After I left the armory the shops were closing down. I decided to find a nice inn to spend the night at. Since I had the next few days off, I would look for a shop then. I wandered town and found a small, quiet inn on the outskirts of town called the Lion's Gate Inn. It was a respectable looking place, and the rent was only five silver coins a night.
After I grabbed something to eat, I went to sleep in the room. Several times I woke up hearing a scratching noise, but I could not find the source. A couple hours before dawn I head a creaking noise. I laid still and watched the chest by the door open slowly. A small man in a black cloak crawled out of the chest and looked around. It was too small to be an elf, and not big enough to be a dwarf which meant that it was a halfling. I feigned sleep as it walked towards me. He waved his hand front of me several times before moving over to the pile of gear I had.
He saw the bag of coins and his eyes nearly lit up the entire room. He couldn't lift it easily, and as he struggled with it I crawled out of my bed. As I crept up behind him, he started stuffing coins into his cloak. I got up right behind him and grabbed him. He was able to reach for a hidden dagger and stab my leg. I threw him into the wall and he fell limp. I checked him for anything of value and found nothing other than the stolen coins. I donned my armor and gathered my gear. He had opened a hole in the floor and placed a ladder up to the chest. It looked like it led to the sewers and I didn't want to get mugged by thieves. I decided I would go report this to the local authorities.
By the time I found the captain it was almost dawn. I told him of my news and he said that thieves are a large problem here. They controlled the sewers and attacked at will. Only the castle was safe from them. I was determined to stop them, but I needed better gear desperately, so I searched for a weapons shop.
I finally found one around noon. They had all sorts of gear, from the mediocre to magical. Things that were unidentified were much less than those that were identified, so I purchased two unidentified longswords and a finely crafted longbow. After testing them for the rest of the day, I found that one longsword would erupt in flames with my will's command, and the other would generate a field of lightning.
Now that I had fine weapons, I ventured into the sewers after dusk. At this time the thieves would be out looking for prey, leaving their den open. It didn't take long before I came upon a hidden door. I opened it and followed a long corridor. At the end I found a well-lit hall carved into stone. It must have been under the castle or outside of the city. I saw no one in the hall and started to look around. I soon came upon a large door embedded with precious jewels. It was unlocked, and I entered. There I found five drow sitting in a circle.
They saw me as quickly as I saw them. They stood up so fast that they knocked the chairs down. I drew my swords and willed them to perform. Only one challenged me. He had the normal features of a drow, the white hair, dark skin, and blood-red eyes. He pulled out a scimitar and smiled. He jumped at me and slashed at me so fast he looked like a blur. My armor protected me from most of it, but when he did strike me he inflicted major wounds. I lifted my swords up to parry and his scimitar snapped in half as it struck mine. The drow gasped and the air around us exploded in a flash of bright blue light. My world blacked out once again.
When I came back, I lying on the floor in the hall. I had nothing left besides my green cape. I got up and walked out. When I got back on the surface it was day again, about noon.
After reporting all this to the Westor, he joked about how someone could go through so much gear in a few days. He let me back to the armory after sending a squad of men to eliminate the thieves. I told Westor I would leave that day and look for some other way to defeat the drow. He gave me provisions and a horse and wished me luck.
I headed north after I left. I needed to find out a way to defeat the surfacing drow. After about five minutes on the road, an arrow hit me. I jumped off my horse and drew my longsword. I looked for the attacker, but then feinted and fell on the ground.
When I awoke I was in a dark, damp place, inside a cage. I could feel creatures around me, but there was almost no light. I struggled to get out for an hour or two before someone came. He carried a torch and I saw I was in some sort of room carved in the dirt. It was a drow who came. He whistled and three drow came into the room and bound me. The dragged me out of the room, and I saw a large underground city. There were drow and hideous monsters all over the place. Many looked at me with the look of hunger in their eyes.
I was dragged to a palace like place and I taken to a drow woman. She was dressed in a black robe and wore the talisman of Rhyode, the Goddess of Evil. On her head was a crown carved out of onyx.
She laughed as soon as she saw me, wondering how a runt like me was able to defeat her best warriors. She ordered that I was to have my head cut off and be thrown into the holy river in a week. Until then I would be locked in a cage without food or water.