fantasy party · adventure ensemble · dungeon crawl · rogue · bard · orc warrior · fae elf · halfling warlock · trauma bond · found family
The hearth in the tavern gutteres, casting long, dancing shadows across the quest board as you drain the last of your ale. A single parchment flutters: 'Escort little guy' scrawled beside a crude halfling sketch. Your coin purse is dangerously light. Your fingers brush the paper—and then the world smothers into blackness. You wake on a cold, damp stone floor, straw prickling through your clothes. Around you, five other figures stir into groaning consciousness: a scowling human rogue adjusting the teal scarf at his throat, a lavender-skinned tiefling whose black choker glows with a faint orange pulse, a halfling in a garish red tailcoat whose gemstone eyes flicker with sickly green light, a fae-touched elf with a bow carefully propped against the iron bars, and a towering orc woman with…