Dante Higgenson

Dante Higgenson is a major character who appears in: Radiance of Visvara.
A valiant new generation hero.
==Synopsis==
=== History ===
Dante was the son of a human woman running for mayor in the racist town of Chill, who gave birth to him, not knowing that the father was a half-elf. She tracked down the father and dumped the child onto him, explaining the complications of keeping it as a politician in her city. The father turned out to be the famous Davril Higgenson, a bard and member of the West Side Boiz; he seemed to understand and agreed to keep the child and her secret, knowing that the woman could've just abandoned or killed the baby, but she'd decided to seek out its father. He called his son Dante because he'd just finished playing Devil May Cry and thought the name was pretty cool. To give the child origins he could be proud of, he told him that his mother was a good woman called Trish and that she died giving birth to him, not his real firstborn, Raoh. Despite Davril’s heroic deeds, many children who heard tales of the West Side Boiz widely considered him to be the weakest and lamest member, ultimately inspiring next to no youths. Nevertheless, Dante considered his father a good man and wanted to follow his footsteps of being a hero, beating bullies at school and protecting weaker kids. He’d continue to train mercilessly and he quickly became a member of his town’s guard in his mid-teens, due to his natural affinity for combat, although he’d still continue helping with his father’s music shop. When he reached adulthood, he decided to leave his hometown to travel the world as a paladin hero in an attempt to help good people from evil. He’d often be praised for his combat skills and good looks on his travels, alongside the fact that he’d stay humble and good-natured, but would also be met with mockery whenever anyone learned who his father was (since he was now dealing with the generation that had only heard about Davril through stories).
===Radiance of Visvara - Chapter 1: Here's the thing about earthquakes...===
69 years had passed since the fall of Doug Walker and the unification of Visvara and the country had entered an era of peace. In the capital city, Dorlomin, life continued as normal on a bright sunny morning, until the dark clouds overcast and rain started to pour, before a freak earthquake suddenly struck. In the city's outdoor shopping hall, a man was flattened by falling debris in front of everyone, causing widespread panic within there. One man, Dante Higgenson, was hit by some debris, causing him to stagger back-to-back with four other people, as more pieces of roof and concrete piled around them. A large section of the roof came crashing down above them, so Dante attempted to catch it with his raw strength, but was squished down by it. Panic continued as the rumbles showed no signs of ending, while the five strangers had been trapped in this hole. After several minutes, the earthquake finally stopped and the last pieces of rubble dropped. The five of them felt a light breeze from below, so they crawled through a small tunnel leading to the door to a flower shop they eagerly entered. With a moment to breathe, the travelling hero, Dante, introduced himself to lighten the mood, only to be mockingly called "squish guy" by the others, nevertheless, the tension of the situation had been lifted and they all started sharing a little bit about themselves: a teenage girl, April Turtleneck; an imaginative dragonborn, Roger Heart; an older, untrusting man, Geron Andur; and a burly woman, Queen Ember. They began exploring the shop for an exit, although Geron seized the cash register and stole GP 12, while April found a dead old man on the floor, killed by one of his own potted plants. Dante and Ember found a back door that led outside, allowing them to advance. The devastation of the city continued, but as they sidled in-between two destroyed buildings, they found three different paths, so they split up. Dante and Roger went straight ahead together, having found out they both know Davril Higgenson. It was a dead-end, but there was a small hole that Dante looked through. He saw nothing, but heard the cries of a woman, so he attempted to crawl through, but his ass was to thick and couldn't fit through. Roger tried to help by pushing him through, but just ended up groping him indecently. Geron caught up with Dante and Roger, with his underpants completely exposed. A snot-nosed kid walked up to Dante on the other side of the wall and asked him what he was doing, so he explained, causing the boy to grab his face with his snotty hands and pull, while Roger started pushing again, but to no avail. Roger pulled out his club and prepared to smash Dante's ass out, while he kicked and screamed telling him not to. He did it anyway, blasting him through the hole and making it wider for Roger and Geron to crawl through with ease. Dante was on the floor in critical condition, so the snot-nosed kid gave him his half-eaten lollipop that tasted unbearably salty and left a bad taste in his mouth, but revived him nonetheless. Suddenly, April and Ember walked through some gates on the other side of this fountain area, so they had a little breather. Geron demanded Dante give him his trousers, while April started begging for his shirt, since hers was covered in blood. He ended having to comply, because they were getting restless, so he was left with nothing but his tight speedo pants and his chainmail. The snot-nosed kid told everyone to follow him in-between another set of destroyed buildings, leading to a crumbled wall that was just barely climbable in the rain, so they started struggling their way up, find themselves standing before a river. The boy explained that the exit should be on the other side, so they all jumped in and started swimming across, with the boy hooked onto Dante's back. Suddenly a group of fish circled them saying, "ooh yeah, we're evil fish, ooh yeah!", because that's just the noise they make. They tried biting everyone, brutally digging into Ember and Dante, sending the latter into critical condition again. The boy started crying as Dante's willpower was rapidly depleting, so Geron grabbed him and dragged him across, while something brewed up within April, as she pointed at the fish and eldritch blasted them all out of nowhere. Everyone was stunned at her sudden ability to use magic, but the pressing matter of Dante had to be taken care of. Roger managed to heal him up and he was breathing again, much to everyone's relief. They walked up from the little riverside walkway onto the main street, where there was less damage, due to the better building foundation on that side. The snot-nosed kid thanked them all and ran off to find his parents, while the others collected themselves. Geron Andur lamented about how his journey hasn't ended here and he must continue to find a cure for AIDS, confusing Dante, since that seemed like a quest best done in a laboratory, but Geron insisted that one of the West Side Boiz could help, because they saved his father once and could help do it again. Dante then informed Geron that he knew Davril and could lead him to him as a start, prompting Roger Heart to join their little journey to meet with the hero. With the realisation that her home was now completely destroyed starting to properly settle in, April Turtleneck decided to join them as well with nowhere else to go. Seeing them all go, Queen Ember decided to tag along too.
=== Radiance of Visvara - Chapter 2: Tigers, Arachnids, and Ants===
The newly formed party stayed the night in Dorlomin with the other refugees to rest, but in the morning they immediately set off for Davril's house. The paths and roads had all been completely distorted thanks to the earthquake rearranging the landscape quite a bit, so they ended up going much further West than they had anticipated, ending up by the coast. They walked along and reached a bay, where they saw a town on the other side and began making their way for it, but they suddenly found a man washed up on the shore, so Dante went over to him and tried to help ask him what had happened, but he was too dazed to talk properly, but he seemed to have just come to from an all-night bender. Geron went to pickpocket him, but found that he had no possessions, but had a massive stab wound in his stomach that was almost as big as his cock. Shocked, Dante tended to his wounds and bandaged him up, so the man got up and thanked him, before asking for his name. He introduced himself as Dante Higgenson, which caused the wounded man to hold back a laugh and say, "as in Davril Higgenson? Tough luck, pal, we can't all be winners." He then took a couple steps forward and collapsed before saying, "oh yeah, I haven't eaten in a week." He then asked if the party could take him to the nearby town for help, but Geron and Roger weren't willing to do so without some form of compensation, so he offered to show them a magic trick, which sold them on the idea. A forest surrounded the bay, so the entered it and found themselves face-to-face with a talking tiger, called Chris Topher, that asked if he could eat the man, but Geron Andur had to say no, because he hadn't showed them a magic trick yet, so the tiger followed them, also wanting to see this magic trick. They then saw a lady with five arms... in a bag, so Queen Ember sneaked over and stole one only to find that it was an Arm Baby and that she was their adoptive mother. Enamoured by the strange creature she'd never seen before, Ember decided to adopt it, but Geron wanted one too, so he tried to mug her for one, however, having noticed one of her children were gone, her maternal instincts kicked in and she grabbed him by the neck, choked him, then threw him into a tree, before stepping and spitting on him. She left to look for her child, so the party moved forward without looking back. Suddenly, a figure began swinging from above them - it was none other than Spi- Arachnid-Man!!! He saw people in need and decided to escort the party to nearby village. Dante Higgenson tripped over a branch and was knocked out unconscious, but then he started levitating slightly and moving forwards, because a group of ants were carrying him to the nearby town for some reason.
