Choose Your Own (Viva) Adventure, conc.

Diary of a Viva Ninja: Day 33

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The Session has been going on some time…

You have toiled long and hard but your time of travails in the Place of Testing is nearly over.  The gruelling Duel by Wits and Cunning has been going on for over an hour and a half. You are dripping sweat and your pen-arm is trembling with fatigue.  One of the Examiners asks you a question and the words are unintelligible. Either someone cast a Spell of Confusion or you’ve experience ‘brain-fade’? Do you…

Ask the examiner to repeat the question?
Use a LUCK point to summon hidden reserves of skill and experience?
Use a Baffle Spell by showing the Examiners your visual summaries?

 

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The Three get up…

Time for the final question. You can hardly believe the Ordeal is nearly over. The Three get up and, holding hands and dancing around you with manic giggles, start chanting a gnomic riddle of fiendish complexity. Do you…

Hold your nerve and provide an answer?
Pull out your Map and search for an answer amongst its topographical clues?
Remember the dreaded Night of the Mock-mock, when you underwent a similar ordeal?

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You are told to wait outside…

You are told to wait in the draughty passageway while the Three decide your Fate. This is the moment of truth. A chill wind moans along the torturous corridors of this ancient citadel lined with the skeletons of those who failed, or perhaps, succeeded. Do you…

Do a runner?
Grit your jaw and await your fate like a brooding barbarian hero, contemplating how far you have come since being a lowly guttersnipe in Tanning-town?
Remember the wise words of the Wizard Campbell, who foresaw your journey in the Eye of Comparative Mythology?

 

The outcome … all depends upon your choices. YOU are the HERO. May the Wyrd of the Green Well be with you. 

The End?