"YOU are the hero" : The Fate of Faraway 371

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Your studies were arduous and filled with thankless but traditional tasks. Retrieving toads from the swamp, cleaning the academy with a broom (a perfectly ordinary one at that), hunting animals useful for potions, learning about the properties of wood and their uses in the Art…

Of course, there were also so more modern courses, such as the one on the use of Gas in advanced arcane constructions… But unless you possess a colossal fortune, you will never be able to import these exotic products from other worlds.

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In any case, completing your studies locally doesn't prevent you from being a qualified mage and has saved you a small fortune. Note 1 extra Gold Coin in your purse.

Once you had your degree, you joined the court mages as an independent contractor. Because you are brilliant (or perhaps expendable), your king has honored you with his trust and entrusted you with a risky mission in the eastern human kingdom of Faraway. You must go there to confirm the presence of a terrifying dragon and contain this threat by any ans necessary before it can endanger your borders.

So, you set off. On foot. Alone… Go to 211.