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The voice went silent and I shut my eyes, for a moment all was still and I wondered if I had fallen unto a deep slumber, until, suddenly I heard it, the gentle and harmonious sound of birds chirping around me, I wiggled my toes and felt the cool grass beneath me. I took a few steps forward and slowly opened my eyes to look around, there it was, The Forest of Gleeb, I was home. While I could remember just moments before conversing with the indeterminable voice that had beckoned me across time and space I also felt like I had been here in this forest forever. I knew the names of all the creatures under the treetops, I knew that my brother Schleeb was here and that we had grown up in these lands together but that he too had travelled through places unseen from a former life to be here in this avatar, I knew the names of all of these lands under the stars, from the warm Plains of Anathor in the west to the cold Mountains of Iridil in the east.
Of immediate significance to me was The Dark Dell that lies on the northeast border between the forest and the mountains and I am greatly aware that me and Schleeb have a strange and symbiotic relationship with the lords that live within who are known as Eldritch Oddbod and Captain Longbottom and that despite what seems on the surface like a rigid dichotomy between us our fates are surely entwined and run adjacent to one another. They are the yang to our ying perhaps? The fire to our water? Regardless I know what my purpose was and is, to guard and oversee the magical safe-haven that is The Forest of Gleeb and bring forth the finest bards that have ever lived every Sunday from 6-8pm for the enjoyment of all the kindred spirits across the lands. Eldritch Oddbod and Captain Longbottom have got all of the more grotesque listeners covered in their Dark Dell
every Saturday night from 10pm-12am playing you the finest rock, prog, metal and grunge gods the realms have ever known! They are the dark and we are the light, together we bring balance as was foretold. Well, I’m afraid that’s it for now, story time is over, the sun has finally succumbed to the night and fallen into the west and I need to make my way back to the wizard’s cabin from the edge of the forest, the path before me is lit by the moonlight above piercing through the leaves of the trees and the faint glow of fireflies. All of the animals are asleep now and the gnomes can take over until the morning. I’d like to just say one final thing before I go, we’re only just getting started on our magical adventure here in our enchanted lands and I’m very much looking forward to welcoming you to our next show in… The Forest of Gleeb!
