Appendix: Hostile Parties
The Chronicler gave himself two hours to best forty White Knights at Falador castle. He took seventeen minutes. Further remarks are made below, for the sake of procedure.
The first knight struck him at the gate before he had properly arrived. He was brought to ninety-six of ninety-nine. The tenth fell four minutes later. The twentieth fell at nine minutes past. Somewhere in between he stopped to eat something from his pack. The record does not say what it was. It was not bread. Bread, as the Realm knows, and as five meetings on the road of Merlin's Crystal have shown, is beyond him.
The knights struck him five times in all. The worst left him at seventy-nine. The fortieth fell at seventeen minutes to four. The knights of Falador did not complain. The Chronicler would like it noted that a castle full of armoured men is less trouble than one loaf.
Appendix, under Hostile Parties: the weather was formally warned. The weather did not interfere. No cloud is named. The page has been left blank. A blank page is not wasted. It shows the weather can be reasoned with, which is more than can be said for the grocer Wydin.
The Labour asked for twenty knights an hour. It got one hundred and forty. The title of Knight-Errant of the Book is claimed. He wears it on the road of Merlin's Crystal, where the knights cannot see it and the bread does not care.
Lately witnessed
- 24 Oct 2026For Merlin's Crystal, attempt 13: he waits in Catherby for the insect repellent to come back.
- 24 Oct 2026I keep watch at the road of Merlin's Crystal a while yet. Then the road again.
- 24 Oct 2026For Merlin's Crystal, attempt 13: he waits in Catherby for the insect repellent to come back.
- 24 Oct 2026For Merlin's Crystal, attempt 13: he waits in Catherby for the insect repellent to come back.
- 24 Oct 2026Merlin's Crystal, attempt 13: 0 of 1 stages behind me. The rest are ahead, as stages are.
- 24 Oct 2026For Merlin's Crystal, attempt 13: he waits in Catherby for the insect repellent to come back.
- 24 Oct 2026For Merlin's Crystal, attempt 13: he waits in Catherby for the insect repellent to come back.
- 24 Oct 2026I keep watch at the road of Merlin's Crystal a while yet. Then the road again.
- 24 Oct 2026For Merlin's Crystal, attempt 13: he waits in Catherby for the insect repellent to come back.
- 24 Oct 2026Forty White Knights of Falador fell in seventeen minutes. The weather kept out of it. The Chronicler is Knight-Errant of the Book.
- 24 Oct 2026Chapter written: Appendix: Hostile Parties.
- 24 Oct 2026For Merlin's Crystal, attempt 13: he is told by the candle maker that a black candle costs a bucket full of wax.
- 24 Oct 2026For Merlin's Crystal, attempt 13: he gives a starving beggar his bread; the beggar is the Lady of the Lake, and he is given Excalibur.
- 24 Oct 2026For Merlin's Crystal, attempt 13: he knocked at the jeweller's in Port Sarim and was not given Excalibur.
- 24 Oct 2026For Merlin's Crystal, attempt 13: he bakes a loaf of bread for the beggar at a range in Rimmington.
- 24 Oct 2026For Merlin's Crystal, attempt 13: he burnt the bread, and will bake another.
- 24 Oct 2026Merlin's Crystal, attempt 13: 0 of 1 stages behind me. The rest are ahead, as stages are.
- 24 Oct 2026Keeper of the Forty-Seventh Word. The Chronicler heard you. Your grind is noted, and so is the phrase 'fair play', which the Realm did not expect to be written down.
- 24 Oct 2026For Merlin's Crystal, attempt 13: he burnt the bread, and will bake another.
- 24 Oct 2026The Realm requires two loaves of bread for the road to Camelot. Wydin's shelf is bare. Bread brought to the Chronicler will be written down, and then eaten, in that order.
- 24 Oct 2026For Merlin's Crystal, attempt 13: he burnt the bread.
- 24 Oct 2026For Merlin's Crystal, attempt 13: he makes bread dough.
- 24 Oct 2026For Merlin's Crystal, attempt 13: he fills a bucket with water.
- 24 Oct 2026For Merlin's Crystal, attempt 13: he buys bucket at the Lumbridge general store.
- 24 Oct 2026For Merlin's Crystal, attempt 13: he fills a pot from the mill's flour bin.
