The adventurers sagas

(Verse 1) She came with a smile and a silver tongue, Said she walked beside us, said she was the one, But the bow she held was forged in an orcish flame— And when we were on the move, they knew we were coming - We ran into an ambush that will be sung about for ages. (Pre-Chorus) Sixty-five fell screaming to the stone, Green blood running rivers, bone on broken bone, And Fred — FRED — kept shouting "Can't we talk?!" While axes split the air where words could never walk. (Chorus) BURN IT DOWN! BRING THE MOUNTAIN LOW! Cave it in and let the fireball BLOW! What could possibly go wrong inside a sealed-up tomb? Just a sorcerer, some rubble, and a ROOM FULL OF BOOM! (Verse 2) She was in my grasp, that traitorous elf, One more strike and she'd have met the shelf Where the gods keep traitors and the oath-forsaken dead— But a half-orc witch tore her away instead. Healed her wounds while I stood cursing fate, Resurrection prayers for the friends who weren't so late, Brothers fallen, sisters brought back from the black— The gods gave us a boon and we are NOT giving it back! (Chorus) BURN IT DOWN! BRING THE MOUNTAIN LOW! Cave it in and let the fireball BLOW! What could possibly go wrong when the ceiling starts to crack? Just a party full of idiots who always circle back! (Bridge — spoken/growled) Fred says: "Perhaps we could negotiate?" The orcs say: We would rather die. The swordmaster agrees to their terms! Fred says: "I really think diplomacy—" The sorcerer says: "FIREBALL." (Final Chorus) BURN IT DOWN! THE GODS ARE ON OUR SIDE! Sixty-five orcs slaughtered, one elf denied! What could possibly go wrong? EVERYTHING. AND YET WE RIDE! Through the cavern, through the fire — WE SURVIVED!

Seven months of black between the stars Seven months we learned to read the dark A Minotaur stood watch at every helm Taught us how to sail an empty realm He named the ship the Rat's Nest with a grin Said "every man aboard her is my kin" He had a wife, he had a son back home A floating land where he was once alone He never spoke about the day they fell He carried it like iron, like a bell Roghan, raise the sail Roghan, ride the gale You taught us how to crew the dying light You taught us how to fight Roghan, take the wheel Make the bargain real Even if you save them, even if you win You can't go home again The Beholder bled in nine directions wide We watched our rogue dissolve and turn the tide He said "I have one more thing left to do" Pulled out the sextant, said his last adieu "The other me is standing in that field The other me is holding up the shield I can save my family from the day they died But I can't be the one who stands beside" He shook the wizard's hand and called him friend He pushed the skiff toward where the worlds end Roghan, raise the sail Roghan, ride the gale You taught us how to crew the dying light You taught us how to fight Roghan, take the wheel Make the bargain real Even if you save them, even if you win You can't go home again A captain knows the price of every chart A captain pays it with a quiet heart He gave the ship away, he gave the gold He kept the only weight he couldn't hold Roghan, raise the sail Roghan, ride the gale You crossed the singularity alone A second life you'll never call your own Roghan, take the wheel Make the bargain real Even if you save them, even if you win You can't go home again You can't go home again

From Stone Hollow where the anvils ring A peasant boy who'd be no king Left hand on the hilt, green eyes like the wood Aldric swore he'd fight for good Thirty stones of strength behind the blade A sword so sharp the dark itself is afraid Aldric the Bold! Aldric the Bold! Four times the damage of any mortal man Five times the fury a dwarf could ever land Raise your tankard, hear the story told Nobody swings like Aldric the Bold! Chain mail head to boot, shield upon his arm Six foot seven, two hundred ten of harm The great sword sings when it catches light Crit eighteen up — good night, good night Left hand brings the thunder, right hand holds the ale Every swing's a sermon, every cut a tale Aldric the Bold! Aldric the Bold! Four times the damage of any mortal man Five times the fury a dwarf could ever land Raise your tankard, hear the story told Nobody swings like Aldric the Bold! They said a peasant couldn't rise They said a swordsmith couldn't fight But Stone Hollow raised a lion And the lion learned to bite Aldric the Bold! Aldric the Bold! Four times the damage of any mortal man Five times the fury a dwarf could ever land Raise your tankard, hear the story told Nobody swings like Aldric the Bold! Aldric! Aldric! Aldric the Bold!

Before the sun had learned to rise Before the moon was set in place We opened up our newborn eyes And starlight fell upon our face We spoke the first words ever heard We named the rivers and the trees The wind itself learned every word And carried them on evening breeze And in the dark before the dawn Before the lesser lights were drawn We sang Beneath the stars we sang the world awake Our voices rang through silver wood and silver lake Before the hammer fell, before the anvil's cry We wove our music through the sky And we are singing still Our blades were forged in moonlit flame No furnace roar, no bellowed heat We whisper steel and speak its name And what we craft needs no repeat Our towers rise like morning light Our cloaks are sewn from dusk and dew We do not dig through endless night And call the darkness something new We do not shake the earth and boast Of what was buried, what was lost We sing Beneath the stars we sang the world awake Our voices rang through silver wood and silver lake Before the hammer fell, before the anvil's cry We wove our music through the sky And we are singing still But there is this — a truth we bear That joy and sorrow share one thread We watch the forests thin to air We sing the names of all our dead The mortal races burn so bright And fade like embers in the rain We hold their memory in our light And carry what they can't retain BENEATH THE STARS WE SANG THE WORLD AWAKE OUR VOICES RANG THROUGH SILVER WOOD AND SILVER LAKE WHEN EVERY FORGE HAS COOLED AND EVERY AIL GONE DRY OUR SONG WILL ECHO THROUGH THE SKY AND WE WILL STILL BE SINGING Still be singing... Beneath the stars... We sang...

