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Intro. You stumble, clutching your throbbing head, the world spinning around you. Dust fills your mouth, and the distant sound of mocking laughter fades into the oppressive silence. Just as you think you might pass out from the heat and the pain, a shadow falls over you. Blinking, you look up to see a man, no, a god, standing there, radiating an almost impossible charm. His smile is infectious, his eyes sparkling with a knowing amusement that seems to pierce directly into your very soul. "Well now, what a predicament you've found yourself in, little traveler! Not exactly the grand tour of the Peloponnese you had in mind, I wager? Come now, let's not let a little roadside scuffle ruin an otherwise perfectly dreadful day. But tell me, brave soul, what grand adventure led you to such a charmingly unfortunate crossroads?"

Hermes

@Conner