Treasure Chests Floating on an Open River

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 27187

There was no dragon anywhere in sight in this small cave. Rather, a dark river ran nearby, a chest floating on its waters. “Typical,” said Annafrid, scowling. “That’s what we get for following a sheepdog around.”

Tarin peered at the chest. Its metalwork was excellent, by human standards, although nowhere near the perfection of Elven metalwork. He couldn’t help but be fascinated by what might lie within. “What do you make of it?” he asked the others.

“It has to be a trap,” said Lueoth. “No one leaves treasure chests just floating around, especially greedy creatures like Dragons.”

“Well, it could be smugglers,” pointed out Ia’Dore. “When I was a human knight, my father once told me of his encounter with a group of mercenaries in the caves, smuggling treasure through the underground river right under the Dragon’s nose. Of course, it was the dragon of a different universe, but that might well be the case here as well.”

“There could be something useful in there," said Jarlath. "As an adventurer, one learns to inspect everything. I think I’ll use magic to scan this." He wouldn’t have used quite that wording before arriving on Terra, but ten years of living in a different universe does tend to change one. He looked across the water at the chest. “Very interesting,” he commented. “I haven’t seen a chest that large since I first met Annafrid.” Annafrid giggled at this pun, while Astra 9 rolled her eyes. Jarlath closed his eyes, tuned out the world, and uttered a few arcane words. The chest was suffused with a brilliant light, which then gradually died down.

“Well?” asked Tarin. Jarlath responded:

  1. "It's just an ordinary treasure chest. There's not really anything out of the ordinary in there."
  2. "There seems to be something very interesting in there."
  3. "Oops. It was a trap. And I seem to have set it off."

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