Aldrick the Bold was three pints deep With a dwarf he'd met that afternoon Zerus hit the double pints And the whole damn tavern smelled like doom Some skinny guy across the bar Points a finger our direction Says hey big arms, I bet you can't Beat the local legend's collection This barbarian had a pile of coin Seven hundred eighty silver tall Been arm wrestling since the morning sun And he hadn't lost a single fall He did some pull-ups on the rafters From his pinkies just to show Aldrick looked him in the eye And said alright then, let's go The wizard bet a hundred gold The rogue bet fifty on the side The tree put down what trees put down And everybody picked a side Best two out of three That's what I said when he broke my arm Best two out of three Switched my hands and kept my charm You can snap the bone but not the man I'll beat you with the other hand Best two out of three Best two out of three Round one, the barkeep yelled out go He slammed so hard the table cracked Natural one, my arm just snapped And the whole bar winced and the wizard laughed But I looked up from the floor and said Hey big man, that's just the left We got right hands, we got one more round And I ain't finished yet The healer used the rod real quick Five on the die, the bone set clean I stood back up, five foot seven Meanest thing that bar had seen Best two out of three That's what I said when he broke my arm Best two out of three Switched my hands and kept my charm You can snap the bone but not the man I'll beat you with the other hand Best two out of three Best two out of three Round two he rolled a twenty I thought my shoulder'd leave my frame But the gods gave me a twenty too And we shook that table like a hurricane Round three, he's pumping up again Breaking chairs to prove he's tough I sat down quiet, grabbed his fist And said friend, I've had enough Thirteen favor from the gods above Every ounce of stubborn in my veins Several minutes locked like bulls And the sweat ran down like Canyon Lake rains Then his knuckles hit the wood And the tavern shook the walls I took a hundred fifty coin And I bought a round for all Best two out of three That's what he said when I broke his arm Best two out of three Switched his hands and kept his charm You can snap the bone but not the man He'll beat you with the other hand Best two out of three Best two out of three And I tossed the big man a coin for his drink Because that's what bold men do

He rode with the party through dungeon and den The bravest of rogues, the boldest of men He could shift his face into anyone's form He was Zach the Magnificent — fearless and sworn Brave Sir Zach! Brave Sir Zach! Brave Sir Zach rode forth that day When danger appeared he found a new way He climbed and he scrambled and slipped through a crack Brave Sir Zach — he made it back! Two dragons descended from shadows above He wore Nera's face — close enough, close enough! But when the beast spoke in its ancient Draconic Sir Zach had no answer — the silence was sonic Brave Sir Zach! Brave Sir Zach! Brave Sir Zach rode forth that day When danger appeared he found a new way He climbed and he scrambled and slipped through a crack Brave Sir Zach — he made it back! Aldrick fought on til his guts hit the floor The Wizard tried magic — the dragons wanted more Ambry and Astra were torn apart fast And Zach used his movement — to get out of the blast They call it a wipe, they call it a loss They say that the dragons were clearly the boss But one man survived by his wit and his climb And Zach buys the drinks at the tavern — every time Brave Sir Zach! Brave Sir Zach! Brave Sir Zach rode forth that day When danger appeared he found a new way He climbed and he scrambled and slipped through a crack Brave Sir Zach — he made it back! He made it back! He made it back! Brave Sir Zach — he made it back!

There's a cup upon a broken stone Where a wizard's tower used to stand Floating in the black between the stars On an asteroid no map has planned They say it stops the price of age Keeps the drinker from the grave But we don't want to live forever We just want to save The chalice of ages, the chalice of light Holding back death for one more fight Marius is waiting where the watcher keeps his chains We'll drink the cup and break the door And bring him home again Cinder carries what he left behind A child that's never gonna know his face She don't ask us for revenge or blood She just says please, bring him to this place Aldrick drinks to dull the guilt Of the day the dragon won But guilt don't leave, it just gets quiet Like a bell that's almost done The chalice of ages, the chalice of light Holding back death for one more fight Marius is waiting where the watcher keeps his chains We'll drink the cup and break the door And bring him home again We stood at the edge of a caved-in stair Night sight blessing on our eyes Seven cat folk, a tree, a dwarf A wizard, a rogue, and a prayer Going down into the dark Because that's where the light has to go Zool the Watcher sewed their eyes shut Carved his symbol in their heads Eight thousand years behind a cage And he's still making people dead But we killed his puppet Nall Stripped divinity from bone And if a god can bleed and die Then a watcher can be overthrown The chalice of ages, the chalice of light Holding back death for one more fight Marius is waiting where the watcher keeps his chains We'll drink the cup and break the door We'll drink the cup and break the door And bring him home again We'll bring him home again

We buried two cats in the dust and the dark Gip and Ren fell but they left us a spark Nine lives ain't enough when the shadows run deep But we made a promise that we're gonna keep Rangers up front and the mages locked in Fighters got steel and a hellfire grin Clerics are prayin' but their knuckles are white We don't need permission to bring the fight We're coming for you Yeah we're coming for you Through the gateway and the fire and the cosmic black We're coming for you And we ain't coming back Till it's done Old god in a cage thinks he's pulling the strings Zul the Watcher don't know what the morning brings Had a puppet named N'all but we cut every thread Now we're climbing the ladder to the throne overhead Potion on our lips and the years fall away Jaded Lady's down and there's hell to pay Glam at the gate ain't seen nothing yet We're the debt that the darkness can't forget We're coming for you Yeah we're coming for you Through the gateway and the fire and the cosmic black We're coming for you And we ain't coming back Till it's done Catmoore sent twenty Only nine made it through They held the line Now we're finishing what they started too We're coming for you Yeah we're coming for you Through the gateway and the fire and the cosmic black We're coming for you And we ain't coming back Till it's done Coming for you Yeah we're coming for you Coming for you Yeah we're coming for you better watch out Yeah we're coming for you

Standing in the dungeon, hear the dice click GM rolls the monsters, says the ambush hits But I draw my longsword and I feel the weight Every swing I take, brother, seals their fate If it's eighteen or better, it's a crit for me And the table goes quiet 'cause they all can see If you're lost, you can look and you will find me Crit after crit If you fall, I will catch you, I'll be waiting Crit after crit Crit after crit Crit after crit Goblins in the morning, ogres after noon Dragon by the evening, and a lich by moon Some folks count their coppers, some folks count their gold I just count the bodies and the tales that get told When Aldric swings hard and Aldric swings true Ain't a thing on this earth that a man can't do If you're lost, you can look and you will find me Crit after crit If you fall, I will catch you, I'll be waiting Crit after crit Then the moment came that I still can't explain Two dice on the table, both of them the same Twenty and twenty, twin stars in my hand Couldn't force it, couldn't fake it, couldn't plan The whole table went silent, then the whole table roared And I knew in that moment I was blessed by the dice lord If you're lost, you can look and you will find me Crit after crit If you fall, I will catch you, I'll be waiting Crit after crit Crit after crit Crit after crit Crit after crit Crit after crit Crit after crit Crit after crit

