what we''ve been told by our people and anybody around town. These children seem to be absolutely terrified. But the three of them together. I also. heard they''re strong and they have their own house and I. like all the things I seen what''s going on?


    The mayor, his entire personality just changed. And it wasn''t that he went colder or anything like that. His looked at the dwarfs and he said, we''ve adopted them because they had no one else. If you.''re gonna screw with that, then the whole town will have an issue with you. If. you want to make this better, then maybe you can explain to me why they''re so afraid we can''t even get that out of them. And they are terrified of every. thing until they''re not. They are some of the most fearless dwarves we''ve ever met. But when it comes to social **** they are just gotten nothing.


    As the mayor tried to tell them the story, the dwarf cut him off and said, we now about the grave, or maybe not the grave in the forest and all that jazz. Where do they come from? And the mayor just said, literally, one day they showed up in count. We don''t even know where they came from before that. But they picked this town as their new home. And then they bought themselves a mine. And the two dwarves had. no clue. I mean, absolutely no clue that these kids already owned a. owned a mine. Oh, and the mayor cut it into actually technically because they are not. registered with us. They don''t own the mine. Larry does, but somehow Larry gave them the deed so until I have that deed back whoever owns that deed owns the mine and Larry says it''s theirs when they turn of age until then, he is holding it for them now. Do you understand why Larry did this and why Larry''s going through all this trouble for them


    The younger the Tudor is still not learning his lesson, piped up. But this time, what he said was, sometimes the truth comes from the mouth of Babes.


    Are you telling me they have their own horde already? Then the young one was always at tears, realizing that these three got **** **** but they simply got their own horde. They were home. They made their hope.


    The older dwarf seed, the younger one, almost crying. One tear, one load tear fell from the old dwarf face and the bear sought. The bear just nodded. The old dwarf just smiled. and the mayor was about to put down Larry''s piece of paper, but the dwarf at the same time almost did the exact same thing and put down the piece of paper that they had brought on the two of them looked each other. They each took a piece of paper and they handed to each other and they read it as they started laughing at the dwarf started howling and he said, I think we''ve been playing here and the Bears like Yup. I think we got played here by Larry and the boys. but the bear was super happy and the dwarfs were super happy to fight another class come back through the dead So by Dorman law it would take a lot to be at those boys out of their clans now hoard.


    But cold pragmatism kicked in on the old dwarf, and he went right to. the money and he thought about he goes OK before we go any farther How and what is going on with their money and how are they buying stuff and selling stuff if they don''t come into town?


    The mayor just smiled and said the cities bank has already accepted coal and other things from the kids, and they already have enough to survive a year of food, tools and booze, and the three of them together when he said that the 2 dwarves just smiled because of the three things that dwarves need a job, food and some way to unwind. So for now, it was acceptable, and the town was gonna take care of them. And a **** murderous **** that has spawned for these kids is gonna protect them. A **** great church member is their **** guardian.


    About 30 minutes later, the merit already cracked open the alcohol and handed out drinks to the dwarves. The assistant came in, looked them over and was waived in by the mayor. The mayor said, we''ve agreed on all the steps here and the only thing we have to do is get the officer here to open an account with the city so that we can transfer money to the king in return. in return for paying the taxes properly because dwarves doesn''t matter where in the world they are, have to pay taxes to their king as tides to keep their royal names and their clandings. There is also back taxes that probably have to be paid if the kids are to have it perched from the system as indebted or if there''s something wrong.


    The two dwarves in the marriage didn''t even notice the secretary, the assistant. She had a little box no bigger than a foot by 1/2 a foot. It was a little jewelry box, but it really, really basic wood. Super not noticeable. in her hands. She just kept it hidden under her arm until the right moment


    The dwarf looked at the mare, took a coin out of his pocket, flicked it to him. The mayor took a piece of paper, wrote bank number on it, signed it. The dwarf signed it, and they had one gold coin in the bank for the Dwarven King. Now, the older of the dwarfs looked over at the young one and said, what''s the how old is the. dissolvation of the one of the 2 clans and the one of the two was what got the mayor''s attention right there, cuz they were ready to pay the taxes. They would, of course, know it coming here, looking for it.


    Now this is what kinda got weird, because the dwarfs kinda grabbed at the collar and said, well, we actually found a clerical error in the paperwork, and we don''t. know which one the boys want. Fire and coal or coal and fire, but they''re technically both belong to them. One was annihilated, and the other one was just dispatched because the heads were gone. So we think the children are of the house staff, we think. We just don''t know. There wasn''t very good records when they let them go. They just gave them money and let them go. And then the kids showed up. So we don''t know, like we can''t even find any of the people that used to be part of the clan taking care of the clan. It was. screwed up pretty bad. So now that we know that there is actual people and we don''t have to chase down ghosts, we''re just going to go back and tell them that they''re around and we''re going to have them fix all the paperwork and then we''ll come back and everybody was super happy with that. But then. that brought up the taxes. Is it going to be taxes on two clans


    The old man was about to just say, no, no. And then he stopped. And he went, well, what if that is actually a possibility? The clients technically not dead, so they closed it illegally well. The other clans got money in the bank account, but you can''t use that on the other clan to fix the taxes. So how do you get taxes? So, huh? That little bit uncertainty through not their plan into disarray, but was perfect for the mayor''s plan. Well, their plan


    The mayor put up his hand to get the attention of the old dwarf who had kind of gone into limbo and talking to himself, thinking about this problem, and just said, well, we may have a solution, but we''ll need the king''s permission. Would you be willing to consider a trade, something that we have here in town that we could trade for paying the taxes if you were to take it back with you? Also, a gift for the king at the same time? It''s kind of like we''ll give you something kind of important.


    The dwarf was not expecting this and was well taken aback Was a nice way of saying he was wasn''t hostile at all. It was like, wow, I always love something like that. What would you be talking about?


    The marriage just put up one finger and said, as long as you don''t ask where we got them from. and you understand why. Once you see what we have for you ok?


    The dwarf was getting a little nervous doing what the hell you pulling out. You''re gonna try and stab me, or something like, what''s going on here? Like something is weird and the young one was just totally confused. He was just kind of trying to figure out what the heck was going on.


    The mayor and his assistant''s eyes met, and she emerged into the box in their hand. And the black cloth in the other hand that she had brought


    The mayor walked over to her gently. removed the box from her hands and put the black piece of cloth over his right arm as if he was a major DA at a restaurant and said, Sir, I''d like to offer you what''s in this box. But what he did is he walked up to the dwarf and just gently opened it up on the dwarf''s eyes, met the two jewels on the other side in the weird little piece of glass in the middle and was like, 0 those are beautiful. But the question, the thing in the middle that was being so plain and why was there a piece of glass there? It took about five seconds for that little piece of glass to get the right amount of light to start up. But the moment it did, the two jewels on the either side start getting a glow as the light was reflected through the glass onto the gems And, oh, that made the two. dwarfs kinda tilt her head. They they knew what that was, but that wasn''t. something wasn''t right here. They it couldn''t be what they were thinking was. So the mayor gently closed the box and he said, gentlemen, I''d also like to let you know that one of the properties of one of the two gems in there take a look and he said put this over your head and reel from the box and they put the piece of cloth over and said so black on the light and then they open up the box. Whoa what? the hell there was a test to prove that magic glass, which is a naturally occurring magical material and how it works.


    What the mayor just did was the full test. You take a magical gem, you put it next to the glass, you put light through it. That glass then charges that gem. You then close the light and you show that the magical light coming off the gem is enough to even recharge itself with the globs. The more it recharges, the better the glass. The perfect glass I''ve ever registered was 101%. You actually got more energy out than you were burning. So if you just put it around, put it somewhere, it would recharge even in the dark. That''s also the most deadly, because that means it never stops charging, which it could explode then, if not drained enough. And that actually did happen to that one.


    So when they saw that one. door looking with the cloth over his head as the light started to increase. He paused, stuttered. And then before anybody could say anything his hand had come up into that case and taking the two gems out. He then closed it. Ray almost on his nose by doing this. And then kind of. took the cloth off his head and the merit pulled back the box at that point. And the door. and the door looked over at the mayor with his hand out and he dropped the gems in with the dwarf out in the mayor''s hand. And the mayor didn''t understand what was going on.


    The dwarf was super angry, and I mean super **** furious. He had just **** over his own clan, not realizing what he had just signed, because he just realized that if this is real and this came from this town, the kids may have found a day of super magic glass, super strong, super powerful, and to get them out of the horror, they have to pay for it. They didn''t have enough money to pay for this stuff. This stuff was, you get, like, a small piece every 50 years And they had a piece of size of a dice in their hand here, and they were sending it as a gift of the king to pay his taxes. It wasn''t until the mayor was holding open his hand, and he saw the other two gems the moment the light reflected them. Something inside of them didn''t change, but it was almost like a little engine that started on these gems. We''re giving off a nice blow to them. And the mayor holding them was kind of startled because, well, they had never seen this happen. The gym is before, but other than when you use them in a staff and you channel magic through them. So the dwarf right there took the box from the mayor leaving the gems with the mayor.


    He was now holding this box to his chest. The old dwarf, and he just scowled at everybody, realizing how screwed this deal had just gotten into kids favor. He didn''t know what emotion to feel other than anger that he was played so much. But then after a couple of seconds, he calmed down took a deep breath and said, we gotta go and talk to the king. We will be back. And with that, it got up, walked out and he. stopped, looked back at his assistant and said, grab those pieces of paper, make sure you get copies before we leave town.


    Describe that was there, his magical ability was one that allowed him to copy stuff. He had to actually write it out, but he had almost like a photographic memory for copying stuff. It was part of the Magic, but it made it a lot easier. So the old dwarf. headed out on the young dwarf stayed there, finishing up copying of the documents and then ran back to their end to go meet up with the older dwarf who had already packed up everything, got horses ready and literally they did not like horses, big horses, but they were getting too big horses and they were going to ride all night. all night long and they were going to get back to civilization very quickly and get to the king side as soon as they could. They weren''t going to stop if they had to. Yes, it was like 4 to 5 days to get back but maybe they can make it in three if they use the big horses. They really hated these huge horses


    Once that young dwarf left, the mayor and the assistant bailed right down to the vault. and showed Murphy the two gems that were still in the mayor''s hand.


    The mayor not being a great magic user, but still having the the minimal mobility could feel manager coming off these two gems more than expected. So when he showed Murphy, Murphy looked at them, grabbed both of them, walked over to one of his machines on the wall. There is a glass container. He just dumped them both in to one each its own container. and put the sealer on within seconds. Murphy''s machine rolled up and lights that were very dim before were bright. Like seriously bright.


    Great magical batteries, you would think yeah, it kept on getting brighter every couple minutes or a couple seconds. Murphy''s machines would get brighter and you saw Murphy going hold on a second and looking at a gauge and the gauge was already maxed out and he''s like and he started grabbing cables from all around the room and plugging machines into this one machine and every time he plugged in there would be a spark and the main amount of energy on this the. on the dial would drop from Max down to like half and a little less than half, but then it would start crawling up well by the 3rd machine that Murphy had hooked up. He just looked at the mayor with pure beer in his eye and he said take these to the well and hook him down there right now and he literally just handed him two bottles to the mayor and told him to run.


    The mayor didn''t need to be told twice. He could see a runaway stone when he, when he he knew what he was looking at. So the well was literally less than 60 feet away, but the old guy wouldn''t have made it fast and probably would have dropped them. So the mayor just bailed with these in his hand as he made it to the well, he just opened up the lids and dropped them. Well, the moment that he opened up the lid, they started getting brighter. So he just dropped it to gems in, and they you could see them like little glow sticks dropping down the well as he just decided to turn around and then left. 321 boom. And the water shot up and hit the top of the wells. cover. And the marriage just went back into this mayor''s office. and just said put it in a request to have the well checked. I think I just blew it up. The assistant just nodded her head and OK, what the hell was that? She asked. And why did they go critical and go overload?


