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“And how could one wrinkled old man who never gets off his throne except to grace the chamberpot an easy stride away defeat—destroy—a mighty band of adventurers, a-bristle with ready spells and weapons, in their prime?”#epic fantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 19, 2018
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“Wrinkled old…heh-heh. Did you never wonder why the King needs adventurers to fight for him in the first place?”
“Well; wrinkled, old, and so on.”
“That’s his shapeshift DISGUISE, dolt! Nay, the King uses proxies to fight…#epic fantasy…fer him a-cuz when he gets riled, he boils back into his true body: a Loathly Wyrm. That’s the biggest sort o’ dragon, fer you know-nothing green adventurers. He swallowed all of his Royal Champions whole, then shat out…#epic fantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 19, 2018
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…the bones all over the throne room floor. Took me two days to clean it all up, and scrub the tiles clean.”
“You?”
“Aye, me. I’m tougher’n’I look, you know. We transformed World-Serpents usually are.”
{THUD}#epic fantasy “Oh, now DON’T go wetting yer armor like that; rusts it like blazes! Just faint dead away, like HE did. I can clean fresh brains off these tiles in a trice, I can.”#epic fantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 19, 2018