Seventeen adventurers gathered within the Faraway Leaf Inn to sit down and enjoy the good food and hearty drinks of the welcoming innkeeper. But they should have realized that their prime number was a portent of doom. Suddenly, the seventeen heard a terrifying rumbling outside. Being heroes, all seventeen of them grabbed their weapons and rushed outside towards the terrible noise. The seventeen soon discovered that the Basilisk was awake! As all seventeen were heroes and well armed, they were primed for battle and set off to defeat the beast.
The Basilisk is a fearsome redheaded beast that has three life stages and must receive five grievous wounds in each stage to be killed. Even more dangerous: once a life stage is defeated, the next stage is invincible to the weapon that last caused the Basilisk harm.
Undeterred by this zoological knowledge, a brave band of adventures charged in with close range combat weapons. Unfortunately, their long-range support decided to run in the opposite direction. Despite this cowardice, the heroes managed to take down the Basilisk’s first life stage but lost almost their entire number in the gruesome battle. The survivors of this battle eventually tracked down the fleeing ranged support team. Together they tracked down the Basilisk, and with the last remaining close range fighters running around the beast to distract it, the long-range warriors threw some grenades at the Basilisk which grievously wounded it twice. Unfortunately, the Basilisk grievously wounded all of the warriors. Inexplicably one of the warriors suddenly disappeared. Perhaps we will learn that story next time. All the remaining warriors died. The Basilisk then hunted down the one who had got away. They faced off in battle and the Basilisk was finally slain by a combination of multiple weapons from this one warrior, including grenades and bullets.
The reviving adventurers then learned that there was a traitor in their midst. And then another traitor, and another, and another, and another, and another. The uncovering of traitors went on until they were all found out and promptly slain.
After this hard day’s work, the adventurers trudged back to their home to lay down and sleep.