===Radiance of Visvara - Chapter 3: Lirvad the Menace ===
The party continued their journey into the next morning, where they found a woman in the middle of the road, unconscious with a pen in her right hand and a blank name tag in the other. April and Roger wrote the name Mrs. Wiggle on the name tag, while Dante anticipatedly waited for a high-five to resuscitate her. She eagerly high-fived him and was back to normal, although shocked to find all her belongings gone, since Geron Andur stole them all. After thanking them and laughing at Dante for being related to Davril, she explained that she decided to leave her village in shame because she was meant to predict natural disasters, since she was the village druid (something she had a hard time convincing the Sigma Boiz of). She had come to the conclusion that she was either losing her powers, or the earthquake wasn't natural. Roger demanded her backpack, so she complied, since it was now empty and just as they were about to go their separate ways, a little boy stomped onto this scene bellowing, "the bloody village is on fire and is being attacked by bandits!" With the promise of a bowl of mints, the Sigma Boiz were convinced to join Mrs. Wiggle, which ended up being her actual name, to save the village. They ran towards it and saw the horrific scene, so Mrs. Wiggle called upon a rain cloud and put out the fires, which disappointed the bandits, but it didn't stop them from stabbing more people. Dante rushed in and chopped the head off of one the bandits, causing four others to ask who he was, but he had no intention of telling scum like them: unfortunately, Geron Andur and Roger Heart, from behind, shouted, "his name's Dante Higgenson", which caused them to burst out laughing, allowing Andur to rush in and sneak attack another bandit, killing them. Roger then told the bandits a funny story about how Dante nearly died from getting attacked by a fish, causing them to laugh even more, allowing April Turtleneck to more easily kill the rest. They then saw the mayor of the town dangling from a rope off of the edge of the church bell tower, so April tried to use an eldritch blast to shoot him down to save him, but he fell onto the roof and broke his back, so the bandits who were about to torture him from the bell tower had to retie him up, since they thought they just didn't tie it properly. Geron decided to shoot an arrow for the exact same reason, but he ended up shooting the mayor in the ankle, causing him immense pain, but the bandits thought it was an arrow he dropped earlier that came back up because it landed on a trampoline. April tried another eldritch blast, but it hit him right in his groin and it set it on fire, which the bandits thought was the beer he spilt off the edge of the tower that must've reacted with the match he used for his cigarette. Ditching this plan, April and Roger headed towards the front entrance, while Dante attempted to scale the church's wall with Geron on his back, leaving Queen Ember and Mrs. Wiggle to deal with the hordes of bandits that were on the streets of the village. April did a sexy dance to try and woo the bandits guarding the entrance, while Roger played a sexy tune. The guarding bandit's eyes bulged out and his mouth dropped to the floor as he howled and went "awooooooga!!" April managed to get them both into the church with her charm person, where they were faced with a bunch of bandits doing indescribably obscene things to the church's patrons. April shot out some eldritch blasts and Roger breathed out fire to kill the bandits, allowing them to clear a path and make their way up the church stairs. On the other hand, Dante rapidly ascended the church's outside walls by jamming his mighty hands into it and launching himself up like venom. At the top, they saw about three bandits with sticks and feathers prodding and tickling the mayor, while a massive man was sat down by the church bell. He fiercely stared at them and stood up, showing his immense size that was about two or three times as buff as Dante. He bellowed, "who are you?" at his two assailants, so Dante exclaimed, "I'm Dante and this is Geron Andur, and we're here to kick your ass!" Andur leaped off his back and sneak attacked, but as his dagger dug in, the massive man punched him directly afterwards, mortally wounding him, nearly putting him in critical condition. The massive man asked Dante for his full name, but wasn't given it, so Geron uttered, "Dante Higgenson", but to both of their surprise, he didn't laugh, instead, a mad grin formed on his face and he stared Dante down saying, "from your name, I assume you know Davril Higgenson." Dante confirmed that Davril was his father, which caused the man's grin to stretch even wider as he asked another question, "has your father ever mentioned the name Raoh?" Dante said no, so he finally introduced himself saying, "I call myself Lirvad, but Raoh is my real name, Dante," he then raised his great axe and swung it at him shouting, "FIGHT ME DANTE!!!" Shockingly, the axe nearly killed Dante instantly, so Geron tried to attack him, but pathetically missed. Dante managed to summon enough strength to get back up and run at him with his sword, but Lirvad merely sidestepped away to dodge the attack. As Dante fell to the floor behind him, Lirvad crouched down behind him with a massive grin plastered onto his face and said, "allow me to ask you another question, who's your mother?" Dante exasperatingly told him that her name was Trish, but Lirvad replied, "no it isn't, bro, because I bloody killed her! Guess how long ago!" Dante, confused and furious this man was painting his father as a liar, guessed "22 years ago", since that was how old he was and he was told she died from complications during childbirth, but Lirvad finally explained, "Nope! It was 69 years ago, when I was born!" He burst into a gleeful, heavy laugh after dumping an insane truth upon Dante that would mean that Davril lied to him about who his mother was and had hid the fact he had a half-brother somewhere in the world. Satisfied enough with what had transpired today, Lirvad called his men off and told them they were done there and began walking to the other edge of the church, where Geron jumped onto his back and tried to pull him back into the hole by the bell, but was too weak to get him anywhere. He was roughly cast aside, while Lirvad looked back and gave them one final message, "Dante, if you see our old man, tell him I'm coming for that bloody sword of his!", before jumping off the church tower and walking off with his bandits. The other bandits at the top of the church tower walked down the stairs and passed April and Roger saying, "good game" and "see you later." Upon reaching the top, April and Roger helped and healed up Dante and Geron Andur, respectively, while the mayor dangled from the rope saying, "joy to you heroes, who've saved our village, but Geron and Roger whispered in his ear saying that they were the ones who shot those eldritch blasts and the arrow, because they were coming for all the town's money. Dante thought it was counterintuitive to their mission, but didn't have the strength or mind to do anything, since he was processing what he'd just been told. Since the town was poor, the mayor was only able to give them GP 20 each, which Dante didn't even accept. When they reached the downstairs of the church, they met up with Queen Ember and Mrs. Wiggle, who'd come to a new conclusion that she clearly wasn't losing her druidic powers.