Gather 'round the table, let me tell you how it goes There's a word we do not utter and a name we don't propose For the die upon the table has a memory and a mind And the words you speak above it are the curse you leave behind The die came up, the die came low The whole damn table watched it go Don't say it, don't say it, don't say it at the table Don't say it, don't say it, don't say it if you're able The words will curse the wood, the wood will curse the roll And the die will take your gold, and the die will take your soul Don't say it, don't say it, don't say it at the table Now Hawk the Rogue was nocking up a shot he couldn't miss Disintegration arrow, and he turned to us and hissed "Brothers, I have got this, there's no way I'll roll a —" Well the arrow left his bowstring and it did not go where it ought The die came up, the die came low The whole damn table watched it go Don't say it, don't say it, don't say it at the table Don't say it, don't say it, don't say it if you're able The words will curse the wood, the wood will curse the roll And the die will take your gold, and the die will take your soul Don't say it, don't say it, don't say it at the table Aldric took it in the britches, thirty-four clean through Looked at Hawk with murder but the die weren't done, 'twas true Turned to swing at nothing and the curse was still in flight Poor Xarius the Dwarf took twenty-two that night The die came up, the die came slow The whole damn table watched it go Don't say it, don't say it, don't say it at the table Don't say it, don't say it, don't say it if you're able The words will curse the wood, the wood will curse the roll And the die will take your gold, and the die will take your soul Don't say it, don't say it, don't say it at the table Now Cyrus at the arena spun the wheel to take his fate Sixteen years of labor or a champion's gate Closed his eyes and rolled the bones, came up eleven fair But a one and one together is the oldest curse there He cried out to the heavens and he begged for grace to spare And it took him nine whole favors of the gods to get him there The die came up a twenty when the gods had paid his debt 'Cause the words you do not speak are the only mercy left Now the new lad at the table, he don't know the rule He looked around the party like we're playing him the fool He said "what's the big deal, what's the harm, what's the fuss? Just roll the bloody dice and tell me what comes up for us — And boys, whatever happens, I'll be damned before I —" DON'T SAY IT, don't say it, don't say it at the table DON'T SAY IT, don't say it, don't say it if you're able The words will curse the wood, the wood will curse the roll And the die will take your gold, and the die will take your soul Don't say it, don't say it, don't say it at the table Don't say it at the table Don't say it at the table Don't say it at the table Don't say it at the table

Gather 'round, ye students of the chronicles of man There's a lesson in the ledger since the ledger first began Every empire, every admiral, every fool who wore a crown Said a word above the table, and the die came tumbling down The die came up, the die came low The whole damn world watched it go Don't say it, don't say it, don't say it through the ages Don't say it, don't say it, it's written on the pages The words will curse the wood, the wood will curse the roll And the die will take your kingdom, and the die will take your soul Don't say it, don't say it, don't say it through the ages Priam saw the wooden horse a-standing at his gate Said "the Greeks have sailed for home, and we have celebrated late" Said "bring the gift inside the walls, pour the wine and sing — There's nothing left to fear tonight, no Greek, no spear, no —" Well the belly of the horse cracked wide, and history did the rest And Troy went down in firelight for the words he should've pressed The die came up, the die came low The whole damn world watched it go Don't say it, don't say it, don't say it through the ages Don't say it, don't say it, it's written on the pages The words will curse the wood, the wood will curse the roll And the die will take your kingdom, and the die will take your soul Don't say it, don't say it, don't say it through the ages Bonaparte stood on the ridge with a hundred thousand spears He'd whipped the kings of Europe and he'd conquered through the years Said "the Prussians will not make it, and the British line will break — There is nothing on this muddy field that I cannot —" Well Blücher came a-marching and the Old Guard turned to run And the sun went down on empire for a word beneath the gun The die came up, the die came low The whole damn world watched it go Don't say it, don't say it, don't say it through the ages Don't say it, don't say it, it's written on the pages The words will curse the wood, the wood will curse the roll And the die will take your kingdom, and the die will take your soul Don't say it, don't say it, don't say it through the ages Now the ship was made of iron and her keel was made of pride Forty-six thousand tons of steel and a ballroom four decks wide The builder raised a glass of champagne high into the air Said "God himself could not send her down, no berg, no squall, no prayer" The band was playing ragtime when the lookout gave the call And the stars above the Atlantic watched the greatest of them fall Fifteen hundred souls went quiet to the cold and waiting deep For a word spoke in a shipyard that the sea had sworn to keep Custer at the Rosebud River told the papers with a grin "There ain't enough of Sitting Bull's to whip the Seventh in" Rode up to the Little Bighorn with his sabers and his pride Two hundred twenty cavalry and nowhere left to hide And the hills came down around him like a judgment long foretold For the words he gave the newsmen were the words that bought his gold The die came up, the die came slow The whole damn world watched it go Don't say it, don't say it, don't say it through the ages Don't say it, don't say it, it's written on the pages The words will curse the wood, the wood will curse the roll And the die will take your kingdom, and the die will take your soul Don't say it, don't say it, don't say it through the ages Now ye'd think that after Troy and Moscow, Belfast and the Horn That the sons of man would learn the word their fathers' fathers mourned But an ad man in Atlanta in the summer of eighty-five Looked at ninety-nine years of cola and he said "it's time to thrive — The new formula is perfect, and the focus groups agree — There is nothing that could possibly go wrong with —" DON'T SAY IT, don't say it, don't say it through the ages DON'T SAY IT, don't say it, it's written on the pages The words will curse the wood, the wood will curse the roll And the die will take your kingdom, and the die will take your soul Don't say it, don't say it, don't say it through the ages Don't say it through the ages Don't say it through the ages Don't say it through the ages Don't say it through the ages

