Verisimilivirate
You manage to make friends with Chris by promising to "wrastle around" with him; and then in turn make friends with David by making fun of the big dope when he's busy running into trees. If what David said is true, he'd be the better guy to ally with anyway, for he might be able to sneak you into a personal audience with the King. But again, that might be asking a lot.
Just as you pass the fork in the road again and go East this time, you are abruptly halted by three men on armored horseback, each wearing half-plate armor and musketeer-type hats. They all bear distinctively different crests upon their shields.
"THERE you are, David, you insurmountable fool!" bellows the man with long dark hair and a mussed goatee. "Where the Diable did you find Prince Chris?"
"WHOA!" you think to yourself. PRINCE Chris?!? That little turdhopper David LIED to you - or at least didn't tell the whole truth. Damn.
"And who may I ask is your companion, Jester?" the more serious-looking man with long blonde hair and a beard queries. "I don't believe I've seen him in this realm before and yet he wears a local reaper's outfit. Do you find that ODD, Charlie?"
The remaining mounted man with long dark hair and a neatly-trimmed goatee answers back, "I do indeed, Keifer. And what of that fancy piece he carries? I don't believe I've ever seen its like; have you, Oliver?" The mussed-goatee guy returns, "No, quite unusual, I dare say."
At this, Chris (with more character than you fancied him as having) steps up in your defense before the three warriors. "Now you listen to me - this here's gonna be my BUDDY, my PAL!! We're gonna WRASTLE AROUND..." At this, Chris picks you up by the midsection as a lesser man would hoist a small dog and begins swinging your helpless body around like a rag doll. When he sets you back down, you remember to smile as if you don't have several cracked ribs and say, "I'll be his shadow!"
Prince Chris looks at you in amazement and laughs, "I was gonna say that." You bow to the men on horseback so they are sure to get the right idea of all these shenanigans, and introduce yourself properly. "I am known as Archangel. I would gladly assist in the Prince's return to Theopolis."
Keifer still looks at you with a suspicious eye, but they all pretty much agree. The conversation is light and cheerful and you arrive at the gate of Theopolis in no time.
Just as you pass the fork in the road again and go East this time, you are abruptly halted by three men on armored horseback, each wearing half-plate armor and musketeer-type hats. They all bear distinctively different crests upon their shields.
"THERE you are, David, you insurmountable fool!" bellows the man with long dark hair and a mussed goatee. "Where the Diable did you find Prince Chris?"
"WHOA!" you think to yourself. PRINCE Chris?!? That little turdhopper David LIED to you - or at least didn't tell the whole truth. Damn.
"And who may I ask is your companion, Jester?" the more serious-looking man with long blonde hair and a beard queries. "I don't believe I've seen him in this realm before and yet he wears a local reaper's outfit. Do you find that ODD, Charlie?"
The remaining mounted man with long dark hair and a neatly-trimmed goatee answers back, "I do indeed, Keifer. And what of that fancy piece he carries? I don't believe I've ever seen its like; have you, Oliver?" The mussed-goatee guy returns, "No, quite unusual, I dare say."
At this, Chris (with more character than you fancied him as having) steps up in your defense before the three warriors. "Now you listen to me - this here's gonna be my BUDDY, my PAL!! We're gonna WRASTLE AROUND..." At this, Chris picks you up by the midsection as a lesser man would hoist a small dog and begins swinging your helpless body around like a rag doll. When he sets you back down, you remember to smile as if you don't have several cracked ribs and say, "I'll be his shadow!"
Prince Chris looks at you in amazement and laughs, "I was gonna say that." You bow to the men on horseback so they are sure to get the right idea of all these shenanigans, and introduce yourself properly. "I am known as Archangel. I would gladly assist in the Prince's return to Theopolis."
Keifer still looks at you with a suspicious eye, but they all pretty much agree. The conversation is light and cheerful and you arrive at the gate of Theopolis in no time.