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This story was not originally meant to ever be a book. I still feel this media doesn't do the story justice. For years I pondered how best to tell the story, and truth be told I don't consider myself the best of writers. If I were to have this story told properly, I'd want it to be in the form of Anime/Manga. My tale you're about to read does not have a beginning or an end that can all be summed up in one book. It doesn't fit well to have smaller books that say might have 40-50 all together throughout the series either. It certainly doesn't fit a movie standpoint as the movie would never end. Perhaps someone could give it justice if it were to be on a television network, but that still doesn't perceive the way I want it to be told.
What truly fits this story best would be a manga book or comic that stretches on for two to three hundred chapters. The heroes come across bad guys at certain times, there are some filler moments to build character, but ultimately it takes time to reach the final goal. And sadly I have no artistic skills in drawing whatsoever; trust me, I've tried. So I work with what I know, and at least this way I get the ideas down on paper, the dialogue said, the story shown. But this portion of the explanation prior to my book goes out to all you artists out there. I would love for someone to take my ideas and draw them out as they are meant to be. Naturally I'd want to work with you on the project, but we can talk details if anyone ever takes up my offer.
So now I want to share with you were my ideas came from. It all started with my best friend whom I met in high school. He was our Captain, and I loved him very much. It breaks my heart to say he is no longer with us. This is the driving force for me sharing what I have with you today. This story originally started out as a table-top role-playing game where Captain was our dungeon master. It was him, my college roommate and his best friend, and myself. The four of us set out on an adventure where we were the bad guys and all forms of chaos and bad things happened.
The session lasted a single semester which didn't really get us that far. After Captain passed away, I sought to keep the story going. I started my own campaign and tried telling the story through three different groups over a period of six years trying to get the whole thing done from start to finish. It was exhausting! Finally after succeeding in where Captain left us off I began planning what would happen next. But I couldn't just write from say chapter 32. I wanted to write everything down from the very beginning. So here I am again, telling his story.
Now most of the story you're about to read didn't happen the way that it was originally designed. In fact, the only character that stayed true was the main character whom I played myself way back when. The other characters were all taken from the other three campaigns I ran that my friends played out as they rolled their dice. Using those heroes as a general starting point, I tweaked them to fit together in the grand scheme of the story so you'll get the best telling of all versions of what happened in the kingdom of Norgate.
But I have noticed I came across one big issue. Most of the places the four heroes travel to were not named by myself. The first city they find themselves is a place called Galvarez. I've looked all over the internet to make sure that this really was some random name Captain came up with, but I have my doubts. Why? Because the main villain he submitted to us was named Alexstraza. I thought that was the coolest name. She's a red dragon with a fiery temper and plenty of power to strike fear into her enemies. The only issue is that the name Alexstraza is already taken by an online gaming system even though the only similarity between the two that I found was the name and the fact she was a red dragon. So I changed her name to Alexandria. Hopefully my loyal readers won't hold a grudge.
My fear is that there are most of these annoying Easter eggs planted in the writing that I simply don't know about. SO! If you happen to see that something you read smells a little fishy, please notify me right away so that I may make the necessary changes. I don't want to be out here stealing someone else's idea. Same as I wouldn't want anyone trying to take mine. Save for the above mention of wanting someone to draw this story out for me. I hope you enjoy the tale set in front of you and hopefully something even greater can come from it.
Also, please don't actually reply to this thread. This is where I will be submitting more of my writings when I have spare time and this thread will catalog them for me. Thank you for taking the time to read Captain's story <3