Inside a dark hallway Look around for anything interesting. Stay in the dark while doing so
You shuffle along the hallway together with the golem, staying in the darkness the entire time. The hallway itself turns out to be very much deserted. You check both doors, opening them just a tiny bit and looking through the crack. On one end of the hallway, you can see another dark room through the crack. There are shelves and tables, but you can't see much else without completely opening the door. On the other end of the hallway you can see rather bright light through the crack of the door and hear the sound of fire and metal clanging.
In the crimson pagoda((Am I the only one that expected Lord Tomato would be a spy?))
"You seem an honorable man... fruit. I do not wish to kill you nor honestly do I wish to assassinate the good Lord. Unfortunately his presence alone is causing unfortunate ripples through other plains and I am, sadly, on a divine quest given to me by a god second hand to cease these effects. I am truly sorry."
Lightning bolt to the face!
[6+2->1+2] The man opens his mouth to say something, but he doesn't even get a chance to start speaking before a very large bolt of lightning leaves your hands. The bolt is more like a beam as it almost instantly hits him square in the face and favoprizes most of his head, going on and blasting trough the wall behind the man. As the beam dies away just as fast as it came into existence, the man's headless body stands there for a second with his staff rasied before it unceremoniously falls to the ground.
With my skillfully prepared acrobatics, plunge (bottom-first, putting all of my weight into it) through the roof and onto Lord Tomato's head! And if that works, beat him in the face with my gauntlets until tomato seeds fall out!
As you prepare for your acrobatic combat manoevre, a bright beam exits from the tower from one of the floors below you, lighting up the sky. You look down to see Lord tomato looking at the beam through the window and decide that this is exactly the kind of distraction the chapter on sleigh of hand in the great book of dwarvish clowning is all about. You jump in the air and assume the cannonball position [5+1] and plunge right through the rickety part of the roof. Lord Tomato doesn't even have the time to shout in surprise as you land arse first onto his head. As Lord Tomato is lying on the floor, dazed and confused, you get on top of him and start punching. [2+1+1] You punch the man over and over. If this was a slow motion montage you would have been able to see his face transition from perfectly fine, to bruised, to very hurt, all the way to mashed vegetable salad. You stand up, tomato seeds and flesh all the way up to your forearms. Lord Tomato lies on the floor, head destroyed beyond recognition. All that armour and the fancy swords didn't do him much good in the end.
On the road"Those costs, always why I never enjoyed shopping for magical gadgets. Come on Tom, let's move on."
Bypass the wizard merchant.
You simply start walking away from the merchant, annoyed that he didn't just put little cards stating his prices and thus wasting your time. After a few seconds, Paddy falls into step next to you, looking at something in his hands.
"He practically pushed this fancy little business card into my hands. Said we should use the incantation on the front if we ever changed our minds. There's apparently a sampler on the back. What did he say it was? A small ectomancy enchantment that would allow us to summon the spirit of a deceased person once, so long as we can write down his name. huh."You look behind you, but there is no trace of the wizard left.
After an hour or so, you come across a fork in the road. the signpost reads: "<- Hopside Village | Castle Arcliffe ->"
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