Challenge #01879-E055: You Have Been Randomly Selected — Steemit
They had tried, once, and only once, to send the Great Hero to defeat the evil forces of darkness. What they discovered was the Unwritten Rule: Whatever you set out to face down will be the greatest challenge you have ever encountered. To send a Great Hero after the big bad was to invite horrors against which none were truly prepared. Not even the Great Hero.
It’s a fable, now. A fairytale. But the Adventurers know the truth of it. Newbies just starting out don’t face foes more powerful than Goblins and the occasional Orc. When they get up there, they start facing down Eldritch Horrors and otherworldly entities set on eating existence as it is known.
Rulers and nobles certainly know this, and publish a great reward (that will be inevitably claimed by a band of kids in gimcrack armour and some newly-acquired cool things) for ridding the realm of some slightly-nasty foe as a form of test before going against the true threat.
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Challenge #01813-D352: Everything Necessary? — Steemit
There is no single worst thing to carry everything you need in than a gigantic pocketless tote. Especially when your needs are unfathomable.
Dithaan listed the articles as ze removed them. As is the rule with all containers that held objects of assorted sizes, the largest and bulkiest things rose to the top. “Spare jumper, emergency hygiene pack, personal medkit, tool roll, omnitool, towel, backup towel, change purse… Oh, that’s where my cameras went.” Four of them came out onto the counter. As did their charger plugs. “Glucose jellybeans, gum… Oh! There’s my crochet kit. I thought I’d lost that forever. And there’s my books, they’re very good reads, all of them.”
Customs Officer Grax sighed as the inventory continued. All the way down to several Standard Weight Units in loose, assorted change. Where Dithaan’s ID was buried. “I can get you a beneficial exchange rate on all that planetary coinage, Mx, but… have you thought about minimising your load?”