Story synopsis for Spring LARP #9 (2018)

Since that dreadful day when Lord Maul opened the portal to the other dimension, the heroes have been waiting for a chance to strike back against Lord Maul and his evil Maul Corp. Due to disagreements within the heroes, four of them have left the group to form another alliance elsewhere. There were only seven heroes left to stand against the Maul Corp soldiers. But those remaining heroes were waiting for the day that Maul Corp would come back in bigger numbers. They were training and they were getting stronger and stronger until anyone who dared face them would surely lose the battle.

But those training battles were always fair in numbers. The heroes had never faced a battle against twice their numbers or battled against beings from another dimension. That is why they had trained — because they knew they wouldn’t be able to face Lord Maul and his otherworldly creatures unless they were well prepared.

And so the strongest of the heroes remained and waited. Then one day while they were sleeping, one of them heard the portal open and thus the war commenced.

The eleven Maul Corp minions stepped out from the interdimensional portal onto the Mystical Isle. They quickly got into formation and charged across the Somber Footbridge. However, being evil and thus disinclined to cooperation, they soon broke ranks so as to move faster individually. Lord Maul’s minions charged ahead, heedless of the disarray within their ranks and shrieking evilly with bloodlust. They descended upon the hapless heroes gathered near the Iron Stables. Despite the ferocity of their charge, Lord Maul’s minions were forced back by a Knight carrying a massive shield and a small pistol and by a Berserker carrying two swords who was so powerful that a normal battle strike could not fell him.

Then these two heroes began to retreat backward, luring the Maul Corp legion after them. Thinking the heroes were leading them to their base of operations, the Maul Corp soldiers pressed their presumed advantage until they arrived back at the Somber Footbridge. There, the Berserker once again engaged them in battle, distracting the bloodthirsty members of Maul Corp while his Knightly friend retreated stealthily towards the Field of Destiny. Suddenly, the remaining heroes rushed forward from the Field of Destiny, lead by the valiant Knight. The entire Maul Corp legion was swiftly slaughtered.

Before they could congratulate themselves on their bravery and general awesomeness, a frantic fleeing peasant came upon them and told the heroes that some Maul Corp agents were destroying her nearby village. The heroes quickly gathered up their arms and rushed off to towards the village where they found it had been utterly and evilly destroyed. In righteous anger, they set out to destroy the minions of Maul Corp again. However, on the way to battle, they encountered three giant warriors. The giants declared that if the heroes could defeat them in a duel, they would join the heroes on their quest for revenge. The heroes, of course, defeated the giants handily and together they hunted down the Maul Corp agents and killed them

Unfortunately, as the final Maul Corp agent lay dying, with his last breath he whispered to one of the giant warriors a promise that if the giants would instead fight for Maul Corp, then Lord Maul would reward them with unfathomable riches.

The monstrous warriors then turned and attacked the heroes, who knew of the power that greed held over giants, so they quickly promised the giant both riches and honor if they helped them defeat Maul Corp agents instead. The giants agreed and the heroes and giants parted ways to go hunt down more of the Maul Corp legion.