Previously on adventure.

The last magical item we need is in Blackthorn Castle in Blackthorn Village.

Julian, you look upon the clock tower and upon it you see.

There's a snake the size of a small town.

Here a sword pull from its sheep and a flaming sword comes into view, and young Henrique

steps next to you and says, I am here for you, my friend.

Henrique, he starts to walk slowly, directly towards the clock tower.

He puts his hand up with the glowing blue ring, and he says, stop.

The beast, he goes from being invisible to being fully seen, and you see this giant

serpent, and he says, one day, I will break this charm, and I will kill you. But for now,

you all may pass. So, after you take these items, the four of you walk up, and you're now at the gate.

You place the orb in the gate, and it unlocks one giant bar.

A outline of a door appears and you can see a path leading into the Blackthorn forest.

The woods of Blackthorn are old.

The trees reach high into the air and their trunks are wide, worn but strong, like warriors who have become hardened in battle. There is one path through the forest, and something tells all of you that you shouldn't venture off of it. As you left the gate to the village and headed towards the dark of the wood, you told Henrique of your journey of what you were trying to do, and he has agreed to help you along the way, the best he best he can. You of course conveniently left out the part about him being the very villain you were

trying to destroy. But hey, no one's perfect. After you've walked a while, you enter a clearing.

It is large enough for all of you to stand side by side three times over. At the far end, nestled

between the standing

trees, appears to be a turned over tree covered in black moss. That's what it appears to be,

but as you inch closer, you can see that it is subtly moving, as if it's breathing. And at that

same moment you realize it's not an overturned tree, but a snout. You see two giant eyes appear directly behind it.

They are vicious, intelligent eyes that focus directly on the four of you.

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