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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brain" data-source="post: 2144735" data-attributes="member: 20995">The continuined saga of Bob the BatBob the bat flew off into the jungle, not caring where he was going.  He clutched the wand in his little feet tightly and flew faster and farther than he had ever gone before.  He made his way out above the jungle canopy and into the (now) night sky.  All of a sudden he snapped out of it as he detected a large creature in the sky nearby.  Oh no!  That thing is huge!  Dive!  Bob’s survival instincts took over and he flew back down into the jungle.  He escaped, but was feeling very tired and needed to rest.  By chance, he found an abandoned bird nest and settled inside it to sleep for the day.Panic struck as he felt himself being pulled by something large.  He was helpless in the creature’s grip, and it was crushing the life out of him.  Then the sound around him changed in quality and became distorted, and he felt the cold clammy mud rise up to embrace him.  Oddly, he wasn’t concerned for his own welfare.  He felt an urgent need to escape in order to help his friends!  But alas, he could not do anything, he could protect no one.  A bright light flashed and with a jolt, Bob awoke from his dream.  That was how my friend Timothy felt, Bob came to realize.  He was a good friend.  I never had friends before Timothy.  I just knew that there were others like me and that we lived together in a big cave.  But when I went to Timothy, He taught me how to be friends.  But now he is gone, and I don’t know what to do.  His stomach told him what to do soon enough, and he went off in search of some insects to eat.  He found them easily.  That’s one good thing about the jungle, there are plenty of insects.  He longed for a cave to live in, and headed towards the mountain range in the center of the island.As he flew back east, he remembered an unpleasant encounter with a group of gnolls that had wanted to eat him.  Fortunately, the gnolls took the land shark thing as food instead.  This memory made Bob angry, and he decided to go make the gnolls respect bats and not eat them anymore.  A few days and a few well-placed Lightning Bolts later, Bob had his revenge and then returned to the mountains to find a good cave to live in.He found a cave with some other bats in it, but it was strange.  He couldn’t talk to them on the same level he could talk to Timothy, and their company no longer comforted or pleased him.  He moved in to another smaller cave and found that he had a lot of time to think about things and ponder existence.  He tucked the wand away in a crack in the cave and decided that he wouldn’t use it again unless he was in dire trouble.After a time, he became aware of a person who was living nearby in another cave.  The person was short and wide like Timothy, but not quite the same.  This dwarven druid realized that Bob was special and befriended him.  Bob was glad to have someone to talk to, and decided to help his new friend protect the balance of nature.  There were unnatural things in the mountains, and together maybe they could make a difference.So there's my vision of what happened after Bob flew off into the jungle.  Who knows, maybe Bob becomes a druid himself under the tutelage of the dwarf.</blockquote>

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