The Story
The Rise of Nurgemon
As gemstone mines of the Northen Ridge Mountains were nearing
deplition, the Dwarves needed to find other means to sustain
their formidable income. And so they decided to approach local
raccoon clan ("Masked Industries Inc.") to see if they had any
bright ideas.
Naturally raccoons had plenty, and they poposed to build a
molecular reconstitution device - "Magnificator", which would
allow Dwarves to physically enlarge gemstones already mined.
The project was meant to be kept secret, but somehow upon the
completion, and-some-say-it-was-Rats, the word got out and
reached the spiders.
The spiders had long sought dominion over the mines and
undeground passages of the Northen Ridge, however althougn in
great numbers they could never pose any real threat to the
Dwarves due to their size and strength. This was about to
change...
A little spider with a brain considerably larger than
average, whos name was Nurgemon,
quickly realised the potential and organaised raid&snatch
operation to obtain the Magnificator* and use it to create an
army of giant spiders! Unfortunately for everyone he was
susccessful in his attempt - the Dwarves did not expect anyone
to know about the device left it unguarded.
The Dwarves, and-some-say-it-was-Rats***, found out "who,
when and where". And the
Council of Elders sent Dax The
Iron Fist** as the most trigger happy of all Dwarves to
recover the Magnificator.
*"Magnificator 3000" to be precise, as the first, aka
"1000", simply desintegrated the gemstones and the second
shrank them due to "a minor polarity issue" with one of the
subcomponents.
**"Iron Fist" actually is
the name of Dax's favorite flintlock gun, with which he was so
inseprable that their names got merged too.
***Those guys although pretty smart, are worse than raccoons
at keeping secrets.