Forest-y Adventures

[Guu]

Nyeseth, with little hesitation, picks up Desco and places her on one of the horses. Guu climbs on to her dinosaur followed quickly with Nyes, Seraph, and the strange man climbing on their own horses.

“This way!” He yelled. The group rode following the strange man.

Just as they get moving, hundreds, maybe even thousands of animals of many types and sizes burst through he edge of the forest, trampling trees and brush in their wake. The group and their horses dodge the rampaging horde of dinosaur and wild beast. Nyeseth snatches up Guu and places her on his horse as a giant mammoth stomps on her poor velociraptor, flattening it into a jelly smear in the dirt. The group rides out of the path of the stampede. Glancing over their shoulders, they watch as the picnic they had carefully put together is ran over by the panicked creatures.

“My hero.” Guu rather monotonically exclaimed as she hugged him from behind. He felt a small shiver go down his spine from this, but he was relieved everyone got out okay.
As they were clear of danger, Nyeseth rode up to the strange man.
“Thank you,” Nyes said, humbly, “I think you saved our lives.”
“The name’s Jereth, and you’re quite welcome.” He said. “If you’d like to repay the debt, my boss maybe interested in offering you some work; a bit of an adventuring job that’d be perfect for you and your two daughters.”
“They’re not actually my…”
“He’s this direction!” Jereth interrupted, riding faster.
Nyeseth wasn’t sure if he could trust him, but he did just save his life.

The strange man led them a good 15-20 minutes to a hidden off building at the edge of another woods (one that wasn’t on fire.) These woods looked more like something out of fairy tale, the building itself barely looked like it should hold together, like some sort of magic was keeping it from falling apart.
Jereth stepped off his horse carrying two blindfolds.
“I’m sorry, but your two kids need to be blindfolded until we make it to my boss’ office. We don’t allow children in there and normally we’d make them wait outside, but I figure you wouldn’t want to let them out of your sight.”
Nyeseth reluctantly agreed, tying blindfolds around Guu and Desco’s eyes.

The group enters the building, and immediately sees why they didn’t allow children in there. A small cloud of smoke hung heavily in the air as women of different shapes, sizes, and species did business. They were all wearing next to nothing, some entirely naked, talking seductively at male suitors. Some were heading off to the back room, off to do business hidden from the world; elves, goblins, gnomes, humans alike, all of them under one roof to do the unspoken deed. Some of them looked up with concern when children passed by, but many were too wrapped up in the moment to even notice.
“We have the most interracial workforce in the area.” Jereth said as he led the group through the establishment. “I guess this is something all races have in common.”

He led them to an office separated from the action outside. Jereth undid the blindfolds for Guu and Desco. Sitting behind the desk in front of them was a larger burly man, kind of reminiscent of a lumberjack. He appeared to be an incredibly ripped human. Putting out his cigar, he turned to face the group that stood before him.
“You have very unique daughters Mr. Soul Reaper.” Said the boss, “if I didn’t have moral obligations against it, I’d offer them jobs at this establishment on the spot.”
“How did you-” Nyeseth began, but was interrupted.
“My men witnessed the whole incident in the Nexus. When we received word you were coming to the Tangled Green, I sent Jereth to pick you up.” He continued, speaking very candidly and warm. “The name’s Hank. Hank the Frank they call me. I hope this establishment didn’t put you off, we try to run a fair business here.”
Hank extends a hand to shake. Nyeseth cautiously takes it.
“Nyeseth.”
“Well, Nyeseth, you’re a good man. Even though both of these kids proved to be more than just normal children, you still took them on. You have an unsegregated heart.”
Hank walked towards the window and looked forlornly out into the wilderness the building borders.
“The daughter of one of my employees has gotten herself lost in the woods out there. Currently, volunteers from the local village are out looking for her. However, there’s a problem. You see…”
He sighed, walking up to and sitting back down into his chair to tell them face-to-face, his face filled with concern.
“You see… she has the power to turn secondaries such as herself into stone. She inherited it from her father’s side. While she’s a really good kid and would never use it for evil, she doesn’t have full control over it. The villagers are deeply fearful of magic, and I doubt she’s in the state of mind to control her powers at the moment. If they find her, they’ll most likely discover her little secret. I don’t know what they’ll do to her…”
He paused for a second to recompose himself.
“I’d rather not find out. Which is why I need a group of powerful primes such as yourselves to find her before the villagers do. You’re primes, so you are not vulnerable to her power, and I’m sure you guys could find her faster than most people around here. I’ll pay you the usual fee and I’ll owe a huge favor… So, what do you say? Will you accept the mission?”