theguy09
Evard's Tentacles of Forced Intrusion
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The hidden village of Eden had once been a peaceful village full of demi-humans and others who needed to start a new life somewhere away from the rest of Badaria. The founders were freed and escaped slaves who had ran from one place to the next, hiding from prosecution and the potential of being enslaved once again in the humanist Badarian empire. They were practically nomadic until they would find the county of Ulsha, located in the north-west of the empire, very close to the border with the deserts of Andur. The county was practically lawless because the 'noble' family in charge had made some very bad financial decisions over a long period of time, and with each decision, more and more of their power and influence over their own territory was flushed away until it got to the point most of the county's residents hated the Count and his family and openly ignored any attempts to rule by the family. The nomadic founders would find that they could hide deep within the county's largest and thickest forest, the Pellen forest, without fear of the nearby nobility hunting them down for easy slaves! It was in that forest that Eden was founded. Of course it wasn't totally safe, and shortly after Eden was founded, it's Guardian would appear in need of a place to give birth to the daughter that had been planted in her!
Kendra, the 5 tailed kitsune and Guardian that protected Eden would give birth to Ashlyn shortly after arrival. She raised her daughter in mostly peace, with only the occasional monster attack she needed to defend the others from. That is until a member of the village was caught in a tribal raid from Andur while they were out discretely buying supplies for the village! It seemed like the beginning of the end for the village when the tribal raiders attack, but thankfully Kendra fought them off... only for them to eagerly come again and again over the next few years, and Kendra wasn't perfect. Some raids were successful and villagers were taken away, and then the worst happened. Kendra was defeated in combat by a large, dark skinned warrioress who lead the raid! She was dragged off with many others that night, leaving the village with no Guardian and Ashlyn without her mother for the first time in her life...
It would only be Ashlyn stepping up to the title of Guardian that her mother had just left empty that had prevented total panic among the villagers. There was a strange pause in raids before the next came and in defiance to what some thought, it was not some giant attack that would finally finish off the village and put the rest of them in chains. No, this raid was strangely many times weaker than the last that had seen the defeat of their Guardian. Weak enough that even young Ash would be able to fend it off, calming much of the panic. Since then there has been no other raids and its been almost a whole half year since the last raid...
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ACT 1, Defiance
Early in the day, shortly after Ash had gotten up and eaten, she heard a loud knock coming from the door that sounded like wood on wood. When she opened it, she was greeted by the sight of one of the village elders, Lorn, his walking stick in one hand and the presumed source of the wood on wood knock. In a deep and worn voice that could only come with time, he spoke. "Ahhhhh, young Ashlyn. I am terribly sorry to bother you so early in the day, but... there is a problem you see that we need your help with." The old man stepped to the side, giving Ash a look out into the village and towards the wooden walls that did their best to protect the village. Using his staff, Lorn would point off past the walls and into the forest, and after a second Ash would realize he was pointing towards the abandoned mine that was near the village. "One of the young un's spotted something moving moving in the entrance to the mine, and we were hoping you would check it out and make sure nothin nasty took up root in there..."
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