    Murphy kind of scratched his head and said that was probably on me. One of those stones on the. left was from the kids, but the one on the right was one that I had when I first showed up here. I traded some of my money for this one stone. It was slightly red glass and I thought it was beautiful and I always kept it in the bolt and never thought about it in a dark spot. Well, I guess the three of those gems really like each other because the moment we brought the middle one, which is that the magic glass, the 3 of them. three of them started interacting, causing a runaway effect in them. What if that happened to all the gems down in the mind? And that''s why I think the red one came from from the old days of very rare form of Monte Cristo coloured Magic Crystal. I''ve only heard of clear and he took a clear with him right when he left and Murphy looked at the mayor and the mayor just nodded.


    The mare looked at Murphy and said, did you get an estimate yet?


    An estimate, Murphy looked at him and started laughing and he said, um, minimum, a platinum coin from the king.


    Everybody froze when Murphy said that. because that was enough to buy a castle with. That was a large amount of money. and he just said minimum. So they might have up to two to three castles worth of money in that little vault. And that''s only what the kids have just now found.


    The mayor just said, send a message by bird. And another 12 days from now, in case the first one doesn''t make it, but we are hereby requesting a gold level lawyer to be. posted here in town and that''s by the mayor''s decree. No questions to be asked. Just do it. And that lawyer needs. to be fluent on dwarven law.


    The. Assistant nodded her head and went  Out of the vault and. started to get that all set up.


    The mayor just slumped into one of the chairs there, grabbed one of the balls, pulled the Hork off, took a long swing of whatever the red liquid was, coughed and it was so strong. Looked over at Murphy and asked him why the hell do you have dwarven whiskey in here? And Murphy just looked over and said, have you ever heard the story of what the kids drank for the very first time drinking alcohol? The mayor looked at the bottle in his hand and then looked up at Murphy and Murphy just nodded. I took another swig with the mayor going, holy crap. They''re going to need it. And then, well, handed it back to Murphy, who also took a swig.


    In the dwarfen capital.


    The two dwarves rode their horses for two days and one night before reaching the next outpost, where they immediately ordered and paid for two fresh horses to be ready in three hours. They then rented a room at an inn, arranged to be woken in two and a half hours, and requested food to be prepared for their departure. After paying, they slept briefly, were awakened as planned, and set off again without delay.


    They reached the dwarven capital within six days.


    During the final stretch of their journey, one of their horses began to tire. To keep moving, they both rode a single horse while leading the weary one by its reins. When they arrived at the last outpost, they purchased a replacement horse and completed the final half-day ride to the capital.


    When they reached. the King''s castle within the city They were advised that it was the middle of the night and the king''s court would not be available till the morning. They were shown to two guest rooms where they just passed right out.


    In the morning word. reached the king before court started that. the representative sent to find out more about the fire and coal clan. has returned in a bad shape and were sleeping and had not been woken.


    The Dwarven King. being different than normal royalty simply told one of his stewards that. when it was their time to have an audience with the king later that morning, they were to give them 30 minutes of warning and then bring them in whatever state they were from their bedroom to the king.


    This prompted two stewards after court had been started and they. had figured out the order for today. They realized that to have the most amount of time to sleep and also to give the king his report as quickly as possible, they would be put shipped in line, which would mean it would be before lunch that today would need to wake them.


    The knock came on the. older dwarven officer of the court''s door.


    Very groggy, tired, hungry and sore. The dwarf got up and went to the door to find a Stuart bowing. And without missing a beat, informed them that they had 29 minutes to be in front of the king. And he could hear another stewart knocking on the door of the assistant to that door.


    The realization. took about 10 seconds before the older dwarf realized what had been said and. just said hold on and as quickly as possible, ran back into the room, jumped into the bathroom and started cleaning themselves from the road within three minutes. They had basic clothes on for mining, which would mean that they could at least show up respectable to the Kings court because any minor coming to the Kings Court was a respected person in their eyes and he didn''t have all his fancy dress available and ready for the court. So this is what he would show the king.


    The older dwarf and the first stewart were at the younger dwarf door with the. younger steward. and. we''re waiting. They didn''t have to wait long. Only about two minutes And then as the door opened, the older dwarf saw what the younger dwarf was going to wear and just yelled at him to go put his mining gear on It was set a coveralls with a proper shirt and boots.


    Bing chastise like that in front of people. All the dwarfs that could hear it just kind of laugh and every. body was in a good mood, but it. wasn''t until they started walking to the king''s chamber that the. officer of the court who had made sure to grab the small wooden box that they had brought all the way back.


    The walk from the rooms to the king''s meeting. All slash thrown room. The older dwarf, his heart rate started to race because his younger. dwarven assistant had no clue what was above the half and and to know what type of **** show this man was about to bring on the king''s head. Didn''t just get him riled up His heart reached  New speeds and higher pressures. And he had reached in years, giving him the feeling. of lightness in his body. even though all the pain he fell from little blonde ride. and a pure anger on being swindled to the point where his honor. was besmirched by a member of the Great Church, and he had to fix this immediately.


    They reached the chamber doors and were asked to wait And when the turn came moments later, they were announced, and the door is opened. They started to walk in. the normal routine would be to walk down the middle of the hall. Projections up to the king and speak. But that''s not what happened. The older dwarf just slowed and the younger dwarf being on autopilot just kept on walking until he realized that the older dwarf wasn''t beside him as he went to kneel down in front of the king. And as he kneeled, he looked back to see that the older dwarf had stopped and was looking around the room. His eyes rested. on a sword and shield against a wall. And as he started walking up to this, the king stood up, realizing that this is going off of protocol. The whole room was watching the guards were all on guard and freaking out just a little bit because where they were walking to this person was walking to a weapon in the king''s chamber, which would not be allowed


    As the older dwarf got up to. the sword, he pointed at it and then bowed his head to the king while still pointing at it and asked for. permission to touch it.


    The king, not being a fool. Did three things in rapid session.


    First, on the side of his throat was his. pickaxe and on the other side of his throne, attached to the throne, like the pickaxe, was his shield. The king picked them up himself. Place. to shield on his right arm and the pick in his left. He didn''t like that, so he swapped them. He liked the feel of it. He tightened up the bracer on his arm with the shield, and then. he used. the wooden part of the. pickaxe and smashed it on his throne three times and got everybody''s attention at this point. And he just gave up the orders.


    Guards to me.


    Every guard in that room didn''t just rush. They rat. They pulled tilt boogie right to the king. God formation and made a bubble around him. Spears and swords on the ready pointed at the dwarf still pointing at the sword on the wall. Where a sword was hanging.


    The third thing the king dead was look at that older dwarf and say out loud at the top of his lungs.


    I gave you permission to remove that sword and take it with you as you present yourself to me immediately.


    What only some of the older nobility had ever seen, but only the younger ones had heard of. Was a way of restoring your honor if you **** **** really bad.


    For the king to. see one of his trusted people that actually raised him in front of him with a sword about to either harm him or harm himself. The king was very upset and wanted what the **** just went bad and why  was this dwarf going through all of this.


    All the eyes were on. the officer of the Crown, the man holding a sword, walking towards the king and all the guards. as. he reached 15 feet from the guards. The king with just one. wooden piece of his pick ax.  Bashed the wood on his throne and all the guards surrounded.officer of the crown. McfinaSwitch Mctoggel


    The moment he was surrounded, he went down to one knee and held the sword with both hands above his head. At this. point, some one had taken The Apprentice off to the side so that he didn''t get caught up in whatever was about to happen.


    The king and a very gruff. And honestly, a bit angry. shouted “report, officer of the Crown”.


    The old dwarf started to talk and said to the king


    I officer of the crown McfinaSwitch Mctoggel  Hereby ask for leniency for me assistant  In regards. to the outcome of the mission you had sent us on Sir and I please ask that my family''s honor not be tarnished with my mistakes.


    This took the king aback because the next thing had happened is he bowed his head and put the sword on the ground, put his head to the sword, which was literally saying, take my head, sir. Do not harm my family as to how 1 of the people that raised him show respect like that and be that afraid of him. He was angry just for them. Be afraid of him.


    But what he did next shocked the king.


    He stood up with the sword still on the ground and reached into a pocket and pulled out the wooden box and offered it to the king.


    He then said these words to the king. Your Highness, we have found the lost clan of fire and coal. And they. send this as tribute to you This is a great day.


    This absolutely shocked the king and the whole room. This was a great thing. They could understand why he started off with the sword and that whole part of the different rituals like he was splicing rituals here. The king dropped his shield and his pickaxe was attached to his belt and he. pushed his guards out of the way and went down to see the person that raised him and told him what that hull''s going on straight to his face and where the guards went to stop the king. But the king just pushed him out of the way and pointed that that guy and said kicked that box and opened it. Make sure it''s safe. I want to know what''s in there


    That one guard waved two people over, who then walked. off to the side with that guard and that box and those three people made sure that there was no magic, no bombs, no nothing but the gas that came from all three of them. When the box was open and then. they looked at all of them as they looked over at the king as they saw the night, the two people that were there to inspect the box, all of them hit the ground, put their foreheads to the ground and the box was in the night''s head in the air with his head touching the ground.


    Whatever that was in that box was. a giant **** as a king viewer. What he was about to open was going to screw with his head somehow. So he just told one of the Knights to bring it over to him. Look in it and make sure it was saved one more time in case they were under a magic spell and the night that he pointed to was one that he knew personally and trusted. So when that night walked up to the king, just peeked into the box. His eyes going so wide he just spun as fast as he could to the king, presented the box and then slightly opened it.


    The King closed the box the moment and little shot of white escaped the box from the sunlight peeking in. when the king slammed that box closed, he froze. And then all he said, I want everybody but my guards and these two here out of this room now.


    As people started to shuffle out, you could hear a little bit of grumbling in the back. And the king just snapped his head through the one person he thought he heard grumbling, and the person just shut up. They put their head down and just kept on moving, and everybody moved very quickly after that. Once everybody was out, except the guards and the two people from the expedition, the. doors were locked. I had nod was given from the guard that had locked it or to the king. And the king dropped his formal everything and just walked up and said, what the hell? Tell me what''s going on and why I have a piece of the royal glass in my hand. And what the hell colors this? It''s clear, but it''s not clear.


    McfinaSwitch Mctoggel  Looked the king in the eye and said, either the kids found it that you sent me to find or the town literally gave that up to protect the kids And he was crying. He was openly crying to the king, saying, I found them. They have their own horde. And then I **** it all up.


    The King asked how how did you **** this up? It sounds like it''s amazing. Why aren''t they here? Why don''t you bring him home with you? You know our laws. What happened that you couldn''t bring them all with you? How did you **** ****


    McfinaSwitch Mctoggel  Had reached into a pocket in his  Overalls I pulled out two pieces of paper and then. just handed that to the king.


    As the king started to read through. the two pieces of paper, the looks that he went through, the different emotions the king went through was everything from astonishment to pure rage to bafflement to just confuse. And then in the end, chuckling


    The king walked back to his throne, sat there and fought. And it wasn''t like a little thinking. This was like 20 minutes of thinking during that time. No one really said anything but the king did tell everybody to sit down. He had to think about this. And he told some of the stirs to bring refreshments and food, because he was hungry, and he needed to think. So a keg was brought out. jerky. dried sugary fruits. fruit juices. and the kitchen was told to start producing warm and hot foods.


    Because this room sometimes was also used as a banquet hall and even. a hall just for events. There was a door on the side that had double shutters and the moment the king said that the double shutter is open and it was a direct access to the kitchen. And you can hear the fire is getting lit and the kitchen started cooking and food started to come out.


    Around. The 20 minute mark. He stood up, and he made this pronouncement.