Born beneath the mountain stone Ailguard blood and Ailguard bone Silver locks and silver eyes Hammered steel beneath the skies Forge ran hot since I was thirty Hands like iron, mouth ran dirty Every blade I bent and beat Paid for with another's meat They say a smith should know his place Keep his head down, guard his face But I never learned that trade I drink first and then get paid I'm the drunken blacksmith, hammer in my hand I'll shoe your horse or break your jaw Depending on my plans Pour another round, boys, the forge is burning bright I'm the drunken blacksmith And I'm drinking through the night Walked into a tavern hall Smelled like blood and alcohol Some fool pointed at my chair Said hey short stuff, over there I stood up, all five foot two Said friend I've got a hammer too But mine ain't hanging on no wall Mine's the one that breaks your skull They say a dwarf should dig for gold Do what he's told, grow old But I was born to swing and drink And I don't care what tall folk think I'm the drunken blacksmith, hammer in my hand I'll shoe your horse or break your jaw Depending on my plans Pour another round, boys, the forge is burning bright I'm the drunken blacksmith And I'm drinking through the night Anram bless this heavy hand God of war, you understand Courage ain't the absence of the fear It's swinging anyway And ordering another beer We're the drunken blacksmiths, hammers in our hands We'll forge your swords or start a brawl Depending on our plans Pour another round, boys, the forge is burning bright We're the drunken blacksmiths And we're drinking through the night Hammer down! Drink up! Hammer down! Drink up!

We came to kill a god and we got him good Splattered on the obsidian where the throne once stood He had nine eyes and a whirly little cap Now he's just a stain and a thunderclap What do you do when the boss is dead? You laugh in the face of what he said EYEBALL JUICE! EYEBALL JUICE! The big bad god turned into eyeball juice! Summon a piano! Summon an anvil! Drop it on his head and call it final! EYEBALL JUICE! EYEBALL JUICE! The big bad god turned into eyeball juice! Wayne rolled a one and the GM smiled Sikka got petrified, Sikka got wild Ambry got vaporized, brought her back to life The party never quits, ain't no end to the strife What do you do when the world's gone weird? You ride it out and you stroke your beard EYEBALL JUICE! EYEBALL JUICE! The big bad god turned into eyeball juice! Summon a piano! Summon an anvil! Drop it on his head and call it final! EYEBALL JUICE! EYEBALL JUICE! The big bad god turned into eyeball juice! "I summon a five thousand pound anvil." "Do a classic. Summon a piano." THIS IS HOW WE FIGHT GODS EYEBALL JUICE! EYEBALL JUICE! The big bad god turned into eyeball juice! Summon a piano! Summon an anvil! Drop it on his head and call it final! EYEBALL JUICE! EYEBALL JUICE! The big bad god turned into eyeball juice!

They cheered my name for fifty weeks, five years they called me king Every kill a coin, every coin a thing Built a house I did not live in, bought a grass that did not grow Spent the rest on sages, learning what I had to know Hidden in the floorboards was the work I'd paid to find Maps of distant kingdoms, names a god had left behind Every swing I took out there was funding what waits in here And the crowd that cheered a monster never saw the scholar's tears I dropped the key upon the doorstep I will not need it where I'm going I built the maze I walked its every hall I laid the stone and mortared up the wall And every road I ever walked, I walked it all To find the one door out I built the maze These five beside me are not kin, they are not friends of mine They are fellow travelers heading down the selfsame line Each of them is chasing something only they can name And I wish them well, but I am not their flame I dropped the key upon the doorstep I will not need it where I'm going I built the maze I walked its every hall I laid the stone and mortared up the wall And every road I ever walked, I walked it all To find the one door out I built the maze Zool I have carried your name like a stone in my chest Through every arena, through every conquest Through the house I did not live in, through the years I did not rest You have been the only compass that I ever needed pressed Against my heart, against my breath, against my every step I was always going there I was always going there The Bleak Horizon waits ahead, three hundred years per breath I have shed the weight of living so I can outrun death Horn before me, ship beneath me, nothing left to keep I was always going there And now the road is steep I built the maze I walked its every hall I laid the stone and mortared up the wall And every road I ever walked, I walked it all To find the one door out I built the maze I built the maze I built the maze

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Gary fell before we learned his name Marius melted in that cursed flame She took his soul, she took his wife She took his child, she took his life We walked right back into that trap Same damn door for the third damn time Dimensional snare, she knew we'd come But we're too stubborn, too damn dumb Minus forty on the hit points Dragon tore me limb from limb Healing up on ale and anger Tell me when did that stop working I didn't hear no bell Knock me down I'm getting up I didn't hear no bell Break my arm I'll use the other one Drag me through the fire and the void Curse my name and steal my friend I didn't hear no bell So ring it again Saved the last damn unicorn alive Killed a god who shouldn't have survived Snuck the potion down his throat Stripped his divinity and watched him choke Now a watcher's eye is sewn in skin Mouths sewn shut so they can't scream He took our brother to some cage of stars But we've been further, we've got scars Twenty cats went in, seven came back out Nine lives left between them all We lost count of ours a long time back But we answer every call I didn't hear no bell Knock me down I'm getting up I didn't hear no bell Break my arm I'll use the other one Drag me through the fire and the void Curse my name and steal my friend I didn't hear no bell So ring it again They say be fully prepared to die If you adventure at our side We smiled and said we know We've done it seven times before I didn't hear no bell Knock me down I'm getting up I didn't hear no bell Break my arm I'll use the other one Drag me through the fire and the void Curse my name and steal my friend I didn't hear no bell I didn't hear no bell I didn't hear no bell

The Lich's Last Laugh Heavy Metal / Thrash Style - ~3:00 (Dark, heavy palm-muted riff with eerie lead guitar melody) Through the crystal ball he's watching Every move, every breath Ancient lich is slowly plotting Orchestrating their death Rogue falls first to blades and gears Mechanical trap springs tight Barbarian burns in searing fear Magical flames ignite Wizard faces twisted riddles Sanity slips away Mind unravels in the middle Madness comes to stay Cleric's soul the lich has taken Risen as the damned Paladin's faith is breaking Cuts him down by his own hand One by one they're falling Death's design complete Paladin stands alone now Victory... or defeat? The lich's last laugh! Illusions guide the blade! False phylactery! The deception's made! Magical protections! Trickery and lies! The paladin is leaving! But the lich survives! (Fast, technical guitar solo with dark melodic undertones) Holy warrior strikes the vessel Crystal shatters, light explodes Thinks he's won the final battle Walks the lonely road But the scrying orb still glowing In the shadows, cold and dark Skeletal grin is showing The lich has hit his mark Party dead and scattered Champion deceived Everything that mattered Lost to what he believed The lich's last laugh! Illusions guide the blade! False phylactery! The deception's made! Magical protections! Trickery and lies! The paladin is leaving! But the lich survives! (Slow, doom-laden riff) He thinks... He won... But death... Lives on... (Building intensity) The trap was set! The bait was laid! The lich's not dead! THE HERO'S PLAYED! The lich's last laugh! Echoes through the halls! The paladin was tricked! As darkness falls! Victory was hollow! The phylactery remains! The undead king still follows! ETERNAL IS HIS REIGN! (Creeping, ominous riff slowing down) (Spoken/whispered with effects) "Foolish paladin... did you really think... it would be... that easy?"

