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[h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2]
[b][color=FD0000]wordcount:[/color][/b]  564 (+1)
[b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 5 [/color][/b] EXP:[color=FD0000]////////////////////////[/color]////////////////////////// (24/50)
[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 3 [/color][/b] EXP:  [color=SpringGreen]////////////////////////[/color]////// (24/30)
[b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 3 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]///////////[/color]/////////////////// (11/30)
[b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] Lumbridge
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[color=FD0000]”Well that was vague”[/color] Bowser said after the fortune teller had left them with her predictions. 

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Unsurprising and but probably for the best.”[/color] Kamek replied, having both foretold and witnessed quite a few prophecies in his time. More importantly, unlike his king, he actually remembered quite a bit of the details involved in the predictions and their eventual outcomes [color=DeepSkyBlue]”The other alternative is highly specific but both lacking context and entirely self fulfilling. Either your actions create a fate you are trying to avoid, or a fate you want comes true and then is immediately undermined.”[/color]

[color=FD0000]”or its super cryptic hints at where to go to make progress. Bet if Mario where here she’d have said something like ‘go to where two streams meet and stomp your feet’”[/color] Bowser gave an appalling impression of Menat [color=FD0000]”Instead of showing us a vision of me back at the stupid cliff again and spouting a whole bunch of vague nonsense.”[/color] 

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”History does have a tendency to repeat itself”[/color] Kamek noted. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”and enjoy returning to where things first began in one reflection of that tendency. A rematch ending in defeat for Galeem on the same spot where it first claimed victory seems like the kind of sentimental poetic justice or irony is something prophecies seem rather fond of.”[/color]

[color=SpringGreen]”Also how come I wasn’t there with you!”[/color] Jr complained

The two elder koopas both thought about this with a touch of worry.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Perhaps you were simply elsewhere in the crowd? You have been going off on your own a lot lately”[/color] Kamek suggested

[color=FD0000]”Off leading your own army!”[/color] Bowser said, before his son could complain about being lost among the masses.

[color=SpringGreen]”Yeah! Coming from the side with the cavalry in a daring flanking maneuver”[/color] Jr perked himself easily enough with the thought. While the boy fantasizes about his legendary generalship his guardians exchanged concerned glances and a nod. They’d keep a closer eye on him, just in case.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”If there's anything safe to take from all that, it’s that someone needs fireproof gear, and someone else a tough shell to avoid backstabbing. If those were literal events anyway.”[/color] Kamek noted to try and move them away from the prediction involving them. As was foretold the discovery about their true nature continued to be avoided and no comments were made on the matter.

Idle conversation about the prophecies eventually ended as they arrived at the cookhouse. There they met Mina and received her grocery list. Or rather Geralt did. There was a bit of grumbling over that as king and mage looked at the list over his shoulder. 

The ingredient’s locations were then compared to the locations of the other quests. Even without knowing about them Geralt suggested the logical starting point of going to the forest first, to which they agreed.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”A simple arcing path seems advisable, we can pass by the mining quest at the canyon, hit up the forest, swing south for the wheat and then take on any of the southern quests after we’re done. Take a shot at the caves and field parts whenever we come across them.”[/color] 

The plan was made. Before setting of they first got descriptions of some of the plants and monsters they did not recognize and then acquiring some cheap sacks for transporting the ingredients. Then they  [color=SpringGreen]”finally”[/color] set off on their first real foray into the land of adventure.