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    The Inn of Adventurers
    The Inn of Adventurers
    The Inn of Adventurers
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    The Inn of Adventurers

    By Joshua Cox-Steib

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    Overpowered wizards with far too little sense. Angry axe-wielding dwarves covering hearts of gold with the bellicose violence of fragile masculinity. Pessimistic clerics who surrender on sight and find reassurance in misfortune. An innkeeper who's more than he seems. The Inn of Adventurers is a story flavored with the stylings of a traditional fantasy rpg and cast through the lens of dark humor and satire.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoshua Cox-Steib
    Release dateMay 10, 2016
    ISBN9781310431579
    The Inn of Adventurers
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    Joshua Cox-Steib

    I'm an avid reader, and have been ever since I fell into it by an oddity of fate in the sixth grade. My best friend wouldn't quit talking to me about a fantasy series that he was reading. I borrowed the first book from him to guard myself from any further ranting (he couldn't very well talk about parts of the series I hadn't read yet, could he?). I ended up reading the book almost by accident. I couldn't stop reading, and I still can't.My wife and I live in Tulsa, Oklahoma - along with our small army of pets, and our books.

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      The Inn of Adventurers - Joshua Cox-Steib

      The Inn of Adventurers: First, Introductions

      Joshua Cox-Steib

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

      Copyright © 2016 by Joshua Cox-Steib

      The Inn of Adventurers: First, Introductions

      Randell stomped down the forest path, his trusty battle-axe glinting dully from where the rusted antique had been strapped upon his broad back. He had been marching through this cursed forest for three weeks now, and he was pursuing his new favorite hobby: fantasizing about starting a forest fire. It wouldn’t work of course, he’d tried. Only once, but once had been enough to discourage him from further attempts. Most of the trees were sturdy pines, of the sentient persuasion, and the forest floor was thickly covered in perpetually damp undergrowth. The brush wouldn’t light, and the trees took to vigorously thrashing any who tried. He had the cuts and bruises to prove it.

      Three weeks in this blasted forest, and no telling when he’d see the sun again. Not that Randell cared much for the sun, being a mountain dwarf and all, but even so he fancied that anything would be an improvement over this dirty mass of life that he was marching through. Randell was on a quest – according to him. According to the elders back home he was on a fool’s errand of his own making. Semantics. He was on a quest, and he was going to win fame and fortune, of this he was sure. Thoughts of his upcoming glory were the only things bolstering his spirits as he trudged through the woods – that, and his fantasies of pyromania.

      Randell was on a quest to become a true adventurer. And like adventurers in the stories he was beginning his journey by finding to the well-known, and rarely seen Adventurer’s Inn. It was a place of legend. A place that Randell had heard tales of his entire life. Those that believed the stories, in accordance with the lore, all agreed that the inn never stayed in one place for

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