BarbecuedWaffle Lore

# **The Saga of Barbecued Waffle**

In times long past, there lived an alchemist's apprentice by the name of Barbecued Waffle. Barbecued lived in a place called "Alchemy Tower" with his master. He spent his days learning about alchemy, and caring for his master. One day, his master was feeling terribly weak, and asked Barbecued to go fetch him his medicine. Upon opening the cabinet where the medicine is stored, he noticed that they were all out! He rushed to his master and informed him of the news. His master responded gravely "Then you must make the medicine". He then handed Barbecued the recipe, and watched as Barbecued began the brewing process. When barbecued was finished, he poured it into a bottle and handed it to his master. His master drank the concoction, but nothing happened. As his master began to die, Barbecued frantically looked for what he had missed. However, his efforts were in vain, and that night, his master perished.

### **The Aftermath**

Barbecued was stricken with grief. He spent the next week in a fit of despair, not eating or drinking anything. One night, when he was wandering the mountains, wishing for the cold to claim him, he stumbled into a hole, and fell into an ancient ruin. When Barbecued came to his senses, he looked around and noticed an inscription on the wall. The inscription was in an ancient script, but Barbecued had been taught to translate this dialect. It read of an ancient lost way to achieve immortality, and become a living god.

### **The Obsession**

After reading this text, Barbecued became obsessed with the idea of living forever. He spent many years scouring for clues on how to do it, but to no avail. One day, he caught wind of an ancient ruin, that had been there before time itself. Barbecued was skeptical, but he investigated anyway. The temple was, in fact, real, and while searching the ruins, Barbecued encountered a hidden chamber, and inside it, many different scrolls. They held various secrets, such as recipes for concoctions that can rot a mans body, heal it, or hide it. But in the middle of the room, sat a dusty leather scroll. Inside were the blueprints for a clock, that when in one's possession, could make the holder immortal.

### **The Gathering**

After acquiring the blueprint for this clock, Barbecued spent the next year and a half gathering the items required to create the clock. Soon he had gathered all but one of the items required to make it. He needed a blessed item from a God. He went to many places of God, asking for a blessed item, but everyone denied him, seeing the broken madness in his eyes. Soon Barbecued could take no more of this. One night, he broke into a church and stole the blessed book of God. What he didn't know, was that he had invoked the wrath of God. The next morning, he began to create the clock. It took him from that day's dawn to the next day's dusk, but soon the clock was almost complete. But before he could finish it, God appeared before him, and cried out in anger, " You DARE to steal my blessed book?" Barbecued pleaded with God to allow him to finish, but God was beyond reason, and in his anger he uttered the words "You want to become immortal? Then you shall, but your body will not change", and with those words, he cursed Barbecued and grafted the incomplete clock to his face.

### **The Curse**

The Curse affected him in many different ways, such as that his body would not age, but it also would not heal itself. This meant that any injuries Barbecued sustained would never heal. After many decades of this curse, his body had been damaged beyond repair, forcing him to replace his left arm and heart with clockwork. Another hundred years passed, and he could find no cure for his curse. All hope seemed lost, that is, until he caught wind of a place of extreme magic called "Iaddithis".

### **Iaddithis**

When Barbecued made it to Iaddithis, he arrived to encounter a strange sight. All around Iaddithis, there was a magical reality warping barrier that surrounded the entirety of Iaddithis. Intrigued by this border, he began construction of a tower to study this anomaly. The tower was reminiscent of the one he spent his time as an apprentice, and as such he named it "Alchemy Tower". But while he had been searching for a cure, the art of alchemy had been forgotten, and Barbecued decided to help bring it back. He also helped a drunkard by the name of TheKoolaidKat by giving him a purpose, and helping him found a nation.

### **The Search**

Once others had the knowledge of alchemy, he turned his sights back to finding a cure. While doing this, he attempted to contact another cursed individual by the name of AURider, but all contact attempts failed. Barbecued was on his own. One day, he found himself in the possession of a bandit's journal. Inside this journal, there was mention of a cursed sword that could remove the curses that plagued others. As his searches for this sword turned up nothing, he forgot about it. After this, he helped TheKoolaidKat found a town, and soon after a nation. This nation was named Vereinight, and promised to protect its members, and provide them with friends and a home.

### **The Sword**

Then one day while visiting a friend by the name of Thecraftgerm, he found the cursed sword lying in a chest, gathering dust. He requested to buy it, and Thecraftgerm agreed. He was on his way home when he was pushed into a hole by Thecraftgerm, thinking he didn't have it on him. As a result, Barbecued lost the only lead he had on reversing his curse.

As of right now, Barbecued Waffle's curse has not been reversed, and likely won't be unless another cursed item is found. He was punished for his hubris, and that punishment haunts him to this very day.

(This lore is severely outdated, I intend to update in the next two weeks)