Come children, come. Would you like to hear a story? Let me tell you the story about how the  gauntlets I have in my keep came to me.

 Well, it started with a visit to the town of Hawkwood.  A nice place if you like rustic towns. This town looked liked it had been evacuated. Most of the structures were still in good condition.  I wondered why it was evacuated. Then I found out, a portal to the Dreaming had opened. Being curious I decided to see where it goes.   I thought, “Excellent, a visit to the homeland would do me  good.” Fate has this way of getting involved in my travels. Today was no exceptions. I ended up in Arcadia.  The last time I got, lost. Boy was that a trip, but ''tis another story I tell you about it later.

 The places has changed, but not much. Anyway, once in Arcadia , I ran into Puck, the royal messenger.  He’s still the same old Puck, a maniac. He offered me to come with him. He’s up to something, as usual.  We’ll I said no, I have friends to find.  So, I went wondering.

 I wondered my way to the Royal Palace. There was an event going on at the Royal Palace. It seems the king and queen has had another tiff, again. This time she kicked him out.  So the king, Oberon decide to send a peace offering to Queen Titania. Unfortunately instead of sending someone sensible to deliver the gift  he sends Puck.

 What happened you may ask? Well the gift gets to the queen, a beautiful smelling perfume. However it made of something that Queen Titania is allergic to. Well she uses it and two seconds later passes out.  Well the knights weren't happy about it. Neither was every one else. War was about to break out when True Tom, a bard of great renown, spoke up. He said he knows of away to revive the Queen. It evolved six artifacts. The first five artifacts would lead us to the sixth one.

 A small army left to find the artifacts. I follow the group I was with to a den of stone trolls. I know that changeling trolls are intelligent, these troll aren't but they were holding off four armies.

 I thought there is got to be an easier way, so I did what I do best; wander off. During my wandering I hear someone yelling about Loki. My first thought was, "What's my brother during here." Then it dawns on me. "My  brother never leave his kingdom. That must be the god, Loki over there. That means one of the artifacts, most likely Odin's Hammer is over there." I decided to try to get Odin's Hammer. Not for myself, mind you, but to use as a offering to a barbarian for services rendered.

I start wandering again, trying to position myself behind Loki, and I run into True Tom.
 "Hello my lord, how can I help you?" he says.
 "Well, my friend. I was just wondering how to get to Odin's Hammer?"
 "Well you can try going through this forest." he replies.

Well we wander through the forest. We come across four beautiful women.  True Tom says then " I don't think you can use your weapons" I said, "ok." My mind was somewhere else at that time.

I walk up to the four ladies and introduce myself. "Hello I'm Darksong. Can I be of assistance ladies?"
 "Yes you can," one of them spoke.
 "Join us for a while," said another.
I notice they had a pixie with them. I gave him my weapons. Soon another man joined us.  We sat an watch as warrior after warrior fought around the area we were in.

At some point I notice Fuzzy, a rather large barbarian wander up. Next thing I know he had picked me up and was caring me away. "I'll be right back ladies." I cried.

We get outside the area, and the barbar drops me in front of the party leader, Gator. "Were have you been?" he says "We've been looking for you everywhere."
"I was trying to get some information from those ladies, Do you mind?"
The team started talking among themselves and I wandered back to the ladies.

"You're back" they say.
"Sorry about that. You know barbarians... Unfortunately they need me for something I'll have to get back."
The other guy with us says the same thing. The ladies , who are dryads, talk it over among themselves.
"Ok we'll let you guys go, if you sing us a song."

 Well the other guy goes first. His song was good. Next it was my turn. I pulled down something from the wind and sung it. The dryads talk among themselves again. They let both of us go, but before I left they gave me one of the artifacts, the Gauntlets of  Power.

 I return to my team and show them what I got. They were surprise to say the lease. I was more surprised when another team started chasing me for this artifact. Needless to say someone caught me by turning me to stone.  Did them no good. I rolled into a ball before I turned to stone.
 
 I came to with someone yelling, "We found the late artifact but the dragon won't let us near it until he sees the other artifacts. "A dragon" I thought, "figures." I started to stand up when the wizard who revived me, I think his name was Nerkum, tries to teleport me to the dragon's lair.

 As you know wizard magic doesn't work properly in the Dreaming, so the spell had me wandering aimlessly around Arcadia. I was enjoy it up to a point. I cancelled half the spell near a couple of children. "Excuse me, have you seen a dragon around here?" They gave me directions. I augmented what was left of the wizards spell with my own magic and was off to the dragon's lair.

 I arrive at the dragon's lair just as he was asking for the gauntlets. I almost didn't answer. I was to busy trying not to laugh. You see the dragon was a cigar-smoking faerie dragon. I appear and show him the gauntlets. He is satisfied, goes into his cave and returns with the Elixir of Joy, the artifact needed to save the queen.

 Three of us, one being myself, race off the royal palace with the antidote. Titania was revived. She was not very happy about what happen to her, and took great  pleasure in tormenting Oberon.

 So that is the complete story of how the Gauntlets of  Power came into my possession. I hope you enjoyed that. I was happy to tell it.