The Tale of The Paranormal Ghost Haunting

The Time Everyone Forgot about Egbert

It was a dark and stormy night, an unassuming night, the kind of night where anything can happen, and happen it did. Our heroes (I use that term loosely) happen upon the adventure of a lifetime, and possibly the end of their own lives. It all started days previous, fresh off one of their adventures, the gang hits up a local tavern and make way to a table. Prudence was the first to speak.

"I can't believe I made that guy explode" She said, mimicking the motion with her hands

"Can you not... do that at the table?" Dob said, inching away from her in his seat.

"I can control my powers, you know." 

They ordered drinks and the silence continued, they shot each other awkward looks in between the sips they would take, until the silence became too much for Corazón, who set his drink down on the table loudly and cleared his throat "Okay is anyone going to talk about..." he began

"No!" Merilwen and Dob said in unison

"But we have to talk about what happened back there, that was... weird" Corazón said

Corazón's words were of course an understatement, as what had happened mere minutes before they had arrived at the tavern were some of the strangest things that had ever happened to anyone.

"I choose to believe that what we saw didn't happen" Merilwen said softly "I don't believe in ghosts"

Dob's eyes widened and suddenly Corazón slammed his fist on the table

"I say we investigate, I say we ghost hunt" Corazón said "It's been a while since we've had an advneture"

"Are you serious?" Merilwen said, pausing in taking a sip from her cup to glance at him "We were literally just on an adventure"

"Yeah but I wasn't wearing my hat, doesn't count" Corazón leaned back in his chair with his arms behind his head. 

"Will you keep it down?" Prudence said in a hushed whisper "Don't tell the whole damn tavern that we saw a-"

"We didn't see anything!" Dob shouted so loudly that the rest of the tavern stopped what they were doing to see the source of the noise, several angry looking large men turned to see what the commotion was, a look of hatred and the need to drunkenly beat up the nearest person in ther eyes. 

"He's fine" Corazón said sheepishly, patting Dob on the back "He's just had too much mead"  Most of the patrons were settled down by this, but the group of large men continued staring at them for a while before returning to their drinks. 

"So anyway, I think we should do it. Our group could handle anything.. We have a pirate-"

"Debatable" Prudence said

"We have... a wood elf proficient in the bow and arrow, also sometimes she's a cat. I'm sure that'll be useful against a ghost" Merilwen took this moment to paw at the air as if to emphasise his point. 

"We have Dob, and I'm not sure how he can help but.."

"Hey!" Dob said, a hurt expression forming on his face "I can help" He sadly strummed a melody on his lute.

"Sure you can buddy, and I totally didn't pickpocket Prudence when we walked in here."

Prudence looked down and checked her pockets to find them empty "Son of a b-"

"What do you guys say? You in?"  Corazón leaned forward in the chair and slammed a fist down for dramatic effect "Let us begin the tale of The....Paranormal Ghost Adventure"

"That's a stupid name for an adventure" Prudence said, crossing her arms "And I want my gold back"

"Okay, the name isn't important. We'll get to it later" 

"What about my gold?" 

"I already spent your gold"

"How in the world could you have spent it, we just got here!"

Corazónheld up the cup 

"Uh, yeah. So, anyway. Hands in, kind of getting bored over here"

As the tiefling reluctantly placed her hand on the table, the others followed suit and so began a new adventure of the unlikely band of hereos. They finished up their drinks and left the tavern to prepare for the journey.  Several moments after they had been long out of earshot of anything said inside the tavern, Egbert storms in.

"Hey guys!" He said breathlessly "I'm sorry,  I almost didn't make it out of the creepy forest. There was a woman screaming in my ear the whole time.  She was mad. I almost got attacked by a wolf, I got a cut on my shoulder, my shield's broken and I think I might have sprained an ankle."

Suffice to say, Egbert drank alone.