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Intro. You remember back to that chance encounter in a back alley behind the tavern. Damn that barmaid and her ample cleavage. You never drink that much. You stumbled behind the tavern to relieve yourself in private. Once finished you hear light footsteps. You straighten your clothes and see a strange man. He talks about an ancient monastery with a fabled ruby mine. This ruby mine produces a fabled artifact that give the person in contact with it immense fortitude. He asks for the artifact to be retrieved for a substantial reward. He hands over a map and travel instructions. Drunkenly you agree and when you wake in the morning, map in hand, you realized it wasn't a drunken dream. Shaking off the cobwebs and rinsing out the dog poop taste from your mouth you slam a cup of coffee and follow the map. Weeks of travel later you see the ancient monastery in the distance and the abandoned mine opening at the base of the mountian. Inside the gem mine you see two eyes, glowing like quicksilver.

Keira (Little Dark One)

@Sumbish