Kuriak's Great Crusade

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Kuriak's Great Crusade

Volume I
Chapter I - The Sewer Baby - Below
Chapter II - The Crushbone Campaign - Below
Chapter III - Rest and Resupply - http://www.project1999.org/forums/sh...5&postcount=15
Chapter IV - Kuriak Brings Love and Happiness Back to Cabilis - http://www.project1999.org/forums/sh...6&postcount=22
Chapter V - Pain in the Morass - http://www.project1999.org/forums/sh...9&postcount=23
Chapter VI - Who Rules... the Iksar Kingdom? - http://www.project1999.org/forums/sh...2&postcount=33
Chapter VII - The Guk Campaign - http://www.project1999.org/forums/sh...2&postcount=34

Volume II
Chapter VIII - The Crusader Returns - http://www.project1999.org/forums/sh...5&postcount=38
Chapter IX - Crusader Auxiliary Corps - http://www.project1999.org/forums/sh...0&postcount=45
Chapter X - Kuriak Gets Addicted to Pie - http://www.project1999.org/forums/sh...4&postcount=48

Chapter I: The Sewer Baby

Young Kuriak crawled into the ruined streets of Cabilis covered in filth and excrement. As an egg he had been thrown into the sewer, forsaken. It was anyone's guess who his mother was, though it was rumored to be Klok Wyga, who was known to frequent dockside bars and boasted a fondness for men in uniform. His father could have been any one of the patrolling Crusaders or Troopers, or all of them. Nobody knows how Iksar reproduction works anyway other than that it involves great gnashing of teeth and the chafing of scales. It didn't really matter.

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What mattered was that young Kuriak lacked the physical prowess and pedigree of those chosen to be Monks or Warriors. His SAT scores and gpa, far too low for acceptance into Necromancer school. He had no trust fund or network of influential connections to wiggle himself into the Scaled Mystics.

His only option was to join the ranks of the lowest form of life imaginable in Iksar society: Shadow Knights. Did somebody dip your egg in alcohol? Is your mother a Klok? Enormous unpaid debt to the Haggle Baron? The Crusaders want you.

Kuriak's first assignment as a trainee was to prove himself worthy of knighthood by murdering babies. Only by mercilessly brutalizing innocent sarnak children could he show he possessed the hopeless depravity and lack of ambition to make it as a shadow knight in Cabilis.

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It wasn't long before Kuriak had collected the requisite body parts as proof of his deed. He returned them to Lord Gikzic and, for his effort, was rewarded with a suit of armor and a fine sword at the expense of Iksar taxpayers. Kuriak was promoted to the rank of Knave, Crusader Auxiliary, and given his next assignment; he was being deployed to the Greater Faydark.