Vanta black walls and the gravity doubled down Priests with their eyes sewn shut in a sightless crown Stone men with no nerves and no need to feel pain We bled on the obsidian and bled again He unfolded his wings in the dark Nine pupils locked on every heart Nine eyes! One ray each! Nine eyes! Out of reach! Take him out one little eyeball at a time Take him out one little eyeball at a time Beholders don't cry There's no crying in beholders Take him out one little eyeball at a time Disintegration, petrify, the death and the negative plane Telekinesis and a few we never learned to name Ambry vanished in a flash of nothing-light Her ageless soul went streaming toward his sight He fed on every year we'd never live The price of every breath we had to give Nine eyes! One ray each! Nine eyes! Out of reach! Take him out one little eyeball at a time Take him out one little eyeball at a time Beholders don't cry There's no crying in beholders Take him out one little eyeball at a time Haste on the cleric, haste on the rogue Haste on the warrior carrying the load Wizard's got a cube and the cube's got fire Aim it at the eye and we'll bury the liar One eye! Down! Two eyes! Down! Three eyes! Down! Keep counting! Nine eyes! One ray each! Nine eyes! Out of reach! Take him out one little eyeball at a time Take him out one little eyeball at a time Beholders don't cry There's no crying in beholders Take him out one little eyeball at a time EYEBALL JUICE!

They crept through Nah-zug's chamber in the dead of night They took her gold and her bolts of cloth so bright They found a rug with symbols in the center of the room A mage hand rolled it gently — into the bag of doom Nobody asked the rug Nobody thought to say We have here a weapon of considerable weight We'll just stuff it away for another day Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha They argued on the road about the thing inside the bag Could you throw it on an orc and watch the orc just sag? Could you roll it out in battle upside down and let it feed? They decided it was dangerous — more than they would need Nobody asked the rug Nobody thought to say We have here a weapon of considerable weight We'll just stuff it away for another day Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha The portal opened into darkness Sixty feet below the stone Cinder's head was on a post And they were very much alone Two shadows stirred above them Two shadows with wings and breath The bag of holding sat there waiting Patient as death Aldrick swung his sword until his sword swung no more The Wizard wore Nah-zug's face but forgot what it was for Ambry and Astra fell to tooth and claw and flame And the bag sat in the corner playing nobody's game Nobody asked the rug Nobody thought to say We have here a weapon of considerable weight We'll just stuff it away for another day Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha A dragon stepping onto that rug would simply cease to soar Two dragons on that rug would be two dragons nevermore The symbols were still glowing at the bottom of the bag While Zach climbed through the ceiling and the rest of them just sagged The bag sits in the pit now The dragons circle overhead The rug waits in the darkness Among the quiet dead It doesn't know it missed its chance It doesn't know at all It only knows it's ready For whenever something falls Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha Ha-ha

(Verse 1) When the battle's done and the dust has cleared, When the last orc falls and the path is weird, There's a man who sheathes his axe and grabs a pan— Fred the Tribeless, barbarian, culinary man. (Verse 2) He'll gut the beast that tried to take his head, Season it with herbs he found beside the dead, Debone it with the blade that split an orcish shield, Turn a battlefield into a five-star yield. (Chorus) KILL IT! CLEAN IT! SEASON IT WITH RAGE! Sear it on a fire built from a wizard's cage! Serve it to the hungry on a dented iron plate— Fred the Chef, the Tribeless, making dinner GREAT! (Verse 3) "Can we talk about this?" Fred says to the foe, Then when talking fails, he lets the cleaver throw, Harvests what he's slain like any craftsman would— Waste not, want not — orcmeat's pretty good. (Bridge) A pinch of salt from a dead man's pouch, Rosemary pulled from a dragon's couch, Slow roast on a pyre meant for funeral rites— Fred feeds the party through the darkest nights. (Final Chorus) KILL IT! CLEAN IT! SERVE IT WITH A SMILE! The barbarian chef who goes the extra mile! From negotiation to decapitation to a beautiful filet— Fred the Tribeless feeds the heroes at the end of every day! FRED! FRED! FRED THE TRIBELESS! KILL IT! [stomp stomp] CLEAN IT! [stomp stomp] GRILL IT! (stomp stomp) SERVE! FRED! FRED! FRED THE TRIBELESS! CHOP IT! [stomp stomp] SPICE IT! [stomp stomp] SLICE IT! [stomp stomp] SERVE! (Final — all together, fists on table) HE TALKS! THEY DIE! HE COOKS! WE EAT! HE TALKS! THEY DIE! HE COOKS! WE EAT! FRED! FRED! FRED! THE! TRIBE-LESS!

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Captain Rogan stamped his hoof On the deck of the Rat's Nest Said if you sail with me today Be fully prepared to die The rat folk climbed the golden mast And wound the woven sails The harbor fell behind like a prayer We'd never pray again We carry the weight of a stolen soul And a promise we refuse to break There's a chalice in the stars somewhere And it's ours for Marius's sake Sail to the stars, sail to the stars Through the veil where the atmosphere scars Gold-woven sails catch celestial light We're sailing to the stars tonight The gravity let go like an old man's grip And the sky turned inside out A barrier of magic held the air While the void crept all about An asteroid of blackened stone A wizard's tower crushed and gone We stood at the edge of the ruined stairs And we knew we had to go down We carry the name of a fallen friend And a fire that won't go cold There's a cup that stops the price of age And a soul that must be told Sail to the stars, sail to the stars Through the veil where the atmosphere scars Gold-woven sails catch celestial light We're sailing to the stars tonight A stick-man stole our rations A cat-thief grabbed the pouch The galley food could kill a man But we didn't hear no bell We never heard no bell Sail to the stars, sail to the stars Through the veil where the atmosphere scars Gold-woven sails catch celestial light We're sailing to the stars We're sailing to the stars We're sailing to the stars tonight

