NSP: Well, now I’m writing for NeS, Knight's tale, and Massassi temple (if Phoenix ever gets back), but I’ll see what I can do with this.
Serge looked up at the sign. It read:
"Through one may you enter,
Though through none may you return.
One will lead you to the weapon you seek,
Though the path is perilous and long.
One will lead to back to your home,
Never to return to here.
The last shall lead to death,
Quick and sweet.
These doors hold their secrets,
In the ever-changing sand,
For one with the power
To see into their minds"
"Well, it seems like I’ve got to chose one of these doors, but which? If I listen to the riddle, then one will kill me and one will send me back home, never to return, though how it's going to stop me I don't know. So I’ve got a one in three chance of getting to the Ultima blade, and even then its supposedly going to be hard to get it even after I get the door right. I don’t like those odds".
Serge paces back and forth across the sandy floor of the room, thinking hard. "These doors hold their secrets, in the ever-changing sand. What's that supposed to mean? What sand? Serge stops then, and looks down. "Well, don't I feel like an idiot. But how am I supposed to get the secrets? Maybe if I try digging around the doors..."
Serge goes in front of the far-left door and begins digging in the sand. Soon he feels a hard, flat surface. He then pushed all the sand away from it until he uncovered the whole top of the object. It seemed to be a block of cold stone, which Serge couldn't budge. On top of it was etched the image of a scythe. "Well, I think I know what that stands for. Now to see if this is the same for the other doors."
After about 15 minutes, Serge successfully uncovered the stone blocks in front of the other two doors. The door in the middle had the picture of a ******* sword that looked suspiciously like the one he left at home. The one on the right had a carving of the Ultima Blade. "Well, it looks like I’ve uncovered the door I need to take." With this he opened the right door. Suddenly, searing light poured out, and Serge experienced a feeling of incredible acceleration.
"Wait, what is this? Oh, no! It’s a portal! What about the Ultima Blade?" He thinks, speech being impossible at the moment. After a matter of seconds, Serge materialized a few inches above a grassy field, which he promptly fell onto. He got up and turned around to see the unmistakable curving arches of a portal.
"Damn it. The stupid riddle tricked me. I have to get back to the shrine." He then ran back to the portal and jumped through to land... on the grass on the other side. "Well, I guess that riddle was truthful about one thing. I can’t return this way. But then again, I'm not back home and I'm not dead, I think. So where am I?" Serge took in his surroundings, which mostly consist of a grassy plain stretching to the horizon, except for a forest far in the distance in the direction of the sun, which looks to be rising. "Well, that seems like as good a direction as any." Serge said, and with that he headed off.
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"No good can ever come from staying with normal people"
-Outlaw Star
"Some people play tennis. I erode the human soul"
-Tycho, Penny Arcade
"I'm a Cannabal-Vegitarian. I will BBQ an employee if there is no veggie option"
-DX:IW
A Knight's Tail
Exile: A Tale of Light in Dark
The Never Ending Story²
"I consume the life essence itself!... Preferably medium rare" - Mauldis
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