Love&Steel
Chapter 1

" We should be coming to the town of Kakral in an hour or so. " Iron Grom said to his adventuering companions as he saw that it was noon time by the burning sun as it hovered above them, " Great I'll be glad to get off my feet. " Dhyana Oakheart said and she looked to the rest of her team and she could see that they would be glad to get to an inn after a month of wondering the lands in serach of adventure and loot.
" I hope they have some good hot food at the inn. " Mary Angel said as she felt her stomach let out a rumble at the thought of hot food.
" I hope they have some good ale, my mouth and throat are dryer then the sands of the Vorkol wastelands. " Hanbone Forkbeard said said as he took a drink from his waterskin, " I hear you on that lover, I swear I'm so parched that I'll be pissing out dust if I don't get some ale and soon. " Remey Blackheart said as she wiped away a bead of sweat from her forehead.
" I hope they have comfortable beds at the inn. " Erle Glitterstone said as he looked at Dhyana and leered at her as he had the vision of fucking her double F cup breasts and he licked his lips as she looked at him and gave him a wicked leer of her own.
After an hour or so the six companions came to the edge of the small town and saw that calling the ramshakle looking hamlet a town was being too kind, " Something is worng. " Erle said as he and the others saw that the popluiose of the hamlet where dirt poor famers who were toiling in their feilds and that they seemed to have an air of dispair about them as they stopped their work to gauk at them.
" Stay alert, I have a feeling that there might be danger here. " Remey said as she saw the commoners of the hamlet were looking at them with fearful and yet hopeful looks that unsettled her for some odd reason, " Excuse me but is there an inn here? " Mary asked a frail looking women who looked to be well up in her years.
" Yes Strangers, the only inn we have is the Black Troll, just follow the main road, you can't miss it. " she heard the old woman say to her and she could see that she wanted to say something to her but yet she seemed hesatent to speak to her, " Thank you. " Dhyana said as the old woman quickly left them, " You notice something out of place here? " Hambone said as he and the others were making their way through the hamlet.
" Yes I don't see any children around. " Iron Grom said as he could see that most of people in the hamlet were adults and only a few teenage boys and girls, " That's not the only thing out of place here, look at the animals, there are no young ones, just old beasts of burden. " Erle said with a disturbed look on his face.
After fifteen minutes or so the six companions found themselves standing outside of a large inn that had seen better days some time ago and hanging over the door of the inn was a wooden sign with a crudely painted black troll on it, " Well this is the place then, maybe after we get something to eat and a few drinks we can question the locals as to what is going on around here. " Remey said as they walked into the inn and once they were inside there seemed to be an air doom as they saw groups of people sitting at the tables that were scattered around the inn.
" I don't like this! " Iron Grom thought to himself as he saw a few of the people in the inn look him and his party over with sulen looks before they went back to talking amoung themselves,
" What can I get you? " they heard a voice to their right say and whe they looked towards the sound of the voice they saw a fat man in a greasy leather apron looking at them as they made their way over to the bar to take a seat, " Ale and what do you have to eat? " Mary asked the cropulent bar tender as she saw that he looked to be in his late thiries and that he was bald and unkempt.
" That's be a Cron for the ale and three Crons for a bowl of stew. " she heard the bartender say, " Damn that's way to high a price for ale and food. " Erle said with an annoyed tone of voice.
" If you don't like it go elsewhere runt. " the fat bartender said with a dismissive tone of voice that set Erle's teeth on edge, " That'll be fine. " Iron Grom said in order to head off any conflict between Erle and the bartender, not that he gave a damn about the tubby bartender but he did not want to cause any trouble with the locals.
Erle looked over to Iron Grom and saw the warning look in his eyes and decied that he would play nice for the time being but he also made a note to to himself to make the fat bartender pay for his bad attatude.
" Kimbo we have customers so get your cracked ass in gear you little bitch! " the fat bartender shouted and when Dhyana looked to see who the bartnder was shouting at she and the others saw a young, dirty girl who looked to be about thriteen sesaons old walk over to them, " What do you want? " she said to them with a subdued tone of voice and they could see that the serving girl had a vacant look in her watery brown eyes that told Mary and the others that she was a dullard.
Once they had placed their orders with the serving girl Hambone and the others ordered some ale, " What in the Black Hells is this! " Hambone muttered to himself as he found that the ale was heavly watered down and for a moment he considered braking the bartender's kneecaps for having the nerve to serve him watered down ale.
" This tastes like rabid couger piss for fuck sakes. " Remey groused as she took a drink of the ale when the serving girl came over to them with their bowls of stew, " What the fuck! " Iron Grom shouted as he saw that the stew was watery and that the vegtables in it looked wiltted and that there were only a few small bits of greasy, under cooked meat in the stew as he got to his feet with a pissed off look on his face as the other patrons of the inn looked at him with gaurded intrest to see if he was going to murder the bartender in cold blood.
" You got a lot of fucking nerve to pass this shit off on us! " Erle said as he and the other members of his adventuering party who were in a simalure frame of mind at having been charged such a high price for the shitty ale and stew got to their feet.
" Be at peace strangers. " they heard some one say to them and Iron Grom gave the cowering bartender one last pissed off look before he turned his attention to the person speaking to him and the others, standing in the doorway was a large man in hard leather armor with a long sword in it's scabbard around his waist and flanking him were two scard looking teenage boys in the same type of hard leather armor as the large man with their hands on the hilts of their long swords,
" Who are you? " Iron Grom asked as he could see that the large man and the two frightened teenage boys were scaird of them, " I'm Locoas Blarmag the law in this town, please be at peace we don't want any trouble, we already suffer enough, things are not well in these
lands. " The large man to him and when Locoas looked over to Iron Grom's team he could see that they were not all that alarmed and he knew that they knew that they could wipe them out in an instant.
" Strangers please be at peace and let me explain what is happening to our town. " Locoas said and he could see that the strangers before him did not seem like some of the hard asses that had come before them, " Ok we're lising, why don't we get a table and talk about it. " Iron Grom said and he saw the large man and the two teenage boys breath a sigh of relief as the other patrions begain to talk amoung themselves.
" Thank you strangers for being understanding. " Locoas said as he waved the two boys off and lead him and his team to back most table and along the way Erle and his companions heard the other patrions muttering to themselves such as " Here we go again. ", " If they and any sense they would leave this cursed place. ", " They won't last too long. "
Erle, Mary, Dhyana, Iron Grom, Remey and Hambone sat at the table and they could see a dark and aprehencive look on Locoas's face as he sat down and each of them felt a sense of dread that took them by surpise.
" Five thousand years ago a great evil awoke and had been the bane of these fine lands of our empire since then, many have come to rid our lands of this terrbile evil, none have suceeded and very few survived to return to tell the tales of woe in their failed atempts to rid us of this evil. " Hambone and the others heard Locoas say and they could see and hear his desperation and then they heard some one say " I'll bet twenety Crons that they go for it. " and there was a sudeen storm of conversaion from the other patrions as they made wagers on the likelyhood that they would help Locoas or not which feither incressed their feelings of dread.
" Ten years ago the evil came to this town and demaned a tribute of twevle of our fairest virgin maidens and a tribute of twevle of our fairest virgin maidens every ten years, at the time we did not know that this was the nightmarish evil that has so pluaged our empire for so
long. " Locoas said as he saw the unsettled looks on the strangers's faces.
"We drove it out of town at the cost of the lives of twenety of our town gaurds, then the evil said to us that we would pay dearly for refusing him. " Mary and the others heard the gaurd say and they could see that he was doing his best to keep his desperaion in check.
" A year after that the evil returned with an army of nightmarish monsters that killed all the able bodied men and boys over the age of twelve seasons, they speard the old men and young boys then they laid waste to our town. " they heard Locoas say with a termor in his voice.
