Return of the Witch

Music Credit on Video:  "The Old Pumpkin Patch" By Darren Curtis

 

What better "Autumn" theme than a good witch tale:

Two soldiers on watch over the Witch's Beacons:

 

Soldier 1: "Hot, muggy, and yet still a chill in the air.  This night brings bad tidings.  It's no wonder they call this swamp 'Ole' Muggy-buggy'."

Soldier 2: "Pshaw.  This old Witch nonsense is nonsense."

Soldier 1: "Pshaw to your pshaw, you fool, I.........where in the name of the gods is your armour, soldier !?  Have you gone mad?"

Soldier 2: "The funniest thing.....I awoke this AM and attempted to adorn my armour just like any other day.  First my body armour, then my gloves, then my helm.....when I tried to put on my belt, I distinctly heard a disembodied voice say, "Can't quite get my head around this one."  I tried again, "Can't quite get my head around this one"....AGAIN !"

Soldier 1:  "Not surprising."

Soldier 2: "I...huh?"

Soldier 1: "So you decided to show up to the watch without your armour then, did ye?  Idiot."

Soldier 2: "But the belt wouldn't go on!  Just the voice!  I thought if I took all my armour off again and tried again it would work.  Didn't work."

Soldier 1:  "Don't talk about disembodied voices on a night like tonight, fool.  You are tempting fate.  Just shut up and keep an eye on the beacons."

Soldier 2: "These beacons will never go out.  The Witch will never come back.  I doubt the Witch ever existed.  Just fairytales."

Soldier 1: "If you DO not shut that infernal yapping hole in your head, I will shut it for you.  Watch yer tongue, boy, lest I throw you head first into that swamp."

Soldier 2: (mutters)

Soldier 1: "Be glad you aren't keeping watch over the Witch's grave like Alva and Jun.  Brave souls, those."  

Soldier 2: "I...oh, hello, Niko.  Did...."

Niko:  "Did you hear that?..."

Soldier 1: "Not you too.  Both of ye, shut yer traps.  Watch the beacons."

Soldier 2: "C'mon. Do you really believe that the Witch comes back from the dead if the beacons go out on All Hallow's Eve?"

Soldier 1: (claps Soldier Two in the ear)

Soldier 1: "Yes, I believe it, you horse's arse.  I've seen it.  I lived it.  Twenty seven years ago to this very night that .....that thing...arose and wreaked havoc across the land....wailing for her lost daughter.  It wasn't without the blessings of the gods, and a little luck, mind ye, that she was put down again.....for the 5th time, no less....and sealed in that crypt in the graveyard.  These enchanted beacons that lead to her putrid hut at the edge of the swamp serve as our only warning if the seals.....gods forbid....are ever broken again."

Soldier 2: "Pshaw. I need to relieve myself.  Be right back."

Soldier 1:  "Grand." (rolls eyes, and shakes head)

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Soldier 2 returns: "So, I was think.......Commander?....oh, no.....no,no,no.no.no!....".....................the Witch cackles.   (The beacons....blink out....one....by.....one.)

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13 November, 2020 - 16:37

Impressive.

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Hallowed Grave Yes 5
Jack-o'-Lantern Patch Yes 6
Alva No 1
Crafting Bench No 1
Einhar No 1
Guild Stash No 1
Helena No 1
Jun No 1
Kirac No 1
Map Device No 1
Navali No 1
Niko No 1
Sister Cassia No 1
Stash No 1
Tane Octavius No 1
Waypoint No 1
Zana No 1
Weathered Pot No 1
Crypt Rubble No 10
Driftwood Log No 1
Forest Encampment Ground No 36
Foothills Grass No 21
Tombstone No 7
Ossuary Plaque No 1
Swamp Tree Stump No 2
Tired Exile No 1
Webbed Tree No 11
Decorated Tree No 1
Driftwood Archway No 1
Ossuary Brazier No 4
Pooling Blood No 1
Bone Sculpture No 15
Ryslatha Tree No 7
Thick Trees No 8
Tomb No 1
Winged Statue No 1
Driftwood Branches No 5
Forest Flowers No 22
Forest Tree No 23
Grass Patch No 2
Lush Tree No 9
Reef Coral No 4
Stick With Skull No 1
Tree No 21
Bush No 10
Dry Tree No 3
Flies No 24
Garden Path No 8
Low Mossy Wall No 26
Red Grass No 4
Web-Covered Tree No 13
Mossy Wall Arch No 10
Thicket Tree No 13
Coral Cluster No 12
Coral Formation No 11
Maple Tree No 58
Primeval Rubble No 3
Toxic Fungus No 22
Toxic Pods No 1
Toxic Growths No 1
Toxic Pustules No 15
Bare Tree No 30
Tree Roots No 3
Syndicate Statue No 13
Triumph Fountain No 1
Cave Trash No 7
Den Large Rock No 1
Mushroom Cluster No 20
Sewer Moss No 1
Iron Candelabra No 1
Sewer Ground No 17
Damaged Barrels No 2
Iron Lantern No 16
Mine Rock No 5
Goddess Statue No 2
Volcanic Rock No 4
Abyssal Ritual Circle No 1
Fetid Smog No 4
Ghostly Fog No 7
Slum Building No 3
Travel Wagon No 1
Water Fog No 3
Oriath Barrels No 1
Wooden Planks No 4
Blocking Volume No 53
Candelabrum No 1
Courthouse Armchair No 2
Courthouse Side Table No 1
Dead Oriath Soldier Sitting No 2
Oriath Lantern No 6
Water Plane No 26
Arena Petals No 24
Oriath Armour Crate No 1
Plant Pot No 1
Verdant Tree No 11
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