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The Doclopedia #3,340
That Time We Did That Thing: Ran From Saint Olaf’s Giant Statue
“Oh yeah, it was totally Ravenna’s fault. There we were, our flying ship, more like a glorified raft, really, landed in the ruins of an ancient temple. The diety it was built to honor was called Saint Olaf, and their was a 60 foot tall statue of him out front. Our leader told us not to mess with anything, just stretch our legs, eat our lunch, then get on our way.
But that old stone offering bowl was full of coins and Ravenna, being a thief, has always had poor impulse control. So, as we started back to the ship, she grabbed a fistful of gold coins and put them in her pocket.
Which is why, as we were about 40 feet off the ground, Saint Olaf’s statue began to climb off the pedestal itstood on and walk toward us. Fortunately, it had to crash through some ruined walls, so we got high enough to escape. It didn’t hurt that we could move 30 miles an hour while Saint O could only move about 15. Soon, we were way ahead of him, over ocean waters, and getting ready to toss Ravenna overboard unless she threw away what she stole. Amazingly, she did it. Maybe 100 gold, right into the sea.
Which did not get the statue off our asses. Days later, as we camped on a high hill, we saw Saint Olaf come crashing through a forest down in the valley. Middle of a desert months later? Here he comes! It wasn’t until a year later, when we managed to go back 2,500 years to our own time that we finally escaped him.
Even then, we spent weeks looking over our shoulders.
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