Fort Silence: The Story so far

From the diary of Bendis Billingstone

How I came to Fort Silence

Paps had put his foot down. I had to go a-smiting, and that was all there was to it. Unfortunately it turned out to be rather harder than Paps had made out. In next to no time I was down to my last copper bits, and in desperate need of a job. It was lucky for me then, that I met and was employed by Elisabetta, Duke of Gnowsy on the 2nd Plateau of The Kingdom of New Elenna, as her new book-keeper. Better yet, she singled me out for education with the children of the estate; Zita Montdidier (Elisabetta's daughter), Rosario Antonio Sylvius (a blood relative of Zita's), Picci, Julien, Gigi, Betheas and Farce. And it turned out our tutor was to be someone rather important: Fabersham, once castle manager for the Platinum Dragons. Who, it turns out, are rather famous.

Our Lessons begin

Fabersham wasted no time. Before we knew it we were off on our first field trip to the Green Gnomish brewery, owned by another Platinum Dragon, a halfling lady named Dahlia Lightfingers. She greeted us, sent us all off to bed for the night, and promised to give us a tour the following day.

But things did not go as smoothly as planned. We were woken that night to find Zita suffering from a headache, brought on by a magical earring given to her by her Grandmother. The news was grim; the Montdidiers were under attack! And within minutes we were under attack ourselves; two assassins burst into our room. Within moments one of them was dead, and Fabersham along with him! We fled into the night, but not before we realised Farce had been left behind in our rooms, along with the razor toothed killer!!

Dahlia found us, and bade us return to Fort Silence. Farce, it seemed, was uncoscious but alive. We needed to get to safety as fast as possible. An so we fled. We rested overnight in a shed, searched the assassin (who Rosario had carried) and determined he was a member odf a group called the Obsidian Fold (or something of that nature), then travelled on the next day.

It wasn't long before our pursuers caught up with us. Three heartseeded attackers wearing black with red sashes ambushed us on the road back to Fort Silence. Betheas cut one to ribbons, and I was able to charm a second. The last soon fell, and we made our way back home.

But a grim sight awaited us. Fort Silence was in ruins. A group of heartseeded dwarfs atacked, but were swiftly cut down. Then a small groupof survivors brought us back to the house, only to announce they were the only ones who had survived.