    Summon all the people that were escorted out back in allow them food, drink and merriment. Today we are celebrating 2 things. 1 the reclaiming of a lost tribe. Of the Klan fire and coal number. 2. we are celebrating within only one year These children have earned the right of a horde and with that right comes responsibility. I hereby call the Matron of the families at the keeper of the records to certify the actions to preserve their clad and hoard.


    ***


    All the people that had been ushered out of the king''s chambers were waiting. They couldn''t hear what was going on inside. And after five minutes, everybody was really talking. After 10:50 minutes, people had maybe, like, moved around, maybe even one of you people left to go get stuff and get information. And there was small groups of people communicating. And after 20 minute mark, the guards were trying to keep everybody quiet. But what happened on the other side of the door? All you heard were in unison. The pounding of Spears against the floor in rhythm over and over and over and over and over again. And then the doors opened to the king''s chamber. And you could hear it a 100 times louder as all the cars were smashing their spears on the floor.


    With that one of the Herald came up. to the people that were looking through the open door and made this pronouncement.


    By order of the king


    I hereby call the Matron of the families at the keeper of the records to certify the actions of the # serviving members of the fire and coal clan and the compliance with the law of a HORD!


    The king. welcomes all that were asked to leave to come back in and celebrate with him to day this great honor.


    Moments before the Herald started to speak all the nights and the smashing of the Spears on the ground stopped into his dead silent. The moment met. the Herald stopped. You heard a small hit by the keg on his throat and then the guards in the room all as 1123. And then they smashed their spears into the ground. The reverberation made it real. It made it vital. It made it an order by the king


    It wasn''t more than 30 minutes with a little old lady in a wheelchair. A. dwarf of great age was rolled into the king''s chamber to find a party half naked dwarfs everywhere, drinking, breaking out. There was more booze than she had ever seen in the King''s Chamber, like they just kept on bringing it. She came to a party and she missed this. She''s like I heard what''s going on.


    The king came up to his mother  And keeping his calm try not to freak out. He told his mum she was sold. He was worried that she would have a heart attack when she heard. But she was just ear to ear smiles, and she just called her personal. chair pusher and helper over whispered into her ear as the little dwarf girl just bailed out of the room. I beat full tilt boogie gone.


    The King smiled to that, knowing that those words are set so much at the motion for one little old lady that this is going to be one hell of a party


    He added, expected her to do it. She had done. And moments later, one of the church belts in town was being rung. It was 7 bells. A pause for two minutes, and then seven bells.


    No one in town had heard this in almost 100 years. So as everybody came out thinking that things were going wrong, some of the older people that knew what that meant started to tell people, and then just cheers at partying. And there was a giant citywide party. Everybody was freaking out that 1 of those babies was brought back. But then after about 30 minutes, the bells stopped. And then. it started again. But it wasn''t until the 8th and 9th the 10th ring that everybody realized it was different. Then it stopped at two minutes past another 10 rings. Two minutes past another 10 rings. At this point, after the first 10 rings, everybody was looking to the people I told them about the Sabbath that asked what the Ted was. But most of the people that had were listening to it were crying because the dwarven people had another horror. They speed their people at another home. They had another family. They had bowed a lost tribe This was a party. People were sent out of the main city to all the other towns with the news as soon as possible. Port Town was on the lips of everybody. A town that was named poor town because it was a port town Was now one of the most popular and going to be well known towns in the entire continent after this. The party didn''t stop for 3 whole days.


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    Back in port Town.


    Things were starting to get a little interesting because all the messages that had been sent from town to the gray Church has been coming in And let''s put it this way, after the first one, it was like, oh, this is cool. This is great. They''re having some stuff going on after the 2nd rows. And what the **** is going on in that town? And what are we getting to? By the time the request to have the Paladin and Knights return, that wasn''t going to happen. They were already sending more people there when they got the message that their. monk and librarian want you to stay there and we''re requesting to take responsibility for 3 DWARVEN children personally. Larry was the **** guarding of these kids.  Larry, the Larry that was banished to that town for the **** he pulled. Larry, that could take out almost anybody he wanted without even trying. Larry, who is so high in the organization that they couldn''t just fire him for his stupidity and his. wearing his heart on his sleeve and he was doing it all over again. And what did Larry get himself into a **** international dispute between the dwarves?


    Well, the last message bird that came into the Great Church before everything went to **** wasn''t from port town. It was. from the dwarven capital. There was one of the members of the Great Church who was in court with the king a day ago. And now the entire city was in an uproar that a clan and a horde was sounded porked out there. was not just a zeal about the message. It was a **** straight warning that the world was about to change. There was hundreds of dwarfs drinking 3 day straight. The last time that happened, a war broke out. But instead of a war drinking party, this was a celebration. And that was the only thing. And I mean the only thing that stopped an entire contingent of the great church from calling in the rest of the members of the entire great church to come down on portal like a **** **** **** ****


    The head honcho of the military branch. I had honcho of the financial branch and that hunch of the religious branch for the Great Church. All that up after 20 minutes, it was decided that there would be a mobilization to port. town But due to the fact this is all positive, they''re going to keep a positive light on all this. And they were going there to sanctify a brand new actual church of the gray, which hadn''t been done in probably 20 to 50 years. And it was. usually it was in some middle of the nowhere place that had something special, which this was that. So yeah, this would work. But they also realized that this could be an international incident. So with a financial head decided. with permission from the other two to go to the dwarven king himself and find out what needed to be done financially to bring this from a war possibility to a straightforward. initiating a new horde into the dwarven ranks.


    It was interesting to see, because the three of them all had their bags packed and were in the stables around the same time. They had already given off the misses to all the underlings, and to see them read the misses and start freaking out the whole places like you kicked the beehive as they met. They all gave each other a hug and said, good luck to you. And I literally 2 went out one way, and the other one went the other way And they went to the port town and went to the king. the representative that went to the king was given orders to go to Port Town after with their information to update the others. And they would have. a three way conference on this once they had more information.


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    In the king''s throne room. during the party


    After the second day, the king''s throne room had gotten. party was still going, but it had gotten a little bit slower and calmer. People like cleaned up and the king was sitting in this throne, doing some work while some of the staffer just off the side doing work with food and drink, which was not normally allowed, but because they''re still partying, it was not a big deal at all, as long as you didn''t hurt the paperwork. But this is when an entire can. ting of people started marching in lockstep and you could hear them. The king looked up for Miss Throne, thinking his guards were coming, but the sound wasn''t of metal. It was of leather and stone to see. the Staffs of the caretakers and he guessed it was all all the class of caretakers, the ones that they respected to teach, to raise, to make good dwarfs were coming to see him He stood up straight into his clothes and he just smiled because he knew his mother had done this and he was waiting to see what she had put together.


    As they came into sight, his mother was being pushed in a wheelchair in front of. everybody. I''d be hide with 5ROWS. Why? And he''d see at the end of it. Must have been one or 200 of them. Men in women who had basically promised for their life to take care of the young and teach them and make sure that if there is something that was going to hurt them, that they would hurt it first. The protector of the shelter.


    If you could see the beards of most of them were just covered in shininess. And he realized it was crying and thought these people had been crying for hours. So happy with the smiles on their face, being able to do what they''re about to do. Just all they were just. so happy to be there right then right now. You could feel it


    Magic in this world Was it that harmonic to people''s emotions But in their mountain, their people could feel each other if. a small percentage of them were unhappy. The rest of them window it when everybody was happy. Everybody felt it, and it was a great feeling. But the feeling he was getting from these Guardians, these protectors of children with that of pure utter donger. But a rage of passion and protection that he knew they were going to do what he doesn''t take care of these kids.


    The line of people as they stopped reached out the doors and around 1/4 to the point where the king couldn''t see how many people were actually there. There must have been over 500 people. He couldn''t believe that they had this many protectors and guardians of their children. And he realized it was adults that their kids had grown up. A lot of them were just literally siding up right then and there.


    The king was just shell shocked to see this as. they pushed. the little old lady in the wheelchair up to her side. He put up a hand, pitched the nose bridge. I looked out at his mom and said, mom, I didn''t have time or the ability to tell you because I didn''t want you to get angry. But we have a small situation. We understand how to fix it, but you have to be informed if you''re going to do something this large.


    He had been given two copies of those documents as the originals went into the files on the 1st day. He pulled out the copies and handed to his mom. She looked them over then. anger, understanding, anger, a feeling of love. Everybody behind and feel her. She was so in tune with the energies in this room. They I went through the emotions with her. Even her son felt what she felt. And then. she just was confused until he literally took the little wooden box off his throat that he had just moments beforehand. Motion to be brought to him. Putting a black cloth over it, which was assigned to her that this was a magical item that couldn''t be reacted to light. And the thought of what this could be went really she kind of went hail a little bit, but she put her head under the cloth, lifted up the box, closed it, handed it back to him, sat back in her chair. and just stopped moving for a couple moments


    This first and foremost freaked out to everybody behind her, especially the two people that were there for her health. They basically came up, checked her pulse and she didn''t even bat an eye when they didn''t know she was just lost in thought and they realized that her heart was racing. She was just thinking really hard and she had her other assistant look into her face and that person read her facial emotions as she was thinking. And then as that person just took a sigh and then. put a thumb up. Everybody behind the relaxed because she just was thinking we didn''t take more than 30 seconds at most before she put her hand up and her two assistants came down to her ears. and she whispered into their ears the following words.


    Write this down.


    Three times three times 3 Prepare to go now. three in three days, three and three more days. That will. continue for 30 days. Each of them will take 333. gold per group with them and will deposit it in a town of Port Towns Bank This influx will allow three of the lawyers from this the king''s a personal clan at 3 from. volunteers. from the Guardians to be going in 30 days. They''re goal is preserved the rights of the horde and the children. And that is it. By any means necessary. She looked at the king and he just nodded.


    She continued by saying bring a book of recording to this room right now. and be ready to get a second book of recording if necessary to have over 1000 pages per book and everybody that had volunteered and is behind us now will sign their name, their clan and what they hereby are willing to donate to this order. This will be the order of fire and coals guardians.


    The king. Went to his mother''s raid in front of her and kneeled down, took her head and kissed her hat and put his head on her knees. This. was taken by every. body as the king say yes, this is to be done He then stood up, went to his throat. I live with three hits of his wooded part of his pickaxe. The yards. basically started bagging their spirits. About a minute later, the king banged his wood part of his pickaxe one more time, and it all stopped by. that point. two lines had been formed and two books were brought out. and everybody that was behind the Batron. was already signing their names and information in. This went on for hours that after someone retired their name, they would go off to the side and grab food and booze and start the party. In the end, there was almost 2000 people that had signed the books they had to get a third book because some of the people''s writing was so messy that they took them too much room. This was amazing. The king that had bribes looked into what was just off of the donated


    Families that had donated small amounts of money or small items. This was given off to the tax collectors and would be acquired. immediately an account would be credited as a thank you from the king for doing this for tax purposes to each of those families. Any money would be put into the bank and any items of work that were of proper and respectful to the operation and to the king''s wishes would be taken with them. And if not, they would be held by the king here in the capital until the day they were retrieved by the rifle claimants.


    It had gotten out that there was three boys, so all the female dwarf. s that were of the same age. And this is quite young. Parents had offered them this. The king took as respectful, but not respectful, due to the child''s ages. So all those were held and given to the Guardians to start vetting all those families. This. actually was a great thing for the king. He now had a reason to verify that the trading of all the nobles and non nobles was up to stuff with the dwarven laws to make sure that every dwarf knew how to mine knew how to read, write, drew beer, cook their own food, wash their own clothes. It was like kid boot camp for the dwarf. It was great. He just got 1000 2000 new families. and for the the Guardians could take care of this one. This would take a lot of the people that wanted to go to the Newtown and reduce that to just a couple under 100 hopefully


    The roles that the dwarfs had to follow was that they would not invade. But that''s why 3 by 3 by 3 was the way they would do it. And they would slowly infest the town every couple days. More would show up. And every couple more days, more would show up until they owned everything in that town. And once they owned it, they would fix it. They''d make it so that it was a dwarf cow, a dwarf cow that had its own horde and a brand new slash old clan.