" Then the evil took all of our women and girls over the age of of ten sesaons and under fifty sesons and it's final act was to curse us all and all who would live in this town that no new young shall be born of man or beast and then left us. " Iron Grom heard Locoas said to him and he looked at the others and he could see the grim looks on their faces, " Since then no children or animals have been born, you have to help us! " Locoas half shouted in disperation and he felt a strong need to help this town dispite the vast dangers that he and his team would face as the rest of the patrions lisened with exspectaion.
" Well what do you all say, do we help them or not? " Iron Grom asked his companion for he did not want to decide such a matter without the aproval of his team mates, " I think we should think this over before we decide anything. " Erle said as he saw that the rest of his team mates were in agreement with him on that idea
" If we want more information about this achanent evil who would we talk to about it? " Iron Grom asked as he could see the wisdom in taking their time to decied such a grave matter even though they had undertaken many perilousl quests, jobs and adventuers before without giving it another thought but yet there was something about this matter that had unsettled them all which had never happened to them before as a team which only made their feelings of aprehencion all the more keenly felt.
" I don't know where you could learn anything about this damnable blight on our lands, you should talk to Ertorn the Burgomaster of this town. " Locoas said and in spite of the failuers of the countless adventuers that had come before the strangers he felt a flicker of hope that these strangers could free his empire from the achant evil that had caused such untold death and dispar for so long.
" Why has not the ruler of these lands sent an army to wipe out this evil for? " Dhyana asked as she took a sip of her tepid and watered down ale, " Twenty four years ago the Empror, Jusax Xrovo had been assassinated before he could name an heir and his many children have been fighting a savage war of succion for the last fifteen years now and have only stopped fighting five years ago with no clear winner. " Remey head Locoas say which did little to ease her her aprehencion.
" Ok we'll think it over. " Iron Grom said as there was mutterings from the rest of the patrions that was not all that encourging, after Locoas left Iron Grom and his team turned to their wretched meals and begain to eat, " So do you think we should take this mission and help these people? " Mary asked as she forced herself to eat the spoonful of the vile stew she had scooped out with her dirty wooden spoon.
" I don't know, I mean dealing with achaent evils is something we never had to face before, I don't think we are strong enough to take on this mission from the sounds of what Locoas told us. " Erle said as he decied that he would raither eat some iron raitions then eat the bowl of swill that the fat batender had the gall to serve him as she saw Mary's face take on a slightly greenish hue from her mouthful of her stew with a look of utter and vile disgust.
Remey looked at the others for a moment and then spoke," You know from the sounds of things there might be some hefty treause involved if we take this mission. " she said as she heard some one say " There is no way they would survive if what Gabby told us is true, but you know he's as crazy as an orc with heat stroke. "
Iron Grom looked over to Dhyana and saw a deeply thoughful look on her face, " I don't know, I think we should take our time and learn as much as we can before we decied on what to do. " Dhyana said as she ate another spoonful of the stew and she felt like she was going to be sick to her stomach and spat out her mouthfull of stew back into it's bowl and took a long drink of her watery ale to try and get the foul taste of the stew out of her mouth.
" Hmm I agree with Dhyana, we need to know everything we can before we comitt to this undertaking. " Hambone said as he ate a spoonful of the stew and grimaced at it horrible taste and even though he had eaten worse things then the stew he could not for the life of himself recall when he had done so.
Iron Grom ate a spoonful of the horrid stew and he manged to swallow it as he was reminded of the time that he and the others had been traped in a dungeon below the lost castle of Ebrix the mad archmage and how they had run out of food so far below the earth and were forced to eat the cropse of the owlbear they had killed while they had been traped in the underground lair of Ebrix himself.
" I think we should talk to this Bergomaster in the monring, in the mean time we should look around the town and see what else we could find out about this sittuation. " he said to the others as he decied that even he had his limits and pushed the bowl of half eaten strew aside and take a long drink of his tepid, watery ale.
" I don't know about you guys but I am bushed! " Dhyana said as she felt like she could sleep for a year or so when she saw the perverted leer Erle was giving her and she felt herself grow hot and damp between the legs as she gave Erle a shy but lusty smile, " You're right." Mary said as she felt her eyes starting to grow heavy, " Ok we'll talk to the Burgomaster in the morrning and have a look around this shit hole before we do anything else. " Iron Grom said as he gave Mary a lusty smile that made her blush.
" Hey scum bag how much for three rooms? " Hambone barked at the lard assed bartender/inn keeper, " It'll be a Cron a room for the night. " Hendrax said and he could see the angered looks on the faces of the newcomers when there was a crash of thunder and then the sounds of a hard falling rain.
" Fine! " Iron Grom said as he took out three gold coins and placed them on the bar,
" Rooms five, six and seven are your rooms. " Hendrax said as he greedly scooped up the gold coins, with a low curse under their breaths the six compaions made their way up the rickety and creeking stairs to find their rooms.
" What the fuck it this!? " Erle snarled as he and Dhyana walked into one of the room that they had gotten for the night and saw that in one corner of the small room that seemed to feel like being inside a broomcloset was a pitful looking straw bed." Remind me to put an arrow in the assface inn keeper before we leave. " Dhyana said as he walked over to the bed and saw that the soiled straw in the rickety bed was covered in a tattered, dirty gray blanket and she felt her anger grow as she pulled back the blanket and saw a small swarm of lice burow into the straw.
Erle looked over to his left and saw a chamer pot that was half full of human filth and he began to think of way that he could use his vast and powerful spells to make tubby inn keeper suffer as he walked over to the chamber pot and pick it up and walk over to the rickety shudders on the window and open them up so he could empty the chamber pot.
" This is a fucking shit hole we are in. " Mary said as she and Iron Grom laid out their sleeping bags in the small room.
" I hear you lover but we have slept in worse places then this. " she heard Iron Grom say and she started to strip off her light platemail armor when the howling winds brust the delapated shudders open and they both let out a curse as Iron Grom made his way over to the window as the storm driven rain was spraying into their room.
Hambone was slowly sliding his fingers into Remey's hot and wet pussy as they were sharing a hot and passion kiss as they were starting to make love while they were laying on the hard wood floor of their calusterphobic room with their sleeping bags under them.
" Gods I love you! " Remey groaned into Hambone's mouth as she felt him swrill his fingers inside of her as they were trying to ignore how hard the floor was and she started to suck on Hambone's tougne as she was thrusting her hips up as he was thrusting his fingers inside of her as fast as he could.
Hambone was trying to ignore how uncomfortable he was when he could tell by the tone of Remey's voice that even though she was enjoying what he was doing to her that she really wasn't in the mood for a wild night because of her discomfort on the hard floor.
Remey felt the rythem of Hambone's thrusting fingers brake their tempo and she looked at him and saw that even though he loved her that he was just not in the mood for a hot night of balls to the walls sex and she broke their embrace.
" Don't worry about it, we'll have plenty of time to fuck our brains out later when we are some where better then here. " she said as she saw the accpeting look in Hambone's light iron gray eyes, " Aye and I tell you the next time we find a better place for this I'm so going to plunder your ass! " Hambone said as he pulled his wet fingers out of Remey's pussy and started to lick them clean with an evil leer on his face.
Once the chamber pot was emptyed Erle placed it back in it's corner as Dhyana finsihed laying out their sleeping bags, he watched as she begain to get undressed and he felt his mouth water as she took off her cloak to reveal her huge breast that were barely covered by a small bikni of green triangler metrial that only covered her huge, long nipples, Dhyana could see the lusty look in Erle's eyes and as much as she wanted to deep throat his eight inch cock she was just to tried and pissed off for a long and loving night between them.
