He left the chamber and found his warriors waiting patiently outside.

Instead, Galaeron and his Tomb Guards had followed a band of crypt-breakers down into the long-forgotten workings of a dwarven mine and found Vala and her Vaasan warriors preparing to rendezvous with their shadow mage master, Melegaunt Tanthul.

While the book, which came out in 1990, was extremely popular among males of a certain sort, Bly's exhortations for men to go off in the woods and beat on conga drums in order to find their inner warriors continue to be savagely mocked and parodied.

"You will find your three warriors alive in the tree above your hut," replied the ape-man.

The dreamers' fire died to glowing ash and the two hundred dispersed, scrambling down the mountainside to find and wake their warriors,and give them the gods' good will before battle.

This beat-the-clock musical adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about Southern black women finding their inner warriors never slows down long enough for you to embrace it.

I must stay here and tend to the affairs of the Ingeitum while Orik is gone, so he does not return to find our warriors starving and all our gold spent.

In faithfully adapting Ms. Walker's incident-crammed 1982 Pulitzer Prizewinner about Southern black women finding their inner warriors, the show's creators have fashioned a bright, shiny and muscular storytelling machine that is above all built for speed.