"I wanted to know what
hell is about."
He has blue eyes set in a knot of
wrinkles.
"So I changed my appearance into
one of those chaos creatures and joined them."
His face disappears in shadow.
-Glemantrious "The Glamour Trip"
I knew this reptile man who
carried a broadsword in each hand and used them well. He
went into the pits of hell and stepped on a trap door. One
that opened and dropped him a hundred meters to his death.
The rest of his team had to go on without him.
I knew one man who got killed
crossing the street. He had a wounded friend and was going
to the healer to buy some salve. Ruffians wanted his money
pouch and he resisted. His stripped body was picked up by
the body cart in the morning.
I knew this Elf that didnt
make it a hundred meters off the boat before he died. On
entering the city he refused to give up his bow to the town
guard. The archers on the walls shot him down. His
tombstone was engraved "resisting the guard." Sometimes
they die so quickly one cant remember their name.
One guy who lived was called
Blane. An Elf he went barefoot, wore a loin cloth and
carried nothing but a crowbar. Sometimes the most
surprising characters do well. He would charge in and
wrestle creatures to the ground. Holding them there so his
friends could finish them off. And he was real useful when
a door needed to be opened.
I remember the day he appeared on
the scene. He was part of a team making a foray into the
pits. They encountered a platoon of chaos creatures in a
tunnel. He through his crowbar into the crowd at head
level. The big iron thing missed six people before striking
the seventh in the head and knocking him dead. The other
members started calling him Blane Brain Basher after that.
After a long string of success he
decided to buy a magic item. Unlike everyone else he
didnt get a souped up weapon, or some kind of enhanced
defense. He bought a glamour. A pair of suspenders
that made him look like a big two meter tall infant. And
started chewing on a cigar. It was quite disarming to his
enemies. Even the chaos creatures werent quite sure
what to make of this giant infant. It got him the
initiative more than once. After that everyone started
calling him Baby Blane Brain Basher. A name that is still
remembered.