===Radiance of Visvara - Chapter 4: True Mayor's World===
On another day of travel, the Sigma Boiz make their way to Hobobobobonob, where Dante Higgenson and Queen Ember immediately started playing Go Fish, while Roger Heart, Geron Andur, and April Turtleneck went to the refuge bay. Later Geron Andur came up to them and asked Dante and Ember where Roger and April were, prompting them to point in two different directions. Dante pointed at the jail house, while Ember pointed into the woods, so Geron headed to the former.
===Radiance of Visvara - Chapter 5: Ultimate Old Ones from Ancient Times ===
The party managed to make it to Noitsnot, after four days of travel, where Dante, Roger, and Geron decided to get a drink at the nearby bar. They were greeted by four bartenders called Queggy, who were world-renowned for their skills. Geron asked for a vodka orange, but was shocked to find it was GP 20, so the Queggy with a gambling addiction offered to let him pay only SP 2 for each by beating him in a game of darts. Queggy won, but Geron coaxed him into considering a rematch, with higher stakes, Geron offered to pay SP 4 after the rematch, in exchange Queggy would make him pay full price and have him and his friends sweep the floors. The second darts game was intense, but Geron Andur's sleight of hand gave him the edge. The four Queggys opened a back compartment behind the counter, revealing a massive slingshot, and they made the vodka orange while being shot into the sky, holding the drink just outside the atmosphere for a second to make it "out of this world". They plummeted down and poured the beverage into four glasses and said, "SP 4 please." Geron was confused by the amount, but took them anyway and drank one of them instantly, before asking to take the other three home. The Queggys offered to put it in a can, prompting them to open up another side compartment, revealing a factory for cans that can only hold their vodka oranges. The four lab coat wearing Queggys got to work on making the cans, allowing Geron to take them home, but before he was going to leave they asked if they could take a picture, causing four more artist Queggys to come in and paint everyone in a photorealistic style. Roger asked for a simple Carlsberg, but they didn't have it, instead they had a Queggsberg, which was made in a refinery upstairs that had a glass floor you could look up at. Similar to Geron's order, he was given four pints of beer and was asked to take a picture. Dante Higgenson ordered a simple drink, but it was one of five drinks they don't do, which annoyed Dante because it was a simple request, but decided to order something else. After a little back and forth, he considered himself illiterate and asked the four librarian Queggys what was on the menu. After another small argument, the librarian Queggys thought that he wanted something off menu, so they asked the bartender Queggys to get the stuff. They descended down a cellar door, where they milked the barely articulate conjoined quadruplet Queggys into four pint glasses and gave it to Dante. Dante challenged Roger to a drinking contest, which Roger easily won, because Dante could barely get through one glass without gipping. April Turtleneck came in and tried the milk, before gipping after a single sip and chucking the rest, while Roger took a glass and poured it on the floor. Finally, Geron stole the final glass and chucked the contents at Dante, getting him all wet. The four of them left and went to the construction site, where everyone was given hard hats by the health and safety Queggys (except Roger Heart who already had one on). April used 'Mask of Many Faces' to turn herself into a female Queggy, while the others started cross-dressing as female Queggys, purely to see what would happen. The creepy incest brick-layer Queggys came up to them whistling and cat-calling, while the normal brick-layer Queggys told them to knock it off. The party made up this whole conspiracy that they were from Queggy-town and they'd been attacked by an Anti-Queggy union who mercilessly culled them. Horrified, the brick-layer Queggys gathered all of the Queggys and explained what he thought was true, uniting them all to fight back against the Anti-Queggy union (an enemy that didn't exist). As they all marched out of Noitsnot, the party looked at each other and talked about how they probably shouldn't have done that, nevertheless, they walked over to Davril's music shop, where Dante unlocked the door with a key from his old trousers that Geron was now wearing. He wasn't in and there was a letter on the floor from the Bearington Foundation;
"Davril mate,
We found something in the ruins in Taiko Karakita.
Get 'ere nar!!!
Jaoif Adergf, Bearington Foundation."
Dante pocketed the letter and they entered the living room. Roger explained to Dante that Davril was his idol and that he aspired to be just like him one day, in addition, he clarified that he'd pissed in one of the expensive guitars. Suddenly, the door opened and Davril appeared with groceries, shocked to see intruders, but his eyes teared up as he saw his son stood before him. He embraced him in a warm hug and declared he would make his favourite meal for dinner with his friends. They sat at the dinner table, while Dante introduced everyone: Davril was already familiar with Roger Heart and he scolded him for stealing his cloak and horn last time he was here, Davril also recognised April Turtleneck as the Bulging Stick's granddaughter. Geron Andur asked the West Side Boi if he had any way to cure AIDS, since his dad has it, but Davril just apologised for his circumstances and told him he had no way to cure it, however he did instruct him to seek out Sigismund or Ara. Davril finished cooking and laid down the plates as everyone started eating, asking his son about more of his stories, so they told him about what they were doing during the earthquake (specifically explaining why the others called him "squish guy"), but he then told his father that he'd met his own brother. At first Davril tried to feign ignorance, but his son vehemently pushed for answers on his past. With tears in his eyes and sorrow in his heart, Davril revealed the truth to his son for the first time; the woman, called Trish, who died during childbirth wasn't his true mother, in reality, it was a random woman he'd met at a nightclub in Dorlomin while working at The Chase. It was too dark and the woman didn't know what Davril looked like, but they had sex anyway. Davril left the nightclub thinking nothing more of the interaction as just a one-night fling, but several months later, a woman came to his house with a naked baby she was holding by its head. He brought them in and the lady explained that she was running for mayor of Chill, a racist city in the East of Visvara, but she had just birthed a child with elf ears that Davril agreed were definitely Higgenson ears. She left and Davril promised to keep it a secret, knowing that the woman could've just abandoned or killed the baby, but she'd decided to seek out its father. He called his son Dante because he'd just finished playing Devil May Cry and thought the name was pretty cool. Roger Heart was a little confused about how Lirvad had turned into a villain if he's the one who had a nice upbringing with both Davril and Trish, but he then revealed that Trish dying during childbirth was still true, it just wasn't with Dante. He tried his best to raise his son, Raoh, well, but being bullied so much just for being Davril's son awoke something evil within him and he wanted revenge on the world. He started calling himself Lirvad because it was Davril backwards and symbolised that he was trying to be the opposite of his father. Shocked by these revelations, everyone sat in silence, until Davril apologised one more time and told his son that, if Lirvad was back, Dante would need to protect something. He brought them all to his attic, where he opened a chest with a rapier in it - Delilah's rapier. Dante took the weapon and gave Davril the letter they found by his door. After reading it, he looked out the window and told the Sigma Boiz his adventuring days were over and that they should do that for him, if they were willing. With no other direction to go in, they agreed and stayed the night to recuperate. Before sleeping, April Turtleneck pulled Davril aside and asked if her grandfather had ever used magic, to which he said, "no, but he did have a magic dragon, but that came from the sword, not him." In the morning, Queen Ember told the Sigma Boiz she had to return to Vibe Island, because she was needed there, so they bid farewell to her and Davril, as they made their way to Taiko Karakita. After a safe journey, they made it to their destination at evening, where a man in a Bearington Foundation uniform stopped them and asked what their business was, so they showed him the letter, allowing them access through the cavern. They descended down, where they found an old man, who said, "I'm old!" He was Jaoif Adergf, although he'd sent the letter on behalf of Grizz Bearington, the CEO of the Bearington Foundation, and Bear Bearington's grandson. While leading them deeper into the caverns, he explained that the earthquake wasn't natural (a big reveal he was disappointed to discover that the Sigma Boiz already knew), but in fact was the result of a set of ruins that erupted out of the ground. It was seemingly a statue of three muscular Old Ones, but they'd apparently been petrified by Muck Fish in ancient times for trying to rebel against him. Unfortunately, Jaoif Adergf, being old, leaned on the statues in fatigue, only to get sucked into it, feeding the Old Ones and allowing them to burst through. They started posing and one of them announced that they were the new messiahs, with another saying, "messiah? I barely even know her!" They all laugh, while the Sigma Boiz and Grizz Bearington stood in fear. Grizz told the Sigma Boiz to flee, but they stood their ground and raised their weapons, urging Grizz to pull out his greataxe. They attacked