Damien Wright, Storyteller

[Danny]

So here is the tale of Damien Wright the storyteller and his first experience in sweet grove. It starts out in McGinty's tavern with Damien asking for mead.

“Do, you have any mead?" within a few seconds the bartender drops a jug in front of him. “Well, this is really good. Do you know of any good stories to tell because I am out of stories and I need some new ones” I ask McGinty. “Well, I have a great Adventure to tell you abo…” He suddenly stops as 2 bolts slam into the room, One, into a bottle behind the bar and another in the bar just to the right of me. The one on the right has a note that says Beware of the Ring” I wonder out loud “who is the ring?” A man by the name of Fletcher says “a slave origination.” That put a shiver up my spine. “I hate slavers” I think to myself. At this point a man comes in stating that a woman is looking for adventures!” I turn at this point and explain “Oh? I need more stories to tell I’ll go!” “As, will I “states Fletcher.

At this point we get lead to the center of town and get a mission to find a missing druid. Who has apparently been missing for the last 3 weeks. We buy supplies and set off. Along the way we get attacked by a couple of bandits. With the canny eye of Fletcher we were able to follow them to a clearing. We attack and kill one, the other escapes. We try to follow him but he’s good and we lose the trail. We then make camp to sleep the night away. The next morning we come across a bridge that looks really rickety. Planks missing things like that I try to spot at goblins that we have heard live in the woods. But I fail to see them as we get half way across the bridge they attack us and try to cut the ropes. With the expert use of our weapons we gun them down before the ropes are cut. We continue on. At this point we find the Druids house and upon investigation I notice that the druid is being controlled by hag wind chimes. We also find and free two fairies. They tell us that the druid has gone mad buy the chimes and that he turned them into fairies. They lead us to the Hags home where we stumble across a musical instrument. We get attacked by goblins again. We kill most and the rest run. It’s at this time the Hag comes home and attacks us. I go toward the druids place and Fletcher goes the other bringing the Hag with him. It’s at this point I play the instrument and say the passage that is on it and the druid returns to normal. With his help we kill the Hag and return the Fairies back into people we go back to the inn where the Druid fixes the crops and we hear three cheers of “Hip hip Hurray!!” We go back to sweet grove and report our finding and state that the druid will be coming back here as well as the advisers that were sent. “So what do you think was it exciting enough?” I ask the people who sat around to listen.

[Trevor]

Continuing on with the stories because they need telling' Damien Wright can be seen once again telling yet another story to anyone who would care to listen this one about the adventure into the undercity.

This story starts out like the last with me sitting at a bar drinking mead when McGinty called me and a another woman I found out to be called Alice. An interesting woman who I will talk about later. McGinty tells the two of us (Alice and I) that the iron ring has kidnapped Fletcher. (Fletcher you all may remember from my last tale is the man with the bow, who I helped save a druid from a Hag. He is a man of few words but the words he does say are amazing and should be taken with care.) We are told by McGinty that the iron ring are said to be keeping Fletcher captive in the undercity and that our best bet to find him are to talk to Captain Thran. We find him (Captain Thran) eating lunch. He agree to give us an entrance to the undercity. We follow him (Alice and I). He opens a hole and we climb down. From there we run into a couple of Iron Ring low life's. Alice and I each charm one of the low life and they lead us to where Fletcher is being held. I distract them and then run into the room disposing of a nameless thug with a magic missile. I awake Fletcher and Alice heals him further and gives him back his stuff. We get ready and proceed to find the people who were holding him captive. We take those people out as well. We continue on Alice runs into a poison spike and a poison moss. She survives and easily takes care of the moss. we find a room with 4 unique unlabeled liquids. Alice takes all 4 and turns into a purple, levitating, nauseated, squawking woman. It was quite a sight I have to say. We get caught by a man we found out later is called Lord Blackwell. (As I have since found out he was the wanted man.) Fletcher being the unstoppable force that he is single handily takes out the Lord. Which is good because he was a scary person. on top of that Alice using her charm, wit and the help of Fletcher ends the life of a bugbear and once again Fletcher continuing him unstoppable ability with weapons ends the life of a stone golem. We at this point cash in our junk and see to it that Thran knows that Blackwell is dead.

