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I just found this and have to say I am in love! Amazing!
Heros Backpack you are an excellent DM and your player is stupendous! I look forward to reading more of Joe Wood`s adventures if they are still going. I also have to give my vote for Joe to find a nice girl and try to start settling down. He is almost 17, its time for him to start raising a family lol

edited- for some spelling errors

Sep 6, 2011 -- 7:55AM, zioth wrote:

Would you mind if I mirrored this story on my web site? I've been collecting RPG fiction. Naturally, I'd give you full credit, and include anything else you wanted me to.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean, and I'd like to double check with Joe's player before I say yes or no.  Can I get back to you on that? (You know this is a campaign writeup, not an intentional story, don't you?)

Episode 156: ...Team Up

As Joe chews through the last piece of potato cake, the tavern door opens again and 2 humans walk through. Joe swallows hastily and washes the lump down with the last of the small beer, as the humans push back their hoods to reveal the faces of Sir Henry, the youngest of his old lord’s sons, and Den.  What brings a noble and a commoner together, Joe can’t figure, until he realises that under the cloaks they are dressed like adventurers.  His heart sinks a bit further and he ducks his head low over his empty plate as his fingers clench around around his eating knife.

Moonshadow looks at the humans as they join the halfling and her chuckle rolls through the suddenly silent tavern.  “Oh my word, I can smell the bravura of a new group from over here. Nothing quite like it.”  She finishes the last of her own meal, pushes herself back from Joe’s table and straightens. “If you choose to slip out while I’m keeping them occupied, I will quite understand,” she murmurs, laughter still twitching her lips outwards.  The beads in her hair chime gently as she turns and saunters over to the threesome. She sets a few coins down on the bar with a decisive clink.  “Let me offer you a drink - and a word of advice,” she tells them.

Sir Henry turns and sneers.  “What could you possibly offer us, woman?  We are not common workers, we are adventurers.”

Joe sidles towards the door, but stops and turns when Moonshadow’s voice rings out behind him. “My dear young human, I’ll grant that I retired from adventuring years before you were born, but I haven’t entirely lost touch.”  She taps another coin on the bar, then slides it across to the innkeeper.  “For your trouble. And as compensation for the company at your bar.”  She looks back at the threesome and flicks her braided hair back in a shimmer of beads.  “You’re new, you three.  You would do well to remember that there are old adventurers, and there are bold adventurers, but there are no old bold adventurers.”  She inclines her head to the innkeeper and sweeps over to the door. 

Three pairs of eyes follow her as she pauses beside Joe for a moment and her smile flickers again. Joe lifts his head and meets the triple gaze with his own distaste.  Their glare switches to him and he can se the snarls growing in their faces.  He bows as floridly as he knows and asks a carrying voice, “Do you desire escort again?”

The glare chills down into hate as Moonshadow returns the bow.  “So kind of you to offer.”

Sir Henry yells after them, “Hey, you!”

Joe turns.

“Yes, you!  What have you got to offer her that I haven’t?”

“Why,” Joe retorts, “nothing.  I’m just a common worker - but my mother taught me manners.”  And with that, he steps through the doorway into the snow and lets the door cut off anything else Sir Henry might be saying...

To be continued...

Sep 11, 2011 -- 4:48AM, Heros_Backpack wrote:

“Why,” Joe retorts, “nothing.  I’m just a common worker - but my mother taught me manners.”  And with that, he steps through the doorway into the snow and lets the door cut off anything else Sir Henry might be saying...

Silly Royalty