Re: Corbiss the Bemuser
Posted: 20 Oct 2022, 18:53
Beaujolais de Pfeffel has been deposed. Corbiss the Bemuser, unable to retake power for himself, has instead installed his daughter: Luztriss the Bemused.
Watchers may recall the first encounter between a dungeoneer and Luztriss's cousin Sidriss. Sidriss, with the assistance of a consummate joker and without the necessary grasp of detail, cast an ambitious spell... which duly went wrong, spooked and endangered everyone and had to be swiftly reversed.
Who is Luztriss to break with family tradition? Her spell, intended to increase gold across the realm, instead conjures up huge amounts of fool's gold. How will ferrymen, dragon taxis, corruptible guards and traders know what they're being paid in? The markets aren't happy - except the pork markets, who are delirious for some reason - and call for the sorceress, now known as Luztriss the Defused, to go.
Corbiss and Treguard are forced to intervene. Corbiss undoes Luztriss's magic; Treguard prepares for his customary spell while a sympathetic Pickle slips Luztriss some food for her long journey. Having misheard Treguard quoting a scribe - 'she's crackers' - Pickle gives her cheese and crackers. As Luztriss fumes about the cheese being a Norman import, Treguard completes his spell. That. Is. A. DISMISS.
BeauJeau, who is in the New World conducting before-speaking dinner engagements, learns of Luztriss's dismissal and begins to plot a return. Could it happen? As life force sprites skip straight from green to red, the realm waits.
Watchers may recall the first encounter between a dungeoneer and Luztriss's cousin Sidriss. Sidriss, with the assistance of a consummate joker and without the necessary grasp of detail, cast an ambitious spell... which duly went wrong, spooked and endangered everyone and had to be swiftly reversed.
Who is Luztriss to break with family tradition? Her spell, intended to increase gold across the realm, instead conjures up huge amounts of fool's gold. How will ferrymen, dragon taxis, corruptible guards and traders know what they're being paid in? The markets aren't happy - except the pork markets, who are delirious for some reason - and call for the sorceress, now known as Luztriss the Defused, to go.
Corbiss and Treguard are forced to intervene. Corbiss undoes Luztriss's magic; Treguard prepares for his customary spell while a sympathetic Pickle slips Luztriss some food for her long journey. Having misheard Treguard quoting a scribe - 'she's crackers' - Pickle gives her cheese and crackers. As Luztriss fumes about the cheese being a Norman import, Treguard completes his spell. That. Is. A. DISMISS.
BeauJeau, who is in the New World conducting before-speaking dinner engagements, learns of Luztriss's dismissal and begins to plot a return. Could it happen? As life force sprites skip straight from green to red, the realm waits.