Leru's life got boring. Twelve years ago he thought that retirement was a good idea. And, maybe, at first it was. He settled with his companions and seven dwarfs in Kingauthor in 255. The main reason for his decision was Ona. At first she was just another companion, but over time Leru started to care about her. After she got injured again, he began to think about retirement. He also wasn't in a perfect shape: his neck and hand bore big scars, his foot and lower body were burned with all of the fat boiled. Even though Leru is a huge, unbelievably strong human (the reason why he's called 'The Titan'), who killed two titans, a giant, a dragon and countless goblins, he still knew that with such lifestyle they will eventually die.
At first retirement was okay. There was a lot of work to do, Leru and Ona got married and got three kids. But after a while it got boring. So in 267 The Titan took some food, a barrel of beer, his trustworthy pickaxe and went on the next adventure. But this time he convinced Ona to stay with kids, to keep her safe. Onul 'The Badger' joined him on his adventure. She was his companion and a good friend for a long time. Onul also left her dwarven child at home with her husband.
So, they headed north. Leru didn't have any specific plan, but he heard from a caravan about Goldencut - small settlement in 2-3 days to the north. On the way Onul killed few badgers, proving her name, but nothing else happened. When they reached Goldencut it seemed oddly quiet. They entered the gate, and the first thing they saw was a huge pile of dog corpses. Farther back was even bigger pile of dead turkeys.
They heard some noises from the main building in the middle, and few dwarven merchants and a dog came out. They told Leru a story, story that changed him forever, the story about Glazedhollow, or Fikodugosh, as they called him. The Titan wanted to know how it ended for Glazedhollow and 'Turkey'.
Drink didn't help much. Leru knew that this wasn't his fight, but this time he couldn't stay aside. After looking around for awhile he found Glazedhollow and 'Turkey', they were still together, rotten away, but still holding onto each other.
From this point Leru 'The Titan' knew what he was going to do. He'll make those elves pay with their blood. Merchants told that attackers were from The Lake of Symmetry - civilization of elves far away to the south-west. Group spend one last night in comfort and headed west first thing in the morning. They knew journey would take at least a week, so they moved fast. After a couple of days Leru and Onul got ambushed.
Goblins made a mistake
And dual wielding turkeys proved to be a decent weapon.
Later they were attacked by lions.
And a cheetah
When Leru entered some forest retreat populated by goblins, the sight of a big man wielding two dead turkeys terrified some goblins:
In one and a half weeks they finally reached Fordraces, the capital of The Lake of Symmetry. Leru approached some elf on a tree to ask him questions
Elf probably thought that they were suspicious. He also didn't like it when Leru offended his beloved 'tangled greenery'.
After some searching Leru found a big tree with widely spread branches. He climbed up, and near the top he found a skinny female elf wearing sophisticated clothing. She looked nervous, but started the conversation first:
Immediately Leru felt that she was lying
She just makes excuses, she knows why Leru came!
That for Glazedhollow and 'Turkey'! Now that she's dead, there are few other options what to do. Leru may bring turkeys back to Kingauthor for proper burial, he also may glorify Glazedhollow's name by killing as much beasts as possible, or he could try bringing them back to life. What do you think he should do?
For those, who interested how I added a dialog option to ask about Glazedhollow: Using gui/gm-editor for Leru, I looked for his historical figure entry. There, in 'info.relationships.list' I added two more relationships with historical figures ids of Glazedhollow and 'Turkey'. After that they would appear as dialog options and storytelling options. Also, 'Turkey' corpse was authentic, even though there was a lot of corpses named 'Turkey'. Again, I looked for a corpse with specific historical figure associated with it.
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