    And the last thing any large amounts of money or anything really weird or an entire clan being promised or land or anything that was. more unexpected. The king was going .... more unexpected. The king was going to deal with personally and honestly, it took another day for it all to be figured out. But there was only 3 families that had done anything really weird.s that had done anything really weird.


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    <li style="font-weight: 400">Clan of glass  Was? Actually, one of the sub. plans of the King''s own lineage for them to do what they just did by offering to send it. entire team from there. secret glass  Masters to verify and train because, as part of what had to be told, the king informed the group. that actually took care of one of the great dwarven secrets magic class. This clan a long time ago was. given the task of mining, purifying shaping and learning how to use magic glass to recharge gems. Those gems were always registered. with a percentage. How much energy they put in and how much energy came out. So if they put in one candle''s worth, but they only got half a candles out, that would be a 50% they. were taken off to the site on game one of the party and asked to appraise the piece of magic or maniglass as some people called it and it wasn''t until there was a large explosion. Guards all rushed to a side room off the king''s main chamber and A confirmation of what the officer of the crown had told them about exploding gems. The king didn''t tell the. clan of the glass this to see if they would be able to recognize this. And gladly enough. they weren''t lack in the. lock in their training cuz they recognize it in time to get rid of the gem that exploded. Not realizing that it was actually across the room bolted onto a wall. But was it till they closed the box and someone blew out a light that they saw a gem on a wall glowing bright green and getting brighter? There was now a dwarf that had a haver in the emergency room, basically because he had taken it off the wall by hitting it. Yeah, there was a horrible wall and his hammer had a dent in it and it flew across the room. But while the ripping of his hammer out of his hand basically ripped the muscles in his arms a bit, he was going to be in a cash for a couple of weeks. But everybody survived. Yay. Nobody died. The king. realized for them to want to send someone that he would have to make sure that no one knew who they were. So he asked scribes to make a subclan. in a fake book for a cover story for the clan of glass to go to Port Town. But as the king was saying this, the clan of glass member that had signed the book with the information heard. this and yelled at the king. Don''t you dare. The king was taken abat, but the old man looked at the king and said you have to remember one of our clans rules is we don''t lie and we look for the ones that have the magic touch. We will go there and inspect these children. And if one of them or all of them have the magic touch, we will teach them the way of clan glass. I''m hoping that they will be able to bring. more material. to all the clans so that we can start turning on the old machines that have lost power. Do the fact that we''ve overused the little bit of manic laughs that we had and it''s not just burning out what''s left is already foggy and smoky and doesn''t work very well.  The king. Jess agreed. And then went back to his paperwork and told the scribes to ignore what he had just said.</li>


    <li style="font-weight: 400"> This would not normally happen, but one of the people that had volunteered with the Guardians to protect the children was one. of the clanless. And normally you couldn''t come. to the king or being the chambers without either having a legal reason or being invited. So to see. a clanless put their name in to move them and their family. to poor town. and to offer fealty to plan. to plan fire and coal this. was taken very serious The name was looked up and the name of this landless. was that of an actual guardian from an old plant and the clan had been disbanded just like the clan of fire and coal except this guardian. There was notes under their name. And when the notes were revealed in another book had to be retrieved, which then took almost entire day to find because this book was actually in one of the churches within the city. And when the king saw what was written in this book and evil but delicious idea came into his mind and he agreed that they would all signed another book that they agreed. And this would be the following rules.


    a)  Anyone signing this book hereby. rednecks any connection to any previous plan. and hereby with honor and respect in their heart. Agree to join the clan of fire and coal in. doing this. They will own nothing but they will show fealty to the new three kings. of the clan. Fire and coal. and will agree to all rulings by the three or until they''re coming of age at 14. The king of the dwarfs. This will not go against anything that could harm the children. This is. said in writing by the king. So everybody understands that if you are part of her family and wish you join the clan of fire and coal you are joining as Guardian. Everything that you are now is part of fire and coal.</li>


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    When the representative for. the clan list was called to the king. It was a woman. She came to the throne and kneeled. And the king just threw the book he had just signed his name in two down to the floor in front of her and told her to pick it up and read it.


    She was afraid that she had screwed up really bad by offering heard her family to go take care of this other family and become of their family. But when she read what was in it, she just started crying And she had a pet on her. But the king threw her a pen made of gold. I said, keep it. You''re gonna need it And she took the golden pad after replacing her pad and signed the book right there in front of the king. She then put the gold pad in her pocket and hugged the book to her chest, stood up and bowed to the king. He stood. He stood up, bagged his fist to his chest and said, be off with you and be be good and build that book with your family.


    She froze for a second, nodded to the king, turned around and arlety. She ran as fast as she could. That was not okay even when they''re in relax mode, till the king kind of tilted his head and everybody looked around and he just started laughing and. one of his advisors that was on a pretty good term and honestly quite drunk right now. That was great next to the king just kind of looked over and said what am I missing? What just happened?


    The king. Waved over one of the scribes that w....ding it. There was a bit of confusion


    The look of pure shock that rolled over the advisors face when he realized that he was looking at a 200 year old book that had been almost filled to the brink with names. He realized it was from one of the churches orphanages, and he. realized it was in almost every name of every one of the people the dwarfs in the entire city that had no clan. These were all not a sum, all of the clanless.


    The advisor that. looked at the king and asked what did he rate in the book he gave her


    The king spun the book that the clanless had written in and all it said was we. the clanless wish to join the clown of fire and coal as guardians.


    The king had taken that literally so. he allowed her to adopt every single one of the cladless into that clad, but he knew that they could have hundreds of people mig rating to this town for over a year. That was the law. We couldn''t invade. So what that book came back, they would be. told the laws at the rules, but most of them already knew this. I knew why 3 by 3 by 3. It was an old way. Everybody kind of knew that it was the only way around that rule. So the moment that first 3 by 3 by 3 were sent out the whole city knew how they were looking at this whole scenario.


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    <li style="font-weight: 400"> The clan of harmonics was a very old clan that only had like three members, and they were musicians at heart, but they were magical. And that was the whole point of them. It was that a small group of dwarfs a long time ago had found a cave that resonated, and they used it to magically resonate their magic and cause an inverse loop, allowing them to literally burst their own eardrums to increase their magic in a way. Over the years, they had grown to have a large number. But then. in recent years they only had three members left The  Clan head. her husband and their daughter. Their daughter was almost 20 years old, so not young enough to be eligible for marriage. But what was offered was better than a marriage proposal They wish to spend the next five to 10 years. in the mountain and the city of Portland. seeing if they could find another harmonic chamber because the last one had been broken due to overuse and high harmonics. and from what they were told from the little bit about the mountain is that there was a large fire and fire sometimes. made interesting. abilities. happen in rock and rock formations. So for them to. move their entire clad there just to explore a mountain. Sounded like a great idea. And he approved it right off the bat. But under the condition that the clan head would. sign a writ of bird to the cake. to the king saying that hem and his wife or his daughter and someone of their choosing would continue on the lineage of the clan of harmonics for. 200 more years by law.


    When this was presented to the clan upper modics head with his wife and daughter there, that being called to the king''s throw-through, it was the. 3rd day of the party and the cake himself when it. went into the personal wine cellar. I brought out a bottle of ancient meat made over 600 years ago by the ancient king himself.</li>


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    When the king brought this bottle out I put it on a table between himself and the family members of. the clan of harmonics, and he also put the piece of paper beside them. They all read the piece of paper, and then the husband looked at the wife and then they just started crying and hugged each other, getting out of the way. Their daughter read it. She just looked up at the cave with puppy dog eyes and he just looked over, pulled a pet out of his jacket pocket and gave it to her this other golden head. She took it and looked at it and then looked at the paper and then signed it before her dad did Her dad realized what she was doing, got bad and think I''m supposed to sign it first, so she had it to her mum and dad could sign the document also..


    And with that, they toasted with 600 year old brandy. to the long life of both the clan of fire and coal and the clan of harmonics. The king let them know that they would have to wait a year before they were allowed to even go near that town Are they understood? They said they''d be ready. And with that, they were dismissed and they went to party.


    Outside the main horde of the dwarven king in the outer city is where most of the clanless lively. And truthfully, because they were shunned so much, they had their own little society. That whole society had no. clue what she was holding as she walked through the encampment. Go. ing to their chieftains. house when her friends. saw her cry that she wouldn''t talk to them. They should start following her. They had to understand what was going on in she knocked on the mayor of undertown. and Jesus she couldn''t stop crying.


    When the mayor opened the door and saw one of his daughter''s friends. he had no idea what was wrong, but she was crying, but she was smiling at. she just looked at him with a just giant smile and started to cry and went for a hug After a moment, he pulled her away from him and he looked her in the eyes and she just handed him the book. He opened it instantly and looked at it.


    The looks that went across his face captain. the entire crowd that was watching outside his house. It was packed from quarter to quarter edge edge. It was just packed. Shoulders shoulder, but they were all watching the mayor.''s the mayors house was just a little higher than the street so they can all kind of see his face. and the boss thing he did is he closed the book, looked out over all of them.


    He was about to speak to the crowd when. the one that brought the book, grabbed him by the shirt and pulled him to their face together and talked into his ear and said the clan of glass and the clan of harmonics are going with us. Not permanently, but they''re coming to sanctify the mountain. We have one year to prepare. Do you understand? The boys are shaving their beards to hide within the humans.


    This made the mayor not just freaking out. This is like saying something absolutely racist, and he just didn''t understand for a 2nd. But then he understood that they were hiding, that they were scared And she let him look into him. and see the what the Guardians needed to do.


    The mayor looked out over the crowd one more time, and then took a very deep breath and said to the entire group that he could speak to they were all went dead quiet as he started to speak.


    To what it all who are clandestif. you are willing. to follow the laws of the clans that means the king of the clan will give you your laws. You have to give up everything that you currently have for the new clan. But the clan of fire and coal is given the ability to accept any. clandest in one year. War protocol. 3 by 3 by 3 has been initiated. Any that wish to leave earlier than one year have to shave their beards for the next year to prove they are willing to protect. these three new kigs.


    The **** of the dwarven nation by either who they followed or by their own actions were just given the ability to have an out some that were **** beyond all compare, just ran. They would shave on the way they were gone. They were going there. Did everybody do with poor town today? But it was on the lips of everybody for at least today. So a couple people just bail. And you could feel the wind leave.


    99 maybe 90% of them were still there. But what the mayor said next. made. the whole group starts. stopping their feet.


    By the ancient war accords by. three by three by three. We will not invade this town one month from now. 30 of our people will go and every month after that 30 will go. These 30 will pave the way for the rest of us. And in one year the rest of us will descend on that town. If you think you can bring the most success to. one of the three first monthly missions come to us. Bring us the family you wish to bring. 30 families the first month Thirty families the next month. Thirty families the month after that you will not live in the town. You will go to the mountain Be ready to work hard. in a year we bring the beauty for now. We bring the pain.


    The other tower erupted is easy. to say it was pure noise pure insanity, ear wrenching insanity. Everybody was screaming. They just got to do me some life.


    Wow. The bear was fish talking and the banging and noise started up. Two dwarfs, a man and a woman, old. But where people would have to push others aside, no one would touch these two, not out of disrespect, but out of pure respect. Everybody would look at them and bow their head, as these two came through To know them as fallen king and queen would be rude, but true. They came up to the bear and bowed to him and went down on both knees, put their head to the stone and asked to be a part of it.