Erle saw the look in his lover's gold eyes and he shrugged his shoulders and begain to get undressed as he realized that Dhyana was not in the mood for a good hard core raping, once they were undressed Erle climbed up on Dhyana's body and placed his head in between her monsteress breasts and he let out a content sigh as he felt her fondle his huge balls for a few minutes and then he drifted off to sleep under Dhyana's soft and loving touch.
Iron Grom streached out his body as he laid down beside Mary and he could see that she was just far too tired for a few games of slap and tickle and he turned over on his side and spooned his body to her back and begain to slowly rub her large breasts and when he heard her let out a content sigh he kissed the back of her neck and closed his eyes.
Mary felt warm and safe in her lover's arms and with a small yawn she pressed her body into his and drifted off into a deep slumber a few minutes later.
The next moring Erle opened his eyes as he felt Dhyana starting to stir under him and he and started to slowly sit up and smiled as he enjoyed the sensation of his lover's huge breasts rubbing on his face, " Mor'en Lover. " he said as he got off of Dhyana who sat up with a slightly tried look, " You own me big time, do you have any idea on how hard the floor is. " she said to him and he walked over to her and kissed her as she was sitting there.
" Don't worry my big titted sex pet, I have just the thing for you. " he said as he broke their morning kiss and walked over to his backpack of holding and begain to rumage around in it as Dhyana started to strech her body it get rid of her stiffness as Erle continued to rummage around in his backpack for a jar of otintment in order to give his lady love a sexy rubdown.
Remey opened her eyes and saw Hambone sleeping peacefuly as she felt like a mile of bad roads, " Gods you are such a man. " she thought to herself as she watched the rise and fall of his musculed and scared chest and she could not help but to smile as she recalled how not only she and him had met but the others as well and of the many years of adventure and romance that Hambone and her had shared since that fateful day so many years ago.
When he started to snore slightly she could not help but to smile to herself as she leaned over Hambone and planted a soul searing kiss on his lips, " Hmm. " she heard him moan and she started to slither her tounge into his mouth and when she felt his tounge entwining with her's she knew he was awake, " Good morning Remey. " Hambone said as she broke their kiss and when he looked into her violet eyes he could see her love for him and he felt like he was a hundred years younger.
" Morining sleepyhead. " Remey said as she saw the loving warmth in Hambone's eyes and for a moment the two of them just looked into eachother's eyes when there was a loud peel of thunder as they became aware of the sound of hard falling rain.
Iron Grom and Mary were sunggled up to each other as they were slowly waking up and Mary placed her head over his heart and let out a content sigh, " Going to be a shity day today from the sounds of it. " she heard her lover say as he was slowly running his left hand through her long light brown hair.
" I know, I wish we could just lay here and wait for the rain to pass but we have things to do. " Mary said with a soft and loving tone of voice that was tinged with a hint of regret as she lifted her head and looked into Iron Grom's dark cobalt blue eyes.
" I know besides I really don't want to stay here any longer then we have to. " Iron Grom said as he looked into Mary's dark gray eyes and when he saw the shy but loving look in them he pulled her up to him and planted a soft sweet kiss on her lips, after a few minutes or so they broke their kiss and they both realized just how truely blessed they were for not only having each other in their lives but also the fact that they were still alive, whole and sane where as any lesser person would have been torn limb from limb after the many harrowing adventures that they had.
When the six of them had finished getting dressed and ready for the day they met in the common room of the Black Troll when they saw Kimbo coming towards them.
" You want anything? " they heard her say to them with a broken tone of voice and a vacent look in her eyes, " No we're fine for now. " Erle said and after a few seconds she turned and started to walk away and they saw through the open back of her dirty dress that her back was covered with welts and that she was walking like she had a paladin's lace up her ass.
" So what do we do now? " Remey asked as she was getting her wits about her then the door to the inn blew open as a few people rushed in out of the driving rain with a vile curse on their lips.
" Well the weather seems pretty bad out their so I don't think we'll get much done today but if you want we could and go find the Brugomaster and ask him for some more infomation about what's going on around here. " Iron Grom said as he saw the fat assed innkeeper come out of the back room and for a moment he considered giving him an old school beat down for the bullshit they had to put up with from him but decieded that it was way to early in the morring for violance.
" Sounds good, let's get out of here, even though I don't want to be in the rain I'd reather be out there then in here. " Remey said as she felt her stomach growl with hunger, once they had gotten their gear from their rooms and put on their hooded cloaks the six compaions walked out into the howling rain storm in order to find the Burgomaster of the small one horse town.
As they were walking in the driving rain they saw a few of the towns people working in their fileds dispite the pounding rain and they could see the looks of woe and dispir in their eyes.
" Excuse me but were can we find the Burgomaster? " Erle asked an old man who was diging out weeds in his small and pitful garden.
" You'll find him in the north end of the town in a big stone house. " Erle heard the frail old man say to him and for some odd reason he felt moved to help out the old man, " Bless you Sir. " the old man said as Erle handed him a gold Cron and three silver Falcons with a kind smile on his face, then he rejoined his compaions and they set off to find the Burgomaster.
Ertorn Karm was having a drink of his wiskey as he sat close to the small fire place in his study when he heard a loud knock on his front door, " Who could be at my door in this kind of weather? " he thought to himself as he finished off his tumbler of wiskey and made his way to the front door of his house.
" Yes can I help you? " he asked as he opened the door and saw six people standing before him in the driving rain, " Are you Ertorn the Burgomaster of this town? " Iron Grom asked as he looked at the man before him and saw that he looked to be in his mid fories, with balding brown/gray hair and dark brown eyes, " I am, who are you and what do you want with me? " Ertorn asked.
" We are a band of adventuers and we heard from Locoas that these lands are under the curse of a powerful evil and we would like some more infomation and we were told to see you about it. " Iron Grom said and he saw a fleeting look of hope on Ertorn's face.
" Come and make yourselves comfortable. " Ertorn said as he stood back from the door so Iron Grom and his compaions could get out of the howling rain storm.
After leading them to his study Ertorn got six goblets from his drinks cabnet and begain to pour some drinks for them all, " You are not the first band of would be heros that had tried to rid us of this curse. " Mary heard Ertorn say as he finished pouring the drinks and began to pass them around and from the tone of his voice she got the feeling that this quest should they undertake it could be some thing out of their leuge.
" What can you tell us about this achenat evil? " Remey asked as she took one of the goblets from Ertorn and took a drink and felt the warmth of the wiskey that was in it warm her slightly damp and chilled body, " All I know is that this achent evil was imprisoned somewhere far to the south from here juring The Third Age Of Death some five hundred thousand years ago, other then that there is nothing more I can tell you. " Ertorn said as he took a drink if his own wiskey after he had finished passing out the drinks.
" If we want more information about this evil where would we go to find it? " Hambone asked after he took a long pull from his drink, " Well you could try the city of Wrencrol that's a hundred and fifty miles east of out town if you follow the main road, they might have some infomation for you or know who does. " Dhyana and the others heard Ertorn say to them and they could see the slightly hopeless look in his tired looking eyes.
" Do you have any place where we could resuply ourselves? " Erle asked as they were nursing their drinks as the rain continued to pound on the roof like an angry god, " You could try Nac'Tar's shop near the east end of the town, all though I'm not sure what he would have in the way of suplies, we are a poor town as you can see. " Ertorn said with a slightly worn out tone of voice and Mary and the others could see that the years had not been kind to their host from the wrinkles and worry lines that criss-crossed his face.
After an hour or so Iron Grom and the others finished their drinks and bid Ertorn a good day as the pounding rain seemed to have lessed to a minor pitter patter on the roof of Ertorn's house.
