Mulberry Veils & Crooked Trails
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Three hopelessly unqualified princes (Lucian the dreamer, Nedrick the pig farmer, and Alistair the runaway) accidentally rescue Runklebean; a depowered cosmic being exiled from his realm. Now, armed only with inherited trauma and the competence of a wooden spoon, they must restore Runklebean's powers through a gauntlet of haunted spas, melodramatic villains, and hallucinogenic caves in exchange for three destiny-altering wishes.
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Meet three wildly unqualified princes: Lucian, searching for greatness; Nedrick, who runs a pig farm; and Alistair, currently on the run from his evil stepfather. When instead of a princess they accidentally rescue Runklebean--a reality-altering cosmic entity who's been depowered and mysteriously exiled from his realm--the four of them are thrust into a chaotic quest to restore Runklebean's powers in exchange for three wishes. Armed with inherited trauma and the combined competency of a wooden spoon, Lucian, Alistair, Nedrick, and Runklebean must bumble through caves filled with hallucinogens, battle melodramatic villains, survive haunted spas, beat a petty witch in a pageant, and confront their own destinies. "Mulberry Veils and Crooked Trails" is a semi-modern fantasy comedy where almost everything is sentient, the laws of physics are mostly rumours, and quests rarely go according to plot.
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A/N: NOT BL. NOT SMUTTY. NO JUICY LEMONS or whatever the heck. Not knocking the genre or people that enjoy stuff like it. Just clarifying that this thing ain't that, yo.
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