{"id":1087,"date":"2025-09-12T21:27:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T04:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2025-09-12T21:27:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T04:27:57","slug":"prelude-the-duck-knight-of-the-misty-vale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/2025\/09\/12\/prelude-the-duck-knight-of-the-misty-vale\/","title":{"rendered":"Prelude: The Duck Knight of the Misty Vale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1090\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/splats01-1024x578.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"654\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/splats01-1024x578.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/splats01-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/splats01-2x1.jpg 2w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/splats01-700x394.jpg 700w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/splats01.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Splats Gleamhelm stood before the gaping mouth of the cave<\/p>\n<p>The cave where the troll had been spotted the previous night by the anxious onlookers who now stood a good distance behind him.<\/p>\n<p><em>Go on then, Splats,\u00a0<\/em>he thought to himself,\u00a0<em>what&#8217;s the worst that could happen, besides getting killed by a troll?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Upon entering the cave, Splats found it unusually well lit, for a cave that is.\u00a0 He didn&#8217;t need to light a torch or an oil lamp, it was lit as well as the morning was, just outside.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Boo,&#8221; said a voice ahead of him.\u00a0 It was the troll.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1088\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/splats02-1024x578.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"654\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/splats02-1024x578.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/splats02-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/splats02-2x1.jpg 2w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/splats02-700x394.jpg 700w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/splats02.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wasting no time, Splats took a defensive position as the troll strode toward him and proceeded to bite the young Mallard-kin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ack!&#8221; Splats exclaimed excitedly, then realized that his armor had taken the brunt of the bite.\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">The troll then gurgled and spit up a tooth and some foul liquid that barely missed Splats, but did piss him off a bit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Splats then took a couple of swings with his broadsword at the monster, connecting both times and visibly causing the creature some harm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Another couple of sword strikes by Splats, and the monster spit up again, this time the stench of the troll vomit causing Splats to waver a bit.\u00a0 The troll picked up Splats and hurled him across the cave, his armor once again saving him from serious harm.<\/p>\n<p>Now Splat was really mad.\u00a0 He picked himself up from the ground where he landed, charged the visibly weakened creature while yelling a battle cry, swung for a killing blow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1089\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/splats03-1024x578.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"654\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/splats03-1024x578.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/splats03-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/splats03-2x1.jpg 2w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/splats03-700x394.jpg 700w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/splats03.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and missed, his sword clattering to the floor between himself and his opponent.<\/p>\n<p><em>Shit, good thing no one saw that,\u00a0<\/em>he thought to himself.<\/p>\n<p>Before he could pick up the sword, the monster clawed at him, troll nails scraping against his armor, which protected him once more.<\/p>\n<p>Splats recovered his sword, slashed at the creature once, then twice, and the troll finally fell.<\/p>\n<p>Breathing heavily, Splats proceeded to check the troll for any treasure that it had, but found nothing but a rusty nail, which did actually poke and hurt him and later required a tetanus shot from the local healer.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>And thus begins the epic tale with the Dragonbane RPG system.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t touch that dial!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Splats Gleamhelm stood before the gaping mouth of the cave The cave where the troll had been spotted the previous night by the anxious onlookers who now stood a good distance behind him. Go on then, Splats,\u00a0he thought to himself,\u00a0what&#8217;s the worst that could happen, besides getting killed by a troll? Upon entering the cave, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[106,149,41],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dragonbane","tag-fantasy","tag-solorpgs","tag-tabletop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1091,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions\/1091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}