DM Notes
The wayward wanderers travel with the monster hunter Sebastian to a small inn, in a small farming hamlet. Along the way the spy signs announcing a one night only event happening. Lovejoy live and in person. Lovejoy speeds into the Inn the rest of his companions hot in pursuit of the enraged bard. Lovejoy and Thorry try to find the imposter, while Donavich finds some fake gold coins in the back room used by the fake love joy. The rest of party gets drinks and awaits the “show”. The crowd swells the two floored tap room, the air is charged with energy. With a crash magic sparks flow from the ceiling and a pillar of purple smoke decends onto the stage. The fake love joy has arrived at last. The crowd goes wild as he begins to set up his first song. Lovejoy and Thorry push and squeeze themselves through the crowd. Lovejoy curses a name as he pushes ever closer to the stage and the man sullying his good name. “Dirkwood Hammersmark” Lovejoy screams out above the start of the song….the bard on stage flinches back from the name as his eyes meet those of a fuming Lovejoy.
Month: March 2016
The Complete Works of Lovejoy
- You Must Buy Your Wife at least as Much Jewelry as You Buy Your Other Wife, and Other Musing on Marriage and Life on the Great Caravan
- Hiding Amidst the Highbeards
- Dalliances in Durin
- Little Known Recipes of the Southern Realms
- Hop Upon my Steed: Nights in Her Lady’s Service
- Dark Dances in the House of Daggers
- Starshine: The Poems
- Ecstasy
- Is This My Blood?
- Fall Upon My Sword
- Melanie/ The Honeydew Twins/ Lady Dubious/ Bless You, Broomhilda/ Abigail Upon the Moors/ Anastasia/ Follow Me, Maria Free
- Shameless in the King’s Forest
Dirkwood’s Regret
Wisps of violet smoke undulate unctuously downward, splattering upon the worn and battled boards of the stage, building and reshaping into a bloated, desperate vagabond, Dirkwood Hammersmark. He stands in my shadow, claiming my name, and staining my reputation. These are his regrets:
Mancy’s Lament
…Scourge-light dappled tresses draped delicately over firm yet feminine shoulders, hardened by years willfully carrying her master’s burdens. As she turned to face Sir Reginald, she wondered: could she bear the weight of watching her venerable master shame himself as a broiling rage overtook him? In the tenebrous temple depths, she stood transfixed, bewildered by Sir Reginald’s nightmarish wrath, felling friend and foe in equal measure. Mancy was an armored rose wilting in war. Fear stayed her only for a moment, when a love born from years of unconditional service ultimately ignited her every muscle forward. Mancy braved a plague of animated mechanical defenders and lithely dodged ravenous green flames aiming to devour everything they touched in order to reach her master. With strides untouched by time, Mancy stood before Sir Reginald, eyes wet, pleading in riotous silence. His face alive with unnatural vibrancy, as if his demonic rage burned away the lines earned through time and victorious pursuit, stared unmoved. One beat, two beats…Sir Reginald’s blade struck tried-and-true, unwavered by air, by steel, by flesh or by viscera. The incipient meeting of blade and blood seemed to awaken knowledge buried beyond Sir Reginald’s eyes; for as his thrust plunged deep into Mancy’s chest, his face once drained of emotion was inundated with the weight of all human suffering. He let go of the sword. Fully lucid, Sir Reginald succumbed to the realities of his rage and the consequence it bore. The last thing he ever knew was the shame of his betrayal, and Mancy’s last thought was years of dedication built a home scorched by its muse.
– Benjamin Lovejoy
GAME 10: Into the Dragon’s Den
DM Notes
The party finds escape with the use of their magical blue key. Alas it isn’t in time to save Sir Reginald, Grogmar, and Torment who fought valiantly to hold off the powerful Scourge. With tomb in hand they head back to the Dark Lady who reunites Thorry with his friend Cecil. She then asks them to travel north to find a magical lens hidden within a cave off the northern most shores of Durin. The party uses their magical mirror to travel close to the cave. As they come out of the pocket deminsion they meet two travelers on the road. A cook by the name of Donavich and a Dwarf craftsman cleric named Balfar. The two new additions help the party find the cave they seek. As they are about to decend they meet a strange man with a funny accent who they find out is a monster hunter. He claims to be hunting a dragon. They party agrees to become his apprentices and they follow him into cave and help defeat the dragon and its offspring. Now they follow this strange monster hunter to meet with a man he works for by the name of Ellsworth.