8 December 2022

Yeah, I guess I was still struggling here, too. I think this may have been 10-15 minutes at the end of the day when I was dead tired and just forcing myself to write something.

This comes from an idea I’ve been loosely playing with for a dark lord/monster lord type character… who is a little girl and doesn’t know where that is. Wherever she goes, monsters are attracted to her, which causes problems. So she starts looking for the heroes, because they’re strong enough they can be friends with her without causing issues.

This is after she joins the hero party, when one of the few sentient monsters comes by.

Ariadne had been tracking this energy for two or three years now, and finally, she’d closed in on it. There was no way to mistake it; that was the energy of the Lord of Monsters, the one destined to raise monsterkind to new heights and defend them from the curse of humanity.

There was only one problem. That energy emanated from deep within the hero party’s home base.

The only thing Ariadne could figure was the heroes must have discovered the Lord of Monsters and imprisoned them. Which means Ariadne had to find a way to sneak in and break them out.