Prologue 3
'Darn it. Why did I have to go showing off to that group. Now I'm off to jail and will never be an adventurer,' I think to myself as I look outside my cage to the people escorting me. They're all town guards that arrested me for necromancy. It wasn't illegal to practice necromancy, but it was illegal to raise dead heroes. I only wanted to be on an adventure with a group of heroes, so I entered an adventurer's tavern and raised the first corpse that I saw. A lot of groups tried to invite me, but one of the guards said that the corpse had once been a hero. Now here I was heading to the capital to have a trial.
"Stop being gloomy. You brought me to life to help you, right?" asked a skull in the corner of the cage. I turned to face him and sighed.
In a depressed voice I answered, "No. The guard said that I will probably only get a month in jail since I didn't know the person was a hero, but I still need someone to talk to. Besides a skull wouldn't be much help in this situation."
"I can be a lot of help. While I'm distracting them by being a talking skull, you can run for it," the skull said.
Almost immediately after he said that though, a flash of light appeared behind me and one of the guards screamed. I quickly look behind me and see a Kobold attacking the guards. She quickly deals with the guard closest to her with a hammer, and casts smite on the guard charging her. Soon another Kobold appeared from the side of the cart. He looked at me and asked, "Do you want to be a chaotic evil adventurer with us? We have a good retirement plan."
The female Kobold walked up to the cage next and smashed the lock. "Even if you don't, you're free to go. We're heading to Duqam Landing," she stated.
The skull answered for me saying, "We will need to discuss it, but we will meet you in Duqam Landing to give you our answer."
The Kobolds look dumbstruck at the skull and I quickly say, "He is my travelling companion and soon to be weapon once I retrieve my staff. Like he said, we will meet you in Duqam Landing." The Kobolds nod before continuing on their ways.
"What do you mean travelling companion? I'm your minion last I checked," complained the skull. I grab him and leave the cage.
After I retrieve my staff from the chest they put it in I put the skull on it. "Now your my staff, and I never called you my minion. You just assumed that that's why I created you. Now lets head to Duqam Landing. Its about time I became an adventurer," I tell him before walking in the direction of the town.
"Tarka, are you sure you want a necromancer on our team? We will have to kill someone for him to be of use, so I think we should have let him go to jail," the male Kobold asks once him and I are far from the necromancer.
I look at him and say, "Yes. A necromancer will be great help once our group becomes stronger and he can create multiple undead. Now what class do you want in the group, Kib?"
"I want a thief. That ways we can get as much treasure as we want from dungeons. A berserker would be a good too. They could soak up some of the damage," Kib said giving it some thought. He made some sense, but I knew that we wouldn't find a berserker in Duqam Landing.
"I will find a thief, but we won't find a berserker for a while. Now, once we get to Duqam Landing stay close. There is a large slaver group that controls half the city. I don't want either of us to get captured by them," I say as the city comes into sight. Kib looks at me and nods. As I smile at him, he makes a dash for the city. I chase after him and we reach the city in no time.
Once we are in the city Kib heads straight for a group of people cheering. I instinctively follow him to see what the commotion is about. When I push my ways thru the crowd, I see that a fight is taking place between an Orc and a species that I had never seen before. The second one looked like a humanoid wolf with golden fur, a dark grey muzzle, green eyes and had black fur on the tip of his tail.
The Orc had green skin, black hair, and red eyes. Both of them had weapons that were sheathed and seemed to wear light armor. Kib turned to me and said, "The wolfman won this fight. He's smarter about one on one fights."
Almost as soon as Kib said this the wolfman knocked down the Orc and said, "I'm the leader, okay. We are going to form a mercenary group and work for people of my alignment. Do you get me?"
The Orc got up and said, "I get you Jaron, but there aren't many chaotic evil adventurers on this continent. You're lucky that I was even chaotic neutral."
"You're right Vrutha, but that doesn't mean that I can group with anyone. They need to either be evil or chaotic. Now lets get to a tavern and find some followers," Dracone said.
"Come on Kib. If we join their group, we might be able to recruit a group of our own. Plus the orc had a point," I said as I started to follow them. Kib followed behind behind me.