This ends the tale of how Lord Blackwell's days were laid to a rest. As soon as I continue my journey I will have more tales to tell but until that point I will continue to tell the stories from which I have been a part of until people no longer want to hear them.

[Trevor]

Continuing on with the stories because they need telling' Damien Wright can be seen once again telling yet another story to anyone who would care to listen this one about the adventure into the castle of the winter king.

This story starts out like the last with me sitting at a bar drinking mead listening to McGinty talk about the unnatural winter when it's supposed to be summer when I get introduced to a dwarf named Tamli and a cleric named Charlie. Why a woman was given a mans name I will never know for I do not have the courage to ask her. She is pretty scary with a mace I must have you know and I am but a weak man who would never stand a chance if I where to ever get on her bad side. Anyway we also meetup with the woman named Alice who I will now let you know that she has since found out that the reason I am not hitting on her is because I swing the other way. But, I digress. So as we are talking and introducing our self's we start to hear a loud thump, thump, thump. We run outside just in time to see a huge air ship land in the center of town where we are standing now and a wave of undead spew forth from it. Now as I was saying earlier I do not have the heart to piss off Charlie because being the bad ass that she is she managed to convert the entire group of undead to run the complete other direction away from us. It was at the time that the watchful eyes of Alice managed to spot a man running away from the town people that have been gathered. She tells Tamli who in turns tells the entire group of people about man which then in turn begin to run after him. We corner the man who hands over the item to me. The four of us then board the ship and row it to the Castle of the winter king because the boat wants us to return the item that was now in my possession. We arrive at the Castle and run into this magnificent feast and being the keen person she is Charlie notices that the feast is a lie. She then proceeds to make us realize it as well. We get into a huge fight with Alice freezing the brute of man and Tamli proceeds to chop him to pieces. Then the gnome mage who was encased in a wall of ice. charms me and Alice does as well. Guess how everyone thinks that went? I will say this it's no fun getting pulled in opposite directions from two different people wanting to use me as a weapon. Luckily! Tamli saw to it that the gnome was killed because well she is AMAZING!!. We continue on words and run into a group of people who are sadly starving. Being generous Charlie gives them food and we continue. We somehow avoid everything and run into the Winter King. Well, lets just say that Tamli and Alice do not like being ordered around and the winter king didn't take kindly to them not obeying his command that he attacked. Tamli whacked and whacked doing all she could to harm him and when things got scary Charlie came through in a pinch. Alice was brave and was firing spells like crazy as well. He finally went down. It was at this point that we decided to continue to search the castle we found a blacksmith who for some bazaar reason decided to attack us with a golem and 2 skeletons. Well, Alice and Tamli took out the Blacksmith and the golem while Charlie took out the skeletons. (as I was say'n earlier you don't want to get on her bad side. The gods will not like it.) We found a key and we continued onward and find a frozen statue. Alice the proceeds to take the key that was hanging on it and the dragon came to life. I was foolish because I decided to stand in the doorway at this time when the dragon decided it wanted to eat me for lunch and shot his breath weapon at me. Being quick witted Tamli threw me out of the door way and lucky for me out of harms way. Being brave and cunning and thinking that her god would protect her Charlie took on the dragon alone. She decimated it. ( I probably don't have to keep telling y'all this but Charlie is a sweet person until the time comes for her to take charge and well then you don't want to see the look in her eyes.) it went down to her mace like Swiss cheese. They harvested it for all they could find. We came across a room of nasty traps and I for the life of me have no idea how she saw it but Tamli could see every trap and pressure plate. She guided us through all the traps. It must be a Dwarf thing for I noticed nothing different between the floor titles. It was here that we found a door and man all I can say is I was glad to have a dwarf in the party because she could read the writing and solved the puzzle. We had finally found the dragons stash and man you should have seen the smiles on the others faces for they had finally found some loot in the god forsaken place. So they loaded up on the items and then proceed to go to the kitchen again. we found the 4 people again and for some reason Tamli just didn't like the smell of the Dwarfs. I am pretty sure it had to do with the fact that they kept saying day traveler to her. (It turns out they were Deguar and well Dwarfs and Deguar hate each other.) Tamli murdered them all because well they attacked her and she wasn't going to stop attacking until they do. While Tamli as attacking the three morans, Alice and Charlie took the mage apart. They then fought a monster in the trash. It was so smelly. The three of them killed that one as well. When you get attack by a monster you have to kill it for it will not stop attacking until you or it dies. It was at this time that we found a room that took both keys we freed the spirit from it's tomb and the winter finally stopped. We then took the last voyage back to Sweetgrove on the air ship and the rest is history.