" Sounds like these people have had some hard times ever since the evil came to this town. " Dhyana said as she and the others were walking through the muddy streets of the slowly dying town, " I still don't know but for some reason I get the feeling that undertaking this mission to rid the lands of this achent evil might be beyond our power. " Mary said as she said a minor prayer of thanks giving that the pouding rain that had battered them since they had left the Black Troll was now nothing more then a light drizzle.
" I understand that Mary but this is what we do, after all we are not adventures for nothing you know. " Iron Grom said as he gave his lover a cocky but loving smile as they continued to make their way to Nac'Tar's small shop, " Aye that we are. " Hambone said as he reached out and gave Remey a playful swat on her heart shaped ass and when she let out a slightly started yelp of surpise he could not help but to smile like a loon.
" Watch it runt or I'll tie you up and suck you dry! " Remey said with a slightly miffed but lusty tone of voice as she saw the evil leer on her lover's face and when he let out a loud and hardy laugh so did the others as they were thinking their own loving and lusty thoughts.
" So this is Nac'Tar's. " Erle said as he and the others came to a sterdy looking wooden two story building that seemed to be in better shape then most of the ramshakle looking homes that they had seen as they made their way around the hamlet, Nac'Tar Sorg was sweeping up the floor of his shop when the door open and in walked six strangers.
" Hello? " he said as he put his ratty straw broom aside as he saw the strangers look around his small shop, " Hello Good Sir, we are a band of adventures and we are looking to resuply before we head out. " Remey said to the old but broadly built man, " Well Strangers I don't have much but feel free to look around if you have any questions please don't hesatate to
ask. " Nac'Tar said with a friendly tone of voice as he was looking over the six adventures and studying them carefuly.
Dhyana saw a bin of arrows in one corner of the shop and made her way over to them,
" Hmm, looks like a good arrow. " she thought to herself as she was inspecting one of the arrows that she had picked out of the bin and saw that it was not only complety stright and the right thickness but that the wooden shaft looked strong as she saw that it was made of Galorw wood.
Mary was looking over a wall borad of hanging daggers of a wide verity of makes and sizes when she saw out of the corner of her eyes that Iron Grom was looking over a few coils of rope with a knowing look and when she saw him pick up and uncoil one of the ropes and tug on it she saw him give her a leer with a lusty twinkle in his eyes and she felt her face blush as she turn her attention back to the daggers.
Erle was wondering around the shop and saw that it did not seem to have any spell compionets that he would need so he was content to wonder about when he saw a small white box that was three inchs long by about half an inch wide.
" Well what do we have here? " he thought to himself and picked up the small box and saw that there was a kind of carving on it and when he took a closer look at it he saw that it was a surpisingly detailed carving of a dragon's head.
" Very intresting. " he said to himself as he continued to inspect the small box and saw that it was made of some kind of bone, then he looked at the back of the box and saw that there were two small copper hinges on it.
When he opened up the small box he saw that the body and lid were fairly thick and for some reason unknown to him he decided to buy it.
Hambone saw a bin full of iron spikes and well being a dwarf he could not help but to be drawn to them, " Well now let's see what we have here. " he thought to himself as he picked up one of the six inch iron spikes and began to look it over with a knowing eye.
" Hmm seems to be made of a good grade of iron. " he muttered to himself as he gripped the spike tightly in his right hand and moved his hand up and down to try and get a feel for it's weight, next he held the iron spike up and saw that it was free of any rust and he licked it to get a taste of it.
" Hmm, a very good grade of iron indeed. " Hambone said to himself as he could feel and taste the iron's sweet song that spoke of a hard crafting in a smithy, " Yes I think these will do just fine. " he thought to himself as he put the iron spike aside and begain to insepct more of them.
Iron Grom looked over the hanging water skins and saw he picked one up off of it's peg and ran the fingers of his right hand over it, " Seems to be in good shape. " he thought to himself as he could feel that the leather was smooth and suple, next he carefuly inspected the stetching around the water skin and saw that it was not frayed or cracked.
He took the stopper off and held the open end under his nose and inhaled so see if he could detect and hint of mold or mildew.
" Smells ok to me. " he thought to himself and placed the open end of the water skin into his mouth and blew hard and watched as the water skin puffed out, next he ran his fingers around the the sewed edge of the skin to see if he could feel any escaping air as he continued to blow into it.
Remey was looking over the bundles of sleeping bags hanging on the wall in front of her when she saw one that took her fancy and she took it off of the wall peg, " Very nice. " she thought to herself as she ran her fingers over it and even though she did not know what fabric the sleeping bag was made of it felt soft to her touch.
She undid the two leather thongs that kept it rolled up and unrolled it, " Very nice indeed. " she said to herself as she held up the sleeping bag and saw that it was looked like it was well stuffed and she held it to her body and found that it was very fluffy and comfortble, then she stuck her right hand and arm into it and waited.
" And it's warm too. " she thought to herself with a smile as she could feel the air inside the sleeping bag starting to heat up due to her body heat.
After half an hour or so the six compaions brought their things to the counter and placed them on it, " Let's see here. " Nac'Tar muttered to himself as he saw a sleeping bag, a small white box, two scores of arrows, two water skins, two small, slim daggers, a large and broad dagger, three coils of rope, twevle iron spikes, another water skin and two more large daggers.
" That'll be a hundred and twenty Crons. " he said and he saw the displeased look on the faces of the six strangers and he felt bad for having to charge them so much for such basic and basic qualty items, Iron Grom was not happy but what kept him from flat out refusing to pay the price for the items since they were not critial need items was the fact that Nac'Tar seemed like a poor but honest merchant.
Nac'Tar could see the the aprent leader of the band of adventures was carefuly thinking things over and he realzied that there was a good chance that they were going to walk out of his shop without buying anything from him but he had to charge such a high price becuase most of the doomed souls in the town were to poor to buy his wares and those that could aford his merchandice no longer had any need for them.
" I'll tell you what if you are willing to do a job for me I'll knock off a qauter of the price for these things. " he said with a hopeful and slightly dispert tone of voice, " What did you have in mind? " Hambone asked as he could see that Nac'Tar was slightly on edge and for some reason he got the feeling that he was looking at a very dispert man that dispelled his slight outrage for the high price for his team's items.
" Well I have a small caravan leaving here tomorrow for the city of Raxthul and with all of the bandits and monsters in the area between here and Raxthul I have lost three caravans over the last year and a half and most of my workers and the few gaurds that were with them had been killed, I could really use a band of stout fighters to gaurd the caravan. " Iron Grom heard Nac'Tar say.
He looked over to his compaions and he could see that they were thinking over his offer.
" Give us a moment to discuss this. " he said to Nac'Tar and then he and the others walked a foot or so away from him, " What do you all think of this? " Iron Grom said as he was studying his team mates carefuly, " I don't know, I mean do we really want to take on this mission? " Mary said as she was chewing on her lower lip as she was trying to sort out her thoughts out about undertaking such a mission to rid this empire of the evil that was plauging it.
" I don't know about this, I mean did you hear what the other people said when we walked into the inn and what they said as we were talking to Locoas? " Dhyana said as she was feeling a little uneasy for some reason that she could not understand, " True but we have a chance to make a real name for ourselves in these forin lands, " Erle said as he was thinking over the possable dangers and rewards that could be had if he and his companions decided to undertake such an adventure.
" I say we should travel to Wrencrol and learn more about this evil, I mean something that survived from The Third Age Of Death has got to be insanely powerful. " Hambone said with a slightly grim tone of voice that did not go unoticed by the others, " I think that's a good idea Lover, for all we know we could possablely facing an Acheant One. " Remey said with a sligtly blood chilled shiver.
