Nieven silently cheered on his companion excited at their success so far, it was going so great. With Griffin’s great magic skills and his brilliant acting, there was no way they’d be stopped, not even an army of mud worms could hold a candle to their teamwork.



Nieven slowly walked toward the man and whispered, “Yes indeed, but then again that’s no surprise considering how excellent we are. Now come let’s try this thing again, I’m thinking I go into the hut to lure one of them outside, distract them with my charm and you knock them down. I’m sure we can continue or stealthily take over this compound if we just continue taking it easy and steadily”.



Nieven smiles as he places his hands in his disguise’s pocket and with a cough prepares himself. He then begins walking slowly there making his footsteps louder and more obvious laughing as he enters the hut. The sylvan elf tried to blend in acting like he’d already been here as he leaned against the wall taking a look at who he was with. The hut was small but still contained about three guards, a gnome, a human, and a fellblood all passing around a bottle of mead and laughing telling stories and inside jokes he didn’t find that funny but still fake laughed to blend in.


"Yes indeed fellow goons I remember that I was there and it was oh so funny hahahaha".

Griffin looked around quickly he felt a change a new [1]focus as the fire next to him crackled the flames started to lean his way. Griffin could feel himself drawing in the heat the flame into his core absorbing it all into himself. His body heated the sound of the moister in the air sizzling around him. His skin got tribally hot.

The Flame Sprite started to dance around Griffin as Fire Pixie showed herself. "Master Griffin, You called out to me I am here to aid you. My name is Embers" said the Pixie. She had red hair and looked to have a rose-petal dress on. The flitering orangish wings almost glowed as she hovered. Seeing what he was doing "Oh you unlocked a path to fire. That is great. Let me help you." said the flames appeared on Griffin as they were absorbed by Griffin boosting the fire magic even more.

He could hear what Nieven was doing. Griffin, Embers, and the Flame Sprite watched the hut closely. The fire was building in him. Turning his core and getting stronger. [2] Griffin draws forth the energies from the world around him, tapping into the other domains outside of his own. Fire then creates a medium-sized orb of raw fire magic in his hands. The orb built more dense as time went on.

There was a light coming from outside it looked like a raging fire. Before one of the men could even recognize Nieven. they started towards the door A rather large man looking to be the enforcers was first to get up. "What has he done now!" he said out loud. Then started for the door and walked out with two others. The men inside the hut yelled "Jackson Boss is going to kick your ass!" and then let out a drunken laugh.

As the three stepped out the large man was hit with two [3] bolts of fire in the chest he burst into flames his clothing burned brightly. [4] curley Griffin lunches his orb of fire hitting the enforcer in the stomach. The enforcer's body was being consumed by the flames and heat. The two men next to him started to catch on fire as the enforcer grabbed them for help. Then the man just screamed then fell to the ground his body still on fire.

[1]Endothermic Reaction
[2] Chromatic Blast
[3] Fire-bolt from Embers and Flame Sprite
[4] Conflagration

As Nieven continued to try to blend in and distract the guards inside the hut he noticed a large warm light outside. He simply stood by as the hut’s leader rushed towards the door worried some other guard had messed up something. The three mud worms proceed to walk outside with Nieven following a few feet behind, still trying his best to act like one of them.



“Indeed Jackson, our boss is gonna have it out for you for your lack of control of your minions. I’m truly going to get a kick out of it once he kicks you for being an insufficient leader, haha”, the Sylvan elf would remark trying to keep a light-hearted energy.



Quickly before Nieven could say anything else he watched as the three men who were once laughing and seemed incredibly intimidating were being bombarded with fire magic after fire magic.

Quickly he rushed away trying to avoid getting caught on fire by being close to them and yelling, “Oh goodness, great work there my friend. Seems like these goons are down for the count. I will say I’m simply surprised that your new firepower didn’t expect you to be this strong. However, it is to be expected to gain such power when you’re around Charon’s best and that would be me”.



Quickly some rushed movements would be heard as he spoke behind him the final batch of Mud Worms including the group’s leader would be standing now having the two of them in their sights.

"Oh no," commented Griffin. Looking at the Mud leader and some other men with him. Griffin was in trouble now. he had hoped that his fire display and torching some of the men would frighten them off. But it looked like Griffin was not going to have that type of luck. Griffin knew his luck had run out.

