Twenty intrepid yet hapless heroes gathered in the lee of the Faraway Leaf Inn. Their goal was to find and secure five magical relics. These relics had little power on their own but could be combined to generate an interdimensional portal. The most honored teller of stories had learned that Lord Maul planned to capture these relics for his own and to use the interdimensional portal to escape from Dragonwood and enter another realm where he could amass new armies for Maul Corp.
The heroes’ goal was to retrieve the relics, secure them safely from Lord Maul’s minions, and to cast a spell upon the relics to render them powerless, leaving them as mere inanimate objects.
The heroes set out toward the Mystical Isle, where three of the mystical magical mysterious relics were hidden. Tragically, Maul Corp had set out sooner and thus the heroes were not the first to uncover the three objet d’art. While Maul Corp celebrated their capture all three powerful precious ponderous commodities hidden on the isle, the heroes charged off towards the Dire Garden to collect the fourth contrivance — except for three particularly sneaky adventurers, who split off from the main group in an attempt to secure the fifth trophy of terror before Maul Corp thought to seek it out.
Unfortunately, a Maul Corp assassin spied the three brave souls slipping away from the main group, and suspecting a devious plot, the assassin followed them. Seeing that they were after the fifth relic, the assassin killed all three heroes and claimed the large luminous luscious artifact for Maul Corp.
Back in the Dire Garden, Maul Corp was also victorious, claiming the fourth relic which had been hidden within the Dire Garden. Opening the portal, Lord Maul jumped through with some of his officers and a grand scheme to amass a new army in a new realm.
Utterly defeated in their goals but not in their spirits, the twenty heroes decided their best course of action was to go celebrate friendship and honor with a cold drink and a sweet biscuit from the Faraway Leaf Inn. And to never speak of this day again.