S3 E25

Prince asks if there are any clothes for him

Gadon said he could get sorted out

Prince, unfortunately my funds have been chipped away at during this campaign

Gadon, Dwarven craft would set you back, unless you have something to trade

Prince has nothing to trade

Gadon, well then, you’ll have to shield yourself from the trial with your courage and virtues, like a proper dwarf

Prince, do I look like a dwarf?

Gadon, you will when you get to the top

Borum (Blim), introduces himself

Lottie, good to meet you Bottom

Sinead, hi Bobby

Borum, if it’s easier you can call me Blim

Blim, I’m coming with you

Prince, how many of us in our party?

Lottie counts everyone, five

Gadon, there’s six

Lottie recounts, oh yes, six, I didn’t count myself

Blim, hey Gadon, can I carry the book?

Blim has a plaited moustache

Stone armour, lightened to move around in

Leather, smelting tabbard

Massive camping rucksack with stuff on the side

Pair of goggles around his neck, brass detailing

Mechanical crossbow, folded down one side of his pack

Toolbelt with hammers

Boots ready for the snow

And a warhammer at the bottom of the pack

Gauntlet mitts

Gadon leaves and arrives before, with no change, except he has a massive tome

Re-enforced and sealed edges

Blim, where’s your supplies?

Lottie stretches, all you need for a small trek

Blim, cant help but think those things will freeze off in the cold

Sinead, if our friend Brigadier Prink

Gadon, it’s against the rules if he flies up the peak

Blim, are you short in the beard, Prince?

“Greta” appears in the cave with Brink and Henri

“Greta” has a lot of make-up, it’s well done but over the top

He travelled here with a princess of Hygard

Brink asks questions

“Greta” description, metal wearing fluff underneath and it’s boofing out

“Greta” met a dwarf and they assured they could take us to the peak, because they live underneath it

Brink, do you know the way to the peak? Or through the cave?

“Greta”, no clue, do you?
Brink, no, our guide went away but he hasn’t come back

Henri, I feel much better now

She has her wig on and has done her make up

Henri, you wear make up too “Greta”

My name is Henri Mainprize

Bletsian Brink

Henri, we were here with a big group but they died or left us

Henri, Prince nearly died, but then he didn’t die

“Greta”, you came here with a Prince? I came here with a Princess!

Henri, is your first name really Handsome? Bit of a gamble to call a baby that

“Greta”, guess they had a bit of faith I’d turn out all right

Henri, you mentioned decorating this cave a bit, brink?

Brink, I don’t think we’ll make it very far, just another corpse in the snow

Henri, can’t come all this way to die, not like this

“Greta”, yeah fames all right, if you’d rather not die I can splash some alchemy, I can make potions

Henri, like Jinx?

“Greta”, you don’t drink that!

Brink, it’s external only

“Greta”, still got a few on me, didn’t know how many crossbows it’d take to take out, turns out helps with the cold as well

Brink, if you are prepared to help us with that

“Greta”, if I have none when the we see the Princess then you’ll have to tell her, that’s upsetting

Henri, I think I have some jerky left, I might have bit one end

Brink, what pronouns do I use?

Henri, oh either, but she is flattering

Brink, okay

Henri, but I do have a penis

Brink, yeah I noticed

“Greta”, I dunno how long you’ve known each other but you’re moving fast

Henri, well there’s this thing that if you’re cold you take off your clothes to get warm

They drink the potion that “Greta” gave them

Henri, thanks, here have some jerky

“Greta”, I won’t say no to that

The potion is thick, then gritty, and tastes of honey

Brink, we’re going to the peak

Henri, I think there’s a dragon killing sword

“Greta”, that’s not my style but it does sound good

Brink, perhaps you can ram it through the post you’re holding

“Greta”, yeaah

Brink, you sure you can’t navigate through the cave?

“Greta”, you sure you not seen a Princess?

Brink, no

Brink, Chui, our guide, went up the mountain and didn’t come back

“Greta”, the mountain is as good as anything

Brink, well we were going in the right direction before

They decide to head to Gearberg

Brink, we can go back to the path and go that way, maybe we are not that far away

Brink, Chui reckoned we were one day away at tops

Henri, it’s always one day away, I don’t like it here

“Greta”, gotta get my coat

Brink cleans up the scraps in the cave and they gain two days worth of fuel

And they have four days worth of food, probably more because there is only three of them

“Greta”, where we off?

Brink, this way to Gearberg

“Greta”, AY AY!

