Back to School

Back to School is an encounter in Melody of the Maze. It comes after Anger Management, A Slight Misunderstanding, or A Tale of Two Tullians.
==Enemies==
*Master Sentinel (1100 Gold, 120 Xp, 75 Energy, 5 HP Normal, 6 HP Hard) 
*Master Pyrelord (1100 Gold, 120 Xp, 75 Energy, 5 HP Normal, 6 HP Hard)
*Master Assassin (1100 Gold, 120 Xp, 75 Energy, 5 HP Normal, 6 HP Hard)
==Transcript==
===Introduction===
The beastman leaps from the shadows, roaring his challenge as his axe slashes at your face.
You dart aside from the blow, letting the deadly blade cleave nothing but air. Before the creature could recover you run him through with a quick thrust of your sword. His eyes have time to widen in shock before his body becomes first vapor and then nothingness.
"Careless," a man's voice says, in tones that seem as cold and clinical as the point of a dagger. "You should have heard him coming."
"You attack was clumsy," another man says. His voice is firm and strong, and brings to mind a castle's ramparts. "A skilled foe would have seen it from a mile away."
"And why didn't you have any protective wards up?" a woman's voice asks, each word soft but bearing a subtle throb of power. "Have you forgotten everything I taught you?"
Three figures emerge from the darkness. There's a man decked out in shining plate armor, bearing a sword and a shield which look to have been freshly polished. Another is a woman, dressed in the neat and stylish garb of a pyrelord. Her red hair rises above her head like a tongue of flame. The last of them seems to slip from the shadows as though spawned by the very darkness itself. He wears the death-promising black of an assassin.
Your family's grandmasters.
"Is this whole place just a glorified version of those dreams?" you ask. "The ones where I remember I'm late for one of your exams, and haven't learned the things I'm going to be tested on?"
"That remains to be seen," the armored man says.
"At least you're not naked in this one," the pyrelord says. "Those are embarrassing for all of us."
"But there is going to be a test," the assassin says.
===Conclusion===
Like most children, you often nursed violent thoughts about your childhood tutors and instructors. Though as you grew up you recognized their worth, and were glad for the rigorous training they put you through, you never quite forgot the desire to punch them in the face.
So it's with something of a feeling of catharsis that you run your blade through a chink in the armored warrior's panoply, throw a knife into the assassin's neck, and pierce the pyrelord's skull with a lance of eldritch ice.
Three explosions later, you're left alone with a warm feeling of self-satisfaction in your breast. Every schoolboy should have a chance to kill his teachers, you muse.
Category:Melody of the Maze