    The bear in the wig that they were in town and that they had lived here, but knowing that they were so disgrace that they just they they were taking care of by family. They just they. were not shunned. They were just so depressed that they couldn''t fix their old **** that they just hit away and to have these two cub after that saying that. the mayor just grabbed the book and his daughter''s friend who brought the book still had the golden pen from the king This was a magic ped She was shaky has because of her cry it smiles she had to depend off to the two royalty or ex royalty who. notices the power and magic coming off the pen as they the ex King reached for and his hand touched it a bright yellow light shawna from the back of the pen and just reached to the sky. when the light dissipated the pen had this bright blow to it like it had been recharged under a bright light and it was photosensitive. It glowed He. happily got up and went to the book before anything could be done or stopped and he signed it up. giving up everything he was as a king and everything he owed and everything. and then he looked at his wife who stood up crying and just took the pen inside it She then handed the mayor. the pen grabbed her husband and kissed him in front of everybody. I just stood there for a moment in their embrace.


    Dartmouth dwarf there expected them to do what they just did next. The. exqueen. Now a carburetor. Pulled a knife out from her back, like the Japanese people do. And went to her hair First her beard, and she cut it short. She did not shave it. She then went to her ponytailer back and did the same thing She then looked at her husband, who took the blade by the blade. He grabbed the blade by his hand and cut into him, and he grabbed it and looked at her and she let go. He then took the blade handle with his other hand, took it, cut his beard and cut his ponytail too. She then took the knife back and put it back where she had been holding it. The two of them picked up in 1 in each hand. Their beard and ponytail, and they showed it to the crowd Everybody was dead silent. This was heresy. This was this. was the path. This is of a true believer. They. would do whatever it took for. protect this new clad Ed, they were going to bring it all. their life was thou part of the clad. They turned to the bear at who still had the book open and He. let him itself and the queen put their beard at Ponytail in the book of the mayor closed in the two of them walked off. No one was saying a word. They just made way. Let them believe.


    The silence was not eerie. It was it. Everybody was now thinking. Everybody was now. Am I really going to sign that book and go that far to give up everything? Everything I have worked for for a new clan. I know nothing of. There was so many football that just bailed from there. They knew the mayor had the book all day. to do assign it and then they would be put on the list. more than half. More than 75% just got up and quietly left. They had to think about this. They had to really decide there was a very odd group that just didn''t move. There were a lot of things. And you could tell who they were because of the extreme amount of armor on them. These were armor dwarfs. You could not see anything through their arbor. It was chain where you would have eyes and openings, but everything else was solid plates. But they were so fine that they were almost dragon scale. Each one of these men and women had built this material themselves as this was their armor. That was part of their lineage, their family.


    Very quietly so not to make a noise and bring people back as the last. of the people left all the the warriors all. the defenders, all the Guardians that were **** **** that came up to the mayor and the mayor had already seen this coming and went inside and grabbed a small night table and brought it out. before the mayor even had it put down two other doors had taken away from us and made it allowable, set it all up. They even brought out chairs like everybody started to help within minutes. There was a line form to sign the book. and they literally would put Arby''s. The dwarven RB was a subscription itself to a cause. All the old war metrics and all the people that had lost their masters because of battles they had lost all. the people that were treated badly. There was no thought to them. This was what they were meant to do. They were meant to protect a horde and the people of the horde.


    It took less than 10 minutes because all anybody wrote down for subject of what they were bringing. They just put army. Some of them put rank that they used to have the. people would be called hard first and vetted first. The mayor knew this. They all knew this.


    Because of the war accords by three. by three by 3 the Warriors and Lesser was an emergency. Would not be allowed to go for one year. A small contingent would be sent at first and into the middle at the end of the 3 by 3 by 3.


    After all, the military left there was a couple of dwarfs that had been sitting against the wall, drinking. They had left and come back. And they all just waited and waited. And the mayor not before he started packing up everything. But he looked around, and there was just a couple of people that he recognized, and he realized there''s another group waiting. And when the loss of the army guys was done and they gave the mayor a moment to take a bathroom break and hold on yards, when the mayor came back, one of those helper is letting him know there''s another line up outside waiting for him And that was under 20 people. But these 20 people, he knew exactly who they were. There''s two groups, one were the miners, one were the engineers Each one of them was a convicted criminal because they got someone killed. That straightforward.


    They had lost their clan over it, or whatever had happened in the end. Their clan was disbanded, and they were now here now. Everybody used the idea that. they killed someone. But the truth was that none of them did. Each one of them had been a part of one of their clans plots. And those plots had had some people killed. They not one of them had used their hands or any of their knowledge to make something to help someone else to kill. But they were tied to them. And it''s so much easier to just be accepted as a murderer in dwarven under city that it is to try to prove. something you can''t prove. Just people that really don''t give a **** So this is their way of getting out from that idea that they were murderers. The mayor didn''t know this, but one of the assistants kind of whispered in his ear that they were all here for a part and for the murder they did not commit. And when the mayor heard that he just looked at them all and realized that they had all come forth for a new start.


    He looked em over. He told them to sign up and told the scribe, group one, these right here. I will fill in the last 10 with people to make it security safe and maybe even one person to keep an eye on these convicts. But he said it was such love, and they knew it too. One of them took it wrong with the rest of them. Just kind of realized it, and they put their arm around the one that took it wrong, and somebody whispered something into his ear. And when the kid heard these words come from another dwarf, the kid relaxed.


    We are convicts no more today. but don''t tell anybody. We don''t want our reputation to get all noble and all. We''re going to go there and cause some trouble, but we''re going to cause it for the boys, for our kings. What do you say? Want to go cause some trouble?


    The small group of dwarfs around the young dwarf that overheard this, basically, it is just like hell, yes. Are they all just lined up to sign the book? And that was, it was done under a minute and 1/2. And they left the subject empty. And the mayor just looked at describing, he said, for them, team one, the rejects. They all looked at each other, and they accepted, and they all just shouted out the rejects.


    They left the mayor went back in. He had a couple of people helping him in his assistance. They started to go through what they would need to have a crew of mercenaries slash. guards are able to do odd jobs and protect then they needed the miners to go into the actual caves and then the engineers to make the bridges and find find the core of the whole if they could, they would have one month to make a core for their whole a place to stash the horde and a place to protect it. Another place to protect the three kings.


    This little bit of the story you don''t see much more after this, only because over the next couple of weeks to months, two years, things start appearing in port town because of this groups just start wandering into town. until it''s time for the. flood comes


    Back in the king''s chamber on day three  Of the party the king. looked at one of. the scribes and said I guess we have to officially do it Send messenger by foot, by feather and by magic to the Kings and Queens of the human and elf Please ask them to pass on all messages to the relevant also parties that. the three by three by three packed has hereby been enacted for the port town of Port Town on the continent of the human/dwarf/elf partnership.


    *****


    When you hear of Alf Civilization, some people like people living in trees, eating only vegetables in trouble through trees and blah, blah, **** and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, no, they are nothing more than humans that live longer have pointed ears and have an affinity for certain types of magic. And that''s just because a chunk of humanity was it human race. from somewhere else, a long time ago, and humans had babies. After a while, they looked like elves and they were elves, or they came to this planet as elves. No one knows, but they''re here and they''re elves. They meet. culture, buildings inside scrapers. They do love the trees and do make buildings within trees. So I guess that is kind of racist, but not the point. Should see some of their forts. They build out in the wilderness for their kids. It''s like jungle gym for adults. It''s great. And honestly, they really do love hunting.


    So when at the Royal Capitol of the elf part of the Kingdom. a messenger recorded the message and took it directly to the King and Queen, who honestly, we''re just sitting on a balcony with breakfast in the morning and we''re just talking **** while they waited.


    Then you ask, waiting, waiting for what? Well, not the thing is, they knew something was up. The entire world''s manifield wasn''t just buzzing. They had musical inflection to it, and it was dwarven. They could feel the pump of the rhythm, and they knew it had a hard base. When it felt like Earth, they knew it was the dwarf doing something. So they''re expecting something where they. expecting to have a chunk of the land contested under the old 3 by 3 by 3 compact. Hello, this. was one hell of a what the ****


    This started off investigations and ended with, after two days of them getting information and the. birds coming in saying a messenger was on foot with all the details and because they were coming from the Earth capital to the Elf Capital Magic was used.


    It wasn''t lost on. their spy who recorded the three groups that had come by the king''s order during the party of three days to get special pieces of paper because of this They didn''t know what the pieces of paper said, except for the one of the undercity. Everybody knew what that one said. So they knew that they had an entire flood of dwarfs going to be going to a town. It wasn''t until they read the lines of the clan of glass and the clan of harmonics the elves just. start dancing. And when the king started dancing and the queen looked at him, I''m like, what are you doing? And he just had it in the paper and kept on dancing.


    One of the rules for the three by three by 3 contact is you could get into a battle. You weren''t being attacked the whole continent was all of theirs. If they wanted a resource, they had to do things like take over a city, show that they could take care of a city, protect the city, do taxing properly, don''t break the law, take care of the criminals. They had to do all these things and the dwarfs. We''re going to flood that city. They didn''t have to worry about **** But the best part is the. would do all the work too, all. the owls really wanted was more glass. Madaglass. Everybody needed man a glass of protection. Mine of managers. was the best thing possible for the entire continent. It''s just it was going to cost through the nose. So the first thing the king did was tell all his advisors to reach out to every single one of his people. Every single 1 and let them know the dwarfs were going to be requesting so many products for the making of alcohol and foods. And the next coming months and years that the king would hereby give out small reimbursements to help you start the farming process and then. as long as you paid back at 10th of what was given and sold to the dwarfs when they needed it and or to the king who would then sell it for you for a good price. This was a royal decree.


    The Queen understanding, because she read the report, but being more interested in the clan of her harmonics, because there''s. this old story that was kind of passed down to royalty that the clan of harmonics was around. But basically it was dead. But in its heyday, what they did is they tune entire mountain to magic. By doing so, they found a manna thing. No one really knows what they call it. It was a place in the world where the manner wasn''t pure. It wasn''t strong. It wasn''t weak. It broke the small barrier of reality. It was. like, if you were near this point and you use magic your will would affect the world with your match. It was a way of tuning your magic to the magic of the mountain. It was an amazing, amazing thing. And to have that, have that ability to have that maybe come back to have a tuned mountain and have a man a glass mountain to that if it is true to be a man of glass mountain. What? if they were able to. charge the whole mountain range.


    The Queen called over one of her. spies slash ladies in waiting. These ladies hope. fully help the queen out when she needed things done. And she basically just said three things to these ladies. Her representatives listen and wrote down her words and then just disappeared As in walking out of the room and will never be seen again until this is done. And by that I mean holy crap, the queen had a cool idea. This is what she said.


    As Queen of the elves, I hereby request under. 100 people of the Elvin population to move to Port Town. This is to do three things. One to make products of Alvin quality and keep the standard of quality in that town to such a high state when it comes to wooden products and anything else is needed. Number two, most of the people will go into the forest and start hunting and clearing the forest and replanting trees for regrowth and starting up. a wood processing industry there. The third is to take almost no money at the beginning for these services But how a large amount of debt owed to the royalty. So when it is time we have the right to request one of the mountain peaks in the mountain range as our own but we will not ask for what''s in the mountain. We''ll ask for what''s on the mountain and we will build a fortress on top of this mountain, one that even the dwarfs will want to help us build one to protect the mountain and the three new kings. And after that is done, we will. give a copy of all of our magic books to this. new clan as a welcome gift. and we will promote magic for the next hundred years in a school in that castle on top of the mountain.