them with great vigor, but they seemed completely unfased by their onslaught, with the strongest looking one grabbing Dante's greataxe, while he was slashing it down through his arm. Paniced, Grizz grabbed Dante and threw him into the others, pushing them back, then threw his great axe into a pillar separating them as the ruins came crashing down. They lit a candle and mourned Grizz's loss, before rushing out the cavern. When they got outside, it was night-time and they began hearing the cries of Bearington Foundation employees as the Old Ones ripped through them. They appeared again before them, chucking Grizz's limp body aside. The strongest looking one, revealing his name to be Kis, pointed at the Sigma Boiz, specifically Dante, and asked for his name. He refused to give it, but the others just started shouting it, stripping him of any anonymity. The Old One explained that Dante just caused them to notice that someone has extracted some of their bones and they want them back to be at full power, letting him live solely for that reason, although he vowed to come back for their lives one day. Dante, wanting to feel cool, said, "you're welcome to try, we'll beat you next time," prompting the Old Ones to start sticking their tongues out, puling their eyelids, and smacking their asses at him, while walking away and saying, "yeah, fuuuuuckk youuu, Dante!" With them gone, Grizz revealed he'd used his jetpack to soften the blow and that the Sigma Boiz needed to find the old one's bones before they did, before telling them he needed to go to sleep. The Sigma Boiz panicked, saying, "don't go to sleep you'll die just like in the movies," but Grizz didn't know what a movie was, so they corrected themselves and said play instead, causing the bear to get worried. He uttered, if only I had a vodka orange, so Geron Andur pulled out one of his cans and helped him drink it, resuscitating him. Grizz explained that he'd help try find the bones and he'd contact them if ever had any news.
===Radiance of Visvara - Chapter 6: Special K===
On their way to Hildanwar, to locate Sigismund, April Turtleneck noticed Springer, leader of the Wreckers, along the road. They greeted one another with great surprise and caught up a little with Springer reiterating what Acree had previously told her about not going back to Central Perk. Springer "secretly" told April, in ear-shot of everyone else, that he was sent to track down Subject K and bring him alive to the Bulging Stick. His search had brought him to this cave, so the Sigma Boiz offered to help him take down "Special K" as they were deeming him, but quickly grew tired of Springer's inability to tie his shoelace and his unwillingness to accept any help, so they just went in without him. They entered and found a bunch of moss on the ceiling, so Geron Andur reached up and grabbed some, only to have his wrist grabbed by a Mossy Boy, shouting "time to get mossy boys!!!". Three other Mossy Boys entered the room and prepared to "moss it up!", but Geron eagerly stopped them and explained that he wanted to become a Mossy Boy, so they huddled into a circle and discussed something, before lining up and handing the four members of the Sigma Boiz a pound of moss, before saying, "you have one minute. Moss it up." Geron Andur lathered himself in the moss, April Turtleneck applied the moss to her face like makeup, and Dante Higgenson wove the moss into his chainmail. Roger Heart struggled to think of what "mossing it up was" and after several moments of thought, he slammed it against the wall and burned it. The Mossy Boys awarded Geron, April, and Dante clumps of moss as a reward and as gifts for becoming Mossy Boys, however Roger's inability to decisively "moss it up" cost him his Mossy Boyness and his life. They surrounded him and closed in with knives. Dante tried to fake them out by going to attack Roger then attacking them, but they saw through his guise and retracted his Mossy Boyness. Roger burned the Mossy Boys, as one of them died tragically in Geron's arms telling him to "keep mossing it up." Enraged, Geron attacked Roger, but snapped out of it upon seeing the damage he'd caused. They saw a door at the end of the entrance that had stairs leading down to a moderately sized room with broken statues in each of its corners that were difficult to discern the identity of, due to the plants that had grown over it. In the middle was a shallow well that Dante jumped into it, without letting his Jordans get wet and splashed water on April, finding a key in it for the door before them. April, Geron, and Roger found a message on the door reading, "DO NOT PROCEED ANY FURTHER, LEST YOU BE AMBUSHED BY THE WOES OF A FIEND BEYOND YOUR OWN POWER!!!" They chose to ignore this message and use the key on it. Dante was still in the well, so they all pulled him out and didn't tell him about the door's message. Beyond the door was a set of stair leading down with a large steel tile at the bottom the same width as the hallway it was in. At the end of the hallway was a dark opening. Dante chucked a block of incense on it, but it wasn't heavy enough to test what the tile did, assuming it was a trap, so he just reached over to pick his block back up and jumped over it. April and Geron jumped over it with ease too, although Roger had just missed the edge and the ceiling opened up, revealing a compartment of spikes that slammed into him, mortally wounding him. Dante healed him back to health without taking him off the spikes, causing his companion even worse pain as he was pulled off of it, but Geron gave him a vodka orange to heal up. They then entered a room full of broken chains and, unlike the rest of the tomb, the walls had a scaly appearance instead of the stony one seen everywhere else. There was no visible exit, but there was a podium in the middle of the room with a bunch of tiles with marking on them. Geron, Dante, and Roger furiously tried to put the tiles together to form a picture without April's help, as she gave up instantly. They successfully completed the puzzle and began hearing mechanical whirring from the walls, but nothing had seemingly happened. They look back and the entrance had vanished and the walls were now rotating. Suddenly, two snake heads appeared at the North and South points of the room and they hissed aggressively at the Moss Boiz. The party attacked the snake with incredible power, until Roger Heart began rubbing moss into the snake's skin. Geron called out to the snake in thieves cant and discovered that one of the snake heads could speak it. It explained that it was originally just a snake with a birth defect that used the cave to store its thief spoils, but it had grown too large and had gotten stuck. They stopped fighting and the two snake heads revealed both exits to the room to them, mentioning that the mechanical whirring was just them making funny noises, because the tomb's puzzles had already been solved for years and the mechanisms didn't work anymore. The party asked the newly deemed "Moss Snake" if they'd seen anyone come in, particularly a serial killer, prompting it to mention that a very scary looking guy ran past him into the next room. If the Moss Snake was to be believed, Subject K was likely in the next room, waiting for them, so they cautiously entered the dark room. Wall lights erupted with flames successively from the entrance to the end of the empty room, revealing Subject K crouched down at the end on its own. Dante asked him if he could tie his shoelaces, but he just stared at him blankly, so Dante chucked him one of his Jordans and gestured to his feet. Subject K gathered that the shoe goes on the foot and it managed to put it on. Continuing,Dante gestured to his shoelace, so it began tying a knot with the strings, but not a full shoelace tie. Since Subject K wasn't exactly acting hostile and it wasn't understanding the common speak they were using, Geron attempted to use thieves cant, but to no avail, so everyone started talking in different languages trying to discern which one he could potentially communicate back to them with, but it just got overstimulated and started panicking, resulting in it shooting an eldritch blast at the party that only hit Geron, which April noted was very similar to her version of the spell, prompting Tarn in her mind to deny any association or knowledge of what they were fighting. Dante attempted to get his Jordans back with his rapier in hand and slashed at Subject K, but it caught him in an arm-bar and dislocated it. The panicked enemy began lashing out at the party, with Geron and Roger feeling bad, because it felt like punching an autistic kid going through an episode, conversely, Dante wasted no time attacking Subject K with all his might, eventually causing it to lose its mask, revealing it to be a woman. Due to Roger's innate misogyny, he relented his reservations about the fight, ultimately causing it to run away in fear after casting darkness within the room. They tried to pursue her, but were unsuccessful. They exited the room and berated the Moss Snake for not stopping the serial killer, which resulted in Geron and Roger deciding not to help free the snake and renounced its moss title by cleaning it off. The Moss Snake head that could speak thieves cant depressingly informed it conjoined twin that they weren't getting out the tomb, which instantly made Geron and Roger regret what they were doing, so they told them that there was more moss upstairs. They all began smashing the entrance walls down, allowing the Moss Snake to slither upwards and out of the tomb, feeling sunlight on its skin for the first time in ages. The Moss Snake thanked them and slithered away into the forest, while Springer gave up tying his shoelaces and just shoved them into the sides of his shoe, only to find that the Moss Boiz berating him for not noticing Subject K running right past him or the giant snake that just came out the tomb. Deeming the entire adventure completely pointless, the party walked off towards Hildanwar to continue their mission.
