It started off like any other day. Ace, Lydia, The Nameless, thief and rogue Theo Grim, Leo the Barkeep, Leahcim, The Solider, and The Elf gathered upon the grassy knoll to make their plans to seek out a magic portal to their forest hideaway.
They set out upon the path, accompanied by the pirate Vanessa Lockwood, daughter of Captain Hook and granddaughter (on her mother’s side) of Blackbeard, who was walking through the forest listening to mystical music. As the group neared the Spine of the World, the music became a scream and an iron snake crept up upon them and the group was torn apart in the ensuing confusion. Some fled past the Spine into the forests of Dragonwood while others turned back and sought out the portal beneath the Spine. After passing through the mystical portal, they were soon reunited with their comrades at the safety of their forest hideaway and took solace at the Black Hoof Tavern.
Grinan, an FBI agent from the future, had followed the adventurers into the forest, investigating reports of forest-based sword fighting that needed to be documented. His observations soon revealed that the sword fighters were paranormal with powers he hadn’t seen in anyone else before. He continued to spy as more study was needed.
Among those being studied was The Titan and his terrifying Earthshatter! The gates of Tartarus weaken every thousand years and are especially weak every million years, and so The Titan had managed to sneak out and had decided to join the adventurers on their quest.
Unaware of Grinan’s observation, Leo the Barkeep, was attending, as usual, at the Black Hoof Tavern, when it became apparent that The Nameless had been possessed by an evil spirit who quickly used his powers to seal the gateway into the forest hideaway and trap his former companions within their hidden sanctuary.
But then, a heat wisp took hold of The Nameless, confusing his mind and driving him from the forest where he wandered the paths unknowing and unseeing. Fortunately, this released the demon’s trap on the forest hideaway, and his friends and fellow heroes, frightened for his safety, quickly assembled a rescue party and headed out to find him, leaving The Titan and Leo the Barkeep behind in case he returned.
Three meddlesome travelers then broke into the sanctuary and captured The Titan and Leo. They were marching them back to Mortal’s End when the iron snake screamed again. In the confusion, The Titan and Leo escaped down Mud Hill, separating at the fork in the road to confuse their pursuers. Now alone in the woods, Leo foraged on, searching for The Nameless, unaware that The Titan and his captors were searching frantically for him back at Mud Hill. Leo eventually bumped into the Wise Woman of the Woods who accompanied him back to the Hopping Horse and his companions.
In the meantime, The Nameless had been found sitting quietly in the shade near Pigpimples Institute of Magic and Mayhem, now free of all demonic possession. Before the heroes could relax, Ace’s grimoire shrieked in alarm, alerting them to the plight of Leo. Before they had a chance to organize a new search party, the grimoire shrieked again, announcing that the Wise Woman of the Woods had recovered Leo and was bringing him to the grassy knoll.
The weary band then went to the Hopping Horse for a refreshing meal and then they held another tournament upon the Field of Reckoning where many limbs were severed and many heads rolled.