Tal Rasha, magically sealed off his burial chamber from the mortal realm. Those same mages also crafted fearsome Horadric Staves and imbued them with the special power to open the chamber's hidden door.
After nearly losing one to the thievery of a Rouge Sorcerer they divided all the Horadric Staves into two parts—Wooden Shaft and metal headpiece—hiding them separately to safe guard them. The Horadric foresaw our current plight and designed the hiding places to reveal themselves to worthy hero's like you."
Adrian smiled proudly and puffed out his chest.
"Collect both parts of the Horadric staff and unite them using the Horadric cube. Then you may enter Tal Rasha's burial chamber." Cain continued.
"I will find the tomb." Adrian stated nobly. "And help Fury and Effie kill Diablo and stop him from releasing his brothers."
He walked away ready to tell Fury and Effie of their new adventure and then remembered that they were probably still knocked out from the beers.
"Oh well. More time for me to study." And he traveled back to the hole in the wall in the sewers and stayed there till morning.
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