    The king was not just a little taken back. He had a smile on his face, and he was so proud of his wife at how she is. She has so smart, they had time. They just had to make good with all the people that they were going to deal with and to give them good furniture when they had nothing to give them firewood for down to the caves. Give them what they needed to make, what they need, and honestly, to have food coming in. They make. money day in, day out. They know how to do it. They just had to be good to the people and they would and they would make sure food always flowed there and that will always be respected. And that''s all they had to do for the 3 by 3. Either pick the fight or pick the help and they chose to help this town because they believed in it. And honestly, they wanted their own little place there too. Why not? They all done it before. Why could they do it again? They had been. away from war for so long that they just decided it wasn''t worth it. They''d rather bust their **** show little backbone muscle and cut some trees down and turn trees into mana glass


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    Happiness was not the first set of emotions the very. first human who saw the message had when he saw what the 3 by 3 by 3 compactors being activated over


    The reason is that the town, poor town, was a very small town, but it was technically in the humans district, if you will, of the continent. They are allowing all the different groups, but they were at the moment in charge there. So this was more of an invasion to the humans than anything. And they needed to get something out of this. They weren''t just going to give up a land. What the hell?


    This one teddy man. would cost so much problems for the three new kings just because instead of going directly to the human King and queen, he went to one of the generals who wasn''t racist, but had been alive long enough to see some pretty horrific battles and was pretty **** **** about a lot of them. This wasn''t a way of getting back, but before. he took it to the king. He sure by hell would make sure that he understood what was going on on this little short message was not good enough.


    But lucky for the kids. the look of questioning himself, the general. gave off, which he never usually did. Gave this one member of the Royal Guard A bit of hesitation, and he said, directly to him. General, I am going to tell the King and Queen next. And before the general can come out of his stupor the the Royal Guard scribe.  Walked to the king and queen who were in court at that time. And he got in line. to be announced.


    Two things happened within the next three minutes. One, the. member of the court that announces you realize that a page was in line. Pages go around. They tell their thing to the messenger, blah, blah, blah. Unless it''s important, then they get in line. So something important just got in line. Number two, the same. person that would announce you to the king saw the general run up to this person. Drag them off and off to the side for a moment. He overheard. Let me have time to find out more information. I''ll get that to you. Just tell them. But just let them know I''m looking into it. OK. the  Subscribe and the general split in the scribe went back in the line.


    The messenger for the court would have informed the. court guard and the king. If the general had pulled that person out to find out what was going on because I didn''t need to have a repeat of the war 200 years ago because of what''s going on in the background, humans had caused so many problems that they were super paranoid. And that''s just it. It was like an adult watching over their children. They just watched everybody cause they''re expecting everybody to make a mistake. This is. what they allowed the gray church to get so powerful over the years is because they didn''t. ever want to have a war that bad if they were going to do something bad, the great church would come to them and tell them not to be a dip. And they promised to listen after the last two times they didn''t and it almost made the entire continent die through magic and through pure war and death.


    When? The messenger on. the announce the scribe. The script entered. stood in front of the king, and the king asked him to tell us the message. His swap hand signals were already given, and the kicker already knew something was about to happen, so he wasn''t freaked out. He was wide awake and looking.


    The scribe said the following words” King I have emissive from the dwarf in royalty. Informing us active. activation of the three by 3 by 3 compact on the port town of Port Town in our area of the continent.


    Before the king could even say anything. the scribe dropped to his knees, put his head to the ground and put his hands over his head. I said, I apologize your majesty. I informed the general of your army first before telling you and he has already run off to collect more information. This was my. failure and I will accept whatever punishment you deem necessary and proper and just.


    The king looked at the scribe in his armor, bowing to the king, and he looked. the king over at the head of his guard and he nodded twice. The head guard came over and picked up the scribe off. the ground and the king looked the scribe directly in the eyes and said you will spend the next 10 days in the leftmost tower on floor 14.  You will help the witch on floor 14 with whatever she needs and keep her company for the next 10 days as your punishment. You will be fed as a knight should be fed and when you are done you will be going for night''s training and by God you will learn with. gone with you. Please take this night away for re education.


    Under the head nights. helmet. There was this stupidest biggest smile because this is a great way to get a promotion. But it was a **** **** So yeah, there can be a lot of cleaning in this one scribe slash nights future now. the head of the guard just had to go figure out what the general one is up to and get more information himself.


    The king. Before everybody moved, just looked at the head night and gave one nod and said, general. And the night went, yes, Sir. And then took the new to be night and left his. kings thrown room


    The King sat back in his throat. His wife wasn''t with him right now, and he needed to talk to her because well, part of the compact was that each king would have a white and each wife would take care of the great church for king. for their kingdom. So he know. needed to have his wife go talk to the great church and deal with this properly The other countries had their own way of doing it, but they still follow the rules because they technically screwed up the blast 1. So they were then the hot seat until someone else screwed up. Hopefully it wasn''t them again.


    The king then called? on one of his advisors, and told him to send Duke Herald not joking. He was a Harold who then became a Duke. Two port town to take. it over and explain what the **** was going on there within 2 weeks.


    Back in port town.


    Larry had gone back to see his. uncle. and what he found out was the boys just owned the town at this point. They had enough in there to buy at least five or six buildings if they wanted. They''ve already paid from the mine, and they have a surplus of money. So the mayor, I''d already sent a bird messenger. to the gray church, informing them of A1 platinum legal fee needed for the town. Please send lawyers.


    When the mayor told Larry this wow, Larry whistled to have the mayor put a platinum down on this was basically all in basically.


    And they knew everybody was coming so. Larry then just asked his uncle for a note saying that. Larry had the right to order anything he needed from any of the stores in town in any bulk. And if anybody had a problem with it, they were come directly to the mayor. And City Hall And the mayor would pay for these items And if there was no payment, they would take it out of the city''s own coffers until that could be replenished by Larry.


    The way that Larry had worded that the mayor smiled his **** off, signed his paper, wrote it alert and gave it to Larry this way. They could go back and forth when they needed stuff. If they didn''t have the cash, and it would all just come down to what the bank in town hall had, not what the kids had. and they could leverage that down the road if they needed to. But I even Larry didn''t think they needed. But this way, at least they could get what they needed coming and going.


    So Larry went over to the Bruce shop, the local store, to all of them, the bar, everybody showed the piece of paper around, so that when Larry needed stuff, he just had to ask, and the bills would be sent to the mayor. And everybody was on board. It''s like an open black mastercard. Hell yes. Let''s party on Larry''s expense.


    So as Larry made order after order at the general store of the guys, I just started bulging out, knowing he had none of this stuff, and he had to start ordering it, especially amounts of food. And then he caught on, and he just looked at Larry and said, what the **** happened?


    Larry looked over at the shopkeeper and just said three. by three by three at Port Town.


    The man lost 20 years and started acting like a giant kid, dancing around, jumping up and down, being gleeful, hooting and hollering because it was like winning the lottery. It was he. He had to do stuff. He had to get stuff coming in. He wouldn''t have enough stuff soon. Everybody would be buying him out. He''d be empty all the time. He had to get a lot of stuff coming in. Okay. So he had to set up and he just kind of went into his own little world. And Larry just tapped them on his shoulder And the guy had been taking notes up until that point. So Larry just looked down at all the stuff he had requested. He turned paper round, wrote a couple more things at the bottom, signed it, Larry turned it around, gave it to him. The shop owner was just out of his own mind. Just he''s just in La La Land thinking. Larry took off with a smile on his face. He did this three more times in town till. the point where he had everything he could want for food to becoming, for supplies, for everything. And everybody knew about the 3 by 3 by 3 compact. So the town was just in an uproar. Basically, the mayor had just given a black Mastercard to everybody in town to upgrade the living **** out of this **** as quickly as he could be. Four people started showing up, and Larry was the guy they told everybody how awesome they were. Even stopped by the Baker and told the Baker, who then started hiring the thugs and the. the pickpocket kids from around town. Not that that they were pickpocket kids. They all knew who their parents were. But these were the little **** **** that you had. Well, you couldn''t get rid of them. And you hope that they grew up to be a better little people that they were now.


    And when they explained it to the kids, what they were going to be doing, they were literally going to be running bread from building to building every morning and making more money in a day or two days. They did in a week. Each one of the kids and even the thugs are like hell, yeah, we can make sure that no one steals the bread. They''re like, no, no, no. We need to need the dough. We need those muscles. And they just laughed. They no, never had to do violence again. And they got paid with bread every morning. They were kind of in heaven and well, being guys that made beer, free bread means free beer in the end. Kinda. They just had to have time patients and well, yeah, red beer was something that their dad and mum taught them how to make. They could. Well, they knew what they were going to do. So this worked out really well for everybody. Everybody was profiting. And the day wasn''t even done yet.


    *******


    The monk in the librarian always. in the morning, we''re watching the show, and it was always when Larry showed up. Larry was just pure chaos. But to hear everybody cheering before Larry took off out of town, they waved him down. Then they just asked over the balcony what''s going on and all he had to say was this.


    We may have started a three by 3 by 3 compact between the dwarf steel''s and the humans again here in town. You might want to pick up building to turn into your local church before they''re all gone. I give you like 6 hours to talk to the mayor before everything is **** ****


    This was like telling them that they just won the lottery. They, they ran instantly to the mayor, like they didn''t even they came downstairs, and Larry was just standing there, and they ran past Larry. The librarian came up and kissed Larry straight on the lips, and then took off with her soon to be husband, who was super jealous when he saw her do that. But literally was like, okay, that was definitely worth it. This is gonna be fun And the manic look appear insanity on Larry''s face would make John Drew Volta. Just smirk.


    As the monk opened the door to the City Hall for it, it seemed to be white. She rushed in, and the receptionist, the mayor''s assistant, saw them rush in and just pointed up the stairs and said his door is open, go right on in He''s been expecting you.


    The mayor was absolutely **** **** drunk at this point. He had been drinking for a couple days now, and just a smile on his face. Big, rosy nose and everything is like, if I''m going to go out, I''m going to go out drum and stone and full of dainties and super happy. I''m going to have a big steak tonight and he was just with a giant smile in his face.


    He had just become one of the richest mayors in all the continent because of the 3 by 3 by 3 compact. So he knew that the Great Church was going to want some property. So he was waiting, and he was looking out the window, and he saw them rushing up. He just started smiling. And when they came into his office, he just looked out the window, and he pointed to a building right across from the city hall. That was one of the really nice old buildings. It could probably hold around 40-50 people at any one time comfortably.


    The librarian looked out the window, and they shook her head. The monk was kind of a plex, and she said that one and the one on each side of it, please. We''ll pay for it all right now. The gray church will hereby give a life. debt to the town of Port Town. or two members of the Great Church until the proper. currency can be financially held. Also known as we are your hostages and your collateral until the church pays you. Whatever the hell you want for those three buildings.


    The mayor not even trying to like this is a good deal, and his mind he wasn''t going to say no and he was going to have a very large contingent of the block. market probably because of the great church alone, which means whatever they found down there would always have adventures and others to come and help clear it out. And now with the amount of dwarfs like probably 30 to 40 that he was expecting to show up in the next couple of months because they''re going to throw a couple hundred doors at us where he was thinking was. he ever **** out by a couple zeros.


    The monk not giving a **** either, and the librarian just putting up their lies for this went to the mayors desk and pointed at the bottle of booze and the mayor went yo join in and she was. she was going for the boots. The month took the mayor up and found his stash of weed pulled out a joint from the case and started puffing in the mayor''s office booth, then looked over at him and gave him a sneer and said share would you


    The monk smiled ear to ear, handed the joints of the mayor who took 1 hell of a deep drag, handed it back, who the monk actually passed it to. He seemed to be wife who took it and then passed it back to the monk after taking a pull. While that was going on, the mayor was blowing the smoke out the window. And coughing his **** off.


    The mayor''s assistant stuck her head in and. said to the mayor. I feel a little bit energetic. I''m going to go and talk. to my husband for about half an hour I''ll come back. You guys just stay tight and keep happy. I''m going to lock everything up. So let yourself out when you''re done.


    The mayor knew what that meant So about 20 minutes later, what. a very happy howl came from the depths of City Hall and the librarian and the monk looked at each other. They both looked at the mayor who just started to howl. because. his appraiser was putting his hours in, if you know what I mean.


    The town was in party mode, and everybody just didn''t give a **** They knew tomorrow they''d have to work hard. But for today, everybody. was just on cloud 9.


