"Here... CATCH!!!" Right! Give me a critical success for the throw or else the child will be chopped to pieces in midair! (A battle was raging and Halendro was in the middle of it!) A huge smile crossed the face of Halendro as he scored a critical success once more. One elf child comming up! I was now rather irritated, andlooked at our young hero and said: That idiot has thrown the child in your direction and your opponent is twice your size... what do you do? The answer came quickly and without hesitation
"I kick the reptile in the balls, then I crawl on top of him and then I catch the child!" Impossible, I want a critical success for both the kick and the climb! Which was what the player scored. Our young hero scored yet another critical success for catching the child, which he then threw over his shoulder and began to stab the reptile in the neck (yet another critical success... dead reptile). And what about the Halendro in the midst of it all? He simply grabbed the lady, scored a critical success and was out of the whole mess and soon a whole bunch of elves were running home again without casualties. I have never bothered to figure out the odds for scoring so many critical successes in a row, but it was uncanny!

By now the annoying fashion sense girl. Halendro the "Great", our young hero, and the mage child continued to journey on and once again ran into "The Magus"
"Give me the child!" he demanded to our young hero.
"Shut-up! Your wrecking my creative energy!" he shouted at the wizard. Angrily now he defended the kid against Magus.
"You'll never get him you evil fool! Go eat a hellgrammite!"
"A what?" replied the wizard.
"Ugh, those larva of a dobson fly, often used for fish bait you idiot!" he sighed.
"Oh yeah? Well I'm gaudy!"
"Do you even know what that means?" the annoying girl replied.
"Umm, no." the wizard admitted.
"It means too bright and gay to be in good taste; cheap and showy. Done for good display, particular suggests too bright colours, sometimes too much or too glittering decoration. Always suggest being in bad taste, emphasizes dazzling brughtness and cheap and vulgar display. Emphasizes making a great and striking display, often but not always in a flashy way. Hah!"
"Oh shut-up" muttered a rather defeated feeling wizard.
"Exucse me sir, but aren't you being a bit rude?" muttered Hal the fool. the wizard grabbed Halendro the "Great's" neck and began to choke. Whence, Halendro headbutted him and "The Magus" fell to the ground. Immediatley the small group were running.

The two scholars meanwhile argued over whether a spittoon (container to spit into) was a worthy thing to spit fustic into, (the wood of a tropical American tree that yields yellow dye) while they argued over psychoanalysis being the minute examination of a mind or minds to discover the underlying mental causes producing certain mental and nervous disorders; analysis of mind or personality and psychological warfare, systematic efforts to affect morale, loyalty, etc., especially of large national groups.

Italicized Text = Narrator Speaking

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