Characters:
Valeros: Human Fighter (M)
Lini: Gnome Druid (F)
Kess: Human Brawler (F)
Lem: Halfling Bard (M)
Note: As the story progresses, the more mature the story becomes. Just a heads-up.
Chapter 1: A Rare Find
"No!" Shouts an insect-like humanoid. It looks like a mantis, carrying a staff, glowing from being used too many times. "Do not let them escape!" A small gnome with green hair looks over to her short ally, a halfling with silky blonde hair, and says "You have any idea what it's saying?" The halfling pauses for a moment, casts a spell, and catches up to the gnome and says "You don't want to know." The gnome looks back, and sighs. "Droogami, let Valeros hitch a ride. He's slowing us down!" The large leapard makes a sound similar to a sigh, and sits patiently, waiting for the Black haired man in heavy armor to catch up, and hop on. "Thank... you..." he says, pausing between breaths. Lem looks back. "Kess, let's go!" a moment goes by, but no answer. Lem opens his mouth again, but is interuptted by "Why don't you hurry up?" as a woman in a scaled leather sports bra and skin-tight leggings skips past him, doing a flip on the way. Lem mutters something, sounding like "Show off..." They almost reach the entrance of the cave, but before they can, another mantis-like being jumps out from a rock, and from what Lem hears, yells "DEATH BEFORE FAILURE!" and explodes. A splatter of gore and guts splashes their faces, and everyone looks ok, except Lem. They manage to jump out of the cave, landing on a beach, luckily with a barrel for Lem to vomit in.
A few seconds go by of Lem vomiting, and Lini patting him on the back, saying sweet words like "There there," and "Just let it all out." He finally cleans the spittle off his face, and looks over to Valeros. "Wheres the artifact?" Valeros's heart practically stops beating. "Wait... You don't have it?" He asks Lini. "Me?" Lini says, "I though we agreed Kess was gonna get it!" "I'm pretty sure it was Lem who was supposed to have it." "What? I swear Valeros was in charge of getting it!" A heated argument ensued for a few minutes, when Droogami's ears perk up. He begins sniffing around, while everyone else argues. Lini notices, and walks off with Droogami, curious as to what he found. A few minutes of walking on the sandy shore, and Lini sees a bloated corpse, laying on a small dock. She runs to the body, trying to find out what happened. She waves her hands around and chants some words, and the body restores itself to a handsome-looking adventurer. Everything looks normal about him, but then Lini notices a buldge in his body. She takes out her sickle, and Droog looks away as she cuts open a small hole in his chest, reaching in and grabbing a long tube. She sniffs it, and makes a fake-sounding "Blugh" noise, before opening it up in excitment. She reads the scroll inside, and her smile turns into pure awe. "Holy sh-"