Challenge #04892-M143: False Fate

Some hold that the fates of all men are carved into stone. What happens when a miner breaks into a cave and discovers tablets seeming to record all events of the miner’s life up until that point and then details what is to come thereafter? -- Deathshead419

Some legends say that the Great Silver Dragon curled up and became the moon. Some say that she became the very world upon which all other life depends. Some legends say that all the destinies of all the lives are written upon the Great Silver Dragon's scales, and woe betide any who find so much as one...

Some legends will say anything.

But most legends have a mote of truth inside them, as the unfortunate Sapper Jaymes found out to his peril. He had been minding his own business, mining his claim and following a seam of interesting rock. At least until that very rock split open and he found a small chamber containing a stone like no other. It was covered with writing.

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