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-===29 October 2007===
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-  Fire seared the sky as the dragon circled, driven by madness and the
-  promise of gold held deep within the dwarven tunnels.  Standing on the
-  battlements of the stone façade built over the entrance to the
-  fortress, Danrik the marksdwarf took aim at the evil target, his heart
-  thumping slow and steady.  He waited two more beats and pulled the
-  trigger.  An instant later a dozen marksdwarves let fly and a hail
-  bolts pierced the smoky air.
-  Most of the bolts bounced harmlessly away, but Danrik's well-aimed
-  missile found the monsters skull, shattering the brain.  The dwarves
-  cheered as the beast fell from the sky.  The smile fell from Danrik's
-  face as the great corpse fell closer -- it was coming right at them!
-  Dwarves climbed over each other, making for the stairs.  Other risked
-  jumping from the wall, breaking their arms and legs as they landed.
-  Danrik stood fast.
-  As the dead dragon slammed into the fortress's stone wall the dwarves
-  were flung into the air.  As Danrik flew, he damned the dragon with
-  all his might, his foul words ripped away by the wind.  With a sudden
-  crash, all went dark.
-===24 July 2008===
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-  "He's awoken," came the cry.  "He has awoken!"
-  Pain came as Danrik opened his eyes.  A crowd of gaudily-dressed
-  dwarves danced and sang in celebration of their hero.  It had been a
-  week since Danrik had fallen.  His comrades slapped him on the
-  shoulders.  One brought him a chalice of wine.  The dragon was dead.
-  Every day since had been a celebration, but with the awakening of
-  Danrik, the party had really begun.
-  The mighty warrior made his way out of the bedroom, supported by two
-  lusty dwarf women.  The masons were hard at work restoring the wall
-  that the dead dragon had crashed through.  The dwarf led Danrik to the
-  courtyard.
-  "Speech!" cried the dwarves, "Speech!"
-  "Oh," said Danrik, "Well…"
-  A dark shape appeared in the gap between the walls, large and
-  menacing.  The dwarves grew silent as it cast its glowing red eyes on
-  the dwarf hero.
-  "Yes," said the creature, "tell us how you slew the dragon, mighty
-  dwarf, how you saved the day!"
-===5 December 2009===
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-  Dwarf hero Danrik called for his battleaxe.  A dwarven squire ran to
-  him and put the weapon in his hand.  The dwarf held the weapon high,
-  but collapsed, steadying himself on the hilt.  The demon laughed.  It
-  had congealed into the form of a man wearing a dark cloak, horns upon
-  his head, a nightmare lord of the underworld.
-  “If this is the best you can you can do, you have clearly lost,” said
-  the demon lord.  “You will bring me one maiden every season.”
-  The nightmare lord looked over the cowering dwarves.  He pointed at
-  the gasping form of Danrik.  “Start with that one’s sister.”
-  Danrik watched helplessly as Andra, his lovely sister, was brought to
-  the demon’s side.  The creature put its hand on her shoulder and the
-  pair disappeared in a burst of blue flame.  Danrik howled with rage.
-  A squire ran up to him and bowed his head.  “We will find Lady Andra,”
-  said the boy.  “You can count on it.”
-  “What is your name, youngster?” asked Danrik.
-  “I am called Blackbeard,” said the boy.
-  “A strong name for such a small body,” said the hero.  “You can begin
-  the quest by fetching a dragon tooth from the ruins of the wall.  From
-  it we will forge a mighty shank to drive into the heart of the demon
-  lord.”
-  The squire smiled and bounded away into the rubble.  It was the
-  beginning of a hard recovery.  While the smiths worked in the forge to
-  create the ultimate knife, Blackbeard trained the hero to walk again.
-  When Danrik was able to put his fist through solid rock walls, they
-  knew they were ready.  Danrik put the dragon dagger Gotter through his
-  belt and stepped before the crowd.
