Role

Chapter 8

Memorable days are often few in a life and them taken together can often summarize that life as if it were
the synopsis of a book. Oxias has had a few memorable days in his life. The day he met the dwarf, the day
he got his first wizard kill, the day his brother died and the day he became apprenticed as a mason. Oxias
recently had another such day, and while at the time the day was stressful and even frightening, it wound
up being one of the most memorable days of his life.

It was the day he defeated the fearsome Scarabite mummy, Undaraxyl, and the wretched Sevina. Twice.

Once again Sevina has shown her true colors by throwing her hat in the ring with a necromancer and once
again it caught Oxias by surprise. Only this time he prevailed, defeating both in combat. Now that sounds
pretty glorious, but, it does test ones mettle to fight a mummy in a graveyard and even more so to come
out on top. But what was most trying of all was what came after the battle.

Having defeated the pair in the Oryxx Steppes, Oxias found himself exhausted, sick with disease, and
unable to move. He rested there for nearly a day and still hadnt recovered enough strength to go home.
This was when he realized that the pair were coming back and he wouldnt be recovered in time to leave.

As Oxias knew, they summoned him back to the graveyard deep within the Steppes and flinging himself
into a bloodthirsty rage, Oxias was able to defeat the pair for the second time! And in the bloody rage he
found the strength to walk home but the mummy had different plans. It began summoning creatures to
oppose Oxias and prevent him from making it out alive. It was only by sheer force of will and a little bit
of luck that Oxias actually did make it back to the Battlerager Village. Once there he fell out of his rage,
near death, and slept an entire day. He then went and got drunk in celebration. Rare are such victories
over such powerful foes.

The elation of the wondrous victory was tempered soon after when he learned that he had once again been
passed over for Village leadership. He had a feeling things would occur this way and told himself he was
OK with it. If he could not be leader he would set his sights on another goal and try to earn the reputation
of MageSlayer. Two mummy skulls should certainly help there.