(week 8) Help! It's gonna eeeaat me!!!

Well I was just minding my own business waiting in line to get some of my coins exchanged when a the most rude chest approached. Can you believe it? He was demanding payment. All I could think about was trying not to faint from the smell every time its lid of a mouth opened up to speak. I drew my weapon and screamed in my most helpless sounding voice "Help me, oh please help me!".

Just then a small group of adventures approached and together we defeated the vile horror. I then introduced myself as Zob the Scout and inquired as to whether they might be looking for additional adventurers, as I was seeking adventure. They accepted me with nothing more than a nod, and off we went.

Together we traveled out to small town under the instruction we received in a note from Charles D. Ward, a wizard not well liked by the party. I have never met this Charles, so I will reserve judgement until I know more. When we arrived in the small town, we found a odd of group people. They called themselves the defenders of the passions or some such drivel, and informed us that they were looking for one last member to complete their group of 9. We, unfortunately, were not allowed to join their little club. Now I was happy as a clam to not be invited in and instead enjoyed simply watching from a distance. The elf smelling of horse dung challenged the whole group to a drinking contest and they happily agreed to the challenge, but it must wait untill tomorrow. There was more talk and the mention of a map and key was made. Learning all that we thought we could, we headed off to our room for a little shut-eye.

When we arrived at the room, the annoying elf made it clear that he wanted to steal the map and key while the 8 slept. The party decided that was not the correct move, and instead we all headed to bed.

The next morning we made our presence known downstairs only to find that one of the 8 had left on an errand and had not returned. The next day another left and again did not return. This happened over and over until the 8 was a mere 3. We tried searching for several of the missing folks but came up empty. At that point the annoying elf and I made our way into their room and looted their locked chests. We found some money, a map and a large key.