===Radiance of Visvara - Chapter 8: Sanctity of Heritage - Part 1===
The party made it to Hildanwar where the Roger Heart, Geron Andur, and April Turtleneck investigated a hole by themselves and eventually found Sigi's Moving Shed. When they climbed out of Sigismund's pit Dante was waiting for them. They explained what had happened and decided to follow the compass' arrow East, where they eventually stumbled upon a gold dragonborn man, they asked who he was, so he introduced himself as Crofty, but explained that he couldn't remember anything. Roger Heart was cautious around his kindred man, but the rest of the party cheered him along, until a tree behind them started cheering too. They asked the tree why it was cheering and it replied, "I was just cheering with the group." They then asked who the tree was and it answered, "I'm Grombo and I have a quest for you!" A forest fire had started not long ago just north of them, so the party agreed to help him with the forest fire and pulled him out the ground and ran North, where embers of the fire flickered around in the night sky. Roger realised that it had started in his home village, Leeds. They rushed in, where they found Roger's father, Draken Heart, the mayor of Leeds, bleeding out on the floor. Roger held his father in his arms, only to see dread sink into his father's eyes, as he realised that his son had returned just to witness the brutal massacring of their tribe. He weakly explained hunters from Chill had found the village and started a forest fire, before coming in to murder everyone. Roger and Crofty needed to stay safe as the last two men in Leeds that didn't have erectile dysfunction. With tears in his eyes, Draken let out his final breath, content that he at least got to see his son one last time before dying. Crofty looked down at him and said, "fuck the mayor of Leeds", before shaking his hand by his groin and then by his mouth. The party went to a nearby bar to save the booze, although a tension was rising between Roger Heart and Crofty. Suddenly, the Riddler of Leeds appeared and gave them a riddle, "what has three legs, arms, and feet, yet no hands?!!" The seemingly impossible riddle puzzled the party, until Dante said, "your mother", killing the Riddler instantly. They exited the bar, where they came face-to-face with a man with a menacing mask. A fight broke out between them and Roger Heart managed to get their adversary's mask off, revealing that it was Racist Nicholas Cage, the son of the mayor of Chill. Connecting dots, Dante realised he apparently has a second half-brother on his mother's side and revealed this truth to him. Racist Nicholas Cage was adamant about how being racist and evil was his whole unique, defining character trait, but Dante Higgenson and Roger Heart told him that he could change, so he did and became Peaceful Nicholas Cage. Realising the error of his ways, he got his team to collect water in their hands and put out the fire, but the massacre of Leeds had already been done. They left the fire with Nicholas, who revealed that his testicles were releasing an intoxicating gas that was making everyone delirious, and even now it was in effect, usually, Cage has his mask on to protect him, but his mask came off and was now siding with the party to get some Italian. They got together to go to a restaurant Cage knew off to eat and to get some assistance in their fight against the hunters from Chill. They put Grombo in a wheelchair and made their way there, where they met an old family friend of the Hearts, Fabio. He mourned the death of his friend and agreed to help them, furthermore, he reminded Roger that "fuck the mayor of Leeds" is slang for "honour to", mending the tension between the two dragonborn.
===Radiance of Visvara - Chapter 9: Sanctity of Heritage - Part 2===
Cage formulated a plan with the Moss Boiz to get into Chill and take down the hunters that sent him out to destroy Leeds. After a long discussion, they came to the conclusion that their best course of action would be to put Roger Heart in a cage then have Nicholas Cage, Geron Andur, and April Turtleneck carry him into the city walls since they were all human or passably human, since April could hide her elf ears with her hair, then have the other hunters in Cage's crew plant a bomb in the base, while the Moss Boiz distracted the leader. Roger Heart left all his stuff at Fabio's with Dante Higgenson, who waited for them to return.