" Agreed, but what about this offer to gaurd the caravan?, we really don't need these
things. " Iron Grom said as he felt moved to help Nac'Tar out, " True but how far would this trip take us from Wrencrol? " Erle said as he reached into his robes and pulled out a small green bone pipe, " Good point but I mean it's not like we have'nt gaurded carvanes before. " Mary said as she stopped chewing on her lower lip.
" Well if Raxthul is not to far out of the way from Wrencrol then I say we take the job, I mean these people could really use the help and well we have faced worse things then bandits and monsters. " Hambone said with a casual tone of voice.
" You are right Hambone these people have suffered enough, it may not be much but I think we'll will help these people out if we take this job. " Dhyana said with a firm tone of voice that she was raring to help these poor souls.
" I'm in, besides we'll get a chance to see more of these lands if we take this job. " Remey said with a wry smile, " Ok it's settled then, if Raxthul is not to far out of our way then we'll take the job. " Iron Grom said with a smile and he and his team mates walked back over to Nac'Tar.
" Well Nac'Tar we might take the job if it's not to far out of our way, how far is Raxthul from Wrencrol? " Nac'Tar heard the leader of the adventuering team say and he felt a small amount of hope, " Well Good Sir Raxthul is about half a month away from Wrencrol if you travel west from there. " Iron Grom heard Nac'Tar say to him and when he looked over to his team mates he saw that they were fine with that.
" Ok we'll take the job, who is the caravan master? " Iron Grom said and when he saw not only the reileved look on Nac'Tar's face but the look of slowly growing hope in his eyes he knew that he and his team mates were doing the right thing, " Jathurl Cobian his the caravan master, you'll find him and his stables on the north west side of the town and thank you so much for you're help. " Nac'Tar said as he and Iron Grom shook hands to seal the deal.
Once the compions had their things they walk out of the shop and found to their delight that not only had it stopped raining but that the sun was starting to shine through the slightly overcast skies, " You know I think this is going to be a good day. " Hamebone said as he and the others were making their way to the stables.
" I agree. " Erle said as he refilled his green bone pipe with his Fardark weed, Dhyana looked over to Erle and she still could not beileve that she was in love with the gnome that had stolen not only her heart but her virginty as well when they all had first met given the reputation of gnomes.
After walking for about twenety minutes of so they came to a clearing at the edge of the hamlet and saw that there was a large coral that held a few well maintained draft horses which was surpising given what they had seen of of the village's pitful livestock and work animals and as they were walking towards the large house next to the coral they saw a young looking man talking with three older men.
" Excuse us but which one of you is Jathurl Cobian? " someone said from behim him and when Jathrual turned to see who was speaking to him he saw a gnome, an elf, a dwarf and three humans.
" I am the man you are looking for. " Jathurl said as he could see that the strangers before him looked like they knew the right end of a sword and he could not help but to wonder what this band of adventures wanted with him.
" Hello I'm Iron Grom, Nac'Tar hired us to gaurd the caravan to Raxthul. " he heard the large human man say and he was pleasently surpised by this good turn of events, " Well Iron Grom I must say I'm glad to see you and your compaions, things had been pretty bad for trade for the last few years, there has been an increase in bandits and monsters. " Iron Grom heard the young man say to him as he looked Jathurl over and saw that he stood six feet even and was a fairly built young man in his early tweneties.
" Excuase me Sir but I don't mean to be rude but you seem to be far to young to be a caravan master. " Remey said with a polite smile and when she saw the young man laugh she could tell that he was not offended by her question as the three older men were watching her and her team mates with reileved looks on their age lined faces.
" I know, but you see I'm not from this town, I came here a year ago to help my uncle Talmort becuase he was getting up in his years, sadly he died of Lung Lock a few months
ago. " Jathurl said and he saw the slightly alarmed looks on the faces of the new gaurds for Lung Lock was an extreamly deadly and vurlient diease that has been known to spread like wild fire and disamate entire cites in a short span of time.
" Tell you what my wife is cooking up an early lunch so why don't you six join me and the others and we can talk about the trip? " Hambone heard Jathurl say with a friendly and easy going smile and before any of them could answer his stomach let out a loud rumble at the thought of fresh, hot food.
" Well I guess that settles then , we accpet you invation. " Iron Grom said with a happy and friendly smile as he, his companions and the rest of the caravan workers walked towards the large house.
" Hello snookie, we have guests. " Jathurl said as he and the others walking into the house,
" Well bless my soul you seem like a sturdy band of heros. " Vica Cobian said with a friendly smile as she watched her husband and his workers take a seat at the table along with the new arvivals, " Good day Fair Lady and thank you for you're hosptialty. " Iron Grom said with a respectful tone of voice as he saw that Jathurl's wife was was a lady in her mid life and that she stood five feet and a good few inches tall, with long black hair, warm brown eyes with a slender figure and dressed in a smiple pesent's garb.
Erle could not help but to give Vica an aprecating leer and he got a bop on the head from Dyhana for being the loveable pervert that he was, " I am Iron Grom the leader of our band, this is Hambone Forkbeard, Dyhana Oakheart, Erle Glitterstone, Mary Angel and Remey Blackheart. " Vica heard the tall stranger say and she found Iron Grom to be a nobel gentlemen and when she saw Erle leering at she felt her face flush crimson as she felt her womanhood starting to warm up a little as she realized that he was a gnome.
When she looked at Mary she saw that Mary looked like a young girl more then a lady due to her youthful looks and seemly child like innocene, " Well bless my soul, I never thought I'd see an Elf. " she said to Dyana and she could not help but to wonder with a slight twinge of womenly jelousy if all elven women were as chesty as she was but when she saw the warm and friendly smile on Dyhana's face she felt her jelousy leave her to be replaced with a storng liking of her.
When Vica looked at Hambone she was impressed by his rugged good looks and when she realized that he was a dwarf she felt blessed for seeing the members of the the offten heard about but never seen races in this town, when she looked at Remey she got the feeling that the woman before her was a storng and hard bitten fighter but dispite that she was a good and down to earth kind of women.
" Well if I had known that we be having such fine guests I would have cooked up a feast fit for a god. " Vica said she begain to serve up the food, " This is fine Vica there is no need to trouble yourself on our acount. " Hambone said with a wide smile as he felt his mouth get slightly damp at the rich, heady aroma of her cooking when his guts let out a very loud rumble that took them all by surpise.
Vica could not help but to laugh at the sheepish look on Hambone's face, " Never you mind that, you seem like a hungry bunch so eat as much as you want we have plenty to go
around. " she said with a kind smile on her face as she laid out a very large wooden bowl filled with a hot and harty looking stew that was loaded with large chunks of some kind of dark meat, plentiful vegtable that looked like he had just come out of the garden not less then twenety minutes ago in a rich, creamy blue sauce in front of Hambone and watched as he gave her a large thankful and happy smile.
" So what can you tell us about the route to Raxthul? " Iron Grom asked as he ate spoon full of the stew and found that compaired to the food at the Black Troll that this stew was pure gold in comparison to troll shit, " The land is a flat plains for about two weeks then we come to a gorge that we have to travel through for about four weeks then we move into a large forest and after a week and a half of that we reach Raxthul. " Jathrul said as he saw the look of enjoyment on Iron Grom's face as he tasted his wife's cooking.
" Man this is better then the food at the Black Troll. " Mary said as she was savouring her meal, " A curse on that bastard Hendrax, may his stones shrivel up and fall off! " she heard Vica shout with an evil tone of voice that was surpising from such a mild manored lady,
" You'll have to forgive her she does not like that man, not that many of us do like him. " Jathrul said with a flat tone of voice that made it more then clear that he did not like the fat assed inkeeper at all but was polite enough to keep a civil tounge and his thoughts to himself.
