Post by Myu Windrivver on Dec 16, 2003 8:01:38 GMT -5
Myu’s First Story: The First Meeting Between Taman Windrivver and Mainu of Chult
My father is Taman Windrivver, and he is an adventurer of no small renown, or, at least, that’s how he likes to call himself. When he was only slightly older then me, he and his companions set sail to the Jungles of Chult, in search for the lost city, which belonged to the ancient empire of some kind, and a powerful magical artifact, which was located in there according to the ancient book in their possession. However, on their journey through the Jungles of Chult, father and his companions were attacked by some kind of undead creature, and it… somehow harmed my father. I am not exactly sure how, but I believe, that what this undead creature did is called ‘energy draining’ or something like that. Since nobody among father’s companions could help him, he insisted upon attempting to find some kind of local village and possibly somebody who would be able to help him there. Whether it was a pure coincidence, or Tymora’s divine intervention, for at that time father worshiped Our Smiling Lady, for father and his companions indeed happened to find a local village, where mother, who was known only as Mainu of Chult then, lived. My mother was… away at the time when father and his companions came to her village, but father learned that local villages indeed had a healer among them, insisted upon waiting for mother to return, to his companions’ great displeasure, I must add. Finally, after father and his companions waited for a few days, mother returned, and that was when she and father met for the first time. Later father claimed, that he was so smitten by mother’s wild beauty, that for some time he forgot the reasons why he came there. On the other hand, mother was interested, intrigued and charmed by father’s strange but charming manner of speaking, acting and dressing, and also by his dashing spirit and willingness to gamble his life upon the roll of the die, even though mother never admitted it, probably even to herself. Even when father finally gathered his thoughts, and spoke out a reason of why he sought her, he wasn’t disappointed at all when mother answered that she doesn’t know how to help him. Afterwards, father insisted upon waiting until the morning before departing deeper into Jungles of Chult, and fortunately his companions agreed, because he had quite an influence among them, mostly because he provided them with a free ship to Chult and then back to Waterdeep. Since the local villagers had a small celebration of some kind that day, father used it as a good excuse to show his singing and musical talents, for among his others positive qualities my father is good performer. After this celebration was over, father kinda offered to mother to perform more for her in private, if she wasn’t tired, and to father’s great surprise, mother agreed, and father and mother stayed together in mother’s house for a quite a part of the night. Even though mother couldn’t understand some of the things father was talking and singing about, especially she couldn’t understand the point of what father called ‘adventuring’, mother was more and more enamoured of father. However, due to her… khm… rather unpleasant experience in the past, mother didn’t showed her feeling, and father later admitted, that he completely couldn’t understand what she was feeling and thinking then. Eventually, father passed out because of tiredness, as unfortunately great endurance was never among father’s positive qualities. Try to imagine father’s embarrassment when he awoke in mother’s house in the morning, without remembering how he fall asleep and what happened or didn’t happened during the night! In fact, mother later claimed, that father’s cute embarrassment was the final cause that made her realize that she fallen in love with him, even though she didn’t admitted her feelings for him then, and didn’t followed him into the lost city, which she rightly believed to be cursed. On the other hand, even though father felt urge to stay with mother, his desire to discover undiscovered and to explore unexplored was too great for him to overcome, and so, father promised mother to return to her, and then proceeded with his companions toward the lost city. But, as you can guess, my father returned from there, and meet my mother once again, but… that is another story!
