Lesson 19: Run from Yog-Sothoth

The world had gotten terribly strange. Our young hero swore we were in a computer game. The annoying fashion sense girl swore we weren't. The young mage swore that the narrator had just gotten confused and was playing games with them. Halendro the "Great" just swore, often and colorfully.
Now our young hero, Halendro the "Great", the annoying fashion girl, and the young mage were running away from a force more than ten times their size. Battered and weary, they had to stop at the edge of a gorge. The rope bridge had been cut down from their side, and they could see it swaying in the wind on the other. Talk about caught between a rock and a hard place! Our young hero and the young mage ran one way, and the other pair ran the other direction. The monstorous creature leapt at the annoying fashion girl and Halendro the "Great" and immediately slashed them to pieces, before loosing it's own balance, and falling off the gorge to it's death.

Escorting the Hawaiian Tropics bikini team across the country for the Miss Universe Pagent, Scortin's new garishly painted bus that he stole from some guy from the future- or was this just another dream- anyhow it was hijacked by were-rats. Paralyzed as much by the inevitability of it all as by tranq darts, scortin succumbed. They woke, tied to a post, surrounded by were-rat dancers, while the Hawaiian Tropics bikini team were tied to a stone pillar some yards away. Some crazy high priest stood over them and began chanting.

You hear the words 'Yog-Sothoth,' I said the giggling manically. One of the bikini team giirls happened to be Lovecraft literate and gave the priest horrified glances. Scortin called in a favor from her totem, who was kind enough to dissolve the ropes, and the team ran like hell while a column of interdimensional horror ate both bikini team and were-rats, and the shaman (more guts than brains) stood around shouting
"Over here, you tentacled bastard!" until I pointed out, delicately, that this was YOG-SOTHOTH. "He CAN'T be wounded!"

Scortin ran like hell. Looked back to see a giant lizard and pig being melted out of primal bedrock by Yog-Sothoth. Said pair, in various forms, followed him for weeks to come, during which time he ran away more often than not, but that's another story....

That's about when Scortin, our young hero, the young mage, the schoolmarm, the hunter, and Jackal ran into each other. They all talked quickly, telling their stories, and then out of nowhere two scholars appeared. The goblin caretaker appeared infront of them, leading the two scholars out, and as if in a strange parade a young child behind them.

Italicized Text = Narrator Speaking

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