Tuffnut .... Tuffnut .... what in the world are you up to in the Quest?   You've got a lot of people scratching their heads ..... including me!



Newest song Battle at the Black Door: [link]



Recommended background music for this story arc:   

"Mystery of the Door" [link]

"The Enemy Is Near" :  [link]

"When All Goes Wrong" :  [link]

"Struggle to Survive"  [link]

"In the Old Tunnels" (Played on my out of tune piano): [link]

"Mysterious Ruins" [link]


Music by Master Rohan (me! )
Music Link: Horus Reborn  [link]
Music Link: Listening to the Storyteller [link]
Music Link: The Growing Storm [link]
Music Link: The Vortex Closes:   [link]
Music Link: Helping the Injured [link]
Music Link: The Fight for Horus [link]
Music Link: Duet Performed for Hiccup   [link]
Music Link: Hiccup's Wounds [link]
Music Link: Quest Overture with drum track    [link]
Music Link: Original Quest Overture   [link]


*Announcer voice*  And now onto the continuation of.......Hiccup's Adventure Quest to Dragon's Fire!!!  


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Hiccup's Quest Day 99 -  Meanwhile Back (Near) Camp 48

(The following is an excerpt from Master Rohan's Chronicle of the Quest to Dragon's Fire)



Hiding in a row of bushes, Janna and Tuffnut eavesdropped on a band of well-armed men near the team's base camp.


Suddenly, Tuffnut sprint-crawled away, and when his teammate demanded to know what he was going to do, the viking replied,

"Janna, Janna, Janna ....you forget that I'm not just a viking ........ I'm also a PIRATE!"


And he skittered off again through the maze of bramble.



:"Sweet chest hair of Thor ...."  




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When Janna rounded the bend of bushes where Tuffnut should've been, she paused for a moment staring at a dead end of thickly intertwined limbs and thorns.

"Where did he go?" she thought.



Peeking out of the wet leaves, she spied on the bickering bounty hunters.  


A couple of them had lit torches, and now flicked them menacingly at each other.



Trying to keep her voice as restrained as possible, Janna chokingly called out to the overgrowth around her,

"TUFFNUT?



"TUFFNUT!




"TUFFNUT YOU, STUPID VIKING ...

"LET'S GO!




"COME ON!

"THEY'RE DISTRACTED!




"NOW IS THE TIME TO ---"





Standing in the middle of the stormy disagreement, the bounty hunter, regaled in elaborate armor, suddenly locked eyes with Janna.




SWWWWWWISSSSHHHH




Janna   ducked back into the cover of leaves and worried,

"Did he see me?

"Maybe he didn't see me ...."



But even as the noisy clash among the bounty hunters abruptly hushed, she knew that her presence was no longer a secret.









Anxiously scurrying along the line of bushes, Janna berated herself,

"ODIN'S BREATH!


"I should've run for camp when I had the chance!

"What was I thinking?!


"..... I know what I was thinking!

"TUFFNUT .... that's what I was thinking!"





Suddenly, a very familiar voice split open the night air.





:"ATTENTION, YOU GOONS, UGLIES, AND OTHER UNSAVORY-TYPE PEOPLES! ..........."





Freezing in place, Janna snatched open a peep hole in the overgrowth.

"OH, FOR THOR'S SAKE!  

"WHAT IS THAT MORON DOING NOW?!"



And in disbelief, she watched the bizarre spectacle unfold.







CLINK!

CLINK!

CLINK!

CLINK!

CLINK!



While the rain lessened to a mist, the sharp sounds of swords, daggers, knives, axes, maces, hammers, spears and a variety of other really sharp and pointy implements being snatched out of their protective coverings echoed off the tree trunks.


A sea of menacing faces snarled at the intruder.




Undaunted by the plethora of weapons and scowling faces now trained on him Tuffnut BOLDLY SWAGGERED into the camp of cloaked warriors.




Dramatically proclaiming with animated arm swirls, the viking exhorted,


"YOU, YOU, YOU, AND YOU ....




"YOU CLEARLY HAVE FACES  SO UGLY THAT ONLY YOUR MOTHERS COULD LOVE THEM! ....."













(To Expedition Team Commenters:  Night under Bo, Bo at the gearworks, rest of the expedition team at the door threshold.)

(To Camp Team Commenters:  Late evening/early night/light rain, Janna and Tuffnut investigating people in the forest - Guinea - Melanoo - on Patrol, Hiccup, Skunkoon - Littleladytoph - Nightfright9 planning defense of camp)



Please join me tomorrow as the Adventure continues!



Injured:
- Sore head
- Head injury, various lacerations
- broken right arm, injured side and back, puncture wound to left leg
- cuts, bruised hip
- cuts and bruises, mana slowly rejuvenating
- ?
- slowly mending, some scale armor is starting to grow back, SEVERE BURNS TO EXPOSED SKIN
- EXTENSIVE BURNS TO SKIN, MULTIPLE FRACTURES, INTERNAL INJURIES, Near death
- legs:  bones reconstructed, all of the rest of the damage has not been healed yet
- mana  slowly rejuvenating, MILD BURNS TO FEET, LEGS, HANDS, AND ARMS
- mana slowly rejuvenating
- improving nicely, still cross at Tuffnut (some things never change )
- vest has a hole

Lucinano Horus's Violin - Kali working on soundboard, scouring to the finish


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LOCATION:  In a warm, forested valley surrounded by cold, icy mountains


HICCUP'S ADVENTURE TEAM  STATUS:  Some still injured   The team is exploring and mending