#3 kingdoms

From the TomGreg/Three Kingdoms fic:

Not until the incident with the Imperial Hereditary Seal did Tom realize how fucked he was. 

Greg had pressed the priceless little cube into his hand and whispered, “Don’t freak out,” while standing in front of their lord in his throne room. Only Tom’s years of experience in subterfuge kept him from flinging the object across the room like some kind of flesh-eating hot coal. Because again, Greg had just casually handed him the most politically charged object in the entire known world. 

So I Going to be starting a Dynasty Warriors fan fiction series here and on fanfiction.net that does not mean I'm going to stop uploading funny picture text images and this is the first chapter no real conversation hasn't even been proof weed by who's going to start it just me talking to my tablet with my speech to text thingy and the protagonist who I haven't made a name for it yet from Canada before the pandemic contemplating on his situation in ancient China.

In less then a week I should be able to have someone check over this and we're going to go through the first chapter. Maybe I should call this first chapter an opening.

Chapter one am I just in a dream?

The last few weeks I just keep asking myself the same question over and over is this all a dream is this just one big dream now? Being in ancient China don't let me know when on the calendar I supposed to use don't even know if this world has an equivalent of it no it's not my world I'm not some sort of super badass in my own world but in this world I am strong I take damaged easily when I woke up in this world or made me fell asleep in my own I found myself walking for I don't know I have no watch on me but I found a number of people being attacked by wolves was completely convinced at that point I was in a dream so I figured let's go wake myself up by grabbing a big stick in it packing them but then something funny happened I found myself running faster than I ever had outside of video games I attacked the walls and I actually sent them major damage one of them jumped me from behind I barely even noticed it then I'm headed to the ground and killed it the people said to me you must be a music Warrior what what Lord do you serve have you gone to fight someone named on Don Zillow do you know who that was I'll talk about what I know about him in a bit I noticed a a small irritation in my back I asked them to look at it and they said I got a small Scar from where the wolf attempted to bite me to death I said Tiny bite me to death I need a doctor my day say no it's only a minor scrape especially to a Musa Warrior I asked him to speak English but they responded what's English? I said it was the language we was speak they said no we speak Mandarin I decided yep I'm definitely in the dream at that point sorry running myself into a tree it hurt a bit but I actually broke the tree in half some people showed up who I did not say from the walls and they'll ask me what was going on and they was saying the Musa Warrior saved us stick just flying off the ground and then done to me I have noticed a big annoyance I was hungry luckily they wanted to have a feast for me shall we walk back to the village and order for us to get some food and number of them dead some things I'd rather not talk about with the Wolves sad don't let stuff like this go to waste I asked him where we are I think they were pretty Pacific and I'm like okay no idea what that means I asked them what country we are in they said China I started finger to myself find it this really wasn't the dream if I'm somehow stuck in China and I don't know what time they asked me a bunch of questions where I'm from Canada over a great ocean and I also said my ancestors are technically from the same land mass as here but I think that continent is actually farther than where my home line is from China don't let me know for sure I'm not an expert in distance of countries and all that have I got that today prepared a small feast they did tell me it was a small village and I had to agree smaller than my hometown and no technology anywhere I was thinking if this is my life now I am going to be I'm going to be so bored but I got offered a lot of free food took some adjustment for me to actually eat things was never no I'm already ten but never was normal to begin with I've always had Asperger's I'm supposed to take medication not going to be able to in ancient China I guess nobody knew about the calendar I kept calling the Christian calendar I think that's what they mean by the years we use never did find out if it was after or before Jesus Christ and then I found the weirdest ability of all I'm super strong now a bunch of heavy wooden blocks was about to smash a kid I pushed the young child out the way thinking suicide maybe I'll wake up but those heavy things did not even hurt me they say see you must be a Musa Warrior can you protect our small village from the evil Don Zillow I told them it's probably the best kind of job I can do for now I'm and told them I never really add something you could call an actual job told them I was on disability a lot of what I say they constantly laughing did not believe they saw me at 2 Mighty and magnificent to be considered disabled in my own world

Magic: the Gathering - P3K

We yattered a bit about our speculation on Global Series: Jiang Yanggu vs. Mu Yanling earlier - one of our regular MTG Realm readers wanted a bit more about the reference to the earlier set we mentioned Portal Three Kingdoms.  Here you are -

Portal Three Kingdoms was a starter-level Magic product based on the famous Chinese epic of the Three Kingdoms. It contained 180 cards depicting the events and characters of the Three Kingdoms story, and released in May 1999.  Although we did not start playing Magic: the Gathering until after this released, this may be one of our favourite sets we never had a chance to game with - due mostly to the history.  There were 55 rares, of which 31 were Legendary in order to bring the story alive.

To the north lay the Wei kingdom, led by the cunning, ruthless, and ingenious Cao Cao. As regent, he ruled by "protecting" the child Emperor and keeping him subservient to his demands.

To the south lay the Wu kingdom, led by the wise Sun Quan. He fostered many talented advisors and generals, including the brilliant Zhou Yu.

To the west lay the Shu kingdom, ruled by the noble and virtuous Liu Bei, a distant relative of the Emperor. Liu Bei was advised by a Taoist sage and master strategist.

Greg: Uh, I'm not familiar...

Tom: Cao Cao was a warlord around the fall of the Han dynasty. Cruel but brilliant. He trusted no one, Greg. He said, "I would rather betray the whole world than have the world betray me." Well, Cao Cao captures Guan Yu, an enemy general, and finds himself enamored with him. Becomes a little obsessed. You see, Cao Cao thought he could never trust anyone, because no one is truly loyal. That's how he's lived his life. Everyone cutting each other down and climbing over the corpses. But here is Guan Yu, a skilled warrior in his own right, but loyal to a fault, and kind of pure of heart in a way Cao Cao isn't but maybe wishes he could be. Guan Yu has sworn his loyalty to Liu Bei, a sanctimonious prick who takes him for granted - the kind of guy who would promise to buy him a watch and then not do it.

Greg: I don't like the sound of this Liu Bei, Tom.

Tom: Don't interrupt. Anyway, Cao Cao deeply respects Guan Yu, so he's not going to keep him prisoner forever - but he wants him to want to stay. He tries to buy his affection by impressing him with his extravagant wealth. Tries to convince him he's a good guy at heart. Even gives him Red Hare, the fastest horse in the world, as a gift. A gift, Greg. It looks desperate.

Greg: Wow. Guan Yu must have been really grateful, though. I would be. Fastest horse in the world, imagine what you could do with that.

Tom: You could travel really fast - obviously. Anyway, Guan Yu is very grateful, even awed. Cao Cao isn't the monster he thought he was. By the end of their time together, he actually believes Cao Cao to be more honorable than... maybe Liu Bei. Maybe everyone. But Guan Yu swore his loyalty to someone else, so he leaves. The very thing Cao Cao loved about him is the thing that takes him away.

Greg: Sounds sad.