new challenge

Easy
Bring me the shield.
Are you ready to go?
Few among them could match his speed.

Medium
Although surrounded by the enemy and outnumbered, they slaughtered their way out of peril.
If you had listened and not acted rashly, we might have caught the deer.
Praise the gods! For without them the city wouldn't stand a chance!

Hard
"Would you", he began to argue, "insist as strongly as you do upon this point, were you not under the mind-altering influence of that wild herb?"
To whomever might read this letter without explicit permission, beware, more than the gods are watching.