-  “I go now to rescue Lady Andra from the pit,” said Danrik.  “The road
-  will be long and hard, to the fiery heart of the mountain and beyond,
-  to the land of the dead.  Who is with me?”
-  Blackbeard jumped up and down, raising his hand above the shoulders of
-  those around him.  Though it looked grim, a few brave adventurers step
-  forward.  It was not a question of whether they would reach the
-  underworld, for they must reach it.  They must reach Andra, and slay
-  her captors, for all great tales end this way.
-===25 December 2010===
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-  It is said that every great journey begins with a festival of
-  drinking, but Danrik wasn’t in the mood.  All he could think of was
-  that evil spirit with his sister and his soul burned with rage.  As
-  the others celebrated their bravery, Danrik strolled up the trail
-  toward Blood Mountain, kicking dirt clods as he went.
-  “You weren’t thinking of leaving without me were you?”  It was Blackbeard.
-  “Of course not,” said Danrik, placing a hand on the boy’s shoulder.
-  “Let those fools drink themselves silly.  We have a fair maiden to
-  save.”
-  Together, the two adventuring dwarves mounted their ponies and trotted
-  off into the darkness.  After a time the fires of the fortress
-  disappeared behind the rolling wooded hills.  It was not long before
-  they left the land of the dwarves and entered into the depths of
-  Haunted Forest.  No one knew what kinds of wicked spirits dwelt there
-  for few ever returned alive.
-  “Why must we enter this dark place?” asked Blackbeard.
-  “Blood Mountain lies on the other side of this forest,” said Danrik,
-  “and nothing will stand between me and Andra.  We rest here.”
-  “Here?” asked Blackbeard.  “Surely you could have picked a less creepy place.”
-  It was true.  Danrik had picked a dreadful place to camp.  Everywhere
-  the night birds, eyes of the enemy, were watching them.  The very
-  trees seemed to reach out to grab them.  Worst of all, they had laid
-  their camp on a kobold burrow.  Silently the creatures crawled from
-  their holes, armed with bone knives, ready to cut the heart out of any
-  poor fool.
-  “Did you hear that?” said Blackbeard.
-===05 February 2012===
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-  Andra cried out as the grubby little goblin whipped her again.  She
-  was locked in some sort of dungeon.  She couldn’t tell where for the
-  strange rough-hewn black rock was unknown to her.  She pulled at her
-  chains again.  One of them was loose.  Let me at that horned villain,
-  thought Andra, but this one will die first.
-  “Tell us, sister Andra,” said the goblin.  “Does it hurt?”
-  The links of the chain exploded as the dwarf woman yanked with all her
-  might.  The broken chain slapped the goblin upside the head, killing
-  it instantly.  She undid her other hand and stole the goblin’s keys,
-  escaping the dungeon, chain still attached.
-  The view outside was terrifying.  Pillars of fire rose up from lakes
-  of burning magma.  Andra found herself standing on the narrow ledge of
-  a black pyramid at the center of the world.  It seemed that she could
-  never escape this perfect prison.
-  Pulling the chain tight, the solution was obvious.  She would find the
-  horned king and force him to take her back.  Then she began to climb.
-  The top was further than it looked.  It seemed she had been climbing
-  for days, maybe for weeks.  Then she made the crest.
-  The scene was ridiculous, for there was Danrik holding a shank to the
-  demon lord’s belly while another dwarf was grappling him by the horns.
-  “I swear,” whined the demon.  “I don’t know where she is!  She must
-  have escaped!”
-  “Danrik!” cried Andra.
-  Danrik lost his concentration for a second and the demon slapped
-  Gotter out of the dwarf hero’s hand.  Blackbeard nearly flew over the
-  side of the pyramid as the demon bucked him off.  The creature ducked
-  just in time to save its life as Andra whipped the chain over its
-  head.
-  “The knife!” cried Danrik.  “It’s the only way to kill it!”

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