theguy09
Evard's Tentacles of Forced Intrusion
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It had been an entire week since the attack on the village. Aria had spent that last week mourning the lost and making graves for all of the dead. It was a hard week, a nightmarish week even. One piece of knowledge did help to keep the nightmares and despair at bay though, she had found some tracks while gathering the bodies. There were obviously tracks everywhere after the battle, but these ones caught her eye because it looked like someone had been dragged away from the village… and they had put up a struggle, meaning they were alive when they were taken! There was the chance that some of the villagers were still alive out there, wherever there was!
Armed with this knowledge, the ancient sword, and the will to avenge her people and honor, Aria prepares herself to leave the village, and enter the true outside world! Before she left though, she took one last walk through the rubble of her own home. She didn't know what had compelled her to do such a thing, maybe she wanted to see it one last time before leaving her previous life, or something else was guiding her. Just as she was about to leave the house, a piece of the wall nearby to her crumbled away, revealing what looked to be a book? Aria never remembered seeing a hidden hole in the wall, nor her parents mentioning it before. Compelled by curiosity, Aria approaches the book and picks it up, flipping it open Aria instantly recognized the handwriting. It was her Father's!? It looked to be a journal, with the first page only having the quote, “To a victim, the assailant and a third party are no different. People are no better than the assailant if they didn't try to help.” The quote was probably important to him in some way.
Flipping to the next page, Aria finds it blank, as well as the next page and the one after that. The Journal was blank other than that one quote? Feeling that she was missing something, but not having any way to find it, Aria stashes the book away into her backpack. With no reason to stay any longer, Aria takes one last look at the village and then takes her firsts steps on her adventure!
Aria spends the next few days traveling on paths among hills and going off path for when she met an obstruction. On that third day, her stomach was grumbling and complaining to her about its hunger constantly! She had run very low on food, not knowing how to ration for herself was turning out to bite her right in the butt! She had a general idea of the direction of where a nearby town was, but she honestly had no concept of how close she was to it. Without that knowledge, Aria decided she would have to try and hunt some food for herself. Aria heads off the path, and into the forest, looking for food.
Not even 10 minutes into her search, does Aria hear a scream from somewhere close to her! Rushing to the source, Aria sees a High Elf girl, roughly her own age, crawling backwards from three wolves!
Armed with this knowledge, the ancient sword, and the will to avenge her people and honor, Aria prepares herself to leave the village, and enter the true outside world! Before she left though, she took one last walk through the rubble of her own home. She didn't know what had compelled her to do such a thing, maybe she wanted to see it one last time before leaving her previous life, or something else was guiding her. Just as she was about to leave the house, a piece of the wall nearby to her crumbled away, revealing what looked to be a book? Aria never remembered seeing a hidden hole in the wall, nor her parents mentioning it before. Compelled by curiosity, Aria approaches the book and picks it up, flipping it open Aria instantly recognized the handwriting. It was her Father's!? It looked to be a journal, with the first page only having the quote, “To a victim, the assailant and a third party are no different. People are no better than the assailant if they didn't try to help.” The quote was probably important to him in some way.
Flipping to the next page, Aria finds it blank, as well as the next page and the one after that. The Journal was blank other than that one quote? Feeling that she was missing something, but not having any way to find it, Aria stashes the book away into her backpack. With no reason to stay any longer, Aria takes one last look at the village and then takes her firsts steps on her adventure!
Aria spends the next few days traveling on paths among hills and going off path for when she met an obstruction. On that third day, her stomach was grumbling and complaining to her about its hunger constantly! She had run very low on food, not knowing how to ration for herself was turning out to bite her right in the butt! She had a general idea of the direction of where a nearby town was, but she honestly had no concept of how close she was to it. Without that knowledge, Aria decided she would have to try and hunt some food for herself. Aria heads off the path, and into the forest, looking for food.
Not even 10 minutes into her search, does Aria hear a scream from somewhere close to her! Rushing to the source, Aria sees a High Elf girl, roughly her own age, crawling backwards from three wolves!