Weeds Meads and Steeds PDF
After an alcoholic wizard accidentally curses a forest, it’s up to a group of misfit adventurers to set things right. There’s Dranden, a saddle maker wanting to boost his business; Belfast, a ruggedly handsome man who is also dangerously clumsy; Toble, a smelly, disgusting goblin who wants to do some good with his miserable, wretched existence; Rendle, a dull-witted academic who’s entirely obsessed with amphibians; and finally Zelendra, a half-elf priestess who ran away from home in search of true love. But their relatively easy quest of chopping down an infected tree quickly turns dangerous as they uncover a deeply sinister plot that’s bigger and far more ancient than any of them could imagine. With the entire kingdom at risk these brave souls must battle an ice elemental, survive their evil twins, traverse the shadow realm, and destroy a rampaging monster; all while tripping over, getting lucky, or taking naps – whatever works! They learn how to set aside their differences and grapple with life’s big questions such as; can you trust your perception of reality, is chasing after love a noble pursuit, what are the metaphysics of luck, and do frogs taste better than chickens?
After an alcoholic wizard accidentally curses a forest, it’s up to a group of misfit adventurers to set things right. There’s Dranden, a saddle maker wanting to boost his business; Belfast, a ruggedly handsome man who is also dangerously clumsy; Toble, a smelly, disgusting goblin who wants to do some good with his miserable, wretched existence; Rendle, a dull-witted academic who’s entirely obsessed with amphibians; and finally Zelendra, a half-elf priestess who ran away from home in search of true love.
But their relatively easy quest of chopping down an infected tree quickly turns dangerous as they uncover a deeply sinister plot that’s bigger and far more ancient than any of them could imagine. With the entire kingdom at risk these brave souls must battle an ice elemental, survive their evil twins, traverse the shadow realm, and destroy a rampaging monster; all while tripping over, getting lucky, or taking naps – whatever works!
They learn how to set aside their differences and grapple with life’s big questions such as; can you trust your perception of reality, is chasing after love a noble pursuit, what are the metaphysics of luck, and do frogs taste better than chickens?
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C HASI NG R ABBITS<br />
strange objects. A few of them glowed with bright colors as if magical. Again,<br />
nothing a rabbit would be interested in, nor a meat-hungry goblin. And besides,<br />
all the stuff was so densely packed <strong>and</strong> convoluted, there was bound to be<br />
something dangerous lurking in one of the many hidden corners. Toble certainly<br />
wasn't dumb enough to stick his h<strong>and</strong> in any sort of sparkly basket or dark<br />
shadow.<br />
He continued descending the stairs to the bottom floor <strong>and</strong> found a room<br />
filled with gadgets on rows <strong>and</strong> rows of shelves. Solid stone made up the floor<br />
<strong>and</strong> walls, <strong>and</strong> the room appeared to be sunk more than halfway into the ground<br />
like a basement. Across the top of the furthest wall was a thin strip of window<br />
paneling, but Toble couldn't see out of it, since he was too low from the stairs <strong>and</strong><br />
was at a bad angle. However, the room looked to be close to where the crack was<br />
on the side of the mansion. If he had to guess, the greenery with the giant vine<br />
was somewhere to the left of here.<br />
A shadow shot across the room for only a moment, but caught Toble's eye.<br />
“Rabbit!” Toble blurted out. He didn't see what it really was, but the shadow<br />
was definitely shaped like a rabbit.<br />
Leaping from the staircase, Toble peered, sniffed, <strong>and</strong> even cupped his<br />
h<strong>and</strong>s around his ears to listen for any signs of the sneaky critter.<br />
It couldn't have just vanished again, Toble thought with disappointment<br />
since the room looked sealed.<br />
Voices of people suddenly echoed from the garden area, which sounded<br />
casual enough that they were probably the owners, <strong>and</strong> they were coming this<br />
way.<br />
Toble panicked, <strong>and</strong> darted his eyes around the room once more for an exit,<br />
but found none. He could go back the way he came, all the way up the stairs,<br />
because climbing down the side of the mansion would take a while. And if he had<br />
to jump, the fall could possibly kill him. The voices spoke in the common tongue<br />
<strong>and</strong> there seemed to be five of them as they traveled through the garden.<br />
“Good heavens.” An older man's voice cried out, which bellowed into the<br />
basement. “All of my vegetables! Eaten!”<br />
“Here's a few with some gnaw marks.” Another man said, his voice seeming<br />
average, similar to the many travelers Toble had looted <strong>and</strong> stuck with his daggers.<br />
“It better not be rabbit teeth marks,” The old man grunted with anger. “I'll<br />
transform Henry into a mouse for this.”<br />
Transform? Oh no, it must be a wizard, Toble shivered. He had broken into a<br />
wizard's mansion <strong>and</strong> had eaten most of the veggies in his garden. That would<br />
explain why the architecture was so unusual, held up by magic no doubt. This<br />
was bad, really bad.<br />
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