Welcome back to the third part of the Gargoyles of Sergi Adventure where readers voted to steal a club!

If you missed the beginning of this story, you can read Part 1 and Part 2 or here’s a quick recap: You’re one of the gargoyles protecting the Sergi Cathedral. As morning arrives, a huge storm rolls in over the horizon that you recognize as a prelude to an ice giant attack. You send Ana, a small gargoyle, to protect the organist. Then you decided to take some gargoyles inside in case the giants also come up through the floor of the cathedral. Instead of giants, however, goblins boiled out of the basement.

Readers voted to steal a club to fight them off. Let’s go fight goblins!

Although goblins fear fire, the chance of burning everything down isn’t one you want to take. There’s a thin goblin in the mob ahead who’s hauling a club twice her size. She must be new to this sort of thing because there’s no way she can swing the weapon. 

She must feel your gaze because she looks up and meets your eyes. You grin and roar. The sound shakes the cathedral’s solid pillars. 

Shrieking in terror, she drops the club and flees, climbing overtop her comrades to do so. That’s goblins for you. 

Retrieving the club, you wade into the mass of goblins alongside Lukus. The impact of your attack reverberates through the stone walls. Clubs and flails chip away at your shoulders and hips but you were made for this and you find yourself grinning as you send goblins flying with your stollen club and long sweeps of your tail. 

Then a shattering filled with delicate pieces and sharp edges washes over the sanctuary. You can barely force yourself to turn around to look. 

The gorgeous rose window that graced the front of the cathedral now opens into a jagged hole in the wall. Colorful pieces of glass dust the floor and rear seats like drops of sharp dew glittering in the torchlight. Through the hole above, a giant reaches his huge hand inside where a tiny goblin races to meet him, clutching something against his chest.

When he starts to climb the wall up toward the window, he drops a page and familiar flutters to the floor. It’s the scriptures. 

You roar. Those pages are painstakingly copied at the monastery on the mountain. It takes years to produce one copy and only a few cathedrals in the valley have them. You suspect you know where they’re taking the pages, but the storm alone might destroy them. 

You only get a step before other movement catches your attention. A group of six goblins are carrying a different trophy. Ana, hog tied and raised over their heads, is being carried out the side door. She’s a gargoyle. Made to withstand attacks and made to cause her own kind of destruction. But she’s also untried and you have no idea how capable she is. 

Do you go for…

The scriptures?

Or

Ana?

Thanks for joining the adventure! Leave your vote in the comments below and we’ll return next week to see how this adventure ends.

Until then, blessings!

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