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ARRoGANT CoURiERS WiTH ESSaYS
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Grade Level: Type of Work Subject/Topic is on:
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[ ]6-8 [ ]Class Notes [Report on The Eyes Have ]
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[x]9-10 [ ]Cliff Notes [It ]
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[ ]11-12 [ ]Essay/Report [ ]
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[ ]College [ ]Misc [ ]
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Dizzed: 10/94 # of Words:1311 School: ? State: ?
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>Chop Here>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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The Eyes Have It is a book of adventure. While reading it, I got the
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sense that before it was written into a book, it was a Role Playing Game,
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and the Games Master had played the adventure, liked how his players had
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conducted the adventure, and wrote it into a book. In this way it relates
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to my topic heavily, as it IS a Role Playing Game. In another way it
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doesn't relate to RPG's at all because it's a book, and not a game. But it
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relates to my topic in one pure sense - it's an adventure. All RPG's are
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adventures.
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The story begins as one Askar-Ben-Oba, son of the chief of the Wolf
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Nomads, must travel through a continent to marry his betrothed, one Maria
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Griswalda. Askar does not want to marry Maria, but he must. His tribe,
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the Wolf Nomads, was once a proud and happy race. They fought numerous
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battles and won the battles and also the fear and respect of their allies.
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But over time, they had softened. The Spider Queen, an undead creature,
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had the plan to take over all of the Yeomanry. The Yeomanry is where the
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story takes place, and is a huge continent where many different races and
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cultures live (like Asia and Africa put together with some aliens and snow
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thrown in.) the Spider Queen had the notion of destroying all this good for
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her own, and turning it into her black domain. She did. She casted a
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spell which made a huge black bubble. It spread like a plague and grew for
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leagues in every direction. Anything that entered this bubble never came
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out. The Spider Queen threw her min orcs, demons, kobolds, etc. into this
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bubble to plunder and destroy. This she did successfully.
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But one person would not take this sitting down. While the Wold
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Nomads, who were far away and too far to really receive the effects of this
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bubble, rested their haunches and became couch potatoes, one Kathryn
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Fern-Cliffe, daughter of King Buncombe the Green. Kathryn had the will and
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the need to destroy the Spider Queen. This she did, with the help of a
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magical gem, the Eye of Tiros. Kathryn used the magic power within the eye
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to destroy the Spider Queen. Once she was destroyed, life became normal in
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the Yeomanry. Kathryn also had the job of rebuilding the destruction of the
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Spider Queen.
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But while the Wolf Nomads were deteriorating, and Kathryn rebuilding,
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Kranoch, a king of a region in the Yeomanry, was plotting revenge on
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Kathryn. Her father had blinded Kranoch by an arrow while on an assault
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raid, and Kranoch wanted revenge. Kranoch gathered his armies and the left
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over minions of the Spider Queen, and made an army powerful enough to
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destroy Kathryn and her region of Sterich. Kranoch also wanted the Eye of
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Tiros, the magical gem, which he thought would cure his blindness. With
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this as his main driving force, he went on a rampage.
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Back to the Wolf Nomads for a moment. The Wolf Nomads were quickly
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deteriorating. Askar-Ben-Oba, the son of the chief, was to marry Maria
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Griswalda, the daughter of a wealthy Nomad who had gone to Sterich and made
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a fortune. Maria's sizeable dowry was badly needed to fund the Wolf Nomads
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in their daily lives and to rebuild themselves into the powerful tribe they
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once were.
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The story all comes together as Askar sets out on his journey to
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Sterich to marry Maria. On his journey, the Eye of Tiros is stolen, and he
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is framed as the thief when he sits in a seedy bar. The bar "patrons" found
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Askar as the dupe and framed him with the crime. Askar is punished,
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searched, and found innocent. But he does not get away with the theft
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cleanly, as he is still the prime suspect. Askar gets an iron collar fit
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around his neck, with a magic spell on it. The spell makes the collar
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around his neck shrink a little every day, so eventually it will strangle
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him. His only escape is to find the Eye of Tiros so the collar can be
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removed.
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Askar knows his only way to survive is by finding the Eye. This he
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sets out to do. But during his quest, he gets captured by Sea Pirates,
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meets up with a dwarf with a flying ship, and eventually reaches Kathryn in
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her quest to find the Eye of Tiros.
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The Eye is wanted not only by Kathryn, Askar, and Kranoch, but by the
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gold dragons also. The Eye is the only thing that keeps them alive. The
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Eye was created especially for them, as forged by dragons. Its magic is
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the fuel by which the dragons live by. And they want it back.
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As in a normal RPG, the story comes to a climax when all four of the
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major characters in the story, Askar, Kathryn, Kranoch, and the leader of
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the gold dragons, Buelath, all clash in combat. The huge battle is fought
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in the heart of the Yeomanry. Askar has helped Kathryn and also fallen in
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love with her. By now the iron collar has been removed, as Askar helped
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Kathryn defeat a huge Medusa and rid the sewers of a vile beast. But
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Kranoch is still hell bent on getting the Eye to cure his blindness and
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kill Kathryn. And the dragons of regaining their life blood. The dragons
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are slowly dying off, much like the Wolf Nomads.
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The climax reaches its height when all three of the major characters
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battle. Kranoch has waged incredible war by destroying most of the
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Yeomanry's forces, and is ready for the kill. The dragons want their gem
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and their power is unmatched. Kathryn and Askar have the gem (it was
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retrieved by Askar) and they have used it to thwart some of Kranoch's
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plans. In the battle, Kranoch is defeated when his prime minister betrays
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his king by wanting the gem for his own. The Prime Minister, Alamkamala,
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kills Kranoch in an attempt to retrieve the gem. This he does, and he gets
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the gem, but he himself is destroyed when the dragons attack. The gem is
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lost in the battle but the forces of the Yeomanry, led by Askar, get the
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gem.
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Kathryn leads a final bargaining session with the dragons. The dragons
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want only the gem. Kathryn gives it to them, but the dragons also think
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that the Yeomanry is not bog enough for the both of them. Askar negotiates
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that since the humans helped the dragons retrieve their life blood, that
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they should live together in harmony. The dragons agree. So, after the
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climax, the only people left are the dragons, who are content that they
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have gotten their gem, and the Yeomanry, led by Kathryn and Askar.
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The plot winds down when Askar, who still has to go marry Maria
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Griswalda, fulfills his promise. But it is ironic to see that when he
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reaches Sterich and the home of Maria, that she had already married and is
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pregnant. Askar had been deemed dead, because he took so long. Askar,
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still not happy that he had to marry Maria, follows his heart and marries
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Kathryn. The story ends in the usual adventure manner, with no epilogue
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and leaving the reader in the dark about the Wolf Nomads and Askar's past.
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But this would be the perfect story for another adventure....
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The story relates to my topic because the two are almost exactly alike.
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They share the same base, adventure. In a RPG, the people role play in an
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adventure. In the story, the same is accomplished, when the reader reads
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the adventure. So, the next time you pick up a book and think "how boring,
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just a lousy adventure..." think of how you might actually live it in a
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role playing game.
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