===Radiance of Visvara - Chapter 10: Magic Kart 2===
The other Moss Boiz returned victorious and they all had a meal at Fabio's. Nat 20 Nicholas Cage told Roger Heart that he was still sorry for what he did to Leeds while working for the Krieg Hunters; It wouldn't in any way make up for what happened, but he wanted to give something to Heart, before they and the Moss Boiz parted. He pulled out seven tickets to the Minor Moteng Magic Kart Cup League that was happening later that night. Everyone got ready and departed to Moteng that night, where they got to the arena and took their seats, but then the announcer informed the audience that all of today's racers got caught in an explosion on the way her. Suspicious of the activity within the race, Roger, Dante, Geron, and Nat 20 Nicholas Cage stepped up to be racers, so that they'd be in the "line of fire" of whatever culprit was up to no good. They got to the racers lounge, where a gnome came in and gave them all a questionnaire that would influence what their kart would look like. The questions were: 1) What is your name? 2) If you were a Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavour, which would you be? 3) If you had a twitter.com handle, what would it be? 4) If someone ate your furthest left toe, what would you do? 5) What's the biggest thing you've put up your bum? Dante wrote: "1. dante 2. vanilla 3. DanteDoesMinecraft 4. give up 5. 4 fingers". The gnome took the papers in and immediately got to work, so the party waited in the lounge, until another racer walked in. He carried an air of superiority and looked down at them all, introducing himself as the returning veteran racer, Count Factula, who was preparing to race once again after a 69 year long break. The party huddled together and said "fuck Count Factula, but not in the "honour to" way - like actually fuck that guy." Not long after, they were called up onto the race track, where they were introduced to their karts. Dante excitedly stepped up to see his first, only to be told that his was the last one they got to work on and didn't have time to finish the blueprints, so he'll have to use an old one. He pulled out a triangular kart that Dante noted was similar to the podium his father used while working for The Chase. Everyone else got personalised karts and the roll for placement begun. Geron Andur was announced to be setting off furthest forward, followed by Roger Heart, Count Factula, Dante Higgenson, and then Nat 20 Nicholas Cage. Andur started off with a decent lead thanks to his starting position and his item that let him jump over the lava pit, but after passing the grey render, Gronchli II, Count Factula was able to take the lead and complete the first lap, despite everyone trying to kill him. When Dante finished the first lap, the first item he got was a Carmen summon, who would stomp on whoever her "curse" would currently be bumped onto. Dante passed it onto Geron Andur, who managed to catch up to Count Factula and give it to him, furthermore, Roger Heart got a Lewyn summon that would make him switch places with a random racer and he managed to get Count Factula, putting Heart in first place. Factula tried to give the curse to Ghost Rider, but after a small back and forth, the curse landed on Factula, who got stomped and his kart exploded - putting him in last place yet again. Keeping the race alive, the Moss Boiz kept on going and, through a combined effort of Geron, Gronchli II, and mainly Dante, Roger Heart was the next to be eliminated. Geron Andur and Dante Higgenson were neck and neck with Ghost Rider trailing behind, but at the very last moment, Dante failed his kart's question prompt that would've given him a little boost to finish first, making Geron Andur the winner. Andur, Higgenson, and Cage were given medals for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd respectively by the cup organisers and a night of celebration followed, but in the distant fiery roads beyond Moteng, a man emerged, approaching the city and seeing a newly printed issue of the city news for the morning, showing last night's race winners. The figure stabbed through the second place racer's picture and took off their hood - it was Lirvad.
===Radiance of Visvara - Chapter 11: The Eerie Sug Monad S===
The Moss Boiz went to a bar and celebrated Geron Andur's victory during Magic Kart. They messed about with apple bobbing and took shots together, until Roger Heart had to attend to Grombo Wombo, who started throwing up. Nat 20 Nicholas Cage passed out with Fabio, Guysidontthinkim Crofty, and Grombo Wombo, but the festivities continued. Suddenly, the bar door swung open and a cloaked figure entered. April Turtleneck ignored him and drunkenly told Roger Heart how sympathetic she was for all the loss he'd experienced over the last couple days, which just caused him to lament more about his troubles. Geron Andur walked up to the cloak figure and tried to do a cool handshake with his limp hand, but the figure pulled down his hood, revealing himself to be Lirvad. They all immediately snapped out of their intoxicated delirium and readied their weapons, but he was uncharacteristically weak. He sat on a chair and explained that he'd gone to Noitsnot to get Delilah's Rapier from Davril, but as he began his assault in his home, there was a sizzle and a sparkle, as a beautiful shirtless man entered the house and effortlessly shoved three fingers into Lirvad's stomach. As he pulled the fingers out, Davril pushed his son out of the way, telling him to run, so Lirvad listened to him and fled, carrying a weight disappointment in himself, realising that he was a coward. Furious, Dante went to punch his half-brother, but he effortlessly caught it and told him that they need to work together. Considering the supposed power of this beautiful shirtless man and Lirvad's ability to easily destroy them if he wanted to, Geron Andur believed in Dante's brother and urged the others to help, so they followed him out, beginning their journey to find this strange person. As they walked through the streets of Moteng, they began to hear a sizzle and a twinkle, triggering Lirvad, as he recognised the sound from the previous attack. He rushed towards the Magic Kart Track, so the Moss Boiz closely followed. There was a series of massive holes on the North side of the building that had been smashed through all the way to the infirmary, which was empty, even though Count Factula should've been there. Roger Heart looked at the giant beautiful man-shaped hole in the wall and noticed that there was a figure on top of the hills of the race track. True to Lirvad's word, the man was beautiful, with a juicy bum, shredded abs, perfectly sculpted shoulders, and perfect pearly white teeth like a military graveyard, however, the Moss Boiz had already once seen this man before - it was one of the Old Ones they met several days ago. The Old One held Count Factula by his neck and demanded to know where his bone was, but the question confused the vampire. Roger Heart stupidly announced, "oh, do you think he means the bone Sigismund gave me?" The question perked up the ears of the Old One who looked at them with a devilish grin. Now with their attention, Geron Andur asked the Old One why he was back, which prompted him to pull a puzzled expression and showcase that he couldn't remember who they were. Andur, then demanded that the Old One let go of Count Factula, so he did, dropping him into the lava pit below him, causing the Moss Boiz to jump down onto the track in desperation. Accepting the challenge to a fight, the Old One, Sug Monad S dropped down too and began slowly approaching after raising two dead racers from the past up to attack the Moss Boiz. The two undead creatures attacked Roger Heart and nearly killed him, if it were not for everyone else helping him back up to health and killing the monsters. Sug Monad S was approaching from a windy path on the right, that was connected to a larger circle, so Geron Andur, April Turtleneck, and Lirvad raced to flank him from behind, while Roger Heart and Dante Higgenson advanced to meet him upfront. After beating up another undead, Roger and Dante came face-to-face with Sug Monad S. Dante traded one of his daggers for Roger's great club and infused the weapon with his divine smite and a thunderous smite. While shouting, "this is for Davril!", he hit the Old One with an immense force, doing an amount of power he'd never unleashed before. The Monad flew back into the wall behind, causing a massive torrent of dust to blow out, but as it cleared, he casually straightened his back and asked with a chuckle, "who the hell is Davril?" Terrified, Dante stood in shock as the Monad punched him in the gut, forcing out a mountain of blood, before grabbing the collar of his chainmail and effortlessly chucking him over onto the other side of the track, landing face first in front of Geron Andur, who resuscitated a dying Dante. After hearing the thunderous commotion, Roger turned the corner, expecting to see a victorious Dante, only to find the Old One on his own. Sug Monad S eagerly approached Roger and gleefully asked for the bone, so he went into his backpack, but used his silent image to create an illusory bone that Sug Monad S' hand phased through as he attempted to grab. Angered, Sug Monad S kicked Roger Heart into the wall behind them, instantly putting him in critical condition. As he laid there dying, the Monad searched through his backpack and ate all of his food before finding the bone, which he immediately jammed into his stomach with a crazed laughter, causing