05-25-2015, 12:00 AM
Artifact #2 - "Shoes of funkiness"
Our team has just unearthed an artifact with a curious history. The papers found with the artifact tell that they were created by a local wizard for a young man who wished to woo his lady fair. Having learned that she had a penchant for dancers and being unable to dance himself the man, Rufus, approached the wizard and asked for shoes that would give him "as much control over my feet as I have over my mind". The wizard obliged the man, producing a pair of shoes with exactly that quality. Joyously Rufus put the shoes on, but no sooner had he started to get the feel of them then his shoes whisked him off of their own accord to the dance hall in which he'd planned to impress his crush. Spooked by both the speed and his apparent inability to control the shoes, Rufus thought about suing the wizard and was immediately whisked away again; this time to the local courthouse.
It did not take long for him to realize the shoes not only didn't help him to dance, they made it virtually impossible to perform any other task. When he sat down at a park bench to take them off a pretty woman happened by and he chased after her; struggling with the laces for 6 miles as she raced away from him while he stammered apologies. A policeman came around, and before he had a chance to arrest him Rufus ran straight to the jail thinking the whole time about how he didn't want to go there. Once there he was arrested and kept for 24 hours for being a public nuisance during which time he did manage to get the shoes off in jail and once more regained control of his body.
The next day, when Rufus was bringing the shoes back to the wizard to demand a refund and payment for having been the victim of such a cruel trick he was approached by Sago the Fool, who it appears bought the shoes right then and there from him for 10 times what he'd paid the wizard. Feeling better about the situation it seems Rufus decided to let it be at that, and for the next year there are many reports that Sago was seen running all over town, getting into all sorts of mischief. In spite of pressure from the police, he refused to remove the shoes even when he had opportunity too.
Not much more is known about these shoes, except that they were found in the house of a man known as Sago the Wise. Could he have been a relative?
Our team has just unearthed an artifact with a curious history. The papers found with the artifact tell that they were created by a local wizard for a young man who wished to woo his lady fair. Having learned that she had a penchant for dancers and being unable to dance himself the man, Rufus, approached the wizard and asked for shoes that would give him "as much control over my feet as I have over my mind". The wizard obliged the man, producing a pair of shoes with exactly that quality. Joyously Rufus put the shoes on, but no sooner had he started to get the feel of them then his shoes whisked him off of their own accord to the dance hall in which he'd planned to impress his crush. Spooked by both the speed and his apparent inability to control the shoes, Rufus thought about suing the wizard and was immediately whisked away again; this time to the local courthouse.
It did not take long for him to realize the shoes not only didn't help him to dance, they made it virtually impossible to perform any other task. When he sat down at a park bench to take them off a pretty woman happened by and he chased after her; struggling with the laces for 6 miles as she raced away from him while he stammered apologies. A policeman came around, and before he had a chance to arrest him Rufus ran straight to the jail thinking the whole time about how he didn't want to go there. Once there he was arrested and kept for 24 hours for being a public nuisance during which time he did manage to get the shoes off in jail and once more regained control of his body.
The next day, when Rufus was bringing the shoes back to the wizard to demand a refund and payment for having been the victim of such a cruel trick he was approached by Sago the Fool, who it appears bought the shoes right then and there from him for 10 times what he'd paid the wizard. Feeling better about the situation it seems Rufus decided to let it be at that, and for the next year there are many reports that Sago was seen running all over town, getting into all sorts of mischief. In spite of pressure from the police, he refused to remove the shoes even when he had opportunity too.
Not much more is known about these shoes, except that they were found in the house of a man known as Sago the Wise. Could he have been a relative?