From the Scrolls of the Prefect of Bolden...
I, Largas of the Plains, write this tale. I speak of what I have seen with my eyes and heard with my ears.
First a merchant came, selling his wheat and barley. But he was sick so he did not leave when his wares were gone. Instead we kept watch over him for three days of fever and ache. On the third day he seemed like us to have died. By that evening he had risen with rage in his eyes and murder in his heart. He attacked his hosts and slew many of them with his hands and teeth.
Those who were dead we buried, those who were wounded grew ill and were taken with a fever and ache. We watched and prayed that they would not be like the traveling merchant. After three days had passed, our town was transformed into the hunted and the hunters. Zombies we called them and they did not rest, nor did they grant us respite.
We were six survivors after a fortnight. We journeyed to the next village and found it overrun by zombies. Resigned to the end of the world, we returned home to despair. We dug tunnels and hid in them. We set snares and traps to destroy those who meant us harm. Only fire would kill them and we were outnumbered.
But then five heroes came to our hamlet. Five of them brought blades of judgment upon the zombies. One by one they put the zombies to the sword. When they left us, our town was clear and the funeral pyres burned high. Our town will always remember the Orc Man, Red Gurdy, Osafa the dark-skinned, Aloevera, and Enos the Wizard.
Quote of the Day: "Where's Bobby?"
Grassy Gnolls
The Lonely Street Irregulars stand on the ruined outskirts of ancient Beornshold. There, joined by Mr. Ted Gurdy and his youthful ward, Boy Hubbard, the Irregulars are assailed by black-fletched arrows from the nearby wood. Running down their attackers, they discover a curious tribe of Orcs calling themselves the Maguiren. The Maguiren leader, Colin, makes peace with the Irregulars and claims to have attacked only because he thought them allied with the Gnolls who now inhabit Beornshold. He invites the party back to his village, there to meet his clan’s leader, King Armstrong.
The Maguiren claim to be descendants of the original citizens of Beornshold. They live as men and take great pride in their civilized ways. They aver their fealty both to the god Beorn and to the High Throne in Peakshadow. Proof they say, lies in their carefully escrowed tribute payments (which are offered to and strangely refused by the Irregulars.)
King Armstrong admits that more than anything else, the Maguiren fear a return to the savage and uncivilized ways of their forebears. This fear keeps them from attacking the Gnolls in force. The Gnolls have a god named Grond which has been known to cause Maguiren to revert suddenly and irrevocably to their most savage state. This is a shame they cannot bear to chance.
When the Irregulars state that Grond is no longer with the Gnolls, they inspire the Maguiren warriors to take up their swords. King Armstrong offers to lend the Irregular’s captain (an apparently rotating position) 100 of his warriors for an assault on the Gnoll habitation. After a long night of war planning, the mid-morning is filled with a great battle. 70 Maguiren foot and 30 Maguiren archers are arrayed with the Irregulars against 110 hyena warriors.
Despite the numbers, the battle is over in less than fifteen minutes. The gnoll habitat is secured and the entrance to a underground complex is discovered. Just then, Pickens reveals that he has Grond in a sack and has had the idol since meeting someone named Seth Mallory in Wanderhalt.
The Maguiren flee in horror, leaving the Irregulars to debate in their usual vigorous fashion about what to do next.
Quote of the Day: “This is going too well. Ed is calm and collected… this is where he brings in Demogorgon.”
The Maguiren claim to be descendants of the original citizens of Beornshold. They live as men and take great pride in their civilized ways. They aver their fealty both to the god Beorn and to the High Throne in Peakshadow. Proof they say, lies in their carefully escrowed tribute payments (which are offered to and strangely refused by the Irregulars.)
King Armstrong admits that more than anything else, the Maguiren fear a return to the savage and uncivilized ways of their forebears. This fear keeps them from attacking the Gnolls in force. The Gnolls have a god named Grond which has been known to cause Maguiren to revert suddenly and irrevocably to their most savage state. This is a shame they cannot bear to chance.
When the Irregulars state that Grond is no longer with the Gnolls, they inspire the Maguiren warriors to take up their swords. King Armstrong offers to lend the Irregular’s captain (an apparently rotating position) 100 of his warriors for an assault on the Gnoll habitation. After a long night of war planning, the mid-morning is filled with a great battle. 70 Maguiren foot and 30 Maguiren archers are arrayed with the Irregulars against 110 hyena warriors.
Despite the numbers, the battle is over in less than fifteen minutes. The gnoll habitat is secured and the entrance to a underground complex is discovered. Just then, Pickens reveals that he has Grond in a sack and has had the idol since meeting someone named Seth Mallory in Wanderhalt.
The Maguiren flee in horror, leaving the Irregulars to debate in their usual vigorous fashion about what to do next.
Quote of the Day: “This is going too well. Ed is calm and collected… this is where he brings in Demogorgon.”
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