That is the story of how the winter was ended and Alice became Queen of a now defunct group of people.

[Trevor]

Continuing on with the stories because they need telling' Damien Wright can be seen once again telling yet another story to anyone who would care to listen this one about the adventure into the mine.

This stories starts out like the others with Damien entering McGinty's Bar. Only this time instead of seeing McGinty he see Fletcher and a guy he behind the bar he has never seen before. So Fletcher gets mad and kills the guy because he's a member of the Iron Ring the group that Fletcher doesn't like. We meet up with the rest of the group and start our venture into the gold mine that is outside of town. We encounter a group of Iron Ring guards. The group takes them out and we proceed on we run into a couple more people take them out as well. We search the rooms finding a couple of things and then we continue in the process we run into a nasty being I have no idea what you would call him but he turns me and Alice into stone and from what I have been told the Elf using her cunning and magic as well as Fletcher took care of the beast and friend us. on the way out we find the treasure room that had more gold then I have ever seen in my life. We also found a bunch of slaves that we freed because who wants to be locked up. On the way out we take out the rest of the Iron Ring guards. And found out about the black knight castle. We are going to need to go there next.

That is the story of the Iron Rings and the Mines.

[Trevor]

*A note from Damien's Journal*

Well, it's been a rather interesting few months. I decided to go for a walk one morning and lets just say I have no sense of direction. I got lost. Silly me. So here I am in the middle of the woods not knowing if the direction I am going in leads toward or way from Sweetgrove. Darkness hits. I make camp because lucky for me I always bring my backpack with me that has everything I need to survive off of for a few nights. Well, while trying to sleep I hear the blood curling scream coming from somewhere. I stumble around to find my things get a torch and try to detect where I heard it from. I hear it again this time I am sure it was someone close. I look at the ground find some tracks and start to follow them. After a little ways journey through the think forest I run into a goblin camp. They have a scared Male held captive and 3 of them are threatening to kill him and eat him as food. Me being the stealthy person I am cloak myself and then cast a fireball spell into the middle of the empty camp. the three goblins turn in every direction trying to figure where that came from . They have no idea for they can not see me at all. I then start to pick them off one by one with my crossbow. Once that is done I free the man who i found out was call Lucas. We then get back to my camp and set off for his homeland. I returned with him and reunited him back with his parents and instead of giving me any kind of reward his parents decided that the best reward for me would be to wed their son. 2 weeks later we got married and were giving a small farm outside of the town which was great because I actually enjoy doing manual labor like feeding animals and planting greens. It was a blissful few months. Then a day I will never forget I came home from my usual storytelling session to find a note on the door that my significant other had been taken and that they were going to make him into a slave (and torment him for being gay) and that I would never see him again. I came back to Sweetgrove to find out information about the group. The letter was signed and marked with a symbol but I couldn't make it out.

[Trevor]

