((Still level 15 when this happened, I'm 16 now! -flex- I level so fast!))
It was a quiet day.... my spies hadn't reported anything happening for a while....and I was getting restless.
But I was an adventure gnome! I couldn't always try to sneak around where others were....it was time to stand on my own gnome feet and get treasure on my own!! Luckily I had just the treasure in mind to go after.....the legendary Glaive of Marltek from the wood elves of Firiona Vie!
So I set out and after a long journey found myself on the shores overlooking the familiar outpost!
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I spent some time in the outpost making preparations for my adventure. I would need arrows, food, bandages....the works!
You see, the captains brother was missing....and they feared the drolvarg army had taken him. The captain was offering his legendary sword to anyone who could find information about this....if they could make it back alive.
While there I also met some other gnome explorers....who, when they heard I was going against the armies of the drolvarg, begged me to stay! It was too dangerous they said!
But I couldn't let danger stand in my way!
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On my way out I noticed a giant catapult...but they wouldn't let me borrow it....
It's ok, it woulda just slowed me down anyhow.
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And so, when night fell....I set out into the forest alone..... not sure if I would be coming back....
I snuck most of the night to reach drolvarg territory. At first only seeing one or two walking through the forest....
Deeper and deeper I went....until eventually I realized I was surrounded by them!! Everywhere!! I was in the heart of the drolvarg army!!!
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I took my time to explore more, looking for clues of what happened to the captains brother.
Eventually I found an army camp of drolvarg and overheard one of them talking about having found an elf in the woods.
This one! Definitely! I needed to find out what he had!!
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But I was too deep inside of drolvarg territory to try and pick his pockets. No matter where I snuck he was guarded.....
It was time for plan B....I would have to fight them.....sure, it was one gnome versus an army of drolvarg, but gnomes is strong!!!!
So I found a position on a nearby hill and waited for a patrol of drolvarg to pass....my heart was beating so fast....
When it was semi safe I carefully took aim and let loose my arrow!!! It wizzed through the air and....missed.
"Was than an arrow?"
"On that hill!!! A gnome!!! Rip her to shreds!!!"
They were onto me!!!
Not just the scavenger...but the entire camp....and patrols nearby were noticing too!!!
I needed to get out!! I couldn't find them here in their own camp!!
So I ran out into the forest with what seemed like the entire drolvarg army behind me! At least 10 of them!!!
As I ran through the forest I had to carefully dodge feople and spider people and even pirates!! Somehow managing to get past them without them noticing me or the drolvarg army chasing me.
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Eventually I came to a cliff.....it looked like it was the end of the line....this is where the battle would have to happen.....
I didn't quite have a plan, but I had to come up with one fast. Facing a drolvarg army wasn't exactly what I was hoping for....I tried to shoot a few arrows into them as I ran, but I needed something better.
Then I noticed a drixie and pilgrims here and there near the cliff side.....I had an idea!!!
I lured the drolvargs near the pilgrims and the two of them began fighting! Not all of them, but a few.....
I did that a few more times until the drolvarg army had spread out and were battling in pockets around the cliffs. But I still had my eye on the scavenger I had heard talking in the camp, I needed to see what he had!!
Then I saw him fighting a few of the pilgrims alone....and he was losing.
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If the pilgrims killed him they would surely take the evidence to the captain themselves!! I had to stop them!!!
So I lured more of the army that was chasing me into the pilgrims where the scavenger was!!
They all battled and the scavenger was saved....barely.
From there it was time for me to get to work! With my trusty runed oak bow I began shooting as many arrows as I could into the pack chasing me! The scavenger my primary target!!
Slowly I worked him down until finally he began to run. The others seeing this panicked and ran off over the hill ((really, this happened....a mass of them chasing me just randomly ran off for a minute when he got low.....they came back eventually, but was so strange!)).
It gave me time to finish off the scavenger and on his body I found a note.....this had to be the evidence the captain needed!!!
The war between the dolvarg and pilgrims was still waging, but I had what I needed and I ran back to the outpost as fast as I could!
I ran straight to the captains cabin and woke him up.
"I gots the evidence!! Of your brother!!!"
It turned out his brother he had gone crazy....and ran off into the forest ....surely eaten by dolvargs.
But the captain was so thankful he handed me the legendary Glaive of Marltek!
BUT! As I admired the sword we were interrupted!!!
The dolvarg had seen me escaping the battle and sent a group of assassins after me!!!!! They had even infiltrated deep into the outpost without alerting the guards!!!!
For a moment....I accepted my death.....there was no way I could escape, their first blows against me caught me by surprise.....I was too hurt....and there were no guards nearby....
But my gnome survival instincts kicked in!! I couldn't let it end like this!!!! My feet began movin on their own and I ran outta the captains cabin as fast as I could manage!!!
"Gnome in trouble!!! Imma bein murdered!!!"
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I was sure one more hit and I would be dead.....I didn't even bother to look behind me until I had run all the way through the outpost and over the bridge past several patrols of guards....
Somehow though....I had survived the assassination attempt!!! The drolvarg failed to keep the note from the captain! And I, I had the legendary sword!!
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As the sun rose over Firiona Vie we stood victorious.... the people of the outpost would always remember it as the night a lone gnome went against the drolvarg army.....and won.
((Sorry for lack of better pictures, I was busy trying to survive :P))