Status Updates From Quests and Quandaries

Wow over at 87% and the rest the funny little footnotes. I’m glad everyone realized they can face their greatest fear and left to do so. The realignment of good vs evil was an interesting concept too.

They come to a land of bridges where the water receding brought economic hardship. Then they find the wolf’s people but he decides to leave them. They fly thru the air for a time. A little boring.

The evil overlord quest was longer? Maybe. I loved the “It’s a Vulture of Veracity,” Gamil said, wasting no time being evasive, exactly the sort of behavior I applauded. “As you might have guessed, it has the feature, shall we say, of being able to see precisely those truths we try to deny.”

“If assassins don’t look like assassins, how do you know they mean to kill you?”

They stumble into an odd thief vs assassin guild war. That both sides don’t even really take seriously? Then an evil overlord has an actor stage PR events so she can work in the background. Kind of funny?

They rescue a magical princess from a prince who wants to sacrifice her to a demon. I forgot t9 mention the storybook they’ve been using since arriving in Fairyland but they throw it away as they enter the Evil Empire. They also keep getting swords a la King Arthur for completing quests.

“Oh I always see the sensible path. Rarely do I take it though.”

GAHHHH I just hate her attitude. For not liking her she’s grown on me. This is certainly a different take on an epic quest fantasy! Loved the lizard that can talk. And the folding boat. And subverting your typical fairy tales.

This is so pithy it’s bizarre! I do love the wolf!

Hmm the princess is quite pithy. I’m not sure what to make of it. Her parents curse her to go on an adventure haha. We’ll see how that turns out. The action described was quite good, it didn’t get boring and was quite easy to visualize.

I’m digging the story and the dramatized character tropes, but the footnotes are intense (I’m currently on number 229) and a bit unwieldy to navigate in an ebook copy.