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“Who..” I started to reply to Adrik, but was quickly drowned out by the booming battle cry of the approaching stranger “…IIMPLE MAATTTTT” Trying again “ Wh..“ “SIIIMPLEE MAATTTTT” “W..” “SIIIMPLEEE MAATTTTTTT” “Oh for fuc…” Gondar and Maisee both muttered, both reaching for their weapons “SIIIIIMPLEEEEE MAAAAAATTTTTTTT” The stranger was now no more than 30 feet from us now and despite being incredibly annoying he stood as tall, if not taller than myself and was clad in chain mail. I squeezed my fists readying myself for whatever this oddity was about to do next. Adrik must have noticed the three of us readying up for ruckus and quickly got in […]

We met first thing the next morning with everyone looking a little worse for wear. Between Adrik and the three of us we got the wagon loaded fairly quickly, with each of us grumbling under our breath every time Adrik threw another bag of god knows what onto the back of the wagon rather than place it in gingerly like the rest of us. “What say you three to some breakfast before we set off” Adrik boomed. You would have thought he had cast thaumaturgy to amplify his voice based on the way we all reacted by covering our ears, wincing and nodding. I was starting to think Adrik was […]

Stop me if you’ve heard this one… Winning my freedom from the underground fighting pits of Neverwinter hadn’t been living up to the dream I had been cultivating in my head the last 20 years. It’s not that I had been expecting a parade or anything, but a disappointingly light bag of coins, a pat on the back and a kick up the arse and out the door had quickly snapped reality into focus. There’s a common idiom used among the humans regarding “climbing the ladder” whether that be relating to their jobs or their social standing. If getting higher up the ladder was the goal, I had just reached […]