Sunday, June 25, 2006

Farewells




As the time to depart draws ever closer, fearless Paolo must make the farewell gestures already made by his foreign fellow knight Gomez. He hath spent recent days practicing his craft with his close fellow Knight Hospitaller and Team Tiger Monkey Co-ordinator Luigi. Though bent on a different quest, Luigi is also a master destroyer of gaps, though more prone to the subtle art of manipulation, rather than than the brutal methods of annihilation. Such subtlety is evidenced below:



Luigi has spent many hours with Paolo sharing a great camaraderie and hunting gaps in the wild.







Though they now go their separate ways, it seems likely that the eternal trickster known as fate will take some future opportunity to reunite them in a quest so great that it is already written across the night sky in a hand we mortals lack the wisdom to decipher.



And so, farewell, goodbye, so long, the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem must depart their cherished homelands and forge their own path through the dense thickets of Bavaria. In doing so they leave behind not only their kin and the familiar and beautiful landscapes upon which they have made their indelible marks, but also the few luxuries and comforts such knights allow themselves in times of reflection. Luxuries such as the company of their minstrel who hath accompanied them on many a hunt. A minstrel who hath provided jovial relief in times of great seriousness and peril, when the knights fear all is lost and that the darkness would envelop them and their famous deeds would be lost amongst the vast nexus of possibilities that entwines and supports the massive blank canvas of contingency.


The Famous Minstrel of Faulconbridge


What does the future hold for the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem? The next installment of this epic story will answer some of our more pressing questions about how the Knights will fare upon their travels, and how their sunny and rugged antipodean dispositions will be greeted by the serious peons of the gap infested northern lands. Farewell to the young lands of sandstone and gum and let our heroes burst forth yonder unto the aged forests and the limestone scarps of ze mighty Frankenjura.

Training and Preparation

You may think that gap annihilation and dragon slaying is all fun and games, but no, it is a serious business.The Knights of St. John of Jerusalem spend many hours in training, both physical and mental, in order to be fully prepared for any gaps that may attempt to ambush them in the wild. With the aid of his kin, Paolo has constructed a fearsome training dungeon, the likes of which no mortal but he could escape from unaided.




In preparation for the wolves of Bavaria, Paolo and Gomez have spent many hours in this dungeon simulating various gap annihilation scenarios.






Paolo has used his extended preparation time to call uponl great spirits and vanquish demons, the powers of which he may channel in his gap annihilation preparation. Witness the demonic power unleashed!






Paolo also uses advanced and until now secret techniques of preparation, whereby he extracts the essence of his vanquished foes and then subsumes this essence in his hour of need. This grants him the ability to unleash not only his own inner power developed through years of transcendental meditation, but also temporarily add the power stolen from those he hath slain.




So, to all gaps remaining in the wild and of sufficient sentience to absorb this chronicle, be warned! The Knights of St. John of Jerusalem wield great and unholy powers the likes of which no crusader has mastered before. Step warily and take wide passage, should you hear the clippity-clop of the noble steeds bearing these martial magi in yonder lands.

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

A Beginning

Whilst these Knights begin their crusade in the most chivalrous province of Bavaria, it is in fact the case that their origins are far distant. Our two mighty heroes were torn from the nothingness and deposited upon the very bottom of the world. From this accursed realm which hath shaped their very souls they have voyaged ever upwards to gain the mighty forests of the Franks. Witness the hellhole from whence they came!



Despite their antipodean beginnings the Knights of St John of Jerusalem are as cultured and noble a duo as you might ever hope to meet, but trust me not in this, let their noble deeds speak for themselves...