Suddenly there was a loud sound of food being eaten and every looked and saw that Erle and Hambone were sitting beside one another another and where having an eating contest,
" ERLE!, HAMBONE! show some respect! " Mary said with a scandelized tone of voice as Hambone and Erle were packing away the food as if they did not finish it in the next few seconds that they would be sent to the Black Hells as Remey, and Iron Grom and the other were smiling as Vica watched with surprize at how fast they were eating with a some what pleased smile.
" Hey were still growing boys you know!, " Erle and Hambone said with bright, happy smiles on their faces that brought the house down in laughter.
When everyone had finished eating Erle took out his green bone pipe and when he saw the slightly displeased look on Vica's face he shrugged his shoulders and began to fill his pipe with the Fardark and lit it up as he felt content that that his belly was full.
" Excuse me but does the carvan have to leave tomorrow or can it wait for a few days? " Erle asked Jathrul as he exhaled his lung full of smoke, " Why do you ask for? " Jathrul asked as he saw a slightly manic look on Erle's face.
" Well I want to work on a small invention. " he heard Erle say and everyone whinced given the reputation of gnomish ineventons for either being a wonder or causing wide spread death, destruction, mayham and chaos in equal mesure, double that for magical inventions.
" Ummm well we are not leaving for five days, where will you be staying? " Jathrul said with a slightly worried tone of voice, " Is there any other place to stay then The Black Troll? " Iron Grom asked as he hoped that there would be a better place to stay then the scummy inn.
" Sorry but The Black Troll is the only inn in this desolet place. " he heard Jathrul say to him and he found his good mood turning sour faster then milk in the Black Hells at the thought of having to pay the innkeeper any more money for staying at his poor exscuse of an inn.
" I'd reiather sleep in a stable then stay there, I hate that fat peice of shit! " Mary snarled with a hateful look that took Jarthrul, his wife and the caravan hands by surpise because out of the entire party she had been acting like a prim and proper women untill that little outbrust.
" Well if you feel that way we have an unsed stable that we have'nt used in a long while, it would be no problem to throw down some fresh hay if you all are ok with that. " Jathrul said as he could not blame them for not wanting to stay at The Black Troll, " Sounds good to
us. " Remey said with a sly look at Hambone who saw the lusty look in her eyes and gave her a lusty leer of his own.
" I'm going back to the inn. " Erle said and he could feel the eyes of his compaions lock on to him with a very worried look, escpaly Dhyana who did not trust Erle for she damn well knew like the rest of the team that the gnome was up to some kind of mischef but when they saw the dark look in his eyes and knew gnomes well enough to know that a gnome's mischef can and offten have a mean streak a leauge long and a leauge wide when it comes to someone they detest.
" Umm Erle just what do you have in mind? " Iron Grom asked as he felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end as the look of sadistic merth in Erle's bright dark blue eyes.
" Heh! " was Erle's reply and he as did the rest of his team knew that their companion was not going to be swayed by them from whatever he had in mind.
" I'll go with you. " Dhyana said with a very worried tone of voice, not that she was worried about Hendrax but she did not want Erle to cause any trouble for the villagers since they suffer enough as is, " Erle don't kill or maim the Innkeeper I mean it! " Iron Grom said with a stern tone of voice even though he he did not give a rat's ass in a whorehouse about the fat assed owner of The Black Troll.
When he and the others saw the sweet as pie smile on Erle's face and the darkly sadistic look in his bright dark blue eyes they knew that whatever the gnome had in mind for Hendrax was going to be worse then death or maiming.
" Say where can I get some wood? " Erle asked as he was having a hard a time to keep himself from laughing at the looks of apprehencion on the faces of his friends and the others.
" Um you can find the woodyard that belongs to Ogrite south east of here near the edge of town. " Jathrul said as he saw the dark and sadistic look in Erle's eyes leave and even though he dispied Hendrax he knew enough about gnomes that pissing off a gnome was a sure path to a whole world of hurt and shame if luckly.
" Well we will see you in five days then. " Remey and the others heard Erle say as he got up from his seat with a happy smile on his face that did little to dispell their lingering worries about what he was going to make as Hambone and the other compaions remembered what happed when Erle had invented a fire breathing Cat Golem to catch the rats in the small city elven of Hickory Grove after a sucessful raid on the tomb of Falron The Blackhearted.
Needless to say the elves of Hickory Grove were never the same after that.
" Well I sapouse we should have a look around the town. " Mary said as Erle and Dhyana left the house, " Why not. " Remey said as she realized that it was far to early in the day to sit around and do nothing, " Well I'll go and fix up the stable for you when you return and if you wish something to eat come and see me or my wife. " Jathurl said as he said a small prayer of thanks that Nac'Tar had hired Iron Grom and the others.
" Well this looks like the place. " Dhyana said as she and Erle came to a small ramshacle house that had large piles of wood around it and as much as she wanted to know what her lover had planed for not only his inventon but for the scum bag owner of the Black Troll she knew that if Erle did not want to tell her what he had in mind that not matter how she pleaded or harped on him she still would not get her answer.
Erle and Dhyana walked up to the fairly strudy looking door and knocked loudly on it a few minutes latter the door opened to reveal a thin boy who looked no older then ten seasons old.
" What you want? " Revart asked as he saw the two strangers standing in front of the door to his house, " I'm here to buy some wood, is your father here? " Erle asked as he saw that the young boy had short and unruly light brown hair and dark blue eyes that had a slightly vancent look in them, " I get Father, wait here. " Revart said as he felt unnevered by the two strangers and left to get his father.
" I feel sorry for these people. " Remey said as she, Hambone, Mary and Iron Grom were walked around the small pest hole of a village and saw that there were the bunrt out ruins of house mixed in with the run down house of the villagers, Iron Grom looked at his lady love and saw that she was upset, " Mary what's worng? " he asked as he put his right arm around her.
" This is so sad but I don't know if we can lift the curse on these poor souls. " he heard her said with a deeply saddened tone of voice when they could barely hear the sound of a hammer striking metal.
Hambone being a dwarf was naturaly intrested in the sound and his three companions could see the look of intrest in his eyes so they set off to see what the noise was all about.
After a few minutes they came to what apperred to be the town's blacksmith.
" Damn yea yea peice of orc shit! " they heard as they drew closer to the hammering and the surpisingly discriptive cursing, Molgan Xagztor got a feeling he was being watched as he was hammering away on the blade of the knife he was working on and when he looked to his left he saw a dwarf and three human watching him, " Who arr yea? " he said with a gruff tone of voice as he felt the aches and pains in his aged body from the long years of working his craft.
" I'm Iron Grom, this is Mary Angel, Hambone Forkbeard and Remey Blackheart, we are adventuers who just came into town yesterday. " he heard the tall human man said to him and he let out a deep sigh, " I sapose yea come to rid the land of The Evil? " he asked as he saw Hambone looking around his crude forge with a keen eye.
" We're thinking about it, what can you tell us about this Evil? " Mary asked as she saw the grim look on the grizzled face of the old blacksmith, " If yea have any brains in yer heads yea'd leave this crused place and got back from where yea came. " Molgan said with a deeply worn out tone of voice that told Mary and the others that these poor people have given up all hope of being freed from the evil that had so cruely cursed them.
" I take it that many others had tried to destory this evil? " Hambone asked as he felt a certen amound of closeness to the human blacksmith since they had a common point in their lives, that being a master of the forge as Molgan took a drink from a near by water skin.
" This place is the last stop of the damned, all those who have tried to rid us of The Evil wind up here to live out their days in misery and I tell yea, yea'll end up here broken and damned if yea survive yea attempt to rid us of The Evil. " Hambone heard Molgan said as he spat into the dirt floor of the forge and it was from the barely contaned dispair and his grim and sour looking face that told him and his companions that they should heed the old man's warning.
