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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BoldItalic" data-source="post: 6774886" data-attributes="member: 6777052">BoldItalic borrowed the shard of mirror and contemplated it for a short while. "Some of the enchantment still attaches to it," he said. "It may be possible for you to use it still, to communicate with your princess, albeit in a limited way. Assuming that her father is a king, and if we can work out how to reach them, he may be persuaded to lend us aid to overcome the demons. I believe this is our best hope.Rylnethaz' face lit up at the prospect of seeing again the girl who was his heart's desire. "And if he does not, I shall conquer him and take his kingdom and his daughter," he declared haughtily. "My head awaits its crown." "Speaking of your head, I think you should wash your face in the stream and smarten yourself up generally. Your wound may be less painful now but you still look terrible. Your princess is not going to be overly impressed with your appearance if we do manage to use the shard again."Rylnethaz was somewhat taken aback at the directness of BoldItalic's reproof but he was too polite to say so. "If we do make contact, should I wear my crown, do you think? Not too ostentatious?""By all means. It will do no harm. Now, I need to think for a while. We have a piece of one half of a pair of magic mirrors and I need to divine where in the entire multiverse its partner can be found. For it most surely is not in this plane of existence, which seems to be entirely uninhabited wilderness as far as the eye can see."Rylnethaz took the hint and went off to wash in the stream. Afterwards, he rejoined Fingers and Clotbert who were playing a game of scissors, paper, stone. They seemed to be evenly matched. Fingers gave Rylnethaz a wink and urged Clotbert to talk to him."Young Frodo here, sorry Fingers," began Clotbert, "has been telling me that you are travelling in disguise as an elven knight called Sir Rylnethaz, of the line of King Orfindel the Blue. Have I got that right?""Quite right," confirmed Rylnethaz. "And you are disguised as a priest of the goddess Myrristra called Brother Clotbert The Pathetic. It is a good disguise, is it not?""Oh yes, very clever. No-one would suspect me of being me. Blessings upon you, good sir knight." chortled Clotbert."We must be very careful to maintain our disguises at all times," said Fingers looking around furtively, "You never know who might be listening.""Yes, that is very important," agreed Rylnethaz who was beginning to appreciate the cunning of Fingers' stratagem."And what quest are we pretending to be on?" asked Clotbert, "I haven't quite grasped that aspect of the subterfuge."Rylnethaz showed Clotbert the mirror shard. "We are on the quest of the Fair Princess. We have to find the pair of this mirror. Also, we have to destroy a demonic machine and restore me, that is Sir Rylnethaz, to his rightful kingdom.""That's not too complicated, is it? Quests are usually simpler and undertaken one at a time," thought Clotbert."That's the cleverness of it," put in Fingers, "If you were going to invent a phoney quest to cover up your real one, you wouldn't make it so obviously made up, would you?"Clotbert considered this, and felt bound to agree. "Show me the shard," he said. "I may be able to divine something from it, with Myrristra's aid."So Clotbert said a prayer to Myrristra and pretended to divine something from the broken piece of glass as if he were a real priest. Which, of course, he was except he thought he wasn't. Suddenly, and to everyone's astonishment, the mirror shone with a fiery light and letters formed in the air above it. "GO SOUTH AND ASCEND THE STAIRCASE THREE TIMES" they said and beneath them was a sign formed of three triangles within a square, that represented the goddess herself.</blockquote>

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