Brink, maybe don’t shout so much there are things out here that want to kill us

“Greta”, tells em to keep away

Brink, good point

Henri, I like that attitude, yeah we better not be too loud (says loudly)

Prince, Lottie, Sinead, Badon, Grumble and Blim begin to climb the peak

Lottie takes a stumble up the stairs, she scrapes her knees and they begin to bleed

She talks of the view, she can see her house, and Prince’s house and Blim’s house

Blim thinks she’s gone soft

Badon thinks that’s the quickest he’s seen, they haven’t got up the peak very far

Blim helps Lottie up and wraps up her wounds

She falls again up the stairs

Prince brings forth some healing in the shape of angels that struggle to reach everyone, they wisp about in the wind

Lottie gets some mysterious strength back as well

Lottie, can you see angels in the snow? Not snow angels

They continue up the peak

Sinead says that Lottie isn’t compelled to go up, she can go back down

Lottie responds that there’s a Princess and a Prince, she is compelled to go up

Brink, Henri and “Greta” head in the direction of Gearberg

But they don’t know the way

“Greta” don’t want to be walking through the night like

Brink, oh no, we’ll make a fire and have some food

Henri, we can struggle up and keep warm, it’s necessary for survival, that’s what Brink says

“Greta” got a lot of insight there Brink

Brink, my family are from the North, not this far but still North, important to know these things, how I know of the trial of the peak - children’s story

“Greta”, you heard it from a book, dwarf book

Brink, Gearberg is a dwarven mountain

Brink, what is her name?

“Greta”, Princess ain’t it, Sinead

Brink, she is the daughter of Queen De’ath?

“Greta” didn’t think to ask

There was a group of us, spider hunters of the big sort

Brink, the Weaver?

Yeah, that one the one! One of them that done her in

“Greta”, yeah was me “Sammy”, golem got a bit quiet so he didn’t feel like coming with, plenty of us, just trying to remember why the rest didn’t want to come, my gnome mate rested in a pub somewhere

Henri, the North is horrible

“Greta”, I think Jack went West, Jack the Slayer, one of the group

Brink, it is impressive to have a killer of gods with us

“Greta”, bad on my reputation if I can’t kill a dragon - trio of god slayers can take that down

Henri, it’s not a god it’s just a big lizard with wings, I ain't scared

“Greta” gonna take a lot of hits

Henri, Chester, he died, Chester told me not to jump on the dragon, Prince told me not to

This sword of the peak - What if it’s a sword so big we have to pick up a bit of it together

“Greta” let’s find it first

Brink, yeah could be a stick with nails in it

Prince, I admire you being strong, but relying on others is also okay, not to rely on others

Sinead, only one of us needs to make it but I’d rather it was everyone

Prince, I too would like to see this

Sinead, I am sorry there isn’t more I can do for you Prink, just turn back if you have to

Prince, like you, turning back is not an option

Gadon, Oh I remember this leg, that’s when the trip because a trial

The steps begin to be less and less and then it is climbing

Lottie says she has no ropes

Borrum has ropes

Lottie wonders if they will all be tied together

Gromble is breathing heavily occasionally

Sinead is storming on

The air gets thinner

Brink, Henri and “Greta” find a dug in lean to

“Greta” fucking hell that’s proper magic like, couldn’t you just melt all the snow

Henri, she can burn everything when there is zombies

“Greta”, you get stronger when you’re near zombies

Brink, no, it was lightning

“Greta”, sounds a bit witchy

Brink, we don’t know if it’s a sword, maybe it’s a sword

“Greta” , I think sometimes it’s a lance in the books

I’ll use the fucking mountain to kill the dragon if I could

Brink, strength of mountains

Henri, that’d be good !

Henri, maybe we get everyone on the mountain and they all fall off and become zombies and then they all fall on it because your hands are full

“Greta”, could work

Brink is playing her sword, it is discordant sounding

Henri, acquired taste

“Greta”, ah she aint a witch is she?

Henri, nah she’s not a witch

Brink, I’m not a witch, why would you say this

“Greta” witches go wrong don’t they

Brink, I get my magic from my God

Henri, I can’t explain this one

Brink, the clans that live to the north of hygard, it is an old god, one of the first men

“Greta”, I’ll look it up when we get back but for now, I think you’re all right

Brink, I gave you your food, and the fire

“Greta”, it’s true. The stories are sometimes a witch with give them food and make them round, it’s books ain’t it

Like this trial, books tend to be based off something somewhere

Brink, yeah look at the dragon

What can it take you to believe that I’m not a witch

“Greta”, you do some weird things time to time and it’s a slippery slope to being a witch

Brink, like you come out of the cave claiming you’ve lost a Princess

“Greta”, you’d have to fubbing kill me if I was a witch, if you’re both saying she aint a witch

Henri, how long we known each other brink

Brink, about a week

Henri, yeah I know that she isn’t a witch

“Greta”, good

“Greta”, this don’t seem like the right way

Brink, we know we are travelling towards Gearberg, this route, let’s give it ten minutes

They met a dwarf with a crossbow

Brink, could you lead us the way

Dwarf, I’ll lose my food

Brink, we have supplies, you can have some

Dwarf, all right come with ya

Henri, don’t mention the rat

Brink is walking with her sword

Dwarf, you know you were walking in the middle of no where

Brink, we don’t know, no, we were doing our best and everyone abandoned us

Names’ Gub

Brink, without this we may have been dead

Gub, yeah I think you would ‘ave

Henri, we made this bit by ourselves, everything else left us

Gub, you were going well

Brink, we came from Frosthaven

Gub, no you didn’t

Brink, we did

Gub, you’ve been walking for a week

Henri, yeah

Brink, once you are sorted we will pay you by going on a hunt with you

Gub, eh well it may come to it

Henri, well I don’t some much track stuff down, I get tracked and I kill those things

Gub, like bait

Henri, no I don’t go and find trouble, it finds me, I don’t go on the wagon tracks

There’s a bear on the wagon trial, okay louise

“Greta”, then what?