Ogrite limped to the front door of his house and he was surpised to see not only an elf and a very arousing one at that but a gnome as well, " What can I do for you? " he asked as he winced slightly as his maimed left leg throbbed due to the lingering dampness in the air.
Dhyana and Erle saw that the woodsmen that was speaking to him looked to be well into his late seasons and that he was dressed in a leather jerken and rough white woolen paints that were drity and stained as he leaned on his wooden crutch as they saw the twisted remains of his left leg, " Yes Sir I'd like to buy some wood from you. " Erle said as he felt a certin amount of pity for the crippled old man.
" Well I don't have much good wood left, most of it has rotted away since I had my accadent. " they heard Ogrite say to them with a slightly pained tone of voice, " I don't mean to be rude Sir but could we sit down and talk about it. " Dhyana said with a very uptight tone of voice because even thouigh he was trying to be helpful towards the old woodsmen by getting him off his feet she was not sure if he would consider what she had asked him as a form of pity.
" Sure come on in. " Ograite said even though he was a bit miffed that the elf was treating him like the cripple that he was but he could tell from her tone of voice that she had ment well.
" Revart put some more wood on the fire son. " Ogrite said as he led Erle and Dhyana into his humble by rickety home, " Need chop more wood. " they three of them heard Revart say with a slightly unstettled tone of voice since he and his father rarely got any vistors from out of town.
" Ok Son go and chop up some more wood. " Ogrite said to his son as he and the two strangers made their way into the main room of his home, Erle and Dhyana looked at each other as they heard the old woodsmen let out a pain filled groan as he sat down at the old but amazing well crafted wooden table that was ten feet long by four feet wide, " Excuse me Sir but did you make this table? " Erle asked as he and his lady love sat down at the table.
" Yes I made this wooden table as a.... " he heard Ogrite start to say when he started to choke up slightly at the horror of the loss of his wife, three sons and two daughters when the evil came back to their once prosperous town and damned them all in a night of fire, blood, death and terror.
" I'm sorry Sir..but it is a really well done table. " Erle said as he saw the haunted look in Ogrite's slightly cloudy light green eyes, " Thank you. " Ogrite said with a deeply sorrowful tone of voice that made Dhyana and Erle feel downcast for bringing up a painful subject for the maimed old man, " So what kind of wood are you looking for? " Ogrite asked after he had composed himself.
" Well what kind of wood to you have Good Sir? " Erle asked as he saw the Ogrite wince in pain, " Well I have some Throlbuck wood, Reglaic wood and some Oak. " Ogrite said as he saw Erle pull out a small wooden case that was made of Blackthorn wood which surpised him for it was such a rare wood in this lands and put it on the table.
Dhyana watched as her lover pulled out his pipe and then his Porta-fire gem and she had an idea of what Erle was up to as she could see that he was out of his black mood concrening Hendrax by the kindly smile on his face which made her heart pitter-patter because of his kindness towards the old and maimed wood cutter.
Once Erle loaded up his pipe with the Fardark weed he held it out to Ogrite who was giving him a questioning look, " This is Fardark weed, it puts it's user in a midly relaxed and plesently altered state of mind as well as acting like a mild painkiller. " Erle said with a kindly smile on his face and for a moment Ogrite had no idea of what to make of this offer by the strange gnome.
" What are you, are you a healer? " Erle heard Ogrite ask him with a hopeful tone of voice and a very surpised look on his face, " I'm an alchemist amoung other things, I can't heal your leg but I can ease your pain. " Erle said as he saw a look of disapointment that changed to an accepting look in Ogrite's dark brown eyes.
" Thank you Good Gnome. " Ogrite said as he realized that he had surrfered much pain over the lest three years since the Martong tree that he was cutting down fell on his leg, thankfuly his son was with him and he dug out his leg from under the tree and pull him out from under it and bring him back to town, juring the attack The Evil had it's hellspawned minions kill Vcdtol the kindly old elven healer who lived in Kakral and was the hamlet's only healer so he had to bind up his leg as best as he could and let it heal on it's own which crippled him.
Once Erle saw Ogrite take his pipe from him and then he showed him how to use his Prota-fire gem, as Ogrite was taking a toke from the pipe he tasted a strange but plesent taste in his mouth as he could smell a sweet, heady armoa then he began to violently cough as his lungs exspelled the Fardark weed smoke.
" Here! " Dhyana said with a deeply concrened tone of voice as she unslung her water skin from over her left shoulder as Ogrite continued to cough so hard that he sound like he was going to yak up a lung or three and quickly made her way to his side, once Ogrite's coughing lessened he took that water skin from her and took a long drink as she was rubbing his back in order to comfort him.
" How are you feeling? " Erle asked with a mile wide smile as he saw the wasted look on the old wood cutter's age lined face, " This..this.. " Ogrite stuttered as he felt as if he was flying but what really overwhelmed him was the fact that the constent and horrable pain that he had been living with for the past three years was gone and there was also the fact that he was also feeling Dhyana rubbing his back that so relaxed him that he dropped off to sleep.
Dhayana looked at Erle and she could not help but to give him a loving look because of his kindness to the poor old man who was sleeping peacefuly, " We should get him to bed. " she said to him as he took the pipe from Ogrite's hand before he dropped it.
" I have a better idea. " Erle said as he felt happy that he had been able to give the maimed old man some comfort and he told his lady love to pick him up and bring him over to the padded wooden chair next to the cold fire place and as they were making their way over to the chair with the peacefuly slumbering Ogrite in Dhyana's arms he saw that there were a few scraps of wood and a small log by the fireplace.
" Set him down on his chair. " Dhyana heard her lover say to her as he was gathering up the bits of scrap wood and she carefuly set Ogrite down on his chair and saw the small foot stool in front of it and once she had him sitting up she genetly put his crippled leg on the foot stool as Erle finished building up a small fire in the fire place.
" That's better. " Erle said as he used his Prota-fire gem to light the small fire and when he was done with that he looked at Dhyana and when he saw the look of love and adoration she was giving him he felt his cock stir to life as he felt not only the same love and adoration for her but a lusty need to make her scream in pleasure when Revart came into the house.
" WHAT YOU DO TO FATHER! " they heard the young lad say to them with a frightened tone of voice and when they looked to Revart they saw him standing there with a broken axe in his hands and a terrifed look on his dull face.
" It's ok you're father is sleeping. " Dhyana said with a soft and gentle tone of voice with a kind and raident smile on her lovely face as she took a step towards the scaird boy who backed away from her as he was looking at Ogrite as he was sleeping.
Revart looked at the intimadaing elven woman and then over to the strange looking short man that was with her and when he saw the kindly look on his face he felt his fearful mistrust lessen considerably.
Erle saw that the crude iron axe head on the large axe had split nearly in two which made the axe useless and suddenly he had a brilent idea.
Hambone saw that some of the metal items where crude by dawrven standards but not bad by human standards and decied to teach Molgan a few dwarven smithing techques as he could see that the human blacksmith was tired out from his labours.
" What is you're name? " he asked Molgan as he was giving his anvil and forge an apeschtive look, " I'm Molgan Xagztor. " he said to Hambone and he could see the way the dawrf was looking around his smithy and for a moment he was not sure as what to make of Hambone.
" You mind if I try? " Hambone asked Molgan as he pointed to the slowly cooling knife blade on the anvil, Molgan dispite his gruffness found that he was taking a strong liking to the dwarf since they had a common point of intrest.
" Aye I'd like to see was yea can do. " Molgan said with a some what rough but friendly smile as he gave the hammer over to Hambone as well as the iron tongs that was keeping the partly fromed knife blade on the anvil.
