Everyone's Invited! (creative minds needed)

Meanwhile, in the heavily guarded castle, the Queen was worried by the increasing fever of her husband, and the doctors seemed helpless.

The next day a heavy pall fell over the kingdom as the king fell deep into coma and drew steadily closer to death.

In the forest, a band of warriors stood crestfallen in the pouring rain amid the fury of the storm, their path to glory interrupted by moldy jungle carrots and scheming Gophelions.

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Just then, one of the intrepid warriors spotted a lone Gophelion carrying a bottle of Panacea, the only substance in existence capable of saving the beloved, mortally ill king.

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Briefly illuminated by a bolt of lightning, the rogue creature attempts to bolt for a nearby hole, but the strobe-like flash is all it takes for an archer to notch an arrow and let fly, skewering the hapless rodent and delivering the Panacea into the hands of another fearless courier quickly on his way to the King.

A curse rode through those woods. The bottle was to be destroyed, those were the objectives for Hulvrin, the Wizard. The King must not be allowed to live. The King was poisoned by his own Spy from within the Kingdom, luckily no one knew of his identity. As he stepped upon the path he struck the road from which those Brave Knights were traveling, and caused an upheave from within the Earth. "I will not allow you to give that medicine to the King. If he is saved than all is lost for my country."

When all was said and done, the King felt that his life had been for naught, existing as it did to exploit the wealth from the land at the expense of his subjects, but still, it was better than the alternatives.

The shaking earth threw the brave knights from their mounts, they crashed to the floor, the contents of the bottle sprayed into the night air by the sudden force.

but it was too late anyway. the news had spead though the kingdom like wildfire: the king was dead.

Little behold did we know, that deaths hand would not stop with the king alone.

people started to die of a strange virus-ousdif