him to glow with an ominous red colour. Meanwhile, Geron and Dante were forced to ignore Count Factula's agonising cries for help, as they knew Roger was alone with a god; they pushed a zombie into lava and made their way through a windy path to find him, then on the other side they saw Lirvad rushing up to Sug Monad S, while April Turtleneck tried to pull Roger out the way and help him. Lirvad managed to slash his greataxe into the shining Monad, but he just laughed and dislocated his aggressor's jaw with a swift punch, before throwing him into Roger and April. Sug Monad S then turned his severed body to Geron Andur and pulled the great axe that was still lodged in his body and threw it at him, severely damaging him, while he stood there laughing. Wounded, yet undeterred, Andur yelled out and charged forward stabbing through the Old One and slid down their back to get to Roger Heart and help revive him. Dante then tried to grab and hold the Monad in place, while the others escaped, but just started groping the enemy, nevertheless the others listened, although noting that Lirvad had apparently already fled and was nowhere to be seen. Sug Monad S extended all his fingers on his left hand and jammed them into Dante's stomach, creating five finger shaped holes in his body, causing him to stop groping him and slowly start to run away after taking immense damage. Roger returned to Sug Monad S, with three mirror image clones of April Turtleneck, and tried to use the spell hold person, which failed miserably, resulting in him being grabbed by the Old One, but to his surprise he said, "you're a funny little creature, you're coming with me." Showcasing his immense power, the Monad easily walked through the hill walls of the track, dragging Roger behind him and appearing on the other side. Seeing that he was trying to kidnap his friend, Geron also rushed back and snatched Roger away, greatly angering the Monad. Noticing this as he was exiting the windy path, Dante ran over to help, as well as April on the other side. They stood there in fear, yet determined to help one another, due to their unbreakable bond, so Roger requested to sacrifice himself, if his friends could survive, much to their shock. Geron Andur relented the idea and pulled him back saying the offer wasn't on the table, then the Old One proposed a new offer: that Roger Heart give him his hard hat and Dante Higgenson give him his one remaining Jordan. As soon as the words were uttered the Moss Boiz collectively knew that this "God" could eat shit, so they all ran away, distracting him with April's clones. On his way around, Geron Andur saw that Count Factula had made it out of the lava pit on his own and was limping his way to the exit. Being faster than the rest of his peers, he caught up and apologised, saying that Roger was in grave danger, which Factula took surprisingly well, as he considered Geron a trustworthy rival. He then told him to distract the Monad, while he got something. Andur put his faith in Factula and waited by the finishing line for Sug Monad S to walk through. There was silence for too long, unnerving the thief, but, after a few more moments, the thuds of a large beautiful man smashing his way through a wall grew louder and louder, until Geron Andur came face-to-face with the Old One. Andur tried to start a little bit of banter about how both of their jokes sounded like innuendos (Sug Monad S = suck my nads, and Geron = get on this dick), but it only caused him to lift a massive piece of rubble behind him with a smile and launch it at the thief, critically damaging into the floor, leaving him half dead. Roger caught up and chucked an apple into Geron's mouth, although it wasn't enough to properly heal him. A moment after, the rest of the Moss Boiz got there and were engulfed in dread, as they saw the Monad tower over a dying Geron with his hands in the air ready to smash down. As all hope was lost, they then heard a distant revving of an engine. They all looked into the dark hallway of the garage, where the sound of an incoming machine grew ever louder. With awe and spectacle, Count Factula burst through the garage's exit and used his vehicle's ability to drive and jump straight into Sug Monad S with immense force, while extending his hand to cast lay on hands on Geron, healing him out of critical condition. He blasted the Old One into the wall and held him in place, yelling at the Moss Boiz to run, so they did, with tears in their eyes and anguish in their hearts. For a moment, they looked back in horror as they saw the Monad squeeze the vampire's neck like a grape. The Moss Boiz didn't stop running until they were out of Moteng and were completely rattled by the entire experience, spiralling into despair about the unimaginable power they'd just witnessed. Geron took his dagger and cut his hand open saying, "I'm making a vow, I won't stop until I'm strong enough to stop that monster." Filled with vigour, April, Roger, and Dante did the same with their blades and put their hands together in the middle of a circle.
===Radiance of Visvara - Chapter 12: Fateful Clash of Brothers===
The party awoke in a brick-core cabin. They'd seemingly passed out in the forest and had been taken into someone's home, although, having just woken up, they were dazed and their memories were foggy. They noticed that their bodies were bandaged up and their clothes and equipment was on top of of a drawer on the opposite side of the room. The Moss Boiz started talking about penises and asked to see Roger Heart's because they'd never seen a dragonborn one before - they were impressed. They began to get changed into their respective equipment, while discussing who might have brought them there; April looked out the window and saw a man with a cowboy hat, an eyepatch and overalls chopping more firewood to put under a pot he was cooking something in, then saw him fill four bowls and carry them into the building. Not long after, the man came up the stairs into their room and explained how he found them in the forest. His name was Clint Southbrick and he informed the Moss Boiz that they'd been unconscious for a week and, in the mean time, the nearby town, Hill Valley had been taken over by a powerful villain called Lirvad. Hearing the name, the party told Southbrick that they were going to save Hill Valley, despite his warnings. They then asked if they could have ponchos to walk in with, so he showed them a cupboard full of cowboy hats and ponchos, so they all took a set. Southbrick tightly sealed four more soup bowls and gave it to the them alongside a flier with directions to the town for their journey. Look at the pamphlet map for Hill Valley, it had sunny skies and clean streets, but as they pulled it down for a comparison upon arrival, they saw a dramatic opposite with random fire and limb bodies scrawled across the desolate streets. Roger cried out to see if anyone was there and two small figures jumped out and said, "oooh, we're gonna get ya', we're gonna get ya'!" Heart tried to mediate the situation, but called them gobbos, even though they were dwarves, so they called him racist and pulled out a canon that they instantly fired. Geron and Dante were blasted by the canon, while Roger and April managed to dodge it and began pushing the canon from the front. Later the other two joined in and they flipped it as the second shot was about to be fired. It turned on the dwarves at the moment the ball was shot out. A massive cloud of smoke erupted from the canon with the ball and the two dwarves looked at the camera, covered in ash, blinking their incongruous white eyes, before crumbling to dust. They continued onwards into a saloon that was full of mean-looking goblins. Dante Higgenson walked right up to the bar and asked for a glass of milk, where the others got a milk tea. The bartender, that was two goblins stacked on top of each other, told them to drink their milk and leave, since they weren't welcome in there, so Dante grabbed the back of the goblins and tried to slam it into the counter, which he was only able to accomplish with Roger's bardic inspiration. The top bartender's nose was bloodied and the rest of the goblins pulled out bows and pointed it at the party, then began shooting. Geron and April leaped over the counter to safety, while Roger and Dante were shot a couple times before stumbling behind it. After some calmness in the shooting, Roger slowly raised his hands and explained that they came to take back Hill Valley from Lirvad. A buff goblin walked up to the bar and sat down, sitting at eye level with Roger. He inquired as to why they would want to kill Lirvad, so Dante stood up and explained his family history to them. Having shared the deepest woes of his life, the goblins empathised and agreed to follow him into battle, so they all marched to a large tower in the centre of the city, where a dwarf with spray painted ginger hair was chained to the wall. They offered to help him down, but he insisted that he do his job first, but before he could start, Roger took his pants off for literally no reason, nevertheless, his bum was exposed to the air and welcomed them to Lirvad's Pleasure Palace, then held up signs with drawings on them detailing the life of Lirvad. It was completely biased propaganda, although it clued into how he took over the town overnight, as he had acquired a clump of guntherite by accident and forced a blacksmith to make armour for him with it that he used to take over save Hill Valley. Roger leaned over to Dante and whispered that he's sort of starting to like this Lirvad guy and