Iron Grom looked over to Mary and Remey then tapped them both on the shoulder, when they looked at him he made a gesture with his head that he wanted them to take off so Hambone and Molgan could talk shop as the two of them got into a very animated discussion about metal working as Hambone started to wail away on the knife blade.
" Thanks but I'm going to stay here, you two take off, we'll met up at Jathurl's later. " Remey said as she watched as Hambone was beating on the partly fromed knife blade like a hill giant clubing a kobold and she felt herself become aroused as Hambone's raw strength.
" Well those three are having fun. " Mary heard her lover say to her with a happy smile on his rugged face as they left the blacksmith shop as the ringing sound of metal on metal filled their ears, Iron Grom saw the deeply sadened look on her face and he put his arm around her and pulled her close to him as they wondered about the hamlet.
" You want to talk about it? " he asked as they continued to wonder about becuase he hated to see Mary in such an upset frame of mind, Mary looked up at her lover and saw the kind and loving look on his face and she felt a little better.
" These poor people...I don't know if we would be able to free them from their cruse, I want to help these people but.... " she said as she was having a hard time puting her feelings into words becuase she was feeling them so storngly.
" I know what you are saying, personly I think we should take up this quest, it's no longer about fame and riches, don't get me worng the posable fame and loot we could stand to gain if we pull of this quest is great and all but for me it's more then that, these poor people suffer enough I can't just stand by and do nothing about it. " Iron Grom said as he decieded that in his heart he would do what he had to to help these poor people.
" I know what you are saying Lover but do you think we are really up to this? " Mary asked as she leaned her body against his as they wonder about when a small feral dog started barking at them from the ruins of a brunt out house.
" I think so remeber when we raided theThaksaixn ruins and found the Arch Litch that was living into those ruins, that was one hell of a fight and to tell the truth for a moment there I thought we where all done for but yet somehow we maged to survive so I think we can do it. " Iron Grom said as they walked past the barking dog that looked like a starved rat and he could not resist the desire fo her and started to look around for a place so they could make love.
Erle smiled a bright happy smile as he decied that he was going to help Ogrite and his son, " Say where is the local blacksmiths? " he asked Revart who gave him a blank look which told him that like Kimbo he was mildly retarded and wondered if The Evil hadn't cursed any of the hamlet's children that it did not take or slay when it attacked Karkral.
" Don't worry about it boy we'll find it but I need to to tell your father that Erle and Dhyana will come back after he has woken up for the wood wse we're looking for ok? " he said to Revart who still had an unsure look on his face, " Don't worry your father is just asleep, see he's still breathing. " Dhyana said to Revart as she pointed to Ogrite's rising and falling chest.
" Tell me does your father walk up in the night in pain? " she asked the boy who slowly nodded his head.
" I just gave him some medicen to take away his pain for awhile and to let him get some much needed sleep. " Erle said as he put his pipe, the Blackthrone box and Porta-fire gem back into the pockets of his cloak and when he saw Revart relax a little more he knew that the boy would be ok.
" Come on Sweet-Tits we have to go. " Erle said with a wacked out smile on his face that made Dhyana aroused and wondering what the crazy gnome was up to, once they left Ogrite's house she could not stand it any longer, " Erle what are you up to? " Dhyana asked as Erle took out his pipe and started to fill it with some Fardark weed.
" I'm going to make a magical dishwashing tub for Vica and a magical axe for Ogrite's
son. " he said as he pulled out the Porta-fire gem and lit up his pipe as he saw his lover give him a raident smile.
Molgan watched as Hambone pounded the froming knife blade into submission and he was impressed with the way the dwarf was working the iron, he looked over to his left and saw a tall well build blond women watching the dwarf as his forge was filled with the sweet music of metal striking metal once more after Hambone had heated the blade in forge.
" Who are yea? " he asked, Remey looked over to Molgan and have him a friendly smile, " I'm Remey Blackheart and the dwarf is Hambone Forkbeard. " she said as she saw the impressed look on the old blacksmith's age lined face as her lover was beating the every living shit out of the forming knife blade.
" I see where are yea from? " Molgan asked as as he saw that Remey was a capeable fighter and he also felt a faint stiring in his negleted loins, " I'm from the Tarhgon Empire to the west, pasted the Land Of Death. " she said and she saw Molgan give her a surpised and impressed look for he only knew a few scant roumors of those places ad as much as he wanted to ask her more about those far off lands he could see that Remey had turnd her attention to Hambone who was working bellows of his forge to heat the nearly completed knife blade.
As they were walking around the doomed hamlet Dyana could see that Erle was smiling that wacked out and pervreted smile that she had come to love and adore, " A copper for you're thoughts? " she asked with an aroused tone of voice, Erle looked at his lady love and gave her a truely happy and extremly pervereted leer but yet he decied not to say a word so that his lady love would be in the dark about some of his plans were for her and this one horse hamlet.
Dhyana could see that Erle was not going to answer her and decied to see if she could *Charm* the answer out of him as they saw the burned out ruins of a stone house that had been let to the elements, " Erle...I have an *Itch*. " she said with a coy and extremly lusty tone of voice.
" Hehehehehe! " Erle cackled as Dhyana grabed him by the arm and let him into the burn out house.
Mary watched as Iron Grom began to lay their cloaks out on the mossy ground of the tight stand of trees on the edge of Karkral and she began to slowly strip off her light platemail armor as she saw the wolfish leer on her lover's hard face and he too began to get undressed.
Once they were naked Mary felt her pussy become hotter and wetter as she saw that Iron Grom's seven inch cock was as hard as a Wall Of Force spell and when he laid down on their spread out cloaks she laid on top of him and kissed him with her feminine desire to be well had by her man.
" Damn! " Iron Grom moaned into Mary's hot,wet mouth as he darted his tounge over her's as he could feel her hard nipples poking him in his broad, scared chest and he grabbed her small, frim ass and began to kneed it.
" I love you! " Mary wispered as she broke their passionet kiss and when she looked into Iron Grom's dark cobalt blue eyes she could see his undying love for her which made her heart sing with joy and her body burn with the fires of her raging lust.
She shimmed her body so that she was kissing her lover's scared chest and she began to rub her hot, wet pussy on his stomach as she licked his right nipple, " I love you too. " Iron Grom said as he could feel his lover's wet heat on his hard stomach and he watched as she continted to lick his right nipple as she gave him a lusty and saucey look.
He felt his hard cock twitch as Mary shimmed down his hard body untill she was between his open legs, with a devilish leer on her face Mary began to slowly jack her lover off as she started ti like the head of his cock with her small tounge.
" YEA GODS! " Irong Gron thought to himself as he saw the loving lust in Mary's dary gray eyes as she licked the tip of his raging hard on like a kitten taking cream for the first time and he could not help but to feel loved as his lover took the head of his cock into her mouth and began to suck on it like a baby when it was breast feeding.
" I love you! " Mary thought to herself as she continued to suckle on her lover's cock head and she started to slowly lower her head a bit and then slowly bring it back up as she fondled Iron Grom's large balls.
Dhyana saw the commanding and pervreted leer on Erle's face and she could feel her wet pussy starting to burn like the breath of a red dragon.
" Hehehehehehe! " Erle chuckled as he reached under the flaps of his lover's skirt and began to lightly stroke her wet pussy that was clad in a pair of magical, fur lined panties that he had made for her.
" AAHH! " Dhyana gasped as she could feel the soft fur that was from the bodies of Gobits that had died of natural causes rubbing on the splayed lips of her wet, hot womanhood.
" You like that don't you my big tited sex pet? " she heard her lover say with a slezy tone of voice as he began to incress the force and speed of his fingering.
" Mmmm YES! " she moaned with an aroused and dreamy voice as her lover's skilled fingers her driving her wild with raging lust.