Dungeons and Dragons
Part 1: The God Wars
Chapter 1, a Story to be Told
I have never aspired to be a writer, poet, musician, or a bard, but some stories must be told. Allow me to introduce myself, for I am told that that is how a story should start. I am known as Remus, Remus the Wolf Tamer. I am called the wolf tamer for the animal companion who follows me around, Romulus the Wolf. At my birth, I was told I was abandoned at the edge of the forests of Anderfell, where I was found and raised by wolves. Most people have scoffed at this, a baby taken in and raised by wolves, impossible. But as my long life explains, nothing is impossible.
As a young boy, I was a feral child, believing I was a wolf, that was until at the age of eight, I was held in a home by an elderly couple who's food I had been stealing months before. They had thought me the words of common, and even some elvish. They noted the small points I had on my ears suggesting I was a half-elf. Which I am, though I have no love for the parents that abandoned me at my birth. When I had finished learning the languages they had to teach me, they gifted to me a weapon. Most would hand me a dagger or a longsword, no they had gifted to me a sickle. And for the services they had done, I cut the heads of the corn they grew nearby off for them.
Soon after I returned to the forests of my youth and found the young wolf cub who had been born 3 days after I was inducted into the pack. I named him Romulus, and being fluent in the wolf tongue, asked if he would join me on my quest for glory. Romulus has never once left my side since that day. Though in the cell I awoke in, I wished he were there. This is where our story begins.
I awoke in a dark and musty cell. At first I had no idea what to believe of my surroundings. I did remember falling asleep at the camp I had made with Romulus the night before, not asleep in a cell alone. Though it was not my first time in a cell, I listened to the sounds. Water dripped to the floor making a small splash. Water usually meant underground. I hate being underground, I prefer to be under the sky where there is plenty of fresh air. I got up from the bed and walked to the bars of my cell. "Hello?" I spoke quietly, its good to know if you are not alone in these situations. "Shakes want pleasure!" Shouted a voice from the cell far to the back of the room and to the right. I took 3 steps back completely shocked at the answering voice. "So the last one is finally awake? Sounded like a man, why couldn't it be a woman?" Said another voice in the cell next to mine. The first voice sounded like a giant of sorts, but I did recognize the slight orcish accent. And the second voice was definitely elvish, but I had never heard the accent he had used in his speech. I moved closer to the bars again. "Who are you people?" I asked the room, there could be more people in here but I just didn't see them. "Ah yes we have all been acquainted whilst you slept. I am Tanith the Bard." He said waving his arm out of the cell bars.
"The man who first spoke is Shakes, and from what we can tell, he calls himself an Orcphan." Tanith said pointing to the cell at the far right. "You mean orphan right?" I said. "We think he combined Orc and orphan." Said a voice in the cell next to Shakes'. He walked closer to the bars and I saw him clearly. He was a tall centaur, maybe 7 ft tall, and had a mane of brown hair. "This is the centaur Kankis, we call him Kanks for short." Said Tanith, the centaur bowed a little. "Hey he finally woke up! Is he injured at all?" Said a voice at the far left of the cell block. "Are you?" Asked Tanith. "No I'm fine, who's that?" I asked to no one particular. "That there is Steve, Steve the Cleric." Said Tanith, pointing to the end where Steve was. "And I'm last? That's just bullshit." Said a voice in the cell across from mine.
I hadn't noticed him because he was hidden in the shadows. "And this upstanding citizen is Dr. Roxus Cox. But I like to call him dick." Said Tanith, and even though I couldn't see him, I was sure he was smiling. "Fuck you." Said the doctor. "Now before we continue, what is your name sir?" Asked Tanith, pointing into my cell. "Me? I am Remus, Remus the Wolf Tamer." I said, wishing Romulus were here with me. "Well then Remus, now that your here we can come up with a plan for escape." Said Tanith. "Any suggestions?" He said to the room. "Well unlike you idiots. I managed to hide a lock pick with me so it should be a simple matter for me-" Said the doctor, but was quickly cut off by the sounds of Shakes the Orcphan ripping his cell door off its hinges and tossing it aside like he was throwing cardboard. "Well done master Shakes!" Shouted Tanith. "Tanith, hide under your bed." Said Kanks. "Why?" Asked Tanith with surprise in his voice , then I saw Kanks prepare to horse kick the cell door. From what I could hear Tanith had hid under his bed as Kanks kicked his door off its hinges and sent Taniths door flying off as well. I heard the door to my cell open and saw that Dr. Cox had opened the door to my cell, I hadn't even seen him open his own door. "You coming or not?" He asked me with a hint of amusement, and I stepped out of my cell.