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Regardless of where they were in the world they would come across an old woman telling a tall tale that had attracted quite a crowd. While the crowd varied in between locations, the pull to stay and listen in was real, for little did the listeners know they would be pulled into such a tale in short order. Cloaked and shawled the woman herself was quite nondescript just like many old urchins who haunted the streets and the roads of Faerun. Her wizened old hands wove through the air, telling the story through motion as much as her words. "-And she woke once more amongst the traveling trees, towering above her but she was not frightened for she knew soon the lord of the forest would be along to carry her forth. The beast was as twice as tall as any man, broad, well muscled and thickly furred."
She conjured forth a shadowy figure of a massive feline mid-roar towering over a slender woman. "Fortunately for such a beast it was kindness that had won it's trust, and she slipped up onto his back, carried forward into the rising twilight towards the tower in the center. Once there she fought valiantly her way to top, and upon her arrival she stepped out into the full sun, bathed in it and washed of her weariness and worry. A hand stretched forth, setting on her shoulder and filling her with purpose and courage. 'Take heart fair warrior, and step forth, for you have been tested and deemed worthy.' She would feel the smile without seeing it and stepped forth, taking the hand offered to her." The old woman smiled, "And that is where we'll end our tale for now."
There was protesting groans from the group and soft laughter from the woman herself as she scanned the crowd, meeting the eyes of a few certain individuals. "Now now, you can't save the world in a night, neither can our heroine. Go forth to your beds and dream deep." The woman bade them as the crowd began to disperse. As they wandered off many would muse over the story and upon crawling into their beds, wherever they may be, they laid quietly and eventually drifted off, dreaming of the story they'd heard earlier that evening.
The first thing the group notices upon waking is that they are no longer in their beds, the twilight sky above them is clouded out by towering trees and their massive canopy that catches most of the early morning sunlight. They were not alone, for this group woke in a mass of eleven, gently laid out on the leaf litter of the forest floor side by side with some space between them. Among the group were a gnome, a goliath, a winged tiefling, a blue dragonborn, a dwarf, several elves, several humanoids, and in the very middle of them all was a badger, standing on it's hind legs, dressed in fine chainmail, with a massive shield and sword strapped to it's back. "Come along come along! Awake with you all!" The badger bid, sounding more tired with life in general rather than truly grumpy at their unwillingness to wake. "We must be about our task." He didn't actually attempt to touch any of them to rouse them though.
As they began to rouse the badger, shuffling along on both hind feet, would make his rounds, bringing each and every member a gourd full of cool clear water and a chunk of bread. "Be at ease. The guardian of this forest has promised none will come to harm while you are under their protection." The badger waved a paw at the weapon sheathed over his shoulder. "You have been disarmed of your weapons while a guest of the forest and it's mistress. They shall be returned to you when you leave this place for you will not need them before then." The badger continued making his rounds until they were all awake and aware. "Your task is to reach the tower at the center of these woods, and your group is not the only one so please be swift least you be left behind."
With a general direction in which to travel, to the east it seemed, into the rising sun, they were left to their own devices on how to go about that.
She conjured forth a shadowy figure of a massive feline mid-roar towering over a slender woman. "Fortunately for such a beast it was kindness that had won it's trust, and she slipped up onto his back, carried forward into the rising twilight towards the tower in the center. Once there she fought valiantly her way to top, and upon her arrival she stepped out into the full sun, bathed in it and washed of her weariness and worry. A hand stretched forth, setting on her shoulder and filling her with purpose and courage. 'Take heart fair warrior, and step forth, for you have been tested and deemed worthy.' She would feel the smile without seeing it and stepped forth, taking the hand offered to her." The old woman smiled, "And that is where we'll end our tale for now."
There was protesting groans from the group and soft laughter from the woman herself as she scanned the crowd, meeting the eyes of a few certain individuals. "Now now, you can't save the world in a night, neither can our heroine. Go forth to your beds and dream deep." The woman bade them as the crowd began to disperse. As they wandered off many would muse over the story and upon crawling into their beds, wherever they may be, they laid quietly and eventually drifted off, dreaming of the story they'd heard earlier that evening.
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The first thing the group notices upon waking is that they are no longer in their beds, the twilight sky above them is clouded out by towering trees and their massive canopy that catches most of the early morning sunlight. They were not alone, for this group woke in a mass of eleven, gently laid out on the leaf litter of the forest floor side by side with some space between them. Among the group were a gnome, a goliath, a winged tiefling, a blue dragonborn, a dwarf, several elves, several humanoids, and in the very middle of them all was a badger, standing on it's hind legs, dressed in fine chainmail, with a massive shield and sword strapped to it's back. "Come along come along! Awake with you all!" The badger bid, sounding more tired with life in general rather than truly grumpy at their unwillingness to wake. "We must be about our task." He didn't actually attempt to touch any of them to rouse them though.
As they began to rouse the badger, shuffling along on both hind feet, would make his rounds, bringing each and every member a gourd full of cool clear water and a chunk of bread. "Be at ease. The guardian of this forest has promised none will come to harm while you are under their protection." The badger waved a paw at the weapon sheathed over his shoulder. "You have been disarmed of your weapons while a guest of the forest and it's mistress. They shall be returned to you when you leave this place for you will not need them before then." The badger continued making his rounds until they were all awake and aware. "Your task is to reach the tower at the center of these woods, and your group is not the only one so please be swift least you be left behind."
With a general direction in which to travel, to the east it seemed, into the rising sun, they were left to their own devices on how to go about that.
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