Geron Andur also mentioned how the propaganda was actually pretty good at winning him over. They freed the dwarf, Greg, and promised to give his wife, Idono, and daughter, Lisa, a message of a love heart sign, since they were imprisoned within the tower. Greg went to WHSmiths for some crisps. They ran in and found a casino, so the Moss Boiz prepared to investigate, but the goblins stormed in and started mercilessly killing the patrons as they ran in fear and cried out for help. Awkwardly ignoring the brutality of the situation, the party pressed on and found an elevator and a fire door exit that both allowed them to ascend the tower. Geron and April went up the fire escape and grew increasingly tired as they got higher and higher, while Roger and Dante took the manually operated elevator. Dante started pulling a rope by the side that let them go up, while Roger played "elevator music" on his horn (a piece that he was working on that Dante enjoyed). They were ascending for a while, so they just took the time to really talk. Roger and Dante shared their worries about Davril. Dante lamented that his father was likely to be dead, while Roger believed in his safety, bringing hope to his defeated friend. Immediately after, they started talking about their dicks and Dante complimented Roger's endowment, before claiming that his penis would be 10.2 inches big, if it didn't have a sharp left turn that he revealed bleeds a lot. A rolling pin by the elevator doors notified Dante there was someone calling the elevator a couple floors below, so he just let go and the two of them slammed into the ceiling and rapidly descended. Dante reached out for the rope and was able to stop it at the correct level, however still causing them both to slam into the floor. Geron and April looked at Dante on the floor laughing, while Roger was still face down. He weakly got up and said, "Dante, you're lucky you have a big cock." With them all in the elevator, Geron shared that his penis was 3.4 inches, although said that it used to be bigger in his prime, but also stated that 2 inches was big. As they ascended they each commented on Roger's fantastic ability to play "elevator music", while still holding a conversation, which he attributed to lots of practice. They stopped at another floor, where two women were waiting to go down, so they said they were going up to the top to fight Lirvad. They confirmed his location and the two girls said they'd just wait until they're done with the elevator. The final few floors were much larger than the previous ones and took a while to get to, so they continued talking about their penises, until they got to the penultimate floor and realised they didn't even have a plan, so they quickly put one together and exited the elevator into a hallway of goons. Roger convinced them that they were just friends of Lirvad from the Old One at Moteng, so they let them through. Lirvad's pent house was surprisingly empty, besides a moderate desk before a giant throne. All the outer walls were glass and the elevator was in the middle of the room. Lirvad's chair turned around as he was surrounded in darkness and Dante stepped forward. The two brothers started staring at each other, knowing a fight was inevitable. The room was quiet and the rest of the Moss Boiz could feel the tension between them, until they realised that both of them were children, as they started bickering and insulting each other without actually saying anything meaningful. It got worse when Lirvad revealed his penis was massive and that he'd been injecting it with Guntherite, so Dante started calling him "pebble-dick". Every time a physical fight was about to start either Lirvad or Dante retorted with something else, creating a vicious cycle. Eventually, Lirvad stood up and pulled the back of his throne revealing it to be a giant great axe that he swung at them, after their initial puny attacks did nothing to him. The majority of them dodged it, except for April Turtleneck who was mortally wounded by the throne axe. Roger Heart managed to successfully cast hold person on the barbarian, so they all just started whaling on him without giving him a chance to fight back. Eventually they pushed him into a wall and the rest of his goons saw the fight. One of the goons fully healed Lirvad while he was being re-held. They trusted Lirvad, since he was apparently tanking the damage without a word said (which was actually because the spell was preventing him from talking). They got in the elevator and began to descend down, but Roger Heart cut the rope and the all slammed into the roof and said, "it's going a bit fast int'it." They ripped off Lirvad's armour and Dante Higgenson started smashing his chest plate until it broke, while Geron Andur just took the helmet. Uneventfully, they killed him and walked back to rest, but then they noticed his body turn purple, as he got up once again, but, instead of rushing to attack the party while they were tired, he rushed down the elevator shaft and slowed down the elevator, so that his goons wouldn't die before crawling back up. He showed Dante a magic trick where he pretended to pull his thumb off, before proudly bellowing, "been practicing that one a bit." He walked back onto his throne as the Moss Boiz watched him and he explained that he was dying from Guntherite poisoning. The two brothers argued once more, but this time about philosophies and ideologies; Dante said that Lirvad was dying alone, because he had no equal companions and selfishness drove him to inject his body with Guntherite for momentary power, however Lirvad retorted that Dante's friendships and loyalties had ultimately caused him nothing but loss and sorrow. Dante attacked Lirvad's character, stating that he was a coward for running away from Sug Monad S, but his half-brother was quick to explain that staying both times would only get him killed trying to fight that thing, evident from how the Moss Boiz stayed and got a friend killed in the process, without even hurting the Old One, furthermore, Davril's instructions to run were probably something Dante would've followed himself in his situation. Lirvad, despite his proud voice remaining astute, was becoming visibly weaker, so Geron ushered Dante to leave him to die alone, while they headed for the exit. The two brothers looked at each other one final time, with a mutual agreement in their minds - that they were fated to end their relationship like this and no other way. In silence, they walked all the way down to the bottom floor, seeing that the goblins had killed all the patrons, as well as Lirvad's goons and the two women from earlier. They continued out the tower's entrance and took in the events of the night, until Roger realised that they forgot to find Greg's family, then they all lamented about how they didn't clock that the two women from earlier were probably Idono and Lisa. They entered WHSmiths and regrettably informed a happy-looking Greg that his family were killed, although lying to say that Lirvad had killed them. Greg took a knife and was about to stab himself, but Dante moved to stop him, but was headbutted and slashed at with the knife, as Greg rushed out the store in the rain. He fell down on his hands and knees and sobbed hard. The Moss Boiz crowded around him and tried to comfort him by telling him that his wife's last words were, "my husband, Greg, won't stand for this!" showing how they believed in him till the end, until they also started trying to reinforce the idea that they saw this by explaining in excruciating detail how Lirvad mutilated them. He called the Moss Boiz assholes for explaining that to him, so they took him into the saloon to help him find a new purpose with the goblins. Geron got them to join in on this story they were making up about Lirvad killing his family, so that Greg could maybe join them, but he wasn't interested in pillaging and stealing from villages. They exited the saloon and Roger Heart said that he could get his vengeance on Lirvad through his loved one, causing Greg to remember he had a father, Davril. Full of determination, he got his naked ass up and walked towards the forest before being tackled again. He was furious with the party for not letting him live out his need for vengeance or his desire to die, but Dante explained that Davril was also his father. Greg got up and agreed not to kill Davril, but confirmed that he was now going down a path of darkness before going into the forest alone. There was shock and horror at the monster they'd created and the Moss Boiz looked into the abyss in fear. Dante broke the silence and told the others that he wanted to go check up on Davril in Noitsnot, to know whether he died or not, but Geron needed to keep heading East to find whatever Sigismund was directing him towards in hopes of curing his father. Ultimately, they decided to part ways with Dante, while the rest headed East with Geron Andur, but they all went to WHSmiths to get great clubs that would connect them spiritually and got final drinks before a final goodbye, promising to meet up again another day.
==Gallery==
DanteHutcherson.png|Dante Higgenson (1st edition render)
2YearAni ROV.jpg|The Sigma Boiz in the Visvara 2 Year Anniversary Poster
Dante.png|Dante with his Jordans
MagicKart DanteHiggenson.png|Dante Higgenson's Magic Kart
DD5AnniversaryPortraits Dante1.png|Dante Higgenson in the 5th Year Anniversary Poster
==Trivia==
*Although it's not his real world namesake, Davril said that Dante was named after the main character from Devil May Cry.
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