Three Quests, Pt 1

Before The Wild was again known primarily as The Wild, it had another name - The Badlands. One of the major thoroughfares of The Runiverse, it was originally populated by small, independent groups of bandits and highwaymen. With a mostly flat and rolling landscape, and very sporadic and hard to find caves scattered about, the black market toll business was a strong and resilient one in The Badlands/The Wild. This was mostly tolerated because...

"HEY!"

Flamma repeated himself.

"SO WHAT'S...this mission about?"

Magus Kingsley looked up from his journaling. One of the ponies snorted.

"You didn't read the scroll? Here, let me.." Kingsley put on a set of reading glasses and pulled the scroll from Flamma's hand to narrow his eyes at it. "Barren Court...from The Sand...a call to diplomatic ties...." He starts mumbling. "...Hearts of the Sand...some sand monster...BARREN tokens..."

It suddenly occurred to Magus Kingsley of the Wood that it had been a long while since he read much of any High Script, and even longer since last reading High Script from civilizations south of The Sand.

Flamma boredly stares at Kingsley while this is happening, aware that he has asked Kingsley 3 times already to explain all of these strange magical terms before they arrive at The Barren Court.

Under the looming shadows of BattleMage Mountains, the two clan members of Feral of the Untamed were camped. Their ponies, resting. Flamma, Chopper of Liches, resting at the fire too. Magus Kingsley of the Wood, however, was now rising to his feet in order to pace in a circle and think about how to best brief their diplomat.

"Ok...I think this is roughly how this is going to go down..."

The ponies and Flamma both adjusted themselves.

"Look...hmm...this is basically...how it's going to go down...

You will travel into this Court by yourself. They seem to emphasize solo diplomatic ties for now. Once you're there, you're going to have to give some of your gold...the quests they are requesting assistance with seem to require some magical sacrifice of some kind for...I'm not sure if it's a currency or some quantitative form of magic itself...but it's called BARREN."

Flamma and the ponies both started sharing an apple.

"It looks like you can "volunteer" to be buried in one of their tombs in exchange for this BARREN but that sounds reeeeal Sacred Flamey to me...Oh! They're so formal...there's some sort of runeless magical information technology they have going on...OK...

So when you get there, Flamma

1. You'll take your gold and pull out this scroll -

(https://app.sushi.com/swap?inputCurrency=ETH&outputCurrency=0xecE3e14924eEcB79aADC286839A86C0d54718D95&chainId=1).

I'm not sure to what extent this is sacrificial and/or commercial...we are still learning about this culture... 1a. If you DID have a Warrior to "volunteer" being trapped alive in this tomb they have there, you would pull out this scroll - (https://nftx.io/vault/0xece3e14924eecb79aadc286839a86c0d54718d95/stake/) 1b. Always double check these scrolls, Flamma...especially when you're not a magic user..."

The ponies and Flamma all chuckled under their breath. Magus stops pacing, smiles, and then, too, chuckles.

"Ok next...

2. We've got this scroll right here -

(https://wizzypedia.forgottenrunes.com/Barren_Outpost).

This one lists their mission needs for the diplomats that are arriving from now until the next month or so. You'll choose one of the missions you have sufficient BARREN with which to enact the mission and mission enchantment, locate the cipher attached to said mission, then place it...

3. Onto the blank space on this scroll -

(https://otc.sudoswap.xyz/#/load).

Sign the cipher. Sign the magical transmission. Bam. So easy, a Goblin could do it."

Flamma and the both ponies have now started on their fifth apple.

"Look, it's all rather simple - in fact, most of these steps are described as so in the Wizzypedia scroll. Just because you've never operated magical items like this before doesn't mean the difficulties therein are not much larger in your head than in actuality."

Magus Kingsley felt like his father all of a sudden. Flamma smiled. They all started laughing, even the ponies.

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