Once again Damien can be seen telling more of his stories by the fountain in Sweetgrove. This story is about the quest to acquire the staff and cloak of the so called Fire Master. It starts out like any other story Damien has been a part of @ McGinty's. Where he meets Alice and then asks where they can find the fire master. We get shown to a small man in the darkest corner of the room. We go over there and begin to talk to him. He tries to dazzle us with his ability to make green fire. Mind you I am not impressed. I can make my own from nothing. We get told that we can find the tomb in the middle of the woods. So Alice and I go and find Fletcher, get our items and proceeded to venture into the woods to find the tomb. I was leading the way why I have no idea for I have no sense of direction and proceeded to get us lost. Fletcher clearly being better at figures out where we are and then leads us in the right direction. (I got us lost for 3 days...) We finally found the most outlandish tomb I have ever seen. Fletcher busts open the door with all his might and we start to descend down into the tomb. We run into 17 walking dead. Alice nukes them with Fire balls and Fletcher picks of some with his bow. So I kill one with a scroll of magic missile... so that makes 10 for Alice 6 for Fletcher and 1 for me (Yay go me). after clearing the room I pop the next door open. Really bad idea I see 8 undead guards wear and wielding very rusty weapons. Well hear I am standing the doorway and I get attacked by the guards. There touch is terrifying and made me really weak. Fletcher grabs me and pulls me out of the doorway. Alice using her might of Fireball nukes them down and kills the group after just two blasts. We search them and find some interesting items and then we continue on. Fletcher this time opens the next door and 4 spectors are standing there Alice nukes them with a blast so powerful it kills 3 and then Fletcher kills the last one. We search in here and find more things. of all things I find a shield (I don't even know how to use the shield.) and decided that I want to put it on. We go into the next room and we see a mummy. The most scariest mummy I have ever seen that it made me pee my pants and I couldn't move. Fletcher scared him away and then I decided I needed to check myself out in the mirror that was in the room while doing that Alice destroyed a crystal ball and out came a fire demon. Alice and I got hit by both the fire demon and then mummy came back and scared me so bad a second time that I again peeing my pants. Man the mummies touch is also equally as scary and it started to make me and Alice rot. Fletcher kills both the demon and the mummy and we got to leave with the items we came for as well as with our lives. I was then healed by the church and all is well in the world.

That is the story of how the order of the fire masters was able to show his status with the newly acquired original master of the fire masters things. When I go back out again I will come back with even more stories.

[Trevor]

This is the tale of how a group of slaves where freed.

This tale starts out like any other at Mcginity's with Alice and Damien talking.

"So I heard a rumor that the Iron Ring were holding slaves in a bar. Do you want to take care of it? Damien asks. Alice nods and with that we form a group consisting of Fletcher, Alice, I and three people I have never met a dwarf named Dantiles who I have heard stories about but for some reason was never around when he and Fletcher did things. An Elf and a Demon. We stroll into the inn after three days of journeying. And once inside a massive fight brakes out. The only thing I remember is getting hit with a fireball spell and then waking up a few hours later and seeing the the utter destruction of everyone who opposed us. Seeing some bones broken and arrows sticking out of things. I am guessing that everyone else being the amazing people they are just wrecked havoc like they normally do. Also seeing how everyone was still standing that has to be the case. Fletcher found a hidden door under the kitchen and we freed the 12 slaves.

That is the story of how we stopped a slave ring. I know I know I need to come up with better tales. It's hard when the poor story teller finally got in harms way and this time actually fell. The next story will be much better because I will actually be awake.

[Trevor]

This is the tale of how we put to rest vampire

This tale starts like any other at Mcginity's with Mcginity telling us about the tomb of a vampire. We agree and head off. The group was made up of Me Alice, Fletcher, Dantiles, The Elf, and then 3 new people another Dwarf who I had never met another Bard and I think a Genius who I am not sure what he was able to do other then be smart. Smarter then me at least which isn't saying much since I am not the brightest person on earth but man he is smart. We take off and scout out the area. There were more orcs then I have ever seen in my entire life. Well as I was saying I am not the brightest and why anyone would listen to any sort of plan I have i have no idea but for some reason they agreed with my plan to send Dantiles and Fletcher in to alert and try to pile the orcs around them. After thinking about it later going in silently would have been better since they were already sleep.... Like I said I am not that smart. So Dantlies and Fletcher go down and we still have to many orcs to deal with. The plan did not work at all.. Once again why do people listen to me.. Thanks to the smarts of the Elf and Alice with fireballs and the Bards use of arrows the orcs went down and ran away. We then spent the night. The next day we entered the tomb with the help of the elf cracking down the door. We get attacked by an ant which the dwarf who name I should know but don't kills. We continue on. Alice 2 hidden doors and then Dantlies finds another that is controlled by wait. We go down the stairs and then continue on. At this point me and the group gets split up I have no idea what happen to them. what did end up happening next is I Alice gets hit a block and ended up someplace else. we all follow. We ended up in a room with a ghost face man who had fangs. The elf hit it with a bolt Fletcher hit it with a bow. Alice hit it with web, Dantlies slashed it with a sword, The Dwarf smashed at it and the Bard well the bard hit it with holy water and turned it to dust. Making sure it was dust and nothing else Alice used Magic Missie and low and behold the dust vanished into thin air.

And that was the story of how a vampire was gone with no trace and will never comeback.