Eight thousand years ago the gods went dark Chained the Watcher in the void beyond the stars The cats of Catmoore sent their twenty warriors out Only nine came back and two of them died too We carry what they carried, we walk where they walked We know the names they whispered, we know the door they unlocked Vrogonn read the pages no living man should read The flask is in his satchel, and the flask is what we need Cosmic city first, then the pool of light Where good men stand with good men's swords to guard it through the night We will ask them once to let us pass We will ask them twice, and then the die is cast To the Bleak Horizon, to the Bleak Horizon Eight thousand years for every step we take To the Bleak Horizon, to the Bleak Horizon We will spend our lives for what our fathers could not break Aldrick's still got a bone that clicks Zerus drank the morning dry, he'll drink the evening too The wizard knows the words, the ranger knows the way Vrogonn knows the price, and none of us will say We are not the heroes of the songs they sing at home We are what the old gods left behind to finish what they'd sown The Sol-light shines on good men, the Sol-light shines on us But the flask fills once or never, and the Watcher ends or doesn't Cosmic city first, then the pool of life Where the followers of Sol will draw their blades in righteous strife We will ask them once to let us pass We will ask them twice, and then the die is cast To the Bleak Horizon, to the Bleak Horizon Eight thousand years for every step we take To the Bleak Horizon, to the Bleak Horizon We will spend our lives for what our fathers could not break What does it cost to kill a god? A name you loved, a hand you had, a year, a decade, a thousand years What does it cost to kill a god? Every song you ever sang and every tear you never cried The Watcher is watching, he's been watching all along He watched us sail the golden ship, he watched us right this wrong He is older than the horizon, older than the stars But older than Zul is the pool, and the pool is ours To the Bleak Horizon, to the Bleak Horizon Eight thousand years for every step we take To the Bleak Horizon, to the Bleak Horizon We will spend our lives for what our fathers could not break To the Bleak Horizon, to the Bleak Horizon The flask is full, the cage will not hold To the Bleak Horizon, to the Bleak Horizon We go in young, we come out old

Eight thousand years ago the gods went dark Chained the Watcher in the void beyond the stars The cats of Catmoore sent their twenty warriors out Only nine came back and two of them died too We carry what they carried, we walk where they walked We know the names they whispered, we know the door they unlocked Vrogonn read the pages no living man should read The flask is in his satchel, and the flask is what we need Cosmic city first, then the pool of light Where good men stand with good men's swords to guard it through the night We will ask them once to let us pass We will ask them twice, and then the die is cast To the Bleak Horizon, to the Bleak Horizon Eight thousand years for every step we take To the Bleak Horizon, to the Bleak Horizon We will spend our lives for what our fathers could not break Aldrick's still got a bone that clicks Zerus drank the morning dry, he'll drink the evening too The wizard knows the words, the ranger knows the way Vrogonn knows the price, and none of us will say We are not the heroes of the songs they sing at home We are what the old gods left behind to finish what they'd sown The Sol-light shines on good men, the Sol-light shines on us But the flask fills once or never, and the Watcher ends or doesn't Cosmic city first, then the pool of life Where the followers of Sol will draw their blades in righteous strife We will ask them once to let us pass We will ask them twice, and then the die is cast To the Bleak Horizon, to the Bleak Horizon Eight thousand years for every step we take To the Bleak Horizon, to the Bleak Horizon We will spend our lives for what our fathers could not break What does it cost to kill a god? A name you loved, a hand you had, a year, a decade, a thousand years What does it cost to kill a god? Every song you ever sang and every tear you never cried The Watcher is watching, he's been watching all along He watched us sail the golden ship, he watched us right this wrong He is older than the horizon, older than the stars But older than Zul is the pool, and the pool is ours To the Bleak Horizon, to the Bleak Horizon Eight thousand years for every step we take To the Bleak Horizon, to the Bleak Horizon We will spend our lives for what our fathers could not break To the Bleak Horizon, to the Bleak Horizon The flask is full, the cage will not hold To the Bleak Horizon, to the Bleak Horizon We go in young, we come out old

We came back from the Bleak Horizon older than the stone Eight thousand years of dust still shaking loose inside our bones The Watcher's cage is empty and the Watcher's name is dead But something climbed out after him and wears his crown instead We paid in Gip and Ren, we paid in years and blood We spent the sun god's water and we swore that it was enough Aldrick's arm still clicks like a coffin lid at night Zerus drinks the morning down and swears that he's still fit to fight Vrogonn's got a book he will not read out loud There's a name inside it he will not say out loud Every answer opens up another bolted door Kill a god and learn the hardest truth — there's always one more THE ETERNAL QUEST — no crown, no rest, no end THE ETERNAL QUEST — we win and it begins again The truth is just a door that opens on a door of stone I fear this is a quest we'll never finish And we're never going home The ranger reads the trail and every trail runs underground The wizard burns his memory for words that make no sound Neera says she's free now but she watches every door Twenty cats marched out of Catmoore, nine came back from that war We are not the men who started, we are what the road has left Sharpened down to nothing but the purpose in our chest Ask us why we do it and there's no good answer why The horizon keeps on moving — and the moving is the why Vrogonn's got a book he will not read out loud There's a name inside it he will not say out loud Every answer opens up another bolted door Kill a god and learn the hardest truth — there's always one more THE ETERNAL QUEST — no crown, no rest, no end THE ETERNAL QUEST — we win and it begins again The truth is just a door that opens on a door of stone I fear this is a quest we'll never finish And we're never going home We thought the end was one more mile We thought the last god was the last Every ending is a hinge And every hinge swings on the past No crown! No rest! No end! Roll again! No crown! No rest! No end! ROLL AGAIN! THE ETERNAL QUEST — no crown, no rest, no end THE ETERNAL QUEST — we win and it begins again The truth is just a door that opens on a door of stone We can't finish it, we'll never finish it WE'LL WALK IT TILL WE'RE BONE Let the road run on forever, we were never going home The quest is not the ending The quest is all we own

