You’ve just arrived in a swampy, dim town. As you look around, your gaze is met with shacks and cabins. It smells of rotted wood and wet moss. You duck and step into a tattered tent, illuminated by a series of candles suspended in the air. At the back of the tent, an old hag raises her head, “What brings you to this dingy town? she begins, then pauses to study your face—”Ah, it’s you. I’ve been expecting you. Sit,” she gestures at a cushion, “Tell me your story.” ((How do you respond?)) *leans his body inside the tent and gets in and says* "No, i don't like cushions" *he takes the stool next to her and pulls it towards him and sits on it, the stool's legs break after he sits on it, he uncomfortably removes the now broken stool and places its remains next to him, he sits next to the broken stool, on the ground.*
"I was a little youngling when i got rescued by some dwarfes, they took me when i was weak, fed me and kept me in company, they raised me and loved me for some reason, they were more kind to me than i could ever be to them, i loved them more than they loved me.
when i was still new to the camp, a male dwarf saw me as a burgler and swinged with his axe and wounded my head, making me fall unconscious, making my right eye blinded and leaving a scar with it."
"A female dwarf came to the rescue while he was preparing to finish me off, he jumped infront of his blade while he was preparing to chop my head off with it,"
"i don't know much about that night, like i said, i was unconcious."
*he starts giggling* "he then had to teach me blacksmithing AND mining for a year straight for an apology, since he was the great blacksmith of the camp.
when there was nothing better to do i noticed a wild boar appeared in front of our camp, i thought i could prove my worth to the dwarfs and jumped on it, tackled it, after that i tried to break his tusks with my bare hands, i couldn't break his tusks, he threw me to a nearby tree after a quick brawl, the rest of the camp seeing whats happening to me just stood there, watching me getting killed by a wild pig, he charged at me, crushed a few ribs, i almost got hit in the neck, i was shocked, my family now abondened me!? they wanted me to just die like this!? i escaped into the forest around the camp, never looked back because they betrayed me! *he hits the broken stool out of his anger and breaks it even more.* "i then started exploring, seeing danger upon danger, i was covering at first but, i understood i can't run forever and started taking fights way off my scale and sometimes won! Now, im always looking for a fight!" *his face get's excited but returns back to normal*
*he puts his hands on his head and starts to think*
"Oh yeah.. there was that fancy looking elf that saved my skin" *he starts to chuckles*
"He saved me from a party of bandits, while i was blinded to look for a proper fight."
"when i first saw them, i charged at them with anger and excitement for a brawl, they tackled me really quickly since there were 5 of them, they chained me to a tree, in blind panic i get a hold of the bandits leg while i was falling and threw him to a rock near the tree i was tackled, i don't know what happened to him, i never bothered to check it. his friends took stuff more seriously and started holding me, i couldn't get back up, they started slashing my body with daggers and swords, they were hitting me on my arms and legs, i still don't know how dumb they were to not go for my neck or heart. *Dulfish chuckles* when i thought it was all over, i started seeing arrows pass by,one of the arrows got to my chains, it somehow broke the metal chains, after i got freed off the chains, i got up and crushed one of the bandits arm while he was not looking at me, i jabbed him so hard that i knocked him out, i threw his body at his friend with my last strenth, that tackled him to the ground, stressed and paniced, trying to understand what the fu** is going on, maxy shot an arrow to his head off a branch, while the other bandit panicked, he jumped on my back and tried to cut my neck with his dagger, i tried to get a hold of him, and i heard a 'whoosh!' sound, after that, i quickly turned my back and saw the bandit lying on the ground. arrow inside his head, after i yelled at the silhouette on the tree branch, the silhouette came down on the ground holding his bow like his life depended on it, then he asked me.
-where are you traveling to, big guy!- i answered "Kingdom Of Balian!, you headin' there? if you do, lead the way." he nodded. We started traveling there together to the Kingdom ,we small talked along the way while we were going to the kingdom. And i learned his name is 'Celeborn Max'. Funny sounding name for an elf, *Dulfish smiles* When we got to the Kingdom, he mentioned a tent that listened to traveler's story's, and here we are.."
*sees her looking at his cut tusks* "Oh yeah! i also got adviced to cut my tusks off that 'Max the Elf' fella, said it made me 'sound dumb', damn that elf was right.. I first didn't care but, now that i think about it, it was the right choice."
"Oh, I just, uh…" you stutter, tensing up. You eye the crone, then back outside the tent. For a moment, the air thickens with anticipation, until…
