However Sera the Witch was uneasy,not the least because
of the name of this giant boardgame
"Blighty"
She'd heard that name somewhere before,and not related to a boardgame.
However Nat had already strode onto the Game and so Sera
quickly stepped onto the
squares and joined her.
They had decided to stick together .bleep the official rules
and so Sera quickly stood beside Nat
whilst she puzzled over where she'd heard
the name "Blighty " before
They had tossed a thirty three on the dice
which puzzled both of them
since humans and
all humanoid realms didn't use
dice that could add up to such a high toss.
They walked down the walkway and Sera grew increasingly troubled\by the images tht swayed and flashed in the
air above them.This was a wargame of some sort,that was
clear as the images
showed Dark Paladin soldiers in some
misty images
and kobbolds and lizardmen from the
opposite side
in others.
It was puzzle
They finally both stepped on the huge No 33 square and then
Sera remembered where
she'd heard the word
"Blighty " before
It was from the Great War between the Realms
that had devastated hundreds of thousands
in a conservative
estimate
the Great War between the Humanoid Realms
and the Four Footed Scaly Realms
from two centuries earlier
Trench Warfare
Nursing Stations
Gas Warfare
The first use of Paladin powered fighting machines
against dragons
Soldiers disappearing in the muddy shellhole pocked
battlefields
And blighty
the wound that either got you out of the Great War for a year
of rest and recuperation 'back home' for a year or more
or killed you
"Oh bleep" screamed Sera as she realized
what they'd walked in
a boardgame reliving
The Great War between the Realms
She tried to back away
but her feet were stuck
and she looked down in horror
at the glowing square
they were on
and her changing feet
which were already burst out
of her sandals
going green nd scaly and with
reptilian toes that were
lengthening and sprouting
wickedly sharp
talons
Sera looked over at Nat,whoses changes were
far more advanced due to her
lack of resistance to magical tf
sorcery.
From the looks of Nat
they were both turning
into dragons
who as Sera now recalled
had been the instigators,and thus the
Bad Gals
of the Great War
As her mind and body and soul were reshaped Sera
screeched one last cry of despair
before she felt herself dropping into a bottomless pit.
When she regained her senses Sera was hit by the stench of death
the smell of spilt dragons blood and the cries and screams of wounded
young dragon soldiers
cry for their mothers
and mates
All suffering from a 'blighty'
Sera the Nursing Field Station nurse,commonly
referred to as a Sister in these
dragon field hospitals
tried to tell herself it was just a Game
however her body and her senses
told the Nurse Sera otherwise.
There was no time to worry about Nats
current state
as the pounding earth and explosions told her
there'd be new casualties
arriving shortly