The horses have been saddled and unsaddled seven times The map has worn to velvet at the folds along its spine The ale that Zerus set aside has turned to bitter wine And Aldrick's arm has healed at last — it no longer clicks at night The raven came on Thursday with a message sealed in red We broke the seal in silence and this is what it said Someday soon, but NOT THIS WEEK The wheel has thrown its iron from the cart The eldest daughter weds before the fall One of us is called away One of us has not replied at all THE ETERNAL QUEST — for a quest eternal The road we have not walked is the longest road of all THE ETERNAL QUEST — for a quest eternal We ride at dawn, my brothers but these days are dark And the dawn may never come Vrogonn read the book, and then he read the book again He has begun a second book. There will be a third one then. Neera stands unfreed, the flask stands cold upon the shelf The ghosts of Gip and Ren have grown impatient with themselves Somewhere in a mountain waits a wyrm that fears no blade It has not slept in fourteen weeks. It is very much afraid. The hall stands swept, the candles trimmed The chairs arranged in perfect four The dice lie cold inside their bag And no one comes to knock upon the door THE ETERNAL QUEST — for a quest eternal The road we have not walked is the longest road of all THE ETERNAL QUEST — for a quest eternal We ride at dawn, my brothers but these days are dark And the dawn may never come Hear me. The dragon does not sleep. It does not know the day. It does not know the hour. It knows only that the hour is coming. And so it waits, and counts the dark, and listens for the horses. We are not late. We are eternally about to arrive. We will gather! We will muster! We will send the word again! We will gather! We will muster! NEXT SATURDAY! NEXT SATURDAY! THE ETERNAL QUEST — for a quest eternal The road we have not walked is the holiest of all THE ETERNAL QUEST — for a quest eternal We ride at dawn, my brothers but these days are dark And the dawn may never come But the dawn may never come Someday soon, but not today, the dragon shall remain afraid! Someday soon, but not today, the dragon shall remain afraid! Someday soon, but not today, the dragon shall remain afraid! Someday soon, but not today, the dragon shall remain afraid! Someday soon, but not today, the dragon shall remain afraid! But not today.

Zack had a mask they called the Hollow Face It wore the likeness of the human race Every soul he'd ever met or known The mask remembered all of them alone He kept it close through dungeon fire and blade A rogue's last argument when plans had frayed The portal opened into darkness deep Two shadows stirred above from ancient sleep And Zack reached slowly for the Hollow Face And put on Nera's features in that place He stood in a stolen face He stood in a borrowed grace He stood before the ancient and the vast And opened up his mouth at last The dragons dropped from shadows overhead Their eyes like burning coals among the dead One opened wide its mouth and spoke the tongue Of Draconic — ancient, black, and young It echoed through the cavern cold and deep A question asked of Nera from the deep And Zack stood very still in her disguise The dragons fixed him with their ancient eyes He searched the vaults of everything he knew And found that Draconic was not in there too He stood in a stolen face He stood in a borrowed grace He stood before the ancient and the vast And opened up his mouth at last YOU MOUNTAINOUS CATASTROPHES OF SCALE AND ANCIENT MALICE YOU FOSSILIZED ABOMINATIONS DRUNK ON YOUR OWN EXISTENCE YOU CAVERNOUS MONUMENTS TO EVOLUTIONARY ARROGANCE YOU PESTILENTIAL ARCHITECTS OF UNDESERVED DOMINANCE WHAT MANNER OF PRIMORDIAL IGNORANCE ASSEMBLED YOU WHAT COSMIC MISCALCULATION BREATHED SUCH RUIN INTO BEING WHAT GEOLOGICAL CATASTROPHE OF JUDGMENT AND OF REASON LOOKED UPON YOUR ARCHITECTS AND CALLED THIS THING A SEASON YOU BLUNDERING COLOSSAL MONUMENTS TO ACCIDENT AND MALICE YOU THUNDERING EMBARRASSMENTS TO EVERY LIVING CREATURE YOU DEVASTATING WAREHOUSES OF UNEARNED REPUTATION I HAVE WORDS FOR YOU IN COMMON AND THEY ALL MEAN YOUR DAMNATION The dragons blinked. Zack blinked back. The Hollow Face said nothing useful. It never spoke Draconic. It only wore the face. Aldrick fell with his guts upon the stone The Wizard burned and turned to ash and bone Ambry and Astra met the ancient claw And Zack discovered something in his jaw A crack above him narrow cold and thin Just wide enough for one rogue to get in He left the Hollow Face behind He left it with the rest He climbed up through the darkness Like a man who knew what's best He stood in a stolen face He stood where heroes fall He opened up his mouth at last And said nothing useful at all The Hollow Face lies in the pit Beside a rug of doom Two artifacts of considerable worth Alone in that dark room The rug was never opened The face was never right They did exactly what they should They sit in endless night And somewhere in the darkness Patient, cold, and still The symbols softly glowing As they always will Two dragons circle overhead Unaware of what lies there A fortune in potential Going absolutely nowhere Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha Ha-ha

We buried our grief in the tavern that night When Marius stumbled in, fading from sight He fell to his knees and dissolved into black A curse from Nera — Cinder won't be coming back We charged through the dark for vengeance and flame We stepped through the portal and sealed our own fate Two dragons above us, no daylight below The pit swallowed heroes who refused to let go We found Nylon flayed at his tree in the wood Aldrick cleaved Charn — did all that he could We ported to darkness, sixty feet down Cinder's head on a post — no rescue to be found We charged through the dark for vengeance and flame We stepped through the portal and sealed our own fate Two dragons above us, no daylight below The pit swallowed heroes who refused to let go Ambry went first, then Astra the knight The Wizard dressed up as Nera that night He forgot the Draconic — paid the full price Aldrick fought on — paid his blood for the vice One man made it out through a crack in the stone Zach climbed the darkness and came back alone Freddie still breathes, and the coins are still gold But the party is gone — and the story's been told We charged through the dark for vengeance and flame We stepped through the portal and sealed our own fate Two dragons above us, no daylight below The pit swallowed heroes who refused to let go The pit took them all The pit took them all

