| An ancient prophecy foretold of a child born in the city of Stoatsford with a compass-shaped birthmark, who would grow up to be the greatest Wizard ever known. You have a birthmark like that, but at first you were only a sort of okay Wizard. Everyone has to start somewhere, I guess. As luck would have it, you found yourself wandering through the sleepy village of Frog just as the village people (you know, the construction worker, the cop, the Indian) were beset by the evil Overlord Krampus, who had poisoned the town's earwig population. Against your better judgment (and with the hope of fat loot to come), you agreed to try and bring the villain to justice. It wasn't a thing until you got lost in a ruin -- all the walls looked exactly the same! You did find a sweet bastard sword +1 in a gazebo's lair, though, and were able to intimidate some jerks into telling you where their boss's hideout was. Right before they stabbed you in the ear. Nevertheless, you fought your way through evil overlord's necropolis, dispatching dire dwarves left and right, and finally arrived at the throne room of the Dark Barbarian Blackfist. After a long and dramatic battle, you plunged your shiv into his foot. The entire dungeon unexpectedly began to collapse as soon as the evil has-been was dead, but you managed to escape with your life, and claimed your reward from the grateful people of Swampleton.
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