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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 1942865" data-attributes="member: 6957">Song fades as Hero and Company proceed off stage.Hero (pointing): And now to the Wizard's!Disolve to Beholder's lair.The Beholder drifts behind a round desk an enormous book open upon it's surface. As the Beholder reads the pages flip themselves. The Beholder has a single lensed half spectacle, the earpieces braced behind two eyestalks, deep in concentration. His ten eyestalks drift, maintaining vigil around the room. Three of them turn toward the Left Entrance.Beholder:Yes, what is it?Voice (off screen): You wanted an eye kept upon the Hero, Master?Beholder (turning to gaze off screen with his central eye peering over the half spectacle, blinking once): Yes.Voice: I have found a way for you to do so more... directly, my lord.Beholder: I see....Dissolve to Wizard's Chamber, lit by torches and ten floating candles.The Wizards sits behind his desk reading an enormous book, as he reads the pages flip themselves. He is wearing a pair of half spectacles, the earpieces hooked over his ears, deep in concentration. The ten candles drift around him as he reads, mirroring the locations of the Beholder's eyestalks. Each candle bears a device in the shape of an eye, seeming to keep vigil in the chamber. Three of them turn toward the Left Entrace, as does the Wizard. Door opens, revealing Hero his hand raised to knock.Wizard (peering over glasses):Yes, What is it?Hero (looking nervous): Wizard? I am here...Wizard: Yes?Hero (looking even more nervous as he sees the candles looking at him): Wizards, I am here seeking magical assistance in slaying a dragon?Cue music.Wizard (singing): A dragon?You wish to slay a dragon?Have you not learned,You will get burned,If you go to fight a dragon?A dragon!Join you to slay a dragon?We will get caught,We'll come to naught,If we go to fight a dragon!This dragon?Where will you find this dragon?In dungeon deep,Where will we creep, If we must kill this dragon?What dragon?Who is this mighty dragon?To know his name,His deadly fame,We have to name this dragon!Wizard (speaking): Well, I'm waiting?Music fades.Hero (still nervous, entering Chamber):Well it's like this...Wizard (peering over spectacles): Yes?Hero (door closes behind him): The town to the north east...Wizard:Nestfall. Yes?Hero:It has a name? I didn't ask...Wizard (sounding grumpy):Yes it has a name, it didn't occur to you to read the sign or ask?Hero: Well, there wasn't any sign, the town had been burned...Wizard (angry):Burned! And you didn't think to tell me that first?Hero (now very nervous):Well, the dragon...Wizard:Dammit man, the people come first, didn't they teach you that in hero school?Hero:Well they said that they'd reward the person who...Wizard (rising from behind the desk):Slays the dragon, yes? And you were so busy of thinking about the reward and the dragon's treasure that you didn't think to ask about the town?Hero (suddenly sounding more confident):Treasure? You think the dragon will have treasure?(Pauses.)Umm, if you're interested in the townsfolk, does that mean you won't want a portion of the...Wizard (glares);Hero: Umm, right. Forty, thirty, thirty then?Wizard:Cloak! (cloak flies around his shoulders.)Staff! (staff flies to his hand.)Book! (book closes, puts itself into a bag, and waits floating by the Wizard's side.)Door! (door to the chamber opens again.Lights! (torches dim, the only light now comes from the candles.)Idiot! (exits Chamber from the doorway.)Hero:You want me to follow you then? (follows.)Fade.The Auld Grump</blockquote>

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