London or Bust...
Strange days are the bread and butter of the legendary hero, right? Fighting hordes of evil, rescuing fair maidens, saving the world’s what it’s all about. The epics talk about great struggle, fiery romance, and life shattering tragedy. What did I do this afternoon? I went to see Harry Potter...Now I know you are thinking, “wow that’s great,” but that is but two hours of a twenty four hour span of time. Lots of things can happen in a given day. There is an entire T.V. show that demonstrates this fact with every season and that program just keeps on getting better. So without further ado, welcome to my life…
The British History Museum is really a marvel to behold. For starters, it’s huge. One can’t see the whole complex in a day let alone the few hours we actually spent there…the first time around. There is just so much legendary potential in the building the air almost hums with power. We decided to try and recharge our metaphysical batteries from the ambient energy contained within the myriad ancient artifacts. The constant time dog attacks and the battle with the giant worm, “Earthshaker,” had some of our number flagging, so this stop over would prove to be both a time killer for the “games” clock and a welcome respite. Honestly it was cool to just see the live of so many cultures under one roof. We so rarely get enough time to actually take in the sights anymore. Having gotten the fury Tisiphone to “look for us in Hawaii” we had bought a good day or so before the God’s sent anyone else searching for Hod. I think Hod may have even enjoyed the museum’s legend if not the history itself. I am sure for him it’s like watching the thundercats when you are grown up, it’s just not going to be the same as when you were young and it was brand new…
After our wandering of the museum, we thought even more rest from the grind was in order; so we all went to the premier of the new Harry Potter movie. It was interesting to watch a film like that in its home country, well the writer’s country anyway. It was not ultimately a bad flick if one can ignore the fact that all of the child stars are starting to come off as sort of goofy looking, well short of Emma Watson-she at least has grown into her body properly. Oddly enough, I found myself in a light enough mood to needle Erika to the point of her hoisting the single finger salute which did nothing to dampen my own growing amusement in the least…
The night saw Erika, Ray, Elisa, Pierre, Hod, and I spending some time in a dance club Erika had worked in as a DJ before. T-bone headed off on his own to travel the streets for a while. It was a rather interesting club if a bit too Gothic for my taste. Ray, Hod, and I were at one table. Pierre and Elisa danced. I was in the process of seeing if I could get Ray to go out on the floor and dance it up when Erika appeared and dragged us both from our table into the crowd. Erika then went up and started to DJ the party herself. I wasn’t long pondering this twist in events when I noticed some sort of commotion happening outside of the club entrance. It seemed that Nuckelavee the flesh centaur and his half bodied minions, the Fachan, had tracked Hod to our location. I looked around and Ray and Elisa were aware of the danger and moving to intercept. Ray immediately warded the entrance against the spawn of titans after which he laid out a plan to deal with the enemy. We would fight the battle back at the museum where there lay a plethora of weaponry from the iron-age. Iron being the material that would allow us to get past some of the mystical protection instilled into Nuckelavee by his titan master. Ray and Elisa exited the club and engaged the enemy. I sent a mental message to Erika briefly explaining the situation and the working plan. Erika then used her whiles to gain everyone in the clubs attention, effectively getting every innocent away from the club exit. I called T-bone to explain that a fight was soon to be eminent at the museum. I found Hod and proceeded to fly through the door with him clutched in my arms…
Outside the club I took to the sky. Ray and Elisa immediately rushed bloodily into the fray on the street. I headed in the direction of the museum and only covered a small distance before my vision was compromised due to the sudden explosion of my brother’s brain matter into my completely surprised face. I had but a moment to reflect on the spongy texture of my impromptu stint of cannibalism when I saw that Hod was in fact perfectly unharmed by the spear Nuckelavee had hurled at him. I took this as a herald to make complete haste to the hotel. I dove and climbed, banked and rolled as best I was able thereby avoiding a clear line of sight with our centaur pursuer…
I made the flight to the museum carrying my brother without anymore unfortunate incidents. Hod made use of his mystical skill and made it so we could travel directly though the stone walls of the building. We were not there long before everyone met up with us on the main floor. Ray immediately set about gathering every iron weapon available in the museum. He placed them strategically so they would be directly at hand in the coming conflict. We were greeted by and Satyr and a Maenad that were apparently in the employ of the museum as security. They thought we were gathered there to deal with a Sphinx that had awoken on the third floor. Seeing Nuckelavee coming at the front door of the museum made it very easy for us to prioritize which threat was more pressing. I recommended to Hod that if he was capable of becoming invisible, it woud be very beneficial were he to go about doing just that. As is standard for our lives, a band of time dogs warped in about the same time Elisa got a shot off on Nuckelavee through the glass of the museum entrance. The battle was joined in earnest a moment after that…
The battle consisted of Erika causing the time dogs to enter a deep sleep. Ray and Elisa and Pierre proceeded to dispatch them. Ray also joined in the attack on Nuckelavee proper with T-bone attacking from stealth. I waded into the fray myself with an iron sword. The combined assault, coupled with T-bone having knowledge of the same trick which saved Hod on the journey in, vanquished the skinless horror for at least another day…
The greater issue having been sorted, we went upstairs to figure a solution to the awakened sphinx problem. Killing a sphinx is not the best option one can take. This tack levies a fairly vicious curse on the transgressor. This detail took care of our standard plan “A”. I fathomed that the true name of the sphinx could be used in a ritual to turn the beast back into stone. Not having a bag of true names sitting around, this would not prove a feasible course of action. I made a mental note to contact either Sam or Carina on getting in touch with a god of the Pesedjet Pantheon and seeing about getting an in road to the true name should we have to deal with a sphinx in the future. Ray surprised me when he thought of the idea of bargaining with the monster so that we could gain access to its limitless store of all knowledge. The surprise really hit home when it worked. We would transport the creature to Antarctica and let it go in a non populated area I return it would not attack any one and I gave us the knowledge of how to permanently kill the giant “Fisheye” whom we had killed once already in Iceland. It was an odd tradeoff but the best we could pull off at the moment…
So that was my day today. I guess it still managed to fall under the aegis of a legendary exploit. Not that we can go to the grocery store without setting off an epic adventure of one sort or another…