Editing The Sparkling Bridge (section)

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{{TErow| 1 |loc={{red}}{{blue}}|day 1 - for computer|freq=21|Computer Stuff - DO NOT TRANSLATE|effect=+20 {{w}} [[Wood]], +15 {{m}} [[Mercury]], +20 {{o}} [[Ore]], +15 {{s}} [[Sulfur]], +15 {{c}} [[Crystal]]s, +15 {{gem}} [[Gems]], +2000 {{g}} [[Gold]]}}
{{TErow| 1 |day 1|The air is thin here, and the frozen wind cuts through the skin like a blade.  This must be the top of the world.  No one  in their right mind would live up here on these inhospitable peaks, but I soon learned I was wrong.  [[Elemental]]s - creatures of pure fire, or water, or whatever - have lived here since the dawn of time guarding the [[Sparkling Bridge]], and now I must fight through their armies if I'm going to reach the [[Fiery Moon]].}}
{{TErow| 5 |Day 5|[[Skizzik]] has become my guide.  He's not very good at it though.  Either he was delirious when he passed through this region, or he's got a bad memory.  Sometimes he catches sight of a landmark and leads us to it before he realizes he's never seen it before.  All this wandering is beginning to annoy the troops, so I keep [[Skizzik]] at my side at all times.  If he were to run across [[Grumba]] right now, I'm sure the little [[Familiar]] would not survive.}}
{{TErow| 10 |loc={{tan}}|day 10|We marched by a grove of trees this morning, and even though my scouts checked them for signs of an ambush, I was suddenly pelted with snowballs.  When I turned toward the trees, I saw several [[Sprite]]s fly up into the sky laughing and pointing at me.<p>"To the front, [[Orc]]s!" I shouted.  "Ready your axes!"<p>But the [[Sprite]]s held out their hands in a sign of surrender.<p>"We're sorry!" they said in unison.<p>I wiped some snow from my hair and grumbled, "What do you want?"<p>"You're looking for the [[Sparkling Bridge]], right?  Well, we know a secret," they sang.<p>I sighed.<p>"What do you want?"<p>"Gold, and some pretty Gems if you have them!"<p>"Very well," I said.  My men brought forward their reward, but I held on to it until I learned if their secret was worth it.<p>"You can't just go walking through the [[Sparkling Bridge]].  You could end up anywhere.  It's a magical portal to every world in the universe - that's why the [[Elemental]]s guard it," said the [[Sprite]]s.<p>"So, how do I travel to the place I want to go?" I asked.<p>"You need the [[Ring of the Wayfarer]].  Find that, and you can go anywhere you want!"<p>The [[Sprite]]s flitted down, picked up their payment, and flew off to the north.|effect=-12 {{gem}} [[Gems]], -3500 {{g}} [[Gold]]}}
{{TErow| 14 |Day 14|I nearly died in battle this morning.  If not for [[Skizzik]], I would have.<p>We were blinded by a blast of wind-swept snow, then the [[Air Elemental]]s descended upon us.  Normally, I would've been able to deal with the creatures but a pain shot through my belly as if I had stabbed with a cold blade.  I toppled from my horse, weak from the pain and oblivious to the [[Elemental]] who sought to kill me.<p>I didn't see what happened, but later one of the [[Goblin]]s said [[Skizzik]] jumped onto the [[Elemental]]'s back.  The [[Familiar]] sunk its teeth into the creature's neck as it whirled around attempting to throw him off.  [[Grumba]] reached me by the time the [[Air Elemental]] sent [[Skizzik]] flying into a snowdrift.  After that, the ambush ended quickly and I was dragged to the healer's wagon.}}
{{TErow| 14 |Day 14 b|Of course, the healer found no injuries on my body and couldn't tell me where such a debilitating agony came from.  But I already knew.<p>It was the pain of a deep, and fatal, stab wound - the same wound that ended my life long ago and brought me before the [[Ancestors]] to be judged.  So much time had passed, I had forgotten how much it hurt.  But why did the memory return now?  Was this like my earlier illness?  Was this somehow connected to the disappearance of the [[Ancestors]]?}}
{{TErow| 16 |day 16|[[Skizzik]] shuffled into my tent last night looking as if he had done something wrong.<p>"Don't worry," I said.  "I wanted to thank you for saving my life."<p>"Didn't want you to be a bucket-kicker too.  You the one who keep that big ugly guy away from [[Skizzik]]."<p>"Well, it was brave of you.  I know you're not used to the way [[Barbarian]]s do things, but if you follow our rules, [[Skizzik]], I swear that you will always have a place among us."<p>"A [[Familiar]] and [[Barbarian]] friends?  That not possible!" [[Skizzik]] said.  He picked something from his sharp teeth, and then smiled at me.  "Good thing me dead, huh?  Maybe now me be a [[Barbarian]] too."}}
{{TErow| 23 |Day 23|[[Skizzik]], who must be used to the hot furnace temperatures of the [[Inferno]] town, shivers all the time these days.  I've tried to get him to dress warmly, but he insists on wearing only a wool loincloth and a helmet adorned with ridiculously large ram's horns.  The [[Familiar]] thinks he's a [[Barbarian]] now, and even carries around a small hatchet - in his hands, it's a battle axe.  When I point out that even I wear thick clothes in the snow, [[Skizzik]] just laughs.<p>"That 'cause me tougher that you!" he tells me, teeth chattering.<p>So, I don't even try anymore.  Let him freeze to death if he's too stupid to put on clothes!}}
{{TErow| 25 |Day 25|I sent my scouts to search for the [[Sparkling Bridge]], but all have returned empty-handed.  One of them thinks there is a remote valley in the far northeast.  The problem is, you can't get there from here.  The peaks around the valley are simply too high to cross.<p>We might have come across a bit of luck though.  Another scout spent some time spying in the scorched land to the north and spotted a [[Subterranean Gate]].  There seemed to be a lot of activity around it - too much to be a simple cave.<p>Could there be an underground passage to the [[Sparkling Bridge]]?}}
{{TErow| 28 |Day 28|I found [[Skizzik]] sniffing the ground this morning.  He pinched some dirt between his fingers, licked it with his long, black tongue.<p>"What is it?" I asked.  We couldn't get started until he mounted his pony.<p>"Me thinks me remember somethin'.  Yep, me remember gates blocking the way - big gates but me small and me dead.  They don't notice a tiny bucket-kicker like I used to be, so I just sneak through," [[Skizzik]] said.<p>"Gates?"<p>"Yep!  Me too big now - big [[Barbarian]] be noticed now, so we must find the Keymasters first!"}}
{{TErow| 37 |Day 37|Last night, [[Skizzik]] got a chance to test his hatchet in battle instead of on every tree and bush along the trail.  We caught some [[Fire Elemental]]s trying to burn our supply wagons.  The [[Familiar]] ran straight at them, screaming and swinging his weapon.  Unfortunately, his eyes were closed.  He hit an [[Orc]], one of my own troops, in the knee before he met the enemy.<p>Unfortunately, the [[Fire Elemental]]s weren't impressed.  One burned the weapon from [[Skizzik]]'s hands and would've turned the [[Familiar]] into a blackened spot on the ground if I hadn't arrived in time.<p>Afterward, I immediately summoned the armorer and ordered him to forge an axe that wouldn't break so easily.  If [[Skizzik]] was going to be a [[Barbarian]], he should at least have a decent weapon.}}
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