Castle in the Sky with Dragons

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Wake up to Scootch shouting. Why we leave Scootch in bad room? You dead, Scootch! Scootch float through door, finally believe he dead. Oh well. Ghostface not come back though, he all dead now.

Next room have big black stones. Center have big black stone box with big black stone kitty on top happily killing some stone whole thing. Rocky not like it, smashes it down. Skeeter find a ring and give to Marta when Scootch say he not know what it for.

Next we find very big cavern. There is floating castle way up in middle with cone of green sparkles over it all down to floor. There a tiny jello cube inside cone. Skeeter throw dagger, it dispeers. So does rock. Marge throws one of her kids, it gets inside, but all tiny. Jello cube move towards it. Skeeter throw end of rope to kid. Now Skeeter inside and tiny, too. Find dagger and rock though.

We decide to get out, but it very very far to edge of cone now. We run, but some brains with leggies start chasing us. Bright flying goblin demon jumps off castle and comes to help. Quint come in, too. He knows shiny demon. Brains suddenly catch fire. Marge comes in to help now. All the brains burn. Skeeter feed Burny some brains.

All brains dead, Quint attack flying shiny demon. He brother, name Pastor. Quint thought him dead. Skeeter complain about shiny Pastor, he very bright.  Folk start flying up to castle. Bugs come complaining stop to squish bugs. Skeeter realize he can fly, too. Burny help Skeeter fly up to castle.

Rocky open castle gate. There hall with torches and a half-thing says we “worthy” of Fire Goth’s castle and will have “bath” and new clothes. What bath? Kill half thing? Quint says no. But, half things bad, kill half thing! Quint says no, wants to see what “bath” is. Also what “gentle man” is.

We step forward and floor fall down. Told you we should kill half thing. There shiny liquid in pit below. There platforms, but no path to door. We play with sticks that make rocks move so we can get to door. Rocky tries open door. Door close. Up tiny bit, down, up tiny bit, down.

Voice says we have no “man-ers.” Quint says give us your treasure. Pastor talk voice into opening door, says we won’t come in, just two minutes civel dis-cors. Door open, is giant fairy dragon. Says is his castle, has Mad Goth trapped upstairs. Says Fire Goth is Mad Goth’s prentice.

Quint count off two minutes, and charges into room.

How Tribe Get to Undermountain

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Why we live in awful place, you ask? It strange to have so much under big wet city. Big folk always comin through, attack Tribe, take our things. Why we stay? What we doin here? Old Big Nose tell story sometime. Skeeter like stories, so Skeeter tell you.

Long time ago, we live above ground. Not in city or tree-place. In real caves, in big mountains. We live with ground below us, not above. With moon and stars outside. Fresh air, and tasty rabbits in their holes. Scare ’em out in the dark and snatch them up for stew. Big things come sometimes, but mostly no reason. We not in their way there.

Strange man come one day. Offer shiny things and big sticks. Says has new place for us to live. Says we get everything want there. Says we get power there. But we like our caves. Shiny things too bright and big sticks not so big. Why we want power, have everything Tribe need here. Strange man get angry, blast a few old ones. Tribe get angry, drive him out with rocks and sticks. He disappear and Tribe go to bed.

Next morning, caves all wrong. They rock, but wrong kind of rock. They cold, but not cold enough. And they very dry. There firewood, but firepit brand new. Mushrooms and moss even different kinds. And there no way out. Tribe run to all corners of cave, but no way out. No way to moon and stars, no way to tasty rabbits. Old Big Nose find water, coming out of small wall in hole, filling small pool, but it is no way out.

No day and no night, but it many, many sleeps before Tribe find a way out. But way out is not to outside. It darker there. A group go look, never come back. Many sleeps later, another group go look. One come back, gibbering and bleeding. He no sleep, only babble: No, No, No. I can’t.  He no eat or drink or sleep. Finally die.

Big things started coming though. Coming in and killing Tribe, taking tribe things. And then going on. They no come back either.  Now only bravest of Tribe go out, and only Quint come back. So we go, we brave. We find out where Strange man took Tribe. We find way to moon and stars and rabbits again, some day.

Bad Lich

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We go in to talk to floating green thing Scootch call Lich. He wants our stuff, so we attack him. He make sticky web, but Skeeter no care. Then he make cold fog. That’s no good. Marge’s kids all scared of webs and fog, stay outside and fight spiders. So many spiders. Quint and Ghostface and Skeeter fight lich thing. Scootch get rid of some fog and try to send lich away. Lich get madder. He kill Ghostface dead again. Quint keep hitting him. Finally Marge’s kids all run in to hit Lich, too. Skeeter just can’t see in fog. Lich thing cast bad death spell. It hurts so bad. But then he run away and wish us good luck. Marta save Skeeter from following Ghostface.

Lich thing have lots of pretty weapons and rings and armor and things. Quint get new club. Skeeter get new spear. Scootch get new dagger. Marta get pretty ring. It been long day, we put green Scootch in corner and go sleep.

Wake up middle night to Marge’s spider dog howling. What wrong? Scootch turned all green and moss-covered. He fly over group. Make more sick. Marge’s kid shoot him down. Scootch all bad and dead now. Poor Scootch. We all run outside, leave him in lich room, and back to bed. Ghostface and Scootch all gone. Now who Skeeter gonna cuddle? Oh yeah, baby dragon still like Scootch. Such a cute baby dragon, he almost better, but now Skeeter gotta get better all over again, too.

