2017 Festival of Faerie
On Cast:
+ Copperfox Amadeus ("Sadko of Novgorod")
+ Bastian
+ Giovanni Salzano
On Cast:
+ Copperfox Amadeus ("Sadko of Novgorod")
+ Bastian
+ Giovanni Salzano
Story (2017) --- During The Valiant Few's second encounter with faeries (2017), Salzano & Bastian were traveling through the same stretch of forest Salzano had previously passed through a year earlier, stressed for time as they were carriers of an important message. Content to think nothing of past events would affect his present, the Traveling Mercenary continued through the forest until they emerged upon the other side at a local tavern & inn. All seemed that the events of a year prior were just that, the past.
A lady offered the exhausted travelers several home baked delights, alongside their drinks, for their stay at the inn. Little did either Bastian or Giovanni know, but they wouldn't wake up the next morning in the Human World, but in the Faerie World!
Waking in the strange world, the two swordsmen listen to a rather distraught new Faerie Queen complain about how her Royal Guardsmen---at the last minute---were tasked by higher Faerie powers to be on a secret mission, leaving her all alone on her yearly visit to the Human World! Then, the Queen "justified" her capture of the humans as a desperate means to protect & serve such a wonderful Faerie Queen (she added later, the two would be "released" after their service was completed).
Salzano holds his own private counsel that the original Faerie Guardsmen probably made the whole thing up to escape the Queen's complaining & self entitlement. But the Traveling Mercenary leaves this counsel with his own thoughts, least he risk another involvement with the Faerie World he may not forget.
Despite Bastian's best diplomatic efforts, the two members of The Valiant Few are "volunteered" into the Queen's Guardsmen. Bastian later blames this on Salzano, since the mercenary had previous dealings with the Faerie World a year prior and, according to the new Queen, had proved himself to be trusted. Salzano, however, assures Bastian he has an escape plan set in place, because working for the Faerie World is hard enough---working for this high demand drama Queen would be equal to a death sentence!
The Valiant Few dutifully fulfill their obligations to the Queen, protecting her from all would-be transgressors. The human swordsmen also help to provide the Human World with a bridge of understanding to the Faerie Folk, as well does fellow human "Sadko of Novgorod the Legendary Russian Bard," a familiar face & ally of Salzano's (and of relation to Copperfox).
The Bard, however, keeps an ear on all conversations that he probably should not, using his stealth-like movements to stay one step ahead of any potential dangers for a usually lone human in a all Faerie Folk gathering. Taking a understanding to his now two fellow humans this year with him & their series of events to reach the Faerie World, the Bard alerts Bastian & Salzano privately to a conversation he overhears with the Queen & her most trusted advisers.
Taking the assistance, Bastian & Salzano corner the Queen a moment where her advisers are absent and they challenge her to a sword duel! Winning the duel, the two humans escape the Faerie Folk's certain life enslavement as Queen's Guardsmen if Sadko's word was not taken with the most extreme urgent need. Escaping, Bastian & Salzano rejoin the Human World the next morning---in the tavern & inn---and continue on their journey with the matter at hand.
A lady offered the exhausted travelers several home baked delights, alongside their drinks, for their stay at the inn. Little did either Bastian or Giovanni know, but they wouldn't wake up the next morning in the Human World, but in the Faerie World!
Waking in the strange world, the two swordsmen listen to a rather distraught new Faerie Queen complain about how her Royal Guardsmen---at the last minute---were tasked by higher Faerie powers to be on a secret mission, leaving her all alone on her yearly visit to the Human World! Then, the Queen "justified" her capture of the humans as a desperate means to protect & serve such a wonderful Faerie Queen (she added later, the two would be "released" after their service was completed).
Salzano holds his own private counsel that the original Faerie Guardsmen probably made the whole thing up to escape the Queen's complaining & self entitlement. But the Traveling Mercenary leaves this counsel with his own thoughts, least he risk another involvement with the Faerie World he may not forget.
Despite Bastian's best diplomatic efforts, the two members of The Valiant Few are "volunteered" into the Queen's Guardsmen. Bastian later blames this on Salzano, since the mercenary had previous dealings with the Faerie World a year prior and, according to the new Queen, had proved himself to be trusted. Salzano, however, assures Bastian he has an escape plan set in place, because working for the Faerie World is hard enough---working for this high demand drama Queen would be equal to a death sentence!
The Valiant Few dutifully fulfill their obligations to the Queen, protecting her from all would-be transgressors. The human swordsmen also help to provide the Human World with a bridge of understanding to the Faerie Folk, as well does fellow human "Sadko of Novgorod the Legendary Russian Bard," a familiar face & ally of Salzano's (and of relation to Copperfox).
The Bard, however, keeps an ear on all conversations that he probably should not, using his stealth-like movements to stay one step ahead of any potential dangers for a usually lone human in a all Faerie Folk gathering. Taking a understanding to his now two fellow humans this year with him & their series of events to reach the Faerie World, the Bard alerts Bastian & Salzano privately to a conversation he overhears with the Queen & her most trusted advisers.
Taking the assistance, Bastian & Salzano corner the Queen a moment where her advisers are absent and they challenge her to a sword duel! Winning the duel, the two humans escape the Faerie Folk's certain life enslavement as Queen's Guardsmen if Sadko's word was not taken with the most extreme urgent need. Escaping, Bastian & Salzano rejoin the Human World the next morning---in the tavern & inn---and continue on their journey with the matter at hand.