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You wait for hours.

Just as you were preparing to take a nap, you hear a rumble of loose stones rolling down, and there is the lizard! It just climbed down back to its nest.

It sniffed the air towards you, and then just stared.

A) Chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrge!
B) Observe it more, maybe it will get curious and get closer?

You decide to stay back and observe.

The lizard paces about its nest, stops to sniff in your direction from time to time. After a long while... it climbs the vertical cliff face without effort and gets away from you easy peasy.

A) Welp. Let's wait and see if it comes back.
B) Continue climbing to see if there are more lizards to hunt higher on the mountain.

You decide to climb the mountain from here.

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You get only a bit up before you lose your grip and fall down onto a shelf, and from it, down to the ground, and you lose consciousness.

When you wake up, it's night, and you feel bruised all over. You rest till morning.

(Supplies: 9)

Now what?

A) Try climbing again!
B) Let's seek easier way up.

You slowly approach the tree-house; as you come closer you can notice the window, the door, footsteps leading to it fashioned from planks and even a small garden, surrounded by pebbles, on the side.

You knock on the door and wait, anxious.

The door is opened by a... a squirrel. Large, grey, squirrel that is about half your size.

"Hello! I am Niknik. I am a trigendered amorphic squirrelkin hermit!

"Trigendered?"

"I identify as a male, a hermaphrodite and a gendershifter. You got problem with that?"

"Err, no?"

"Good! Don't you trigger me!"

The squirrelkin lets you in and treats you to a soup of roots and berries, and then you tell Niknik about your journey and your goal and problems back home.

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After you finish your tale, the squirrel sniffs and wipes tears with a towel.

"That's so sad! You're such a hero! I gotta help you, brave human! Spend a night at my place and in the morning I will give you tastiest and most filling of berries!" You agree, and spend the night huddled in the corner of the treehouse.

In the morning, Niknik gives you big red berries you never saw before, and instructs you how to get through forest to mountains in the fastest way.

(Supplies: +3, 11)

Using Niknik's clues, you pass through the forest and by the evening, arrive at the base of the Summit of Venoms. You camp there.

(Supplies: 10)

In the morning, you gotta decide how to proceed. Do you...

A) Climb the mountain face from here.
B) Seek gentler slopes or maybe a river to follow upwards.

Up to 5HP healed

Hit: 96+10-15-22 = 69
Hit roll: 50, hit!
Damage: 11-1-3 = 7dmg

Hit: 88+10+15-22 = 91
Hit roll: 41, hit!
Damage: 14+1-3 = 12dmg

Hit: 108+10-22 = 96
Hit roll: 44, hit!
Damage: 10-0 = 10dmg

~~Enemies Turn!~~

In turn, the bladeswoman skewers Shaelynn, but the Archer misses the Captain by an inch.

Hit: 122-10-16 = 96
Hit roll: 86, hit! Crit roll: 6!
Damage: 11-0 = 11x3 = 33dmg

Hit: 92+10-10-16 = 76
Hit roll: 99, miss!

Meanwhile, Iris got knife'd.

Hit: 112-10-23 = 79
Hit roll: 38, hit!
Damage: 10-4 = 6dmg

~~Allies Turn!~~

Captain, knowing his strength, continued chopping at the armored archer.

Hit: 95-10-17 = 68
Hit roll: 24, hit!
Damage: 15-8 = 7dmg

Hit: 96+10-17 = 89
Hit roll: 37, hit!
Damage: 11-8 = 3dmg

Archer A counters!
Hit: 92-10-11 = 71
Hit roll: 77, miss!

Hit: 98+15+10-22 = 101, autohit!
Damage: 13+1-3 = 11dmg

Hit: 114+10-30 = 94
Hit roll: 8, hit!
Damage: 8-2 = 6dmg

Thief A retaliates!
Hit: 112-10-23 = 79
Hit roll: 44, hit!
Damage: 10-4 = 6dmg

You agree, despite the pleas of Queen Mother and the advisor to not go on such a dangerous quest.

The wizard will be traveling around your Kingdom, but you should not worry - he will know exactly when to return to your Palace.

Next morning, the sky is cloudy and thin rain wets the ground. You, King of Luathbas, armed with a sword, protected by chainmail, and with a bag of necessary supplies and food, leave your castle and travel northwards.

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Congratulations! Houlandin II have embarked upon an Epic Quest!

It will be a lengthy adventure that will heavily involve combat, diplomacy or both. He will be restricted by Supplies, however; if he runs out of these, he will be forced to return home, lest he starves to death (there will be of course chance encounters or options to replenish Supplies a bit).

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Less than a week later, you leave a house of the nobleman dwelling northernmost in your Kingdom. You are leaving your subjects behind and enter the wilderness.

Far in the north, you can see a mountain chain. The nobleman was kind enough to point that the Summit of Venoms is the second tallest of the mountains in the chain, and is quite in the 'front' of the other mountains. For now, you decide to...

A) Follow the overgrown cobblestone road that snakes northwards.
B) Cut right through this dense conifer forest to save supplies and mayhaps even time.
C) Follow the nearby river; rivers often have their sources in the mountains, after all.

(Supplies: 11)