Once again, we’ve wrapped up another Realmgard story, so here’s your chance to relive The Alchemist of Middlesbrooke:
So, a Wilderling, a Half-Troll Amazon, and an Aurorean sorceress walk into a coffeehouse…
The three female adventurers Lucia, Apolline, and Petra have recently arrived in the city of Middlesbrooke but haven’t had much luck finding work yet. Luckily, when a certain musclebound Alchemist walks into their lives, things may finally be starting to turn around for our three brave heroines.
Or not.
What the Alchemist of Middlesbrooke has in muscles, he definitely lacks in brains.
But Lucia, Apolline and, Petra aren’t the kind of people to refuse someone in need of help, even an idiot. So off they go on this new adventure with Roland, the Alchemist of Middlesbrooke and his little sister Alda. Meanwhile, Alveric von Strom, a proud man driven to vexation is resolved to make their lives very, very difficult.
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Chapter 1
The three adventurers stand in front of the old house, erstwhile home of the erstwhile Baron Pollux Castor, the reason the three adventurers have travelled to Middlesbrooke. The house has been bequeathed to Apolline by the Baron, her great-uncle. Thinking about it, Lucia wonders just what she did to make Great-Uncle Pollux so angry at her to deserve this.
Chapter 2
Roland’s face lights up and he reaches for his shopping bag. “I think I can help with that,” he declares, reaching into the bag and laying out a couple of pouches of charcoal and sand from the Wandering Coast, four scoops of Skremmler’s Combustible Powder, and a Valico cheesesteak sandwich.
“It’s in here somewhere,” he mutters.
“Those are all alchemy supplies,” Celeste notes. “But what’s that for?” She points to the sandwich.
“Lunch,” Roland answers, continuing to rummage through the bag.
Chapter 3
“We almost got hired by a goatherd looking for help with his flock,” Petra tells her.
“He even offered to pay us in advance,” Lucia adds.
“But only in goat cheese,” Apolline concludes.
Chapter 4
“You know, the lab. Well, really, Uncle Chuck’s lab. But, like, he never uses it for alchemy. I think the last Duke had it built as a torture hole, or something.”
Chapter 5
“Do you smell mint?” she asks. “Oh no. I think that’s catnip.”
Chapter 6
“Gentlemen,” Alveric says to his mercenary recruits — though it is far and away exactly the wrong word for grizzled veteran mercenaries and pirates with such lovely names as Leif the Axe, Axe the Blade, and Big, Huge Leroy.
Chapter 7
“Well,” Alveric von Strom says to himself. “That was not how I expected this to go.”
Perhaps there’s more to this highwayman racket than he thought.
Chapter 8
“Isn’t he just giving away his next move by yelling out his attacks like that?”
Chapter 9
“You?” Alveric asks, staring at Roland with his mouth agape. “You’re an alchemist?”
“I know, right?” Lucia exclaims.
“But I’m an alchemist!” Alveric exclaims. “You’re a disgrace to our profession!”
“I thought you were a highwayman,” Roland notes.
“Yes, yes. A man can be more than one thing. But you? You look like a shaved mountain ape,” Alveric continues. “Do you really have the brain power for alchemy? Or even the opposable thumbs?”
Lucia gasps. That is going too far.
Chapter 10
“Does the name Alveric von Strom mean anything to you?” Apolline asks.
“He’s a fellow member of the Alchemical Society. Did the bandits come after him, too?” the old man asks.
“Ah, no,” Apolline mutters.
“He was the bandits,” Lucia says. “He came after us because he didn’t want you to get your alchemy supplies.”
Chapter 11
“There’s a rat!” Alda cries, burying her face in her brother’s shoulder. “There’s a big, gross rat!”
“Don’t worry,” Lucia says, tracking the large furry shadow scurrying across the floor. “I got this.”
Epilogue
“Miss Petra. Lady Apolline. I am here, on behalf of Her Serenity the Duchess, allow me to present this congratulatory fruit basket.
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