Lookit All the Monster Poo!

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We walk and walk and walk. Scootch says it maze and dis-spells. Corridors get big! Scootch, you make us small? Nono, is okay, just make hall bigger. Finally find a door.

Cave behind door with big torch and blue fire. We go look, nothing shiny. Torch spits off some fire though. Scootch calls it de-mon ro-bot and tried to make friends. Quint runs away and Ghostface hits it til it get small and quiet. Then we all go find Quint.

He found door with spikes and holes and levers. Is all one big trap. Ghostface and Quint walk through door while Scootch casts magic at it. Quint come back through after while and says needs help with big monster. Scootch finally get it open.

We walk across bars over a pit and into big cavern with what Scootch call hi-dra. It has too many heads, sees Skeeter. Oowww, it burns! But it poos out lots of shiny things when we kill it. Skeeter give baby dragon a hi-dra steak and a piece of shiny red monster-poo. Quint say shiny biscuits and rocks must be monster poo, we always find after kill monster. Ghostface mad he can’t eat, curses baby dragon. Skeeter stab Ghostface.

Other side of cavern have rope ladder. We climb and float and fly up to big mud man. Scootch say gal-um. We attack it so it will let us through, is stubborn, but can’t see Skeeter this time. Keeps hitting the wall and making the ladder all sparky. We knock it down, back into mud.

There six ladders at back, we each go up near one. OW!!! All get shot but Scootch. We all go follow Scootch up to a room with glowy ball. Scootch take glowy ball. We go to door on left, and it clicks open. Room full of stuff! Scootch gets another ball, Quint take everything else – table, couch, clothes, laterns, candles, rug. Then we go back to other door.

This room have big chest and sacks. Sacks full of shiny monster poo. Skeeter give baby dragon a red shiny poo again. Ghostface curse baby dragon again, Skeeter stab him again. Quint say chest is trap, says don’t touch or we lose all shiny poo. Scootch pout, but we go on.

Next door have a glowing, green floating skull and arms in it. Uh oh!

Drow Story – or How Spook Became Skeeter

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Everybody tired and sick. Margie made too big a dinner, everyone sleepy. Skeeter gettin restless. Tell us a story, they say. How bout drow? Okay, a story of stupid drow.

Drow things wicked and mean. They live in deep dark. Black like they skin, so they blends with the darkness. Outside match inside Mammy once said. No like other bigs, never can see bad on surface whole things. They look all kind and boring, til sword go through your guts. Whole things say we ugly and kill us for no better reason. Stupid drow only kill us if we in the way or make them mad. Stupid drow rather use us.

They came to see Tribe one day, tried to trade for workers. No one want to go with, til they threaten young ones. Group of men go with. Skeeter was still Spook then. Stupid drow not see him. They march for long time. Tribe-friends very noisy, make drow angry, easy to follow shouts and whips.

Drow not take tribe-friends to drow home. Take to big cavern full of spiders. Stone spiders, real spiders, drow spiders, glowing spiders, inky spiders. Spook not like it there, stay by entrance counting spiders. Don’t know words for how many.

Dirty drow take tribe-friends to big stone spider, tie em up and put them on table, like dinner. Spook scared. Drow eat goblins? Or they spider dinner? Too many spiders. Maybe drow fraid of spiders too? Drow lady shouting over table, others lighting fires, heating blades, shouting, too. Tribe-friends start screaming, spiders all get closer, Spook can’t watch.

Spook slip into room, start stabbing smaller spiders in back. Spiders at front too hungry, not notice. Spook keep stabbing, as tribe keep screaming. Why won’t stop screaming? Spook only see blood and death, spiders, drow and tribe. Spinning, whirling, then blackness all around.

Spook wake up, covered in blood. Spider blood. Spook blood. Dirty drow blood. Giant stone spider still overhead. Spook scramble away. Fall over, something wrong. Legs not work right. Can’t find feet. Where? What? Big spider on Spook! Get away, get off! Ow! Nononononono!

Spook wake up, still covered in blood. Don’t move. What happened? Spook flex fingers – works. Roll shoulders – works. Poke belly – works. Flex toes – toes? Not work. Legs? Yes, legs – too many legs. What? How? Spook have spider legs? Spider body under belly, too. Spook a goblin spider now.

Spook wake up, blood all crusted now. Still have spider legs. Gotta get outa here before turn into whole spider. Spook close eyes, fold up all legs, push upright with arms, legs under, slowly unfold legs. Okay, Spook standing. Spook open eyes, ground so far away. No, stay, no sleeping, gotta go. Walk is walk? One side then other? All together as one? Lift one side, Spook fall over. Ow! Try again. Spook fall down lots, but fall forward and out of room slowly. Figure out how to walk before fall all way home.

Spook get home, skin dark as dirty drow, too many legs and spider body. Many tribe run away from Spook. Fishface not scared. He laugh. Stupid Spook, got hisself turned into a spider. You a Skeeter now, Spook. Stupid buggy Skeeter.

Find drow someday, make pay for this, and for Tribe-friends. Stupid, dirty drow.