Brink, we ae coming via Gearberg but we are looking to transverse the peak and take the trail

Gub, ah you’ll find some one there

Brink, what is the trail

Gub, ah the question! It’s all down to why you’re doing it, it’s a trial yeah

Henri, we could ask for the dragon sword

Brnk, or the dragon to be dead, no I want to kill it

Brink, do you know about the dragon and Igneon

Gub, you been saying this since your week long walk in the snow

Brink, yeah I know it sounds mad

Gub, you’ll have to speak to the council, you’ll have to do that anyway

Henri, this is a crazy journey!

Gub, I know you should be dead

Peaks emerge through the roaring winds, its a huge peak, Gerberg has a wide set of ornate steps going up to a big engraving set into a doorframe

Henri, hey Greta, I don’t think you could pick that mountain up even with magic powers

Brink, maybe youre Princess will be in there too

Greta, Id hate for cold to happen to her

Brink, let’s get inside

They head up the stairs, Gub knocks, the door goes and there’s two different clockwerk guardians

Gub, eh that’s right you!

They travel within

Brink, do you mind if I lean on you Henri

Henri, no problem

Greta, yeah I’ll help

Brink slumps against them

She is suffering but stoic

There are more golems than dwarves, Gub dons the bell and eight dwarves walk in

Brink sits wrapped up in a blanket on the bench

Gub brings a torch and puts it close

Dwarf, right then what you here for

Brink, warn Gearberg of the dragon and climb the peak

Dwarf, why you have to say something complicated as a dragon, that’s not real, peak is real

Henri, we wouldnt have come all this way for anything less than this important

Dwarf, well you’re clearly close to death so if you want to do the trial you better stay the night

Brink creates an image of the dragon, this is Igneon, it is real, it is claiming to be a God of the mortal plane

Greta, it’s not actually the dragon in her hand, it’s much bigger

Henri, yeah it’s not small enough to step on

Brink, we wouldn’t have come all this way on just a story

Dwarf, I’ll volunteer to go up with them

Brink, Greta was looking for a Princess too

Dwarf, no first we’ve had in months like

Brink, you say we can stay the night, that is okay?

Dwarf, you’ll have to pay or out

Dwarf, you said you’d go up with them, I’d say that you’d offer your bed

Dwarf, I didn’t say that

Brink, we can pay for a bed, I don’t think I have much

Brink slams the bell with her weapon, a call to the Horned God

They pay for beds and showers

Greta, I’m so sorry, I think someone walked off with your sword

Brink, oh no, it’s does that

Greta, what it walks?

Brink, no it disappears so it can’t be stolen

Sinead and Gadon are struggling with the climb

Gadon makes it

But Sinead does not

Blim catches Sinead

Grumble can’t make it up a steep bit, you’ll have to do it without me, I won’t make it on my own

Grumble slumps against the cliff and goes down

Blim looses his rope and it goes up into the clouds

It burns to move, it burns to breath, we cannot see beyond

They break through the cloud

Sinead flops over the side of the peak

She has blue frosted lips

The top shelves off, it’s craggy at the top, still a ways up

There is a large orb of thick ice with steps going up to it

Blim takes off his goggles, oh god

Gadon, well I guess we’re here then

Blim gives a stimpack to Sinead (large dose in the neck)

Blim, there, there, we’ll get you there

Sinead takes a sharp intake of breath

Sinead rolls her head to him

Sinead, thank you Bobby

Blim, you’re welcome skin-head

Sinead pats his shoulder

Prince looks upon the orb and down at two large creatures with their antlers and their glowing eyes

A pair of t’wes’kwes, with large metal collars they are chained to the steps

The orb above is pristine, thick ice

Prince can see the orb has an enormous hole in it

Like something has punched a hole in it

Something was inside and got out, it is ruptured from within

Prince, maybe what they we were looking for has been and gone

Gadon points up the steps

Blim goes to stand with Gadon

Lottie points at the ice, it looks like a throne, don’t you think

There’s a king and a queen (points at the Yetis)

Prince, I’m not sure what you mean

Prince, perhaps it is not a trial, a battle

Lottie, we do a feign attack, you and I, and Sinead runs for it

Sinead, no we should see if they are not aggressive

Sinead runs for it

Prince freezes a bit

Lottie readies her crossbow

Sinead gets dangerously close to the Yeti, they pull at their collars

Heavy footsteps with a hand out to them

She steadily passes out but belts out her sentence

“I am Sinead, first princess of Hygard, I have beaten your fucking challenge, I am going to save everyone back home, so stay back”