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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RobShanti" data-source="post: 6237511" data-attributes="member: 82745">Chapter 2:  Ogres for Hire! Rockbert the blue-skinned half-dragon White Wizard, Trinity the purple-skinned Rainbow Fairy, and Princess Aurora of Flame Castle followed the Fiume River north, and, along the way, found a tributary running low on water.  A man lay, weakened, by the river bank, starving and dying of thirst.  He introduced himself as Bennet and told Trinity that the tributary had been dammed and that his fellow villagers, in the neighboring village of Borgo, have not been able to grow food or carry enough water back to feed their families.  Trinity cast a levitation spell on Bennet and she and Princess Aurora brought him back to the village while Rockbert ran upriver to find the dam.  The villagers were surprised and frightened to see Bennet levitating into the village, but were pleased to meet Princess Aurora and her fairy companion. Meanwhile, Rockbert found the dam and saw that it was built with boulders and logs that were too numerous and large for even him to move.  He believed that it would take at least a few ogres to build such a thing, and knew there to be ogres living in the hills nearby.  He traveled into the hills to find them, and before long, spotted the smoke of a campfire rising from the hills.  Taking a position on a lofty hilltop, he spotted a trio of ogres below, eating an antelope.  He overheard them discussing what they were going to do with their gold that was given to them by the Goblins as payment for building the dam.  When the ogres’ conversation turned to raiding a nearby town, Rockbert jumped out of hiding with his sword and charged the ogres.  As they rose from their seated positions to engage him, Rockbert whistled his summoning spell to call for Trinity and Princess Aurora.  From the village of Burgo, Trinity and Princess Aurora heard Rockbert’s call and came running to help him.  Trinity used her pixie dust to levitate the ogres and hang them by their collars on the branches of the trees.</blockquote>

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