Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-25828117-20190925195201/@comment-5543592-20190927173223

The Justice Force fought through an elaborate puzzle maze to reclaim the next staff piece. In the final room, Talin played a game of checkers against a Khajiit mummy.

"We have the second staff piece!" Talin cried, as the mummy toppled out of his chair in a shower of checker's pieces.

"But where is Ragnar?" Nissa said, looking around. "He has gone missing!"

"Look!" Diana said, holding up a bunch of envelopes. "I found these letters!" She passed them out to those assembled, who opened them.

"Oh no!  Ragnar has been captured!" Talin cried. "How did that happen so quickly?  He was only in that cave for a moment."

"Well the legion was in area--"  Gabe said.

"Soldiers pull down camp very quickly--"  Diana seconded.

"It doesn't even logisitically make sense." Talin muttered.

"Well he's super dead." Zaydate clapped her hands. "Time to go to Elyswer!"

"Raise a glass to freedom!" They refrained, and marched off stage.

Jagar Tharn appeared on the balcony in the Emperor's garb. His make-up was done up so that he looked more haggard.

"Do they not understand what I am doing?  Do they not see the things I have accomplished?  I'm running an Empire here, people.  The beaurocracy alone is a nightmare.  But hark, look now--I have captured one of the traitors!"

Ragnar, locked in a pillory on wheels, was rolled onto stage.

"What say you, traitor?" Jagar Tharn addressed Ragnar. "He who would raise hands against his Emperor?  You call me amoral, a dangerous disgrace!  If you have an issue, say it to my face!"

"I won't apologize for doing what's right!" Ragnar said. "You coward!"

"Careful how you proceed, good man!  Intemperate indeed, good man!  Answer for the accusations I lay at your feet or prepare to bleed, good man!"

"Then bleed I shall!"

"Then die you shall!"

A man in an executioner's hood marched onto stage, carrying a wooden sword painted grey, and held it over Ragnar's head.

"Nadina now be still!  I killed not thee with half so good a will!"

The executioner touched his sword to the back of Ragnar's neck, and he went still.

The audience was a little teary-eyed over that one. Even Baldr looked a little moved.

"Favorite character." The knight grunted.