    Within the four days, everybody in town had bought as much land as they possibly could within reason. And IOU''s only went so far before. the mayor had to basically tell everybody, unless you have cold heart cash or something that you can put up as collateral going forward, I have to be able to sell these other people too by the laws. I can''t hoard it at a new hoard site And he started laughing at his own joke.


    What had happened in the past went a three by 3 by 3. Compact would happen. Was, if there was nothing around the first one to get there, would basically own everything. But because there was a town there or a city, the local.''s who could would normally buy as much land as they could, so they would own the town. And then. when the Lord would come in and have to take it over, they would have to pay for what they took over. You couldn''t just take away the land without giving people payment. It just didn''t work like that through the rules of the compact. So by doing this, they were all basically ensuring that they wouldn''t get kicked out and they would make money in there by selling off these pieces of the property. They''re paying cheap for now. But shortly, they would have the ability to say you fix these two pieces of property and you can keep that 1 all of a sudden, all these pieces of property started having small houses and shanty towns built up. And then after a while, if they don''t get them built up to a certain stage, then that would be a forfeit and they would be told to leave and someone else would come and continue on the work or to air down and start over again depending on how bad the work microchip is. And that''s the thing. A lot of people didn''t fail doing this. It wasn''t hard to build a little log cabin. So knowing that there is dwarves coming and that they had forced all around them along. the mountain range. they they knew that they were going to have something beautiful shortly. They just didn''t know what yet. They just had to be ready with all the supplies and especially the food.


    The mayor was thinking of the rules when it came to getting. food into a town for a compact was to find the first traders that come in and make contracts with them to keep supplying over and over and over. And as they had problems, have the adventurous fix the the transport problems seemed to work the best and the safest. And honestly, it made everybody get paid. So yeah.


    *******


    With a couple of jugs of pretty strong homebrew and. 3 bottles  Of a hard cider. The boy said, never tried. He was told by the salesman at the alcohol shop. And his back filled with food in beat jerky and things to keep everybody going, along with a chunk of rope. He started up to go see the boys and go have an adventure with them while he let the town basically implode on itself. It was always fun to come back after a week or two and find how much stuff can change in a short period of time when people put their minds to it. And. well, he was going to ask the boys if he could live with them in the caves because it wasn''t going to be caves for much longer from what he was seeing. And the boys had no idea what was coming. So he had to protect them. So he was going to be around a lot more with them. So he had to get the understanding them better


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    Sound track to larrys adventure with the 3DB’s


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    Did you think that technology didn''t exist in this world? If you did, you''re kind of mistaken. By mistaken, I mean, you''re **** insane. What the hell is wrong with you? Dwarves humans and elves have plains. They have electronics. So to have the absolute. dregs of any society who don''t have a lot be offered a new home. You don''t get in the way of that.


    The king of the dwarfers had sent people immediately to be the first ones to make it to town before anybody else got there, after they received their message. I had only took a couple hours before they had been sent. So those. dwarven riders on especially. raised horses to get very far, very fast, very quick. Made it to Port Town in four days, not 5 1/2 to 6. The horses honestly they think they were going to die. They were so ran dead like they had to stop once or twice. Or else they would have died. But when these horses made it into town, the guy that takes care of the horses in town was going to hurt these dwarfs. He was so angry at them to the point where he called a healer and he told them that he was going to be paying a healer to heal these **** horses before he would take care of them. He wasn''t going to have them die on his watch. And did they understand that the doors not having a **** issue with that said please and thank you, please. and thank you. We have no problem with that. And here and they gave him a each a gold coin for these four dwarfs in full light leathers. for each one of their horses. and said keep them here. We will be back. We have to talk to the mayor immediately.


    Larry was up with the boys. The town had been basically bought out by the locals. And these four dwarfs are literally bolted to town like a lightning bolt. As they get up to the front door, the mayor knows better. He''s not going to get in their way, but he is going to protect his building because they will get violent quicker. They are strong. So he already meets them at the front door and walks out himself and meets them on the stairs just outside the door to the City Hall.


    The mayor just puts up a hand and said, good dwarves. Please tell me who you represent before we communicate. I am the mayor of this town.


    The main dwarf the head honcho of this little expedition says, I have been sent by the king of the dwarves to announce the agreement of the 3 by 3 by 3 compact. It struck. It has started.


    And that the Declaration of war basically made them start jumping up and down and hugging each other. And they just looked around at their new town because they weren''t leaving. The Bayer understood that war nowadays was a little bit different, and he was kind of really happy. This is the more civil version of this. So he just pointed over at the end. It said, boot and booze over there. It''s on me. Tell them, and they just, they just shook their head. They said, no, we brought buddy. Don''t ever have to worry about that again. You have no idea what it meets to us to give us back, not just a clad, but three new kings at a hoard at the mayor hearing those words. More the **** first time dropped to his **** right there. The three by three by three, called back to his like, winning in the lottery having three kings. He almost expected, but the horde they didn''t expect him to agree to the hoard, because that means that the whole place was under protections and no one was allowed to start murdering others. All the major parties would said their kings here, if there was a problem, which means he just went pale white. He just became the mayor of a peaceful, superpower town And I depuked. He absolutely puked on his front steps off to the side a little bit behind a pillar. But he just started puking, losing everything that he''d been drinking. And the dwarfs looked over and just started laughing because, well, it''s not the first time or last time a message from a dwarf will make a human puke. They''re guts out. And they just started laughing and patting him on the back


    When the mayor was finished, he came up for breath and wiped the sludge from his mouth on his sleeve. They looked over his shoulder at the dwarfst. They all just gave him thumbs up. They said, it''s a pleasure to meet you, mayor. We''ll talk to you later. Good luck. You''re going to need it. Have they all just smiled and laughed out and made a joke about the mayor being a light weight when drinking.


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    Larry''s adventure to meet up with the boys.


    So Larry made it back up to the campsite and found the cave entrance to be plugged in. Kind of freaked out a little bit when he noticed that. But as he looked around, he saw where they had hidden the red. flag last time, and there was another little round piece of wood there with no flag. But Larry recognized it.


    It just said in writing, stay in. our house will be back. See you soon.


    Larry wasn''t gonna say no, but when he went into the house, he realized that there was a whole walk of little rooms and little outcoops to sleeping. And Larry had one of them carved with his name, and it was. the biggest one on the floor and by the door. And it would be the one that the dwarf brother. s would always give to the one who was keeping eye on the house. So it just felt right to give it to Larry. One of the men told the others They all agreed without having to say much other than a head nod So Larry realized that the boys really did adopt him and he really did adopt the boys. So Larry not being right into. like mining with tools and all that didn''t mean he didn''t know magic. And he knew enough magic to realize that he could do a little bit around the place. So the thing with magic and minerals specially mountains, if the mountain was magical enough, you could basically use the rock''s own latent stored magic energy to do small things And if you had a focus, you could use that to focus the areas to do more detailed fine things. And that would absorb all the energy in the area. While Larry didn''t have a focus, but when he went and started touching the walls, he felt magic. Like more than you did outside or anything like this little room. And then he realized that the boys must have. had that little piece of gem, that little piece of clear glass in this room. So Larry realizing that this could have been bad goes around and just are touching the wall in certain places and smoothing out little bits here and little bits there and just starts making it look nicer and feel nicer and little things like popping a back hole under the fireplace and cleaning out the flu by putting his hand up there and just smoothing it. Like even the smoke in there, the flu was semi magical. Like something was definitely going on. And the boys had definitely found something and it wasn''t until Larry had camped out there overnight, gotten drunk off the dwarven heavy stuff and woke up to three little kids poking him. Great. Is he alive? Is he alive?


    Larry tried to open his eyes, but it hurt. He went to smile ''cause he could hear them. And even smiling hurt. So he just said, keep it down. I''ll be with you in a couple minutes. One of them handed Larry a cup, and Larry just downed it, not realizing it was the cup from last night, and it was more of the whiskey. So after a couple of seconds of sputtering and fallen out of his bed. and then truthfully, him just kind of sitting there being drunk and beginning drunker. He said hi guys, I need some food. Excuse me. And he just moved himself on all cores around for his backpack and started grabbing some old, a day old bread and started shoving into his face. He then found his water sack and started just drinking. He realized that he felt like **** So he ran out of the house, not the puke, but while the other end.


    The boys were in the house talking when Larry came back in. He was semi sober and a lot less in pain. And he was now focusing enough to be able to go, hello. I''m glad to see you guys are okay. I have some. paperwork for you. And he dove into his backpack and pulled out the adoption form. Basically, the mayor has signed off on and the information about the declaration of war on the town.


    Larry, being the **** disturber that he was, just sat there, smiling, letting them read it, going through the motions of what? Ah, this is great. This is not great. This is great. This is not great. This is war because of us. What? And he goes literally. You guys are now the king of this mountain, the three of you. 3 kings. This is your horde. Do you understand what that means?


    All three of them, almost in sync, just shook their head. No. And Larry kind of face palm that they didn''t know what a hoard that they even had was. So Larry sat there and explained it to them while they. well, ate some of the food he brought for them. They''re hunger for being down in the cave system.


    Larry explained that a long time ago, Dragons still were around, and Dragons were large lizards that had been evolved because of magic. They basically had gone into a cave and their eggs had been maturated around magical energies, enough that when they were born, they were bigger and stronger. And generation after generation, they got bigger, strong and smarter to the point they could understand language. And then their culture starts survive. because most of them didn''t ever lose the aggressive tendencies other than the lizards they came from. A lot of times they would do things that would get them exterminated and only the ones with great sentience communication and the heart not to kill were honestly left alone. The ones that would go into a town and just slaughter for food because they wanted to eat something and oh, look, a human was there or anything like that. They would. Yeah, they would put down those type and a lot of times the Dragons that were more mature would even try to take those younger ones someplace where they could train them. But they didn''t have a great success rate because they were just so feral. So a long time ago, one of these smartdragons had his whole and after. he threatened to annihilate an entire kingdom. All he asked is to be left alone and is hoard not to be stolen. And that was absolutely fine Now he didn''t live more than A150 more years after that. Well, 200 years later, some stupid. adventurous decided to triumph. down into this rumored place where the dragon horde that hadn''t been seen in 200 years. Blah, blah, blah, all that jazz. And they found it. So they claimed it promptly through the government, through the kingdom itself that started. up rules that it ever found a horde, something that was precious. You could claim it. And because of that, that was now the new standard for any kings and Queens to have storage. So rulers of countries would literally dig out the mountains and create entire bolts inside the mountains that would be their hordes. These were recognized and overtime wars were fought over hordes until the Great War happened, where the three great nations dwarf L and human all agreed to never, ever have a war like that again. They would agree to have plans and hordes And the goal was to civilize the entire continent. They hadn''t even traveled away from their continent to other lands except in very, very rare expeditions. And most of those never came back. And from what they could tell, there was more land out there. But due to the fact that magic was in the air. flying in the first hundred to 200 years was not a possibility. So boats. And then they found munchers in the sea and just a lot of bad things nowadays. What would happen is they would take a plane and they would send it a 1 way trip with a magical device to send back images and that would be a way for them to plan 1 way trip across to make landfall. And they had done this in 1 or 2 spots. But these were small expeditionary camps that honestly, even after 50 years we''re still very small because not a lot of people wanted a one way trip. So when the great compact of three by three by 3 was agreed on, they would never ever start a grand war. Each would be a micro war, a war of economics and how it would work is if you wanted something in the other''s land, you could ask for it. You could take it, but you would have to prove first that you would take it or that you could supply what the people were asking for before even that if you were going to be there, you were there to protect the area, not eradicate the people and take it from them. The people that were there could be bought and their land could be given like the sold to the new groups. So if the Earth Kingdom had land that the dwarfing kingdom wanted the dwarfing Kingdom could form a proper town city and pay taxes properly every single one of them. Or they could buy the land and turn it into a dwarven and pay the dwarven king his tide. Who would then pay the king of the humans for the land It''s all about the prophets. At the same time, if one of the parties didn''t care or didn''t want to get involved, they didn''t have. So in this case the elved didn''t want to get involved in the land distribution dispute. But they wanted to be there to make money and buy products and sell their products, which was economical in its own right.