Nah-zug was a shaman of considerable skill She lived in the dark at the heart of the hill Her lair had a weakness, a gap in her plans A spot on the floor that needed her hands Would it be a rug or would it be a door? What manner of doom should she lay on the floor? Something that beckons, something that glows Something that swallows whatever it knows Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha A door was too obvious, clumsy and crude A door was the thinking of someone subdued But a rug — ah a rug — was domestic and smart A rug was the thinking of one with true art Would it be a rug or would it be a door? What manner of doom should she lay on the floor? Something that beckons, something that glows Something that swallows whatever it knows Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha She spent three days weaving the symbols in tight She hummed an old song by the guttering light She was proud of her work when at last it was done A beautiful trap for the unwary ones She smoothed down the edges She stood back and smiled Nobody suspects a rug She placed it with care in the center of the room She whispered the words that would activate doom She imagined her enemies stepping inside She laughed at the thought of their pitiful cries It wasn't a door it was better than that A glorious rug and she'd seen to all that Something that beckons, something that glows Something that swallows whatever it knows Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha But Nah-zug forgot in her moment of pride That doom has no master and takes no one's side The rug didn't know her, the rug didn't care The rug only knew what was standing right there And somewhere below in the dark and the deep The symbols lie waiting The rug is asleep It doesn't care who It doesn't care when Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha Ha-ha

We teleported to his chamber While the king undressed for bed He came to lay with concubines He left without his head Seven mana and a prayer, we blinked into the dark The swordsman and the barbarian standing center mark Two orcs beneath the blankets and a war-dog by the bed The blade came down before they woke — the sheets ran orc-blood red The swordsman carved the first one clean then raised his steel again But the blade bit deep into the frame — stuck fast in oaken grain He cursed and pulled while laughter spread across the killing floor A warrior worth a hundred men, defeated by a door Tonight we feast on victory, tonight we set the table We carved the king like Sunday roast as fast as we were able The skillet flew, the blade rang true, we served him course by course The orc king got his just desserts — with compliments, of course The king walked in with hunger but for something other than a meal His lady on his arm, he didn't smell the blood or steel But something stirred behind his eyes — the warrior sensed the trap The rogue stepped out and threw the vial — the potion was a wrap It burned his skin but didn't hold, he shook it off like rain "Die, orc bitch!" she screamed in Common — dagger through the brain His concubine dropped like a stone, he roared into the black And Aldrick the Bold came 'round the corner — there was no turning back "Do you yield?" the swordsman asked With steel already swinging Fifty-nine points of damage and The orc king's ears were ringing Tonight we feast on victory, tonight we set the table We carved the king like Sunday roast as fast as we were able The skillet flew, the blade rang true, we served him course by course The orc king got his just desserts — with compliments, of course Now eighty feet across the room stood Frekka, tribe less, huge and proud He couldn't reach the king in time so he got creative — loud He gripped the cast iron handle of his legendary pan And went full Betty White on him — half skillet, half a plan It sailed across the chamber like a black and screaming moon It caught the king square in the face — a culinary boom Fifteen points of damage and a CLANG heard through the stone The frying pan hit the floor and rang like church bells made of bone The mage stepped up and let it fly — a ray of shocking blue It lit the king like lightning through a side of barbecue He seized and shook and hit the floor, still smoking, barely there One hit point left and twitching while the thunder filled the air Then Aldrick walked up slow and calm, his great sword in his hand He swung it once — the head came free — exactly as they'd planned He caught it as it left the neck and held it to his face And watched the orc king blink his last — then darkness took its place Tonight we feast on victory, tonight we cleared the table We seasoned him with lightning and we carved him with a sable The skillet flew, the blade rang true, we served him head to toe But two bolts of fabric still are missing — and the quest ain't over, no The king is dead, the head is ours, the treasure's in the bag But wedding robes still need their cloth — the prince will start to nag Three bolts he wanted, one we found, two lost beneath the stone So raise your pan and raise your blade — "Order up. We ain't done." (CLANG of skillet on stone)

We crossed the singularity and home looked just the same The Cosmic City lit the dock and someone called my name But the bartender we used to know Had been replaced two years ago And nobody remembers why we came The wizard's cube is dead weight in his pack The mana that could move a star ain't ever coming back He shoved it in the engine when the pull was getting strong And bought us all the time it took to sing this song Three years gone While we were holding on Three years gone While we were sailing on The world did not stand still for what we did The world just kept on turning while we hid Inside the dark we conquered, three years gone A child we used to know is taller than the bar A friend we used to write to moved on someplace far The letters that came back unread Said the things we never said And somewhere, Roghan's holding up a star Three years gone While we were holding on Three years gone While we were sailing on The world did not stand still for what we did The world just kept on turning while we hid Inside the dark we conquered, three years gone We saved a thousand worlds we'll never see We paid in years that don't belong to me The party's over, but the party lived Because of what we gave and what we did Three years gone While we were holding on Three years gone While we were sailing on We came back later than we meant to come We came back fewer than we left as one But we came back Three years gone

From the mountain deep where the short folk dwell Came a silver-haired dwarf with a terrible smell Five foot nothing, soaked in dwarven ale Swinging a warhammer, missing without fail Twenty-three strength, he thinks he's a beast He's half of Aldric — at least, at least Xarius the dwarf! Xarius the stout! He does half the damage so he has to shout! Aldric swings ONCE and the battlefield's cleared Xarius needs FOUR — bless his soggy beard! Raise your tankard, he tries his best He ain't Aldric the Bold but he's OUR little pest! Warhammer plus four, yeah he thinks it's grand Two to twelve damage from his wobbly hand Three sheets to the wind before the fight begins Smells like a brewery, pickled to the shins Thirty-seven gold but it's all spent on beer The tab at the tavern stretches back a year Xarius the dwarf! Xarius the stout! He does half the damage so he has to shout! Aldric swings ONCE and the battlefield's cleared Xarius needs FOUR — bless his soggy beard! Raise your tankard, he tries his best He ain't Aldric the Bold but he's OUR little pest! But when the kegs run dry and the horde moves in And you need a wall that's drunk and thick as sin Five foot nothing, can't remember why he's here Every army needs a dwarf who runs on beer Xarius the dwarf! Xarius the LOUD! He ain't Aldric the Bold but he makes us proud! Half the damage, twice the beard, three times the ale Welcome to the table — someone buy this dwarf a pail! Xarius! Xarius! ...he's alright! Xarius! Xarius! ...he's alright! Xarius! Xarius! ...he's alright! Xarius! Xarius! ...he's alright! Xarius! Xarius! ...he's alright! was that a burp?