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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4604026" data-attributes="member: 54707"><p><strong>The Ballad of the Balanced Heroes</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I like the way you put that, so true enough.</p><p></p><p>By the way, here's a little ditty I had written and meant to put under the first post in this thread, but got busy and never got round to it.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"><span style="color: RoyalBlue"><strong>The Ballad of the Balanced Heroes</strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">That’s impossible my friend</p> <p style="text-align: center">It’s not very safe,</p> <p style="text-align: center">The odds say the run</p> <p style="text-align: center">Is not worth the race,</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">It’s dangerous, it’s risky</p> <p style="text-align: center">It’s so very hard</p> <p style="text-align: center">It’s dire and desperate</p> <p style="text-align: center">You won’t get too far,</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">It’s scary and fretful</p> <p style="text-align: center">And so very dark</p> <p style="text-align: center">That kind of adventure's</p> <p style="text-align: center">No walk in the park,</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">Let’s find an encounter</p> <p style="text-align: center">That’s fit for our wits</p> <p style="text-align: center">Nothing that’s too harsh</p> <p style="text-align: center">To give us a fit,</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">I’m not much for caves</p> <p style="text-align: center">Where the monsters do lair</p> <p style="text-align: center">That’s sounds kinda creepy</p> <p style="text-align: center">And damp is the air,</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">Abandoned old castles</p> <p style="text-align: center">Don’t thrill me too much,</p> <p style="text-align: center">Why something in there</p> <p style="text-align: center">Might just have me for lunch,</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">I don’t like a tomb</p> <p style="text-align: center">That’s filled with the dead,</p> <p style="text-align: center">Such a harrowing place</p> <p style="text-align: center">Could give me the dreads,</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">And who likes a hamlet</p> <p style="text-align: center">With guilds full of thieves?</p> <p style="text-align: center">Best well avoided</p> <p style="text-align: center">Than a running retreat,</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">So mount up your horses</p> <p style="text-align: center">We’re riding by town,</p> <p style="text-align: center">I hear that there’s danger</p> <p style="text-align: center">In there to be found,</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">Why <em><strong><span style="color: Lime">“better than even”</span></strong></em></p> <p style="text-align: center">Is all that we ask,</p> <p style="text-align: center">It’s only quite fair</p> <p style="text-align: center">If peril’s your task</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">What makes a good Hero</p> <p style="text-align: center">Is waiting around,</p> <p style="text-align: center">To see if some patsy</p> <p style="text-align: center">Will ride into town,</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">We’ll send such a lout</p> <p style="text-align: center">In to take all the risk</p> <p style="text-align: center">Then we’ll come a’lootin</p> <p style="text-align: center">To see what was missed,</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">For when X stands for danger</p> <p style="text-align: center">It don’t mark the spot,</p> <p style="text-align: center">But rather it tells you</p> <p style="text-align: center">Just what is for naught,</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">Cause there’s one thing </p> <p style="text-align: center">We Heroes are never about,</p> <p style="text-align: center"><em>“That’s taking on danger</em></p> <p style="text-align: center"><em>Whenever there’s doubt!”</em></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">So I’m gonna watch </p> <p style="text-align: center">From the corner right here,</p> <p style="text-align: center">Til the odds tell me </p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: Yellow"><em><strong>“Hero, there’s nothing to fear!”</strong></em></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p></blockquote><p></p>

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