I was sittin around in commons like I tend to do when lookin for adventure....when, I ran into another magic dark elf!
He musta been a friend of the other one, because, out of the blue...he shrank me too!
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But, thankfully, it didn't seem he was as powerful, and I was quite a bit bigger than I was before.
I knew this day might come again....but this time I had a plan! Quickly I ran around and gathered old hammers to build a gnome fort for protection. It was foolproof!
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There I drank some extra dwarf ale I had and regained my size. The same trick won't work on a gnome twice!!!
But....in the meantime....it seemed the world had a bigger problem.....the dark elf had cursed one of the adventurers and turned him into a tiny treant!!
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Not only that! But this treant was under the dark elves control! And began to rampage with his great power!!!
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Herpa the iksar tried to fight him.....but was defeated after a long and hard fought battle...even my gnome science medicine wasn't enough to keep him alive. Others too tried to battle....but no one could stop this great treant and its songs of doom.
Luckily I had connections with the elves and sent word to them that the world was in great danger! One of their own had been cursed! And needed to be stopped!
We distracted the treant for a while.....and then, when everything looked most grim.... Rosen the archer appeared! Ready to do battle!!
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Her arrows were so mighty! The treant and everyone around was shocked by the power of archery!!
But the dark elf saw her power and stepped in...banishing her to another part of the world!
It looked like all hope was lost.
Then....Borusk the mighty stepped forward and said he would battle the tree! No one had much confidence in him...but it was all we had left....
I mean, besides me of course. I woulda killed that tree already, except I had something in my eye -rubs eye-
Borusk and the tree stared at each other for only a moment, and then ran at each other!!
Borusk gave him a few pokes with his daggers, and it seemed to do pretty ok. Though he would need a lot more than that against such thick bark.
Suddenly he sprang forward and slipped behind the treant!!! Followed by the greatest stab I've ever seen!!!! The treant instantly fell!!! It was over!!! So fast!!!!!
After that the dark elf admitted defeat and Dabbles was returned to his normal elfy form. That night the world knew him as Dabbles the Tree but, sadly, it wasn't to last.
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Having won the battle, it was time for celebrating! So we all snuck around the tunnels for a little bit! The best way to celebrate!
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Soon everyone had moved on to various adventures....but I was still left ....sneakins around.
"Psst, gnome, you are Sneaksy aren't you? I've heard of you..."
It was another dark elf! At least this one didn't shrink me ....yet....
"Midnight...come alone." she whispered, then walked off into the crowd.
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Humm, seemed suspicious....but I didn't have a choice! I had to find out what she wanted!!
So I waited....doing my usual gnome stuffs helpin merchants find things they lost. I even picked up a new fancy runed oak bow!!!
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Midnight eventually came....and I continued to wait, looking for the dark elf I had seen before. Though, they all look alike to me.
The merchants were packing up their shops and the caves began to empty. 1 am....2am....3am....I was starting to think the dark elf was trickins me!!
Then a shady lookin old human came walking into the caves. He kept his head down, but I could tell something was strange with him....he wasn't an adventurer, that's for sure. No, he was a brigand!!
He continued walking till he had come up right next to me....still, not even looking up....
"I've been keeping it sharp all these years" he said as he handed me a small object wrapped in rags.
I looked down confused...but before I could ask any questions he walked away again into the night....
Carefully I unwrapped what he had given me....and inside was a dagger?
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It looked like a pretty fancy dagger! Probably worth lots of platinums!!! But somehow I felt there was more to this.....I wonder where it came from.....