Tales of the Jewel

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"Real life stories never actually end. Whether the ending is good or bad depends on when the tale teller decides to put the last period. Let's take my own example. A few months ago, I had a happy if poor existence, enjoying the carefreeness of the nobody, the young sibling of which little is expecte...

Al-Haddar looked left. Looked right. Looked backward. Looked in front. Wondered how exactly he had found himself at the secret reunion of magicians and monsters. And decided to carefully and silently back down in direction of the exit, one ear opened just in case, but feet very much ready to depart ...

"I see. Well... if you know of any new tricks I might be interested in... I'm always willing to learn a new thing or two some time." "Well, there's that trick with three bowls and a ball where you have to guess where the ball is hidden, and no matter what bowl you choose, it's always the wrong one ...

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! From under the table he had hidden himself, al-Haddar was meditating on the fact he didn't really need to know that the stories about sewer crocodiles were real. He had a nasty cut on his leg, but, in regard to the circumstances, luck hadn't forsaken him yet, as he had ma...

Sora thought again a minute. "...you know, for someone who essentially said only action works, you sure do have a lot to say. Especially for a simple man of simple means." Truthfully, she liked the analogy he had given. It made sense to her. But at this point, he was more interesting than the messa...

"I suppose means don't get any more simple than a rock through a window..." She shrugged. "Regardless, hopefully my windows don't deserve breaking, and hopefully talking like this isn't futile." "Might I hazard the guess that's because your window is still closed? Though, all this talk about walls ...

"You think I talk of rebellion or something? No. There are other ways to get a wall down besides punching it with your fist anyways; Violence isn't always the answer, nor the correct method to use when one wants change." "You'll have to be more specific than that. I'm a simple man of simple means. ...

"There's always something going on in Medinaat al-Salaam, the city of stories. And I would say violence is sadly part of a lot of these, though not of the same kind. In the Maze, it takes the form of the mugger asking for your belongings at knifepoint. In the Khesir, it's still a man with a knife, b...

So there were monsters fighting monsters, mages throwing spells at mages, apparently a few invisible things going around according to contextual clues (unless droplets of sewer water flew on their own due to one of the aforementioned spells), acrobats surprisingly competent at fighting, actual fight...