"The Heartless Giant then? You might have heard this one. About the littlest prince who befriended the heartless gaint, who he let go. The prince lived with guilt, knowing that he had let the evil beast go. He went out after his brothers to stop the giant, found the giant's heart through trickery. He asked the giant to unfreeze the people the giant had turned to stone before and promised to hand the giant's heart back. However, once his brothers woke up from their stone trance, all the could think about was getting revenge on the giant, and so they grabbed the egg from the littlest prince and broke it, therefore breaking the giant's heart and killing him. The littlest prince did not fulfill his promise and lived with guilt for the rest of his life. He told his children the story, but in his tale, the giant always loved happily ever after. The end." Victoria crows. "Well, that's the very simplified version, of course." Kenzie looks uneasy.
(Also not my story.)

The manticore folds its wings in front of its face, the fire not affecting the monster as the scaled/armored wings protected it. The manticore took this as an okay signal, and attacked the two of you, stabbing its poisonous barbed tail in the ground next to you. Sophia steps away from the tail, tilts her arm back, and throws the rock. However, she is unsuccessful in hitting the beast, it deflects it off its armored hide, and get annoyed.
Sophia mumbles something under her breath, picking up another rock.

"I don't know. Right isn't always the right path. But, sure, let's go." Riley says, shrugging and heading down the path.
The path didn't have any monsters on it, wasn't too interesting.
The path splits again,
Right - normal looking path
Left - path that seems to radiate heat

Link: https://www.sylestia.com/forums/?thread=89015&page=79#782 Author: Scoutwolf Time Posted: 6/21/2020 at 8:59 AM The manticore folds its wings in front of its face, the fire not affecting the monster as the scaled/armored wings protected it. The manticore took this as an okay signal, and attacked the two of you, stabbing its poisonous barbed tail in the ground next to you. Sophia steps away from the tail, tilts her arm back, and throws the rock. However, she is unsuccessful in hitting the beast, it deflects it off its armored hide, and get annoyed. Sophia mumbles something under her breath, picking up another rock.

"Mouth, eyes, belly. Aim for those." Innocencio dimly remembered hearing one of the nerds who live don his street rambling to a friend as theyd leaked past some time backck.

Sophia nods as the manticore lifts its tail in preparation to strike again. Sophia throws the rock again, managing to hit the beast's eyes. It snorts in annoyance and shakes its head, blinded in one eye. It brings its tail back down, hoping to hit Sophia. Sophia narrowly avoids it, but she's pinned against the wall now.

Link: https://www.sylestia.com/forums/?thread=89015&page=79#785 Author: Scoutwolf Time Posted: 6/21/2020 at 10:07 AM Sophia nods as the manticore lifts its tail in preparation to strike again. Sophia throws the rock again, managing to hit the beast's eyes. It snorts in annoyance and shakes its head, blinded in one eye. It brings its tail back down, hoping to hit Sophia. Sophia narrowly avoids it, but she's pinned against the wall now.

Innocencio summons a little more fire and blasts whichever became easily hit first-belly or eye. Hed throw a rock but fire hurts more.

Kain
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"It was... good," he nervously chuckled. That story sucked. I hope we can get to the throne room quickly so I don't have to deal with this.

Victoria chatters on and on about all the stories she knew. Kenzie out her hands over her ears and blocked Victoria out.

You reach a fork,
Right - buzzing noises
Left - barely held together
Beside you (going the same way you came from, just a different path) - stormy

Kain
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"How about we go down that stormy path?" He groaned before lowering his voice so Kenzie could hear, "That way we don't have to listen to Victoria. Mostly because we couldn't."

"Are you sure you want to go that way? It seems like the opposite way of where we are heading." Victoria notes. Kenzie nods in understanding.
"Yes, that may be true, but how do you know that the throne room is up that way than this way? Didn't you say you handy explored this place before?" Kenzie says.
Victoria sighs and nods, "Okay. Down the path!" she skips down the story path.