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Hercules, The Story Begins


Posted by EM Elizabella on 01/17/10


From the Reporter’s Notebook page of today’s Britain Post:

Chatting With Hercules: We Should All Be So Lucky

first in a four-part series

As we all know, Hercules the Brave is to be knighted by Her Majesty Queen Dawn at a Royal Banquet this Sunday. Our congratulations to those who will have the privilege of meeting this illustrious warrior! With all of his adventures, he must be a brilliant conversationalist. He is also said to have a beautiful singing voice and be a superb musician, so perhaps he will favor the banquet guests with a song or two.

For those of you who may have missed one or two of his mighty deeds, here are some of the ways in which the future Sir Hercules has served Britannia:

First Labor: The Ilshenarian Ant-Lion. Hercules slew the fearsome Ilshenarian Ant-Lion which had long terrorized Ilshenar’s largest gypsy encampment. The gypsies are said to be very grateful to him and are now regularly seen at the Ilshenar Compassion Shrine, likely to say prayers of thanks to their rescuer.

Second Labor: The Stygian Hydra. Long did Hercules war against this multi-headed beast that haunted the Stygian Abyss. He would cut off one of its heads only to see it re-grow as he fought the next one! Finally, Hercules and his team of vassals realized that if he used poison to cauterize the neck stump the head could not grow back. He cut off the Stygian Hydra’s heads and splashed the stumps with poison, one by one, until only the immortal head remained. This he sliced off with one mighty thwack of his sword. Hercules then surely put the immortal head somewhere secret and safe, where it could never regenerate a body for itself.

Third Labor: The Golden Hart of Moonglow. The people of Delucia wished to breed beautiful golden harts, such as are sometimes seen in the woods around Moonglow. After a long search, Hercules found that the Moonglow Royal Zoo had such a creature. He finally persuaded the zookeeper, Lady Artemis (see updates on her disappearance, page A-15), to lend him the glowing creature, which he then triumphantly brought to the grateful people of Delucia, where it remains still.


Comments:

Banquet Invitation, Jan. 17, at 4 pm CST « Great Lakes says:
January 17, 2010 at 10:20 am
[...] You recall hearing that Hercules is to be knighted. A reporter has been asking around about him, so you think you may be able to find an article about him in the next few days, somewhere or other. [...]

Galen says:
January 17, 2010 at 2:13 pm
"With all of his adventures, he must be a brilliant conversationalist."

*chuckles*

What was the Edith Hamilton quote? That in many of Hercules’s adventures, intelligence was notably absent?


-Galen’s player



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