The Gay Adventures of Mercenary Mao, Milo the Good Wizard, Fint the Goblin, and Jamila al-Haman the Priestess.

In the port town of Mhowe did the Mercenary Mao meet Milo the Good Wizard. And the scoundrel Mao did take all of Milo’s pocket dollars and nickels for pickles. Seeking adventure the pair of Milo and Mao headed off towards the East. Word had come that a goblin was seeking adventure at a place called the Cypress Tower.

Far into the woods of Deepshadow in the Coeranys did the pair of Mao and Milo did find the wizard tower. The Cypress Tower, stand almost one hundred feet tall is an impressive structure in the otherwise lush woods. Once home to one of the Three Brother Mages; the Cypress Tower was given to Fint the Goblin for his years of steed-fast service to Rassan the Hasty.

Fint the Goblin is a fart away from level ten and thus being able to summon men-at-arms. But Fint the Goblin has started to employ a few servants until that time arrives. Fint employs an old crone to act as his cook and a lumberjack to clear some ground for him. The old crone and the lumberjack are to live in the Cypress Tower until Flint returns from adventuring.

Milo and Mao are welcomed by the Fint the Goblin; Fint expresses his delight in finding a wizard to accompany him on his adventures. Fint introduces Mao and Milo to the Priestess Jamila al-Haman. This would be the core of the adventuring group lead by Fint the Goblin.

Now someone would have normally found this grouping very odd. Having a lawful goblin wanting to form and lead a group of adventures is odd. Having a character like Mao; who seems very powerful but more importantly not one of this world. The others might just be too nice to ask such questions or many they think Mao is from a foreign continent or a mix of Rjuik and Vos. Milo the Good Wizard seems a little too trusting, a little too good. And then there is the Priestess Jamila. What kind of priestess is she? Again, the others are maybe just to nice to ask why Jamila does not seem to call out to a particular god or carry holy symbols of her faith.

The four adventures head out to the Iron Peaks in search of experience and treasure. But each had their own motive for traveling. Maybe Fint and Milo just needed experience to progress in their respected professions but both Fint and Milo would be undone by the conflict between Mao and Jamila. Over the course of several weeks our party of four adventurers would encounter murderous monsters, fantastic locations, new plant and animal species, and even extra-planar creatures.

And this is what would be the undoing of the adventuring party dear reader. Jamila al-Haman was really a Bird Maiden. A one power, two toughness flyer for one red and two colorless, the Bird Maiden needed some helping fighting the Cat Warriors (a two-two forestwalk for three). The Cat Warriors where really Tabaxi, a species of leopard/jaguar people created by the Bloody God Zaltec. The Tabaxi where placed on Birthright to bring honor and power to Zalter. The Bird Maiden was dispatched by the forces of good to see what was up with that.

Now Jamila was firmly set in her task and after an encounter with a Tabaxi Hunt (that is a group of Tabaxi warriors out in a hunting party) that our adventuring party of four were to try and track down the Tabaxi Lair. But why didn’t Jamila detect Mao as a cleric to not one but two evil gods? Maybe it was the dark blessing of the New Dragon God that protected Mao from Jamila. Maybe Jamila just had a one-track mind set to finding the Tabaxi.

So our adventuring party of Mao, Milo, Flint, and Jamila would raid the Tabaxi Lair and confront the mysterious and powerful Tabaxi Lord. And this dear reader is when Mercenary Mao decided to strike and show his true colors as the Witchhunter Mao. Before the untimely and ill fated death of Captain Holocaust; the Avatar of Duke Nightmare would complete several missions for the now missing dark god. One such mission Captain Holocaust was assigned was protecting the Royal Flush Gang – Clubs.

So when our adventuring party encountered the Tabaxi Lord and all seemed hopeless for the mortal adventurers; Mao summoned Captain Holocaust to turn the tide of battle. Captain Holocaust easily avoided or outright resisted the Tabaxi Lord’s spells. Thinking the battle had turned, Jamila revealed herself as a Bird Maiden. But all that revelation did was reward Jamila with a smack from Captain Holocaust.

All in all; Fint, Milo, and Jamila would be subdued and the Tabaxi Lord left very much impressed by Captain Holocaust’s power. Witchhunter Mao and Captain Holocaust would then speak of their dark gods: Sepiroth the Lich, the demi-god known as Deth, Duke Nightmare, and of course the New Dragon God. The Priestess Jamila and Milo the Good Wizard would be put to death on an altar to the Tabaxi Lord’s dark god Zaltec.

In time the Tabaxi Lord would become a trusted go-between for forces of the New Dragon God and Zaltec, the Blood Hand. Eventually emissaries for the New Dragon God will have to travel to meet Zaltec, the Bringer of War and Eater of Hearts. The High Cleric Kareem’s imps can find out information like: Zaltec killed his mother and fights and endless war with his brother Qotal, the Feathered Dragon. The imps bring other information like how Zaltec alternates his time between realms in the Abyss and Carceri. In the Abyss Zaltec rules Teotli Itec; nine laers of chaos, blood, ice, and fire. In Carceri Zaltec maintains Zompantli, the Palace of Skulls, on Cathrys the second layer of Carceri.

What will become of this dark alliance between evil gods of different dimensions? First an alliance between the Tabaxi on Birthright and the Gnolls of the Iron Peaks to be lead by Captain Holocaust (fake edit, read as: Mao FeTor). Second the dark god Zaltec will grant druid powers to followers of the Church of All’s Oaken Grove Sect as long as Zaltec gets his favorite sacrifices: the heart of a captured enemy taken from the live victim on an altar to the dark god. And that dear reader is how they say just the tip of the iceberg.