compy post: Beowulf? Confused? Beowulf?
HWÆT! OF THE LAKE MONSTER WE HAVE HEARD,
HOW TENTACLES TEASED HOGWARTS' HERO HEARTS,
AND WATERS WARM LULLED BEAST AND BEST ALIKE.
I AM NO BARD, BUT WARRIOR! I AM BEOWULF!
ON RUNE-BOARD NOW I TAP THE WORDS OF WOE
TO SEEK SOME NEWS. HAST THOU THE MONSTER SEEN?
SCANT DAYS AGO I SPIED A DOLEFUL WRIT
ACCUSING OUR MOST FAMOUS MONSTER HERE
AND NAMING IT A NAME I NEVER HEARD!
LORD PYARAY? WHAT BE THIS? YOU MUST TELL ME.
FOR MONSTERS ARE MY BUSINESS, I THEIR BANE.
WHAT BE A PYARAY, AND WHY CALLST THOU HIM THIS?
ALL THE SCHOOL MUST TELL ME WHAT IT KNOWS.
BEOWULF
((note: the Giant Squid -- the subject of Beowulf's inquiry -- is an NPC that basically just floats around in the lake, totally uninterested in everything and everyone. If you want to make up an encounter between yourself and the Squid, that's fine. Remember the Squid can't talk. ))