(I incorporated some suggestions that Jeff gave me as well as some changes suggesten in previous comments on the old story. As the blog does not notify me of comments, please send any further feedback to me by email so that I can have this tightened up and solid by our meeting.)
The town of Cogshire was a thriving gnomish community. Set within the energy-rich confines of a geothermic crater in the shadow of a secluded volcano, the citizens of Cogshire spent their days happily gathering crystals from the rock walls of their unconventional home. These crystals were as unusual as the town of Cogshire itself. Years prior, the founders of Cogshire had discovered that these crystals could hold energy that they were exposed to. A visionary gnomish inventor Whizzbang Fiddlesprocket, devised a contraption that purified and focused the energy of the sun itself to be used in these crystals, and for decades these powered the myriad devices of Cogshire.
Today however, the thriving town of Cogshire is dying. Our hero enters the town via elevator systems that are running a little too slow and a bit too sluggish. He/She finds the townsfolk are scared; their way of life is being threatened, and the only person who can save them, Bob, a direct descendant of Fiddlesprocket, has vanished. Furthermore, the town of Cogshire has been beset by a plague of terrifying nightmares that have made sleep all but impossible for the once happy gnomes. Our hero must take on quests for the townspeople which will eventually lead him/her to the mine with the last two uncorrupted crystals that exist in Cogshire to investigate Bob’s strange disappearance. At the mine entrance, our hero meets a strange yet helpful witchdoctor.
The witchdoctor tells our hero that the mine has been sealed because an aberrant crystal was found, and when Bob had gone into the mine to investigate, he did not return. Guards were sent in who found that Bob and the aberrant gem had both vanished, and the mine was sealed immediately to prevent further mishaps.
He explains that the town is dying because the Fiddlesprocket’s mechanical statue in the center of town is slowing down. The only person who can fix it is Bob. He also tells the hero that the crystals in the mine are being corrupted by what he believes to be an imbalance between the planes which started shortly after Bob’s disappearance. Not only is this destroying the gnomes’ entire way of life, these corrupted crystals are radiating some kind of negative energy which has been causing the plague of nightmares to besiege the helpless gnomes.
Our hero is asked to journey through a portal that the witchdoctor believes will send him/her to where Bob has disappeared to. The witchdoctor asks for a crystal from the town to power this portal he intends to create. He gives vague assurances as to how he has discovered this location thorough his magic, and asks the hero to go there and do what he/she can to stop Cogshire from plummeting to what the gnomes view as the equivalent of the dark ages.
Upon reaching the nightmare plane, our hero finds that he/she is in a twisted and corrupted version of Cogshire. Upon heading back toward the town the most notable thing our hero sees is that the statue is not where it is supposed to be. Through exploration and investigation, our hero finds out that Bob has indeed been transported here and has gone mad from being trapped in the nightmarish world. He has tinkered this plane’s version of the statue into a giant clockwork robot. Also in a tragic accident, his failed attempt to create a machine to send him home, Bob has created a machine that is transmitting aspects of the nightmare plane into the material plane. This machine is the source of the nightmares the gnomes are suffering and the corruption of the power crystals as they are beginning to store nightmare energy.
Our hero must defeat the clockwork robot and replace the corrupted crystal in Bob’s machine with the one given to him/her in Cogshire. Thus allowing our hero and Bob to escape back to the material plane where Bob’s madness can be cured by the witchdoctor and the town of Cogshire can be restored to glory.
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