Memories of Connor's Adventures

Orlando the Adventurer pulled a Scimitar from beneath his Robes and smiled...

Sunday 14 July 2019

Dungeon Mastery: Anime that sets your Instincts on edge

Get off my lawn...
If its for my daughter, I'd even defeat a Demon Lord
There are only two episodes out at this point. A check of the wiki says there are twelve for the season so I should wait for it all to come out.

That being said, having watched the first two episodes it sets my Adventurer's Instincts on edge. This has calm before the tidal wave of tragedy written all over it...

Spoilers up the wazoo:

An 18 year old adventurer named Dale is adventuring in the forest a few miles from the base town when he encounters a malnourished demon child named Latina who is lured from the undergrowth by the smell of a cooking fish (not sure where he found a fish on a forested mountain...) which he lets her eat (warning to kids: fish have fine bones so dont eat them like a hotdog sausage). He learns her father is dead, so he uses magic on the ground and remains and then puts up a marker stone.

 The Demonic Tongue & Spell Magic                                                   
 We learn that the Demonic Tongue spoken by Latina and the     
 spoken Magic used by Dale are the same Language. This             
 effectivly makes a Read Magic necessary to read Demonic and  
 Demonic and Magic a Spoken Language (Arcane?).                       

Dale and Latina arrive at the gates of town and Dale pays the guard at the gate a toll of two silver coins for the pair to enter. They go to the 'Striped Cat' tavern where Dale has a room. He baths her (using magic induced hot water), and gets a child's smock from Rita who lives in the tavern along with her husband (some beard-faced guy). He feeds her a meal, and after she starts helping out around the tavern struggling to fetch empty plates at the horror of the patrons terrified she will trip and drop them, settles in. By the end of episode one Dale decides to adopt her, and blow his savings on shoes and clothing for his adopted daughter.
In episode two Dale leaves Latina in the tavern under the care of Rita and husband while he goes off and does adventuring stuff. Apparently he must show the creature he was hunting and killing to his patron. Meanwhile Rita's husband goes shopping for potatoes and Latina tags along only to become separated and lost. A frantic search for Latina begins and Rita offers a reward to whoever returns her. Dale arrives later in the day and learning she is lost, panics, going off to search for his daughter.
Meanwhile children encounter Latina and after another girl beats up the boys for bullying her.

 Healing Magic                                                                                         
 Latina uses heal magic to heal a bruised knee. By the looks of   
 it she draws on her life force to heal the injured child. Heal       
 Magic looks like a hit-point transfer of one hit point usable by  
 any (zero-level?) Demon.                                                                     

So her new friends learn she is from the striped cat tavern (an adventurer dive) and proceed to escort her home.
Along the way they encounter a man who was at the tavern and he has the children escort her all the way to the tavern where they recieve a reward (food?). Dale eventually returns and is happy she is safe. He also teaches her the local human language so she is intelligent enough to learn to speak two languages.

It looks like a series worth watching... but as I pointed out at the beginning, My instincts tell me its going to be a tragedy.

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