    Larry laid it all out and he explained to them that by his guess he was going to stay up here for at least a week with them. And then when that week was up, all of them, all four of them, would have to go into town and they would have to sign papers and become proper citizens now. due to the fact that they had been shaving this whole time, they would. start to meet dwarfs and Larry had to explain to them some of the stuff they just didn''t know. And Larry even had to learn it recently to make sure that he understood the cultural ramifications for shaving their beard It was a sign that the person didn''t just not have a clan, but they didn''t believe themselves to be dwarfish or didn''t have the proper upbringing that all doors were taught with for them to be shaving it and running around like they were It was. odd, but Larry told them to not stop for one year because until one year passed they needed. to keep the traditions that they had started going and in one year there would be a council meeting that the 3 boys, the 3 kings would be invited to where they would decide the outcome of the war They had one year. to figure out how to control the town. And that was one of the things in the compact you had to be able to control and protect the town. You had to control and protect your hoard and any people that belong to your plan had to be under your control and pay taxes properly and do it legally for proof that those people were not just hired to hire to be there for and then leave, but that they were staying there to make a home. This is to prove that it wasn''t just taking area. drain it dry and then run away. Well, this was done. It was a proper war. This was not taken lightly.


    The boy''s reversing giant chunks of information. And Larry knew this, and he was just riling them up. But he just, at the end, he said, calm down. Don''t worry about it. For the next week, you only have one job, and that''s to show me how deep you and me can get in here safely. And then.


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    Larry did. something he loved. He loved doing, but knew better to Jen to use this other than it wasn''t an emergency magic. It was more suited for exact lead this moment when he had to share. not just information, emotion and feeling But he had to explain what was going on. So they understood. So instead of just talking, he turned on his mind magic. and told the boys to all hold hands. And when they did, Larry showed them what his imagination could dream up.


    The bore of them were sitting around the table, but below their feet there was nothing. They could see the chair and they could see the table, but underneath it all around them was just sky and then. they started to fall, but nothing moved. There was like watching a T V screen and it was moving


    They flew past the clouds falling as soon as the cloud cover broke. They slowed down, and they just looked down over there. entire continent. And then the distance they could see two other continents, one from the left and 1 to the right. So they were right over the main constant.


    The view then streamed as fast as it could possibly go without becoming too blurry over to Port Town.


    The boy is at this point something inside them, touched on something in Larry, and Larry was taken to a moment where the three of them sat on the pier with the sun set. And Larry looked at the 3 of them as they sat there. They look back and said, that''s where our bars gonna be. One day, boys, and they all agreed. And Larry said, damn right. I. After that, they zoomed through town, like through the buildings and above, all the way up to their house. But it wasn''t their house. Their cabin was different. It was bigger. It was more pronounced. And the cave was all cleaned out. And I had a gate on it. And as they got closer, the gate just opened, and they flew in. And it wasn''t a small cave anymore. It was dwarf and cut tunnels. And it went on and on, and it just, it was Larry''s dream of what this could be And it was just random, but they flew through cave after tunnel, after Grand Cathedral, until Larry just stopped in the grandest of all cathedrals. And behind him, there were three thrones. The boys didn''t even realize it, but within a flash and a blink of an eye, the three of them were sitting in the Thrones, and Larry was at the bottom of the staircase after the Thrones, looking at them with smiles and just said, I believe in you three. And he bowed and took a knee.


    Well, Larry wasn''t expecting what happened next, because the whole connection went. wobbly and wet, and it wasn''t until they pulled their hands away that they realized the boys were just lovering. I mean, full on cry and Larry, who had a couple of tears strictly coming down that he had a giant smile on his face and he goes boys. You don''t know what''s coming, but it''s not bad. I trust me when I say you only have one thing to do for the next week. Show me how deep your rabbit hole goes, because we''re going to go down into your horde and see how far we can go. And you got to show me the best things that you can show me. Can you do that for me?


    Not realizing that he just hit a sensitive subject one in three looked at chew like their heads whipped over at him when he said that. And to just smiled and nodded one nod and one in three just smiled so big as they were not going to be afraid to show Larry the secret they had found. And they didn''t need to say much more. They just put out the fire in the fireplace and started packing up. And Larry didn''t need to be told he knew what was going on. The boys are ready to go. So I took him about 20 minutes to turn everything off and clean everything up. And yeah, this is a Bush campsite. as they were about to leave, Larry had an idea, and he had brought some ink to refill old school ink pens. He took a piece of paper, and he poured a little bit of the income paper, and then folded the paper so that it covered almost all the paper like a Warshak test, except he told the boys to come here. And he put the piece of paper on the rock table that they had made And Larry put his hand on it, and then he put it down on the table and left a hand in print. Then. he told the boys to put theirs in each of the 41. of the other three corners of the four corners of the table facing inward and do the same thing. And all three of them followers a great idea. So they did that and they left their handprints on the table, their own little round table their family table.


    Larry just threw the paper into the fire, and the little bit of heat that was left actually lit the fire. into the paper and the ink, not realizing but the magic in the ink because somehow there was magic in this ink. And even Larry didn''t buy magic ink. So what the hell it? made little sparkles as in the fire went out and the last remnants of that piece paper littered up the flu. It was magical looking, but to to it wasn''t just magical. He saw something special. because he wasn''t. trying to use his ability to see magic and it activated naturally. It stopped. needing to be turned on and off. And it was just on this. And this. was well let''s say trippy would be an understatement.


    One in three had seen this partially before, and it was overuse of the ability, except you hadn''t used it in a couple of days because they said not to. So this. they just watched to make sure he had lost it and he seemed absolutely coherent, just super happy and look. at things that they couldn''t see.


    Larry was gonna leave some of his stuff behind, but the boys just told him not to and to follow them. And as he started to walk to the back of the cave, he got really confused until he saw them literally disappear as he got closer. He noticed that there was a piece of stone that they had moved out of the way. But if you hadn''t known a look, it would look like the wall. And once he popped his head in the back, he realized there was another whole cave back there where they had made beds and everything. Or is there a little hiding hole,  It wasn''t until he put his pack through. And then, well, crawled through to get in. Did he realize that it wasn''t just one cave? It was a scent of little caves. I''ll attach each other bubbles and the whole mountain was like this, except it was super solid. So. they had to be very careful how they dug through this. He just now realizing. So they told him to leave most of his stuff here. And they were going to just take him for the the tour of the staircase as they made and give him some information. And then they were going to come back and rest for the night. And depending on if there''s anybody in there. home when they got back, which and he showed the kids showed Larry that they made little keep holes and everything they could plug with rocks and Yeah. the last thing they did before they went down was they closed the little hatch to their home and they put a rock on the backside and it was a perfect fit so that no one could push from the other side. It could only be open from this side. So no one was going to get in in there.


    The Grand Tour. It was amazing. They had gone down 26 of the tunnels, the little orbs, and they shown Larry and thank goodness for the stairs as Larry was having trouble. He was big and these things weren''t that small or big at times. Some of them are a little bit bigger and he had to do some maneuvering and some of them they actually had to make a 1 or 2 of them a little bit bigger to get him through. So after around 25 and you were on 26 they told Larry you can''t come past 2425 here and he asked why and he said look down and. it wasn''t until they put their lights out did Larry freak out and realized that they were over a very, very large cave. But there was light everywhere and they had explained on Cape 4 there was a crystal day broke and it let some oxygen or something in and after that just turned on and they''re worried that if they activated the wrong way they could burn it all out or it caused an explosion. So they had sealed it up and it giving off this light already. and Larry right there knowing exactly what the **** was going on said you guys are idiots. Do you know what man a glass is?


    And the three of them actually knew they had been told stories when the religious church had been grown up in about how the dwarfs had found pieces of cleared glass that when you put light through it, it would basically admit Manna Energy and things in that area would then start absorbing it.


    The boys. were then directly asked about that little piece of glass they sent with the bag that he took into the mayor. And what were they found in what was going on? Literally number two with a rope tied around him. Crawled into 20SIX''S room and went to the edge. He then took a little hammer and took a piece of the broken edge and it was about the size of his hand. Like a fist size chunk of glass. He brought it back and he gave it to Larry Larry just froze. He wouldn''t take it. He wouldn''t do anything and he just looked around the room. He was inside of a giant orb of this glass. But he looked around. There was different colors. This one was blue and green. The one in the next chamber. The floor was clear and the ceiling was black and the walls were blue and green. It was like something had changed. And he realized that there was pieces of glass probably down below that were getting light.


    He told him to throw that piece of glass into the hole and never show anybody where this is until he is told to because this was not just a heart of their horde. This was the big enchilada, the big, big everything to them.


    One and three and two just snickering through each other ''cause they just looked hilarious. Larry, if that''s important, what we''re going to show you next is going to make this look like it''s kid stuff. Ready. Come with us.


    They backtrack up to the 17th or cave, and then went to the right. And this is literally where they''re going into the bigger cases in the bathroom. And the only. person that could make their way through the different twists and turns of all the little caves they went into next. They took them above an hour, but it wasn''t until number two. followed his sight that he led them back to the one glass wall that had the clear liquid in it. And now it wasn''t clear anymore. It was starting to get black. But the moment they got close to it and they put the light up to it. the lights itself took the material from block to clear and it glowed. The moment they did that, the room started to glow all around them. Larry just stood there, realizing how the three kids had just killed them. And they didn''t even realize it.


    Larry wasn''t too sure what he was looking at, but from what he could tell, the moment they brought light in, he he actually stopped right there before he continued to think and he just stopped, looked at them and said turn off your lights right now. You never have light in this room, ever again until until we explain you have just found. something so powerful that it could explode. Do you understand what I''m saying with those words?


    The three of them not needing light, because the room was quite glowing as it was. just nodded their head and were like, okay, we understand what you''re saying. What do we do now? And he just asked, Kay, if we leave right now, will it go back to being dark and not clear? And they just said, yes, we checked it 3 times, and then he shuddered when they said three times. And he said, okay, let''s get to hell outta here. Oh my god.


    They backtracked for about 20 minutes until they were in the middle of what they called the labyrinth. It was just a lot of different rooms that were connected together through areas where the two orbs touched, and there would be a little hole. Some of the holes bath would fly through. Other water had come through and and they had themselves had broken a couple of them to get through to the other ones. Larry. sat down and just had to think and he could see it in there. It was everywhere this this. wasn''t small pieces of man a glass. It was one big piece of manic glass. They were in the middle of a giant piece of maniglass and they had no idea how how. like like the only thing I think saved these kids was all that the fire that had happened here had covered everything so that there was no reflections. But that wasn''t going to last. And as soon as some light came in, the mountains might explode this. This was insanity. There was more wealthier than in the whole country, whole continent. and these 3 the three of them.  8 year olds were in charge He just started laughing to himself and laughing and laughing and then the three of them  Asked if he was okay Are you all right


    Larry just had to call him himself, so he said, OK, here''s what we''re going to do. We''re going to go Oh, how did you even find this? And that''s when. two just stepped up and said I can see magic He can taste magic. Number three and number one, we don''t know yet what his magical ability is, but he can tell the difference by the. smell and taste of it. Three can do. He''s actually the one that picked most of the or that went into the the bin. And I''ve picked that one piece of glass at threw it in the bag I thought the metal would have been more important. I thought it was glass, but I didn''t think it was manic glass. But Managlass has, from what I understood, it''s. never very powerful. You always put more light in than you get man out. Why are you so scared of us with the lights here? Like it shouldn''t do what you''re saying.