(by Pally From Heaven)
Once upon a time, there have been a Knight, a Druid, a Paladin and a Sorcerer that survived the great battle upon the fields of glory.
Some of them were wounded, some not. All were deadly tired. They had to escape from a hord of orcs, a whole tribe with more then 35 fighters. Late in the night, they came to a huge bridge, or at least the rest of a once mighty bridge. It was small and seemed to be not very save. The sorcerer screamed some loud and mighty words and for a second the bridge glew in a blue light.
- "I see" the sorcerer said, "that this bridge will break down and fall into the water within 60 minutes. So we have to hurry up. It will only hold two of us at the same time and it is a long bridge. The wounded Knight will need 25 minutes to go over the bridge, and it will take me 20. The Paladin can go faster, so he will be on the other side within 10 minutes." Pointing at the Druid he said: "And you can use your spell to move faster. You will need only 5 minutes.
- "Ok then, let's go! Don't waste time" shouted the knight and started to go. But then he stopped. "I can't see anything. The bridge is dangerous. We will need your magic light wand to cross it. Without light we will fall down in the cold and deep water. So always someone has to return to bring back the wand of light to the others."
- "What shall we do now?" asked the Paladin "How can we all reach the other side before the evil orcs will get us? I have no arrows left and we can't fight the hord of orc's! In which order we have to pass the bridge? Who should go first?" The druid started to grumbel:
- "Let me say K for Knight, D for Druid, S for Sorcerer, P for Paladin. Hmmm... and now let me think. D-K=D-S, no. How shall we do?
- "Got it!" the sorcerer screamed. "Let's run!"
How did the Sorcerer solve it?
Answer:
- "You" the Sorcerer said, pointing at the Druid "You take the wand and go over with the Paladin!" The Druid took the wand and told the Paladin to follow him. After 10 painful and cold minutes they were on the other side of the bridge. Then the Druid said,
- "I'll go over and give the wand to the Sorcerer, wait here" and the Druid started to go. After another 5 minutes the Druid was on the other side with the Knight and the Sorcerer.
- "Good, now you and I will go over" the Sorcerer said, pointing at the Knight. After another 25 minutes, of cold and pain, they were both over. Then the Paladin said,
- "We only have 20 minutes left, hurry give me the wand!" The Sorcerer gave the Paladin the wand, and the Paladin started walking over. After 10 minutes the Paladin saw the Druid waiting on the ground.
- "Get up" The Paladin said, "We dont have much time" When the Druid stood up they heard a big raging sound from the orcs.
- "They must be close" The Druid said, and they started to walk. After 10 minutes they saw the Sorcerer. Then the Sorcerer screamed,
- "Hurry, we dont have much time left" Then, they all heard a big crushing sound. The spell was fading. Then the Paladin and the Druid went over as fast as they could to the safe ground. They all looked back and saw the hord of raging orcs behind them. Then the bridge fell into the deep, blue and cold water among with the hord of orcs wich were screaming in pain. Now, the party looked at eachother, laughted, and continued their adventure, the way home.