The Mud leader looked at Griffin drew his sword and started to run at Griffin. [1] "No, no, no," said Griffin with dread. Griffin stomped his foot on the ground. This caused a large slab of stone to rise out of the ground. making a rectangular wall made of earth. The wall is ten feet in height and five feet in width Just before the Mud leader got to Griffin. There was a thud when the Mud leader hit the wall running. dust and dirt fell from the wall form when the Mud leader hit the wall.

[3] Embers and the Flame Sprite peeked over the wall looking down at the man who now had a bloody nose from hitting the wall suddenly. The two Embers and the Flame Sprite smiled at one another then They both summoned a small mote of flames in their hands. A small basketball-sized ball of fire forms. launched a fire bolt at the man as he looked up getting hit by both basketball-sized balls of fire.

the man erupts in flame yelling in pain as major wounds develop across his body as he burns and tries to put himself out.



[1] Stone Wall
[2] Fire-bolt from Embers and Flame Sprite

[3] Conflagration

Mud leader on fire.

A nervous chuckle would escape Nieven’s mouth as he glanced around at the last batch of goons which had the pair of adventurers currently surrounded.



“Ehehehe, hey Griffin you wouldn’t happen to have some sort of incredible power that you haven’t revealed yet or something would you, my friend? Because if not I’m not exactly sure we’re supposed to bring these evildoers to justice. Well I mean I’m sure we can since I the great Nieven Castiel Oakenthorn am here but I’m not exactly sure how I’m going to crush them”, he’d so both a little frightened and at the same time genuinely delusional enough to think he could take a crowd of people at once.



A high-pitched screech escaped the Sylvan elf as he saw the bandit’s leader charge straight for his only companion.



“NOOOOOO PLEASE DON’T KILL US, I'm way to beautiful to die!”, only to find a large earth wall in front of them blocking their attackers off for a moment.



“Ha, take that scamps didn’t see a large rock wall coming now did you?”, quickly the little flame fellows that Griffin summoned seemed to get right to work and do their burning thing. He quickly rushes forward and drives his lance into the man’s abdomen trying to end this as fast as he could.

Hearing Nieven and his comment about Nieven being too beautiful to die almost made Griffin laugh. Nearly breaking his concentration. [1] Griffin now ignites the Mud Leader, with Conflagration. The Mud Leader will remain ablaze longer and hotter. The flames grew and were more intense. As the flames spread across the man's now charred body it.

[2] Griffin pulls forth the energies from the earth around him, tapping into the domain of the earth. Then created a medium-sized orb of raw magic fire in his hands. He then launched the orb of fire forth hitting The Mud Leader in the chest the man was engulfed in flames with the intensity of a furnace. The mud leader fell to the ground screaming as the air was filled with the smell of his burning body.

[3] Embers and Flame Sprite formed Fire bolts themselves and fired them at the Mud leader. The whole camp lit up from the light and intensity of the fire. Stopping the other Bandits froze and were horrified by what just happened as the man's corpse burned. the Mud leader was dead the major wounds the Mud leader had taken were too much.

The Bandits started to run into the swamp in fear. It was a horrible way to die. They did not want any part of that. Watching the leader die like that was horrifying to the Bandits. They did not want that to happen to them.



[1]Conflagration starts stacks 2
[2] Chromatic Blast
[3] Fire-bolt from Embers and Flame Sprite

Quickly Nieven would pivot his foot and spin around driving his lance through another one of the goon’s stomach piercing through his armor and knocking him down. He looked back for a moment to see the burned body on the floor, it was a strange thing to look at. For only moments ago that fellow seemed like he was about to kill them only to be left with a burnt body. Even the Sylvan elf couldn’t come up with a reason to feel bad about it and decided to shake his head and move on. Quickly he jumped back narrowly avoiding the slice of a dagger from another bandit. At this point, these fellows seemed desperate and fearful of their awesome power. He kicked the fellow in his shin and slammed his lance into the man’s shoulder knocking him down. Although his great power was indeed amazing he was begging to tire. Thankfully Griffin was here to assist in his greatness by using his amazing magic. With a little more fire work from Griffin, the rest of the bandits quickly ran in terror.



He let out a heavy breath recovering his energy as he chuckled, “Alright my friend it seems like the job is done now. The world is safer thanks to our heroic deeds and the virtuous Nieven and Griffin are to thank. Well, now I’ll be going to head back and collect my part of the reward. If you’d like to stay here longer, by all means, do your thing. I hope to see you again someday my friend, perhaps over some tea and cookies, my treat”.